Ron Paul: Race, Ritual and the Scottish Rite
January 6th, 2012Disclosure: I sent $20 to Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential campaign, even though I don’t vote in U.S. Presidential elections, and haven’t since I voted for Ross Perot in 1996. See: Waiting for Clarity on the Brink of Oblivion, for my opinion on national elections in the U.S.
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While many of you might quickly write off the Secret Sun post below as a descent into apophenia, stick with it.
I didn’t know that Ron Paul’s wife was Eastern Star and his daughters were Rainbow Girls, for example. I also wasn’t aware of the 2008 Ron Paul and Freemasonry magathread over on Aftermath News.
Click through for copious links and images.
Via: Secret Sun:
But is Paul a Freemason? One fact people have pointed out is that Ron Paul’s wife is Eastern Star and his daughters are Rainbow, an arrangement essentially unheard of for a man who is not in fact a Mason himself.
In this handwritten letter (note the reverse of the Great Seal) to a “Charlotte” published on his site Paul denies being a “Freemason.” And here’s where we come to the classic non-denial denial. A “Free” Mason is a member of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masonic Order. There are other Orders that do not define themselves as “Free.” Several, actually.
And as longtime secret Sun readers know, the Free-masons are the low men on a much bigger Masonic totem pole in which Masonic-inspired and Masonic-created fraternities and secret societies wield the true power. And here’s where we hit paydirt…
Paul is a proud member in good standing of Lambda Chi Alpha, yet another Masonically-created fraternity that is classified as a “secret” fraternity. Lambda Chi traces its origins to Boston (birthplace of American Freemasonry) and Phila(e)delphia, in Paul’s native Pennsylvania. Here’s an obituary of Lambda Chi’s founding father, John E. “Jack” Mason (seriously).
Funeral services were held on Wednesday, June 5, at the Oliver H. Bair funeral parlors in Philadelphia. Cremation and private burial were in Woodland Cemetery. Masonic services were conducted by Lodge 51, of which he was a past master, the preceding evening with his close friend and associate, past Grand High Alpha Fischer, in his station of senior warden.
That Lambda Chi is in fact a Masonic fraternity and not just a drinking club is made clear by its original seal, prominently featuring a Masonic handshake. Lambda Chi also includes an inner body called “The Mason’s Circle,” a classic example of esoteric double-entendre.
It’s current seal also features the handshake, which is overshadowed now by explicit Knights Templar (and Solar) iconography, as well as the cojoining of the cross and the crescent, which is a byword for the Order.
Research Credit: mangrove
man this clarified whats been in my mind for a long time now, that even teh desenters and “opposition” are in on it. people just dont get how easy and practiced this methodology is.
infiltrate
subvert
destroy
repeat
i have seen so many good people, not even in conspiracy circles, or whateverthefuck you wanna call em, just everyday good people end up getting pied pipered down some shit-highway by flashy and popular “leaders”, not even speaking politically here. just some dude who can fake confidence well ends up leading these people into ruination, same mechanism at work on a grand scale, this ron paul thing has been happening for a while, but he is not the only one people, this shit right here is chronic.
emergent order is the name of the game people, trickle down
does. not. work.
I’d judge a member of Congress and presidential candidate by his or her voting record, and Dr. Paul has a veeery long record that is consistently anti-war, anti-intervention, pro-personal freedom, and pro-Constitution. He understands the importance of the Austrian School of Economics, and jaysus, that’s practically a miracle in this age of ponzi finance. My hat’s off to Dr. No, but it doesn’t matter anyhoo. Game is rigged.
What can be said about the Order of the Eastern Star (OES)?Founded in 1850 by a US Freemason called Robert Morris, on the French system. Robert Maccoy soon gained control in 1866 and merged other Orders and formed degrees – Order of Amaranth and Queen of the South. The mixing did not go well as the lowest rite was now the Eastern Star – they split in 1897. The Eastern Star then moved to become the main womans Masonic groups. The emblem is a five pointed star that points down and letters at the points read: Fairest Among Ten thousand, Altogether Lovely – FATAL.
my first reaction was “you did What?!” and to think all the thoughts i went on to later read in your link Waiting for Clarity on the Brink of Oblivion -which you can imagine i am glad you included.
my second reaction here is ‘there it is’, vis a vis Ron Paul, ‘it’ being new data -anything to increase the data set -because the ‘something missing in the picture’ factor is big with him for me. his blunt expositions, on blowback or race for examples, puts into sharp relief for me all that he is starkly silent on.
any president who actually dares by their actions to matter, in the sense of contravening TPTB …well it’s simply never to happen again.
the global situation is the context, and the US is not to matter so much as we think -pointedly less and less each day even. we have no bloody clue what we don’t know and can only *try* to discern it, as you do so extremely well know. none of which is paul’s melieu. he doesn’t touch it, doesn’t speak of it. quite the opposite. i think he’s clueless, naive and daft politically and as far as politics does go, yes, these may abstractly be desirable qualities in the present context of things. abstractions mislead…
if even amy goodman herself ran for president, i’d then doubt anything good i ever thought of her or her integrity.
i suspect that the real politics of the world (the behind the scenes sort, down to the deepest layer) is now something that couldn’t be quickly or fully or easily digested by earth’s populace at all were it revealed in all it’s massive detail, given the antiquity of the bought into facade -the kool-aid is too ancient, too fermented, too habituated. any one person whom could actually ‘handle the truth’ would have to have far far more than most of even the best.
at bottom i think side effects always outweigh. no matter how precisely any goal is achieved, the unexpected repercussions always seem to be more consequential…
the specter of JFK should loom large over this comment. i hope it does even a little.
Its not the koolaid. It is the Leaven of Herod. The only thing that kills leaven is heat, and the loaf is about to go in the oven.
http://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.org/coldfusion/Chapter.cfm?CID=159
I like Ron Paul but in terms of the US electoral system it is entirely irrelevant. Folks are getting worked up in just the same way as they were with Obama. Granted, Ron Paul appears to be genuine and not the obvious puppet that Obama is. But IF Ron Paul is anything approaching authentic then there isn’t a hope in hell that he’ll be allowed to get anywhere near presidency. That is the unfortuate reality.
The system is psychopathologically “infected”. So, I think radical change (not reform) to the actual framework of politics and related domains is needed before any candidate can actually do what he’d like to do without the continual twisting and debasing of altruistic and pragmatic actions being channelled towards entropic ends.
Otherwise, the lessons of history will be ignored amid the euphoria of apparent victory. Yet again.
This is not an issue of candidature which is primarily a distraction, but an issue of radical change in perception as to just how far down the abyss we really are. Ways forward will come from that starting point.
But I’d loved to be proved wrong….
I am overjoyed as two of my favorite blogs collide.
There was a LOLcats-esque Photochop of Ron Paul going around the blogosphere recently that read something along the lines of “Ron Paul-Egregious stance on everything but wars and prohibition… patron saint of the youthful white tumblr LOLbertarians”
I feel this Secret Sun post is the meat of that message. He is very good at crafting his pitch to his intended audience and always uses charged language (read: “going back”).
When I see Ron Paul today I think of Obama in 2008. There is campaign Paul today as much as there was campaign Obama then and you can bet your bottom troy ounce gold bar President Paul would look as different from campaign Paul as President Obama looks from campaign Obama.
If there is anything I’ve learned from Cryptogon over the years it’s that there is the overt and there is the covert and Ron Paul is no exception this rule. If there is anything at all in the Secret Sun post that is uncontroversial it’s that Paul is blowing the same horn Lott, Helms, Thurmond et all have been for years. Throw in some anti-war sentiment, mix with Prohibition rhetoric and all of a sudden the 1968 Silent Majority stuff becomes appealing to a whole new Northern crowd.
Yeah if Ron Paul wins you’ll know that’s the end. He be stuck holding the bag as the big wigs are off to Dubai.
I really hope he’s not a mason.
I saw a lot of evidence of Ron Paul being a brother in the 2008 election cycle, including the affiliations of his kids in Masonic groups as you mentioned.
I think a Mason can still be a good man and produce change for the better, otherwise I have to toss out Mark Twain, the Woz, and quite a few other good people.
His main support is the JBS/Alex Jones wing.. and they would FREAK if they knew he was a Mason.. which would make it very dishonest on his part.
Of course, Ron Paul denies being a Mason (assuming this is authentic). And the female Mason offshoots don’t really get to do much compared to the boys (growing up with Oddfellow / Rebekah grandparents, and having some of their regalia/literature on hand, I can say this with a little bit of authority). They mostly just gossip and report gossip.
PS @Zuma
I wish I could still find the link, but there’s good information out there from where Democracy Now and other top tier “independent” outfits get their $$$.
Ford Foundation, CIA affiliates, etc, etc.
No kidding.
@Noble
well there you go. can’t trust anybody these days. anybody that anybody’s heard of anyway, it seems.
…a buddy of mine delights in professing that her lack of objectivity is exhibited right off the bat by the very name ‘Democracy Now!’. heh.
Full disclosure#1: I am enthusiastic Ron Paul supporter. With cash, vote(s), and my big, ever running mouth.
Full disclosure#2: I fully am aware of the inherit tendency people have to look exclusively for evidence to support a highly held belief.
Full disclosure#3: I don’t want to believe Ron Paul wears a Baphomet hoodie and drinks goat blood while chanting holy scriptures backwards in Babylonian tongues at his local Solomon/Masonic temple:)
I have been seeing and seeing and seeing, and hearing and hearing and hearing this same line of thought for a while now, and have pretty much accepted it as being true without really turning it over in my head and taking a good look at it and examining it. And that thought goes something like this:
“TPTB will never let a true agent of change
anywhere near a position of power that
could be used to upset their established
order”
The first time I heard this thought expressed with authority was from a former state senator(or U.S. congressman, can’t remember). He was talking about the reasons why he resigned and said he realized he could go no further without compromising his personal convictions and basically risking the loss of his soul. That, for me, has always been a significantly strong reason to believe that TPTB probably have a pretty secure monopoly on the levers of power.
This guy’s experience has probably been shared by many throughout history, and I am sure there are several Cryptogon readers that have similar personal experiences or at least second hand stories they could relate.
But I think we are doing ourselves a great disservice if we just “instinctively” accept this line of thought as an unalterable fact without at least examining it thoroughly.
I really am not trying to give an inspirational speech, or trying to persuade anyone (on here) to vote for Ron Paul. What i am trying to say is that to just out right accept this notion only serves TPTB’s interests.”THEY” might not have as much power as we think they do.
We should ALL vote for Ron Paul just to see what will happen. You know what will happen with any one of the other guys: more of the same.
God forbid we judge a man based on his actions as a representative, rather than a quasi-hysterical mystery cult reference written by an obama moderate.
Seriously.
I read this entire article; followed link after link. It’s funny, and sad to see what straws people will reach for; truly. I think you can guess I’m a Ron Paul supporter.
My boss is a Mason. He does that silly little handshake and you know what? I don’t know HOW to shake someone’s hand in a different way than what they do when they grab your hand like that. My father was a Mason too, for a long time. Before he quit. I go competitive shooting with a 32nd degree mason and frequently visit Masonic sites (as part of my job since my boss has them as clients). Yet… I am not a mason. But if the wrote an article about ME, they certainly would think I was. I can’t believe the guy even had the audacity to bring up the great seal on his handwritten letter. Seriously? Because they don’t use that as letterhead when you know, you work for congress or anything right?
Then he cites Richard Hoagland. At this point, I lost my stomach for it, but sauntered on. Hoagland has zero credibility with me. Google the guy and see what kind of hoaxy-crap he’s done over the years and you’ll see why. Don Black = known CIA op – and given the universal media panning and the CIA’s level of control over modern media wouldn’t it make sense for them to shit-can RP by using connections in a less than ethical group to screw him over?
Again, base the man on his actions – not the superficial ones either such as newsletters with content written by friends – but rather his voting record, his medical record, things he’s done in his life.
RP most reminds me of my grandfather; a man I greatly respect – who also was not a mason (but had a son who was a mason, so I’m sure 99% of the people who agreed with that article think he and I are masons now) .. he was a self made, charitable man. It’s an ethical breed that people of our generation have difficulty understanding and so we come up with complex lies and stories to help validate our feelings of inadequacy when we compare ourselves against them.
After all.. we hold ourselves as the moral yardstick for the world. And many people think they are moral, ethical, “good” people – but the vast majority are simply not. So when we see someone who is, we think, that’s not possible. They must be lying. They must be false. They must be evil disguised as good. And most times, they are right. But every once in a long while… someone comes along who isn’t evil. Or false. Or lying. And we denounce them anyways because in the end we all hold a policy of ‘nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.’
Christopher Knowles (who wrote the article above) is back with another winner. A couple of snippets below.
Clownshow 2012: Brother Ron and the All-Seeing Eye
. . . As I’ve said many times before this is not an Anti-Mason blog. . . . My real concern is how Masonic and quasi-Masonic fraternities, secret societies and civic groups are used to foster privilege and exclusion. . . . Ron Paul’s biggest media supporters by far are the radio talk show hosts Alex Jones and Jeff Rense, whose shows and websites act as virtual propaganda mills for the Texas congressman. But at the same time both Jones and Rense are clearinghouses for Anti-Masonic propaganda. How do we explain the disconnect?
(read it all for full illumination)