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Edited on Fri May-27-05 05:50 PM by EVDebs
David McCullough’s book 1776 excerpts shows that the book is certainly well researched and sure to be a goldmine of insights into George Washington. However, I would like to know if anything at all will make it into print regarding Washington being a Freemason. In light of modern-day adoption of the ‘futurist’ eschatology and the Left Behind series, the prevailing Protestant eschatology of ‘historicism’ (which posits the Papacy as the antichrist) in Washington’s day deserves to be mentioned.
Futurism originated with the Jesuit priest Francisco Ribera during the Counter Reformation 1500s in order to deflect attention away from the Papacy as antichrist posited by Protestant preachers. As John J. Robinson’s book Born In Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, freemasonry was an offshoot of the persecuted Knights Templars. The end result , from the 18th through 20th Centuries, was a Freemasonic revolutionary movement (Washington, Garibaldi, Diaz, Bolivar, Kerensky) that was very anti-Papacy and pro rights-of-free-men, including freedom of religion.
A look behind the ‘Pope’s Stone’ incident with George Washington’s Monument on the Capital Mall should show that, at least up to the mid-20th Century, the ‘historicist’ eschatology and Freemasonic precepts held sway. See
www.nps.gov/wamo/history/chap3.htm
That background seems to be completely eroded today, as most Protestant denominations appear to be conjoined with the Catholic church in espousing the pre-tribulation rapture ‘futurist’ eschatology and the denunciation of Freemasonry.
I hope that David McCullough delves into this fascinating Freemasonic background that can explain much about the greatest of our Founding Fathers, of whom many were Freemasons.
We now have an almost 'Catholo-fascism' . As evidence please note that our CIA's early leaders (Wild Bill Donovan, Bill Casey, James Jesus Angleton, John McCone, Alan Dulles, and the 'operation paperclip' refuge Reinhard Gehlen) were Knights of Malta.
KOM is a fiercely loyal Catholic order (as is Opus Dei, born in fascist Spain), who originally were known as the Knights Hospitallers. They ended up, around 1307 with the demise of the Knights Templar, taking over the KT's properties and much of their wealth. Later, the Knights Templar morph into the Freemasons of today..
It is fascinating to speculate but the modern populizer of 'futurist' eschatology is Hal Lindsey, who is said to be a consultant to the CIA. Lindsey penned the book "Late Great Planet Earth" in the '70s. It is curious to think that the Third Temple (where the Dome of the Rock sits today) is necessary -- and hence the 3rd holiest site of Islam is required to be destroyed in order to fulfull this 'futurist' eschatology. Historicist eschatology finds a Third Temple completely UNNECESSARY.
But the CIA and the Bush 'base' find it necessary.
FBI spy Robert Hansen was/is an Opus Dei member...Robert Novak is now an Opus Dei member...
If the CIA has been, to use the perjorative, 'infiltrated' with a Catholo-fascist groupthink (remember many founding CIA leadership were/are Knights of Malta) then our whole system of government, which favors the 'futurist' view of end times -- and REQUIRES a Third Temple in Jerusalem and all the turmoil that that entails-- then brother, we have a serious problem.
Back to our Freemasonic heritage of religious tolerance, and a jaundiced eye to the Papacy ?
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