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America was long known to the worlds initiates. They determined when it might be discovered. They chose the discoverer. They knew the plan for the New World and its purpose: to become the leading nation in the promised Golden Age.
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Columbus to sail safely to America, where they possessed several colonies. Plutarch describes their ancient voyages and gives the location of the Greek colonies as directly opposite the Caspian Sea as the crow flies. They called the land to the west the colonies of Hercules, and the Caribbean was the Sea of Saturn, where Homers Ogygia (Calypsos isle) was also found. As knowledge was sacred to the ancient Greeks and thus had to be protected from the eyes of the hoi polloi (the common people), they took care not to record it in writing for posterity. Oaths of secrecy prevented the initiates of the mysteries from letting an unguarded word pass their lips. And yet they were not the only ones who knew about America. The continent was also known to the ancient Egyptians and Chinese. These ancient peoples were also able to build huge ships to voyage across the oceans. One of the Egyptian Ptolemies built a ship large enough to accommodate an orchard with fruit trees on deckin addition to swimming pools and fountains with live fish. Francis Bacon reports in his partially utopian, partially real fable The New Atlantis that about 3,000 years ago, or somewhat more, the navigation of the world (especially for remote voyages) was greater than at this day. Do not think with yourselves, that I know not how much it is increased with you, within these threescore years; I know it well, and yet I say, greater then than now; whether it was, that the example of the ark, that saved the remnant of men from the universal deluge, gave men confidence to venture upon the waters, or what it was; but such is the truth. The Phoenicians, and especially the Tyrians, had great fleets; so had the Carthaginians their colony, which is yet farther west. Toward the east the shipping of Egypt, and of Palestine, was likewise great. China also, and the great Atlantis (that you call America), which have now but junks and canoes, abounded then in tall ships. A historian called Spyros Cateras wrote in the 1930s that the ancient Greeks had penetrated as far as the region of the Great Lakes via Canadas St. Laurence River. Hercules, Odysseus, Colaeus, Pytheus and Eratosthenes had apparently been among those bold seafarers of antiquity. Cateras also showed that the language of the ancient Maya on the American continent contains many words of pure Homeric Greek, and notes: Years ago, traces of Alexander the Greats army were found in the South American Republic of Uruguaynamely swords and shields with the inscription PTOLEMEOS ALEXANDROY!
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The top left part of this Venetian map by Albertin de Virga shows the continent of North America in fragmentary form and distorted by perspectivealmost 70 years before Columbus discovered America, namely in 1414!
the migration hypothesis? The extremely mysterious language of the Basques, whose homeland lies in the Pyrenees, also indicates a link between Europe and America: it bears no relationship to any European languagebut to all the native, i.e. Indian languages of America! And it should be noted that the aboriginal peoples of America are themselves of Atlantean origin so it comes as no surprise that at the time of its discovery by the Europeans, America was called Atlanta by some native tribes. As the primeval Hellenes carried on a vigorous trade both with Atlantis and the great continent to the west, it is hardly surprising that the great philosopher Plato in his treatise on Atlantis notes that after the destruction of that great continent all attempts at seafaring to the west became impossible for a long period. The waters of the Atlantic Ocean were so stormy and so permeated by the detritus and silt of the submerged continent that travel by sea in that region became unthinkable. So the ancient peoples knew more than early Christendom in some respects, and for them there lay beyond the western sea the land over which the gods watched so that it might one day become the earthly paradise. When the times will have been fulfilled, human beings seeking the Golden Fleece would enter upon that land. And the first avaricious conquerors really did seek physical gold, and plundered the treasures of the Incas and Aztecs. But for the Greeks the Golden Fleece was a document on which the secret of human immortality was written. We now have a Golden Fleece in America, kept in the Library of Congress, writes the initiated author Manly P. Hall, namely the American Declaration of Independence, which was written on an animal hide and bears the magic formula of human hope. Those who understand it and make wise use of its ideas dispose of the secret of immortality of human society.
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world is consequently no accident, but dispensation, providence or destinywhatever one may wish to call it. (The fact that it is currently abusing this leading role is a different story!) Manly P. Hall, who was undoubtedly among the most enlightened spirits of the twentieth century, and to whose talents one may also add the ability to read the Akashic record (that cosmic memory in which all past events are recorded), notes on this point: If the Christian nations had dared to act against the commands of the mystery schools, such sacrilege would have been revenged either by the power of Islam with its seat in Cairo, or by the edict of Lhasa with its Mongolian warriors in the background. The east had agreed to respect the borders of Europe as long as the European states jointly undertook not to exploit the western hemisphere. The fear of a terrible revenge from beyond the walls of Gog and Magog also held the popes back from breaking this agreement. And without the leadership of the Church, the great families of Europe dared not throw themselves privately into such an adventure. But when the agreed hour came, the secret societies sought among their ranks for suitable agents to begin their program of discovery. The esoteric orders of Europe, Asia and the Middle East had been allied with the priesthoods of the more advanced Amerindian nations for centuries. One has to be aware that truly high initiates need no physical vehicle to meet in secret places, shielded from the outer world, and to forge plans for future developments. Plans for the development of the western hemisphere, writes Manly Hall, were laid in Alexandria, Mecca, Delhi and Lhasalong before European statesmen had any inkling of this great utopian program. This leads us to the question as to whether Christopher Columbus wanted to find the western sea route to India out of his own volitionor whether, as Grace Fendler suggests in her book New Truths about Columbus, he worked as a chosen representative of secret societies in order to realize the old utopian ideals and to carry them across the sea? This would also provide reason enough to explain his accusation as a traitor; the destruction of all his books and papers, of all portraits and sculptural representations of him, and the complete disappearance of some of his literary works, including the diary of his first voyage and the logbook of his second voyage. All this, writes Fendler, would be mere inquisitional routine, including the new version of his biographymore or less due to political necessity and arising from a sacred mission.
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on one occasion on a voyage that God had Is it not in fact extremely strange that we led him to the New Heaven and New Earth know almost nothing about the greatest exof Revelation, and in his darkest hour he plorer of all times? No-one knows when he was convinced that God spoke to him to enwas born, and no fewer than twenty cities courage him. On his third voyage, the seaclaim him as their son. Manly P. Hall has a farer believed that he heard the voice of God particular surprise in store for us: he quotes speaking to him with words of encouragethe author Spyros Cateras who claims that ment and comfort. On his fourth voyage, Columbus was really Greek. Allegedly, his when great misfortune threatened to deoriginal name was Prince Nikolaos Ypsistroy the whole enterprise, the Admiral fell lantis and his home the Greek island of into a trance, and a voice spoke to him: Oh Chios. Hall writes: This statement is confool and fainthearted servant of God, the firmed by numerous early historians and ofGod of all things! Did He ever do more for ficial documents. He put out to sea from Moses, or for David, His Servant, than He the harbor of Mahonwhich was then did for thee? Greekon the island of Minorcaand not as history tries to convince us, from an ItalCathars and knightly orders ian or Spanish port. Like most Greeks of his In Manly Halls estimation, Columbus time, he admired the writings of Plato and was beyond doubt the emissary of secret orthe other classical philosophers; and his ders who possessed hidden knowledge. mind was eminently well equipped to interThis is also indicated by his signature, pret the classical traditions. Much points which was always embellished with mysteto the fact that Columbus was inspired to rious Kabbalistic symbols. These show a undertake his voyages by Platos story of striking similarity to the secret characters the submerged Atlantis and the early sea of the heretical sect of the Albigensians. voyages to the west, writes Hall in his The Albigensians were the southern French book The Secret Destiny of America. branch of the Cathars (named after the The true circumstances of the life of the Provencal town of Albi). The name discoverer of America are so enigmatic Cathar means the that it seems as if history had taken pure ones, a fact also refuge in a conspiracy in order to conceal expressed by their unthe truth, supposes Hall, for the confusion derstanding of life: as had apparently already begun before an ideal of love they Columbus death. His own son calls his facountenanced only ther a Greek. It was assumed that Columbus chivalrous lovethe changed his name in response to religious Troubadour movement or political pressure, but that belongs to the of southern France is realm of speculation. The numerous bialso closely linked to ographies of Columbus are unanimous in the Catharsfor telling us that Colon (the name which he chivalrous love is no himself used) was a deeply religious man sin, but a virtue which with mystical tendencies. He was said to makes the bad good The greatest thinker of the have sometimes worn a habit and cord simand the good better, ancient world, Plato, was ilar to that of the Franciscans, notes Hall, as the Troubadour the father of most ideas although nothing is known of a direct conMontangagol put it. about a utopian world. nection with that order. Some religious groups, continues Hall, including brotherhoods familiar with the esoteric tradition, favored this garb. It is beyond doubt that Columbus regarded himself as having been chosen for his mission by heaven, and that he continuously gained strength from the certainty that he was guided and protected by divine providence. The author John Bartlet Brebner speaks of the colossal, mystical selfconfidence of Columbus. It had been so much a part of the seafarer that he remarked Imaginary map of Atlantis by Athanasius Kircher, 1678.
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For them, a pure chaste life meant to be poor in worldly goods, to shun no work, to kill no creatureincluding animals, which is why they were vegetariansand to use all means to oppose the God of darkness, the Tempter. They saw the world as a constant battleground between spirit and matter, and the good was for them not simply a higher principle, but, as Walter Nigg describes in his Buch der Ketzer (Book of the Heretics), a power, personified in the good God of light, the originator of the invisible higher world order. The good God is pure spirit to whom nothing evil adheres and whose nature is love. The Cathars saw goodness in its whole radiant fullness, he notes. One cannot talk of the good God in more magnificent and transcendent terms than the Albigensians did. And this was a time in which the official Church taught people to fear the wrath of God! This Christian community, which was later persecuted in the most brutal way by the Church in the Albigensian warswhere the motto was to simply kill everyone, from babes to old men, in the belief that God would save his ownwas supposed to have played a part in the secret preparations for the discovery of America. The Cathars possessed immense personal charisma, and how greatly they represented a threat to the Vatican becomes evident from the fact that the German word for heretic, namely Ketzer, comes directly from the word Cathar. Even the great Italian poet Dante is believed to have been a member of the Albigensian church and to have worked as its pastor in various European cities for several years. The Montana Mason wrote in October 1921 that Dante was also a friend of Roger Bacon and an ally and adviser of the powerful leaders of the ancient order of the Templars, who at the time of his death, although apparently at the pinnacle of their power, were in reality approaching their
Another famous man acted as his agent and helped significantly in the preparations for the discovery of the New World: the visionary artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci! Manly Hall says of him: Although Lorenzo did not live to see the fulfillment of his magnificent plan, he spoke the magic word which opened the doors for Columbus to the most exclusive institutions of Europe and provided him with the necessary worldly means so that he could arouse the interest of liberal princes and scholars. It was the invisible hand of the Medici which balanced the famous egg of Columbus
One of numerous, completely different portraits of Columbus, who was said to have been a Greek.
disastrous end. Dante is said to have been initiated into the esoteric teachings of the Templars. In his work Christopher Columbus, a Greek Nobleman, Seraphim G. Canoutas of the University of Athens attempted to reconstruct the early life of the mysterious explorer. What he found is revealing. His investigations showed that the secret preparations for the colonization of the Fortunate Isles, which were also called the Blessed Isles in the west, were in the hands of the Albigensians, the Troubadours and the knightly orders. In the final phase of the project of discovery, the most famous member of the Florentine family of the Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, was the power behind the scenes. Lorenzo de Medici was a noted Platonist, a patron of secret societies, founder of an important school of philosophy, and a sophisticated opponent of the cunning, depraved Borgias.
Francis Bacon was one of the most influential puppet masters behind the founding of the American colonies.
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cretly wed her lover Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester. She had a son colonies of this great Republic. And by himFrancis Bacon, who was in yet he was actively involvedlike reality called Francis Tudor and Raleigh and Delawarein these acwould have been the rightful Prince tivities, and played a major part in of Wales and heir to the throne of the sacrifices through which the England. This Francis Bacon was to foundations of both Virginia and the play a key role in the history of the two Carolinas were laid. To his United States of America. But his other fame therefore, that of the first days on earth were overshadfounder of a new state would have to owed by danger, for in fact the be added queen wanted to do away with the Judge Brown notes in his History newborn child. Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Newfoundland: It was exclua loyal member of the Privy Council sively due to the influence of the and confidant to the queen, was forLord Chancellor that the King tunately able to prevent her from dogranted the loans and issued the ing so. He suggested that he would foundation deed to Bacon and his take the child as his son, as his wife partners in Guys Newfoundland had given birth to a stillborn child at Company. The first true settlement in the about the same time. So the young Francis Bacon grew up without In this series of pictures, famous American artist Norman New World was Jamestown in Virknowing who his real parents were. Rockwell presents the four freedoms which are still re- ginia, founded on May 14, 1607. Sir Manly P. Hall had the privilege of garded as sacred in America today: Freedom of speech Francis Bacon became a member of seeing a photocopy in the British the Virginia Company in 1609. We Museum in London of an engraving find a further indication of Bacons showing Queen Elizabeth I at her role in the new world in the foreword confinement. As it was at that time to a manuscript by William Strachey, usual for the entire court to be predated 1618, on his Historie of Trasent at a royal birth, a large number vaile into Virginia Britania: Your of people were privy to the secret Lordship, who has always been an delivery. They were all sworn to seextremely noble promoter of the Vircrecy upon pain of death. ginia colony, and who strove from The Queen made no secret of her the very beginning (together with affection for the boy who was a daily other Lords and Earls of the Privy presence at court. The relationship Council) to increase and guide it. And in a speech in Grays Inn Hall, cooled down only when, in one of American James Beck remarked that her notorious outbreaks of rage, she the two fundamental government inadvertently revealed to the young laws which formed the nucleus of the Bacon who his true parents werea United States Constitution had been realization which was to change his written by Lord Bacon. whole life. He was convinced that Bacons hidden guidance in the the Queen would recognize him becolonization of the New World is fore her death as her rightful succesalso revealed in another historical sor. When Bacon ultimately discovdetail: in 1609the same year in ered the conspiracy against himself which Sir Francis Bacon officially and his natural father (who had been became a member of the Virginia poisoned), he lost all respect for CompanySir George Somers Elizabeth; and her high regard for sailed from England to the New him turned into bitter hate. Only after Elizabeths death in World, having been appointed by 1603 was Francis Bacons star to the King as the new governor of Vircome into its ascendant. King James freedom of belief ginia. But he ran into a hurricane and ennobled him, firstly as Baronet of was shipwrecked off the Bermudas, Verulam and then as Viscount of St. Albans. works commonly alleged to Shakespeare then still known as the Hog Islands. HowUltimately, Bacon became Lord Chancellor a fact entertained even by a serious branch ever, this led to the actual discovery of the of literary research. However, little is known of England and thus the most powerful man beautiful Bermudas, which henceforth beof the part he played in the founding of the in the country. came a British colony. Bacon was a universal genius of his time: colonies on the American continent. Interestingly, a unique currency came to William Hepworth Dixon of the Inner a scholar with few equals in the sciences and be used on these Hog Islands: the reverse Temple wrote in 1861 about the early settlein philosophy. Indeed, his contemporaries side of all the coins bore the private arms ment of the New World: In no history of believed to see in him a reborn Plato. But he of Sir Francis Bacon. But the King prohiAmerica, and in no biography of Bacon was also without peer in his contribution to bited the use of these coins outside the have I found a word which linked him to the the arts, as the true author of most of the Bermudas, although contemporary sources
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indicate that this money had been minted for America. Incidentally, some researchers see Shakespeares/Bacons play The Tempest, as an allegory of Sir George Somers voy-
age and shipwreck off the Bermudas, where Sir Francis Bacon hoped to see his New Atlantis realized in literary form. Bacons direct influence on the New World extended beyond his death: In the later decades of the 17th century, many members of his family and descendants emigrated to Virginia. The Bacons thus became one of the best-known and influential families of the colony. Nathaniel Bacon, a descendant of Sir Francis, even led what was known as the Bacon rebellion in 1676, in which he fought for greater justice on the part of the English crown toward its subjects. In other words, for ideals similar to those espoused by his famous ancestor.
has become a threat to human dignity. It is characterized by a belligerent attitude to the outside world and toleration of extreme violence within the country, and the slavish pursuit of money, along with its use as an instrument of enslavement. Let us recall that since 1913 not even the dollar has been the property of the American people, but of a number of exclusive Wall-Street bankers who are independent of the political establishment. Moreover, American society shows a debasement of morals which has also brought about the dissolution of families, and the celebration of a capitalism which mocks every form of Christian neighborly love. The discovery of America wasas this article aimed to showno accident, but was long and carefully planned by initiates. Neither is it an accident that the age of the Renaissancethe rebirth of the old classical knowledgecoincided with the discovery of the New World. The hour had struck, the sacred fire could be carried to the west. The secret orders had given their consent. The various attempts to describe an ideal world which arose at that timeThomas Mores Utopia, Tommaso Campanellas Civitas Solis (city of the sun), Francis Bacons New Atlantis, the works of Shakespeare, the new translation of the Bible (the authorized or King James version)all formed the spiritual edifice and provided the ethical code for the New World. Secret societies such as the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons, who already met together on American territory in 1606 for the first time, possessed the initiate knowledge which was to enable them to realize in the New World the ideas which the old world had developedright up to the Golden Fleece of the future, the American Declaration of Independence. This, let it be noted in passing, also has much to do with that mysterious figure of history who played a key role in the discovery and constitution of the United States: Roger Bacon alias Christopher Columbus alias Sir Francis Bacon alias the Comte de Saint Germain. He was the instrument of divine providence who led to the plans of the Hierarchy becoming realized on earthso that the seed which had been sown in heaven would bear abundant fruit in the New World. I
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