Part 1: Foundations of America
Puritans
Our history textbooks tell us that the men, women and children, who travelled across the Atlantic to the New World from England and the Netherlands to escape persecution by the church in 1620, were staunch Puritan Christians.
They landed at Plymouth and settled on the East coast of America and worked the land in order to survive. They built their schools and cities founded on Christian principles revealed in the Bible. From this beginning it is said that their descendants went on to found the United States of America as a Christian nation, ‘the land of the free.' At least that's what the Patriotic wing of the Christian Right in America would have us believe.
Esoteric beginnings
Unfortunately however, that's not the full picture and historians and researchers suggest that there's a different story to tell. A story with two movements developing in parallel, each with its own version of reality. That of the Puritans on the one hand and on the other a powerful, mysterious, occult, luciferian and secretive group.
They deem that very early on in the populating
of the New World, members of secret societies also arrived on America’s shores from Europe with a completely different agenda. These were largely children of the Enlightenment, Rosicrucians and Freemasons who arrived with a revolutionary spirit and an 'ancient hope' of establishing a new world order - some would even suggest to do with rebuilding of the lost empire of Atlantis.
Two sided coin
There can be no doubt that much of America’s national heritage was Christian, but just as a coin has two sides, America's heritage has a second side. Only when you consider the occult heritage set in place through the American Revolution by the Founding Fathers in 1776, over 150 years after the original pilgrims landed, can you begin to understand some of the actions of its leaders over the centuries.
Hidden agenda
We will explore the agenda of the Founding Fathers, many of whom were members of secret societies, later in this article. The agenda of the secret societies over the past 230 years has been kept hidden by means of a deliberate subterfuge and a strategy of limiting knowledge to lower degree members, clothing their ideas wherever possible in a garment of Christian phraseology and using legitimate power structures (presidents, government officials, oligarchs, bankers etc.) to implement their plans. Only the Founding Fathers, the very highest illuminates (e.g. 33rd degree Masons) within the secret societies, high level neo-pagans and New Agers would be able to provide answers, we would suggest, to the following questions.
Important questions
If America was founded as a Christian nation by the Founding Fathers, why are many of its symbols, buildings, and monuments based on Pagan traditions? Why is Washington D.C. build on the 77th Meridian and why are the Revolutionary War cities on the east coast (Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston) built in perfect alignment with each other and, more to the point, with Stonehenge?
Why is Washington DC, as some believe, laid out 'according to the stars,' i.e., in the astrological shapes of certain planets and stars so revered by occultists? Why did the Masonic Founding Fathers perform 'Corn, Wine, and Oil' ceremonies at cornerstone laying and at the dedication of finished structures? Why is the Great Seal of America a Masonic emblem and how did it end up on the back of the dollar bill? More to the point, if America was founded as a Christian nation, where are the images of Jesus Christ? Why are so many former presidents both Masons and members of other secret societies like Skull and Bones?
Influence
Which of these two founding movements has had the greatest influence on American society, is open to debate. What is undeniable however is that whereas orthodox Christianity is increasingly marginalised in America today, there are growing numbers of pseudo-Christians, Emergents, New Agers, members of secret societies and neo-pagans who believe that a new pantheistic spirituality is required, an aspect of which will render the old world order of sovereign states and Judaeo-Christian values obsolete. They are more than ready to embrace a new world order based on occult principles.
Exposed
Today, in order to combat this luciferian agenda the Holy Spirit's leading researchers to uncover the hidden layers of America's beginnings and in so doing is exposing a trail of esoteric activity. America's position and influence on the world stage demands clarity and honesty around such issues.
Founding Fathers (Thomas Paine)
In exploring these issues we will begin our journey by considering the Revolutionary era and look at the beliefs and practices of the Founding Fathers. The American Revolution begins with Thomas Paine. Paine was an English author, radical, inventor, intellectual and revolutionary.
He met Benjamin Franklin in London who suggested he emigrate to British colonial America, and gave him a letter of recommendation. He duly emigrated in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. He advocated America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and wrote a pamphlet entitled 'Common Sense' which influenced Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence.
The pamphlet appeared in January 1776, after the Revolution had started. It was passed around and contributed significantly to spreading the idea of republicanism, bolstering enthusiasm for separation from Britain, and encouraging recruitment for the Continental Army.
In late 1776 Paine published 'The Crisis' series to inspire the Americans in their battles against the British army. John Adams said, 'Without the pen of Pain, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.' A quote on Paine's tombstone says:
History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine
Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. He wrote the 'Rights of Man' (1791) in defense of the French Revolution and The 'Age of Reason' (1793-4) in which he advocated deism, promoted reason and free-thinking, argued against institutionalised religion and Christian doctrines.
So was Thomas Paine a Bible-believing Christian? We should let him speak for himself. He described himself as a deist saying:
How different is [Christianity] to the pure and simple profession of Deism! The true Deist has but one Deity, and his religion consists in contemplating the power, wisdom, and benignity of the Deity in his works, and in endeavoring to imitate him in everything moral, scientifical, and mechanical.
In the 'Age of Reason' he says:
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
About the Bible, he said:
When I see throughout the greater part of this book (the Bible) scarcely anything but a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales, I cannot dishonour my Creator by calling it by his name.
What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.
It is clear that Thomas Paine was not a Bible-believing Christian! He was no more than a product of the Enlightenment and a rationalist, and consequently there is no evidence that his desire was to found America as a Christian nation. At the very best he was simply a believer in good works.
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson is commonly known as someone who considered Jesus to be a fine teacher of morality, but he certainly did not believe in the authority of the Bible. He wrote extensively about separating the 'true' sayings of Jesus to the things he believed had been added to the accounts in the Gospels. His 'Jefferson Bible' specifically removed the virgin birth, the miracles of Jesus, the resurrection and the ascension, plus the entire book of Revelation. In a letter about the Bible written in 1820 he said:
I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture.
Jefferson rejected the idea of immaterial beings and considered the idea of an immaterial Creator a heresy introduced into Christianity. Jefferson is often seen as an icon of American democracy, liberty and independence. Abraham Lincoln once said that he was 'the most distinguished politician in our history'.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is well known for his discovery of electricity. He was not only a scientist but also a patriot, a Freemason and a significant influence in the founding of America. Sir Walter Isaacs said of him:
The most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.
In fact he was the only Founding Father who signed all the documents for the establishment of the United States (i.e. the Declaration of Independence; the US Constitution and the Treaty of Paris (which brought the war with the UK to an end).
However, as a high-ranking Freemason in America, the UK and in France, his over-riding religious belief was that salvation was based on good works. Contrary to genuine Christian belief, he once said:
Original sin is as ridiculous as imputed righteousness.
Indeed, his religious views were strongly shaped by the Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century. He doubted the divinity of Jesus, as he wrote in a letter to Ezra Styles, president of Yale University:
It (the divinity of Jesus) is a question I do not dogmatise upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now.
His UK connection with Freemasonry was as a member of Francis Dashwood’s Hellfire Club, where satanic rites and orgies were undertaken. In 1998 the Sunday Times reported:
Workmen have dug up the remains of 10 bodies hidden beneath the former London home of Benjamin Franklin, the Founding Father of American Independence. The remains of 4 adults and 6 children were discovered during the restoration of Benjamin Franklin’s home at 36 Craven Street.
Some investigators suspected that the remains, which dated from his time of residence in the property, could point to human sacrifices carried out in the Hellfire Club.
John Adams
Adams, America’s second president and first vice-president worked with Thomas Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence. Whilst there is no proof that he was a member of any secret society, he was, however, a Unitarian. His basic belief therefore was that God is unknowable; to say that Jesus Christ is God and that he came to make God known would be considered blasphemy.
Adams is credited with laying down the principles on which the United States would be built. In relation to these foundational principles, Adams said:
These are what are called revolution principles. They are the principles of Aristotle and Plato . . . the principles of nature and eternal reason.
He referred to the general principles on which the Founding Fathers achieved independence as the ‘general principles of Christianity,’ yet he remarked that he could find a multitude of quotations from Rousseau and Voltaire in favour of these principles. We know, however, that both these men had strong anti-Christian views. For example, Voltaire said:
It took twelve ignorant fishermen to establish Christianity. I will show the world how one Frenchman can destroy it.
When Adams and those who influenced him spoke of religious freedom their vision was to be free of Christianity. Adams gleaned many of his beliefs from an ancient Indian writing, the Shasta. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson he wrote:
Where is to be found theology more orthodox, or philosophy more profound, than in the introduction to the Shasta?
Hardly the comment of a committed Christian!
The Treaty of Tripoli
This treaty was signed by Adams in 1796. Article 11, which was drafted by George Washington, and unanimously agreed by the Senate, states categorically:
The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.
Historian Bird Wilson stated in a sermon in 1831 that the founders of the US were nearly all infidels. God was not overlooked; he was deliberately voted out of the Constitution.
George Washington
Washington, after whom the capital city of the US is named, is known as the ‘Father of America.’ The Treaty of Tripoli was drafted towards the end of his term of office as president, and confirmed during Adams’ presidency.
Washington’s Christian faith is questionable. He had a habit of attending church regularly but he avoided communion services. Pastor James Abercrombie remarked that Washington was a deist. Washington wrote to the Delaware Indians encouraging them to learn the religion of Jesus Christ, yet his letters to Lafayette give the impression that he went through the motions of Christianity without having a personal belief or faith.
Just hours before his death, Washington was baptised by a Jesuit priest into the Roman Catholic religion. His sympathies were with the Catholics long before that, indicated by his refusal to burn effigies of the Pope.
The Stars and Stripes
It is very possible that the design for the American flag came from Laurentius Ricci, the leader of the Jesuit order, who influenced George Washington. F Tupper Saussy says that Ricci stated:
Americans would be fighting under the private flag of an international mercantile corporation controlled by Jesuits.
In the course of time, the flag developed into the familiar Stars and Stripes we know today.
Religious liberty
George Washington is known to have said that the establishment of civil and religious liberty was the motive that induced him into the field (of war and politics). But by religious liberty he meant a licence for all religions to have equal place in America. This view concurs with the Freemasonry universalist view, that all religions must be tolerated with no weight given to any particular one.
It may be that there was a hidden agenda behind Washington’s statements, bearing in mind his Roman Catholic leanings. Back in the 17th century when James II was king of England, James called for all religious restraints to be removed. As a Roman Catholic himself, his motivation was to allow tolerance for Roman Catholics, couching it in perceived liberty for all faiths. James was deposed, Roman Catholicism suppressed and a Protestant monarch took the throne.
In America, however, the Constitution was worded to appear to promote freedom for all religions yet the primary motivation was to protect Roman Catholics and keep Jesuits safe.
Is America a Christian nation?
Whilst the Pilgrim Fathers had a genuine Christian faith, the Founding Fathers we've looked at in this article clearly had not. Their world view was shaped by the Enlightenment, Freemasonry and Eastern spirituality. Here at Christian Spectrum we believe it’s important to be aware of this, and to recognise the effects their influence has had, and still has, on America today.
The Presidents of the United States
There are many web sites which document the ancestry of the US Presidents. All but one (Martin van Beuren) can trace their ancestry to the Plantagenet rulers of England, post 1066. Most can trace it to one particular king of England in the Angevin part of the Plantagenet dynasty – King John (Lackland), who was made to sign the Magna Carta in 1215. It is remarkable that a ‘free’ vote should produce presidents with a common blood line and begs the question, is it coincidence, or were they chosen? If so, by whom and why?
The answer may lie in the religion and philosophy in the foundation of the United States. We have expanded on the Founding Fathers, but it’s important to note that they were heavily influenced by Freemasonry. In January 2007, the 110th Congress passed House Resolution 33, which recognised:
The thousands of Freemasons in every State in the Nation . . . Whereas the Founding Fathers of this great Nation and signers of the Constitution, most of whom were Freemasons, provided a well-rounded basis for developing themselves and others into valuable citizens of the United States.
Satanic roots of Freemasonry
American Freemasonry can be traced back to England during the lifetime of Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626). He is considered to be the first grand master of modern Masonry. He was a close associate of Dr John Dee, Elizabeth I’s court astrologer. Dee was a sorcerer who summoned demonic spirits to obtain secret knowledge, an art he acquired from his involvement with the Rosicrucians. In order to obtain secret knowledge, Rosicrucians consulted demons. It is known that Bacon gained his inspiration from his spirit guide, known as Pallas Athena. Bacon succeeded Dee as the leader of the Rosicrucians, and Bacon amalgamated many of their secrets into the system of Freemasonry.
Rosicrucians
It was the desire to obtain knowledge that drove Rosicrucians, like the Gnostics before them, to worship Lucifer. The secret societies consider Lucifer to be the angel of light, who encouraged mankind to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil so their eyes would be opened and they would be as gods.
In this they concur with the corrupted creation myths of ancient civilisations other than the Israelites. This is the inner doctrine of Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry and all the secret societies. It became known that this was the case when the writings of key Freemasons and occultists such as Albert Pike, Mackey, Eliphas Levi and Madame Blavatsky were published in the 19th century.
Knights Templar
The Knights Templar, another secret society, fled to Scotland in the 14th century when they were persecuted in Europe. The red cross of the Templars is likely to be the point of origin for the rose cross of Rosicrucianism. When the Scottish Jacobite rebellions broke out in the early 1700s, many Scottish Freemasons and Rosicrucians fled to America, taking their occultism with them. One of their power centres was the Fredericksburg Lodge No 4, whose members included George Washington, James Monroe and eight of the Revolutionary War generals.
Washington DC
Carving their doctrines in stone, seen in Rosslyn Chapel in Edinburgh, was a practice which was continued by the Freemasons with the building of Washington DC. There are countless images of gods and goddesses there, along with zodiacs, the Washington Monument obelisk, reflecting pools, myriads of pagan images and a pentagram street layout. Any reference to Jesus Christ or Christianity is absent.
In light of all this, with such demonic roots, it does not seem so fanciful to believe that US presidents are appointed not so much by the will of man but of Satan. The land they govern, Francis Bacon’s ‘New Atlantis’, could also be called the ‘Land of the Rosicrucians.’ Their demonic influence from Bacon’s time onwards has caused America to be what she is. Because Rosicrucians and Freemasons happily mingle Christianity with paganism they can give the appearance of being ‘Christian’ while equally exalting the teachings of Plato and other philosophers. They see the ancient gods as examples of virtue and justice as much as they give lip service to the moral teachings of Jesus.
More to follow . . .
Our history textbooks tell us that the Founding Fathers of the New World, who travelled across the Atlantic from England and the Netherlands to escape persecution by the church in 1620, were staunch Puritan Christians. They settled on the East coast of America and worked the land in order to survive. They founded America as a Christian nation, ‘the land of the free.' They built their schools and cities founded on Christian principles revealed in the Bible. From this beginning they went on to found the United States of America as a Christian nation. At least that's what the Christian Right in America would have us believe . . .Unfortunately however, that's not the full picture and historians and researchers suggest that there's a different story to tell . . .