The following are random thoughts generated while reading “Solomon’s Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C.”
Dan Brown’s 2003 book the Da Vinci Code seemed to have set the world on fire with renewed interest in hidden symbolism. It was an exciting time for me because I’d been talking about a lot these types of things for YEARS and no one seemed interested. Suddenly it seemed everyone was a little bit interested.
Prior to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code I had, for example, repeatedly shared details about the American “Great Seal” and the symbolism on the dollar bill. I’d pointed out the great Eye of Horus on the pyramid and asked why any “Christians” would feel compelled to put the symbol of an egyptian god on their money? And what exactly did “Novus ordo Seclorum” (often translated as “New World Order”) mean and why is it written in Latin? It seemed none of my friends (save maybe one) could give a shit. Most have never given it a seconds thought.
Prior to the Da Vinci Code, if I tried to point out the odd behaviors of so the called “christian” founding fathers, people would scoff and tell me I’m making shit up. Then along comes Dan Brown who LITERALLY just made a lot of shit up and people ate it up by the millions. Suddenly the average man was spouting out interesting (but historically incorrect) “facts” based on what they read in a Dan Brown novel, forgetting that Dan Brown was, in fact, a Fiction novelist. Sure, some of what Dan wrote has a kernel of truth but there was a lot of just made up stuff because it sounded true and made for an interesting book/movie.
What I have found to be true about Dan Brown’s book is that it is true the founding fathers really did use a lot of occult symbolism when starting the new America. In fact, occultists new and old actually do hide symbolism in books, movies, national monuments, religious and secular ceremonies and just about anything really. But why? Is it just something bored people do because it entertains them, or is it designed to communicate a hidden meaning to those who know what to look for? Is it just silly nonsense or does it have religious importance to the person hiding the symbols? What do the symbols mean and why do we spend time and money putting them all over our government entities?
Watch any opening ceremony of the Olympics and the casual observer will just see unusual dances and images that seem silly or rediculous but to those “initiated” in the the ancient mystery religions you might see lots of symbolism that is hidden in plain sight. Pointing out the symbols to those who don’t see them or understand them is pointless because you arent able to explain to most rational human beings WHY it is being done. And so, I would argue, the masses unwittingly watch an occult ceremony take place right before their eyes without seeing a thing. In Kubrick’s famous words, they are seeing the world with “Eyes Wide Shut.'”
It has been said many times in the things I read and study that there is supposed to be great power in performing occult rituals right in front of the masses and having them ignore all the signs of occultism. It is important, in the occult, that the masses CHOOSE to remain blind and believe the lie that there is nothing to see here. One of my favorite movies, “The Cabin in the Woods”, depicts this nicely. When a group of young people are led to a cabin in the woods to be ritually sacrificed one by one to appease the old gods, someone asks why there are so many warning signs everywhere letting the young people know what’s about to happen to them. Why not just kill them if you need a sacrifice? Why give them a chance to see the danger ahead and escape? The answer, according to the movie, is that those being sacrificed HAVE to be given a chance to escape their own horrendous ending and instead CHOOSE the path of destruction anyway. It makes the sacrifice more powerful. There is a line in the Bible that this always reminds me of.
“Because they were not lovers of the truth, God gave them over to a strong delusion so they would believe the lie to their own destruction.”
I have often pondered this question from a religious perspective (Seventh-Day Adventist) as well as a more spiritual perspective (ala Buddhism). From an Adventist perspective, all of creation should inherently know that God exists and yet people still doubt him. Is it because we continue to doubt the existence of God regardless of the evidence given us that God has given us over to a strong delusion to believe the lie that he does not? Is the evidence right in front of our faces but because we are not lovers of truth we simply don’t see it? Or from perhaps a Buddhist perspective, is the nature of reality in front of us every day that we should inherently understand that this physical reality isn’t “real” and is only an illusion? Is it because we do not love the truth about our own inherent nature that we have been given over to a strong delusion and made to believe that we really exist in a physical universe and that we are not indeed spiritual beings?
As a final thought, I have contemplated before that Jesus was, in fact, an occult master. Consider the following. One time Jesus disciples asked him why he spoke in parables and riddles. His response was essentially to say that it is designed to deceive the masses. His exact explanation recorded in the Bible is “so that by seeing they do not see and by hearing they do not hear”. In other words he speaks so that people hear what they want to hear. He further told his apostles that the “secrets” had been taught to them in private but that the masses were given stories so they would think they understand . Is it possible therefore that the Bible simply contains the stories for the uneducated masses so that while seeing (reading) or hearing they still do not truly see or hear? They believe they understand the meaning but perhaps the real “secrets” were indeed revealed in private and it’s only the public stories for the ignorant masses that survives in our modern Bibles.