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>> Jordan Maxwell has been on
the cutting edge of new thought
for over half a century.
This is "Secret
Life of Symbols."
>> We think that we are getting
better each day and we have
come from a more
primitive society.
But we are getting
better every day
and becoming more superior
in knowledge and technology.
Well, actually, in point
of fact, we are digressing.
We are moving away from what
we were thousands and thousands
of years ago.
And I am of the opinion that our
history has been vastly changed
and so that we don't really
know the history of mankind
on this Earth.
We are finding that there
are temples on the ocean
floor, pyramids, Machu
Picchu, Chichen Itza,
incredible structures of
temples and knowledge,
which is displayed about the
universe, about astrology.
And the astronomical
truths about the universe.
The ancient, truly prehistoric
and ancient people,
they knew all about it.
We are trying to catch up
today to what they knew
tens of thousands of years ago.
We are finding
everything that we
think we know has already been
here tens of thousands of years
ago.
There was a higher lifeforms
on this Earth than we are.
I have a vision of,
from the ancient world,
we're not what we would
refer to as humans.
I think that they looked like
us, maybe are, in some ways,
like us.
They were far superior.
The people, whoever
they were, that
built the great
pyramid of Egypt had
an extraordinarily brilliant
understanding of the Earth,
of our solar system, of
the galaxy we are in,
and all of the esoteric
and profoundly important
knowledge about life
and the spirit of man
and where we've come from
and where they're going.
And so it all implies that there
was a far higher civilization
all around the world.
And the best science
we have today
are admitting that
we're just trying
to catch up with what the
ancient peoples already knew.
These ancient brilliant
builders and teachers,
they didn't grow into that.
They came in fully developed.
When you look at Egypt,
Egypt as a classic example,
if you go to the very beginnings
of Egypt, it was already--
it came in as an extraordinarily
brilliant society of builders
and knowledge and
then, eventually,
devolved into what
Egypt is today.
But there was a time when
Egypt was in its prime
when it was founded.
So it didn't kind of
work up to, as we say,
we're working up to some
kind of a wonderful future.
But Egypt didn't do that.
It came in at its pinnacle.
How is that possible?
The only way it's
possible is because when,
whoever this was that we
call the ancient Egyptians,
they were not of this
world to start with.
They came here knowing
all that we still
are trying to find now.
So it implies that they
were not from here.
They came in fully understanding
the whole universe.
And they were able to do
things with their temples
and with the way that they
laid out the pyramids.
They knew things we didn't know.
And we still don't know.
And we're still trying today.
In metaphysics, in
occultism, religion,
we're trying to find the bottom
line that the ancient peoples,
they already knew.
There is obviously a high
science behind the life period.
And all of the best of
the best in our human life
like astrology and alchemy and
all of the other, what I call,
sciences.
Others would say, no, they're
just a belief systems.
No, they're sciences because,
when you really look into them,
you begin to see that they
are telling you things
that scientists are just
now beginning to realize.
There's a higher
occult or hidden.
The word occult
simply means hidden.
And so there is obviously
a higher science
or occult science
behind mankind's ability
to contemplate the spiritual
aspects of life on the earth.
Lots of ancient people
already knew what
we're trying to find out today.
We know that the pyramids, say,
in Mexico, in Central and South
America, along with the great
temples around the world,
was Solar temples.
They were the center
for astronomy.
And so the ancient
peoples were not
looking for spiritual
answers as such.
They were looking at
the actual universe
and trying to figure out where
we are, what we're doing,
and what is the universe.
And so from that inquiry into
the actual setup of the way
the universe operates.
Then, from there,
they began to suspect
that there was some kind of
an unwritten powerful laws
in the universe that guided
the sun, the moon, the planets,
and the holy--
of the solar system.
They start off
scientifically just
looking for answers to what
we're doing here, what is this.
And from there, they
began to develop
religions or philosophies.
Alchemy, astrology,
medicine, and then
human interrelationships--
and then, from there,
you'll get into all
the other metaphysical pursuits.
And that's why today the world
is half scientific and yet half
spiritual.
But the spirituality
did not come first, just
the regular interest
in how the world works.
That's what the ancient peoples
built those great observatories
for.
They just wanted to
study the heavens.
But in doing so, it didn't take
long until around the world
mankind, that was dealing
the heavens for science,
began to suspect that there was
something else going on here.
And now comes the
world of spirituality.
Though, as I said, the world
occult simply means hidden.
So there are many
hidden sciences
that the really bright
people who are looking
into these things know about.
But, generally speaking,
the world of mankind
is not really
well-informed about alchemy
and about the sciences
of spirituality.
But that's growing now, too.
So people are beginning to wake
up to the spiritual relevance
to your life of
spiritual subject.
I think that there
is something there
that needs to be looked at,
this whole idea of where
man has come from,
where he is right now,
and, ultimately, where is he
going to go with his knowledge
and with his life
and experiences.
What is the reason why
we're having the experiences
that each of us
do have each day?
We're all growing.
And hopefully, we are
growing far more intelligent
and insightful and looking
at the spiritual aspects
of our life.
That's a very important
feature of being
alive, is to not just live
for the material world today.
Let's start asking serious
questions about where were you
before you were born?
And where will you be after
you leave here, this Earth?
And what is the reason
for our human life?
And why are we learning so many
a hard lessons the hard way?
There seems to be some
sort of an overshadowing
presence in the
universe that men
have called God or some sort of
an ultimate spiritual presence
that is leading or
directing our evolution.
And if that be the case, which
it seems to be there, then
maybe there is some hope
yet for the human race.
If enough people begin to
wake up, spiritually speaking,
and begin to look at
their lives spiritually,
then there might
be hope for us yet.
Because this is why
we are in the shape
we are in today because we are
living in this me generation.
And this generation
that only cares
about feeding itself and
taking care of itself
and enjoying itself,
never realizing you
have responsibilities
to the world
that you live in and
to help your fellow man
to grow and to help
educate other people.
I can speak for
myself in relation
to the idea of why do we seek
wisdom and spiritual knowledge.
I have always understood that
I have questions within myself
that others can answer.
And for me, looking
at these questions,
they make a lot of sense to me.
Why this, and why that,
and why does this happen.
So I have learned
that to think deeply
on these spiritual
questions of life
opened me up to a whole
world of knowledge
because I realize how
much I don't know.
And I am also well aware of
the spiritual implications
of the laws in the
universe around us.
There are certain things you can
do in this world and things you
cannot do.
And you will pay.
You will pay a terrible
price for doing the things
you are not supposed to do.
And I am totally
convinced that there
is some sort of an overshadowing
force in the world that
wants us to grow.
And this concept is
even in Christianity
where you hear talk
about good angels
and bad demons and
bad angels, implying
that there are good forces,
unseen forces, out there
and then there are bad.
And we know that there is
something called good and bad.
And there are certain
things in all society, which
are known to be bad and evil.
I tend to think that
there is something
to this idea of reincarnation.
And the reason why is
because it is pretty much
agreed upon by so many
of the ancient religions
and philosophers and great
teachers of the world.
My gut feeling is
that we do come
into this world with baggage
from our other lifetimes.
And this is why we begin
to become who we are
because of who we were before.
Another part of that
story is that we
came in incarnated
on this Earth that we
chose a particular lifestyle
we're told and given
to understand and that we
chose our own parents before we
came here.
I understand the spirit
world enough to know
that it's very possible.
And we were in a
spiritual state,
and then we incarnated
into a physical state.
Now, the rest of it
is up for speculation.
I am totally
convinced that there
are very legitimate
and real, I choose
to call it, other worldly
forces, spirit forces,
demonic forces.
Of that, there is no doubt
in my mind about because I've
had too many personal
experiences that
tells me and proves to me
that somebody is watching us.
Somebody is watching
the human family.
The very history of
how America was founded
and the founding
fathers, so to speak,
what vision they had when they
were putting together the idea
to found this country.
What was their vision?
What were they thinking?
And what were they
actually working toward?
And now that gets into
the subject of Freemasonry
to the secret sciences
like alchemy and political.
There's a lot of political
stuff in there, too.
You have to be careful
about secret societies
because these different
societies become
very powerful and very wealthy.
But they have an agenda.
They have a particular
agenda that they're
trying to create or
to bring into being.
And therefore, they will build
the whole world around you.
And you accept what--
when you're a child or a
baby, you come into the world,
and you just accept everything.
And if you don't grow
up, as a grown person,
you just accept
whatever there is
and because that's
the way it is.
But that's not the way it is.
And you keep in mind that there
were secret societies that
were involved in founding
this country and who were they
and what were they trying to do.
You have to know
secret societies
to understand why there are
so many different symbols
and emblems in Washington,
DC, and around the world.
Because there's different
groups, societies,
that are working
towards certain agenda.
And they are putting symbols
out that represent their agenda.
We know that, even
in gangs, when
you drive to neighborhoods
like Los Angeles,
and there are scribblings
on the walls of gangs.
The symbols mean something.
And if you're in a gang, you
know what those symbols mean.
They're telling you something.
Whoever is controlling that
area, that's their symbol.
And that's a whole
study that you
need to get into, studying
the occult symbols of power
in this world.
They're used as a means to
communicate and to influence
you or to connect you
with the spiritual world
that they represent.
So let's start with
a religious symbol.
And that is an
ancient Phoenician god
that was very important
in the Middle East
some 5,000 years ago.
That God was called
Dagon, D-A-G-O-N.
Dagon was a fish god.
Interesting how he has evolved
into today's world of religion.
Dagon is still very much
alive with the world today.
First of all, everyone knows
that Christianity is founded
on the worship of Jesus Christ.
That is accepted
around the world.
And most people believe
that the Vatican
is the Center for the worship of
Jesus, the god of Christianity.
However, millions of people also
believe that the pope of Rome
is leading the
Christians to worship
Jesus throughout the world.
But my question is, who is the
pope leading the worship of?
The first symbol that
I want to talk about
is the head dress that the pope,
or the Bishop of Rome, wears.
That headdress is
very interesting
and has quite a history to it.
That pope's headdress is
called a pope's mitre.
The pope's mitre, we've seen
it in many different shapes.
But they're always
basically the same shape.
The pope's mitre is an official
headdress worn only by the pope
or supposedly only by the pope.
But we need to understand
that that symbol goes
back at least 5,000 years.
So what we need to know and
what we need to keep in mind
is that this strange and
interesting headdress
of hat that the pope wears is
impacted by a god name Dagon.
Dagon was a god of
the Palestinians.
And Dagon comes from the
word dag, which means fish.
So Dagon was a fish god.
And here we have pictures of
another fish god named Anis,
the same God but was worshipped
in different countries
under different names.
So we have a god who is
half fish and half man
or men who wear
the garbs of a fish
in their religious celebrations.
So here, in the
Jewish encyclopedia,
under the heading
of Dagon, you will
see a picture of the priest
of Dagon or the god himself.
And he is wearing a fish
head and the body of a fish
down his back.
So now we see the
pope's headdress.
On the top is the pope's mitre.
Well, when in turn, you then
see he's actually wearing a fish
head, the fish god
Dagon, Because he's
representing the worship of
an ancient Phoenician god.
So this is why today, Christians
on the back of their cars, you
will see have a fish symbol.
I'm thinking that's to denote
them as Christians worshipping
Jesus.
No, it's a fish symbol because
it's Dagon the fish god.
The significance is Dagon was
a very important mystical god
to the ancient peoples in the
Middle East in Babylonian,
Sumerian, and Canaan.
And that very
powerful mystical god
is still dominating the spirit
and the intellectual thinking
of religion even to today.
So it's not Jesus
that's influencing
the Vatican and the pope.
It's Dagon the fish god.
That's the importance of this.
The point being is that
religion comes to the world
in the age of Pisces.
And Pisces is, of
course, the two fish
of the constellation of Pisces.
But Dagon is 5,000 years old.
Another one of
the symbols I find
to be very interesting
that's used quite
often around the world
today but a lot of people
don't know how it's connected
to the religions of today,
and that is a magic wand.
Magic wands we've heard in
stories galore from children
from childhood days about
magicians who use a magic wand.
Well, the magic wand is
just what it says it is.
It's some sort of a
branch of a tree that
has been consecrated and
made holy by blessings
from the priest.
And now, it has
a magical quality
that can do things that
other humans can't do.
The druid priest, they use
the wood of a holly tree.
They use holly wood.
And that's where we
get the term today--
Hollywood in the
magic of holly wood.
Today, we have Hollywood.
We have Mickey Mouse
waving a magic wand.
On the left side, we also
have actual real magic wands
as they are made
today in Europe.
And of course, orchestra leaders
and orchestra conductors,
they lead the music
with a magic wand.
A lot of people haven't
thought about that.
But that's what it
is, a magic wand.
So here we have a
picture of Moses
where he is conjuring up
the spirits and the universe
with a magic wand.
That's very interesting,
Moses with a magic wand.
In the ancient Roman Empire,
the most important god
at the height of Rome's
power in the world
was a god named Mithra.
Mithra was a sun god.
And according to the Roman
explanation of their god,
he was not only a sun god.
But he did his miracles
with a magic wand.
Now, here we have Jesus
raising Lazarus from the tomb.
And you will see that Jesus
is using a magic wand.
How many Christians know
that, all throughout Europe
and around the world, Christian
churches have Jesus working
his miracles with magic wands?
A lot of people don't know that.
So we hear all about
the magical things
that Jesus was able to do.
But here in the
actual churches, we
seen that Jesus is doing his
miracles with a magic wand.
The importance of
this is to point out
that people do not realize
that, in Christianity,
the understanding in the ancient
world and in the medieval world
was that these religious
figures like Jesus
were doing there their
miracles with magic wands.
But it's actually legitimate,
[INAUDIBLE] real magical system
of controlling people's
minds and directing
their spirits and
their hearts and being
able to direct our civilization
through magical symbols
and magical words.
Another symbol that I find
to be very interesting
is, in Star Trek,
there was a Mr. Spock.
And if you'll
remember, Mr. Spock
was always giving a hand sign.
And he was said to be a Vulcan.
First of all, his hand sign
was actually a religious symbol
in Judaism and wish.
It was a blessing to the
congregation in Judaism.
it's called the Cohen symbol.
This symbol is a Jewish
blessings symbol.
But where did it come from?
It comes from the
split half hoof a goat.
It goes back to the
split hoof of a goat
because we're talking about
the age of Ares, the Ram,
when the Jews were under the age
of the Ram, the Ram or the Lamb
of God.
And so that's why today we
call Jesus the Lamb of God,
going back to the
Constellation of Ares the Ram.
Nimoy even said that
he accepted that sign
and used it because it
was a sign from his rabbi.
And he thought it was a
very interesting symbol.
So he just used it in Star Trek.
I'm sure he probably knew
the meaning of the sign.
But that's where he
said he got it from.
Another subject which is
interesting and very relevant
today is a symbol called
fasces or the fasces.
On the back of an
American dime, you
will see a bundle of
sticks tied together.
And it has an axe head with it.
That is called a fasces.
And this is an ancient
Etruscan symbol
that was adopted
by the Roman Empire
to symbolize Rome's power.
It's an old ancient
Etruscan symbol,
but it's very important
to the Roman Empire.
Ancient Rome's philosophy was,
if there's just one stick,
you can beat somebody
with a stick.
But it's not going
to hurt him really.
But if you've got
two or three sticks,
now is going to be a
little bit heavy a deal.
But if you get five or
six sticks and tie them
together as one, now you've
got serious strength now.
Now, when you beat
somebody with six or eight
sticks tied together,
that's serious.
And so then they put
a hatchet head on it
because an axe head always
represented-- in almost all
the ancient cultures
of the world, accepted
that the axe head represented
the presence of God.
God was the great hatchet.
He's giving you the axe.
And so the hatchet
head represented God.
And the bundle of sticks
represented a coalition
of troops.
So when Rome would go to
another country to overtake it,
they would take the troops
from this group and troops
in that group and put
them all together.
Now, you've got a strong
force of not just Romans.
All kinds of other
countries are with you.
And so that's what
we hear today.
When we hear the presidents
talking about doing the Middle
East, they have a coalition of
countries, not just America.
We have other countries with us.
It's a coalition.
Coalition is another
name for fasces,
which is a symbol for
world fascism, where
you can get all the countries
together and have them all
doing the same thing, all
of the countries marching
to the same tune.
Now you've got a
strong military force.
And the fasces was
usually carried officially
behind Caesar.
He would be in the front
of the parade or whatever.
And there would be what is
called lictors behind him.
They would be
holding the fasces,
symbolizing Caesar's
power over life and death.
He is the man.
He is the boss.
And so the lictors
would be standing
on both sides of Caesar
on the altars when Caesar
was speaking,
holding those fasces
so that the Roman
people know he has
the right to life and death.
So here, you'll see in
World War II with Mussolini
on the left and his symbol
for his government, a fasces.
Well, of course.
He's Italian.
That goes back to
the Roman Empire.
And so here we have
Nazi, as you'll see.
The swastika, and
then the Nazi eagle
like the American
bald eagle, but you'll
see the two fasces on
each side of the swastika.
This is because Germany
was in league with Italy
during the Second World War.
Mussolini had in mind
to do the same thing
Adolf Hitler wanted to do, was
to create a new world order.
And so Mussolini saw that new
world order as being Catholic,
as to be Roman,
while Germany saw it
to be German and not Italian.
But the two together,
I suppose, they
figure they'll work that out
once they take over the world.
Well, Mussolini, according
to history books,
actually thought of
himself as Caesar.
He saw himself in
his position of power
at the time of the
Second World War
as Caesar of the
ancient Roman Empire.
And therefore, it
would be right that he
would pick the symbol that
Caesar used to show his power.
And so that's why the fasces
became so fashionable in Italy.
But the two fasces you will also
see on the wall behind where
the Speaker of the House sits
when the President's making
a speech.
The United States has the secret
societies in their government.
And behind the government are
very powerful secret societies
that see itself, these
societies see themselves,
as the promoters and to
generate a new world order.
All countries copy each other.
The fascist copy the Etruscans.
The Romans copied the Greeks.
And the Greeks
copied the Egyptians.
And that's just
the way humans are.
As much as we change, the
more we stay the same.
We're all still adopting
the same symbols
that we adopted under
the Egyptian empire.
We're still using
those symbols today.
Pyramids-- let's talk
about the pyramid.
And we all recognize
that there's
three beautiful pyramids
on what is called
the Giza Plateau in Egypt.
But my question is, there
is only one of the three
of those pyramids as referred
to as the Great Pyramid.
First of all, you need to know
that the pyramid is directly
behind the Sphinx is
not the Great Pyramid.
It is a Great Pyramid in Egypt.
But it is not the Great Pyramid.
This is the Great
Pyramid of Egypt.
How many sides does
the Great Pyramid have?
Well, you would think
if there's four sides
and then there's the
bottom as a side.
So it would be
five-sided pyramid.
But actually, in point of
fact, no, the Great Pyramid
has nine sides.
Why?
Because on the first day of
the spring equinox or the fall
equinox, if you are in the
right place at the right moment
when the sun hits
the pyramid, you
will see that each side is
divided down the middle.
But so subtle that when you
are there at the pyramid,
you don't notice it.
But on the first day
of spring and autumn,
you will see the Great Pyramid
is divided down the middle.
And so here, again,
is another picture
of the pyramid from
above on that special day
in that special hour when the
sun's hitting it just right.
And so each side has two sides.
Therefore, you've
got not four sides
but eight plus the
bottom side makes nine.
So how many people know that
the Great Pyramid of Egypt
has nine sides?
It's strange.
But it seems that no one really
knows why the Egyptians took
so much effort to divide
each side of the pyramid so
perfectly and so
brilliantly and such
that you would not see
it until a particular day
at a particular time.
We call it the Great
Pyramid because there
is a lot of important stuff
implied in that pyramid.
And the other pyramids
do not even come close.
They don't have anything like
what's in that Great Pyramid.
That is one act by itself.
It's the only one.
And that's why we today
call it the Great Pyramid.
The next subject we'd like
to look out for a moment
is the cornerstone in
the Christian religion.
Christians will tell you
that the church, that
in the Church of
Christianity, Jesus
is referred to as the
cornerstone of the church.
But that's not exactly correct.
The actual scripture says that
he is not the cornerstone.
It says Jesus is the
chief cornerstone.
The cornerstone is what it's
said to be, just a stone
at the corner of a building.
But wherever you set
that cornerstone up,
you're going to lie in all
the other stones up with it.
So it's the first one that
decides where this building is
going to be aiming.
And so Jesus Christ,
the cornerstone.
But Jesus is actually referred
to as the chief cornerstone.
And that's important
because there's
a totally different
understanding of the word chief
cornerstone.
Chief cornerstone
means the triangle
placed on top of a pyramid.
If you take a perfect,
flawless pyramid triangle,
and you cut off the top,
it itself is a pyramid.
But it is a tiny one that
sits on top of the big one.
That tiny little pyramid
is called a pyramidion.
A pyramidion is a
tiny pyramid sitting
on top of the big pyramid.
That's what the
Bible said Jesus is.
He is pyramidion.
He's not a cornerstone.
He is a chief cornerstone, which
is on the top of a pyramid.
That was the genius of
the ancient Egyptians.
And so today, the
more we have changed,
the more we stay the same.
And so we use the same
symbols that Caesar used.
We use the same symbols
that the Babylonian used.
That's because
mankind is hard wired,
so to speak, to realize
the importance of very
powerful symbols that
represent your civilization
and who you are and
where you come from
and what your destiny is.
It's everywhere from
religion to governments
to military, commerce, banking.
Symbols are a way to
communicate with the world.
I'm Jordan Maxwell.
And thank you for watching.
