After reading The Lost Symbol, I was intrigued
with Washington DC.
It's a city overflowing with esoteric symbolism.
Zooming in from space as we can in Google
Earth, let me point out a few landmarks.
Here's the White House, Capitol Building,
Washington monument, Jefferson memorial, Lincoln
memorial, and the Pentagon just across the
Potomac.
Rick Campbell has uncovered much of the underlying
geometry of the city on his informative site
DCsymbols.com.
He sees the following diagram in the streets
and interconnection of monuments.
The geometry consists of a pentagram over
a cube, all contained within an overarching
pyramid.
Each one of these shapes carries a meaning
we'll be exploring.
We'll see later in Egypt how the pentagram
symbolizes the microcosm, which is everything
in the universe human scale or smaller.
The cube is a recurrent esoteric symbol for
the body that we'll be running into all over
the world.
I found a pair of 3:4:5 triangles between
the cube and the pyramid.
Turning off the cube layer you see the rectangle
surrounding the White House is also made up
of a pair of interlocking triangles, this
time with 5:12:13 proportions.
3:4:5 and 5:12:13 are the first two Pythagorean
triplets.
As you'll begin to appreciate, Pythagorean
knowledge figures prominently in decoding
this mystery.
Where have we seen an unfinished pyramid before?
On the back of the dollar bill of course.
If we illuminate the DC pyramid with the same
all seeing Eye of Providence, we are directed
to a specific building.
Is this the Eye of Providence we are looking
at or its older incarnation as the Eye of
Horus?
Either way, what is behind the all seeing
eye of the Sun?
It's the headquarters of Scottish Freemasonry,
which goes by many names including The Supreme
Council, Mother Council of the World, and
House of the Temple.
This building is loaded with Egyptian symbolism
with a 13-step unfinished pyramid on top just
like on the dollar bill, and two giant sphinxes
flank the entrance out front.
The architect John Russell Pope modeled the
1911 building after the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus,
now a part of Turkey.
As one of the seven wonders of the ancient
world it served as tomb of King Mausolus,
which is where we get the word Mausoleum.
The House of the Temple correspondingly serves
as tomb of Albert Pike, sovereign grand commander,
confederate general, and the most famous Freemason
of his times.
Pike wrote Morals and Dogma, the handbook
formerly given to new members up until 1974
which details the 33 ranks of freemasonry.
The House of the Temple is where the climax
in The Lost Symbol takes place.
Campbell shows how the elevation was designed
Ad Quadratum which is Latin for "By the Square".
Ad Quadratum is a sacred design template we'll
see employed in the District of Columbia itself,
and at Chartres cathedral.
The Sunburst above the entry is at the center
of the square and the top corner marks the
symbolic apex of the unfinished pyramid.
The bottom corner presumably marks the crypt
where Pike is interred.
Scottish Freemasons are really into the number
33.
There are 33 columns in the House of the Temple
that are 33' high.
This is the place where a hard working initiate
can attain the highest 33rd degree from the
33 members of the supreme council.
33rd degree masons are often found in positions
of power.
Many Presidents of the United States were
freemasons.
The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania has a permanent
exhibit featuring the portrait and signature
of each of these presidents with a record
of their masonic careers.
It is difficult to verify Masonic membership
because some members do not make their involvement
a matter of public record.
However each lodge keeps its own records.
I find it interesting that George Washington,
Harding, Eisenhower, Carter, and the younger
Bush all chose to be sworn in to the office
of the president with a hand on this Masonic
bible dating from 1770.
One has to be male and believe in a Supreme
Being to seek membership as a Scottish freemason.
They insist their fraternity is not a religion,
although atheists are ineligible for membership.
Freemasonry is not a secret society but members
are strongly admonished under pain of death
not to reveal core secrets.
Much of what happens inside the House of the
Temple has been pieced together by outside
researchers in recent years, and this has
been brought forward in Dan Brown's book The
Lost Symbol.
Members can rise to the 32nd degree through
hard work and study but only those selected
by the Supreme Council may attain the highest
33rd degree.
Richard Hoagland and Mike Bara have dredged
up the most interesting connections between
the Scottish Freemasons and NASA.
Here is Cape Canaveral at Kennedy Space Center.
These are the two launch pads where all the
Apollo and Space Shuttle missions left Earth.
Here is the single runway, Runway 33.
Of all the vectors they could have chosen
for the strip, why did NASA choose 33 degrees
west of North?
If that seems like circumstantial evidence
to you, how about this...
Here is astronaut Buzz Aldrin, 33rd degree
mason, on the moon holding the flag of the
Supreme Council which he later brought back
to Earth and gave to the supreme commander
of the House of the Temple.
These examples show that the Freemasons and
NASA are obsessed with this number.
I'm wondering what's so special about 33?
Where else does this number appear?
Jesus is said to have performed 33 miracles
and to have died at age 33; perhaps this is
no coincidence.
The bible says King David, father of the famous
Solomon who built the first temple in Jerusalem,
reigned for 33 years.
1 Chronicles 3:4
In the Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, there
are 10 sepiroth in the tree of life plus another
hidden one called Daath.
Adding the 22 paths between sephiroth brings
the total up to the magic 33.
My theory involves the Schumann resonance.
This is the frequency at which the Earth vibrates.
Scientists have measured this standing wave
at 7.83 Hz with a wavelength equal to the
circumference of the Earth.
This inaudible low hum is due to lightning
discharges in our conductive ionosphere, causing
the planet to actually ring like a bell.
If you do the simple calculation which I've
done here in a spreadsheet, you'll see that
middle C is 33 harmonics or 32 overtones above
the Schumann resonance.
Sound implausible?
Think of it this way, our bodies resonate
33 octaves above the Earth's fundamental vibration.
This fits with the ancient Hermetic motto
"As Above, So Below".
I find it incredible that the UN Emblem divides
the Earth into 33 sectors.
This has to be more than coincidental.
The human spinal column appropriately has
33 vertebrae if you count the fused bones
in the lower spine individually.
33 might very well be built into the architecture
of the universe.
For further confirmation, let's take a look
at the Great Seal of the United States of
America as shown on the back of a $1 bill.
Let's start with the obverse side of the Great
Seal, that is the side with the Eagle.
Most important to our current line of inquiry,
let's count the number of feathers on the
wings.
The left wing has 33 feathers and the right
wing has 32.
Could these refer to the 33 harmonics or 32
overtones just discussed in relation to the
Schumann resonance?
I think Rick Campbell has correctly decoded
the controlling geometry.
Three circles with their centers on each others'
circumferences form a kind of double vesica
pisces if you will.
A vesica pisces is formed whenever two equally
sized circles come together such that their
centers are on each others circumferences.
A Star of David emerges from the three circles'
intersection points.
Examining the reverse of the great seal we
find the same controlling geometry.
Look at the letters picked out of the mottos
Annuit Coeptis and Novus Ordo Seclorum; never
mind right now what the mottos signify.
The letters at the points of the Star of David
are A, S, N, O, and M. Rearranging we get
MASON.
So to summarize, we've seen how the House
of the Temple presides over a street pyramid
in Washinton DC.
There is a clear Masonic connection to the
office of the President, NASA, and the United
Nations.
The Scottish freemasons are obsessed with
the number 33, which is echoed in the JudeoChristian
tradition, having a resonance both with the
human body and the Earth.
It's no secret that Masons trace their history
back through the Knights Templar.
I was amazed to discover that there is an
urban village straight across the Potomac
from the White House called Rosslyn.
Many researchers believe one of the Templar
factions fled to Scotland after the infamous
raid that destroyed their order.
Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland was the place featured
in The Da Vinci Code where Sophie learned
she was a direct descendant of Jesus and where
she was reunited with her bloodline.
Friday the 13th, October 1307 was the day
most of the Templars got arrested, had their
considerable assets seized, were interrogated
and tortured to death by agents of the French
king acting with the cooperation of the Pope.
Knowing the connection between the Templars,
Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, and the Scottish
Freemasons made me take a closer look at Rosslyn,
Virginia.
Rosslyn has two important features: a dense
urban village and the Marine Corps War Memorial.
So I drew a line from the center of the Marine
Corps Memorial in Rosslyn, Virginia to the
center of Rosslyn chapel in Scotland.
You've got to love Google Earth.
The great circle path passes precisely over
the apex of the Eye of Providence and the
entire DC street pyramid, arguably confirming
my line of reasoning.
Before we leave Scotland entirely, let's take
a detour to Edinburgh.
The Royal Mile is Edinburgh's oldest and busiest
tourist street.
If we measure a line from the facade of Holyrood
Abbey, built in 1128 by King David I of Scotland,
to the circular tower in Edinburgh Castle
built by the same king, we find that it measures
almost precisely 8/7 of a mile.
The "royal mile" referred to in Edinburgh
is therefore the Egyptian royal mile by definition.
This is a memorable and important unit because
as Richard Heath shows in his book Sacred
Number and the Origins of Civilization, there
are exactly 3456 Egyptian royal miles in the
polar radius of the Earth (99.995% accuracy).
King David built these structures right at
the beginning of the Knights Templar's existence,
shortly after the Knights returned from Jerusalem
and the Gothic building explosion began.
Could King David I of Scotland have been connected
to the knowledge the Templars unearthed from
the House of David in Jerusalem?
Let's return to Washington DC and see how
the Royal Mile is encoded there in plain sight.
