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This article rankles a few feathers. My suggestion is to keep an open mind to the possibility that history is largely smoke and mirrors. War for profit sometimes requires the creation and appearance of alternate institutions or sides.

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I'm glad to read this again in a clear format, I feel like I need to read it several more times to get all the implications. Thank you for reprinting Joe's essay in its entirety. It's so dense and detailed, and turns everything we think we know on its head. It seems like it would have been impossible to summarize and do it justice.

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(Banned)Jun 16, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Here is a link to a Bolshevik banknote with the swastika.

https://www.banknotebank.com/notes/943386B.jpg

This is blowing my mind in several directions.

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While I agree with the concept that you're describing, it should be noted, in 2023, that the Masonic brotherhood is nothing like you describe. It was, but it isn't. Looking at the history of secret societies — not going back to biblical times, but just starting with the Templars — there has been a concerted effort to ditch one iteration and found another, so as to keep the secret societies secret. As on mafioso was reported to have said, "two men can keep a secret, as long as one of them is dead." A secret society can only be secret for just so long.

The Templars were banned by the Pope and most were executed, including the legendary DeMolay whom the Masons continue to revere. The surviving Templars created the Rosicrucian Society, with the thinly veiled Rose Cross being an obvious homage to the Templars red cross on their shields. While the Rosicrucians still exist, they're no longer the secret society, having been replaced by an organization whose title escapes me at the moment. Along the way, the Freemasons held that "honor" for a while but I can assure you, as someone who joined and then left the Masons, they're not the Big Kahunas anymore.

Priory of Sion, Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commision, WEF... who knows what they're calling themselves these days or under what rock they're hiding. But indeed, the skulduggery is ongoing.

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According to my mother, I led a sit-down strike at St. Paul's nursery school when I was four years old. I wouldn't stand up to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Soon the whole class of 4-year olds was sitting down. Perhaps my young soul knew something that I have forgotten. The Pledge still makes me extremely uncomfortable. It would be valuable to create a group course/exploration of history so that we can replace the war paradigm with a peace paradigm. Perhaps a project of an un-college experience that I'd love to build...

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(Banned)Jun 16, 2023·edited Jun 16, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Atwill has done some good work on Burning Man as well.

Edit: also Manufacturing the Deadhead.

He has done some solid work.

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Here are some verses of the most theosophical song I know:

"The snake was pale gold

Glazed and shrunken

We were afraid to touch it

The sheets were hot dead prisons

And she was beside me

Old, she's no, young

Her dark white hair

The white soft skin"

Celebration of the Lizard, by Jim Morrison and The Doors

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Is it meant to be disheartening to find that not only is the current-day political maneuvrings orchestrated, but that maybe all through history were also? Smoke and mirrors, yeah. Does it always seem to remain in the same families also? Can such a system be dismantled?

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Theosophy seems to be a reiteration of the old gnostic secret societies. So since the dawn of time, there have been a handful of Malthusians who hold (or pretend to hold) the secrets of god and use that gnosis to enslave humanity? New Moloch same as the old Moloch.

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Yes, understanding helps peace-of-mind. Information like this should be spread widely, but even then it gets twisted or tweaked to the teller's bias or belief to some degree. So, the Freemasons are the root of it all, or were they co-opted by the Khazarian chews..........?????

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As a Christian, my perspective is that "freemasonry" will always be with us because it answers the question "can we be good without God" in the affirmative: You are smart... so join us in our secret society as we set aside the bad old superstitions of yesterday and worship real truth as we understand it today as never before, and together we shall work to free man (starting with us) from the slavery of not following his passions, etcetera.

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Someone from one of my signal groups shared this less than a week ago, and then you share this article.

"BEST MODERN EXPOSURE OF FREEMASONRY - TIME TO WAKE UP SAINTS"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbUK4cFCTPg

I managed to get about 2 hours through it, and the first 10-15 minutes is really painful to push through because of the style. Very much that cult/repetitive phrasing that instantly puts my hackles up, but also fits the content. I will also admit that it does tend to push my conspiracy theory junkie buttons which is why I managed even the 2 hours of listening, and even with recognizing that there's quite a bit of truthiness in it, I can't buy into the whole thing. And this may just be my normal person reaction to refusing to believe in such large scale, long term conspiracies.

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Joe also held throughout covid that it had never been isolated and proven to exist, which is to say that viruses don't exist, because the same techniques and people isolating SARS-CoV-2 also isolate and work with many viruses.

Thus, similarly, this article is bullshit in a cloud of smoke.

Searching for refutation on current national socialist sites I found:

Freemasonry

https://www.jewworldorder.org/hitler-outlawed-and-shutdown-freemasonry/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkzX0qgA_w

https://codoh.com/library/document/demystification-of-the-birth-and-funding-of-the/en/

https://codoh.com/library/document/religion-mysticism-and-the-myth-of-the-occult/en/

The article founders on two big incoheriencies:

1) Hitler was doing 4th degree chess when he closed the lodges to conceal that he was controlled by them

2) that a highly Jewish outfit (masons) was secretly running the Nazis

It's just plain silly. Erudite and littered with rabbit trails, but silly.

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One possibly interesting aspect of this is QAnon. This has been swept under electronic carpet as complete BS. Since that is the standard procedures for hiding truths, this article leads to some interesting conclusions. While it is certainly easy to prove the Democrats in particular, and Elitest in general, have a pedo thing, the other aspect of occult/devil has been treated as too crazy to think about. I believe I remember reading some where that penultimate Democrat insider John Podesta's email included an invite to some form of satanic ritual. My memory on this is fuzzy so I could well be wrong, but it would be interesting in light of the prior article.

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MC, do you use AI to write these Substack articles?

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