From jhdaugh@mail.msen.com Thu Aug 25 05:58:14 1994
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 94 05:39 EDT
From: James Daugherty
Reply to: prj@mail.msen.com
To: prj@mail.msen.com
Subject: Illuminati-Dollarbill
From: ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei)
In article <1993Nov9.011426.18220@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> acb@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) writes:
> James Lawry (namjml@comlab.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
> > The symbol on the US $1 bill of an eye at the apex of a pyramid
> > is a masonic symbol. I believe George Washington was a Freemason,
> > as were a number of America's founding fathers. (Confirm, anyone?)
Hmm... The eye is a Masonic symbol, but putting it on a pyramid is
not. It's really questionable if there is Masonic content in the seal
at all. I have a FAQ file on the subject if anyone is interested.
Washington, Franklin, and a surprising number of the Founding
Fathers were Masons.
> The street plan of Washington DC also apparently has some Masonic
> symbols coded into it. Anyone know anything about this?
> From an old post...
ptrei writes:
> In <36511@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> traveler@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu writes
> > The Capitol is the joint where the two compass arms are joined; it has
> > a circular drive around it which reinforces this effect. Now, the
> > right leg of the compass is Maryland Avenue, which goes from the
> > Capitol in a west-south-west direction and is shown on this map as
> > terminating a mile or so away. The left leg is Pennsylvania Avenue,
> > which goes WNW till it runs into the WHite HOuse (tho it looks like it
> > continues on the other side, that's as far as it's highlighted in the
> > book, wihch makes that leg equal to the other one).
> > The square is formed by Canal Street and Louisiana Avenue,
> > which run from a common point on the Mall, several blocks west of the
> > Capitol, to just east of it. The Washington Monument is halfway
> > between the ends of the compass legs
>
> Yet another beautiful theory about to die at the hands of a cold,
> unfeeling fact...
>
> If you look at a modern map of DC, you can see this, but it's
> really questionable. For one thing, the join of Canal and Louisiana is
> not a right angle (as required for a square), but a smooth arc of a
> couple hundred yards radius.
>
> However, if you look the ORIGINAL street plan, the square simply
> isn't there. Canal street is (suprise!) a canal, and Louisiana Avenue
> doesn't exist on my 1792 map. It was cut through the existing street
> grid to provide views of Union Station at a later date.
>
> Pierre L'Enfant (who designed) DC, was probably not a Mason (I've
> checked several sources).
> ObUL: George Washington smoked dope.
Washington certainly *grew* hemp on his farm: it was a common
crop of the period, used to make rope. There is no evidence that he
smoked it.
Peter Trei
ptrei@mitre.org
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