America: Nation of the Goddess: The Venus Families and the Founding of the United States
Autor Alan Butler, Janet Wolter Cuvânt înainte de Scott F. Wolteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2015
The authors explain how the Venus families, working through the Freemasons and later the Grange, planned the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. It was this group who set the stage for the Founding Fathers to create Washington, D.C., according to the principles of sacred geometry, with an eye toward establishing the New Jerusalem. The authors explore the sacred design of the Washington Monument, revealing its occult purpose and connections to the heavens. They reveal how the obelisks in New York City depict the stars of Orion's Belt just like the Giza pyramids and how the site of one of them, St. Paul's Chapel, is the American counterpart to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Exposing the strong esoteric influences behind the establishment of the Grange in the United States, they connect this apparently conservative order of farmers to the Venus families and trace its lineage back to the Cisterians, who were a major voice in the promotion of the Crusades and the establishment of the Knights Templar.
The authors conclude with the startling revelation that nearly every city in America has a temple to the Goddess hidden in plain sight--their baseball diamonds--exposing the extent to which the Venus families are still at work behind the scenes.
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ISBN-13: 9781620553978
ISBN-10: 162055397X
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 55 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Destiny Books
ISBN-10: 162055397X
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 55 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Destiny Books
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Notă biografică
Alan Butler is a writer, researcher, and recognized expert in ancient cosmology and astronomy with many books to his credit, including Hiram Key Revisited, Civilization One, and City of the Goddess. He has appeared on Ancient Aliens, The Mystery of History, and America Unearthed. He lives in Yorkshire, England. Janet Wolter is a writer and historical investigator. Married to Scott F. Wolter, the host of H2’s America Unearthed, she lives outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Extras
INTRODUCTION
A Single Word
There are few times in the careers of historical researchers when something so “odd” and so utterly incongruous turns up that when it does happen there is a tendency to wonder whether the whole thing is a dream. Such a rare occurrence is a time of wrinkled brows and frantic searches to verify that there are rational answers to be had. Generally patience and persistence win out--but not always. When subsequent research only complicates the issue, there is nothing to be done but to feel the thrill of excitement that attends the start of any adventure and to say, as did Sherlock Holmes, “The game’s afoot!”
What began our particular adventure was a single word. It was a word that was of importance to both of us, but for totally different reasons. That word was grange, and it started a quest that had more twists and turns than a medieval maze and which shows no sign of finishing any time soon.
It might seem as if the monastic medieval meaning of the word grange, and the way it was used in nineteenth-century America had little in common--except for the fact that grange comes from the Latin word gran, meaning “grain.” As a result the word grange was closely associated with the word granary--a place where grain is stored. However, in the way the Cistercians used it, grange meant an outlying farm, separate from but yet directly owned and run by a particular abbey. In the case of the United States Grange, more properly known as “The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry,” it meant a gathering together of many thousands of independent farms--all across the country--associated by mutual interest and common problems. In this way it served as the farmers’ “union.”
As our mutual research began Alan was spending more and more time in the United States working on television documentaries and doing research for his book Washington D.C--City of the Goddess. Alan believes that Washington D.C. is the most extraordinary deliberately planned city in the world.
One of the observations that had caused him to look in great detail at the founding of Washington D.C. was the tremendous proliferation of “goddess” statues to be found within its civic heart and throughout its parks and intersections.
Underpinning the “secular” stance of the founding government of the United States had been a particular reverence for a strong feminine component within the spiritual beliefs of at least a fair proportion of Washington D.C.’s designers. Because many of those who created Washington D.C. were Freemasons, and also because to those in the know there is a secret “goddess slant” to Freemasonry, it was not too surprising to see why all the goddess statues were present.
Like Freemasonry, the Grange consists of a series of stages of initiation, which are known as degrees. Those who wish to become members of the Grange have to proceed, stage by stage, through the degrees in order to reach the top of the Grange ladder of initiation. Accompanying the degrees are specific costumes, role-playing, and carefully memorized dialogue.
It is the nature of the degrees of Grange membership--available to both men and women--that sets the Grange apart from its Freemasonic origins. What is more, many of the presiding officers present during the conferring of Grange degrees are women who take on the names of different goddesses known in the ancient world to be goddesses of nature and agriculture.
To the majority of those taking part across so many decades, all of the costumes, the play-acting, and the carefully learned lines must have been a fascinating departure from the humdrum lives of the subsistence farmer and his family. Grange meetings not only cemented communities together (probably for the first time in many isolated townships), but the Grange ultimately gave small farmers a “national” voice. The Grange brought people together on a regular basis and must have been a social godsend, especially to hard-pressed, isolated women. The feeling of warmth, inclusion, and quite inexplicable sense of calm that we both felt when we visited the oldest of the surviving Grange halls is difficult to describe.
All the same, no matter how significant and important the Grange has been to its many members, it remains one of the greatest enigmas of developing society in the United States. This is primarily because throughout the whole of the degree rituals neither the name “Jesus” nor the title “Christ” is mentioned, despite the fact that the Grange has always considered itself to be a Christian institution. Farming communities have tended to be conservative in their outlook and have often been comprised of people from a strong, fundamentalist Christian background. It is incomprehensible that such people would have taken part in ceremonies that have an unabashed “pagan” feel to them.
It turns out that the use of the word Grange for this unique experiment in agricultural cooperation was no coincidence. It was deliberately chosen by a group of people who have been steering the ship of humanity for a very long time. We call these people the “Venus families,” but they have appeared in very many forms and guises. They took control of western Europe in the eleventh century and were responsible for both the Cistercians and the Knights Templar. They set the scene for European settlement of North America in the twelfth century, and they left ample evidence of their presence and their alliances with the indigenous peoples.
The dream of the Venus families was always the same: self-determination, equality, and fairness, a foundation laid with the cornerstone that was placed with great Freemasonic ceremony at the northeast corner of the Capitol in Washington D.C. They also believed vehemently in religious freedom, despite holding fast to personal beliefs that are older by far than any organized religion in the world today.
A Single Word
There are few times in the careers of historical researchers when something so “odd” and so utterly incongruous turns up that when it does happen there is a tendency to wonder whether the whole thing is a dream. Such a rare occurrence is a time of wrinkled brows and frantic searches to verify that there are rational answers to be had. Generally patience and persistence win out--but not always. When subsequent research only complicates the issue, there is nothing to be done but to feel the thrill of excitement that attends the start of any adventure and to say, as did Sherlock Holmes, “The game’s afoot!”
What began our particular adventure was a single word. It was a word that was of importance to both of us, but for totally different reasons. That word was grange, and it started a quest that had more twists and turns than a medieval maze and which shows no sign of finishing any time soon.
It might seem as if the monastic medieval meaning of the word grange, and the way it was used in nineteenth-century America had little in common--except for the fact that grange comes from the Latin word gran, meaning “grain.” As a result the word grange was closely associated with the word granary--a place where grain is stored. However, in the way the Cistercians used it, grange meant an outlying farm, separate from but yet directly owned and run by a particular abbey. In the case of the United States Grange, more properly known as “The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry,” it meant a gathering together of many thousands of independent farms--all across the country--associated by mutual interest and common problems. In this way it served as the farmers’ “union.”
As our mutual research began Alan was spending more and more time in the United States working on television documentaries and doing research for his book Washington D.C--City of the Goddess. Alan believes that Washington D.C. is the most extraordinary deliberately planned city in the world.
One of the observations that had caused him to look in great detail at the founding of Washington D.C. was the tremendous proliferation of “goddess” statues to be found within its civic heart and throughout its parks and intersections.
Underpinning the “secular” stance of the founding government of the United States had been a particular reverence for a strong feminine component within the spiritual beliefs of at least a fair proportion of Washington D.C.’s designers. Because many of those who created Washington D.C. were Freemasons, and also because to those in the know there is a secret “goddess slant” to Freemasonry, it was not too surprising to see why all the goddess statues were present.
Like Freemasonry, the Grange consists of a series of stages of initiation, which are known as degrees. Those who wish to become members of the Grange have to proceed, stage by stage, through the degrees in order to reach the top of the Grange ladder of initiation. Accompanying the degrees are specific costumes, role-playing, and carefully memorized dialogue.
It is the nature of the degrees of Grange membership--available to both men and women--that sets the Grange apart from its Freemasonic origins. What is more, many of the presiding officers present during the conferring of Grange degrees are women who take on the names of different goddesses known in the ancient world to be goddesses of nature and agriculture.
To the majority of those taking part across so many decades, all of the costumes, the play-acting, and the carefully learned lines must have been a fascinating departure from the humdrum lives of the subsistence farmer and his family. Grange meetings not only cemented communities together (probably for the first time in many isolated townships), but the Grange ultimately gave small farmers a “national” voice. The Grange brought people together on a regular basis and must have been a social godsend, especially to hard-pressed, isolated women. The feeling of warmth, inclusion, and quite inexplicable sense of calm that we both felt when we visited the oldest of the surviving Grange halls is difficult to describe.
All the same, no matter how significant and important the Grange has been to its many members, it remains one of the greatest enigmas of developing society in the United States. This is primarily because throughout the whole of the degree rituals neither the name “Jesus” nor the title “Christ” is mentioned, despite the fact that the Grange has always considered itself to be a Christian institution. Farming communities have tended to be conservative in their outlook and have often been comprised of people from a strong, fundamentalist Christian background. It is incomprehensible that such people would have taken part in ceremonies that have an unabashed “pagan” feel to them.
It turns out that the use of the word Grange for this unique experiment in agricultural cooperation was no coincidence. It was deliberately chosen by a group of people who have been steering the ship of humanity for a very long time. We call these people the “Venus families,” but they have appeared in very many forms and guises. They took control of western Europe in the eleventh century and were responsible for both the Cistercians and the Knights Templar. They set the scene for European settlement of North America in the twelfth century, and they left ample evidence of their presence and their alliances with the indigenous peoples.
The dream of the Venus families was always the same: self-determination, equality, and fairness, a foundation laid with the cornerstone that was placed with great Freemasonic ceremony at the northeast corner of the Capitol in Washington D.C. They also believed vehemently in religious freedom, despite holding fast to personal beliefs that are older by far than any organized religion in the world today.
Cuprins
Foreword by Scott F. Wolter
Introduction: A Single Word
Part One
Freemasons, Goddesses, and Grange Halls
1 The Patrons of Husbandry
2 The Need for Diversion and Theater
The Play’s the Thing
3 Not a Secret Society but a Society with Secrets
A Brief History of the Craft
4 The Champagne Fairs and Internationalism
5 The Names in the Talpiot Tomb
6 The Templar-Freemason Connection
7 The Knights Templar and the Venus Families
8 The Kensington Rune Stone
9 Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis
Part Two
Washington, D.C.:The City of Isis
10 Washington, D.C., and the Megalithic Yard
11 The Washington Monument
The Stone Sentinel
12 Demeter and Constitution Week
13 Independence Day and the Winter Solstice
14 Sun and Shadow on the U.S. Capitol
Part Three
New York: The City of Osiris
15 St. Paul’s Chapel
A Miraculous Survivor
16 More Suns and Obelisks
17 The French Connection
L’Enfante Terrible
18 Orion’s Belt in New York City
19 Freemasonic Symbolism in Baseball
20 Threshing Floors and Henges
Potent Places for Magic
21 Venus Families at Work
Postscript: The Significance of the Two Pillars
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Introduction: A Single Word
Part One
Freemasons, Goddesses, and Grange Halls
1 The Patrons of Husbandry
2 The Need for Diversion and Theater
The Play’s the Thing
3 Not a Secret Society but a Society with Secrets
A Brief History of the Craft
4 The Champagne Fairs and Internationalism
5 The Names in the Talpiot Tomb
6 The Templar-Freemason Connection
7 The Knights Templar and the Venus Families
8 The Kensington Rune Stone
9 Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis
Part Two
Washington, D.C.:The City of Isis
10 Washington, D.C., and the Megalithic Yard
11 The Washington Monument
The Stone Sentinel
12 Demeter and Constitution Week
13 Independence Day and the Winter Solstice
14 Sun and Shadow on the U.S. Capitol
Part Three
New York: The City of Osiris
15 St. Paul’s Chapel
A Miraculous Survivor
16 More Suns and Obelisks
17 The French Connection
L’Enfante Terrible
18 Orion’s Belt in New York City
19 Freemasonic Symbolism in Baseball
20 Threshing Floors and Henges
Potent Places for Magic
21 Venus Families at Work
Postscript: The Significance of the Two Pillars
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Recenzii
“. . . A scholarly yet fun to read book packed with revelations about America’s greatest secrets. Readers will never be able to look at the nation’s capital or New York City the same way again.”
“The authors have compiled a wealth of esoteric lore and fascinating facts affirming connections between ancient henges, the Knights of the Temple Brotherhood, modern Freemasonry, and the birth of the United States. Applying principles of sacred geometry, surprising associations with the Great Goddess are confirmed in actual measurements and sun/shadow relationships of obelisks in New York and Washington, D.C., the capital city.”
“America: Nation of the Goddess brings to light some of the hidden gems of Freemasonry, including the origins of the Grange and what is the true heart and soul of the Craft. The amazing shadow play of the Washington Monument will forever change the National Mall experience for all who read this book.”
“From the deepest shadows of the medieval Knights Templar to the shining light of the National Grange and Freemasonry, Alan Butler and Janet Wolter lift the many veils of the Venus Families and reveal their central involvement in the founding of America. Gently unwinding the double helix of the Holy Bloodline, they display the eternal Goddess in all of her glorious splendor. Within the pages of America: Nation of the Goddess, the mark of the Goddess is not only shown to be on the very foundations of Washington, D.C., and New York City but also on the entire free nation of America!”
“The innovative ideas in America: Nation of the Goddess will stimulate not only experienced researchers but any reader seeking new and exciting theories in the field. If you are interested in secret societies, the Templars, Francis Bacon, the secret history of Washington, D.C., Masonic symbols, and other fascinating mysteries, this is the book is for you. America: Nation of the Goddess has a wealth of information. Highly recommended.”
“What does a Cistercian monastery have to do with Grange Halls in America? How did the Freemasons and the Knights Templar get involved? What is the Megalithic Yard and how did it affect the design of our nation’s capitol? Are Demeter’s Elysinian Mysteries alive and well in Washington, D.C.? Is there really an Egyptian Temple in New York City, hidden in plain sight? These are the questions that these authors tackle and the answers are astounding. Both of them have well-tested reputations in the field of historical research. They have documented evidence that a group of people (the Venus Families) have influenced the birth and development of the United States of America since its very beginnings. They have spent decades ferreting out the real-world evidence for that lineage, and now they are taking readers on a real-world adventure in search of esoteric mysteries. The mysteries, according to these authors, turn out not to be all that esoteric. The evidence is documented in ancient texts, in archeological sites, and in extant buildings right here in the USA. Even your most conservative customers are realizing that a powerful change is occurring in our world now. Many people believe that the energies of the Goddess have been surfacing during these recent turbulent times. That’s exactly what these authors believe. Dense with academic information, this 350-page book is amazingly readable and engaging. It has something for everybody. You might be surprised by how many of your customers are interested.”
“The authors have compiled a wealth of esoteric lore and fascinating facts affirming connections between ancient henges, the Knights of the Temple Brotherhood, modern Freemasonry, and the birth of the United States. Applying principles of sacred geometry, surprising associations with the Great Goddess are confirmed in actual measurements and sun/shadow relationships of obelisks in New York and Washington, D.C., the capital city.”
“America: Nation of the Goddess brings to light some of the hidden gems of Freemasonry, including the origins of the Grange and what is the true heart and soul of the Craft. The amazing shadow play of the Washington Monument will forever change the National Mall experience for all who read this book.”
“From the deepest shadows of the medieval Knights Templar to the shining light of the National Grange and Freemasonry, Alan Butler and Janet Wolter lift the many veils of the Venus Families and reveal their central involvement in the founding of America. Gently unwinding the double helix of the Holy Bloodline, they display the eternal Goddess in all of her glorious splendor. Within the pages of America: Nation of the Goddess, the mark of the Goddess is not only shown to be on the very foundations of Washington, D.C., and New York City but also on the entire free nation of America!”
“The innovative ideas in America: Nation of the Goddess will stimulate not only experienced researchers but any reader seeking new and exciting theories in the field. If you are interested in secret societies, the Templars, Francis Bacon, the secret history of Washington, D.C., Masonic symbols, and other fascinating mysteries, this is the book is for you. America: Nation of the Goddess has a wealth of information. Highly recommended.”
“What does a Cistercian monastery have to do with Grange Halls in America? How did the Freemasons and the Knights Templar get involved? What is the Megalithic Yard and how did it affect the design of our nation’s capitol? Are Demeter’s Elysinian Mysteries alive and well in Washington, D.C.? Is there really an Egyptian Temple in New York City, hidden in plain sight? These are the questions that these authors tackle and the answers are astounding. Both of them have well-tested reputations in the field of historical research. They have documented evidence that a group of people (the Venus Families) have influenced the birth and development of the United States of America since its very beginnings. They have spent decades ferreting out the real-world evidence for that lineage, and now they are taking readers on a real-world adventure in search of esoteric mysteries. The mysteries, according to these authors, turn out not to be all that esoteric. The evidence is documented in ancient texts, in archeological sites, and in extant buildings right here in the USA. Even your most conservative customers are realizing that a powerful change is occurring in our world now. Many people believe that the energies of the Goddess have been surfacing during these recent turbulent times. That’s exactly what these authors believe. Dense with academic information, this 350-page book is amazingly readable and engaging. It has something for everybody. You might be surprised by how many of your customers are interested.”
Descriere
Explores how a secret cabal of influential families has shaped the United States according to the principles of sacred geometry and Goddess veneration