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Conspiracy theory, Founding of America, George Washington, Masonic movement, Masons, Nicholas Hagger, The Secret Founding of America, The Syndicate
I was wandering about slightly aimlessly in King’s Lynn the other Saturday when I fell across a branch of Waterstones sitting as an oasis in a moribund huddle of greasy take aways, cheap clothes stores and any number of pound shops. Excellent I thought, worth a detour.
And sitting on the table next to the history section was a copy of the above, a title I had not seen before. I thought you might like my take on Mr Hagger’s thesis.
The author is British, and is prolific, having managed thirty odd books before this one and I blush that I had never heard of him before. A poet and a philosopher he writes with ease indeed his style is fluid and elegant. It’s a very polished piece.
He seems to have had a long interest in things American having owned Otly Hall in Suffolk where in 1607 the Jamestown Settlement was planned.
He has though an curious take on history and sees it as a series of civilisations pasing through 61 stages towards some grand world order guided by a group of unknown unseen mystics known only as “The Syndicate”. It’s a very odd approach.
He sees this elite (he does not name them, he cannot say who they are, or were, or where they come from) as seeking world dominion through a world government. The usual suspects attend; the Bilderberg group; the commission of the EU; the Communists etc. Even the Illuminati get a shout. And the vehicle for these masters of darkness is – the Freemasons.
Well, yes, there were certainly a lot of masons around during the revolution and long afterwards. There still are. They do meet secretly – or at least discreetly – so people don’t laugh at their goatskin aprons and rolled up trousers, and they did tend to network and act as a cabal. Just like they do nowadays where they give each other jobs and divvy out the contracts to each other, and operate a closed shop self help group. All pals together. I am old enough to remember that almost everyone’s grandfathers seemed to be in the masons. It was almost universal for that post First World War generation. But it’s difficult to think of that group of fat flabby middle-age provincial grocers and bank manager types as lords of the universe. My own grandfather was a master mason, but the only thing it gave him was a cheap gong and alcoholism.
Raiders of the dressing up box
So it’s a wonderful addition to the off-the-wall-pseudo-history-conspiracy-rubbish that has been so popular since Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons. It cost £16.99 in Britain which is a bit stiff. So getting it out of the local library might be better.
Me I got mine cheap and second hand off EBay
Copyright David Macadam 2010
The Oligarch Kings 
I have not the privilege of reading anything by Mr. Hagger, but I have seen quite a few books following the links mentioned by Dan Brown in his hot-selling novels.
Neither the Masons nor the Illuminati are the cabal of conspirators, although members of the “conspiracy” have probably been members of one of the two groups.
One good thing about books like this and Dan Brown’s novels, is that it can get people to think. Unfortunately, all too many simply agree with what they read and do not delve further into the subject.
And we need more people to dig deep into the subject.
I agree entirely. The idea that simply because the conspirators were masons or members of the local Rotarians, does not make the Rotarians a cabal. The cabal is that the conspirators were all members of pre-existing oligarchical families long established in America since the days of the Mayflower and the James River colony. They combined to preserve their own selfish interests. It was not a conspiracy with great and sweeping goals! And I will expand and explain that in later posts.
I’m in the process of reading the book, although I have yet to finish it. At page 200, I must say that I find the challenges the accepted norm intriguing to say the least. But I tend to agree with the readers above. Being a Mason does not make for a masonic conspiracy. Many of the references made and inferences drawn could be said of many groups/organizations outside of the ones referenced in the volume. This is but a version. I have yet to read of the evidence linking deeds to associations. No direct evidence has yet been presented in the book to solidify the conclusions drawn. I’m not saying they might not exist, I’m saying the connections are left to the reader on inference, not fact and at best circumstantial. I realize it would be too much to ask to get a document signed by the Masters of all the lodges affirming a conspiratorial grand plan to the dominion of the world. It might not hurt to mention that every member of any organization doesn’t necessarily subscribe to the ethical tenets and canons of that organization. If it were thus, there would be no need for ethics and review committees in those organizations.
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I’m an avid history reader and this book is garbage. His resourcing and research give initial credence, but he can’t seem to go one paragraph unless he illustrates, “but they might have been masons…” He spent less than 6 pages linking freemasonry to the anti catholic conspiracy which founded the American corporation. I’m going to throw this book away; anyone who is intelligent shouldn’t waste their time; and anyone who isn’t is vulnerable to this hack history.
Absolutely Robert, and whilst some of us might enjoy the work for its off the wall celebration of the tin-foil-hat approach to history it does lent support to the worst type of inventive history and in the process divert readers from more real threats to their current liberties.
Hope his world gov’t takes into account the Islamic extremists.