Since the day I was born, I have been taught to proudly sing “The land of the free and the home of the brave” along with my fellow Americans. But how free are we really? From brainwashing to unknown scandals, do we really even know what we are standing for? With so many secrets and lies it is hard to tell just exactly what is true and false, but the most astonishing secret of all is the power held by secret societies in The United States of America.
A secret societies is a group or club of people who try and keep their events, activities and functions hidden from non members. Some organizations try to conceal their existence at all. There are over a million active secret societies around the world. One of the biggest and most prominent groups …show more content…
Members, now called Freemasons, refer to God as The Great Architect of the Universe. They use signs and handshakes to gain admission to their meetings, as well as to identify themselves to other people who may be Masons with secret passwords. Freemasons trace their roots to “the stonemasons of ancient and medieval time-the men who, literally, built the world, from King Solomon's Temple to the cathedrals of Europe” (Redfern 204). With much success, the worldwide Fraternity has more than 4.7 million members and somehow still manages to be one of the best kept secrets of all time. It is unknown exactly when or even why the Masonic Fraternity was formed, but most Masonic scholars believe that it emerged from the stonemasons' guilds. Within thirty years, the fraternity had spread throughout Europe and the American Colonies. Freemasonry became very popular in colonial America. The group has survived for centuries giving them a very rich and scandalous history. Our entire country was essentially created by Freemasons. Nicholas Redfern has found through his intense research that “14 Presidents of the United States, 18 Vice-Presidents, 40 Supreme Court Justices, 13 of the 39 signers of the US Constitution, 9 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and just under half of George Washington’s Continental Army generals were all Freemasons” (287). If the men who established our country were all apart of this society then why don’t we learn about this our history classes? Because it makes it easier to conceal the veracity if no one knows about it. Faking Apollo moon landings, September 11th and The Ku Klux Klan all have an abundance of ties to The Freemasons. Jay Freeman of The Booklist explains that they are a group of such colossal dominance because of their main source of power, money. Leaders of the group are trying to use the World Bank to create a world system of
A secret societies is a group or club of people who try and keep their events, activities and functions hidden from non members. Some organizations try to conceal their existence at all. There are over a million active secret societies around the world. One of the biggest and most prominent groups …show more content…
Members, now called Freemasons, refer to God as The Great Architect of the Universe. They use signs and handshakes to gain admission to their meetings, as well as to identify themselves to other people who may be Masons with secret passwords. Freemasons trace their roots to “the stonemasons of ancient and medieval time-the men who, literally, built the world, from King Solomon's Temple to the cathedrals of Europe” (Redfern 204). With much success, the worldwide Fraternity has more than 4.7 million members and somehow still manages to be one of the best kept secrets of all time. It is unknown exactly when or even why the Masonic Fraternity was formed, but most Masonic scholars believe that it emerged from the stonemasons' guilds. Within thirty years, the fraternity had spread throughout Europe and the American Colonies. Freemasonry became very popular in colonial America. The group has survived for centuries giving them a very rich and scandalous history. Our entire country was essentially created by Freemasons. Nicholas Redfern has found through his intense research that “14 Presidents of the United States, 18 Vice-Presidents, 40 Supreme Court Justices, 13 of the 39 signers of the US Constitution, 9 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and just under half of George Washington’s Continental Army generals were all Freemasons” (287). If the men who established our country were all apart of this society then why don’t we learn about this our history classes? Because it makes it easier to conceal the veracity if no one knows about it. Faking Apollo moon landings, September 11th and The Ku Klux Klan all have an abundance of ties to The Freemasons. Jay Freeman of The Booklist explains that they are a group of such colossal dominance because of their main source of power, money. Leaders of the group are trying to use the World Bank to create a world system of