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The book bounces around a lot, coving a plethora of topics. These aren’t disjointed though, everything dovetails together. It is quite interesting actually, to see such seemingly disparate topics tied together with a few common threads: Freemasonry, ritual, social engineering.

I think the most important take-away, and there are plenty, is the connection between the alchemical process, the revelation of the message, and the media.

General Aquino is quoted, in defense of his Satanic Temple of Set, that his critics should turn on the television, sit in a movie theater. He blames the current (circa 1989, still present) fascination of the youth by occult and satanic imagery and ideals on the glamorization of such topics by the media. He cites as examples the horror stars of the day, Freddy, Jason, etc.

While I agree with Aquino, it is nothing more than another layer of the revelation of the method onion. He is telling you bluntly that the sex and violence in media is corrupting the youth, and no one bats an eye. The powerful mind control exhibited in the television and media is so deep rooted (again 1989, it is worse now) that most people would much rather endure a crumbling society, be it familial erosion, deteriorating infrastructure, or economic languish, than face the cold hard reality that our most cherished form of entertainment are to blame. Watching the world burn seems preferable to turning off the television, which in itself masks the flames all around us.

The author gives a number of examples of the media delivered damage, one being the Polanski/Manson ritual murders and the follow up decade of serial killers. These murderers (though Charlie never murdered anyone) are elevated to celebrity status, book written and movies produced glorifying their actions. Today, decades later, there is still a sub-culture that worships these maniacs. It might be worth noting here that many of these serial killers have ties to intelligence operations. See David McGowan’s Programmed to Kill for an introduction to the consistent background of these murderers.

The author concludes:

These murders are actually intricately choreographed rituals; performed first on a very intimate and secret scale, among the initiates themselves in order to program them, then on a grand scale, amplified incalculably by the electronic media.

All of this coverage is a kind of initiation into the cult, solely by means of repeated exposure to the “electronic videodrome.” Other examples include:

…plethora of extremely violent and simultaneously symbolic popular films of the modern cinema like The Wicker Man and Videodrome which in a very coarse and crude manner relative to the Renaissance ceremonials, continue this conditioning process (the issue of ceremonial and subliminal films was raised at length in Philip K. Dick’s novel, Valis).

Speaking of videodrome, the film by the same name is essentially a manifesto, more revelation of the method. It shows, in fantastical terms and grotesque imagery how humans can be addicted and shaped by media.

Running parallel with the movies you have the music industry, which, in more recent years has become as, if not more, important than movies. The effect music has on populations is nothing new. Plato and the old Chinese dynasties both knew of musics power to, as is said, sooth the savage beast. Plato specifically censors music in his Republic, while each Chinese dynasty would have the instruments tuned to a new key, an attempt at aligning the music with the dynasty.

The most dramatic example of musical induced change is probably the jazz inspired 1960’s rock-n-roll revolution. It, along with the FM radio which delivered it, is fertile ground for understanding modern psychological warfare. In more recent years you can see the template being rolled out again, this time in the electronic music genre. If one looks, even cursorily, you can see the common themes of sex and drugs are as, or more, prevalent in EDM - Electronic Dance Music.

What is the final result? Mental illness, derangement, and the search for healing. It is nothing more than a Hegelian dialectic; drink, or watch as the case may be, our poison, and when you are so sick you can’t take it, don’t worry, we’ve to a solution to all your problems: psychotherapy, pills, surgery, whatever you need.

Whereas in the past, communities might be able to come together at a church, today religion has been usurped by science, nothing more than a surrogate religion for the 21st century.

Counter-Churches, promoted by the likes of R.K.G Temple and Robert Anton Wilson, have done much to delegitimize actual churches. But, the author points out, science and counter-churches are not the only place blame can be lain:

Phony Christians have done at least as much to damage to Christianity as any Satan cult. Those “TV Evangelists” who wave the Bible while chanting, “Send money, send money, send money,” have sullied the name Christian and made it a byword for hypocrisy. They have caused millions of people to equate Christ with charlatans and to regard the Bible as little more than a book of self-serving alibis for greed and deceit. What could be more Satanic?

It should also be said that the author is not a Luddite. His criticism is of scientism, in his own words, “Scientism is science gone mad.” The worship of science, like the worship of money is the problem, not money or science in and of themselves. Again, the author is very clear:

Science, when practiced as the application of man’s God-given talents for the production of appropriate technology on a human-scale, relief of misery and the reverential exploration and appreciation of the glory of Divine Providence as revealed in nature, is a useful tool for mankind.

What might be difficult, for those that have not delved into intelligence community’s occult side, to take seriously are the constant references to such silliness as the Ordo Templi Orientis, the OTO, and works of initiates, Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley. Like R.K.G. Temple, these fringe authors have provided a window into their world, but it is wrapped in obscurity, riddles, and symbols.

First, if you are open to the interpretation, the cryptocracy takes a seemingly magical view of the world as a giant chess board. This symbology can be seen in the floor of Solomon’s Temple and the Masonic lodge. Once you start looking for the checkerboard pattern in relation to Masonic buildings and occult goings-ons, you’ll see it everywhere. Even the striped pillars in front of the Federal Reserve Bank pay homage to this, as well as other symbols.

Brzezinski even has a book titled @@‘The Grand Chessboard’ and Alice in Wonderland, cited a ridiculous amount by these self elected administrators of the world, contains a human scale chessboard.

A perfect example of the occult meaning hidden in plain sight, or revelation of the method, can be seen on the dollar bill.

The motto above the pyramid [on the U.S. dollar] is, “Favor Our Enterprise.” The banner beneath it reads, “New Order of the Ages.” The date at the base is 1776, the year the Illuminati or Beenan Orden (“Order of Bees”) was founded.

The pyramid is only the tip of the iceberg; a symbol that most can recognize as a seal of cryptocratic control. You could say the symbol has gone mainstream. This is why you see it, along with the all seeing eye, used extensively in the entertainment industry.

Following the control of money and the control of media, you essentially have the control of humanity. In one of these two way, or most often both, everyone is trapped. Either mesmerized by Hollywood or running to exhaustion in the rat race. The author, in 1989 mind you, sums up succinctly:

If the cryptocracy manages to obtain consent from the public to use the computer-satellite surveillance network on the public itself (in the name of “reducing automobile traffic jams, controlling illegal aliens, fighting crime, destroying terrorists,” etc.) then our society will indeed become an insect world, an “order of bees.” Note too that the cryptocracy has deliberately allowed the destruction of America’s mass transit railroad system, permitted violent crime to flourish, encouraged a virtual open border alien immigration policy and meddled in the religious wars of distant foreign nations thereby making America a terrorist target, because without these crises the pretext for a police state would be absent.

This prescient prediction seems to be exactly what we’ve seen more and more of over the last three decades.

Continuing with the occult symbolism we see that murders are often performed ritualistically. It should be noted that it doesn’t matter if you or I believe in magick and other ritual séance mumbo-jumbo, what matters is the practitioners believe in it.

We see these kinds of murders, strikingly frequently if you look at celebrity deaths as well as the new terrorist/lone gunman of recent years. The author explains that they serve, beyond any magick purpose, several psychological warfare purposes:

One: the ritual murders are successfully accomplished. The principals get-away, the scapegoat conveniently takes the blame. Two: later we learn the truth but no one is prosecuted. We are mocked, disoriented and demoralized. Occult prestige and potency is heightened.

Sandy Hook, the Las Vegas shooter, dozen of school shootings, the list goes on and on. Even when there is overwhelming evidence, and I make no claims for any particular event, that there is at least some missing gaps in the story, that something doesn’t make sense and citizens are trying to cypher out the puzzle, the news drums into our collective heads that everything is alright, nothing to see here, go back to sleep. One one hand the ignorant is stabilized in the face of the skeptical. On the other hand the skeptical is disheartened that, to them, such obvious inconsistencies are papered over.

This is nothing new. The grand daddy of all ritual sacrifices took place over two generations ago with the televised assassination of John F. Kennedy.

What ought to be unambiguous to any student of mass psychology, is the almost immediate decline of the American people in the wake of this shocking, televised slaughter. There are many indicators of the transformation. Within a year Americans had largely switched from softer-toned, naturally colored cotton clothing to garish-colored artificial polyesters. Popular music became louder, faster and more cacophonous. Drugs appeared for the first time outside the Bohemian sub­ culture ghettos, in the mainstream. Extremes of every kind came into fashion. Revolutions in cognition and behavior were on the horizon, from the Beatles to Charles Manson, from Free Love to LSD.

This ties perfectly into the British Invasion:

Dave Marsh writing in Rolling Stone magazine (Feb. 24, 1977): “The Beatles have always had an intimate connection to the JFK assassination. He was shot the week before Thanksgiving 1963. By February 1964, the Beatles were number one in the national charts and the climactic appearance on Ed Sullivan’s TV show occurred. Even Brian Epstein (the manager of the Beatles) believed the Kennedy assassination helped their rise—the Beatles appeared to bind our wounds with their messages of joy and handholding… And the way was paved, replacing Camelot with Oz.”

The book concludes with a lengthy passage by John Quincey Adams. It outlines how the kidnapping and murder of William Morgan has been stricken from the pages of history. What is most telling, says Adams, is how the newspapers reacted, or didn’t reacted, in Morgan’s case while they raised a hue and cry at the kidnapping English forger Stephenson. It is blatant to see that then, as now, outcries from the media are selective. What criteria do the select on? Is the victim one of Masonic workings? If so, there will be no coverage. It is not hard to extrapolate and come to the conclusion that the Masons, and other occult organizations, often synonymous with the intelligence community control every aspect of the media. (See: Operation Mockingbird.)

Further Reading

• opposition to Darwinism, a dogma proved false by Norman Macbeth in his magisterial Darwin Retried and exposed as a cult by Gertrude Himmelfarb in Darwin.

• Two books by the English writer and Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) initiate Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival and Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God and another by the aforementioned Robert K.G. Temple, The Sirius Mystery, revealed secrets of the highest magnitude

• Stephen Knight’s Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

• Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

Exceptional Excerpts

“we are initiated into their Cult solely by means of our exposure to the electronic videodrome.

”* Science, when practiced as the application of man’s God-given talents for the production of appropriate technology on a human-scale, relief of misery and the reverential exploration and appreciation of the glory of Divine Providence as revealed in nature, is a useful tool for mankind. Scientism is science gone mad, which is what we have today.

"…the active involvement of the Queen of England, the Prime Minister of England, Lord Salisbury, the Commissioner of Police, Sir Charles Warren and the Assistant Commissioner of Police Sir Robert Anderson, among others.

“One: the ritual murders are successfully accomplished. The principals get-away, the scapegoat conveniently takes the blame. Two: later we learn the truth but no one is prosecuted. We are mocked, disoriented and demoralized. Occult prestige and potency is heightened.

“There are 33 segments in the human spinal column

“What ought to be unambiguous to any student of mass psychology, is the almost immediate decline of the American people in the wake of this shocking, televised slaughter. [JFK] There are many indicators of the transformation. Within a year Americans had largely switched from softer-toned, naturally colored cotton clothing to garish-colored artificial polyesters. Popular music became louder, faster and more cacophonous. Drugs appeared for the first time outside the Bohemian sub­ culture ghettos, in the mainstream. Extremes of every kind came into fashion. Revolutions in cognition and behavior were on the horizon, from the Beatles to Charles Manson, from Free Love to LSD.

“But perhaps the most remarkable evidence of the binding force of masonic obligations and of the real power of the fraternity, is afforded in the conduct of those who control the newspapers of the country.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 01: Nature Or Gnosis?
• 02: Flattery: The First Principle of Mind Control
• 03: Satan is the Ape of God
• 04: Inducing the Double-Mind
• 05: Masonic Double Mind in Vatican Two Catholicism
• 06: The Bovine Herd
• 07: Church Fathers Who Didn't Do Tricks with Mirrors
• 08: Masonic Dogma of 'Perfecting' Creation
• 09: The "Luhv" Tyranny
• 10: Scientism: A Form of Black Magic
• 11: Ceremonial Psychodrama
• 12: Mind Control and The Revelation of the Method
• 13: Mystical Toponomy
• 14: Truth or Consequences
• 15: Jack the Lodge Brother
• 16: Son of Uncle Sam
• 17: The Videodrome
• 18: The Angel of Light
• 19: Episodic Revelation and The "Lone Nut" Syndrome
• 20: Consent is Crucial to The Process
• 21: Trinity Sight
• 22: The Alchemy of Ritual Murder
• 23: Rosemary's Babies
• 24: Lunacy
• 25: Showtime in the Videodrome
• 26: The Golem
• 27: Re-Building the Temple of Herod
• 28: The Everyday Miracle Divine

• Pages numbers from the pdf.

· Preface

· 01: Nature Or Gnosis?

page 9:

• In a study of mind control and psychological warfare, it is not enough to simply review the latest technology of coercion, the most recent gadgetry and techno-junk littering the hardware and supply depots of governments and cults.

page 11:

• 1. Amnesia, i.e. loss of memory. 2. Abulia, i.e. loss of will. 3. Apathy, i.e. loss of interest in events vital to one’s own health and survival.

· 02: Flattery: The First Principle of Mind Control

page 14:

• If the expulsion from the Garden of Eden—that is to say the literal alteration of man’s circumstance of living solely upon God’s bounty and providence—was the result of Satanic intervention, why has it not dawned on us that civilization is itself Satanic?

· 03: Satan is the Ape of God

· 04: Inducing the Double-Mind

page 21:

• Lt. Col. Michael Aquino works for U.S. Army Military Intelligence. He is also the leader of the Temple of Set, a group characterized as satanic by the Official Orthodoxy of the System. Aquino, in a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of Feb. 6, 1989 responded to the attacks on his organization by a supposedly scandalized culture that is itself Satanic: “If teenage gangs may experiment with what they believe to be ‘occult rituals,’ blame should be laid squarely at the feet of the media which glamorize occult violence to youth. I specifically refer to the movie industry, with offerings of increasingly gory and violent ‘splatter’ films such as Nightmare on Elm Street (with its child-molestor hero Freddy), Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc. “Note that such films usually include several sequels also targeted at children, and Freddy now has his own weekly television series! And parents wonder where children are getting all their bizarre, occult ideas? Please turn on your television sets any evening or examine even the ‘PG’ horror movie offerings at your local video store—much less the ‘R’ category.”

• Modern people are fascinated with exposes of sex, violence and Satanism and fascination is itself a form of mind control if we recognize that oftentimes obsessive treatments of these themes under the guise of “exposing them” are the very means of inducing interest and involvement in the occult. People who never hear about Satanism, extreme violence and extreme pornography are unlikely to become involved with Satanism, violence and pornography.

page 22:

• Polanski has himself been implicated in child molestation. It has also been alleged that he videotaped pornography involving children and animals for sale to a private network, possibly in association with Charlie Manson, whose followers ritually sacrificed Polanski’s wife, Sharon Tate, and her unborn baby. Tate herself may have been involved in the occult, possibly the Process Church of the Final Judgment, a Satanic group which Manson was also associated with (see Painted Black, Harper and Row edition, pp. 115-116 and The Manson File, pp. 168-172).

page 23:

• we are initiated into their Cult solely by means of our exposure to the electronic videodrome.

· 05: Masonic Double Mind in Vatican Two Catholicism

page 25:

• If someone is making us deliberately mentally ill, it may be that this is done so that we will look to that someone for “healing and relief.”

· 06: The Bovine Herd

· 07: Church Fathers Who Didn’t Do Tricks with Mirrors

· 08: Masonic Dogma of ‘Perfecting’ Creation

page 28:

• “The Rite of Perfection.” This is the alternate name for the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

· 09: The “Luhv” Tyranny

page 32:

• The Counter-Church has triumphed because it has been able to maintain the facade R.K.G. Temple, Robert Anton Wilson and their colleagues routinely depict.

· 10: Scientism: A Form of Black Magic

page 33:

• Until recently, Louis- Ferdinand Celine’s observation about the Renaissance remained an enigma: “Since the Renaissance there’s been a tendency to work more and more passionately for the coming of the Kingdom of the Sciences and the Social Robot.”

page 34:

• opposition to Darwinism, a dogma proved false by Norman Macbeth in his magisterial Darwin Retried and exposed as a cult by Gertrude Himmelfarb in Darwin.

page 35:

• * Science, when practiced as the application of man’s God-given talents for the production of appropriate technology on a human-scale, relief of misery and the reverential exploration and appreciation of the glory of Divine Providence as revealed in nature, is a useful tool for mankind. Scientism is science gone mad, which is what we have today.

· 11: Ceremonial Psychodrama

page 36:

• plethora of extremely violent and simultaneously symbolic popular films of the modern cinema like The Wicker Man and Videodrome which in a very coarse and crude manner relative to the Renaissance ceremonials, continue this conditioning process (the issue of ceremonial and subliminal films was raised at length in Philip K. Dick’s novel, Valis).

· 12: Mind Control and The Revelation of the Method

page 37:

• Two books by the English writer and Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) initiate Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival and Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God and another by the aforementioned Robert K.G. Temple, The Sirius Mystery, revealed secrets of the highest magnitude

· 13: Mystical Toponomy

page 38:

• the cryptocracy’s magical-geographical vision of the earth as a giant chess board, symbolized by the tessellated floor of Solomon’s Temple and the masonic lodge, and Alice’s vision of the world in Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland “fantasy."

page 39:

• It was on Beale Street that the “Jazz Age,” began the breakdown of music into the beastly jungle muzak that would finally result in “rock and roll.”

· 14: Truth or Consequences

page 41:

• Why does the cryptocracy bother to gamble so much by going public with what it is doing to us? Because consent fuels their control like no other form of energy.

· 15: Jack the Lodge Brother

page 41:

• Stephen Knight’s Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, which documents that the world-famous Ripper killings were masonic ritual murders directed by the British government itself.

• …the active involvement of the Queen of England, the Prime Minister of England, Lord Salisbury, the Commissioner of Police, Sir Charles Warren and the Assistant Commissioner of Police Sir Robert Anderson, among others.

• Stephen Knight quotes a Masonic document listing the hidden praxis behind masonry: “Our motto must be ‘All means of force and hypocrisy… In order to obtain our ends we must have recourse to much slyness and artfulness…”

page 42:

page 47:

page 53:

• The motto above the pyramid [on the U.S. dollar] is, “Favor Our Enterprise.” The banner beneath it reads, “New Order of the Ages.” The date at the base is 1776, the year the Illuminati or Beenan Orden (“Order of Bees”) was founded. If the cryptocracy manages to obtain consent from the public to use the computer-satellite surveillance network on the public itself (in the name of “reducing automobile traffic jams, controlling illegal aliens, fighting crime, destroying terrorists,” etc.) then our society will indeed become an insect world, an “order of bees.” Note too that the cryptocracy has deliberately allowed the destruction of America’s mass transit railroad system, permitted violent crime to flourish, encouraged a virtual open border alien immigration policy and meddled in the religious wars of distant foreign nations thereby making America a terrorist target, because without these crises the pretext for a police state would be absent.

• This was written in 1989!

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page 73:

• Knight summarizes the secret masonic praxis: ”…Freemasons applaud violence, terror and crime providing it is carried out in a crafty manner. One section of the (masonic) notes says humor is all-important and the most appalling crimes may be committed under its cloak. …” - (Stephen Knight, Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, Granada Books paperback edition) pp. 158-162).

· 16: Son of Uncle Sam

page 80:

• These murders are actually intricately choreographed rituals; performed first on a very intimate and secret scale, among the initiates themselves in order to program them, then on a grand scale, amplified incalculably by the electronic media.

page 81:

• Berkowitz was raised from birth to serve a role in the Son of Sam psychodrama. His real name was not David Berkowitz but Richard David Falco; at least that’s what his birth certificate said. But actually, that’s not his real identity either.

• The media claimed Berkowitz was an Italian raised by adoptive parents, Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz. But in truth his real mother was a Jewish lady, Betty Broder Falco. Her Italian husband was long gone by the time she conceived Richard David in a lover’s lane tryst with a married man, Jewish businessman Joseph Klineman.

· 17: The Videodrome

· 18: The Angel of Light

page 86:

• Phony Christians have done at least as much to damage to Christianity as any Satan cult. Those “TV Evangelists” who wave the Bible while chanting, “Send money, send money, send money,” have sullied the name Christian and made it a byword for hypocrisy. They have caused millions of people to equate Christ with charlatans and to regard the Bible as little more than a book of self-serving alibis for greed and deceit. What could be more Satanic?

page 88:

• Dr. Fisher’s statement about the elimination of all vestiges of the Christian “polemic” against Judaism from Christian teaching, is a reference to the growing call within the churches for the censorship of certain passages in the New Testament, like the 19th chapter of John, verses 6-7, 12 and 1 4 - 1 5 , which offend non-Christians:

• “We propose, in the future, to remove from the Gospel of St. John the term, ’the Jews’ where it is used in a negative sense, and to translate it, ’the enemies of Christ” (Document of the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with Judaism, section 4).

· 19: Episodic Revelation and The “Lone Nut” Syndrome

page 90:

• One: the ritual murders are successfully accomplished. The principals get-away, the scapegoat conveniently takes the blame. Two: later we learn the truth but no one is prosecuted. We are mocked, disoriented and demoralized. Occult prestige and potency is heightened.

· 20: Consent is Crucial to The Process

· 21: Trinity Sight

page 93:

• There are 33 segments in the human spinal column

· 22: The Alchemy of Ritual Murder

page 94:

• What ought to be unambiguous to any student of mass psychology, is the almost immediate decline of the American people in the wake of this shocking, televised slaughter. [JFK] There are many indicators of the transformation. Within a year Americans had largely switched from softer-toned, naturally colored cotton clothing to garish-colored artificial polyesters. Popular music became louder, faster and more cacophonous. Drugs appeared for the first time outside the Bohemian sub­ culture ghettos, in the mainstream. Extremes of every kind came into fashion. Revolutions in cognition and behavior were on the horizon, from the Beatles to Charles Manson, from Free Love to LSD.

page 95:

• A hidden government behind the visible government of these United States became painfully obvious in a kind of subliminal way…

• Dave Marsh writing in Rolling Stone magazine (Feb. 24, 1977): “The Beatles have always had an intimate connection to the JFK assassination. He was shot the week before Thanksgiving 1963. By February 1964, the Beatles were number one in the national charts and the climactic appearance on Ed Sullivan’s TV show occurred. Even Brian Epstein (the manager of the Beatles) believed the Kennedy assassination helped their rise—the Beatles appeared to bind our wounds with their messages of joy and handholding… And the way was paved, replacing Camelot with Oz."

· 23: Rosemary’s Babies

page 98:

• Toward the end of the film [Apocalypse Now] the camera casually, almost randomly roams across a pile of books in the hut of Col. Kurtz. The audience can clearly see that one of these books is Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion.

· 24: Lunacy

· 25: Showtime in the Videodrome

· 26: The Golem

· 27: Re-Building the Temple of Herod

· 28: The Everyday Miracle Divine

· Appendix

page 115:

• Statement of John Quincey Adams, sixth president of the United States, on the Assassination of William Morgan by Freemasons.

• Freemasonry, corporate Freemasonry, is chargeable with the stealing of a free citizen, and the murder of a father and husband. The proof of this subject is perfectly conclusive and is to be found in the reports of the trials of the kidnappers of William Morgan, and in the official accounts given by different Special Attorneys.

• It is responsible for having baffled inquiry, for having defeated investigation by the removal of witnesses and for having produced the acquittal of persons notoriously guilty. It has been decided by Judge Marcy in New York and by two sets of triers at circuit court held by Judge Gardiner in the same state, and by a court in Rhode Island, that the obligations of Freemasons disqualified a man from being an impartial juror in a case where a brother mason was a party; and such undoubtedly is the law of the land.

• The Grand Lodge of New York has given one hundred dollars in charity to one of the most guilty kidnappers of Morgan. The Grand Chapter of the same state has given one thousand dollars to aid and sustain other well-known kidnappers and to enable them to escape from justice, at a time when they had no money to bestow in charity to widows and orphans. This has recently been established in the trial of a libel suit brought by Jacob Gould, which was tried at Albany, New York.

• But perhaps the most remarkable evidence of the binding force of masonic obligations and of the real power of the fraternity, is afforded in the conduct of those who control the newspapers of the country.

• When the English forger Stephenson was kidnapped in a distant state and brought forcibly to New York, the whole country rang with the alarm which was sounded by the newspapers and every patriot was called on to resent this invasion of personal liberty.

• But when a free citizen of America was dragged from his family, forcibly carried through the country and drowned in the deep waters of the Niagara, a death-like silence pervaded the newspapers; or if they spoke, it was to notice the outrage in terms of irony and as a trifling and unimportant affair. The papers of every party teemed with the most gross misrepresentations; a simultaneous attack was made on all who were engaged in discovering the offenders; fabricated accounts of Morgan having been seen at different and distant places were incessantly circulated and every effort was made to delude the public and mislead inquiry.

• How tremendously powerful must have been that organization, which could produce that shameful treachery of the press to its public duties!

• These facts are as notorious as the sun at noon-day and a stronger proof of their general truth cannot be adduced, than the single circumstance that to this day, thousands and millions of reading citizens of this country are ignorant of Morgan’s abduction and murder and are totally uninformed of the abominations of Freemasonry.

• (Adams Letters Addressed to W.L Stone, pp. 23-24, in the Rare Book Archive, University of Rochester).