The International Committee of the Red Cross is Occult and Esoteric

I appreciate Victor Machin's humor in his introduction above.In his second reply, Machin claimed that "all esoteric groups claim some connection between each other" and concluded that the Red Cross must be connected to multiple ones. But isn't this an exaggeration? In the 16th century, two Greek brothers of the Angeli Comneni family created the Constantinian Order of St. George - St. George's sign being the red cross.[1] Then in the 19th century the York Rite created the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine, which it considered it was reviving (This added to other uses of a red cross). However, the Greek prince Demetrius Rhodocanakis claimed that he was in fact the grandmaster of the Constantinian Order of St. George. In return, in 1871 the Masonic Imperial Council of England officially denied that it claimed any connection to the Constantinian Order of St. George.[2] The Masonic Dictionary says about its Order of the Red Cross of Constantine that "no direct connection can be made with" an order of the time of Constantine, the 4th century AD.[3]The best conclusion then is that this Order was made in the 19th century based on the idea of previous orders, but not necessarily having a strong connection to "all" of them. Further, while those much older Greek orders may not have been esoteric, they serve as examples that connections between organizations that appear to be close might not be.How might one imagine a link between groups? Jordan Maxwell writes in Matrix of Power: Why is the International Red Cross able to go behind enemy lines in wartime, in conflict? There is a reason. The International Red Cross, out of London, connected with the American Red Cross, comes from the Red Cross of Saint George. The cross on the British flag, the red cross - that is also from a Masonic institution.[4] One website claims in a similar vein: The "International Red Cross" is the only organization allowed to go behind enemy lines during wartime or what the Masons would term the "Theatre of War". Why do you think this is. How are they somehow IMMUNE? Because ALL WARS ARE STAGED BY THE FREEMASONS… Another symbol of Freemasonry is the Cross of the Knights of Malta.[5] The website then shows the Malta cross: The passage’s use of capitals reflects the exaggerations in this line of thinking. A simpler reason that the Red Cross is allowed behind enemy lines is because both sides in conflicts want their wounded or imprisoned soldiers to be given medical treatment and supervision, which is what a neutral, international organization can provide. Further, the ICRC’s office is in Geneva, not London. The mere fact that England and Malta have red crosses on their flags does not mean that they have a secret, esoteric affiliation with the ICRC, whose symbol has the shape of Switzerland’s flag instead of theirs. Finally, it seems very unlikely that “all” wars are staged by Masons, because unfortunately there have been wars all over the world for thousands of years.Another alleged association is between the French “Priory of Sion” featured in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code novel. Barbara Aho writes that the Red Cross founder’s name also happens to be the address of the Prieuré de Sion in Paris: “110 Rue Henri Dunant, 92700 COLOMBES.” The “red cross” is, in fact, the Rosy Cross or Rose Croix, the Rosicrucian emblem of the Prieuré de Sion. Little wonder the funds collected by the Red Cross for disasters such as hurricanes fail to reach the victims.[6] However, the “Priory of Sion”, whose bulletin was registered at this address, has since been recognized as a hoax, as its owner, Pierre Plantard, told a French court.[7] In any case, the mere fact that an organization is on a street with a certain name does not necessarily mean a connection between the organization and the street’s name. If it was on Greenland Street it would not mean the Priory was connected to Greenland.In his argument, Machin claims that secret societies propose “inner knowledge” like the holy grail or political change. I would ask him then what kind of esoteric ideas the Red Cross could have or be used for? And why are political ideas or change supposed to count as esotericism?Besides founding the Red Cross, Henri Dunant nobly campaigned to ending slavery, actively helped develop the benevolent Young Men’s Christian Association, and formed the Provident Society to protect the rights of POWs. His biography adds that “he founded the International Society for the Revival of the Orient in 1864” for European Jews yearning “to return to their homeland in Palestine” and establish a colony.[8] Soon after he established the International Palestine Society and the Syrian and Palestine Colonization Society for this purpose, but the efforts were unsuccessful due to the Russo-Turkish war.[9] A Turkish newspaper suggested in 1865 that Dunant “was one of the persons who is very close to the French Emperor.” It added that Adolphe Cremieux, the founder of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, invited him to the organization’s board on the idea of an international Red Cross Organization. The speech by Dunant received lots of applause and the old Baron James de Rothschild committed to undertake the management of the Treasurer’s Office of the French Committee to Assist Wounded War Veterans. And, now Napoleon and Rothschild’s friend Dunant, all of a sudden, became the prominent defenders of a Jewish State in the Palestine. The consultants of Emperor Francis Joseph – and the Austrian Secret Police Service Organization – think that this was more than a coincidence and fear that Napoleon III will succeed, with the help of people like Lesseps and Rothschild, in something that Napoleon has not been able to.[10] Like many newspapers, the Turkish one uses sensationalism, like saying he was close to the French emperor, made an impression on sponsors for his planned Red Cross organization, and impressed the Austrian emperor as well. Since Austria had no colonies in the Middle East, its emperor’s fears must have been that its competitor, France, would control the International Red Cross. The question of French vs. Swiss control of the Red Cross was an issue at the time, but the emperor’s fears and the above-mentioned controversy were deflated when neutral Switzerland was chosen as the organization’s headquarters.Dunant’s humanitarian motives come across in his major humanitarian projects, helping slaves, the wounded, and POWS. Today, “colonization” is discouraged and viewed as powerful countries taking over weaker ones, and major human rights organizations see the situation in what the Red Cross calls the “Occupied Palestinian Territories” as one example.[11] But in the 19th century, Dunant viewed himself helping people return to their homeland, which fits his humanitarian motives. Why should any of these projects be very unlikely for a benevolent campaigner of the 19th century like Dunant?The fact that Dunant may have been close to the French emperor actually makes sense, because Dunant was trying to gain acceptance and sponsorship for his major humanitarian organization. The value of sponsorship also explains why, according to the British Red Cross, Nathan Rothschild was its chairman from 1901-1915, a service which naturally was to his credit.[12]Unfortunately, space does not permit me to pull apart similar claims about the Rockefellers, Irish Red Cross, shared office space, “alien-centric” theories etc. Jesse Ventura debunked the latter in the “Reptilian” episode of his show Conspiracy Theory.Regarding Machin’s counterarguments, I don’t want to debate the burden of proof, but I would prefer to assume a major international charity was not occult, unless shown otherwise. Machin finds it distracting that I discuss other articles, but unfortunately Machin has not given much direct evidence of such a relationship to go on. He claims that groups like the Red Cross "trace their origins" to earlier esoteric groups like the Templars and Hospitallers. But why does he belief that they consciously trace this relationship? How does he know those two groups were actually occult, if the French king’s Templar trial that made these claims was political and inquisitorial, and the Hospitallers were not declared occult?Machin writes that the red cross sign is full of spiritual, esoteric imagery, and knightly orders used it. But why should we think that the knights or the ICRC chose it with those specific esoteric meanings in mind, as opposed to more mundane meanings like the one announced by Pope Urban II at the start of the Crusades - purity and self-sacrifice? In conclusion, we do not have enough reason to consider the ICRC occult. It’s unclear that Dunant was a Mason, and whether he or other founders were does not mean that they intended to make it occult. A red cross can refer to many things, including Christianity, self-sacrifice, and the Swiss flag - which the ICRC’s matches exactly in shape. Perhaps Dunant or someone else just invented it as distinct from previous designs? The ICRC has major humanitarian, normal, practical reasons for its work, and the organization’s creation closely resembles the humanitarian motives of Dunant’s other campaigns.1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Military_Constantinian_Order_of_Saint_George2. vrijmetselaarsgilde.eu/Maconnieke%20Encyclopedie/RMAP~1/Rmac-05.htm#rmac-133. masonicdictionary.com/conclave.html4. f.letmeprint.ru/69339941-d32918b9/fragment_2431417.pdf5. theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/freemasons_control_world.htm6. watch.pair.com/hurricanes.html7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion8. faqs.org/health/bios/1/Jean-Henri-Dunant.html9. jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15268-zionism10. sevivon.com/tarih/sevivonpost/volume3/vol3no22syf4_3.htm via archive.org11. redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/Museum-and-archives/Historical-factsheets/Our-Royal-Charter12. icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/report/palestine-report-131207.htm