From: traveler@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Masonic Designs in D.C. Street Layout!  See for yourself!
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:07:35 GMT
Reply-To: traveler
Organization: University of Florida  (ufl.edu)
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	This summer I happen to have taqken a temporary job at my
grandfather's evangelical Christian bookstore.  Sometimes it
grates on me--my views on what Christianity really is are rather
unconventional, and so many of the books I handles are so
narrow minded.  BUT...if you keep the right attitude, you can
find some fun stuff.  The store has a section on the occult
and the New Age that is a conspiracists' heaven!  I've lately
been "enlightened" to the fact that Masonry, Mormonism, 
the Catholic CHurch, and of course rock music are all Satanic
plots.  Maybe the best book was the one on how UPC codes (the
bar code on most merchanidse these days) are really the
prophecied Mark of the Beast!  (Not all the books they stock
are so raving...I'm just quoting the looniest ones.)
	Anyway, I picked up a couple on the Masons, which have been a 
pet subject of mine for a while.  Wading through the utter
lack of research and real evidence, I nevertheless came across
some fascinating stuff.  Most intersting was the claim that
the streets of our capital have Masonic designs in their layout!
A map of D.C. with certain streets highlighted seems to confirm
this theory (tho it would be good to check it out on another
map).
	Hmm...this mayb e tricky to explain.  Ok, start with the
Capitol.  The first figure we're going to draw is the good
old Masonic compass-and-square symbol (a compass with its
two arms spreading downward, with a carpernter's "square"--
a simple right angled device--crossing it with its arms
spreading upwards).  The Capitol is the joint where the two
compass arms are joined; it has a circular drive around it
which reinforces this effect.  Now, the right leg of the
compass is Maryland Avenue, which goes from the Capitol in
a west-south-west direction and is shown on this map as
terminating a mile or so away.  The left leg is Pennsylvania
Avenue, which goes WNW till it runs into the WHite HOuse (tho 
it looks like it continues on the other side, that's as far as
it's highlighted in the book, wihch makes that leg equal to the
other one).  
	The square is formed by Canal Street and Louisiana Avenue,
which run from a common point on the Mall, several blocks
west of the Capitol, to just east of it.  The Washington 
Monument is halfway between the ends of the compass legs
(they say it is a pagan phallus-emblem...and actually, they mey
not be so far off).
	There is also a pparently a pentagram.  Its lower (southern)
point is the white house, and you can trace the streets to the north
which complete the pattern.  just north of the pentagram, on a
line which also runs thru the White House and the Wash. Monument,
is the Masonic House of the Temple, a major center of world
Freemasonry.
	They also point out that many of the historic buildings of
D.C. have cornerstones ladi in Masonic rituals.  COnsidering
how many of the Founding Fathers were Maosns, this is not
surprising...and the whole street design theiry is in my
opinion quite plausible.  They close by saying we must pray
for the salvation of our gov't. from the Masons who wish to
destroy it...but they don't seem to get it.  The US was FOUNDED
by Masons!  Their eye and pyramid logo is STILL on our money...
a whole bunch of presidents and congress members have been Masons
..and the principles of the Constitution are by and large the
same ideas many of the "freethinking" Masons of the Enlightenment
championed (which is what made them, like the early U.S>, such
a threat to the old monarchical establishemetn).  So next time
you hear Pat Robvertson telling you America is a Christian
nation...you know he's wrong...it's a Masonic one...

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