society that is said to have existed long ago twenty five hundred years ago the greek philosopher plato said down a dialogue called the kriti s he recounted the story of an ancient greek poet the old priest told him old solid sol and you greeks are never anything but children and there is no old opinion handed down among you nor any science that is white with age the old priest then proceeded to tell him the story of the lost city of atlantis in the centuries that would follow scholars and researchers have debated whether plato's atlantis was intended to be an account of real history or simply an allegorical m further supported by masonic philosopher manly p hall hall claimed that it lantus had once been a vast and mighty empire that extended to the whole world a philosophic commonwealth of nations that one day paul authored over two hundred books and is said to have given some eight thousand lectures on ancient philosophy is perhaps most remembered for his contribution to the mysterious brotherhood of masonry upon his and wisdom of lost atlantis paul wrote that for more than three thousand years secret societies had been laboring to create a background of knowledge necessary for the establishment of an enlightened democracy among the nations of the world according to haul the societies could be traced back to ancient egypt for centuries known of a secret place hidden from the eyes of a common man a place would one day be revealed in the seventeenth century as settlers were colonizing the new world sir francis bacon the leader of secret societies in england set down his classic work the new atlantis while archaeologists and treasure hunters have searched the globe looking for the lost continent four hundred years ago begun like many of his contemporaries believed that atlantis was america a what could be accomplished in the new world while viewed lantus a play dough was a mighty empire known for the philosophy of its kings bacon would light as a nation governed by scientific achievement filled with marvels and won never before seen bacon was talking about this new nation talking about submarines talking about unimaginable weapons of war talking about flying machines and tall buildings i mean how did he come into possession of this knowledge did franc bacon outline a course of the new world before its time and if so by what power was he inspired to do so while there are no states or cities that hear his name his mysterious influence has compelled some to call him the real and true founder of america his founding of america was really through other people who were following his words following hit the program he had laid out about time to lift it up to its its new level and freemasonry has a major influence on the founding of america while many of the early settlers came to work the land for the cause of religious freedom there were with them secret societies who came to the new world with another agenda secret societies came to america shortly after the pilgrims arrived in favor said by a man named bacon you get this this very america and the world so that america then could be used to lead the world into a deep philosophical empire if you understand that america was founded by christians as a christian nation however there were always those people on the other side who wanted to use america use our military power and our financial power to establish the enlightened democracies throughout the world  yeah maybe they can have a right maybe of lantus is not something yet to occur but maybe it's occurring right now in america in his lifetime sir francis bacon referred to himself as the herald o chosen for a secret destiny understand the present and possibly the future we look into the as we unfold the secret history of america's good in can america be the new atlant the movie national treasure revealed to many the role of freemasons in the founding of america often seen as a shadowy organization with hidden agendas masonry was portrayed in a positive piece for them they were basically trying to say that this these people who have hidden the secret knowledge of whatever it was the gold stash or whatever are but the masons are basically good guys because it makes them appear to be this sort of benign shadowy group that's in the background protecting these important ancient secrets and also protecting this great massive treasure it was it was fairly accurate in its masonic elements you can tell whoever made the film are not convinced masons were involved in the writing of that it seems to me because then they tried to turn it around and you know say that this that freemasonry is a good thing that it has these hidden secrets deep within it and the someday will be revealed and you know bring good things to america itself and yet did the filmmakers accurately portray the real secrets but listen right thing i think that's unfortunate about the movie is other than a kind of glamorizes the m is it makes it sound like the treasure of masonry is monetary but it's this enormous cache of wealth and gold and jewels and earns and statues and whatever and really that's not what the thing conspiracy theorists have suggested that the film was intended to mislead but the question remains if masons were involved in the making of the film what would motivate them to tell a story about a society sworn to secrecy i think masons have been pretty desperate over the last couple decades they've taken a lot of hits do and at least part to my books and their membership is declining fast and love secrets and that's just a basic truism and so if they advertise that through a popular movie you know maybe it would generate a little more i'm one level the film i think it does some good in that it does educate people about the origins of our country the fact that the origins of our country was very much steeped in masonry but on the other hand i think i misleads about the benign nature of masonry is involvement and also it misleads by defining the nature of what masonry has been guarded for the last three thousand years but what has masonry been guarding for the last three thousand years there real history of the craft as it is called varies from one source to another and is a continued thorn of controversy been the buildings of the great temple in jerusalem no less important is the influence of gnosticism sometimes called the mother of masonry according to masonic historian albert mackey known for rejecting the biblical gospels the gnostics claim to be the real christians an issue the apostles spoke the heavenly against in the new testament the gnostic gospels have been promoted by writers elaine pagels and celebrities such as jane fonda it was the gnostic teachings that formed the heart of dan brown's blockbuster book that the gnostics were known to express a humanistic view of christ a view they are said to have exploited for the purpose of justifying their debauchery of women's tennis the tales of jesus and his alleged relationship with mary magdalen series most popular debates especially with films like national treasure and books such as the davinci code born in blood and holy blood holy grail seem to involve the mysterious knights templar whose connection to freemasonry is often seen at the rosslyn chapel in scotland's capital city of edinburgh on a place that not only reveals much about the templars and masonry but within maybe secrets to the founding of the new world but whatever the connection or controversy most masons trace their craft back to the mysteries of ancient egypt egypt is like a pretty much the proximate fountain head of all is still terek mystery teaching after the example of the egyptian craftsman the masons carved their own imagery in the great structures of europe secret signs and symbols were imbedded into their work the meaning of which was to be hidden from outsiders these were the cruft my sons who actually built the temples and if you look at european ocket texture you know was these masons who knew their business and they wanted to keep their scales secret all the great cathedrals of europe were built by stone masons who had an understanding of esoteric war and they're basically riddles and stone when masons came to america they practiced their trade in the same way they had in europe embedding secret codes within the design and foundation of the american colonies some believe this man accounted for the geographic location of the five great revolutionary war cities in particular lost in new york baltimore philadelphia and washington d c have all been built in perfect alignment along the eastern seaboard researcher jim allison believes this alignment may be a part of something greater length that is i think it is very unlikely that the alignment is coincidental according to allison the alignment of cities and ancient sites are part of a series of great circles that encompass the earth the circles are supposedly like lines of power upon which significant sites of bills the those are also great circles because they run through the center of the earth allison claims that mystical sites like the pyramids easter island the mayan and aztec cities are all built upon these great circles in addition one of these great circles contains the five cities that date back to the era of the american revolutionary war the washington d c philadelphia baltimore new york city and boston are in fact aligned they're fairly close together the distance from washington d c to boston is four hundred miles and as a result of that you can you can see the alignment i just on a flat map because today the curvature of the earth is not so much over that distance to distorted but on a on a three dimensional map it's even clearer but is this just a curious coincidence or could there be some hidden meaning behind it hundred twenty s an englishman named alfred watkins noted a series of straight tracks or lines upon the earth's surface that seemed to connect the ancient monuments and holy sites around the world what he found was that in a number of cases a number of these monuments were aligned in just in dead straight lines did extended from a few miles to in some cases many miles he coined t lay lines to describe and to explain these alignments walk ins believe that there are some type of grid lines that run through  of energy magnetism or electromagnetism or some other kind of fraction over the earth and that's what that's what he described as lay lines watkins believed that the builders  these sites were aware of the lines that ran through the earth and that they intentionally built these monuments on these lines while watkins findings were not openly received by all his views have been most often embraced by members of the esoteric community that mea culpas this concept of layla celie why which are these currents of power i want to have magical significance some believe they act as portals for spirits to travel to and from these you should monuments that falls within peace alignments but the question remains were such power lines important to the builders of early american cities were they aligned with the secret purpose in m that's very important where the pyramid of khufu was built the great pyramid and it's very important we're stonehenge was built there are several great circles that ancient monuments are lined with and in some cases ancient and modern development it's aligned with extending the alignment from boston to the north east and towards europe the alignment crosses over the atlantic and crosses into england and crosses over perfect alignment with each other and in perfect alignment the stonehenge allison admits that many of the ancient monuments are aligned on lay lines or great circles within a fraction of one degree a distance that sometimes equals fifteen or twenty miles but in the link between the old world and the new there is a zero deviation between the five american cities and england's mysterious stonehenge according to allison they are perfectly  can such a perfect alignment be unintentional or the result of some natural attraction of lay lines in the earth there's some dispute about that among the people who who studied these later lines as to whether  the builders were aware of an attraction and they built it for that reason or whether there was possibly interaction that they were unaware of but nonetheless caused him to build these sites in alignment but the the simple fact is they are aligned but the evidence continues america's capital city washington d c is said to be positioned on the seventy seventh meridian west considered a secret location referred to as god's longitude in his book marking time author duncan steel argues that the early expedition of so walter raleigh known for the last colony in roanoke was not quite the failure it seemed to be trolleys intent according to steele was not really to establish a colony but rather to capture god's launch of today by locating the seventy seventh meridian poll of the occult who understands these concepts is to have things exist within the sacred harmonies of the earth and if indeed they believe that the seventy seventh meridian was somehow very sacred then it would be incredibly important for them to to plant their flag there in washington d c is even found meridian hills said to mark the precise location of the sacred longitude raleigh himself was a member of bacon secret society in england was he sent on a mystical journey so that america might be designed according to esoteric principles from the beginning and how many others came ashore as a result of the baconian influence ins came ashore very early on in the founding of the new world the masons were also there from the beginning and i think from very early on this this if you will  a cult cartel of various groups basically had it as their goal to establish a society on this continent that was wholly given over to esoteric go the rose and cross like masonry the reza creations trace their religion to the mysteries of ancient egypt their power base and san jose centers around an egyptian museum these people are even here perhaps the reason for their lack of exposure is that they are dwarfed by the chief of all secret societies the ancient order of freemasonry nevertheless the rosicrucians are said to be the first of the secret orders to have opened a door in the new world original rosa crucial community built its its headquarters yeah right right on the east coast united states and that was in the sixteen hundreds and right about the same  members of the society to america to launch his esoteric empire the new atlantis this nine hundred ten new found one stamp commemorates bacon's early influence it remains your bac bacon's influence was not confined to rosa christianism is considered by some to have been the first to firm allies the mystery teachings into a system now recognised as modern masonry so freemasonry up to that point where religious belief or race did not massa full that to be very racial and very little religious but they can turn it into it to truly international society this international society would also come to the new world and all begins rosicrucians would maintain a position of careful anonymity the order of masonry would stretch its hands in america to the very heights nowhere used to me sonic presence more clearly seen than in the design of america's capital city washington d ritual that involved the father of the nation george washington two hundred years later in a ceremony commemorating this event senator strom thurmond himself a thirty third degree mason is pictured alongside the cornerstone upon which is carved a masonic square and  if you want to look at the map of washington see or try and drive in washington d c you think it must have been designed by a nut case but actually it was designed by a freemason a friend freemason name layo fox i think pierre charles lamb found was his name a sonic rituals is that america might be empowered by the gods of the ancient world can this be the reason for the pagan god and goddess images that have come to represent tradition often claims that america was founded as a christian nation only but if this is the case why are its symbols those of the pagan religions rather than images  the apostles and stories from the bible but i think that this is where the great confusion comes it was founded as a christian nation but it was also founded as in the cult nation and there have always been two parallel forces here in america one the christian one the occult dating back into the sixteenth hundreds and intuitive understand that you can't understand anything going on in the world today the conflict between christianity and the occult has compelled some to reject entirely the influence of god in early america in february of two thousand and five c b s news dot com posted an article titled our godless constitution then it author brooke allen wrote that our nation was not founded on christian principles but on enlightenment ones god only entered the picture as a very minor player and jesus christ was conspicuously absent a chief issue of debate are the very symbols that define the united states where did they come from and why do or who exactly do they represent the many the answers lie in the secret societ i mean you can see their influence on the back of the great seal united states were in seventeen eighty two they put a pyramid kept by it all saying i'm with a slogan  the new secular order of the world that was in seven hundred eighty two it was put on the back of the great seal of the united states hidden there until about nine hundred thirty five but it was taken off the back of the great seal of the united states and put on the back of the american dollar one of the seven wonders of the world and combined with the imagery of the goddess of ancient babylon queen but what did these esoteric elements tell us about the founding fathers of america who were they and what was the light by which they saw the world and themselves innit the majority of the people who were in or else they were free thinkers or they were rosa crucial ins or they were masons or they were all of them but the issue is not black and white researchers are careful to point out the god fearing nature of early americans if we take the founding of america as the time when the puritans came over if that's the time that was taken and the landing of the pilgrims remember that that day there that was taken as the founding of america there was no question solid christians out and they were looking for freedom they did not want to be persecuted by either the church in england which was the anglican church so the puritans would have been prosecuted as descent us nevertheless so if we take that date that era when they puritans came over they were coming over seeking freedom religious freedom and so they wanted to settle that land and build a little churches and worship the lot as he told us to do and in the manner in which he told us to do in the scriptures that's what they wanted to do so without question it was settled in the beginning as a christian nation an opportunity to come over fraley unfortunately you got all the people who wanted to do the same thing but they wo necessarily christians by far the chief source of contention is the involvement of the founding fathers with secret societies namely freemasonry certainly at the time when the declaration of independence was signed it america was established to were working in key positions i believe the truth is somewhere in between as it usually is the two streams it's a timeless struggle both sides of this power struggle are in full play the sides of the secret societies trying to push forth the new atlantis and so it doesn't surprise me that most of these men and in the continental congress of the siamese of the declaration of penance war were or whatever that doesn't surprise me doesn't bother me because i know that underneath them is a vast horde of people that were biblical christian dream with america is filled with both mystery and controversy because of its secrecy and because its members are bound by terrible blood oath masons are reluctant to come forward with testimony secret society it's always been a secret society and to reveal anything about the secret societies and sure it's your death and people have tried to expose masonry even to this very day just their lives are doing yet from the shadows some tongue cut out and you'll have your you'll be buried in the sands of the sea up to the level of your neck at the level of low tide and the second degree i believe they cut out your heart and the third degree they're going to cut out your  in the nineteenth century a man named captain william morgan was murdered by a group of masons who were bound by such blood oh that's the captain way morgan was a guy up and bad in new york and writing a book to let people know about the terrible oaths of this terrible society feeling a responsibility to the masonic brotherhood three members of the order kidnapped morgan to make him pay for exposing the secrets of he was captured by a group of masons and taken and killed and later on the perpetrators made death bed confessions of it all so it's all very well known of these deathbed confessions at least by given by a man named henry elvira's whose insight into morgan's final moments provides a heart wrenching account while vallance was never brought to justice for the crime  final confession revealed a conscience haunted by a lifetime of guilt if the market cane was in upon me the curse of the first murderer was the blood stain was upon my hand and could not be washed sake you were to pay for your betrayal but for me today oh and how morgan had pleaded for his life on behalf of his wife and children he commenced wringing his hands and talking of his wife and children recollections of whom in that awful hour terribly affected him for the book may god have mercy on your children but we will not despite morgan's plea for mercy valance and his fellow masons were determined to carry out their grim task they gave morgan time alone to prepare himself to die when they returned they bound his hands and led him away to the awful fate they had prepared for him story was he was actually droned after being mistreated horribly for a period of time well when the word to describe it out and people began to realise this dangerous influence of misery within our society or the members of the organization fell off dramatically as one i investigate or put it as one writer put it frame freemasonry which was rampant throughout the country at that time almost dried up overnight the public outrage over morgan's death was profound but when those who had murdered him were sought out the people of the united states discovered that justice was not so easy to obtain the reason was given by the rever book the character claims and practical workings of freemasonry first published in eight hundred sixty nine when he was a former mason who lived through the morgan affair he claimed that justice in the case was impossible because nearly all of the civil offices in the country were in the hands of freemasons according to finney even the newspapers of the day were completely under their control finney writes that it was found that they could do nothing with the courts with the sheriff's with the eye witnesses or with the jurors and all their efforts were for a time entirely impotent so this turned into a big brouhaha is a big masonic scandal because it was all known the morgan incident became an issue of national importance not simply because a man was murdered but more importantly americans began to realize that there are supposedly party there and candidates were present and they were significant parties they were just minority parties so it was a really big deal the anti masonic party was the first third party in american politics and eventually became the whig party which is more widely recognized the party itself was led by former president john quincy adams who wrote a collection of letters and essays against freemasonry how can you have a free society where you have people who belong to these secret societ sworn these terrible blood oath you care to have a free society and that's what judge quincy wright adams was writing about adams wrote i do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the order of freemasonry if not the greatest is one of the greatest moral and political evils as a result of the morgan incident a series of official investigations took place in eight hundred twenty nine a new york state senate committee published its findings on masonry stating that its members were found in almost every place where power is of any importance five years later in eight hundred thirty four joint committee in massachusetts reported that masonry was quote a distinct independent government within our own government and beyond the control of the laws of the land by means of its secrecy masonry has always been here since those days and of course within fifteen or twenty years by of the the members of masonry it constituted itself it said they they got down to only about five thousand members there when masonry was really exposed but people soon forgot about the turbot things that had happened and the fact that if you were mason they've really would kill you most people look upon masonry as simply a or fraternity and these tragically they to a monument was erected in the t v a new york and remains to this day in remembrance of what happened to william morgan the inscription on its face reads to the memory of william morgan a native of virginia a captain in the war of one thousand twelve a respectable citizen of the tavia and a martyr to the freedom of writing printing and speaking the truth he was abducted from near this spot in the year eighteen twenty six by freemasons and murdered for revealing the secrets of their order the monument goes on to tell the reader where they can find the historical records that document the morgan account why would the citizens of batavia have gone to this land crimes are committed every day and people sometimes murdered why dr attention to william morgan did they desire to warn future generations was it because the people of that time recognized as charles finney asserts in his book that america was being controlled by masons from behind the scenes but for what cause for greed power or is the answer most likely found in the great atlantean plan in order to bring forth the destiny of america and lead mankind into the vision of plato and sir francis bacon the secret societies would have to control the new world and in time subdue the old but how to bring about this utopian empire in his writings so francis bacon calls for a universal reformation of the whole wide world to bring about this reform some believe the secret societies launch world revolution people of understand that our revolution was the first in a series of revolutions of that began in seven hundred seventy six and extended right up until the vote cuban revolution in  fifty five when fidel castro came to power and this is a series of revolutions to transform the world while most americans did not fight the war of independence for the cause of global revolution it is undeniable that being found out so that they were plotting of revolution they had to have a means of maintaining their secrecy i think masonry was in fact you used as a built in network a secret network in which foment the american revolution they didn't have to put a network together it was already there all i had to do was because it was sort of right on the back of freemasonry to make the american revolution work and  did with the help of masonic ingenuity beginning with the kickoff event the boston tea party what was the boston tea party who was behind that what was it who were the raiders of the the english tea shop admittedly at this point it was the masonic lodge in boston they were all masons it was masons wanted to implement this revolution the leader of the men who dressed up like indians and threw the tea into boston harbor was the legendary paul revere whose famous ride would alert americans that the british were coming pictured here with a teapot commemorating his rebellion paul revere was a prominent member of the masonic order george washington known as the father of our country along with many of his generals were also masons yet washington's involvement with masonry is hotly debated our information is that he did not do anything with the masonic lodge for the last thirty years of his life the debate centers around a letter written by george washington to the reverend g w snyder on september twenty fifth seventeen ninety eight just fifteen months before washington's death in the letter washington  correct an error you have run in two of my presiding over the english lodges in this country the fact is i preside over none nor have i been in line more than once or twice within the last thirty years it washington's case i defend him by saying the mentions a very secretive when i approached a man to be a member of their organization they will not and cannot tell him what it's all about but what they can do and do is to say well you s is only fair to mention that many masons continued to insist that washington was very active in the craft yet there is no debate about the masonic membership of benjamin franklin who is deeply involved not only with masonry but a whole variety of secret societies in america in england and in france societies that had everything to do with his success during the american revolutionary war benjamin franklin is a very paradoxical complex fellow as might be expected for someone who is such a great genius but at times he seems like he's a christian at times he seems like he's a scoundrel at times it seems like he's as luciferian a times it seems like he's a rosa christian he was a strange character benjamin franklin as sort of a shuttle diplomat between philadelphia and paris and london england and he was of course ambassador in europe and when he was already european became a member of a group called the hell fire club which was a kind of pseudo devil basically get loaded and do whatever they want under the guise of it being a satanic society the hellfire club was a part of these so called gentlemen's clubs of seventeenth and eighteenth century england while the device behavior of these groups was initially tolerated once they began to dabble in satanic rituals they were forced to go underground literally hellfire club as a matter of fact i used to live quite near that place it's it's on the west side of london the place called west wickham it's a hall it's a chalk hill now cost cutting grass and on the top of that chalk hill as a judge on the top of the charts as a golden ball was a cross on top of that now that's a a book on witchcraft magic in the supernatural claims that benjamin franklin often came to serve francis dashwood for information on the occult dashwood himself was said to be a rosa christian and leading member of the secret orders in this portrait we see a young francis dashwood with his hand posed in a fist like position in masonry this hand signal is known as the lions pa and is used in masonic ritual among satanists however the same gesture is said to be called the devil's claw while i cannot be said how deeply involved franklin was with the  the hellfire focus on drinking and botching women would certainly have agreed with his character he was very