The Incorporation of the United States of America
Who do you work for? Few people would say they work for a corporation called the United States of America. But researcher Jordan Maxwell suggests what Americans call their country is actually a corporation that “employs” all of its so-called citizens. In “Incorporating America,” Maxwell leads us through an uncomfortable idea that started to took shape after the Civil War, and culminated in the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913.
Maxwell has been a student of the occult since 1959. His work has led him through hidden foundations of Western religions and secret societies, both ancient and modern. Emerging from his research, he has identified certain symbols that offer clues into how societies behave and who is behind the mass manipulation and abuse of the populace.Â
Maxwell’s book Matrix of Power, suggests there is a secret cabal controlling money, politics, and almost every facet of life without our knowing what’s really going on. Adding to his series Secret Life of Symbols, it stands as an intriguing interpretation of the symbolism in politics, religion, and corporatocracy.
Among the symbols Maxwell explores are references to water and its relation to the heartbeat of world commerce and politics, based upon what he calls the Law of the Sea. Water, he explains, is the female energy that delivers goods throughout the world. Further, he equates banks — the institutions that hold, lend, and dole out our money — with the banks of waterways. Riverbanks, Maxwell explains, direct the flow of the current/currency. Thus, money is cash flow, a liquid asset that ebbs and flows.
Another facet of Maxwell’s dissection of the economic corporate machine is the male-female interaction revolving around the sea. He explains how ships throughout the world, named after women and referred to with the feminine pronoun, give birth to the goods that are sold to sustain the economy. As a matter of tradition, ships have been given female names since the days they were dedicated to goddesses. Boating historians note that after beliefs in goddesses gave way to more modern ideas, shipbuilders and owners continued to name their vessels after important mortal women to guide their voyage.Â
School children may recall that Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in a ship named after the Virgin Mary, La Santa Maria. And, Maxwell notes, it is no coincidence that a ship pulls into her berth before issuing forth the goods it has been carrying in the primordial soup of the sea. In this instance, berth, he says, is a metaphor for “birth.”
Maxwell suggests that Americans have seen a profound shift since the founding of the United States, away from the land’s inhabitants holding sovereignty — possessing a great many personal freedoms — to assuming their role as servants and property of the U.S. Government.Â
Maxwell says prior to the Civil War, Americans enjoyed complete freedom of movement, speech, and action. Now we are burdened with rules, policies, regulations, and symbols that have turned us into laborers for the government, with the power structure responsible for pulling the strings and indenturing the populace.
Maxwell has posited a number of theories on how the U.S. has changed as a nation, with personal freedoms surrendered to a central and secret government. Maxwell, of course, is not the first or last to pontificate about this devolution, but his ideas are part of the frustration in finding a cause for our collective decline as a society and our disillusion with representatives and institutions.
Among other interesting teachings, Maxwell states that on the ominously named Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia is where a clandestine meeting of elite bankers was held to ideate the creation of the Federal Reserve. The meeting of the “First Name Club,” as no one used last names, was guised as a duck hunting trip. What resulted from it was the creation of an independent, hybridized banking system acting as a part public/part private entity.Â
Maxwell’s “Secret Life of Symbols” is a stepping-off point for those who may want to look beneath the surface of the history of our economy and political system.
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Freemason Secrets: Ancient Masonic Rites, Rituals, and Myths
My father, uncle, and grandfather were Freemasons. My grandfather held the title of Worshipful Master (akin to a president) at a New York City lodge near the turn of the century and had some fascinating clothing and accessories — his ring was beyond cool.
I remember asking Pop about his lodge when I was in kindergarten. Replying in his thick German accent, he said, “There is nothing for you to know at this time, boy.” I love that answer.
“George Washington was a Mason, along with 13 other presidents and numerous Supreme Court Justices. Benjamin Franklin published a book about Freemasonry on his own printing press. Nine signers of the Declaration of Independence were Freemasons, including the man with the biggest signature: John Hancock.”
  — “Secrets of ‘The Lost Symbol,” MSNBC 10/27/09
The History of Masonry
The Masons most likely grew as extensions of the membership rules of Scotsman William Schaw’s stonemasonry guild and the Knights Templar—a secretive group of Christian warrior-monks that protected pilgrims traveling along the pathways to the Holy Land.
At the turn of the 16th Century, William Schaw developed his own club-like culture, housed within a lodge, and infused with a set of rules for sworn members, including, “They shall be true to one another and live charitably together as becometh sworn brethren and companions of the Craft.”
When diplomats and politicians joined the organization in the mid-1600s, the stonemason lodge movement began its climb as a stealthy phenomenon. If you were politically active and wanted to connect with the power structures of the times, you would do just about anything to become a member of The Masons.
In 1717, Masonry created a formal organization in London, when four lodges united to form the first Grand Lodge. This gave the organization credibility and added to its membership’s mystical allure. Men flocked, begged, coerced, and maneuvered to become members. Everybody wanted in.
The Freemasons of The United States
The United States Masons, otherwise known as The Freemasons, were a highly political society in the 1700s. The first US lodge was opened in 1730 in New Jersey, where they initiated early plans and strategies used to fight the British. With its growing vault of secrets, expanding political influence, and stealth missions, it was an exciting time to be a Freemason.
Initially, the Freemason creed declared anti-Catholic, anti-Royalty, and Republican virtues, including self-government, personal freedom, and free enterprise. The basic tenet was that no person or organization should be controlled or oppressed by a government or religion, or their respective laws and doctrines. At their start, and for centuries, The Freemasons were a feisty, calculating, and powerful coalition.
Much to the chagrin of the Catholic Church, the early Masonic organization’s philosophy evolved from Deist ideology, which believes God does not interfere with creation, as it runs itself according to the laws of nature.
If you were a Mason in Europe in the 1700s, you stood against the notion of natural selection as it pertained to royalty. As Masonry developed and grew, you rooted for the wild, unruly kids across the pond – the Americans.
In 1870, The Shriners, a group of elite Freemasons, created their first rituals, emblems, and costumes based on Middle Eastern themes, when 11 Master Masons were initiated into the organization.
And while it seems they were rigorously involved in politics, Freemasonry describes itself as a “beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.”
