Yes all the Masonic gear is supposed to go in the coffin. Egyptian much? For the passage thru the underworld? That’s why you don’t see any Masonic paraphernalia in vintage shops or junk stores. Genius.
Maybe there is an exception for a gavel….?
Was he York Rite? Probably Scottish Rite.
The good, or ‘regular Joe’ Mason’s make the perfect cover for the ‘greater lodge’. Which is most of them of course (the good ones). Your grandfather no doubt was too good a dude to get invited to the malevolent levels of the craft.
There was something about all that ritual that had a powerful effect…it seems to have worn off somewhat(makes sense- and is one reason Masonry is shrinking rapidly) not unlike the Catholic Church ritual for so many, of which it Masonry a mimic and and a no doubt hostile alternative.
BTW, according to a broker friend, the best deals in real estate are old Lodges and Churches!
I don’t see a photo icon! ☹️. I’ll check those links. It probably was the biggest Lodge in Canada, sounds like the one in London. Salud-
I think that gavel was supposed to go in his coffin! I’m very curious what the rest of the family knew…and thought about his involvement. Wow! Worshipful Master! What town?
I’m fascinated by this story…
I only know one Freemason and he stopped going to meetings.
I am also very interested for the same reason. My grandfather was a low level mason in a local lodge but I have recollection of asking my father about it, and why he did not join. My father alluding in his own words that it was a bunch of social strivers doing cringe shit in gay little outfits.. My father was a member of the lions club though which I think morphed out of regular dudes leaving cringe fagmasonry..
The Gates family is freemasonic. Bill Gates's father lived next door to and was best friends with the teenage son of a man called Dorm Braman in Bremerton WA.
Dorm Braman's family had a successful lumber business in Washington state, and Dorm would become a US naval commander, a future Mayor of Seattle, and serve as Assistant Secretary of Urban Transportation under Richard Nixon.
Interesting! Gates father was a hardcore elitist eugenicist. (if what I've read is reliable) Freemasons are elitist, if quiet about it. Bill clearly a eugenicist as well. Demiurgic Gnostics are nothing if not elitist. Also some major players over the years have not been Freemasons but solidly Freemason-adjacent like HG Wells and Lord Palmerston the first zionist. Both super-surrounded by Masons. The Empire has clearly moved on and I'm sure they have new initiation/induction processes now that extend past Masonry. Always remember the genius of Freemasonry (one of the many genius things) is all of the regular, normal guys involved. It's compartmentalized and if a lodge get caught out- the national Grand lodge just says the lodge was "irregular'and lost or never had a charter. As happened with the P2 lodge in Italy. Compartmentalization. Like an intelligence agency. What a coincidence.
I think bloodlines tie back into it. Not only the royalty, who are basically all related, but names like Gates, Aldrich (old rich), Bush, Pratt, Spencer-Churchill, the whole caboodle.
I like in your essays where you point out that the first effective English settlement in NA was the Virginia Colony Corporation, royal charter, Francis Bacon, and obviously a corporation has directors, investors, and shareholders. The United States today is probably still run as a corporation.
Also above you pointed out that the only organization remotely capable of pulling off a worldwide hoax like the Covid scamdemic was Freemasonry. Yes indeed. Whether it is "British" as such I don't know, as masonry may well date back to ancient Egyptian, Phoenician, and/or Babylonian bloodlines. Whoever built the pyramids knew a thing or two about organization and stonemasonry, fo sho. It's quite likely the same bunch of fuggers ruling us today.
As you say, they all work together. It can only be controlled as a hierarchy, as in a military operation which is how they planned Covid.
When the US invaded Iraq, in goes the air force, the armor, the marines, the infantry, the navy launches cruise missiles from offshore, the artillery fires, the 101st airborne lands troops, the snipers shoot, the CIA watches, the Apache helicopter gunships patrol, the full works. All hell breaks loose. But it's all controlled by one guy sitting comfortably in an airconditioned office in the Pentagon:).
When Nietzsche initially declared that “God is dead” in The Gay Science, he was of the forlorn belief that the Enlightenment had slain God. Though religion has seemingly flourished since the Enlightenment, I believe that the Enlightenment has incrementally replaced it with the reign of quantification, which is Science with a capital “S.” Denizens of religion may disagree with my surmise, but simply ask them what they watched on Netflix last night or the make of their smart phone.
Mr. Frederick has chronicled an epic, historical narrative whose ultimate destination is the reign of quantification—through a glass darkly. The Knights Templar are the prime movers of his epic. And he, rightfully, concludes that the remnants of the Knights Templar took refuge in Scotland after Phillip the Fair, the King of France, put a contract out on them. Like a Mafia don, after a cost-benefit analysis, Phillip concluded that wiping the Templars from the face of the Earth would be much more cost effective than remuneration, and he coerced the Vatican into his treachery. Mavens of our esoteric history generally concede that many of the Knights morphed into the Masons once they fled to Scotland.
For Mr. Fredrick, the Masons ultimately became the prime mover in the reign of quantification and, for that matter, the sun never setting on the British empire. To borrow a spicy quote from Mr. Frederick: “Great Britain, without a birth certificate, conceived in coitus with modern Freemasonry.” He plumbs from Jessica Harland-Jacobs' Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism 1717-1927 to demonstrate that various Masons did, indeed, play a role in the realization of the British Empire. (Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism 1717-1927 was published by Princeton, which imbues it with suspicion, but I’ll infer that Mr. Frederick assiduously vetted it.) Moreover, the Masons definitely infiltrated the British gentry, so, as the British built their empire, it’s certainly conceivable that they were integral to its expansion.
But where Mr. Frederick’s diverges far from the madding crowd are his views on Francis Bacon, who enters the narrative figuratively and literally stage right. Many historical mavens who have looked at Bacon’s life with a minimal amount of scrutiny often conclude that he’s an ethical eunuch at best and perhaps an individual with sociopathic tendencies. Like a most notable sociopath, Aleister Crowley, Bacon was conscripted by the Crown’s spy network at an early age.
Though Mr. Frederick attributes the nascent reign of quantification to the Masons, he posits that Bacon was its turbo charge. Bacon coined the term “knowledge is power,” and he also helped to craft the Royal Society of London, which has been shown to have a very short leash on freethinking with regards to science. Bacon also wrote The New Atlantis, which portends a utopian society across the Atlantic where the alter of worship is the reign of quantification. And Bacon was certainly a causal agent in the British settling in the New World
In addition to anointing Bacon as the grand wizard of Science, Mr. Fredrick also postulates that he was Big Bill, the greatest of all bards. But I must admit, I’m out of my depth when attempting to reconcile Bacon as Shakespeare.
His research is certainly fascinating and glistening with pearls.
Would recommend listening to the podcasts on Spotify. All of what you’ve written is waiting for you there, and more. The case for Bacon-as-Shakespeare is overwhelming well-made, cleverly researched, and entertainingly presented. I’m convinced!
My grandfather was a mason (but I’m guessing only at one of the lower levels) where he believed he was involved with a force for good (!!). My dad was inducted as a young man but immediately left and would never talk about it ever after.
My mum, in her youth, along with some friends, headed out to a local dance one night but having mistaken the venue (this was the early ‘50s), stumbled upon a Masonic meeting in full flight. Imagine the consternation. Four gals in their finery interrupting the aproned-ones!! She recalled them being unceremoniously bundled outside amid chaotic scenes and the door slammed in their faces. Presumably locked thereafter. Wonder if anyone’s head rolled for that. Not literally - but you never know with these dudes…
I'm not surprised by the Scottish connection to freemasonry which I suspect has antediluvian roots connected to Druidism which also has clear historical connections to Egypt. This comes back to Plato and Atlantean mythology and I think the title and content of The New Atlantis is a big clue to this. Abraham may even have been a druid (Think oak groves) and there is a well documented connection between the Druids and the masons. This is staring back into the deepest mists of time I appreciate but this is where the occult esoteric knowledge held by the illuminati stems from.
I’m reading through John Mitchel’s ‘Jail Journal’ written in 1848, when he was sent away from Ireland by British on a convict ship. This was during the height of the famine-genocide in Ireland. Mitchel was an educated, Irishman who wrote with searing intellectual honestly and integrity as well as ‘savage indignation’ at the Irish plight. I expect that English was his first language. He rallied often against Bacon and his influence. I will return again to these points in this book that I had previously glossed over.
Mitchel writes about things that I had guessed about but had not seen others mention, such as the fact that what we Irish consider the last great stand against the English, 1798, was actually fomented, to urge the settled colonisers to align with the idea of unification with Britain, 1801.
Hoping to attach a YouTube video of Ben McBrady, the last Irish Druid of the Gaelic Order.
I hadn’t realised how important freemasonry was to the spread of the British Empire, but it makes sense as there are lodges everywhere.
To understand the influence of freemasonry it seems important to be able to name the most influential masons in the world through the centuries. Is this already done?
As you say “the hidden life is best” for high level masons so info may be scarce. But likely it is a fascinating gallery of names.
It's the higher levels that remain a mystery- yes. The elite have certainly developed beyond Masonry at present. But it set up the Empire and serves as the model of an initiation based organization. MK-Ultra is a Masonic endeavour. Allen Dulles was a Mason. Schnoebelen is very good. See video. He checks out, legit...he never made it into the inner rooms, thankfully (or not). He has some new videos on Masonry that I have not seen.
One of the most remarkable aspects of Freemasonry is in it's structure that allows a certain independence, flexibility and creativity in the lodges, probably just like "cells" in intelligence networks, and the realtionship is not an accident. Especially at the highest level.
Masonry is veiled by all the decent fellows that are members. Brilliant.
I encourage you to read Harland-Davidson's book to understand why the evidence is very very far from circumstantial. I am not making any claim that it's only Freemason's that run the world.
Robert..when I read this excerpt from your post above...:
"This is the key point, and I slog thru history books in order to understand it: The Empire is now attempting their next-level growth phase, trying to establishing supra-national global, technocratic “science based” ruling bodies, creating forms of corporate feudalism strangely similar to the Tudor system where the corporation actually began. This attempt uses science-y threats of killer viruses and a looming climate catastrophe as pretext and justification for their complete control."..
The podcast linked below came to mind, about the crushing of speech(and ideas) thru "professional societies", during CV19, but also more broadly...
The interviewee also has a new book on the topic:
"World on Mute: How Workplace Speech Commitees are Destroying our Nations
and Eliminating our Civil Liberties" - by Lisa Miron
Interviewed by your investigative compatriot, William Ramsey...
This comment excerpt from Nick Bryant hints at what Lisa Miron goes into in depth...
ie "You can't talk about that":
"Though Mr. Frederick attributes the nascent reign of quantification to the Masons, he posits that Bacon was its turbo charge. Bacon coined the term “knowledge is power,” and he also helped to craft the Royal Society of London,
>>>which has been shown to have a.very. short.leash.
on freethinking with regards to science<<<."
I am enjoying my subscription to your excellent website and podcasts.
wow. incredible. fascinating.
Yes all the Masonic gear is supposed to go in the coffin. Egyptian much? For the passage thru the underworld? That’s why you don’t see any Masonic paraphernalia in vintage shops or junk stores. Genius.
Maybe there is an exception for a gavel….?
Was he York Rite? Probably Scottish Rite.
The good, or ‘regular Joe’ Mason’s make the perfect cover for the ‘greater lodge’. Which is most of them of course (the good ones). Your grandfather no doubt was too good a dude to get invited to the malevolent levels of the craft.
There was something about all that ritual that had a powerful effect…it seems to have worn off somewhat(makes sense- and is one reason Masonry is shrinking rapidly) not unlike the Catholic Church ritual for so many, of which it Masonry a mimic and and a no doubt hostile alternative.
BTW, according to a broker friend, the best deals in real estate are old Lodges and Churches!
I don’t see a photo icon! ☹️. I’ll check those links. It probably was the biggest Lodge in Canada, sounds like the one in London. Salud-
OMG Lauren! What a story!
I think that gavel was supposed to go in his coffin! I’m very curious what the rest of the family knew…and thought about his involvement. Wow! Worshipful Master! What town?
I’m fascinated by this story…
I only know one Freemason and he stopped going to meetings.
Thanks!
I am also very interested for the same reason. My grandfather was a low level mason in a local lodge but I have recollection of asking my father about it, and why he did not join. My father alluding in his own words that it was a bunch of social strivers doing cringe shit in gay little outfits.. My father was a member of the lions club though which I think morphed out of regular dudes leaving cringe fagmasonry..
haha! Freemasonry is dying out. They are pretty much begging for people to join. that was NEVER a thing in the past. It’s used by date has passed.
I’ve heard that my great grandfather was a Mason but that is on very little evidence.
One wonders then, however, what the new club is???
What secret society is Bill Gates in? Maybe it’s all mostly blackmail now?
The Gates family is freemasonic. Bill Gates's father lived next door to and was best friends with the teenage son of a man called Dorm Braman in Bremerton WA.
Source? Bill Gates's recent memoir Source Code.
This was the Braman's house https://www.kitsapdailynews.com/business/tudor-roses-meeting-house-opens-after-long-renovation-period/
Dorm Braman's family had a successful lumber business in Washington state, and Dorm would become a US naval commander, a future Mayor of Seattle, and serve as Assistant Secretary of Urban Transportation under Richard Nixon.
This CV, I suggest, is fully freemasonic.
Interesting! Gates father was a hardcore elitist eugenicist. (if what I've read is reliable) Freemasons are elitist, if quiet about it. Bill clearly a eugenicist as well. Demiurgic Gnostics are nothing if not elitist. Also some major players over the years have not been Freemasons but solidly Freemason-adjacent like HG Wells and Lord Palmerston the first zionist. Both super-surrounded by Masons. The Empire has clearly moved on and I'm sure they have new initiation/induction processes now that extend past Masonry. Always remember the genius of Freemasonry (one of the many genius things) is all of the regular, normal guys involved. It's compartmentalized and if a lodge get caught out- the national Grand lodge just says the lodge was "irregular'and lost or never had a charter. As happened with the P2 lodge in Italy. Compartmentalization. Like an intelligence agency. What a coincidence.
I think bloodlines tie back into it. Not only the royalty, who are basically all related, but names like Gates, Aldrich (old rich), Bush, Pratt, Spencer-Churchill, the whole caboodle.
I like in your essays where you point out that the first effective English settlement in NA was the Virginia Colony Corporation, royal charter, Francis Bacon, and obviously a corporation has directors, investors, and shareholders. The United States today is probably still run as a corporation.
Also above you pointed out that the only organization remotely capable of pulling off a worldwide hoax like the Covid scamdemic was Freemasonry. Yes indeed. Whether it is "British" as such I don't know, as masonry may well date back to ancient Egyptian, Phoenician, and/or Babylonian bloodlines. Whoever built the pyramids knew a thing or two about organization and stonemasonry, fo sho. It's quite likely the same bunch of fuggers ruling us today.
As you say, they all work together. It can only be controlled as a hierarchy, as in a military operation which is how they planned Covid.
When the US invaded Iraq, in goes the air force, the armor, the marines, the infantry, the navy launches cruise missiles from offshore, the artillery fires, the 101st airborne lands troops, the snipers shoot, the CIA watches, the Apache helicopter gunships patrol, the full works. All hell breaks loose. But it's all controlled by one guy sitting comfortably in an airconditioned office in the Pentagon:).
bravo!
Wow, so much good stuff here. I don’t know where to start. Whatever, I will upgrade to paid as soon as I am able. Dots connecting dots! Bravo, indeed.
Very interesting information, thanks
Bacon for Breakfast
When Nietzsche initially declared that “God is dead” in The Gay Science, he was of the forlorn belief that the Enlightenment had slain God. Though religion has seemingly flourished since the Enlightenment, I believe that the Enlightenment has incrementally replaced it with the reign of quantification, which is Science with a capital “S.” Denizens of religion may disagree with my surmise, but simply ask them what they watched on Netflix last night or the make of their smart phone.
Mr. Frederick has chronicled an epic, historical narrative whose ultimate destination is the reign of quantification—through a glass darkly. The Knights Templar are the prime movers of his epic. And he, rightfully, concludes that the remnants of the Knights Templar took refuge in Scotland after Phillip the Fair, the King of France, put a contract out on them. Like a Mafia don, after a cost-benefit analysis, Phillip concluded that wiping the Templars from the face of the Earth would be much more cost effective than remuneration, and he coerced the Vatican into his treachery. Mavens of our esoteric history generally concede that many of the Knights morphed into the Masons once they fled to Scotland.
For Mr. Fredrick, the Masons ultimately became the prime mover in the reign of quantification and, for that matter, the sun never setting on the British empire. To borrow a spicy quote from Mr. Frederick: “Great Britain, without a birth certificate, conceived in coitus with modern Freemasonry.” He plumbs from Jessica Harland-Jacobs' Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism 1717-1927 to demonstrate that various Masons did, indeed, play a role in the realization of the British Empire. (Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism 1717-1927 was published by Princeton, which imbues it with suspicion, but I’ll infer that Mr. Frederick assiduously vetted it.) Moreover, the Masons definitely infiltrated the British gentry, so, as the British built their empire, it’s certainly conceivable that they were integral to its expansion.
But where Mr. Frederick’s diverges far from the madding crowd are his views on Francis Bacon, who enters the narrative figuratively and literally stage right. Many historical mavens who have looked at Bacon’s life with a minimal amount of scrutiny often conclude that he’s an ethical eunuch at best and perhaps an individual with sociopathic tendencies. Like a most notable sociopath, Aleister Crowley, Bacon was conscripted by the Crown’s spy network at an early age.
Though Mr. Frederick attributes the nascent reign of quantification to the Masons, he posits that Bacon was its turbo charge. Bacon coined the term “knowledge is power,” and he also helped to craft the Royal Society of London, which has been shown to have a very short leash on freethinking with regards to science. Bacon also wrote The New Atlantis, which portends a utopian society across the Atlantic where the alter of worship is the reign of quantification. And Bacon was certainly a causal agent in the British settling in the New World
In addition to anointing Bacon as the grand wizard of Science, Mr. Fredrick also postulates that he was Big Bill, the greatest of all bards. But I must admit, I’m out of my depth when attempting to reconcile Bacon as Shakespeare.
His research is certainly fascinating and glistening with pearls.
Would recommend listening to the podcasts on Spotify. All of what you’ve written is waiting for you there, and more. The case for Bacon-as-Shakespeare is overwhelming well-made, cleverly researched, and entertainingly presented. I’m convinced!
Great to see you here! Have loved your podcasts since I discovered them last year via The Delingpod (thanks James!) and recommended them to others.
Great detective work - and thanks for the laughs along the way too! Much-needed in a dark world.
My grandfather was a mason (but I’m guessing only at one of the lower levels) where he believed he was involved with a force for good (!!). My dad was inducted as a young man but immediately left and would never talk about it ever after.
My mum, in her youth, along with some friends, headed out to a local dance one night but having mistaken the venue (this was the early ‘50s), stumbled upon a Masonic meeting in full flight. Imagine the consternation. Four gals in their finery interrupting the aproned-ones!! She recalled them being unceremoniously bundled outside amid chaotic scenes and the door slammed in their faces. Presumably locked thereafter. Wonder if anyone’s head rolled for that. Not literally - but you never know with these dudes…
I'm not surprised by the Scottish connection to freemasonry which I suspect has antediluvian roots connected to Druidism which also has clear historical connections to Egypt. This comes back to Plato and Atlantean mythology and I think the title and content of The New Atlantis is a big clue to this. Abraham may even have been a druid (Think oak groves) and there is a well documented connection between the Druids and the masons. This is staring back into the deepest mists of time I appreciate but this is where the occult esoteric knowledge held by the illuminati stems from.
I’m reading through John Mitchel’s ‘Jail Journal’ written in 1848, when he was sent away from Ireland by British on a convict ship. This was during the height of the famine-genocide in Ireland. Mitchel was an educated, Irishman who wrote with searing intellectual honestly and integrity as well as ‘savage indignation’ at the Irish plight. I expect that English was his first language. He rallied often against Bacon and his influence. I will return again to these points in this book that I had previously glossed over.
Mitchel writes about things that I had guessed about but had not seen others mention, such as the fact that what we Irish consider the last great stand against the English, 1798, was actually fomented, to urge the settled colonisers to align with the idea of unification with Britain, 1801.
Hoping to attach a YouTube video of Ben McBrady, the last Irish Druid of the Gaelic Order.
https://youtu.be/FIrYD7djFH8?feature=shared
Outstanding!
"Templars originated in France. Just sayin’."
Look forward to more 😁👍
Cheers
Thanks Mick!
I hadn’t realised how important freemasonry was to the spread of the British Empire, but it makes sense as there are lodges everywhere.
To understand the influence of freemasonry it seems important to be able to name the most influential masons in the world through the centuries. Is this already done?
As you say “the hidden life is best” for high level masons so info may be scarce. But likely it is a fascinating gallery of names.
Famous freemasons:-
https://masoniccollection.co.uk/articles/an-introduction-into-freemasonry/famous-freemasons
Wikipedia is actually pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Freemasons
It's the higher levels that remain a mystery- yes. The elite have certainly developed beyond Masonry at present. But it set up the Empire and serves as the model of an initiation based organization. MK-Ultra is a Masonic endeavour. Allen Dulles was a Mason. Schnoebelen is very good. See video. He checks out, legit...he never made it into the inner rooms, thankfully (or not). He has some new videos on Masonry that I have not seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DY_FKVSjyM
One of the most remarkable aspects of Freemasonry is in it's structure that allows a certain independence, flexibility and creativity in the lodges, probably just like "cells" in intelligence networks, and the realtionship is not an accident. Especially at the highest level.
Masonry is veiled by all the decent fellows that are members. Brilliant.
John J Robinson found a connection to the Templars and the English Peasants Revolt of 1381: https://www.amazon.com/Born-Blood-Lost-Secrets-Freemasonry/dp/1590771486/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?sr=8-1
Historian Marty Sieff makes a strong argument for Marlow being Shakespeare: https://youtu.be/cqO4dsICS3Q
I'm a huge fan of the Robinson book. He makes a couple mistakes (imagine that!) and has no footnotes...but it's awesome. https://robertfrederick.substack.com/p/how-and-why-the-knights-templar-became?r=1iqqju
"How (And Why) The Knights Templar Became The Freemasons"
I'll check that Marlowe piece out thanks.
I encourage you to read Harland-Davidson's book to understand why the evidence is very very far from circumstantial. I am not making any claim that it's only Freemason's that run the world.
The Robinson book is great. Marlowe died in 1594. How could he have written the plays? Kind of a. Stretch. No one ever saw him again.
Great piece! Bailey said the Masons would execute the one world religion:
https://substack.com/@courtenayturner/note/c-114439071?r=lphy5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Robert..when I read this excerpt from your post above...:
"This is the key point, and I slog thru history books in order to understand it: The Empire is now attempting their next-level growth phase, trying to establishing supra-national global, technocratic “science based” ruling bodies, creating forms of corporate feudalism strangely similar to the Tudor system where the corporation actually began. This attempt uses science-y threats of killer viruses and a looming climate catastrophe as pretext and justification for their complete control."..
The podcast linked below came to mind, about the crushing of speech(and ideas) thru "professional societies", during CV19, but also more broadly...
The interviewee also has a new book on the topic:
"World on Mute: How Workplace Speech Commitees are Destroying our Nations
and Eliminating our Civil Liberties" - by Lisa Miron
Interviewed by your investigative compatriot, William Ramsey...
03NOV2025 Podcast here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/world-on-mute-how-workplace-speech-committees-are-destroying/id1388815042?i=1000735098586
This comment excerpt from Nick Bryant hints at what Lisa Miron goes into in depth...
ie "You can't talk about that":
"Though Mr. Frederick attributes the nascent reign of quantification to the Masons, he posits that Bacon was its turbo charge. Bacon coined the term “knowledge is power,” and he also helped to craft the Royal Society of London,
>>>which has been shown to have a.very. short.leash.
on freethinking with regards to science<<<."
I am enjoying my subscription to your excellent website and podcasts.
Cheers.
Thank you BT.