This was a really good week for posts and a lot of very intelligent questions being asked let try and answer some of them. There was a lot of interest on my posts on Operation Snowbird where did the craft come from, how many different civilizations are we dealing. A lot of interest, probably the first time many of us have encountered this.

I want to post a paper on a condition that all of us have heard of, but most don’t understand, I am going to hold off for a bit I want to discuss it with a psychologist I know just so I present it properly to you. It’s called DENIAL.

How this relates to some of what I am going to write about is significant. Let me digress for a moment, people for some strange reasons place themselves into mental prisons. They may have die hard religious beliefs, no matter how hard you try to convince them of other viewpoints they cannot be swayed.

They are more often than not of a particular belief, because their parents were and if they were to sit down and think of why they believe as they do, they would be very confused by the question but wouldn’t be able to open their minds up and have an intelligent conversation about it.

The same is true when it comes to politics, the car you drive, the part of the country one comes from. It is really hard to believe that many people never venture more than 100 miles from where they were born. There is a big beautiful and diverse world out there.

People just don’t understand diversity, difference in cultures and people in their own back yards so trying to deal with people from other worlds is just more than they can comprehend, Actually the thought that when you look into the sky and look at all of the stars and think that you or I should say we are so special that it is only us and the universe centers around us.  Well that’s a special kind of arrogance!

If we can’t understand and get along with each other how we could possibly handle people from other worlds? Think we have cultural differences now, think again! To understand the future and the present let’s take a look at the past but before I get started let me review a few things with you:

§  I am just a normal regular guy; I came out of the service after 8 years with a great deal of experiences for a young man.

§  These experiences include being shot three times, three aircraft crashes, an encounter with Agent Orange which haunts me to this very day.

§   One of the aircraft crashes left me with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) which left me with a brain reduced in size and a condition called executive dysfunction.

§  Executive dysfunction creates memory loss, difficulties with numbers and spelling problems. I do my best to edit my work before publishing but thing frequently fly under my radar; so get over it ; I have

§  I retired with cancer at a relatively young age and got out of everything I could to get my affairs in order, getting ready to die; I moved onto my sailboat, made some outstanding acquaintances which I hold dear to this day; I lived on my sailboat for ten years and started doing research on a diverse set of subjects.

§  By the way I survived my predicament with cancer and other conditions with the outstanding care provided by the VA; high quality every diagnosis and treatment was right on the money, on a multitude of conditions.

§  If you ever want to get involved with putting together a totally successful efficient healthcare system, the research and development has already been done for you; just reproduce what the VA has done and put another name on it.

Ok let’s get started class is in session:

I started out doing a lot of historical research on secret societies and I started following the bread crumbs; let me just say our history books are by far and large inaccurate, written to cover up actual history. Every time I worked on something I would encounter scenarios that didn’t make sense, the deeper I dug the further I got away from what was reported and what I was dealing with. One thing led to another and I was  deep into UFOOLOGY.

Let’s back up a few thousand year’s , actually around fifty thousand years, for all of my devoutly religious friends this would be a good time to step outside of the box or this paper will be difficult and upsetting to you. 

v  When I say god think of extraterrestrials.

v  The world started 3.5 Billion years ago, not 5,000.

v  Having gone to Catholic Schools, Alter Boy and all of that I am pretty on top of Christian doctrine, yes it was difficult to finally accept the truth, but once I was able to the world started making much more sense.

Up until the 1920’s it was felt that India was dated to within a few hundred years of Alexander the Great.  In the mid 1800’s discoveries were made on several ancient settlement in the Indus valley of northwestern India, Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.

v   Excavations didn’t happen for another hundred years. In the 1920’s it was discovered that the area of the Indus valley had a civilization of well over five million inhabitants.

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v    Archeologists are still exploring the area and as late as 1999 major population areas are being discovered. To date there are over 1100, villages, settlements and cities being studied. These sites include Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, Ganweriwales, Bholavira, and Rakhreaki.

v   The area of this civilization is spread over 1,260,000.km this is also known as the Harappan civilization and is dated to 3300-2600 BCE.

v     This is the oldest known settlement known to science and much older than the Sumerian civilization.

v  The Indus valley was a center for the production of bronze, copper, tin, and leads. It is felt the metallurgy of this area was the reason for its growth and highly developed language.

v   Buildings which were built with brick, they had drainage systems, they included multi-level structures, running water, sewers leading out to streets, they had separation between drinking and sewer waters.

v  The road systems were very advanced, in a city grid system, way ahead of their times.                                       

v  The Indus valley language hasn’t been interpreted as of yet however there are significant similarities between the Indus valley scripts and those of Easter Island. Also that these two civilizations are half a world apart but are on the same latitude.

v   Very strange.  Based on information gained from the Sumerian tablets, this will be quite interesting when finally interpreted. It is felt that the Indus valley languages are related to the Dravidian civilization.

Now I am writing this from the view point of an Ancient Alien Theorist; Ask yourself a couple of questions:

·         Were these settlements built by people 2 points above those of cavemen?

·         Why would these people have any need at all for metals, bronze, copper tin?

·         Were they provided help from God, gods or extraterrestrials?

·         Why?

Let me move forward while you ponder the above:

 In the 7th century Iraq, Sanskrit texts describe how an extraterrestrial race called Annunaki, created the human race. In Sumerian scripts Annunaki means those from the heavens came.    There are descriptions in the Sumerian scripts of Annunaki arriving in space craft from the skies complete with boots, helmets, jackets and watches, described as floating above regular people.

  These were space travelers who visited earth in the ancient past.  Similar experiences can be experienced with the Greek, Romans and Phoenician gods. Some say these were also extraterrestrial contact.

    Most cultures believe in powerful gods who lived in the heavens and came down to interact with humans.  Zeus was said to arrive at Mount Olympia, to bring knowledge, technology, culture and civilization to earth.

 However, these gods “Extraterrestrials” also have many human qualities also.  They were attracted to human women; they wanted to take them as wives (not necessarily with their consent) and have children.

  There are many accounts of gods “Extraterrestrials” coming to earth mating with human women and having offspring of demi-gods, the giants of the Old Testament, Goliath, Hercules and Troy are examples of these giant demi gods.

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  These demi-gods were gifted in many ways, they were handsome/ beautiful and smart they were creating more perfect or advanced offspring through DNA engineering.

  All of the array of Greek gods throughout Greek mythology were misinterpreted flesh and blood extraterrestrials and confused with divine creatures by our ancestors.

 The belief that extraterrestrials came to earth and interacted with humans, these supernatural beings, called fallen angels in the bible, are a cornerstone of many ancient religions.

  

  There are many thoughts on the purpose of the pyramids; they were built using sacred geometry.  They were aligned with heavenly planets and star systems. Everything about ancient Egypt centers around Orion’s Belt and the Sirius star system. Why a pyramid, they must have another purpose other than astronomical observatories.

 It is interesting to note that pyramids also exist in South America and it is felt that there are several that have been swallowed by the sea.  There are thoughts that the pyramids served as a power plant.  There seems to have been an unbelievable amount of machinery and ancient technology but how were these things powered

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 I talk more on the pyramids in a separate posting, to keeps this short I won’t be discussing them here but they have extraterrestrial influence written all over them.

Let’s look at some of the Egyptian ancient culture.

In 1935 at the site of the Palenque Pyramid was found a stone relief dated to 600 AD, that has historians and archeologists flabbergasted.  Every now and then things are found that are so incredible, that even the organized religions, and various governments, after prolonged periods of cover up, and classifying the site as national security risks, at some time they are compelled to say something intelligent about the finds.

 The stone relief found at the Palenque site was of a human, at first thought was of a motorcycle rider, but his “hog” was a rocket or missile. The human on the rocket was bent forward just like any biker would be.  The rocket is pointed at the front but then changes to grooved indentations like inlet ports.  It then widens out and terminates at the end with flames shooting out of the rocket.

 The human like occupant appears to have his foot on a pedal alongside the body or fuselage of the rocket. The occupant appears to have a control panel with dials on it, that the space traveler is adjusting.

 He is wearing trousers a jacket with an open collar and tight fitting arm bands and leg bands.  On his head he was wearing a helmet with indentations, tubes and an antenna. The space traveler’s front seat is separated by pipes from the rear portion of the rocket.

 Who was this space traveler and how does he play into the history of the Mayans, was he one of them, or perhaps was he an angel of God or God himself

When Alexander the Great in 329BCE was invading India his invasion was stopped by a strange attack from the skies. Alexander’s army was using elephants in the forward elements of their formations when the “flying saucers” were dive bombing the elephants which went wild and started stampeding crushing foot soldiers and tearing through their camps.

   Alexander’s generals met with him and refused to proceed. This caused Alexander to stop his advance and they turned around and went back to Baghdad where Alexander died.

The alchemist Rodger Bacon was quoted as saying “Flying machines as these were as old and are made even in our days.” This quote was from the 13th century. This statement is evidence of flying machines that had been a reality of ancient flight and also existed in Bacon’s time.

 These seem quite farfetched based on our history; however the same history is flooded with legends and chronicles of airships in the remote past!

 There are ancient Sanskrit texts that describe aircraft designs, flight specifications and aerial battles in great detail. This is from the ancient book “The Glory of Kings” in ancient times called “Kebra Nagast” and is the most sacred book of the Ethiopians.

Myths and legends are based on something real, usually exaggerated and mystified.

 Our ancestors weren't idiots! They had an uncanny desire to report events that they witnessed. They reported these events in drawings, sculptures, art, legends and mythology.

 When our ancestors describe something as magic, they are referring to chemistry and physics. They describe people flying in ancient times, just like we do today.

 

 In ancient times when describing these events they didn't have anything remotely similar to the said event so they used something that people could identify with. They describe it as usually having thunder smoke and fire, looking like a snake, the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl for instance. The reports of sky people coming to earth in fire breathing dragons, sometimes there are descriptions of flying metallic objects, or flying magic carpets, chariots of fire!

 In the Mideast they refereed to airships as magic carpets, they didn't have any other point of reference. King Solomon had a magic carpet that he visited his sites in the Middle East. He was reported to have given Queen Sheba a gift of a magic carpet after she visited him bearing gifts of several tons of gold, jewels, peacocks, monkeys and exotic woods, ointments and perfumes.

 King Solomon was said to have visited mountain ranges in Tibet by an airship. There are ancient charts that are believed to identify sites in Iraq, Iran, India, Africa and Egypt that have landing areas for his airship!

  Could there have been a forgotten chapter in the history of the world? Were we visited by people from other worlds who visited us to give us culture and technology?

 There is a book the Kebra Negast, that is considered to be the most sacred book of the Ethiopians, it is considered to be their equivalent of the Old Testament and frequently referred to as the “glory of the Kings”.

 The Hindu's of India and Buddhist are very familiar with ancient flight referred to in the Rmmayana as vimanas. They are also referred to in modern Indian literature: In the “Times of India” on April 8^th, 1999 an article called “Flight Path” which discusses vimanas.

 The article mentions the Santra Sarvasra written by Sage Maharshi Bhardwaj. The Santra Sarvasra contains forty sections; the section titled Vaimanika Prakarana has eight chapters dealing with aeronautics.

 This book was written 12,000 years ago, long before flight was a remote thought. They discuss aerial craft in three categories, those that flew from place to place, those that flew from country to country and those that flew in between planets.

 Great detail was paid to military craft; they had to be impregnable, unbreakable, non-combustible and indestructible, capable of coming to a dead stop. Invisible to enemies; capable of listening to noise and conversation in hostile craft; technically proficient to see and record, things, persons, incidents, and situations going on inside enemy craft; know at every stage the direction and movement of other aircraft in the vicinity.  Additionally they were capable of rendering the enemy crew into a state of suspended animation, intellectual stupor or complete loss of consciousness; capable of destruction. They were manned by pilots and co-travelers who could adapt in accordance to the climate in which they moved.

 They would be temperature regulated inside; constructed of very light and heat absorbing metals; provided with mechanisms that could enlarge or reduce images and could enhance or reduce sounds.

 

  Notwithstanding the fact that this would resemble the cross between a stealth bomber and a flying saucer, I think we just described “God!” Perhaps at least the attributes of God.

 Does this mean that space and air travel were well known to ancient Indians and that space/aircraft were prominent in the ancient world? It would seem based on these ancient texts that modern Indians consider themselves as part of a bigger puzzle. Aerial battle and chases are common in ancient Hindu literature.

 “Ancient Hindu texts speak of vimanas as an aerial chariot with sides of iron and clad with wings.” The Ramayana describes a vimana as a double decked circular aircraft with portholes and a dome. It flew with the “speed of the winds” and produced a “melodious sound” or a humming noise.

  Vimanas were kept in a hanger or a griah and were using a fuel that was yellowish white in appearance. Vimanas were present all over the world.

 The Ramayanna describes the ancient Indian texts on vimana’s, they are so numerous that you could devote an entire book on them; just to present the information that the Hindu texts convey.

The Indians wrote entire flight manuals on the care of various types of vimana. The Sanaru Sulradhara deals with the complete process of air travel in a vimana.

 There are 230 stanzas dealing with the construction, takeoff, traveling for thousands of miles, normal and forced landings, even collisions with birds. With all of this literary evidence of ancient flight, where are the Vimanas? Perhaps today they are called UFO’s!

 In 1875 the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century BC script written by Maharishi Bhardwat was rediscovered in a temple in India. The book deals with vimana’s operations including information on steering systems and preparations for long flights, protection of spacecraft from storms and lightening; how to “switch the drive from solar energy to gravitational drive”. Vimana’s take off vertically and were capable of hovering in the sky, like a modern helicopter.

Class is out   to be continued

Ezekiel and Pythagoras flourished together. In July 592 BCE, at the age of 30 Ezekiel gives details with his “encounter with God”, who “rode upon a Chariot of Fire, with wheels spinning within wheels, accompanied by four Cherubs” (Angels).

 For the next five years after this encounter he prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem and it's Temple.  This prophesy was realized when Jerusalem was sacked by the Babylonians in 587 BCE, which most historians confirm. Ezekiel was brought by angels or extraterrestrials to a location where there was a structure and the angels/ extraterrestrials wanted him to measure the structure.

 There are forty pages in the Book of Ezekiel with details of his measurements of this structure which had an opening for a “space ship” or “Glory of the Lord”  .

 Joseph Bloomerick analyzed the Book of Ezekiel as did also a separate individual at the same time, working separately without the others knowledge.  Joseph Bloomerick Published a book, “The Space Ships of Ezekiel”, Joseph was a NASA scientist.

 The separate individual, a certain Hans Habu Byayer, a structural engineer, recreated the structure from The Book of Ezekiel, in the form of a model,  that Ezekiel measured and was used to house a space ship.

  This is a very strong indication of technology in ancient times, verified by two separate modern scientists, who didn't know each other, but their final projects and conclusions fit together perfectly.

  In the American southwest in New Mexico, the Native American Nation of the Zuni who lived in an Adobe structure in six villages that are aligned with the constellation Orion’s Belt.

  They had lived there for 2,000 years. They keep their tradition of the Star People close to their chest and have not opened up to the rest of the world.  Most of their history is etched into the rocks of the New Mexico desert and petroglyph’s  that can be found in the ruins of ancient Zuni, Hopi and Navaho villages.

 The Zuni Indians believe that they are descended from extraterrestrials called the Star People.

 The Star People instructed the Zuni Indians on how to live their lives.  The drawings on the rocks or “petroglyphs” show  flying saucers carbon dated to around 1200BC.  The Zuni Indians call the extraterrestrials “space men” and refer to them as “keepers of the upper world.”

 Kachinas were to lead the Star People through a special Portal to the world of light on the earth.  Every year the Zuni Indians have a festival called Shalako festival to celebrate the Kachina’s. They celebrate the arrival of the Star People on earth. They wear traditional costumes representing the Kachinas who were supernatural beings who were divine messengers between their four worlds.

 The Kachinas had several messages to deliver but they were to always ensure rain.  The costumes have helmets with portals in them, they look like ancient astronauts.

 If you look at the mythology, legends and poems of the five southwest Native American Nations They are all of the Star People and they all state that they came to earth in flying craft which they call birds; they called anything that flew birds even space ships.  The Zuni Indians do not have a written language; all of these legends are in their songs and chants that they use in their ceremonies.

 The religion of the Native American and especially the Hopi and Zuni are central tenants to their daily lives. They are told over and over again in their many ceremonies.

  Perhaps if Native Americans had an extraterrestrial experience, other cultures did also.

  In Muli in northwest Africa, deep in a valley, are the Dogon people. Their ancestors had settled around 1000AD, and had been forced to leave Egypt because of religious persecution.  They have a very long and ancient tradition and have kept most of the Egyptian myths and legends right into modern times.

  Dogon tradition maintains that the sky god Ama, created the first living creature called Nommo. Shortly after his creation Nommo divided into several parts, one of these parts rebelled and Ama responded to this threat by destroying him and spreading his parts throughout the world.

  According to Dogon legends a god or “extraterrestrial” descended from the stars and gave them this knowledge. To this day the Dogon celebrate Nomo and the visitation which occurred in the ancient past. They have ancient masks that date back to when these ceremonies began.

 The masks show the history of the Dogon, they have a mask of Ama embracing the universe.  This is how they pass on information from generation to generation.  They pass stories told in masks.  Could Nommo have been a real entity, there are striking similarities between Nommo and the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten.

  Is it coincidence that these two cultures thousands of miles apart have mythologies that are so similar, that they descended from the stars?  They were both descended from extraterrestrial beings. Nommo from Ama, and Akhenaten from Aten.  They both had elongated cranium.

  The Dogon religion is maintained by the priests that share it with a select few only.  The Dogon and the Egyptian’s both believe that they are descended from the Sirius star system.

  Both Osiris and Ama were believed to have come from the Planet Sirius B.  You can’t see Sirius B with the naked eye. It is believed that Sirius B was a dying planet and is now non-life supporting.  

 

  Astronomer’s using the Hubble telescope have identified Sirius B and Sirius C is also thought to exist, however it hasn’t been visually identified, but thought to exist in the distance beyond Sirius B based on scientific observation.

  Both of these planets were hidden previously by the orbital path of Sirius A.  The Sirius star system is eight light years away, the Dogon knew of Sirius B, a thousand years before modern science did.

  In 2003 the Hubble telescope confirmed that Sirius B is a White Dwarf or a partially burnt out planet. It is very dense it is smaller than earth but weighs eight times that of the sun.

  When Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity in 1905 it opened up the thought of the ability of the untethered mind. The Wright Brothers had just made the first untethered flight in a heavier than air “plane” and Einstein is talking about time travel and star gates !

  When you travel at the speed of light you will have aged enough that hundreds of thousands of years could have passed by the time you get back.  Could special relativity be the fountain of youth that we have been seeking since the age of discovery?

 In 1935 Albert Einstein theorized that worm holes in space could be used to transport matter across the universe by bending space and time.

 If you took a sheet of paper and bent it in half so that the two ends were almost touching, the space between the two ends of the paper would be the worm hole. You’re not actually traveling faster than the speed of light, your just cutting corners.

Albert Einstein's theory of “Special Relativity” which he published in 1905, determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and the speed of light, when in a vacuum, was independent of the motion of the observers.

  This established a new set of rules for the law of physics. This established a new era for the concept of time and space. Albert Einstein published his theory of “General Relativity” ten years later in 1915.

  In this theory he determined that massive objects cause distortion in space time, this we feel as gravity.  When two objects exert a force of attraction on one another it's known

as gravity. Even at the center of earth, this force is pulling you toward it. This is what keeps you on the ground. Your center of mass is pulling back at the earth, with much less force.

 

 Sir Issac Newton quantifies the gravity between two objects when he formulated his three laws of motion. However newton's law assumes that gravity is an innate force of an object that can act over a distance.

   As a result of Albert Einstein's research into special relativity it was determined that time and space were interwoven into a single concept, known as space -time.  Events that occurred at the same time for one object, could occur at different times for another object.

   As he worked out his formulas for General Relativity, Einstein realized that massive objects caused a distortion on time -space. Imagine setting a large object in the center of a trampoline, the object would press down into the fabric, causing it to dimple. If you were to roll a marble around the outside of the trampoline, it would spiral in towards the object.

   The marble would be pulled toward the object in the same way that the gravity of the earth pulls at rocks in space. Although we don't have instruments that can measure space-time, several theories associated with the warping have been confirmed.

  Light around a massive object, such as a black hole, is bent causing it to act as a lens, for what- ever lays behind it. This is a method used by astronomers to study stars, and galaxies behind massive objects such as planets. This is called gravitational lensing.

  Radio Telescopes weren't developed and put into use until the 1960's  These Radio Telescopes were able to detect radio waves coming off the sun, the milky way and a few closer stars.  In doing this they were able to detect some other unexplainable objects. They were very small but extremely bright. They were given the name Quasi-Stellar objects. Or Quasar's.

 Intense discussions were taking place among astronomers, some of these Quasars were moving at 1/3 the speed of light. Stepping outside of the box, and taking a look from a different perspective:

Ø  There were some astronomers who felt that they were created from the distortion of gravity from a black hole. Or could it perhaps be the opposite end of a worm hole which is called a white hole.

Ø   If this is actually a white hole it would have to be extremely far away. Several billion light years away. It would produce as much energy as an entire galaxy.

Ø  Another thought which is possibly more reasonable. Perhaps the Quasar isn't this bright after all, could our understanding of the size of the universe be a factor, could the universe be expanding?

 Could we be dealing with a civilization that was able to absorb the energy of other stars and galaxy's which would be why it is so bright ? If this is actually what is happening, it is a thought that has been out there for a while, it is called the Active Galaxy Theory.

   Since the 1980's, astronomers internationally have been accepting the active galaxy theory as an acceptable explanation for Quasars. There are also concepts of “Blazers and Radio Galaxy’s” are thought possibly Quasars viewed from a different perspective.

   It is now apparent that Einstein's theory of Special and General Relativity is no longer a theory but hard fact. With an understanding of the concept of Time-Space it helps in the understanding of space travel and how space vehicles from millions of light years away could possibly travel to our planet.

  In 1949, Daniel Fry, a rocket scientist reported being abducted and being conscious and of sound mind during a flight in an Alien Spacecraft.

   The thoughts expressed by the alleged extraterrestrials are surprisingly similar to many of our own:

 

  “ We will never thrust our knowledge or our culture upon your people, and will never offer it unless there is substantial evidence that we desire it, and it would be advantageous to us.”

   There wasn't such evidence in 1949 and I question whether there is today.

     The extraterrestrials represented that there were minerals that we have in abundance on earth, that were very scarce throughout the solar system.

   They represented that they had an interest in the minerals,  that would benefit both of our worlds.

  They also represented to Daniel Fry that although the minerals would be desired by them, it wouldn't be contingent on the services they are providing us.

 They said any knowledge or services that they can offer us will be freely offered.

   The extraterrestrials represented, that if they were to force their “culture” on us, about a third of our people would consider them to be gods, and would place all responsibility on the extraterrestrials for their welfare.

   Most of the 70% that didn't believe that they were gods would believe them to be tyrants and dictators who were planning to enslave our world.  Many of this group would seek to destroy them.

 Whether we choose to believe this contact story to be fiction or not, ( I believe it ), it is worthy to note that this is not too far from our modern thinking !

Class is out  to be continued.

The Founding Fathers

 Historians believe 80% of the founding Fathers were Masons. There were 42 representatives and 39 of them signed the Declaration of Independence.

If 80% of them were Masons that would mean 31 of the signatures were from Masons.

Just for the purpose of crunching numbers lets say only fifteen were Masons that would be at least a third of the Founding Fathers being Masons and instilled with esoteric thought.

The War of Independence was not so much a war against King George as it was a war to build a Templar/Masonic land of the brothers who would be free of any control from a monarchy or other corrupt form of rule.

There was a inner corps of Freemasons of the Scottish Rite that had infiltrated King Georges court, the Freemasons were the command and control center for the creation of the United States of America and the defeat of the British Royal Crown.

The esoteric ancient societies allowed King George to conduct war against the colonies, knowing he would be defeated.

General George Washington was a Mason. His Mason brothers in the army of King George used a “Spy Ring” to communicate the logistics of the British Army. George Washington would also communicate his plans to his brother Masons, frequently the British Army would hold off on an attack to let the Colonial Army escape and regroup. The Masons were heavily involved in the military, frequently a higher ranking officer in the army would seek council with a superior brother Mason, who would be of lesser rank in the army.

The Masons had a inner council, who had a master plan for creating countries free from the Vatican’s rule and their Inquisition.

Lands of religious freedom, democratic rule, where individuals could express their individual creativeness without fear of monarchs.

In 1778 General Sir Henry Clinton of the British Army controlled most of New York City. General George Washington’s army was also scattered through out the city and surrounding areas.

It was the second year of the war and the colonies were not doing well. General Washington was badly in need of intelligence on the movement of King Georges army.

Brother Mason, Abraham Woodhull, code named Samuel Culver, was recruited to provide intelligence to General Washington revolutionary army.

Samuel Culver recruited fellow Mason Robert Towson, who along with his wife and her brother formed the “Culver Spy Ring”.

They provided intelligence on General Sir Henry Clinton’s troop movements. General George Washington instructed Culver to write information on pocket books common at that time. These books were then delivered to General Washington, who did not know the identities of the Culver spy ring, he did not have the need to know. This method of compartmental information and identities has become standard practice of intelligence operatives over the years.

The worlds first Intelligence Organization was the Dominican Inquisitors, which has attempted to clean up its reputation, by changing its name from time to time.

In 1965 the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office was established to carry on the work of the Dominican

Inquestion.

To continue the Dominicans mission of sequestering any and all evidence that would question the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

General Washington did not know the identities of the Culver Spy Ring, but he knew they were brother Masons. He wanted them to mix with the British and the Tories. He wanted them to visit their coffee houses and taverns.

Abraham Townsend was a journalist of the time, a gossip colomnist for a Tory Newspaper.

This also let him overhear other information that the reporters for the newspaper were working on, a very

good source of intelligence.

One of Townsend sources was Major John Andre who later would turn Benedict Arnold over to the British Army. Townsend would turn his reports over to a Tavern keeper named Austin Roe.

Autin Roe would in turn forward the messages in the pocket book on to Woodhull’s (Sam Culvers) farm. The information was in turn sent by one of Woodhull (Culvers) Masonic couriers to General Washington.

The messages gave General Washington the day to day movements of General Clinton’s army, allowing General Washington to stay one step ahead of General Clinton’s Army.

This allowed General Washington to avoid direct frontal confrontation with the much better trained, equipped and larger British Army.

General Washington knew exactly where General Clinton’s army was and what there plans were.

In 1780 the French Marines arrived in Newport Rhode Island, these marines were the result of Benjamin Franklin efforts to gain support for the colonies.

General Clinton’s British Red Coats had a substantial sized army close by and General Clinton, after he was made aware of the French landing in Newport, was going to send them to intercept the French.

General Washington was expecting the arrival of the French Marines in Newport and when the signal was received of their arrival a plan was executed to confuse General Clinton and draw his army away from Newport.

General Washington planned a attacked on Manhattan! This was a classic assault of disinformation, the British also had their spy’s, and General Washington made sure they were made aware of this misinformation, so it could be conveyed to General Clinton.

General Washington knew that General Clinton would divert his army from Newport to defend Manhattan, a area of much more strategic importance. General Clinton did cancel his attack on Newport.

General Washington would not have been able to divert the English army if not for the “Culver” spy ring. The French and the colonists did meet, this was the turning point of the war. The French and the colonists defeated the British and the colonists won their independence from Britain!

With the creation of the United States of America a new era of politics, taxation, science, religious freedom and multicultural acceptance came into effect. America became the melting pot of the world. In America the best of all societies, races, creeds and philosophies came in search of the new world order! The new world order which the ancient scripts had always predicted, The United States of America is the new World Order. 

The Pirates Part V

Clark Island which is in the Connecticut River at North field Massachusetts can be accessible from Long Island Sound. By taking the river up to where the water falls forces one to portage around them and continue up the river across from Pine Meadow.

A legend that is passed down from generation to generation Captain Kidd followed the Connecticut River up to Clark Island, searching for a place to cache treasure. They were looking for someplace out of the way but rememerable.

They burried a chest of treasure, then drew lots to see who would remain behind to protect the treasure! The lucky pirate who won the draw was promptly killed and his body was laid on top of the treasure chest.

This would frequently take place after a evening of party and rum consumption. The reason for this is the dead pirate was to protect the treasure from other treasure seekers!

The legend began to grow over the years, the legend states that the treasure could be only recovered by three men, at midnight with a full moon directly overhead.

They must stand around the treasure forming a triangle and work in complete silence. Words would break the spell! The legend continues that around 1840 three men followed the directions explicidy they were digging at midnight fearing to make a sound, not even so much as swatting at flies when one of them struck iron.

They looked at one another illuminated under the shadowy light of the full moon, they had dug very deep before striking iron, in a maze of mosquito's, not daring to swat at them, fearing to make noise that would break the spell, they slowly dug in a wide circle around the object.

They slowly began to raise the chest, when one of them exclaimed “we've got it!” And then immediately the chest began to sink out of reach, they fell to their knees trying to grasp it but the chest sunk into the depth of the muck. Like so many tales of treasure, you knew where it is, it's just out of reach!

For centuries the remnants of the lost Templar Fleet roamed the oceans, preying on the ship's loyal to the Vatican.

As the lands across the sea began to be discovered the Templar’s were there also, in their new form, The Scottish Rite of the Freemasons.

If nothing else they were central to the formation of the United States of America! The Templar’s began their transformation at Roslyn Chapel.

Prince Henry Sinclair's grandson William Sinclair was the last Earl of the Orkney Islands. After William the “Earldom of Orkney” transferred to the Scottish Crown as part of the dowry of Queen Margret of Denmark. She married King James III of Scotland.

Sir William was also known as the Knight of Cockle and the Golden Fleece. Sir William Sinclair was a member of a secret group that preserved knowledge concerning the Holy Grail, the Holy Blood and the Merovingian Kings.

They preserved knowledge of the destiny of the new land across the Atlantic. By the middle ages the builder of Solomon's Temple had become significant in the formation of craft guilds.

In 1410, a manuscript was found mentioning King Solomon son Tyre “Hiram”. This manuscript associates Tyre with ancient science that survived the flood. This knowledge has been reported by Pythagoras and Hermes.

A manuscript dated 1583 states Hiram is the Son of the king of Tyre and a “Master”. These manuscripts are evidence of widespread ancient knowledge.

The knights Templar's consider themselves as inheritors of this ancient knowledge. They struggled for hundred's of years struggling against the Vatican and their reign of terror known as the inquisition.

The Templar’s considered the “True Church” one that taught reincarnation, good works and mysticism as being suppressed by a dark cloud that called itself the one true faith.

Oppression against these other faiths was accomplished by torture, terror and extermination. Prince Henry Sinclair risked his reputation of a family that traces its origins to the High Priests of the Temple of Solomon, by his pursuits across the Atlantic.

It is said that he brought part of the Holy Grail to the new lands. Had these relics been used in the creation of America? The United States was formed on principles of Templar/Masonic beliefs.

Nine and perhaps as many as thirteen of the founding fathers were Masons. The Templar Masons believed in religious freedom and a free-trade banking system.

The Templar’s had helped to create a free and independent Scotland, then a “New Scotland”, then a independent United States.

The Templar’s were engineering the future in a way that they wanted the future to go. Their goal was to create new countries free of religious persecution and false doctrines that held”Kings as divine”.

Their goal was to create an independent country, free from the rule of Kings and the Vatican. This would mean a revolution, an American Revolution! 

The Pirates Part IV

Captain Kidd's crew voted 100 to 15 to mutiny and to give loyalty to the Mocha Frigate under the command of pirate Captain Robert Culliford.

They unloaded all the cargo from the Adventure Prize and transferred it to the Mocha Frigate. They then stripped all three of Captain Kidd's ship's of all equipment, anchors, rigging, rope, sails and anything else of value.

History is not clear on how this happened but Captain Culliford agreed to return Captain Kidd's portion of the treasure and the shares to his limited crew of 13 sailors.

If this is reported correctly it would mean that 40% of the treasure would have been returned to Captain Kidd and the shares to his crew.

Captain Culliford then proceeded to sink the November, leaving Captain Kidd with two stripped down ships and a very limited crew.

In 1698 the King of England awarded a general pardon to all of the known pirates and privateers, however Captain Kidd was not part of that action. There was now an all out search for Captain Kidd.

Captain Kidd was able to savage enough gear left on board the Adventure Galley, he transferred it to the Adventure Prize.

The Adventure Prize traveled south along the coast of Madagascar stopping at two ports. They stopped at Port Dolphin to acquire provisions and Tulear to recruit sailors for the journey.

From Madagascar they traveled up the coast of Africa avoiding Port's and shipping lanes fetching Annoban Africa off the coast of Guinea and Cameroon.

After provisioning they set a course directly for the Virgin Islands to the small Island of Mona off the coast of Puerto Rico. They reached Mona ten months after the Mutiny at Madagascar.

Prior to arriving at Mona they stopped at Antigua for provisions and gossip. The ship Adventure Prize was leaking badly and in need of major repairs.

Captain Kidd was able to sell enough cargo/treasure to aquire a sloop rigged ship which was faster and less cumbersome than a cargo vessels.

Captain Kidd established a friendship with Captain Henry Bolton who he bought the sloop St. Antonio from. He then arranged for Captain Bolton to watch the Adventure Galley with the bulk of the treasure aboard.

At Captain Bolton s suggestion they moved the Adventure Prize to Santa Catalina Island 1.5 miles off the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic.

They moved the large cargo vessel into a lagoon in the middle of the island. He Authorized Captain Bolton to sell the cargo if he received a good price.

Although history reports that he had just met Captain Bolton on this trip I feel that he knew him previously. You wouldn't leave all your possessions with a stranger least of all a major quantity of treasure, nice guy or not!

Captain Kidd then departed for New York intending to return in ninety days. His intention was to approach Governor Bellomont the Governor of New York with the intention of getting the charges of piracy dropped.

Captain Kidd had many influential friends in New York. He was politically active and his wife was very prominent.

He wanted to present what he had done on the Indian Ocean campaign all within the bounds of his agreement with the Governor and King.

When he arrived in New York he was immediately arrested but he wouldn't reveal the location of the Adventure Prize.

He felt he could use the treasure to barter for his freedom. The Governor was trying to get two ships together, one of which was the St. Antonio which he had confiscated.

The Governor was trying to sponsor a mission going to the Caribbean to recover the treasure.

While the mission was still being planed a vessel arrived from the Caribbean reporting that the crew left on the Adventure Prize, I assume this means Captain Bolton, sold the cargo, had burnt the ship and had departed for Holland.

With this bit of knowledge, Governor Bellomont authorized Captain Nathaniel Cary to go to the island and verify that the ship had been burnt and to try to recover the treasure. This included trying to recover any treasure the Governments in the area and as far away as the Dutch Island of Curacao, which may have come in to possession of the treasure.

Meantime Governor Bellomont looked else wear for Captain Kids Treasure, he sent teams to the Bay of Fundy, Mahone Bay, he searched Grand Manan Island and the hundreds of islands of Mahone Bay, and the peninsula of Nova Scotia.

He searched Cape Cod and Maratha’s Vineyard, Block Island and Cherry Tree field on Gardeners Island off the north shore of Long Island.

On Gardeners Island satisfaction was achieved. Captain Kidd was invited to Boston to meet with Governor Bellomont who conveyed that clemency would be extended with the delivery of the treasure.

The offer of clemency however was a trick to draw Captain Kidd out into the open.

Governor Bellomont was afraid that he would be charged as a co-conspirator in piracy along with Captain kidd. The Governor was a financial backer, and a partner in the profit sharing of the proceeds of the treasure.

Also the Earl of Oxford, the Baron of Romney, the Duke of Sherosburry, Sir John Somers and King William III of England were also profit sharing partners in this venture.

A letter of Marque was issued based on this partnership. The King or crown was to receive 10% of the proceeds. This would come out of the 40% of the treasure that Captain Kidd would receive.

It is unclear if the 10% was solely for the crown or if it was split with the investor group.

When Captain Kidd landed on the Island, which was owned by the Gardener Family of Nantucket Island, the only resident of the island was living in the Manor house. Captain Kidd was said to have a treasure worth 30,000 colonial dollars.

It consisted of gold dust, bars of silver, Spanish dollars, rubies, diamonds, candle sticks and small bowels used for porridge, in colonial times, called porringers.

Captain Kidd compensated Mrs. Gardner a length of gold cloth, (which is in the East Hampton Library today) and a bag of brown sugar. He also told her the treasure better be here when he returns!

Captain Kidd wanted to hide the treasure, which he did, in a ravine in between Bostwick Point and the manor house.

He wanted to hide it because he thought and rightly so, that he may need it for bartering for his release.

When he arrived in Boston on the 6^th of June, 1699, he was immediately arrested and his wife was arrested shortly afterwords.

Captain Kidd was held at Stone Prison in solitary confinement for over a year. He was transferred to London where the Tory party had just taken control of parliament and they were going after the Whigg party which were the investors in the Captain Kidd privateering Marque.

Captain Kidd woudn't name any of the people that he was doing business with, they didn't receive any information at all out of him.

Captain Kidd didn't realize that they also were prosecuting him for the murder of the Chief Gunners mate while on the Indian Ocean Campaign.

They had a ton of evidence including eye witness accounts. Several crew members were also convicted along with the Captain for piracy, but they executed Captain Kidd for murder, they wanted to make an example out of him.

The crew was given clemency the day before the execution. Captain Kidd was held in Newport Prison. He was executed by hanging on May 23, 1701.

He was then gibbeted and hung over the Thames River at Tilbury Point where he hung for three years, as a warning to any other sailors who wanted to cross the line and go for a life of piracy.

The Pirates part III

In the “Pirate Hunter” Richard Zack points out that Captain Kidd was a Scott lording over a English and Dutch crew. Once he rounds the Cape of Good Hope, he will find no friendly ports of refuge, except pirate ports.

   On the twenty eight million square miles of the Indian Ocean they needed to find five European pirate ships. Most of which are carrying relatives and friends of his crew! He had a one year time limit and some of the most powerful men in the world waiting for his return!

   On August 19, 1697 the Adventure Galley captured a East India Company ship near Janjira India. After torturing the crew he took the British Captain captive and forced him to serve as a pilot (guide) for several month's.

   Continuing along the Indian Coast in a southerly direction they were in several other skirmishes at sea, finally arriving at Laccadive Island.

   The Adventure Galley attacked the natives forcing the men into slave labor, they cut up their boats and used them for firewood and they raped their women.

  That November they encountered another East India Company ship. For an unknown reason, the crew wanted to attack but the Captain convinced the crew to stand down!

  A few weeks later they encountered a Dutch ship, which they were going to engage. The Chief Gunnersmate, didn't want to engage, probably because he was Dutch, and the Captain killed the sailor.

  A few weeks later in December they captured the Dutch ship Rouparelle. She was flying the French flag and had a French letter of Marque.

   Captain Kidd changed the Dutch ships name to November. The following month on January 30, 1698 Captain Kidd was responsible for the largest treasure haul in the history of piracy.

  They defeated and captured the 350 ton Quedah Merchant, an Armenian ship leased to the East India Company.

   Her cargo included 1200 muslin's, 84 bales of raw silk, iron, 1400 bags of brown sugar, saltpeter, guns and gold coins.

  Before Captain Kidd boarded the Quedah Merchant the French sailor at the helm of the tender stated “Here is a good prize”!

  The capture of the Quedagh Merchant and the Rouparelle caused scandal throughout the British Empire. Captain Kidd was proclaimed not a pirate hunter, but a pirate!

  Captain Kidd embarased the British Crown because he ruined England's reputation for safety at sea. Merchants were becoming afraid to ship with the East India Company.            Shipping along the African and Indian coasts was dramatically affected.

  The East Indian Company had other problems other than Captain Kidd, but all of the piracy was putting the company in dire straits.

  The East Indian Company was forced to deal with having all European interests expelled from India. The East Indian Company fully reimbursed the merchants for the losses of the Quedah Merchant, agreed to the King of India's demands to send armed patrols to the South Indian Sea, and paid many bribes along the way.

  Captain Kidd now had three ship's. The Quedah Merchants name was changed to the Adventure Prize. The Rouparelle name was changed to November and Adventure Galley was the Flag ship.

  The ships were split up and were to rendezvous in Madagascar at St. Mary's Island. It was six weeks until all the ships were together at St. Mary's.

  Captain Kidd was on the Adventure Merchant, which was exchanging some cargo for L10,000. of gold and provisions, for the three ship's.

  These ship's were about to make a very long journey. Captain Kidd arrived at St. Mary's first and waited for the rest of his fleet to catch up with him.

  Being pirates once again they could only use pirate friendly ports, after leaving Madagascar, there will be essentially no stopping.

  However Captain Kidd still considered himself a pirate hunter, and he was in a target rich environment. Madagascar was a haven for pirates.

  The Mocha Frigate, under the command of pirate Captain Robert Culliford was to be the next target.

  The Captain summoned the crews from all three ship's to discuss battle strategy. However he wasn't aware of the air of discontent that had settled over the crew who hadn't been paid in almost two years! A mutiny was now in place!

  Captain Kidd felt both of these captures were legal and in line with the letter of commission issued by the King of England.

  The King of England put out the word that captain Kidd was a pirate!

The Pirates Part II

However because privateering was no longer sanctioned by the crown, and privateers were being chased down by the English Navy, it was now losing it's adventuring appeal.
The flying of flags on ships has been customary and very important since the middle ages. Signals were sent from ship to ship and ship to shore by using various flags. With nations at war and ship's often switching sides, the flag you were flying often determined whether you would be attacked or not.



Pirate ship's had a different set of rules, they carried the flags of several different nations, they would fly what ever flag would bring them close to what ever ship they were preying upon. The pirates just like sharks were in a position of superiority when approaching their prey!



They would follow ships for hours if not days seeing how well they handled the ship, Blackbeard was famous for using this strategy. If the ship proved to be a well manned warship they could change course and seek a more vulnerable victim.



The pirates would either take their prey by surprise by getting close to them by flying flags of the same or friendly nations, or by a frontal attack. When the pirate ship hauled down the national flag and replaced it with a red flag it meant “no mercy”!



There were many flags of the Jolly Rodger, any of them would associate them with thee lost Templar fleet. The skull and crossed bones of the Jolly Rodger has always been the symbol of piracy, of master Masons and goes back to burial standards of the first century.



Other symbols on pirate flags include bleeding hearts, blazing balls, hourglasses, crossed cutlasses, spears and whole skeletons. All of these symbols were in white on black flags, prior to the mid 18^th century red flags were being used while assaulting their victims and meant no mercy.



Often while being surveyed the merchantman would drop their sails and lay their cargo on deck and surrender it and be at the mercy of the pirates. This actually was a recruitment method of the pirates, and they usually left the merchantman unharmed.



When you are being pursued by the Jolly Rodger you have an excellent chance of surviving the ordeal, when being pursued by the Red Flag, it's time for your last will and testament! Edward Teach the North Carolina pirate known as Blackbeard flew a flag with a full skeleton holding a dart in one hand, striking a bleeding heart, and in the other hand a hourglass.



Historians believe that pirates flying the Jolly Rodger weren't cold blooded killers, just sailors going about their business. In David Cordingly's book “Under the Black Flag” he represents that quite a few pirates were quite “gentlemanly” in nature!



Cordingly represents that most merchantmen surrendered without a fight! They usually disarmed the merchantman, transferred the cargo from the merchantman and usually with the help of the merchantman’s crew. They would leave them unharmed with food and water.



Piracy was a democratic society, every one worked on shares of the treasure, they would agree on which ships to pursue and standard operating procedures, quite similar to modern day “outlaw biker gangs”.



On a modern day commercial fishing boat, like a tuna or swordfish long-liner, when the catch is sold the ship would get a percentage, usually half of the gross profit after the boats operating costs, fuel, ice, food and machine parts.



Of the adjusted gross profit the captain would usually receive 25% and the remainder split up amongst the crew, usually based on seniority and skills. Although the captain is responsible for everything that happens on his ship most often major decision's were put up for a vote, like when to return to port or how to handle a big storm.



This form of democracy was also used on pirate ships, but this was the only form of democracy used in the feudal times, what the land barons wanted from their tenants was law! Soon the new colonial congress in America would use this system of democracy as a blueprint for the constitution!



“Calico Jack” Rackham used a flag with crossed cutlasses below the skull. Calico Jack was a smart dresser and appeared like a distinguished gentleman rather than a pirate most of the time. He was educated and handsome and fearless in the face of his enemies. He was also a definite ladies man! Enter Ann Bonnie.



Ann Bonnie and Mary Read were probably the most famous of the lady pirates, and both served in the company of Calico Jack, Ann Bonnie was said to be the mother of his child.



Calico Jack centered his operations out of Honduras's Bay Island called Belize today. He eventually moved his area of operations to the mid Caribbean some believe Negril in Jamaica. Some historians just say a island south of Cuba.



Calico Jack had a wide area of operations, the Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Cayman's and the Northwestern Caribbean, Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize and the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. He raided cargo vessels throughout the Caribbean but making his home in Jamaica was a mistake. He was arrested there by order of the Governor of Jamaica.






Calico Jack and his crew were sentenced to death, Calico Jack was convicted in Spanish Town, Jamaica, executed by hanging in the “wickedest City” in the world, Port Royal Jamaica and then gibbeted on a small islet at the entrance of Port Royal Harbor, which today bears his name, Rackman Cay.



Both the ladies were given stays of execution their defense was they were pregnant! Mary indeed was and died while in labor and Ann Bonny disappeared from history, but not before being quoted as saying
“If he had fought like a man, he need not have died like a dog!”



It has often been said that Captain Kidd was the last of the Templar/Mason Pirates. That is a little bit debatable but we will give it some wiggle room! Capt Kidd was a mason pirate descended from the “Lost Templar” fleet, Capt Kidd was a Scotsman.



In 1689 William Kidd served on a pirate ship “Blessed William” which surrendered at the Island of Nevis in the West Indies. Capt. Kidd was given a license by the Governor of Nevis to attack the French. In the same year he was responsible for the plunder of the Island Marie Galante, as well as attacking several French ships.



While on shore and away from his ship his mutinous crew stole his ship fearing being involved in a war. Captain Kidd was given the ship Antigua and gave chase of the Blessed William, all the way to New York. New York at the time was in a civil war, Captain Kidd aligned himself with the winning side and married a wealthy widow in May 1691.



Captain Kid remained in New York for a few years being politically active, he made the acquaintance of Robert Livingston, First Lord of Livingston Manor and a colonial politician. In 1695 Robert Livingston accompanied Captain Kidd on a trip to London, where he introduced Captain Kidd to Richard Coote Earl of Bellomont and Governor of both Massachusetts and New York.



Captain kidd was hoping the introduction would secure a privateers license. These three gentlemen devised a plan to capture the pirates and keep the treasure for themselves, instead of returning it to it's rightful owners.



These three signed a contract with Governor Coote funding the outfitting of Captain Kidd’s ship. Governor Coote made several other arrangements with the King of England, Secretary of State, Lord of the Admiralty, Chief Justice of the Royal Courts.



Captain Kid was granted three commissions from the King of England; (1) allowed for capture of French ships. (2) Allowed for capture of pirates everywhere. (3) Allowed for the suspension of all captured booty from going through the court. This allowed for Captain Kidd to keep the booty until it was surrendered to Governor Coote in Boston.



These three gentlemen purchased the 300 ton, 34 gun “Adventure Galley”. Captain kidd left England in 1696, fetching New York where he recruited his crew. He promised his crew 60% of all booty even though he had already pledged 60% to Govenor Coote.



In September 1696 the Adventure Galley left New York fetching India by way of the African coast. He stopped at madagascar and careened his bottom at Johanna Island. In April 1697 the Adventure Galley departed Johanna Island for the Red Sea, where he was planning on plundering pilgrim ships returning from Mecca to India.
Although he probably intended to attack other ships, as his commission allowed, but it was unlikely to happen. His crew was unlikely to attack other pirates. Many of whom were their friends, small world as it is.



Attacking a ship full of experienced sailors and hardened from a life of piracy wouldn't be a easy task. One of the documents uncovered in researching Captain Kidd was the contract he had with his crew. His crew were all seasoned pirates, who unknown to them, were to go after other seasoned pirates.



Captain Kidd was a pirate from Scotland a center of piracy and now was a pirate hunter! Captain Kidd was entering a new era of maritime history. Piracy was now outside of all laws including those laws of the Templar’s and those of freemasonry.



When the Adventure Galley was outside of New York enroute to Africa, Captain Kidd gathered his crew and presented a employment contract of sorts; he informed the crew that he was commissioned to attack and plunder not only French shipping but all and any pirates that they may encounter.



The crew of the Adventure Galley had a diverse crew including a Jewish Jeweler by the name of Benjamin Franks, a Ceylonese cook, a Native American Indian, and 147 other pirates, freebooters and merchantmen looking for easy money.



Captain Kidd’s ship was very well equipped, better than most ships of the time, including naval ships and the crew was expecting to make a very healthy commission.
On September 10, 1697, each of the 150 men reported to the Captains quarters and met privately with Captain Kidd, where they signed the contract;

“...Articles of agreement...Between Captain William Kidd commander of the good ship Adventure Galley and John Walker Quartermaster on said ships company on thee other part, as followeth, vide...”



This contract is a negotiated treaty ( of sorts) between 150 men and the captain. On a Royal Navy Ship the Captains command is backed up by a force of armed marines; on this ship the captains command is only backed up by this written agreement and the personality of the captain and a handful of officers.



This very interesting document has survived throughout history and demonstrates the very democratic philosophy that existed in the masonic circles of piracy in colonial America. It is interesting to note that around 15 of the founding fathers were masons as well.



These document also gives us a idea of the code of conduct established on a pirate vessel—sort of a honor among thieves, if you will;

• Incentive Bonus: “The man who shall first see a sail. If she be a prize, shall receive 100 pieces of eight.”
  
• Workman’s Compensation: That if any man shall lose an eye, arme, legg or the use thereof{he} shall receive 600 pieces of eight, or six able slaves.
  
• Discipline: “That whosoever will disobey a command will lose his share or receive such corporall punishment that the Captain and Major part of the company shall deem fit.” ( This important clause means that the Captain couldn't punish his men without the consent of the majority of the crew.)
  
• Cowardice: “That if a man was proven a coward in time of engagement shall lose his share.”
  
• Sobriety: “That man that shall be drunk in time of engagement before the prisoners been taken be secured, shall lose his share.”
  
• Loyalty: “ That man that shall breed a Mutiny Riot Board the ship or prize taken shall lose his shares and receive such corporal punishment that the Captain and Majority of part of the company should deem fit.( The Captain rules by democratic vote of the crew.)
  
• Honesty:” That if any man should defraud the Captain or ship's company of treasure, as in money, ware, merchandise, goods or any other thing whatsoever to the value of one piece of eight...shall lose his share and be put on shore upon the first inhabited island or other place that the ship shall touch at.”
  
• Sharing: “That what treasure or money that shall be taken by the said ship and company shall be put on board the Man of War and there be shared immediately, and all wares and merchandises when legally condemned to be legally divided amongst the ships company according to articles.”( The Captain reserves 40% for himself and the owners, 60% divided amongst the crew)
  

All other ships during this period of time payed the crews a fixed wage. Whether they were naval or merchant. The form of equitable sharing and democracy that was on pirate, privateers shows the Templar ideals of early piracy.
On pirate ships there wasn't discrimination based on race or creed or country of origin. On the Adventure Galley in 1698 there was a Jew, an American Indian, a Moslem, various Christians and sailors from all over Europe and Colonial America.
On a pirate ship all the crew were equal except for the Captain, Everything was based on the democratic process of majority rule, The Captain can not punish a sailor without a majority concurrence of the crew. This would come to be the blueprint for the Constitution of the United states of America.



Captain Kidd had a problem which was unique and never encountered before on a pirate vessel. The adventure Galley was now a pirate Hunter! Captain Kidd's pirate crew had never attacked there own group of sailors before! Captain Kidd’s crew were outlaws without any allegiance to any crown or authority.

The Pirates Part I

When the Templar Fleet went missing on October 13^th, 1307 there was a upsurge in piracy throughout the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coast of Europe. The Vikings were considered pirates, as were the Geneses, Venetians, Turks, Muslims and King Rene was considered a pirate. Not by his countrymen but by his enemies!

It was said that by the age of 10, Columbus started his maritime career on a pirate ship of the King of Majorca, King Rene. Today we would call them terrorists. Today we have piracy in heavy drug trafficking countries in Columbia and Latin America.

We have piracy in the Red Sea, the Somali Pirates, and also in Yemen. Where merchant ships coming into and out of the Red Sea are so vulnerable to attack that they stationed US warships to protect shipping.

I don't remember the South China Sea ever being without piracy. Their was a upsurge in piracy after the fall of Saigon when political refugee's were fleeing on anything that would float, and they were preyed upon from their own boat crews and auctioned off to the highest bidder, after being ravaged!

Conflicts between European Countries took their fights to the Caribbean, piracy in the Caribbean was the countries of Europe preying on each other. They called it piracy but it was actually the masonic fleets going after the fleets loyal to the Vatican.

The various skull and cross bones of the Jolly Rodger were flown proudly by the crews operating under letters of authorization called “Letters of Marque of reprisal”, these ships were only able to prey on countries in conflict with the country originating the letter of marque. These ships were called “Privateers”.

Portuguese ships continued to fly the Templar flag. Columbus was flying the Templar Flag on his voyages of Discovery for the Spanish Crown. Privateering was only different from piracy by the letter of marque. Privateering has been used between the 13^th and 19^th century but it's high point was between the 16^th and 18^th centuries.

Privateers were mainly English, Scottish and American ships. There was also some activity with Dutch and French ships but these were almost exclusively Masonic Vessels. The targets of these privateers were almost exclusively French, Spanish and Muslim ships.

Between the 16^th and 18^th centuries their was a complicated maze of political and religious activity in Europe which created a change in alliances and animosities between the maritime trade in the Caribbean.

Since the suppression of the Templar’s in 1307, France became exclusively aligned with the Vatican. The Merovingian families of the Holy Blood have been operating underground since the suppression in 1307 and by the 16^th and 17^th centuries France and England were almost continually at war.

This made French, Portuguese and Spanish ships the target of Privateers. The Privateers motivation was of course the capture of treasure however so many privateers would cross the line in to piracy that by the early 1500's they were required to register their seizure with the admiralty, to distinguish between what was gained through Privateering and what would be considered piracy.

Privateering became heavily regulated by the mid 1700's and became a legitimate business investment. When navies of certain countries were small, privateers could place a significant dent in the country of the navy, with little cost to the country holding the letter of marque.

All of the western European countries used privateers to wreck havoc on each other with the intent of destroying their enemies trade. This practice started in Europe and eventually spread throughout the world.

After Magellan and Drake had circumnavigated the world, piracy expanded to the western shores of North and South America, across the pacific to the Philippines and on to India. The Privateers were simply following the Spanish Galleys like sharks following the schools of tuna.

The Island of Madagascar which was unruled in the 16^th century lay between the Indian trade routes and the cape leading to Europe. Madagascar became the center of Piracy off the African coast.

Meanwhile back in Europe, a hundred years after the suppression of the Templar’s, there were constant wars and conflict between the Nations of France, England and Scotland. Scotland didn't become free of oppression from England until the Battle of Bannockburn which the Templar’s were involved in.

They were in part left relatively unharnessed by England because of the one hundred year war with France. The Stuart Dynasty became the monarch's of Scotland and with all seven of the Stuart Monarchs there was constant strife with England. The Stuarts seemed to have an unlimited supply of gold to fund their military campaigns against England.

After the Death of King James V, 7^th Monarch of the Stuart dynasty, his wife Queen Regent Mary De Guise, the second wife of King James V and mother of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Queen Mary de Guise ruled until her daughter came of age.

Under the rule of Mary, Queen of Scots, a reformation was taking place and the population of Scotland was taking opposition to the Catholic Queen. She was forced to leave Scotland in 1567, and departed for England where she was imprisoned, and executed by Queen Elizabeth I.

However Mary's son, King James VI of Scotland, succeeded Queen Elizabeth I, on the Throne of England in 1603. Although united under one crown England and Scotland remained separate for another century.

It had now been hundreds of years since the suppression of the Templar’s and entire new countries had been created with new allegiances. The Templar fleet had become the Navy of Scotland. It's sailors became the Masonic English and Dutch Privateers who attacked the French and Spanish ships allied with the Vatican.

The Templar tradition infiltrated England and the American colonies as Masonic thought. There were two primary forms of Masonry Scottish Rite and York Rite.

It is interesting that the descendants of the Templar’s of the Lost Fleet, that became the pirates and privateers that helped in the formation of America, were also Masons. Being a secret society it is difficult to trace genealogies, but the evidence shows that many of them were.

With the Elizabethan wars between England and Spain a new era of piracy broke out in the 16^th century. Galleons carrying treasure from the New World were the targets of piracy. The privateers were called the Sea Dogs of England, the Sea Beggars of the Netherlands and the Sea Wolves of France. These privateers intercepted countless ships in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

This is the era of Henry Morgan, Francis Drake, Black Beard and Captain Kidd.. The Spanish dominated control of the Caribbean and the New World but they were fair game for the Masonic Privateers.

Sir Francis Drake was well respected for his circumnavigation of the world, and was probably the most famous of the Masonic Pirates. There is a passage through the Virgin Island named after Sir Francis Drake.

In 1577, Queen Elizabeth I, supplied five ships and one hundred and sixty men, under the command of Sir Francis Drake, to circumnavigate the world. This would be the second circumnavigation of the world.

This voyage was problematic for Drake, he had a mutiny off the Patagonian coast which cost him two of his ships. It was a two week voyage through the Magellan Strait. One of his ships abandoned the voyage and returned to England at this point. While still in the strait another ship was lost in a storm.

By the time Sir Francis Drake reached the Pacific he lost his entire fleet, only the Golden Hind, under his command remained. He traveled up the coast of Chilli and Peru attacking Spanish Galleons as he progressed.

The Golden Hind traveled as far north as San Francisco, where he claimed the area for England and dubbed it New Albion. He departed across the Pacific for the spice islands (Indonesia), and signed trade agreements with the rulers of the islands.



Sir Francis Drake returned to England by way of the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope and reached Plymouth England May 20^th 1580, with a cargo of treasure and spices. He was appointed Mayor of Plymouth upon his return and served the crown until 1585, when he received the command of a large fleet of ships.



Sir Francis Drake traveled to Spain and sacked Vigo, he then departed with his fleet for Columbia and captured Cartagena, then headed for Santa Domingo which they also plundered. They then traveled up the coast of Florida and plundered St. Augustine Florida. He returned with his fleet and attacked the Spanish Fleet in Cadiz Spain destroying their supply ships along with many Galleys and war ships at anchor in the harbor.



The attack on Cadiz delayed the attack by the Spanish Armada on England by a year. Sir Francis Drake was a leader in the defense of England during the attack by the Spanish Armada in 1588 and was once again proclaimed as England’s hero!






In 1589 his fleet was defeated in Lisbon and he retired to Plymouth England for a number of years and once again headed for the New world. His final voyage to the west Indies left Plymouth in 1595, this voyage wasn't a successful endeavor and Drake died off the coast of Panama in 1596.



Sir Frances Drake's cousin Sir John Hawkins was also a famous Masonic Privateer who also died in 1595. Between 1562 and 1569 Sir John Hawkins was a slave trader. He delivered slaves from Africa to the Spanish colonies in the West Indies.
On his third voyage to the West Indies, he was involved in a battle with his cousin Sir Francis Drake off the Mexican coast where he was attacked by the Spanish fleet. The battle of San Juan de Ulua was devastating and he lost many of his men and several ships.
Sir John Hawkins commanded a portion of the English fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. He was on the expedition to the West Indies with Sir Francis Drake and they both died off the coast of Panama in 1596.
The following century Sir Henry Morgan was the center of attention as the Masonic Privateer who preyed on Spanish shipping, but he crossed the line into piracy because he didn't have a Marque from England. In 1688 he captured Puerto Principe, (camaguey) Cuba, then sacked Portobelo Panama. In 1669 he raided Maracaibo in Venezuela.



Sir Henry Morgan is well noted for his capture of Panama City in 1671. He was primarily well noted for the brutality his crew exhibited. Much of the booty was somehow lost and his crew accused him of cheating them.



In1672 he was captured and returned to England for piracy, however he was then treated as a hero, he was Knighted and made Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica, where he lived peacefully until his death in 1688, who says crime doesn't pay?



The success of the campaign’s against the Spanish colonies in America and the West Indies spread like wild fire. It was spoken of in taverns the way we now talk football in the same taverns. Taverns were many in colonial America. In populated areas in the New England states their were taverns every 8 miles.

Taverns were the town center, often serving as community centers, town halls in some instances they were used as churches. In these tavern's the lure of piracy was great, legends of piracy were spread and no dought over stated in most cases, it's always greener on the other side of the fence.



Their was nothing shameful in being a privateer, they were the hero's of the colonists! The era of royally commissioned privateers was coming to an end. England had become a powerful nation and because England and Scotland were no longer in constant skirmishes and because of the Templar tradition they now had a powerful navy.



However because privateering was no longer sanctioned by the crown, and privateers were being chased down by the English Navy, it was now losing it's adventuring appeal.
The flying of flags on ships has been customary and very important since the middle ages. Signals were sent from ship to ship and ship to shore by using various flags. With nations at war and ship's often switching sides, the flag you were flying often determined whether you would be attacked or not.



Pirate ship's had a different set of rules, they carried the flags of several different nations, they would fly what ever flag would bring them close to what ever ship they were preying upon. The pirates just like sharks were in a position of superiority when approaching their prey!



They would follow ships for hours if not days seeing how well they handled the ship, Blackbeard was famous for using this strategy. If the ship proved to be a well manned warship they could change course and seek a more vulnerable victim.



The pirates would either take their prey by surprise by getting close to them by flying flags of the same or friendly nations, or by a frontal attack. When the pirate ship hauled down the national flag and replaced it with a red flag it meant “no mercy”!



There were many flags of the Jolly Rodger, any of them would associate them with thee lost Templar fleet. The skull and crossed bones of the Jolly Rodger has always been the symbol of piracy, of master Masons and goes back to burial standards of the first century.



Other symbols on pirate flags include bleeding hearts, blazing balls, hourglasses, crossed cutlasses, spears and whole skeletons. All of these symbols were in white on black flags, prior to the mid 18^th century red flags were being used while assaulting their victims and meant no mercy.



Often while being surveyed the merchantman would drop their sails and lay their cargo on deck and surrender it and be at the mercy of the pirates. This actually was a recruitment method of the pirates, and they usually left the merchantman unharmed.



When you are being pursued by the Jolly Rodger you have an excellent chance of surviving the ordeal, when being pursued by the Red Flag, it's time for your last will and testament! Edward Teach the North Carolina pirate known as Blackbeard flew a flag with a full skeleton holding a dart in one hand, striking a bleeding heart, and in the other hand a hourglass.



Historians believe that pirates flying the Jolly Rodger weren't cold blooded killers, just sailors going about their business. In David Cordingly's book “Under the Black Flag” he represents that quite a few pirates were quite “gentlemanly” in nature!



Cordingly represents that most merchantmen surrendered without a fight! They usually disarmed the merchantman, transferred the cargo from the merchantman and usually with the help of the merchantman’s crew. They would leave them unharmed with food and water.