Scottish Rite

Furthermore, with the joint British-French siege of Peking during October 1860, the British completed the process of opening up all of China. Lord Palmerston, the High Priest of the Scottish Rites, had returned to the Prime Ministership in June 1859 to launch the second war and thereby fulfill the "open China" policy he had outlined 20 years earlier. 

Narcotics traffic was the business of organized crime during the 19th century no less than in the 20th, and Britain s Opium War cabinet spun out a web of criminal connections that crisscrossed the globe. Prime Minister Palmerston conducted, the opium business behind a screen of respectability, in full public view. What remained hidden — until the report of the Military Commission that heard evidence on the Lincoln Assassination — was the importance of Palmerston s secret life, as Patriarch of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. 

The model for the Scottish Rite operation is the ethnic secret society — Jewish, Italian, or Chinese. Closest to hand among Palmerston s agencies was the Order of Zion, a highly... 

The Menorah was also frank on the subject of the B nai B rith s relationship to the Scottish Rite Freemasons ... 

What Palmerston and his colleagues had at their disposal was an International Assassination Bureau, capable of eliminating any chief of state who resisted British policy objectives. Not much different from the Red Brigades of Italy or the Baader-Meinhof terrorists of Germany today, the Scottish Rite s rainbow gathering of secret societies took money from the narcotics traffic and orders from Lord Palmerston. 

Zion. (13) Most of the Order of Zion s funding was provided through the London and Paris banking houses of Rothschild, Montefiore, and de Hirsch. In crucial respects, the Order of Zion and Palmerston s Scottish Rite of Freemasonry were indistinguishable. In France, for example, the head of both organizations was the same individual, Adolphe Isaac Cremieux. (14)... 

Albert Pike, Lectures of Arya and Indo-Aryan Deities and Worship, published by the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction of the U.S.A. on orders of the Grand Command of the Supreme Council 33° see also Queensborough, Theocrasy. 

The Isis cult also formed the core of Lord Palmerston s Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. As Prime Minister during both Opium Wars, Palmerston employed variants of this ideology to spin a web of connections that stretched from the Order of Zion in Romania to the Ku Klux Klan in the United States. Parts I and III of this report document how Palmerston s Scottish Rite engendered the subterranean world of drag-related mysticism,... 

Who was running England at the time The prime minister was the same Lord Palmerston who turned the Scottish Rite into Britain s leading cash-producing export product. The foreign... 

Bulwer-Lytton is best known to Americans through his 1838 novel, The Last Days of "Pompeii, but he is also both the spiritual father of the Rhodes-Milner secret societies and of Nazi fascism. A mystic and prenascent fascist, Bulwer-Lytton led the English Rosicmcians, a branch of the Scottish Rite Masons headed by his Prime Minister Palmerston. 

This work was supported by the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI)— Eplink The OBI Epilepsy Project (MDT) The National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC). The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada, and Epilepsy Canada supported the work of Miles Thompson. We thank Dr. Craig Behnke for permission to adapt the image presented in Fig. 1. 

As we have noted, the Indo-Hittites favored oral communication of myths and legends over written records. They developed verbal rituals for transmission of their myths and Israelite emulation of this has resulted in a profusion of Biblical archetypes later set down by Israelite and Jewish authors. This has always been a particular trait of the illusive Rosicrucians. Even today, it is usual in organizations such as the Scottish Rite. 

The Scottish Rite sees the ultimate expression of Liberality in Christ s unselfish dying words that seek Mercy in the judgment of his enemies Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani meaning my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, have pity on and forgive my enemies. 

The two-headed eagle emblem is often depicted in the colors of the Tribe of Dan, red and white. The presiding officer in the thirty-third degree ceremony of the Scottish Rite robes in the manner of this crest. He dresses in crimson silk, edged with white fur and holds a drawn sword in his hand. The officer represents heroic Ahiezer son of... 

These masons of the hidden valley survived and established a philosophical athenaeum called the Masons of the Orient or Brethren of the Rosy Cross of the Orient They held their first Chapter of the Scottish Rite degree in a castle of the Knights of the Rose Croix in Edinburgh. The Superior Sovereign Grand Chapter traditionally met there until a schism in 1322. ... 

The Knights of Palestine pledged to win back their Temple in Jerusalam and its lost treasures. The Knights are now known as Princes of the Royal Secret., which is the 32 of the Scottish Rite. Its cadet degree... 

They hint at the real discoveries in Jemsalem, which we shall leam more of in Chapter 20. Because of the discoveries in the Temple, Scottish Freemasonry has stronger links with alchemy than does Craft Freemasonry. The Scottish Rite focus on the Greater Mysteries reinforces it further. 

Frederick II (1712-86) established the thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite in May 1786, shortly before his death. 

Louis of Bourbon, Prince of the Royal Blood of France assisted Frederick II promulgate the thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite just before his death in May 1786. This may well have been Louis de Bourbon-Conde, Count of Clermont and Abbe of St Germain des Pres, who was Grand Master of French Masonry and died in 1771. ° However, if the establishment date of May 1786 is correct then the Louis Bourbon in question could have been the Count of Clermont s nephew, Louis Philippe-Joseph d Orleans, Duke of Chartres, Prince of the Royal Blood. He continued as Grand Master until his abdication in 1793. ... 

Anon, Ordo ab Chao - The Original and Complete Rituals of the first Supreme Coimcil, 33° 2 Volumes, Poemandres Press, 1995 [Reprinted Kessinger, Montana, 1998] Anon, Secret Ritual of the Thirty-third and Last Degree, Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry [Reprinted Kessinger, Montana, 1998]... 

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