Scottish Rite Freemasonry

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. 

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,... 

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. 

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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