{The following is the edited
text of the speech delivered by Mr. Chaitkin to
the Labor Day weekend conference
of the Schiller Institute in suburban
Washington, D.C.}
In the heart of Washington, D.C.,
there is a large statue and monument
honoring the most important founder of
the Ku Klux Klan.
Inscribed on the base of the
statue are the words, ``poet''--the
terrorist anthem of the KKK was his
most famous literary work--and
``jurist''--he was called the KKK's
chief judiciary officer, and reputedly
wrote the organization manual for the
terrorist anti-black movement after the
U.S. Civil War.
The immense, bearded figure of
Confederate General Albert Pike is
looming over a public square in the
nation's capital. Why has it never been
pulled down in that predominantly black
city?
The statue is a tribute to the
influence of Pike's organization. It
has power in the Executive Branch, and
the Congress, and it is decisive in the
courts. It has great power in all
branches of law enforcement and the
military.
Do I mean that the Ku Klux Klan
has such sway over the government? No,
I'm speaking here of the ``Scottish
Rite of Freemasonry Southern
Jurisdiction,'' of which Pike was the
chief, or ``Sovereign Grand
Commander.''
The Ku Klux Klan, the Southern
Confederacy, and the pre-Civil War
secession movement were a single,
continuous project, with Pike's
``Scottish Rite'' at its center. Though
the Confederacy was defeated, this
project lives on today, and now
dominates U.S. political life.
Look at Baker & Botts, the Houston
family firm and power base of Secretary
of State James A. Baker III. This law
firm was formed after the Civil War by
die-hard Confederate and Masonic
officials in Albert Pike's Scottish
Rite and military clique. With their
British imperial racial notions, Baker
& Botts and Scottish Rite freemasonry
have dominated the Texas power
structure ever since.
Secretary Baker's grandfather,
Captain James A. Baker, brought English
race scientist Julian Huxley in to
supervise the ``race purification'' study
program for Texas, at Rice University.
Secretary Baker's family wealth and
power came from their representing
Harriman, the international oil
companies and George Bush's Zapata
Petroleum, all sponsors of the
population control, or ban-dark-babies
movement. This movement is synonymous
with the Scottish Rite.
Bill Clinton is governor of
Arkansas, a state infested by the
tradition of Albert Pike, who was the
Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in
Arkansas. Look closely at the mind-set.
Bill Clinton supports and carries out
the death penalty, which in practice
means executions of black people and
poor people; and Clinton supports
abortion. Clinton sat down, and worked
out his views on these issues with his
Baptist minister, the late Rev. W.O.
Vaught, who was Clinton's spiritual
guide and virtual foster father.
As Vaught's son recently told me,
Clinton and his pastor agreed that
their religion permits the killing of
prisoners and unborn children. The
authority for this version of
Christianity is derived from a
peculiar, neo-pagan reading of the Old
Testament. And the New Testament, with
its ban on revenge and requirement to
love, is considered irrelevant: They
say that Christ was primarily concerned
with fulfilling the Old Law of the
Hebrews (as interpreted by this
faction), and when Christ said love
your enemy and turn the other cheek, he
was really trying to reenforce and
impose the authority of the Roman
Empire.
But whose religion is this?
Well, the Reverend W.O. Vaught was
a 32nd Degree Mason, a {Sublime
Prince of the Royal Secret} within the
Scottish Rite hierarchy.
What Is the Scottish
Rite?
What, then, is the Scottish Rite?
Freemasonry was founded in the
early 1700s in England by the so-called
Venetian Party. This clique of
British philosophical liberals had a
few other experiments in human misery,
for example: the East India Company,
the royal African Company of slavers,
and the slave colony of South Carolina.
The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry,
in particular, has a feudalist lore and
legend, that is rooted in the black
slave trade through the Caribbean
Islands. In those islands, the pagan
cults of slavers in ancient Rome, and
Venice, were reused as
anti-Judeo-Christian or Satanic cults
and rituals for the amusement and
gratification of the slave-traders, the
British, Dutch, Bostonian, and
Jewish-ethnic slave runners.
The Scottish Rite was formally
organized in the U.S.A. in 1801, as a
group of Tory partisans on the losing
side of the American Revolution. The
Scottish Rite came to rule over
American Freemasonry during the
nineteenth century.
American colonial leaders had used
the British Empire's Freemasonic lodges
as political clubs, and had turned them
against the British Crown in the
American Revolution. But in the 1820s
and 1830s, Masonry had been widely
condemned and virtually run out of the
U.S.A. as a would-be dictatorial
grouping, an unwanted ``British
underground'' intrusion into America.
With British assistance, the
Masonic lodges were reintroduced, under
the control of the Scottish Rite based
in Charleston, South Carolina, as a
force for Southern secession. Since the
1840s, the U.S. Freemasonic structure
has been strictly dominated by the
Scottish Rite. The Scottish Rite
dispenses the 4th and higher Masonic
``degrees'' of initiation, up to the
33rd. The Scottish Rite was divided
into a Southern Jurisdiction, and a
Northern Jurisdiction based in Boston,
that is politically subordinate.
As for Bill Clinton: A spokesman
for the Freemasonic Grand Lodge of
Arkansas told me that although Clinton
was a member of Freemasonry's Order of
DeMolay as a young man, he is not now a
Mason. I have been informed, however,
that DeMolay membership is in fact a
life membership.
The influence of Scottish
Rite-dominated Freemasonry is
shockingly pervasive in American
government and culture, particularly
in the South. But it has come under
attack from some surprising quarters.
The Southern Baptist Convention
recently voted to conduct an
investigation of Freemasonry in all
forms, and to prepare a report on
whether Masonry is compatible with
Christianity.
The Southern Baptist Convention,
predominantly white, is the largest
U.S. Protestant denomination, with 18
million church-goers. Freemasons make up
a sizable proportion of this church's
male membership, perhaps 20 percent.
So this is a dramatic, emotional issue,
a strongly factional issue within
Protestant Christianity.
At their annual meeting last June
in Indianapolis, the Baptists also
adopted a resolution against secret
societies, which reads in part: ``we
.. call upon all Christians to ...
[avoid] any association which conflicts
with clear Biblical ... teachings
concerning the taking of oaths, the
secrecy of activities, mystical
knowledge, or racial
discrimination....''
A leader of this initiative, Dr.
James Holly of Beaumont, Texas, told me
this was aimed at the known fact that
white Freemasonry is affiliated with
the Ku Klux Klan.
The 2.5 million member Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod says in its
official Handbook: ``The Synod has
declared itself firmly opposed to all
societies, lodges and organizations of
an un-Christian or anti-Christian
character.'' The Lutheran Missouri Synod
has also printed an attack on
Freemasonry, which attacks its
racialism and quotes from an absurd
Masonic explanation of why blacks are
excluded from from white lodges:
``There are excellent reasons for
this apparent race discrimination which
only a Mason can fully
understand ... [racial integration] would
endanger the harmony of the lodge....
Secondly, although Negroes today may
technically fulfill the Masonic
requirement of being `free,' their
subordinate economic, educational, and
cultural position is such that they
hardly fulfill the spirit of that
prerequisite to initiation.''
`The True Religion of Masonry'
But let us ask, does Mr. Pike's
organization have an ``un-Christian or
anti-Christian character''? Albert Pike
responded in 1861 to a Mason who tried
to claim the Scottish Rite was somehow
Christian. Pike said that if the
Scottish Rite ``had a Christian basis,
how did it chance that most of those
who had possession of it in this
country from 1763 to 1800 were
Hebrews?''
In fact, Pike and the Scottish
Rite borrowed a good deal of numerology
and other superstition from the Jewish
cabala, a neo-pagan tradition in
direct opposition to the Mosaic law
underlying the Jewish religion. We
shall deal later on with the
relationship of Jews to the Scottish
Rite.
But if the Rite is not
specificially Christian, is it
anti-Christian?
We may judge this from Sovereign
Grand Commander Pike's words, on his
{method}, and on the {true religion}.
In Pike's book, {Morals and Dogma,}
the Scottish Rite's main guide to the
universe, he explains his method:
``Magic is the science of the
ancient magi....
``Magic unites in one and the same
science, whatsoever Philosophy can
possess that is most certain, and
Religion of the Infallible and the
Eternal. It perfectly ... reconciles
these two terms ... faith and reason
.. those who accept [magic] as a rule may
give their will a sovereign power that
will make them the masters of all
inferior beings and of all errant
spirits; that is to say, will make them
the Arbiters and Kings of the
World....''
Pike wrote this particular section
to instruct ``Sublime Princes of the
Royal Secret'' gentlemen of the 32nd
Degree, such as was Bill Clinton's
preacher.
Thus, Pike is an illusionist, a
conjurer, teaching his priesthood the
means of controlling their squads of
initiates. But what is the underlying
belief? In France in 1889, Pike said:
``That which we must say to the
crowd is, we worship a God, but it is
the God one adores without
superstition.... The Masonic religion
should be, by all of us initiates of
the high degrees, maintained in the
purity of the Luciferian Doctrine. If
Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (the
God of the Christians) whose deeds
prove his cruelty, perfidy and hatred
of man, barbarism and repulsion to
science, would Adonay and his priests
calumniate him?
``Yes, Lucifer is God, and
unfortunately Adonay is also God. For
the eternal law is that there is no
light without shade, no beauty without
ugliness, no white without black, for
the absolute can only exist as two
Gods.... Thus, the doctrine of Satanism
is a heresy; and the true and pure
philosophical religion is the belief in
Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but
Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good,
is struggling for humanity against
Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil.''
This quote, by the way, is
available in French and English in the
Albert Pike vertical file at the
library of the Scottish Rite Southern
Jurisdiction at 1733 16th St. NW,
Washington D.C.
The Terror Project
The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry,
an instrument of British Empire
strategy, directed a continuous
offensive of murder and racist
terrorism against the U.S.A. and
neighboring countries, during the
middle decades of the last century. We
shall trace this endeavor, from the
U.S. occupation of Mexico in the
Mexican War (1846-48), to the
slaveowners' rebellion or U.S. Civil
War (1861-65), through the Ku Klux
Klan's war against Reconstruction of
the South (1867-1870s).
A few individuals will come into
view repeatedly as gang leaders and
project directors: Boston's {Albert
Pike}, boss of Arkansas; New York's
{John A. Quitman}, boss of
Mississippi; New York's {John
Slidell}, boss of Louisiana;
Slidell's nephew and partner, British
banker{ August Belmont, }boss
of the Democratic Party; Slidell's
trainee and partner, Britain's
{Judah Benjamin}, boss of the
Confederate secret service.
Patriots such as then-Congressman
Abraham Lincoln saw the 1846 U.S.
invasion of Mexico as a crime and
folly, pushed by strategists of slavery
who also aimed at the destruction of
the U.S.A. Transplanted Southern
Democrat John Slidell, and Whig leader
Caleb Cushing, spokeman for Boston's
opium and slave-running fortunes, had
both planned and promoted the attack on
Mexico.
As that first U.S. war of
aggression drew to a close, volunteer
General John A. Quitman became the
military governor and dictator over
Mexico City. The U.S.A. prepared to seize
Mexico's northern territory, the area
from California to Texas. Yet Quitman
proposed to President Polk a plan for
the forcible annexation of all Mexico,
to be an area for negro slave
plantations.
During the peace negotiations,
Quitman travelled as a conquering hero
to Charleston, South Carolina. He was
crowned a Sovereign Grand Inspector
General of the Scottish Rite, and
became the most powerful and prominent
member of the Rite's Supreme Council.
John Quitman's grandfather was
governor of the island of Curacao, the
Dutch West India Company's slave
concentration camp; his parents had
fled the Caribbean slave revolts,
taking their slaves with them to New
York where John was born. In 1830,
young Quitman had been formally
commissioned by the Scottish Rite,
leaders of the secession movement, to
establish their organization in the
state of Mississippi.
In the autumn of 1849, General
Quitman held a meeting of anti-Union
operatives from throughout the South.
They resolved to call a formal
convention of the Southern states for
the following June, to begin the
breakup of the United States.
Quitman became governor of
Mississippi in January 1850, and his
Nashville secession convention met from
June 3 to 12. Delegates from nine
states proclaimed the rights of
slaveholders. Quitman and his clique
meanwhile moved to provoke immediate
civil war. He proposed to lead a
private army from Texas, to conquer the
new U.S. territory of New Mexico on
behalf of slavery.
President Zachary Taylor faced
Quitman down. President Taylor was
determined to bring the new southwest
into the Union as free states. On June
21, 1850, nine days after the secession
convention, Governor Quitman was
indicted by a federal grand jury for
violating the U.S. Neutrality Laws!
The charge was based on Quitman's
leadership of a well-financed
conspiracy to invade and ``liberate''
Cuba from Spanish rule. Then two weeks
later, on July 3, President Taylor
threatened to hang those ``taken in
rebellion against the Union.'' The next
day the President fell ill, vomited
blackish material, and died soon after.
The Quitman prosecution was delayed.
(You may recall that Taylor's body was
recently dug up by Kentucky
authorities, looking for evidence of
arsenic poisoning.)
The following summer, 1851,
Quitman brought fellow Mississippian
Jefferson Davis to Massachusetts to
meet with Caleb Cushing. They picked
the man to be nominated by the
Democrats for the U.S. presidency:
volunteer General Franklin Pierce, a
member of their clique in the Mexican
War. Pierce surprised everyone by
taking the nomination at the
convention. Then, August Belmont, the
U.S. representative of Britain's
Rothschild banks, paid for Pierce's
1852 election campaign.
Though this blatant foreign
intrusion caused a flareup of
resentment among the voters, Pierce was
elected the 14th President, and his
foreign and domestic backers took
over. Caleb Cushing became U.S.
attorney general. Jefferson Davis
became secretary of war. Banker August
Belmont became ambassador to Holland.
Scottish Rite chief John Quitman
was now ready for serious business.
Some months earlier, when he had
finally gone to trial, he was fortunate
that Louisiana private attorney Judah
Benjamin had been specially hired by
the federal government to run the
prosecution against Quitman. The jury
was hung (rather than Quitman), and the
charges were dropped. This outcome
should not be too surprising to us,
given prosecutor Benjamin's own growing
role in the faction of which Gen.
Quitman was then the shining star.
Benjamin joined Slidell as a U.S.
senator from Louisiana at the next
election, and was a top leader of the
slaveowners' insurrectionary
government.
Let's look for a minute at the
trio of Slidell, Belmont, and
Benjamin. Slidell had a master's degree
in political dirty tricks, learned as a
member of Aaron Burr's machine in New
York and Louisiana. Slidell had
politically schooled Belmont and had
brought him into the Democratic Party,
and Belmont married Slidell's niece.
Slidell had also virtually adopted,
taught and brought into politics the
young Judah Benjamin, a British West
Indian Jew living in Louisiana. Both
Belmont, and his banking client
Benjamin, were passionate backers of
the expansion of slavery into Latin
America.
When he was a young private
secretary for the Rothschild family,
Belmont had toured continental Europe
doing financial and political
intelligence work for the Rothschild
bank, a pillar of the British royal
family. With Britain meddling in
Spain's civil war, the Rothschilds had
sent Belmont off to the Spanish colony
of Cuba in 1837 to ``take charge of
Rothschild interests'' in Cuba.
Belmont's ship stopped over in New York
and he never went on to Cuba, but his
subsequent U.S. banking and political
career was often focused on Cuba's
wealth and strategic location.
Following the 1853 presidential
inauguration of their candidate Pierce,
Scottish Rite chief John Quitman and
his New York financiers signed a formal
agreement making Quitman the ``civil and
military chief of the revolution'' which
they would impose on Cuba. Once he had
seized the island, Quitman was due to
receive $1 million from the proceeds of
the revolutionary bonds the financiers
were floating.
Quitman's criminal enterprise
recruited as many as 50,000 U.S.
mercenaries for the intended invasion.
But the Spanish authorities brought
these plans to grief. They emancipated
most of Cuba's slaves, encouraged
racial intermarriage, armed the freed
blacks and recruited them into a
militia through which they could defend
their own freedom from the gringo
attackers. The Spanish governor
arrested Quitman's intriguer, Captain
James D. Bulloch, when Bulloch brought
his ship, the {Black Warrior}, into
Havana.
Senator John Slidell of Louisiana
demanded the U.S. neutrality laws be
repealed. Attorney General Caleb
Cushing called for a naval blockade
around Cuba. But given the military
realities, saner heads prevailed, and
Quitman was placed under legal
restraint.
After the {Black Warrior} affair,
the Quitman mercenary force was
absorbed into a new, more aggressive
movement with enlarged aims. The
{Knights of the Golden Circle} appeared
first in Cincinnati, under the
supervision of the Scottish Rite's
midwest organizer Killian Van
Rensselaer, a longtime underground
military operative for Britain in North
America. So Cincinnati was the northern
capital of the pro-slavery, Masonic
terrorist underground. From there the
Knights spread throughout Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, down the Mississippi to
the Gulf south, and into Maryland and
Virginia to surround the national
capital.
The Golden Circle was to be a new
slave empire centered in Cuba. It would
break up the U.S.A. and conquer Mexico,
Central America and the Caribbean. The
Knights armed and drilled up to 100,000
would-be emigrants, raiders, rapists,
and slaveholders. They were organized
into lodges called ``castles,'' with
Masonic signs, grips, and passwords.
They were to kill the hated Catholic
Hispanics, and fill their places with
black slaves brought fresh from Africa.
This is the first ``North American Free
Trade Agreement''!
(The Masonic imperialism of the
Franklin Pierce administration lives on
as the romantic, elite legend of the
Eastern Establishment. They celebrate
that legend in the marriage of
President Pierce's blood relative
Barbara Pierce to George Bush, whose
imperial ideas are rooted in the events
of the 1850s.)
Led by Quitman and his allies in
the lower South, the Knights of the
Golden Circle formed the heart of the
secession military machine as the
crisis of the Union deepened.
But John Quitman died in July
1858. The Scottish Rite leadership was
then totally reorganized. Albert Pike
was brought into the Supreme Council
and, in 1859, Pike was elevated to
Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction.
While the Knights of the Golden Circle
intensified their terrorist activities
in Texas, and their ``filibuster'' raids
into Mexico and Central America, Albert
Pike pulled together the inner core of
a revolutionary government for the U.S.
southern states.
As Albert Pike said himself, Pike
had not even heard of the Scottish Rite
until 1853. Sponsored by his fellow
Bostonian, Attorney General Caleb
Cushing, who inserted Pike's croneys
into office for him in the 1840s, Pike
had become the boss of Arkansas
politics. He had proven his
``Southernness'' by running racial
hysteria campaigns against Arkansas's
handful of freed blacks and against
America's Catholic immigrants.
Joining Pike's new Scottish Rite
Supreme Council in 1859 was the U.S.
vice president, John C. Breckinridge of
Kentucky. He would soon run for
President on a secession platform, his
campaign managed by Caleb Cushing.
In March 1860, the U.S. treasury
secretary, Howell Cobb, joined Pike's
Supreme Council. (Cobb was a ruler of
the Georgia Masonic mafia with Robert
Toombs and James Bulloch.) If you are
going to lead a revolt against a
government, it is handy to have the
head of that government's treasury take
charge of your finances, as Cobb did
for his Masonic boss Albert Pike.
Cobb resigned his treasury post in
December 1860, following Abraham
Lincoln's election to the U.S.
presidency. Two months later, Cobb was
president of the convention in Alabama,
which created the Confederate
government and broke up the United
States. Cobb's name appears at the top
of signers of the Confederate
Constitution, a document which Cobb and
Albert Pike are supposed to have
drafted together.
The Lost Cause
The rebellion of the Southern
slaveowners, which brought on the Civil
War, was a British Empire-sponsored
insurrection. The British supplied the
arms used by the anti-U.S. insurgents,
and coordinated the Confederate secret
service activities in North America and
Europe. These expanded efforts
continued the political and irregular
military operations of the Scottish
Rite which had been led by Quitman, and
by Pike after Quitman's death.
For the final three years of the
four-year Civil War, Judah P. Benjamin
served as Confederate secretary of
state. Benjamin supervised the
financial and supply relations to the
British Empire and its ally, Napoleon
III of France, and ran the
Confederacy's international network of
spies and saboteurs.
Benjamin's secret service liaison
man in England and the Confederacy's
chief arms procurer there was James
Bulloch. We remember Bulloch as the man
who had been arrested in Cuba during
Quitman's 1854 fiasco.
John Slidell became the famous
Confederate commissioner to France,
where he married off his daughter
Mathilde to Baron Emil Erlanger. The
baron was an eminent German-French
Jewish banker, closely tied to the
British government and the highest
levels of British freemsonry. Slidell
and Benjamin negotiated the famous
Erlanger Loan, the series of
Confederate war bonds floated by this
banker. They sold the bonds primarily
to British oligarchs who felt poisonous
hatred for the American republic. The
collateral for the Erlanger loan was
Southern slave cotton, that was
smuggled out past the Union blockade.
John Slidell handled relations
between the French Empire and the
Masonic ``filibusters,'' the raiders of
Latin America. Slidell promoted the
joint European/Confederate invasion of
Mexico in the 1860s.
The Confederate secret service,
meanwhile, attempted to weaken the
resolve of the Union to carry on the
war. The key to their strategy was the
old Knights of the Golden Circle, still
in place in the north, midwest and
southwest, involving pro-slavery
whites--and American Indians.
Sioux Indians, strangely organized
into military Masonic lodges, wiped out
700 citizens of New Ulm, Minnesota and
the surrounding area, while the town's
young men were off in the Union Army.
Albert Pike was at the time the
Confederate general officially in
charge of arranging Indian attacks
against the Union; Minnesota was also
part of Commander Pike's Masonic
Southern Jurisdiction.
Judah Benjamin based his main
secret service group in Montreal, a
safe haven since Canada was then still
British territory. They coordinated
across the border with Golden Circle
networks in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and
Wisconsin, and with the August Belmont
Democratic Party machine in New York.
Agents led by Jacob Thompson planned
prison breaks, tried to burn down
northern cities, and instigated
anti-draft riots in which drunken mobs
lynched black people and burned
orphanages.
This ugliness was in vain. But
just when Lincoln's nationalist money
policies and our industrial strength
overwhelmed the rebellion, President
Lincoln was murdered. A dragnet went
out for the Confederate secret service
operators, accused of participation in
the assassination. Albert Pike escaped
and joined Jacob Thompson in Canada.
Judah Benjamin fled to England, joining
the exiled Robert Toombs and James
Bulloch. John Slidell stayed
permanently in France.
Confederate secret service agent
John Surratt made it to Italy and hid
in the Vatican, while Surratt's mother
was convicted and hanged on the charge
of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to
kill Lincoln. John Surratt was
discovered and returned for trial. He
was acquitted. But in 1870, Surratt
admitted publicly that he had plotted
with Booth to ``abduct'' Lincoln. He told
of the days preceding the murder, of
his trip to Montreal carrying money and
messages from Judah Benjamin. The
secret service bank in Montreal, where
gold from Britain was deposited for
Benjamin's crew, was the same bank in
which Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes
Booth had made his deposits six months
before the killing.
The war was over. But the defeated
Confederacy was transformed into the
romantic {Lost Cause}, an object of
cultish reverence.
During Reconstruction
Anti-slavery congressmen pressed
ahead with plans for Reconstruction,
designed to break up the power of what
was called the ``chivalry,'' the
feudalist lords of the prewar South. In
Tennessee, the pro-Union faction tried
to increase its political strength by
putting through a law, granting the
right to vote to the newly freed
blacks.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
was a terrorist counterattack,
beginning in Tennessee, designed to
block Reconstruction and reverse the
outcome of the Civil War. The Klan and
the Scottish Rite were one and the same
enterprise, continuing the imperial
effort behind the slaveowners'
rebellion.
Pike, Benjamin, Slidell, Toombs,
Bulloch, and Thompson were all in exile
at war's end. Though Judah Benjamin had
quickly become a wealthy lawyer for the
British merchant oligarchs, his
continuing preoccupation with defeating
Reconstruction is indicated in letters
he wrote back to the U.S.A. with
complaints such as these:
``I have always looked with the
utmost dread and distrust on the
experiment of emancipation so suddenly
enforced on the South by the event of
the war. God knows how it will all
end!''; and: ``the South is kept crushed
under negro rule''; and: ``I can never
consent to go to New Orleans and break
my heart witnessing the rule of negroes
and carpetbaggers''; and: ``nothing is so
abhorrent to me as Radicalism which
seeks to elevate the populace into the
governing class.''
From Albert Pike's British
sanctuary in Canada, on July 15, 1865,
Pike issued a summons to the Supreme
Council, to resume the operations of
the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry,
Southern Jurisdiction. Six weeks later,
``under pressure from Masonic officials
in the government,'' the new President
Andrew Johnson permitted Pike to
re-enter the U.S.A. The Rite was reborn
over the next few years, as money and
messengers went back and forth between
Pike and the Confederacy's sponsors in
England.
In April 1866, a year after the
murder of Abraham Lincoln, Albert
Pike's Supreme Council met in full
costume inside the White House. There
Lincoln's successor President Andrew
Johnson granted a pardon to Pike. The
following year, the awed and grateful
Johnson was granted advanced degrees 4
through 32 by the Scottish Rite. The
Masons claim that Johnson's Freemasonic
involvement was an important reason why
the pro-Reconstruction congressmen
tried to impeach Johnson.
Albert Pike could not go home to
Arkansas, however. He was still
under indictment for treason by state
authorities there, for inciting the
Indians to break laws or treaties. So
he settled in Memphis, Tennessee, just
across the Mississippi River from
Arkansas, becoming a newspaper
publisher, lawyer--and president of the
Tennessee Bar Association.
Tennessee blacks got the right to
vote in February 1867. Beginning that
spring, Albert Pike and a small group
of Confederate generals held several
meetings in Nashville, at the Maxwell
House Hotel, to form the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan.
The name was taken from the Greek,
{kyklos}, meaning ``circle.'' It was no
mystery to the pro-Unionists: The
Knights of the [Golden] Circle had
reappeared.
Pike was appointed chief judicial
officer of the Invisible Empire. He is
said to have written the Klan's
military manual and ritual, and was the
Klan's expert on secrecy of
organization--its secret grips, signs,
and passwords. At one of the later
Nashville meetings, General Nathan
Bedford Forrest was chosen Imperial
Wizard of the Klan. Albert Pike
organized the Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas
after General Forrest appointed Pike
the Grand Dragon of that Realm.
The Tennessee leaders of the Klan
at the time of its founding were
prominent Masons subordinate to Grand
Commander Pike.
Pike's old comrade and financial
backer Robert Toombs returned from
England in 1868. Toombs was appointed
dictator of Scottish Rite activities
inside Georgia, and Toombs and his
family ran all aspects of the Klan
within Georgia.
President Ulysses Grant said that
the Klan worked ``by force and terror to
prevent all political action not in
accord with the views of the members;
to deprive colored citizens of the
right to bear arms and of the right to
a free ballot; to suppress [i.e. burn]
schools in which colored children were
taught and to reduce the colored people
to a condition akin to that of
slavery.''
In his newspaper {The Memphis
Daily Appeal{ for April 16, 1868,
publisher Albert Pike wrote: ``With
negroes for witnesses and jurors, the
administration of justice becomes a
blasphemous mockery. A Loyal League of
negroes can cause any white man to be
arrested, and can prove any charges it
chooses to have made against him.
``The disenfranchised people of the
South ... can find no protection for
property, liberty or life, except in
secret association.... We would unite
every white man in the South, who is
opposed to negro suffrage, into one
great Order of Southern Brotherhood,
with an organization complete, active,
vigorous, in which a few should execute
the concentrated will of all, and whose
very existence should be concealed from
all but its members.''
In the latter decades of the nineteenth
century, British-centered finance
gained supremacy over American industry
and U.S. policy-making. Under British
sponsorship, Pike's Scottish Rite,
Southern Jurisdiction, came to rule
over much of the world's Freemasonry.
At length its headquarters moved from
South Carolina to Washington, D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt, a racialist
Anglophile and passionate Freemason,
became U.S. President September 14,
1901, upon the shooting death of
William McKinley. Teddy Roosevelt's
reign was the Lost Cause triumphant:
Roosevelt's revered exiled uncle, James
Bulloch, Judah Benjamin's secret
service chief in England, had
ghostwritten young Teddy's book on
naval history; and Teddy's clique had
finally conquered Cuba in the 1898 U.S.
War with Spain.
The Washington, D.C. statue
honoring Klan founder Albert Pike was
dedicated 39 days after Teddy
Roosevelt's inauguration.
The B'nai B'rith and `Egyptian
Principles'
In his admiring biography of Judah
Benjamin, Eli Evans quotes the famous
attack against Benjamin's pro-slavery
fanaticism by Ohio's Senator Ben Wade:
``when old Moses, under the immediate
inspiration of God Almighty, enticed a
whole nation of slaves, and ran
away ... to old Canaan, I suppose that
Pharaoh and all the chivalry of old
Egypt denounced him as a most furious
abolitionist.... There were those who
loved Egypt better than they loved
liberty.... They were `Israelites with
Egyptian principles.'|''
Senator Wade's barb hit its mark.
Judah Benjamin had deserted the
religion of Moses. He had spat on the
law of freedom, the gift that Jews
celebrate in the Passover seder (which
was also Christ's last supper).
Since then, other ``Israelites with
Egyptian principles,'' those Jews who
like Benjamin attached their destinies
to the British Empire and its
racialism, have become a vital
component of the Anglo-American Eastern
Establishment; ``honorary Anglo-Saxons,''
they have helped transform the United
States into an essentially mindless British
model imperium. And the racialism they
coauthored has brought tragedy to Jews
as well as to others outside the racial
pale.
In the Civil War, twice as many
Jews fought for the Union as for the
Confederacy. Northern Jews, many of
them recent German immigrants, were
strongly pro-republican and
anti-slavery.
The predominant Jewish tradition
in the South was not only pro-slavery,
but overwhelmingly Freemasonic.
The Independent Order of B'nai
B'rith formed in 1843 as a Jewish
community sub-project in the
restoration of Masonry by the Scottish
Rite and the British foreign office.
Though most of its lodges were in the
North, B'nai B'rith was openly
pro-Confederate. Though it claimed to
be neutral in the war, many of the
Order's Northern spokesmen were
stridently pro-slavery. B'nai B'rith's
post-Civil War leaders were
pro-Confederate operatives, including
later president Simon Wolf, who had
been arrested by the War Department in
Washington, D.C. as the lawyer for a
Confederate spy ring.
Rabbi Isaac Wise established B'nai
B'rith's center for the
``liberalizing'' of Judaism in
Cincinnati, Ohio--coinciding with
Cincinnati's other great Scottish Rite
scheme, the launching of the Knights of
the Golden Circle. Wise was officially
neutral in the Civil War.
Core leaders of the B'nai B'rith
from then on have been Scottish Rite
Masons. The political establishment
associated with the Order has always
had its headquarters in London.
In Richmond, the Confederate
capital, Gustavus A. Myers was
Secretary of State Judah Benjamin's
closest friend and Benjamin's channel
to banker August Belmont. The former
president of the Richmond City Council,
and the undisputed head of Richmond's
Jewish community, Myers was Freemasonry
Incarnate.
Myers's maternal grandfather, Moses
Michael Hays, had brought the original
``patent'' and rituals from England to
found the Scottish Rite in the American
colonies. A tory and financial partner
of Boston's slave trade millionaires,
Hays passed his fortune and his Masonic
and British underground connections to
his daughter's husband and sons, the
Richmond Myers clan.
Moses Myers, merchant partner of
the Richmond family, was head of
Norfolk's Jewish community. His house
is now a public museum, located on
Norfolk's Freemason Street. Inside is a
large wooden plaque given to the family
by Queen Victoria, in recognition of
the family's long service to the
British crown and cause. Several
generations, living in that same Moses
Myers house, were British consuls.
All of Virginia's Jewish leaders
then were Masons, one of them
Rothschilds' official Virginia agent
who was grand master of Virginia Masons
during the war of 1812.
After the Civil War, the
Belmont/Rothschild faction took
absolute control over the Jewish
leadership within New York and
trans-Atlantic finance. Joseph
Seligman, who had been pro-Union like
most American Jews, joined the British
banking syndicate of Rothschild and
J.P. Morgan, which ran U.S. government
finance from the 1870s onward.
London's Anglo-Saxon and Jewish
employees, banking partners of the
Confederates against Lincoln's
nationalist money policies, were now
merged as the Eastern Liberal
Establishment.
While Alabama cotton broker
Emanuel Lehman lived in Civil War New
York, he sailed back and forth to
England raising money for the
Confederate war machine. Continuing the
family tradition, his Lehman Brothers
firm supported the racialist eugenics
movement, and tenaciously defended
their investments in Nazi Germany.
But the bigshot was Jacob Schiff
of Kuhn Loeb private bank. Schiff's
power was entirely trans-Atlantic:
Travelling back and forth between
London and New York, Schiff was Sir
Ernst Cassel's U.S. partner and
representative; Cassel--the personal
banker and the most intimate friend of
Prince Edward VII, the grand master of
British freesmasonry. (Edward's son
Albert Victor was supposed to be the
subject of the Jack the Ripper story:
His unapproved marriage was broken and
covered up by the Freemasonic murders
of witnesses.)
On behalf of the royal family,
Ernst Cassel managed the finances of
the British Fabian Society leaders, and
the British Round Table in its
outrageous African racialist endeavors
such as {apartheid}.
At Kuhn Loeb in the 1890s, partner
Otto Kahn (a British subject) directly
supervised Schiff and Cassel's project
to build up a certain snarling little
railroad man who was a favorite of the
old Belmont Confederate machine, Mr.
E.H. Harriman. At that same time, the
Warburg family joined Kuhn Loeb; the
Warburgs' preoccupations were anchored
in their Masonic Occult Institute in
Hamburg and London.
Look at the first years of this
century: Teddy Roosevelt is President,
Edward VII is King, and the racist
cult-master Lord Arthur Balfour is his
Prime Minister. The British Masonic
clique at Kuhn Loeb founded the
American Jewish Committee, and made its
president, Louis Marshall, the official
legal advisor to the Harriman eugenics
laboratory--mother of this century's
nightmare race theories. It was Kuhn
Loeb and the Warburgs who officially
brokered New York's banking ties to
Hitler's Nazis, as well as Harriman's
entree to the Soviet dictatorship.
A striking instance of the
Confederate ``Lost Cause,'' persisting
and haunting the present century, is to
be seen in the attic of {The New York
Times.}
Iphigenie Ochs married Arthur Hays
Sulzberger in 1917. He succeeded her
father Adolphe Ochs as publisher of {The
Times}, which Mr. Ochs had bought in the
1890s.
Adolphe Ochs and his father
founded the ``Baroness Erlanger''
Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The
hospital was named for John Slidell's
daughter who married the Confederacy's
chief financier Baron Emil Erlanger.
The Baron had bought up the main
railways between the bankrupt South and
Cincinnati. Adolphe Ochs had married
Iphigenie Wise, the daughter of B'nai
B'rith's Cincinnati leader Isaac Wise.
When the Ochs family had lived in
Cincinnati during the war, Adolphe's
mother Bertha had been arrested for
smuggling drugs to the Confederate
army.
In 1991, Arthur Sulzberger's
daughter Ruth sponsored the visit to
America of British banker Rodolphe
d'Erlanger, John Slidell's great-great
grandson. At a reception for Erlanger
hospital, he said that his great
grandfather, Baron Emil, was the
partner of Cecil Rhodes in his
nightmare race projects in Africa, and
that Emil and his wife Mathilde Slidell
had introduced Wagner's {Tannhauser} to
the stage in Paris--which was booed off
the stage.
Arthur Sulzberger's Philadelphia
Uncle David Sulzberger joined the
Confederate army in Arkansas. Cousin
Cyrus Adler, born on the Sulzbergers'
Arkansas slave plantation, became the
occult, psychic, Masonic, and gnostic
expert for the New York Jewish
establishment and for London and
Cambridge Freemasonic strategists. At
the same time, under the Teddy
Roosevelt regime, cousin Mayer
Sulzberger was president of B'nai
B'rith International and president of
the American Jewish Committee. At that
time, B'nai B'rith leaders (such as the
Sulzberger's partners the Morgenthaus)
directly represented British crown
interests in the Middle East, and
worked as a bridge for Scottish Rite
Masonry between the Middle East and
Washington.
In the 1930s, Cyrus Adler,
president of the American Jewish
Committee, coordinated with the
family's B'nai B'rith, and the family's
{New York Times}, to crush all U.S.
political action against Adolf Hitler
in Germany. The B'nai B'rith was the
one Jewish organization that Hitler
deliberately {left open }and functioning
under Nazi rule from 1933 on.
In 1939, Britain made a dramatic
change in its policy toward
Hitler--after teaching Hitler his race
theories, after forcefully backing his
takeover of Germany, after financing
and equipping his armies, Britain now
changed publicly to opposing Hitler.
Only at that point, in 1939, about a
year after Hitler finally closed B'nai
B'rith's Nazi-authorized German
operations, B'nai B'rith decided to
``approve'' an international boycott
against the Nazi regime.
B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation
League recently opened a vicious
campaign to label American black
leaders as anti-Semites, aiming at a
racial conflict, and stomping on the
memory of the young Jews who fought for
civil rights in the 1960s. It is
essential that the religious, national,
and historical character of this
racialism be precisely understood.
Now a surprising breakthrough has
occurred. Leaders of U.S. black
Freemasonry have attacked white
Masonry, particularly the Scottish
Rite, as a center of racialism. The
attack is contained in the latest issue
of the {News Quarterly}, official
publication of the [``Supreme Council,
Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction,'']
Prince Hall affiliation, in an article
by Joseph A. Walkes, editor of the
{Quarterly.}
Walkes exposes Albert Pike as the
national Chief Justice of the Invisible
Empire of the Ku Klux Klan, and the
organizer and Grand Dragon of the Klan
in Arkansas. Walkes describes Albert
Pike as a ``traitor to his country.'' The
article carries a photograph of the
Washington memorial statue to the KKK
founder. Walkes calls the statue ``an
affront'' to the residents of the
nation's capital, a majority of whom
are black.
With this and similar initiatives,
a strong potential now exists for
members of all faiths and ethnic groups
to think about and to solve a central
problem of our era:
Fanatical Zionists are urged on by
Anglo-American backers, to brutalize
and displace Arab residents and Muslim
religious institutions from Israeli
occupied territory. Among the
Anglo-Saxons cheering them on in their
blind racialism are many known as
``fundamentalist Christians.'' They have
seen a vision of Semitic warfare in the
Holy Land, ending in mankind's
annihilation, which they cheer as
``God's will'' and ``Bible Prophesy.''
This madness has been called the
British balance-of-power strategy. But
its familiar name is, British
Freemasonry.
