911:Occult symbolism XVI

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  • Part XVI (Hand signs)
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Hand signs

• Various notes:
  • Important note: In photographs, the position/positioning of a given individual’s hand is debatable. However, in paintings and portraits the individual being portrayed is usually posing for the artist. Therefore, these renditions are much less debatable as to what the hand sign is conveying.
  • "hand-gestures commonly used by Masons posing for portraits. A common one is known as the "Hidden Hand", whereby the right hand is placed partially or fully within one's shirt/jacket. Masonic kings, presidents, prime ministers, and media personalities have been photographed posing the Hidden Hand. Another common one is the "Claw", right hand at chest bending all knuckles into a claw." [68]
  • "Horned Hand": "The sign of recognition between those in the Occult. When pointed at someone it is meant to place a curse. Note the thumb over the fingers and given by the left hand." [69]
  • "Horned God": "Represents the horned god of witchcraft. Pan or Cernunnos. Note the thumb under the fingers and given by the right hand." [70]
  • Hand-kissing (see also: Kiss Hands)
  • ...
  • See also:
    • "Secret Masonic Handshakes, Passwords, Grips"
    • video: "Hand Signs and Handshakes Ron Paul"

As above, so below sign

• Various Notes
  • Also see Occult symbolism: As above so below

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  Dagon
  
  Note: See also: Saturn symbolism.

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  Buddha statue on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, China.

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  The Greek goddess Athena

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  "As above, so below" phrase illustrated using horned handsigns [1]

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  Detail of the "Last Judgement" panel painting (1387 or 1395) by Fra Angelico. [2]

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  Detail of Hans Memling's "Day of Judgement" (1467-1471). [3]

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  In this rendition of the devil-goat God Baphomet, a light and dark crescent are seen. (upper right, lower left)
  
  Note: the two pointing fingers handsign, pentagram, torch, and crescent.

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  Mason and 1st US president George Washington

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  Subway (fast-food franchise)

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  Quentin Tarantino
  
  Note: the horned hand signs

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  Seinfeld's Jason Alexander
  
  Note: the horned hand signs

Homage salute

• Various notes:
  • Alternative names: "Sign of Admiration and Astonishment", Roman salute, Catholic-Christian "Sign of Praise", Hitler salute (Nazi salute), Bellamy salute

• Two arms:

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  Egyptian salute [4]

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  Detail of a crucification painting by Fra Angelico (1395–1455). [5]

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  George Washington (Mason and 1st president of the United States)

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  Pope Ratzinger

• One arm:

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  Depiction of the Roman salute in "The Oath of the Horatii" (1784) by Jacques-Louis David. [6]

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  Illustration of Honore de Balzac's (1799–1850) work ...

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  George Washington statue (1865), Union Square, NYC [7]

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  Pledge of Allegiance to the US flag.
  
  The Bellamy salute was designed by Francis Bellamy and James B. Upham..

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  Council of Foreign Relations logo (founded in 1921, New York)
  
  The logo depicts a naked man riding a wild horse, while giving the Sign of Admiration and Astonishment. The fingers of the hand are pointing towards the Hidden Master in the Stars, the Prince of the Power of the Air (Lucifer). The cryptic Latin inscription, "ubique", means "everywhere".

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  Nazi salute

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  Adolf Hitler at a Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1928.

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  Benito Mussolini

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  Klu Klux Klan

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  Islamic meeting (Palestinian military)

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  Christian meeting

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  Tiananmen square statue, China

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  Arnold Schwarzenegger

Claw hand

• The "claw hand" (or "pooth") in ancient Egyptian culture:

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  Egyptian Pharaoh Netjerykhet Djoser.
  (c. 2650 – c. 2575 bc) Second king of the 3rd dynasty [8]

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  Egyptian High priest Kal

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  Pharaoh Khufu of Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom.
  (c. 2589 - c. 2566) Khufu was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty.

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  Prince Wep-em-nefret, Fourth Dynasty, reign of Khufu

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  Pharaoh Amenhotep III
  (c. 1386 - c. 1349)

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  Unknown Egyptian statue

• The "claw hand" in modern times:

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  Sir Francis Dashwood
  (b. 1708 - d. 1781)
  
  Founder of the infamous and notorious Hellfire Club in England. Quite possibly a Jacobite secret agent. Rumored to have also been involved in the Rosicrucian movement and Freemasonry.
  
  The Hellfire Club was a secret society which engaged in depraved sexual orgies, drunkenness, Satanism, and held Black Masses.
  Members included prominent men of the British aristocracy, and the most influential politicians of the day.

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  In 1883, after 8 years as Commander in-chief of the U.S. Army, Freemason and General George Washington bid sad farewell to his brothers in arms at New York City's Fraunces Tavern.
  
  Note: the sun light symbolism.

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  John Wilkes Booth
  (b. 1838 - d. 1865)
  
  Freemason and American stage actor who assassinated U.S. president Abraham Lincoln.
  Wilkes is seen here giving the claw hand, while posing for the photo.

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  A portrait showing a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) giving the craw hand sign.

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  Known mason Pat Robertson on the February 17th, 1986 cover of TIME magazine

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  Billy Graham on the cover of his book "The Challenge".

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  Annie Besant. Noted for being a 33rd degree Co-mason, occultist, Theosophist, Marxist, secularist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

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Hand on chest

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  A Master Mason (center) with Wardens.

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  Aleister Crowley

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  Boris Yeltsin

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Hand on head

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  Chaim Potok, Hasidic Jewish writer and novelist, creates a headcovering of cabalistic magic. This sign is also reminiscent of the fourth sign in the initiation for the Select Master’s Degree (see Richardson’s Monitor of Freemasonry, p. 85). (Photo: Newsweek, August 5, 2002) [9]

Hidden hand

• Various notes:
  • The "hidden hand" sign, is the sign of Jah-buh-lun (Jahbuhlun), the sacred God of Masonry. Jahbuhlun is known to the Masons as the "The Lost Name of God"
  • When the Mason learns of the "The Lost Name of God", it is in receiving the 13th degree in the Scottish Rite or the 7th degree for the York Rite (known as the Mason of the Secret, or the Royal Arch degree [71]). This name of the Masonic God is so sacred it takes three Royal Arch Masons to be able to speak it.

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  The "three times three" position, which is assumed by the three Masons preforming the ritual of the Royal Arch Degree, in which they utter the name of the Masonic God - Jah-buh-lun.

• Masonic notes:
  • Jahbuhlun is Masonry's "Grand Omnific" word, the name of their omnipotent deity. The name Jahbuhlun has nine letters and is made up of three syllables, Jah, buh, lun. In the ritual for the Royal Arch Degree, the three Royal Arch Masons pronounce the name three times each, therefore, twenty-seven syllables are pronounced. This represents the twenty-seven days it takes the moon to pass through the circle of zodiacal signs.
  • The name Jahbuhlun has three syllables representing a composite God made up of three subordinate deities. The Masonic material identifies the three as Yah (or Yahweh), Baal, and Osiris or On (spelled Un in the name Jahbuhlun). On was a city in Egypt where the worship of the sun God, Osiris, is alleged to have begun. Logically, the name should be spelled Yah-Baal-On, but Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor admits that over the years the spelling has been "corrupted" by Freemasonry until it reached its current form.
  • The three Masons grip hands high and low and chant, "Jah-buh-lun, Jah-buh-lun, Jah-buh-lun , Je-hov-ah". These three Masons pronouncing the name of Jahbuhlun are said to have come from Babylon. The candidate is told that these three "Masters" or "Sojourners" have come from Babylon to instruct him on how to symbolically build the Royal Arch. (Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem). According to Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor, the candidate presents the hidden hand of Jahbuhlun when he is approached by the three "Sojourners" from Babylon.
  • The three Masons preforming the ritual, are in a position known as "three times three". They have their three right feet forming a triangle, three left hands forming a triangle, and three right hands forming a triangle. It is while in this position each repeats the name of Jahbuhlun.
  • The official Masonic explanation for hidden hand sign of Jah-buh-lun, is that it comes from a passage from the fourth chapter of Exodus in the Bible:
    • "And the Lord said unto Moses, put now thine hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold his hand was leprous as snow."

• For additional information, about the hand sign of Jahbuhlun and the ritual of the Royal Arch Degree, go here.

• The sign of Jahbuhlun in masonic literature and symbology:

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  Illustration showing the "Sign of the Master of the Second Veil" (seventh degree mason) from the 1866 book Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor. [10]
  
  Note: the masonic foot pattern.

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  Symbology of the Royal Arch Degree inscribed with the words Je-ho-vah on the outer circle, Jah-bul-on on each edge of the triangle, and three Hebrew letters at each point of the triangle.

1700's

(Ordered by date of birth)

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  Paul Whitehead
  (1710-1774)
  
  English satiric poet and prominent member of the infamous Hellfire Club.
  
  Founded by Sir Francis Dashwood, the Hellfire Club was a secret society that operated in England from 1749 to the late 1760's. The Hellfire Club, which included members of the British aristocracy and high-ranking politicians, engaged in all forms of sexual depravity, drunkenness, Satanism, ad held Black Masses.
  
  It was Whitehead who wrote about the activities of the society. Before his death, Whitehead himself burned these documents, in order to prevent any revealing of the society to the outside world.

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  George Washington
  (1732-1799)
  
  Freemason and 1st President of the United States.
  Washington was initiated on November 4th, 1752 in the lodge at Fredericksburg, Virgina. [11]
  
  After the war, Washington also belonged to and headed the exclusive secret society known as the Society of the Cincinnati (also called the Order of the Cincinnati).
  
  The members of this society comprised of the richest and most elite men of Washington's day.

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  Washington served as Grand Master of Lodge No. 39 of Alexandria, Virgina (later Alexandria Lodge No. 22) for 20 months in 1788-1790. [12]
  
  Washington's Masonic apron was embroidered by Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, wife of fellow Freemason and personal friend, Lafayette - the French military officer and American Revolutionary War general. [13]
  
  Note: Feet

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  Throughout his career, Washington visited several lodges and attended many Masonic functions. His correspondence has many references to Freemasonry.
  
  In a 1791 letter to members of St. David's Lodge in Newport, Rhode Island, Washington stated: "..I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving Brother."
  
  And in a 1798, letter to the Grand Lodge of Maryland; "So far as I am acquainted with the doctrines and principles of Freemasonry, I conceive them to be founded in benevolence, and to be exercised only for the good of mankind. I cannot, therefore, upon this ground, withdraw my approbation from it." [14]

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  Abraham Whipple
  (1733-1819)
  
  Freemason and American Revolutionary War naval commander.
  
  Initiated and passed in St. Johns Lodge No. 1, Providence, Rode Island on June 4, 1761. [15]
  
  Note: Feet

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  William Dawes
  (1745-1799)
  
  Freemason [16] and one of the three men who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
  
  British POWs from the Battle of Saratoga complained to Parliament that he gave them short supplies.

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  John Jay
  (1745-1829)
  
  Co-wrote the Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
  There is no direct proof that Jay was a Freemason. However, in a letter to George Washington on April 21st, 1779 he wrote the following text which appears to have Masonic significance: "The dissolution of our governments threw us into a political chaos. Time, Wisdom and Perseverance will reduce it into Form, and give it Strength, Order and Harmony. In this work you are (in the style of your professions) a Master Builder, and God grant that you may long continue a Free and Accepted one.” [17]

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  Seth Read
  (1746-1797)
  
  The man Instrumental in putting the Latin motto and popular Masonic phrase: "E PLURIBUS UNUM" (Out of Many, One) on U.S. coins.

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  Baron von Knigge
  (1752-1796)
  
  Freemason and member of the Bavarian Illuminati.

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  Anonymous portrait of the child Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, possibly by Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni; painted in 1763 on commission from Leopold Mozart. [18]

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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  (1756-1791)
  
  Freemason and Austrian composer. Poisoned, died at age 35. Mozart's involvement in Freemasonry may have played a role in his death.
  
  Initiated in Austrian lodge Zur Wohltatigkeit on Dec. 14th 1784. [19]
  
  Painting c. 1777.
  
  Note: Mozart's father Leopold Mozart, was also a Freemason and composer. [20]

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  Marquis de Lafayette
  (1757-1834)
  
  33° Freemason [21] and French military officer who was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde Nationale during the bloody French Revolution.
  Lafayette was also made an honorary Grand Commander of Supreme Council of New York. [22]
  
  More than 75 Masonic bodies in the U.S. have been named after him, including 39 lodges, 18 chapters, 4 councils, 4 commanderies, and 7 Scottish rite bodies. [23]

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  Maximilien Robespierre
  (1758-1794)
  
  One of the best-known figures of the bloody French Revolution. Involved in perpetuating the Reign of Terror (1793-1794).
  
  On July 28th 1794, Robespierre was executed by guillotine, without trial in the Place de la Révolution.
  (according to legend, the only man to be guillotined face-up).

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  Napoleon I
  (1769-1821)
  
  Freemason and Emperor of France, 1805-14.
  
  Napoleon's four brothers - Joseph, Lucian, Louis, and Jerome, as well as his stepson, Eugene Beauharnais, his brother-in-law Murat, and nephew, Jerome, were all Freemason's. Most of them held high Masonic rank. [24]

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  Those who were chosen by Napoleon for high honor and office in the state were usually Freemason's. Of the six, who, with the emperor himself, formed the Grand Council of the Empire, five were certainly Freemasons, including Arch Chancellor Prince Jean Jacques Regis Cambaceres, an enthusiastic and active Mason.
  Of the nine lesser imperial officers of state, six at least were active Masons. Of the marshals of France who served under Napoleon, at least 22 of the first 30 were Freemasons. [25]
  
  Note: the prominent use of the color red.

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  Salomon Rothschild (1774-1855) - Vatican treasury banker
  
  Wealthy Jewish(?) founder and overseer of the Vienna, Austria branch of the Rothschild clan.
  
  Salomon Rothschild was quite possibly the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler. Hitler's father's mother was a maid in Salomon Rothschild mansion, and Salomon was a well-known womanizer. After she had become pregnant, she was abruptly dismissed. Interestingly, since this would have made Hitler part Jewish, investigating Hitler's family tree was illegal in Nazi Germany on pain of death.

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  Thomas Cochrane
  (1775-1860)
  
  Royal Navy officer and radical politician.

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  Simón Bolívar
  (1783-1830)
  
  Freemason. Known as the "George Washington of South America" Bolívar used genocidal terror tactics to achieve his aims. He joined Freemasonry in Cadiz, Spain and received the Scottish Rite degrees in Paris and was knighted in a Commandery of Knights Templar in France in 1807.
  
  Bolívar founded and served as master of Protectora de las Vertudes Lodge No. 1 in Venezuela.
  
  The country of Bolivia is named after him. Bolívar also served as the president of Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia in the 1820's. Belonged to the Order and Liberty Lodge No. 2, Peru. [26]

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  Note: the checkerboard floor.

1800's

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  Émile Maximilien Paul Littré
  (b. 1801 - d. 1881)
  
  French lexicographer and philosopher.
  
  "In 1875, he applied for membership in the Masonic Lodge La Clémente Amitié (Grand Orient de France)." (...) "... his funeral was conducted with the rites of the Roman Catholic Church." [27]

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  Victor Hugo
  (b. 1802 - d. 1885)
  
  French poet, playwright, and novelist. Hugo was also deeply involved in the occult and mysticism.
  
  Hugo's demented mind wrote L'Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs), a story about a boy whose face had been horribly shaped into a permanent smile by fiendish cosmetic butchers.
  This grotesque tale was the basis for Batman's "Joker" character. It has been alleged that Hugo was not only a Rosicrucian but was also Grand Master of the occultic order known as the Priory of Sion.

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  Franklin Pierce
  (b. 1804 - d. 1869)
  
  14th President of the United States
  
  Photo circa. 1855
  
  Possible Freemason. (unconfirmed)

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  Giuseppe Mazzini
  (b. 1805 – d. 1872)
  
  Prominent Italian freemason, mafia member and politician.

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  Robert Anderson
  (b. 1805 - d. 1875)
  
  Freemason and Major General in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Anderson was in command of Sumter at the time of the Confederate attack.
  
  Raised in Mercer Lodge No. 50, Trenton, N.J. May 27, 1858. He was also an honorary member of Pacific Lodge No. 233 of New York City. [28]

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  Giacomo Antonelli
  (b. 1806 - d. 1876)
  
  Powerful and influential Cardinal and Secretary of the Papal States under Pope Pius IX. Antonelli was involved in the 1865 plot to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  
  Antonelli also hid a murderous associate of assassin John Wilkes Booth in the Vatican State, where he had fled, to protect him from execution by American authorities who sought his extradition. [29]

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  Napoléon III
  (b. 1808 - d. 1873)‎
  
  Freemason and Emperor of France, 1852-70.
  
  Member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of France. [30]
  
  Note: also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte

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  Andrew Johnson
  (b. 1808 - d. 1875)
  
  32° Freemason [31] and 17th President of the United States.
  Johnson pardoned 3 of the 8 men charged in the Lincoln assassination
  Initiated May 5th, 1851 in the Greeneville Lodge No.119, Greeneville, Tennessee. [32]
  
  First U.S. President to be impeached.
  His close association with Freemasonry was one of the factors that led to his impeachment trial. [33]

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  William Ewart Gladstone
  (b. 1809 - d. 1898)
  
  British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886 and 1892–94).

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  Stephen A. Douglas
  (b. 1813 - d. 1861)
  
  Freemason and U.S. Senator from Illinois, who gained fame by his debates with Abraham Lincoln. Initiated on June 11th, 1840 Springfield Lodge No. 4, Springfield Illinois.
  Upon his death, Douglas was buried Masonically, per his request.
  
  A monument was dedicated to him Masonically in Chicago on Sept. 6th, 1866. Fellow Freemason and then - U.S. President Andrew Johnson attended the ceremony. [34]

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  Richard Wagner
  (b. 1813 - d. 1883)
  
  Anti-Semitic German composer, conductor, theater director, and essayist.
  
  Wagner was greatly admired by Adolf Hitler.

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  Mikhail Katkov
  (b. 1818 - d. 1880)
  
  Russian occult publisher of Moscow Gazette.
  
  Katkov brought Hindu and Theosophy teachings to Russia. He also published some books of the Russian occultist and mystic, Helena Blavatsky

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  Karl Marx
  (b. 1818 – d. 1883)
  
  German - Jewish revolutionary and communist icon.
  
  Marx authored The Communist Manifesto in 1848.

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  John Ruskin
  (b. 1819 - d. 1900)
  
  Tutor to illuminated students such as Cecil Rhodes. Advocated a world empire. Spent his later years in an insane asylum. Rumored to have been a pedophile.

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  William Tecumseh Sherman
  (b. 1820 - d.1891)
  
  Ruthless American Civil War Union general. His total war polices of "scorched earth" against the South, have earned him the reputation as the first 'modern general'.

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  Rutherford B. Hayes
  (b. 1822 - d. 1893)
  
  Freemason and 19th President of the United States.
  
  Only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission.

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  George B. McClellan
  (b. 1826 - d. 1885)
  
  Freemason and Major General during the American Civil War. McClellan was the Democratic nominee opposing Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election.
  Received all three degrees of Freemasonry Dec. 9th, 1853, in Willamette Lodge No. 2, Portland, Oregon. [35]

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  James A. Garfield
  (b. 1831 - d. 1881)
  
  14° Freemason [36] and 20th President of the United States. (assassinated)
  
  Initiated in Magnolia Lodge No. 20 of Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 22nd, 1861. The third degree was conferred to him by Columbus Lodge No. 30, Nov. 22nd, 1864.
  Garfield received the 4-14° ASSR (Southern Jurisdiction) on Jan. 2nd, 1872 from Albert Pike, in Washington D.C.
  
  At his funeral, nearly all the officers of the Grand Commandery of Ohio, 14 commanderies of that state, and 8 commanderies from adjacent jurisdictions were present and participated in the funeral cortege. [37]

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  Ignatius L. Donnelly
  (b. 1831 - d. 1901)
  
  U.S. Congressman, populist, and writer.
  
  In 1882, Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, which detailed his theories concerning the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.
  
  Donnelly is credited with initiating the Atlantis mania that became such a feature of popular literature in the 20th century and contributed to the emergence of Mayanism. (non-codified eclectic collection of New Age beliefs)

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  Edwin Booth
  (b. 1833 - d. 1893)
  
  Freemason, Shakespearean actor, and older brother of American stage actor and assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
  Initiated in New York Lodge No. 330 on Sept 11th, 1857. [38]
  
  Edwin once declared, "...to be Worshipful Master and to throw my whole soul in that work, with the candidate for my audience, and the lodge for my stage, would be greater personal distinction than to receive the plaudits of the people in the theaters of the world." [39]

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  Edwin Booth (center) with brothers John Wilkes Booth (left) and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr (right).
  
  The brothers are shown here acting in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 1864.
  
  Edwin is seen giving the hidden hand sign, even though he is in costume.

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  Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
  (b. 1834 - d. 1904)
  
  Freemason and designer and sculptor of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.
  The Statue of Liberty is actually a representation of the Goddess Columbia and is coded full of secret society meanings and occult symbolism.

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  Bartholdi was one of the early members of Lodge Alsace-Lorraine, Paris (Oct. 14, 1875) which was composed of prominent intellectuals, writers and government representatives. [40]

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  John Wilkes Booth
  (b. 1838 - d. 1865)
  
  Freemason and American stage actor who assassinated U.S. president Abraham Lincoln.
  
  Younger brother of Edwin Booth, also a Freemason and stage actor.
  
  Note: Because of Wilkes' notoriety, the Freemasons have quietly removed his name from their membership records.

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  Elisha Hunt Rhodes
  (b. 1842 - d. 1917)
  
  Freemason and famous Civil War Union Army Lieutenant. Rhodes was a Member and Worshipful Master of Harmony Lodge, #9, in Cranston, Rhode Island. He was also the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island in 1892-1893.

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  Friedrich Nietzsche
  (b. 1844 - d. 1900)
  
  German philosopher and atheist. Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch (superman) later served as an inspiration to Adolf Hitler and the teachings of the Nazi Party.
  
  Note: Feet

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  Paul von Hindenburg
  (b. 1847 - d. 1934)
  
  Prussia-German field marshal and statesman (German President).

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  Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
  (b. 1854 - d. 1918)
  
  Freemason and one of the most influential figures in modern Occultism.
  One of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

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  George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
  (b. 1866? - d. 1949)
  
  Greek-Armenian mystic, teacher of sacred dances, and a spiritual teacher.

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  Vladimir Lenin
  (b. 1870 - d. 1924)
  
  Harbinger of the bloody 1917 Communist Russian Revolution.

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  Joseph Stalin
  (b. 1878 - d. 1953)
  
  Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953.
  
  Responsible for the deaths of untold millions of his own countrymen.

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  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  (b. 1881 - d. 1938)
  
  Atatürk at the Sivas Congress (held from September 4 to September 11, 1919).
  
  See also: "The History of Freemasonry in Turkey", Young Turks.

1900 - present

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  Four early Soviet-era Gulag-camp commandants giving the hidden hand sign for the cameraman. [41]

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  Aleksandar Karađorđević
  (b. 1945 - )
  
  Born Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Karađorđević is claimant to the throne of Serbia.

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  Silvio Berlusconi
  (b. 1936 - )
  
  Current Prime Minister of Italy.

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  Todd Palin
  (b. 1964 - )
  
  Husband of 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin

Other hidden hands

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  In this painting depicting the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776, the man in the center of the painting can clearly be seen giving the hidden hand gesture.
  
  Note: At least 9 Freemasons are known to have signed the Declaration of Independence.

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  This painting depicts George Washington taking the oath of president of the United States on April 30th, 1789. The man just to his right is seen giving a hidden hand sign.
  
  Note: Washington swore the oath on a masonic bible.

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  This painting shows Freemason George Washington meeting French Freemason Lafayette for the first time. The man at the far left of the painting is seen giving a hidden hand gesture.

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  Appearing with two other men fully dressed in Masonic regalia, the man on the far left of this Mid-19th Century photo is seen giving the hidden hand sign.
  (he is presumed to be a Mason)
  
  Exact date of photo unknown.

• Sergei Kirov, Mikhail Levandovsky, and Konstantin Mekhonoshin.jpg

  Mikhail Levandovsky (center), gives the hidden hand for the photo. Flanked by Sergei Kirov (left) and Konstantin Mekhonoshin (right). These three men were deeply involved the bloody 1917 Communist Russian Revolution.

• Bonesmen (Skull & Bones):

• Bonesmen (date unknown).jpg

  In this photo of Skull & Bones secret society members, the man at the far left of the photo is seen displaying the hidden hand sign. Exact date of photo unknown, appears to be around the mid-1800's.
  
  The order of Skull & Bones was established in 1832 at Yale University.

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Triad sign

• Various notes:
  • Todo: get the real name of this hand sign.
    • The hand sign might have something to do with this:
      • Awen sign (3 converging lines: /|\, M) and the Reverse Awen sign (3 dispersing lines: \|/, W)
        • See also:
          • Hebrew letter shin (ש)
          • Trident - a three-pronged spear. Tridents feature widely in mythical, historical and modern culture. The trident is also depicted as Satan's weapon.

• The Triad hand sign, as displayed by individuals. Ordered by date of birth.

1200's

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  Roger Bacon
  (b. 1214 - d. 1294)
  
  English philosopher and Franciscan friar.

1300's

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1400's

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  Ignatius of Loyola (b. 1491 - d. 1556), founder and 1st Superior General of the Jesuit Order ("Society of Jesus").

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  Christopher Columbus
  (b. 1451 - d. 1506)
  
  

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  Martin Luther
  (b. 1483 - d. 1546)
  
  Note: a suspected Rosecrucian agent to control the Reformation movements.

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1500's

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  Mary Queen of Scots
  (b. 1542 - d. 1587)
  
  Mother of King James I

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  Sir Philip Sidney
  (b. 1554 - d. 1586)
  
  

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  King James I
  (b. 1566 - d. 1625)
  
  Son of Mary Queen of Scots

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  Unknown 1500's woman, possibly Anne of Denmark (b. 1574 - d. 1619)
  
  Note: Her 8-pointed Chaos Star necklace.

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  Robert Fludd
  (b. 1574 - d. 1637)
  
  Englishastrologer, mystic, and occultist. He was probably a member of Rosicrucians.
  
  Note: the sun-ray and masonic symbolism in the background.

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  Adriaen van de Venne
  (b. 1589 - d. 1662)
  
  Dutch Baroque painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits.

1600's

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  Prince Rupert of the Rhine
  (b. 1619 - d. 1682)
  
  Grand-nephew of King James I

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  Gaspar Fagel
  (b. 1634 - d. 1688)
  
  

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  Isaac Newton
  (b. 1643 - d. 1727)
  
  

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1700's

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  George III
  (b. 1738 - d. 1820)
  
  

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  Alexander Hamilton
  (b. 1755 - d. 1804)
  
  

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1800's

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  Adolf Hitler
  (b. 1889 - d. 1945)

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1900 - present

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  Pope Benedict XVI (1927)

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  Dianne Feinstein (1933)

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  Dalia Itzik (1952)

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  Michelle Obama (1964)

Triad-claw sign

• What is the real name of this hand gesture?
  • See also: Triad sign (and its relation to the symbol of Satan)

• Tri-claws in nature:
  • See also: Archosaur (which includes: dinosaurs, reptiles and birds)
  • What about the mythical dragon?

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  Kiwi bird foot. [42]

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• Tri-claws in culture:

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  "The Devil"

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  Spock - a figure from the Star Trek TV series.
  
  Note: the pointed ears - reminiscent of devil depiction.
  
  Note: that this series has many references to socialism, fascism, militarism, freemasonry (eg. the mention of "A. Pike" - as in Albert Pike - described by William Cooper), and has gathered a large cult following.
  
  See also: video: "Leonard Nimoy on the Spock "Star Trek" Vulcan Salute"

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  Rock band Limp Bizkit

Horned hand

• Various notes:
  • ...

• Horned hand-sign as the "I love you" signal
  • A case of reverse psychology? ("black is white, white is black")

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  "I Love You can be signed as three separate signs, or by using one single gesture. I: Index finger points to self. Love: Fists cross over the chest at wrists. You: Index finger points to other person. I Love You: The “Y” hand is held up with the index finger extended." [43]

• Priesthood/Occultists/Royals:

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  "As above, so below" phrase illustrated using horned handsigns [44]

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  Georges Darboy (1813-1871), French Catholic priest, later bishop of Nancy, and then archbishop of Paris. [45]
  
  Note: the X symbolism from the crossed arms.

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  Pope Benedict XVI
  
  Note: the Amenita muscaria entheogen mushroom / Saturn symbolism.

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  Prince William

• Politicians / government:

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  Nicolas Sarkozy, current President of France.

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  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, current President of Iran.

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  Abdullah II of Jordan (with Vladimir Putin)

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  Bill Clinton

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  Hillary Clinton

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  Barack Hussein Obama II

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  Sarah Palin (Governor of Alaska, 2008 vice-presidential nominee with John McCain)

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  Ron Paul (US congress member and 2008 controlled-opposition presidential candidate)

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  Tommy Franks (United States Army General) and George H. W. Bush

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  Dan Quayle (a former Senator and 44th US Vice-President under George H. W. Bush)

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  Ari Fleischer (G.W. Bush's first press secretary and member of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity)

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  Tom Ridge, 1st Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

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  President George Bush
  
  Perhaps these people are all 'big fans' of the Texas Longhorns American football team?

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  Laura Bush and G.W. Bush

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  Laura Bush on the White House lawn. Note: also her left hand.

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  Thaksin Shinawatra, former Prime Minister of Thailand.

• Celebrities:

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  The Beatles for their Yellow Submarine film/soundtrack.
  
  Note: the yellow submarine (representing subconscious fear) and the 666/triple-cosmos sign.

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  Televangelist Pat Robertson

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  Benny Hinn a well-known tele-evangelist fraudster

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  ?? MacDonalds execs?

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  "Bono" Paul David Hewson

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  Quentin Tarantino
  
  Note: the "As above, so below" sign.

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  Alternative media disinfo agent Alex Jones

• In Film / TV:

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  Jason Alexander, who played the loveable loser "George Costanza" on the show, posed for TV Guide magazine in a blatantly cabalistic body pose. Plus, his left and right hands gave the "El Diablo" horned devil sign in an "As Above, So Below" gesture.

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  Actor Paul Hogan hypnotizes a bull into submission in the film "Crocodile Dundee" (1986).

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  The main anchor of the mass hypnotizing television network "ICS - a scene from the dystopian movie "Running Man" (1987), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger,
  
  Note: that this film also shows capstoned pyramids and other occult symbolism. [46]

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• Other:

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  A Satanist girl flashes the horned hand.

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Cosmos signal

• Various notes:
  • Alternative names: "Dragon symbol of the Cosmos", "Cosmos signal", "Throwing the Cosmos".
    • According to Busenbark, E. Symbols, sex and the stars, it is called Holy Trinity and a similar variant is the vesica piscis.
  • To process: [72] and [73]
  • "Remember if we take a side on look at this Dragon symbol of Cosmos, we find it looks like a six. The six of Saturn the Masculine Dragon, otherwise known as El or the Anti-Christos 666 Beast. The very enemies of the 888 Jesus Christ. We can see this Cosmos signal as a 66 which itself is Idol Worship. Something forbidden by God Adonai in the real ten commandments. The anti-Christos Catholic continuation of Rome and Nimrod removed that second commandment. They then split the tenth into two in order to make up the ten commandments. This all reminds me of this a-okay symbol which is in fact the 666. If we take the Cosmos signal again but this time separate the two vertical fingers into a Astarte 'V' what do we have? We have the occult symbolism for the masonic 'Law of Five' veiled in profane nonsense such as victory. Note how with one same hand signal we can have both the six and the five? The masculine and feminine energy of El and Astarte in one. Just like the circle from the Goddess Circe, the upper half feminine, the lower half is masculine. If we add these two numbers together we get the eleven of Boaz and Jachin (two pillars) and Judgment! Now if we just have a six and five next to one another we have the number for water representing the currency of Yarikh and Astarte the feminine. If we reverse this to five and six then we have the number of Yarikh herself." - Craig Oxley

• Cosmos signal with 2 pointing fingers:

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  Called Holy Trinity (#2) and has similar variant which is the vesica piscis (#5).

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  In this rendition of the devil-goat God Baphomet, a light and dark crescent are seen. (upper right, lower left)
  
  Note: the pentagram, torch, crescent, and the "As above, as below" phrase illustration.

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  The Hierophant which in some Tarot card decks named "The Pope", is the fifth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
  
  In Attica (Greece), it was the title of the chief priest at the Eleusinian Mysteries. A hierophant is an interpreter of sacred mysteries and arcane principles. [47]
  
  Note: the Papal cross

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  From Crowley's tarot deck

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  17th century painting of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400?)
  
  He was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat.

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  Constantine I (emperor) (right) gives imperial power to Pope Sylvester I (left): Constitutum Constantin [48]

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  Pope Adrian VI (1459–1523, Pope from 1522 to 1523)
  
  Note: He was Pope for just 18 months (until his death) and was the last non-Italian pope until John Paul II, 456 years later!

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  Pope Urban VIII (1568–1644, Pope from 1623 to 1644)

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  Pope Pius XII wearing the traditional 1877 Papal Tiara, is carried through St Peter's Basilica on a sedia gestatoria (circa 1955).

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  Pope Pius XII

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  Pope John XXIII

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  Pope John Paul I
  
  Note: Pope for 33 days only!

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  Pope John Paul II

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  Statue of Pope Giovanni Battista Montini (Pope Paul VI) in Sacromonte, Spain.

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  Vatican statue

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  Statue of St. Peter (read: Jupiter) at the Vatican.

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  Papal statue at the Vatican.

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  Vatican Triclinum mosaic.

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  Annie Besant
  (b. 1847 - d. 1933)
  
  Note: 33rd degree Co-Mason.

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  Giuseppe Mazzini
  (b. 1805 - d. 1872)
  
  Note: 33rd degree & Jesuit trained.

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  "Secret San Grail of the Garter"?
  
  Note: the sun symbolism.

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  Nazi oath ritual

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  Andrija Artukovic, Ustasa Minister for the Interior

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  "9/11 truth" disinfo agent David Ray Griffin

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  Cosmos hand sign on the American sliver eagle 2009

• Cosmos signal with 3 pointing fingers ("666"):

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  The Beatles for their Yellow Submarine film/soundtrack.
  
  Note: the yellow submarine (representing subconscious fear) and the horned hand sign.

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  Michael Jackson showing various masonic symbolism.

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  In the 1967 TV series "The Prisoner" this handsignal is used by some people to say goodbye - often accompanied by the phrase: "be seeing you!".
  
  Note: that this TV series is highly esoteric. The story is a metaphor for the various subversive information-gathering and mind-control techniques applied by some organizations in society.

• Lady Gaga 666 handsign.jpg

  US pop-musician A-ok

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  666 disguised as A-ok symbol in a spanish MacDonald advert [49]

V sign

• Various notes:
  • Profane meaning: "Victory" and/or "Peace" (but for who? The Vatican? The Brotherhood?)
  • "If we take the Cosmos signal (two pointing fingers) again but this time separate the two vertical fingers into a Astarte 'V' what do we have? We have the occult symbolism for the masonic "Law of Five" veiled in profane nonsense such as victory. Note how with one same hand signal we can have both the six and the five? The masculine and feminine energy of El and Astarte in one. Just like the circle from the Goddess Circe, the upper half feminine, the lower half is masculine. If we add these two numbers together we get the eleven of Boaz and Jachin (two pillars) and Judgement! Now if we just have a six and five next to one another we have the number for water representing the currency of Yarikh and Astarte the feminine. If we reverse this to five and six then we have the number of Yarikh herself." - Craig Oxley
    • Todo:
      • research the "5 points of fellowship". Does the "V-sign" represent one of the 5 arms of the pentagram? Or perhaps two pillars?
  • Ancient gesture of benediction, the shadow of which represents Satan.
  • See also: more images

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  Illustration from Maurice Bessy's Pictorial History Of Magic And The Supernatural, depicts the ancient gesture of benediction, the shadow of which represents Satan. That shadow, according to Satanists, is the symbol of malediction.

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  Frederick V of Denmark
  (b. 1723 - d. 1766)
  
  

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  Winston Churchill
  (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
  
  Churchill used the "V" sign extensively throughout WWII as his trademark "V for Victory".
  It should be noted that Churchill was a Freemason, inductee into the Ancient Order of Druids, and was, by some accounts also a Cryptic Jew.
  
  See also: "Brother Winston", "Winston Churchill & The Ancient Order of Druids".

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  Richard Nixon giving the sign after being forced from the office of the presidency. Nixon used this hand sign more than once.

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  Hillary Clinton flashing the "V" sign

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  Michael Jackson showing various masonic symbolism.

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  Bono, the lead signer for the Irish rock band U2, can often be seen giving the "V" sign

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  The lead vocalist of the American nu metal band Slipknot is often pictured/shown giving the "V" sign

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  Beatles lead signer John Lennon flashes the "V" sign in front of the Statue of Liberty (Goddess Columbia)

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  John Paul Jones, bass guitarist for the English rock band Led Zeppelin gives the "V" sign in this German magazine photo.
  
  Note: His personal Triquetra sigil

• Another Variant of the V sign

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  Mr. Spock, a Star Trek character played by actor Leonard Nimoy, became famous for giving the Vulcan greeting with his right hand. Nimoy, a Jew, says that the sign is the same gesture given in Jewish synagogues when the rabbi and elders bring out the Holy of Holies. It is based on the Hebrew letter "shin." In essence, on the popular TV show, every time Spock gave the "shin" Vulcan greeting hand sign, he was invoking cabalistic magic. [50]

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  The tarot card the devil shows this sign on his right hand

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  Again we discover the comedy team from Seinfeld teaming up to present cabalistic messages. Observe the V in Michael Richards’ ("Kramer") leg and in Julia Louis-Dreyfuss’ ("Elaine") arm; the circle that Richards makes with the fingers of his left hand, the "X" made by the intersecting hands and wrists of Richards and Louis-Dreyfuss; the descendant triangle sign of Jason Alexander’s ("George") hands, and so on. [51]

Handshake

Normal handshake

• The handshake as a symbol is often found in the occult.

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  Normal handshake.

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  A normal-appearing handshake is seen in this masonic renditioning.

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  John Mccain, (SMOM cardinal) Edward_Egan, Barack_Obama during the 2008 Al Smith dinner.

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  The handshake depicted on this 2004 U.S "Louisiana Purchase" commemorative nickel coin

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  First National Bank of Florida
  
  Note: the 5 five-pointed stars

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  1934 Nazi rally medallion

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  The International Brotherhood of Magicians
  
  Note: the greek deity Hermes with his Caduceus, and the Oak leaf (which represents wisdom/intellect).

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  Kentucky State Seal

Masonic handshake

• Various notes:
  • There are several different types of masonic handshakes, they are often changed and/or updated to keep them secret
  • video: "The Masonic Handshake That Bind"

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  Masonic handshake.
  
  Note: the position of the thumb close to the knuckles. This illustration shows the "grip of a most excellent master" (6th degree mason). From Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor, circa 1866 [52].

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  Logo of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)
  
  This Marxist-Leninist party was the governing body of the German Democratic Republic from 1949-1990

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  Potsdam Conference meeting with the other Allied leaders (read: Jesuit-Masonic controlled politicians!): Winston Churchill, Harry Truman (33rd degree Mason and 33rd President of the United States between 1945–1953) and Joseph Stalin, in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. [53] Just 4 days after that conference the atomic bombing of Hiroshima followed!

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  Cardinal Francis Spellman and ex-prime-minister (and mason) Winston Churchill in 1946 [54]

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  Pope ratzinger and Tony Blair.

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  with Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (Libya)

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  President Bush with controlled artist Bono

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  Former President Ronald Regan greets fellow insider John McCain in this 1980's photo

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  Ronald Regan and John McCain in 1987
  
  Note: McCain's left hand moving in to "cover" the shake

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Duegards and passgrips

• Duegard of an "Entered Apprentice":

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• Dueguard of the "Fellow Craft" (2°):

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  "Former President Jimmy Carter in Havana, Cuba, with communist dictator Fidel Castro. Castro gives a sign showing he is a member of the Odd Fellows, a Masonic affliated secret order popular in Cuba. Meanwhile, Carter presents the Dueguard of the Fellow Craft (2°). (Photo: USA Today newspaper, May 16, 2002, p. 11A)" [57]

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  Russian Orthodox priest Grigori Rasputin was not only an occultic Mason, but also engaged in Dionysiac sex orgies and rituals. A cult developed around the hypnotic Rasputin after the monk was said by the Czarina to have healed her young son who suffered from a blood disease. Rasputin is shown here giving the left-handed path version of the penal sign of the Fellow Craft degree of Freemasons.[58] [59] [60]?

• Duegard of a "Past Master": Thumb and forefinger under/on chin:

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  Duegard and step of a "Past Master" [61]

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  Benjamin Franklin
  (b. 1706 - d. 1790)
  
  "Hanging over the fireplace in the famous Green Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. is an acclaimed oil portrait of Benjamin Franklin, one of our country’s most celebrated “founding fathers.” It depicts the famed statesman sitting studiously, poring over an ancient document which he is holding with his right hand. His left hand, meanwhile, is at his throat, set with the finger in a V-design, the thumb pushing upward to his chin. Franklin’s neck is a prominent focus of the painting. Obviously, this is a sign Franklin is communicating." [62]

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  Sir Francis Dashwood
  (b. 1708 - d. 1781)
  
  Founder of the infamous and notorious Hellfire Club in England. Quite possibly a Jacobite secret agent. Rumored to have also been involved in the Rosicrucian movement and Freemasonry.
  
  The Hellfire Club was a secret society which engaged in depraved sexual orgies, drunkenness, Satanism, and held Black Masses.
  Members included prominent men of the British aristocracy, and the most influential politicians of the day.

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  Paul Revere
  (b. 1734 - d. 1818)
  
  Freemason, metal-smith and American Revolutionary War patriot. Initiated at St. Andrews Lodge, Boston, Massachusetts in 1760.
  Revere made seals and jewels for several Masonic lodges. [63]
  
  Revere was Grand Master of St. Andrews Lodge in 1770 and again in 1777-79, and from 1780-82. [64]

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  Seinfeld actor "Kramer" Michael A. Richards on the cover of a masonic magazine. [65]
  
  Note: He is a "Master Mason" and also holds 33° in the Scottish Rite. [66]

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  Ozzy Osbourne
  (b. 1948 - )
  
  Lead signer of the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath.
  
  Note: the "Oz" name reference to sun symbolism, just like in the masonic book title "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"

Other hand signs

• Miscellaneous:

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  Picture of a chapter of the Skull & Bones society?
  
  Photo c. 1917

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  Jesuit Superior General Peter Hans Kolvenbach shows a weaved handsign.

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  George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton possibly acknowledging each other with a peculiar finger greeting of the Masonic "Craft".

• Sign of Distress

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  Raise the hands as represented in the cut, and drop them with spirit. Repeat this three times.
  
  The words accompanying this sign in the night, or dark, when the sign cannot be seen, are, viz.: "O Lord my God! is there no help for the widow's son?" This sign is given by the Master, at the grave of our "Grand Master Hiram Abiff."[67]

• Clasped hands

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  Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

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  Boys and Girls Club (U.S.)

Jesuit hand signs

• In the first place, you, as a Brother Jesuit, will with another mutually make the ordinary sign of the cross as any ordinary Roman Catholic would; then one cross his wrists, the palms of his hands open, and the other in answer crosses his feet, one above the other; the first points with forefinger of the right hand to the center of the palm of the left, the other with the forefinger of the left hand points to the center of the palm of the right; the first then with his right hand makes a circle around his head, touching it; the other then with the forefinger of his left hand touches the left side of his body just below his heart; the first then with his right hand draws it across the throat of the other, and the latter then with a dagger down the stomach and abdomen of the first. The first then says Iustum; and the other answers Necar; the first Reges. The other answers Impious." (The meaning of which has already been explained.) "The first will then present a small piece of paper folded in a peculiar manner, four times, which the other will cut longitudinally and on opening the name Jesu will be found written upon the head and arms of a cross three times. You will then give and receive with him the following questions and answers [74] [75]

Question —From whither do you come? Answer — The Holy faith.

Q. —Whom do you serve?

A. —The Holy Father at Rome, the Pope, and the Roman Catholic Church Universal throughout the world.

Q. —Who commands you?

A. —The Successor of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus or the Soldiers of Jesus Christ.

Q. —Who received you? A. —A venerable man in white hair.

Q. —How?

A. —With a naked dagger, I kneeling upon the cross beneath the banners of the Pope and of our sacred order.

Q. —Did you take an oath?

A. —I did, to destroy heretics and their governments and rulers, and to spare neither age, sex nor condition. To be as a corpse without any opinion or will of my own, but to implicitly obey my Superiors in all things without hesitation of murmuring.

Q. —Will you do that? A. —I will.

Q. —How do you travel? A. —In the bark of Peter the fisherman.

Q. —Whither do you travel? A. —To the four quarters of the globe.

Q. —For what purpose?

A. —To obey the orders of my general and Superiors and execute the will of the Pope and faithfully fulfill the conditions of my oaths.

Q. —Go ye, then, into all the world and take possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He who will not accept him as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-regent on earth, let him be accursed and exterminated."