Piece Of Art

The Oklahoma City National Memorial is usually photographed from a distance. But what happens when you look closer? As noted in Ritual America , there is another landscape out there that remains hidden from most of us. Today, at the April 19, 2012 services, Red Dirt Reporter Andrew W. Griffin took some time and looked more deeply. He shares his photograph, below, of what he found on the OKC Memorial: Photo credit: Andrew W. Griffin.

More Updates: Copycat violence? (1) Six killed, four wounded in Grand Prairie, Texas, roller rink shooting, July 23, 2011 ; (2) Ten shot at La Raza car show, in Kent, 20 miles from Seattle, July 23, 2011 . (3)  A total of seven people were injured also in the Seattle area, early Sunday, July 24, 2011 , including two in critical condition, after a gunman opened fire at a casino. According to KIRO-TV, the shooting happened at about 1:30 a.m. local time Sunday at the Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn, a city some 20 miles south of Seattle. And now this strange new incident: (4)  New Norwegian Killing by craig on July 25, 2011 Last night two masked men  in military uniform shot dead  a 27 year old man in his home in Sandnes, Norway. Nowhere in the mainstream media can I [ craig ] find anybody wondering whether this is related to the massacre in Norway the day before – even though both were killings with guns, (very rare in Norway), and either this guy real...

Pikes Peak is a special location in which its mysterious links are often overlooked. Most recently, the mystical mountain of Pikes Peak was the focus of the program MonsterQuest on March 11th. Repeats will be forthcoming in future weeks. It is instructive to examine the background on the peak's name. Pikes Peak (originally Pike's Peak, see below) is a mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, 10 miles (16 km) west of Colorado Springs, Colorado, in El Paso County. The mountain was named after Zebulon Montgomery Pike Jr. (January 5, 1778 – April 27, 1813), an American soldier, explorer, and Freemason, whose Pike expedition, often compared to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, mapped much of the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase. Pike (pictured above) was born in Lamberton, New Jersey, now a part of Trenton. His father, also named Zebulon Pike, was an officer in the Continental Army under General George Washington and served in the United States Army after the en...

An "Ugly Betty" actor repeatedly stabbed his mother, killing her with a Freemason ceremonial sword this morning, November 23, 2010, according to The New York Post . Yannick Brea, 55, was found in her second-floor apartment around 2:20 a.m. with multiple stab wounds.  Her son, Michael Brea, 31, was taken into custody. New York City police were called to a domestic disturbance at the home earlier in the evening but left shortly thereafter. Neighbors Vernal Bent and his mother Phyllis said they heard yelling from the floor below between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. and called 911. "I heard a shriek and a woman yelling 'help me'," Vernal Bent said. "We called 911 and we kept hearing screams and then we didn't hear them any more. Michael was chanting Biblical phrases and kept calling for Moses, Jerusalem and the ' Architect of the Universe '."* [*The Great Architect of the Universe (also Grand Architect of the Universe or Supreme Architect of the Unive...

The photo on the left, provided on Wednesday, November 17, 2010, by the Dane County Sheriff's Department shows Steven Cowan, and the one on the right is a publicity image of the target of Mr. Cowan's rage, Bristol Palin. The man with an extremely Masonic name, Cowan* (meaning an intruder, a pretender, and an eavesdropper), has now popped up on the twilight language radar screen linked with a member of Sarah Palin's family. (The surname Palin is a name of English or Welsh origin. Possible derivations include an anglicization of the Welsh patronymic ap Heilyn ~ "son of Heilyn" ~ or a reference to the English placenames Poling, West Sussex or Sea Palling, Norfolk. In the Mabinogi of Branwen ferch Llŷr Heilyn fab Gwyn Hen is one of the seven men who escape the conflict in Ireland. With his fellows he accompanies the severed head of Bendigaidd Frân on its journey to the White Mount in London.) Prosecutors say this rural Wisconsin man blasted his television with a shotg...

Coming soon is a synchronmystic tome of some significance from the twilight language gods. An Illustrated Guide to The Lost Symbol , an anthology edited by John Weber, could end up being better than the original Dan Brown novel. (Find it online for USA and UK .) The lavishly, well-texted opus will be an important contribution to examining the facts behind The Lost Symbol , supported with multiple details, and arcane and current images. The book, from Random House, is being held under a tight grip of secrecy, for the contents shall be very revealing. Washington Monument, Washington, D.C. I won't say more than to note that I am one of the contributors among reportedly nearly a score of authors who will share their unique insights on the various twilight/synchronmystic threads running throughout The Lost Symbol , already seen and others as yet unseen. Stay tuned. Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, Massachusetts

The flag that Brother Mason Buzz Aldrin unfurled on the Moon on July 21, 1969, when he stated " our flags " were being planted on the lunar surface. July 21, 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission). Grissom was scheduled to be the first man to walk on the Moon. Instead, Grissom was killed January 27, 1967, along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a training exercise and pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the Kennedy Space Center. Grissom was born in Mitchell, Indiana. Grissom was a master Mason and member of Mitchell Lodge 228. July 21, 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission. Buzz Aldrin is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Masonic Knight Templar, and a Shriner. Buzz flew the Supreme Council's flag on the moon. That flag is now on...

July 20, 1969: The day that Freemasonry landed on the Moon. Now, it is definitely onward to Mars.

There is something strange going on with a seemingly isolated story quietly occurring in Utah-Colorado. It has come to involve suicides, Indian artifacts, and perhaps, most covertly and confusingly, Mormons. On June 10, 2009, two dozen people* were indicted after a sweeping investigation into ancient artifacts allegedly stolen from public and tribal lands. The indicted are accused of stealing, receiving, or trying to sell American Indian bowls, stone pipes, sandals, arrowheads, jars, pendants, and necklaces. More than 100 agents were involved in the arrests of 23 people. Another person was issued a summons. All were part of a tight-knit network of people involved in illegally excavating, dealing, and collecting stolen artifacts, said Timothy Fuhrman, of the FBI office in Salt Lake City. Bureau of Land Management and FBI agents used a confidential source who in 2007 and 2008 paid more than $335,000 for 256 stolen artifacts, according to court documents. The local reaction was swift and...

Napoléon Bonaparte died on May 5, 1821. The 5 feet, 7 inches of his height was normal for his time, but the British newspaper cartoonists had him shown as much smaller for political reasons. His famous "hidden hand" images were a broadcast signal of his links to the Freemasonry Brotherhood. The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries , by Jacques-Louis David, 1812. Below, when he was younger. The following drawing demonstrates the "Sign of the Master of the Second Veil," (7th Degree Mason) from Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor , 1866. View other "hidden hand" examples, here and here . John W. Booth, whose membership among Masons is today mostly expunged. George Washington, whose Freemasonry membership is celebrated. "The evidence in favor of a Masonic initiation previous to Napoleon’s assumption of the imperial title is overwhelming: The initiation took place in the body of an Army Philadelphe Lodge of the — Ecossais — Primitive Rite ...