This excerpt from the essay "King-Kill/33" has been out of print since 1987 and the publication of
the first edition of Adam Parfrey's conspiracy anthology, 'Apocalypse Culture.' Subsequent editions
of 'Apocalypse Culture' (including the current Feral House edition), do not carry it.

The Campaign for Radical Truth in History (http://www.hoffman-info.com) is pleased to make this
excerpt available once again, on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the immolation of
America's only Catholic president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. May his surviving murderers be yet
brought to justice.

Convicted Mafia hit-man Charles Harrelson, a suspected Kennedy assassin, is incarcerated in a
Federal prison for the contract killing of a federal judge. (The suspect is the father of "Natural Born
Killer" movie star Woody Harrelson, who was directed by "JFK" filmmaker Oliver Stone). Journalists have thus far shown little
interest in attempting to interview the senior Harrelson and persuade him to provide information which might lead to the arrest
and conviction of those responsible for Kennedy's killing.

The late James Shelby Downard's primal way of looking at things, which is the way I think ancient man perceived the world,
encompasses a vision that detects every link and every symbol, beginning with the significance of names, then places and then
the obsessive actions which stem from the confluence of the two and which have come to be known as ritual. Publisher Adam
Parfrey, who first brought Shelby's work to a mass audience, states:

"In Downard's writings, the products of his subconscious bubble to the surface and catalyze painstaking research. The collision
of the poetic against the logical works especially well in the field of conspiracy; it remains the freshest approach to a field of
inquiry..."

I remember sitting in Shelby's airstream trailer in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1977, along with the great Fortean philosopher
William N. Grimstad and Charles Saunders, a brilliant recluse who was a close friend of Jack Kerouac toward the end of the
Beat writer's life (a fact missed by every one of Kerouac's numerous biographers; so much for biographers).

Shelby's conversation that day ranged from the occult significance of the Theremin musical instrument to the sorcerous
implications of elevators, the relationship he had with an evanescent rabbit named Petey; the sinister connotations of the circus
and the mystical topography of the American Southwest, which Mr. Downard knew the way you and I know our backyard.

As he fried our hamburgers, he regaled us in his prospector's drawl with the hidden wonders of a tapestry of coincidences
which he wove from the seeming mundane details of everyday living, into a magic carpet of incomparable strangeness and
peerless utility.

Parfrey spoke for many of Shelby's friends and associates when he stated: "Downard has influenced me to look with interest
upon the details and the fantastic convergences of life..."

For my money, James Shelby Downard is the one man most intimately tied to the once and future November, on the Camelot
calendar's 33rd turning of the wheel, in this age of the Revelation of the Method; the era of the deluge of hidden facts made
public, which Downard predicted would not liberate us, but only enslave us further.

More than two decades ago he foresaw the coming of this time as the fulfillment of the final dictum of the alchemical rampage of
the elephant Must Be; the behemoth run amok in the fields of our nightmares. As the "X-Files" and the other fictional TV shows
which neither I or Shelby have ever seen, purposefully muddy the waters with a flood of pop drivel disguised as revelation, the
actual truths are lost in the swirl.

James Shelby Downard looked forward to the time beyond Must Be, to the era which will witness the return of could be. After
the coming cataclysmic chastisement has run its cleansing course, we will once again wish upon a star and dream a destiny free
of the masonic chain that at present binds our nation as tightly as the hangman's rope once bound the rotted cadavers on
Tyburn Tree.

Despite having been relentlessly targeted and attacked for more than a half century, Mr. Downard, unlike poor Kennedy, did
trip the Harodim on the winding stairs and did slide down the railing, like a child outwitting enormously big and powerful bad
guys, by the fortune which Providence reserves for the guileless. --Michael A. Hoffman II

KING-KILL/33°

Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

By James Shelby Downard with Michael A. Hoffman II

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The information I present in these pages on the Kennedy assassination is well-known to certain news agencies who have
chosen to suppress it, just as the motivation for the assassination has been plunged into cryonic secrecy. Masonic betrayal of
the "common man" involves archetypes of fertility and death symbolism seemingly motivated to bring about syncretism in
opposing principles in order to green Israel, rebuild the Temple of Solomon and establish a One World government.

It is by way of Masonic sorcery that the union of opposing principles is supposed to be brought about. The criminals who
stage-managed Dallas in the killing of Kennedy have controlled the American people's will in exchange for a sleep without
nightmares. I publish this in the wake of the situation Charles Seymour alluded to: "The moralist unquestionably secures wide
support; but he also wearies his audience." Most Americans are beyond being tired; the revelations have benumbed them.

Most Freemasons apparently have no idea of the evil that is part of Masonry, and if they do know about it they don't believe it.
The same holds true for most members of the "Clandestine Lodges" and Masonic-oriented fraternal organizations as well as
Androgynous Masonic Societies.

It is certain that onomatology, or the science of names, forms a very interesting part of the investigations of the higher
Masonry.... --(Encyclopedia of Freemasonry)

When the ancients saw a scapegoat, they could at least recognize him for what he was: a pharmakos, a human sacrifice. When
modern man sees one, he does not, or refuses to, recognize him for what he IS; instead he looks for "scientific" explanations-to
explain away the obvious.

--Thomas Szasz, (Ceremonial Chemistry)

The "science of names" word wizardry forms only one segment of the science of symbolism used by Masons. The JFK
assassination encounters this science in a decisive way and contains a veritable nightmare of symbol-complexes having to do
with violence, perversion, conspiracy, death and degradation. These elements are important not only as cause-and-effect in the
murder of a president but in the ensuing reaction of the people of America and the world.

The fertility and death symbolism in the "Killing of the King" rite which is part of Greening Ritualism that has to do with JFK,
has been suppressed because examination of it must necessarily link it to "Freemasonry" and its mysticism, as well as to the
political influence it exerts. Obviously this would do some damage to public confidence in:

a. Masonic progressivism. i.e. Iiberty, equality, fraternity.

b. Those who have shielded the conspirators.

c. The entire mental concept that passes for knowledge about the genuine nature of the government of the United States.

Mystical Toponomy

Mystical toponomy incorporates word wizardry (onomatology) and the Masonic science of symbolism. In considering my data
it would be helpful to consider a dictum of Einsteinian physics: "Time relations among events are assumed to be first constituted
by the specific physical relations obtaining between them."

My study of place names imbued with sorcerous significance necessarily includes lines of latitude and longitude and the divisions
of degrees in geography and cartography (minutes and seconds).

Let us take as an example the "Mason Road" in Texas that connects to the "Mason No El Bar" and the Texas-New Mexico
("The Land of Enchantment") border. This connecting line is on the 32nd degree. The 32nd degree is the penultimate Masonic
degree awarded. When this 32nd degree of latitude is traced west into the "Land of Enchantment" it becomes situated midway
between Deming and Columbus, New Mexico.

Slightly to the north of the town of Columbus are the Tres Hermanas (three sisters) mountains. It is approximately 32 miles
between Deming and Columbus. The Three Sisters mountains are a minute and some seconds south of the 32nd degree line.
When this line is traced further west it passes the ghost town of Shakespeare at a distance south of the town which is roughly
equivalent to the distance which the 32nd degree line passes north of the Three Sisters mountains. The names "Shakespeare"
and "Three Sisters" find a connection in the tragedy Macbeth which comprises such a large part of JFK assassination imagery.

When this 32nd degree line is traced a little distance farther west, into Arizona, it crosses an old trail which meandered north of
what is now another ghost town but which at one time was called the town of "Ruby." Part of the old winding trail became
known as the "Ruby Road." The town of Ruby acquired its name officially on April 11, 1912, and was notorious for many
brutal murders which had ritual aspects. Four of these homicides occurred in a store attached to the post office which had been
erected over the grave of a Catholic priest.

Continuing on with mystical toponomy, one encounters the fact that Ruby road twists north into the area known as the Kennedy
and Johnson mountains.

Johnson Mountain is supposedly named after the general manager of the Peabody Mining Company who also had a town
named after him which was the location of the Keystone and Peabody copper mines. The 32nd degree of latitude is but a few
seconds from Johnson. In this frontier town on a December evening, 1883, a Colonel Mike Smith and a man Mason were
ambushed by gunfighters described as being of questionable reputation and questionable character. These terms are employed
in Masonic writings:

He [Captain William Morgan, victim of an early 19th century torture-murder by Masons] was a man of questionable character
and dissolute habits, and his enmity to Masonry originated in his refusal of the Masons of Leroy. (Encyclopedia of
Freemasonry).

A "keystone" is the designation for which, when set in place, "keys" or locks the whole. A symbolic keystone is vital to the
legend of the Masonic Royal Arch Degree of York. The earliest known record of such a degree is in the annals of the city of
Fredericksburg, Virginia, on December 22, 1753. Fredericksburg is also the location of the "House of the Rising Sun," a
masonic meeting place for such notables as founding fathers George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (of Hell-Fire Club
fame) and George Mason.

The Killing of the King

Never allow anyone the luxury of assuming that because the dead and deadening scenery of the American
city-of-dreadful-night is so utterly devoid of mystery, so thoroughly flat-footed, sterile and infantile, so burdened with the
illusory gloss of "baseball-hot dogs-apple-pie-and-Chevrolet" that it is somehow outside the psycho-sexual domain.

The eternal pagan psychodrama is escalated under these "modern" conditions precisely because sorcery is not what 20th
century man can accept as real. Thus the "Killing of the King" rite of November, 1963 is alternately diagnosed as a conflict
Needless to say, each of these groups has a place in the symbolism having to do with the Kennedy assassination.

But the ultimate purpose of that assassination was not political or economic but sorcerous: for the control of the dreaming mind
and the marshalling of its forces is the omnipotent force in this entire scenario of lies, cruelty and degradation. Something died in
the American people on November 22, 1963-call it idealism, innocence or the quest for moral excellence. It is the
transformation of human beings which is the authentic reason and motive for the Kennedy murder and until so-called conspiracy
theorists can accept this very real element they will be reduced to so many eccentrics amusing a tiny remnant of dilettantes and
hobbyists.

President Kennedy and his wife left the Temple Houston and were met at midnight by tireless crowds present to cheer the virile
"Sun God" and his dazzlingly erotic wife, the "Queen of Love and Beauty," in Fort Worth. On the morning of November 22,
they flew to Gate 28 at Love Field, Dallas, Texas. The number 28 is one of the correspondences of Solomon in kabbalistic
numerology; the Solomonic name assigned to 28 is "Beale."

On the 28th degree of latitude in the state of Texas is the site of what was once the giant "Kennedy ranch." On the 28th degree
is also Cape Canaveral from which the moon flight was launched-made possible not only by the President's various feats but by
his death as well, for the placing of the Freemasons on the moon could occur only after the Killing of the King. The 28th degree
of Templarism is the "King of the Sun" degree. The President and First Lady arrived in Air Force One, code-named "Angel."

The motorcade proceeded from Love Field to Dealey Plaza. Dealey Plaza is the site of the Masonic temple in Dallas (now
razed) and there is a marker attesting to this fact in the plaza.

Important "protective" strategy for Dealey Plaza was planned by the New Orleans CIA station whose headquarters were a
Masonic temple building. Dallas, Texas is located ten miles north of the 33rd degree of latitude. The 33rd degree is the highest
in Freemasonry and the founding lodge of the Scottish Rite in America was created in Charleston, South Carolina, exactly on
the 33rd degree line.

Dealey Plaza is close to the Trinity River. At 12:22 p.m. the motorcade proceeded down Main Street toward the Triple
Underpass, traveling first down ("Bloody") Elm St. The latter was the scene of numerous gun fights, stabbings and other
violence, and it is the location of the Majestic Theatre, the pawn shop/negro district, and industrial district.

It was also the home of the Blue Front Tavern, a Masonic hangout in the grand tradition of "tavern-Masonry": Sam Adams and
the Masons of the American Revolution did much of their conspiring at the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston. One of the many
bars claiming the honor of being the first Masonic lodge is the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, also in Boston.

The Blue Front was the site of the "broken-man" ritual in which various members of the "Brotherhood of the Broom" swept the
floor and tended some fierce javelino pigs. The Blue Front was once a fire-house and was still sporting its fire-pole in the late
1920s. This is extremely germane symbolism. The national offices of the Texaco Oil Corporation are located on Elm St.,
Dallas. Its chief products are "Haviland (javalino) Oil" and "Fire Chief" gasoline.

On the corner of Bloody Elm and Houston is the "Sexton Building." "Sexton" is heavily laden with graveyard connotations. It is
closely associated to the beetles of the genus Necrophorus or Sexton Beetles, so-called because they bury the remains of tiny
animals with their eggs.

Bloody Elm, Main, and Commerce form a trident pattern in alignment with the triple underpass as any Dallas map will show.
Many analysts contend that at least three assassins were involved in the crossfire ambush of Kennedy.

It is a prime tenet of Masonry that its assassins come in threes. Masonic assassins are known in the code of the lodge as the
"unworthy craftsmen." Because Masonry is obsessed with earth-as-gameboard (tessellation) and the ancillary alignments
necessary to facilitate the "game," it is inordinately concerned with railroads and railroad personnel to the extent that outside of
lawyers and circus performers, no other vocation has a higher percentage of Masons than railroad workers.

Minutes after John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered three "hoboes" ("unworthy craftsmen") were arrested at the railyard
behind Dealey Plaza.

No records of their identities have ever been revealed nor the "identity" of the arresting officer. All that remains of those few
minutes are a series of photographs which have reached legendary proportions among persons concerned with uncovering the
real forces and persons behind the assassination.

Dealey Plaza breaks down symbolically in this manner: "Dea" means "goddess" in Latin and "Ley" can pertain to the law or rule
in the Spanish, or lines of preternatural geographic significance in the pre-Christian nature religions of the English.

For many years Dealey Plaza was underwater at different seasons, having been flooded by the Trinity River until the
introduction of a flood-control system. To this trident-Neptune site came the "Queen of Love and Beauty" and her spouse, the
scapegoat in the Killing of the King rite, the "Ceannaideach" (Gaelic word for Kennedy meaning "ugly head" or "wounded
head").

The systematic arrangement and pattern of symbolic things having to do with the killing of Kennedy indicates that he was a
scapegoat in a sacrifice. The purpose of such macabre ritualism is further recognizable in patterns of symbolism culminating in
the final "making manifest all that is hidden."

Oswald

Oswald means "divine strength." The diminutive form of the word is "os" or "Oz": denoting strength. The role which "Divine
Strength" played in the Dealey "Goddess Rule" Killing of the King ritual should be given careful consideration.

One should also note the significance of (Jack) Ruby's killing (destroying) of "Ozwald" in reference to the "Ruby Slippers" of
The Wizard of Oz which one may deride as a fairy tale but which nevertheless symbolizes the immense power of "ruby light,"
otherwise known as the laser.

Oswald may have undergone biotelemetry implantation in the Soviet Union while a "volunteer" at a Behavior Control Center at
Minsk. Oswald roomed with Cubans and was allegedly friendly with a Castro-man identified only as being "burly" and a "key
man." "Burly" can mean burlecue, burlicue or burlesque. The "key," of course, is one of the most important symbols in Masonry
and the symbol of silence.

If Oswald was the result of some Soviet Frankenstein process why did he have to travel several thousand miles for such
treatment when it is a routine operation in America?

While such activities of the Mill-of-Dread are pro forma at a variety of institutions at the present, there was once a time when it
was deemed necessary to do such work at Walter Reed Hospital.

These implants were back alley operations in which the victims were overpowered in some place or other, drugged and then
dragged to this government hospital. They were operated on, continued on a heavy drug regimen and varied from somnolent to
comatose for a number of days. The electrical function of the victim was recorded and monitored and the biotelemetry plant
tested. Subsequently the victims were "brainwashed" and returned to the place where they had been seized. The targets then
continued their existence, unaware of how their bodies had been invaded and their autonomy stolen.

Occasionally, victims were returned to Walter Reed because of abscesses at the incision or for the replacement of the obsolete
device with an updated one. Biotelemetry implants were made in various parts of the body depending on the desired effect and
function.

Like the disgraceful treatment of the autopsy of President Kennedy, Oswald's is similarly weird. Oswald was literally butchered
in the "postmortem examination." Pieces were actually cut out of his body. The major incision in his torso resembled a huge "Y"
which ran from the area of his groin to the solar plexus region. From there incisions were made to the right and left armpits. The
so-called "two horns of the letter Y" supposedly symbolize the paths of virtue and vice: the right branch leading to the former
and the left to the latter. The letter is sometimes referred to as the "Litera Pythagorae" (The Letter of Pythagoras): "Litera
Pythagorae, discrimine secta bicorni, Humanae vitae speciem praeferre videtur" (The Letter of Pythagoras parted by its
two branched division appears to exhibit the image of human life).

In the 47th Problem of Euclid lies a secret of the 3rd Degree of Masonry. Pythagoras is called by Freemasons "our ancient
friend and brother." One of Pythagoras' main doctrines was the system of "Metempsychosis" which pertains to the passing of a
human soul into the body of an animal. Perhaps this was the intention of the autopsy-by incising in Oswald's body the "Letter of
Pythagoras" they sought to expedite transmigration, and they may even have gone as far as feeding sections of Oswald's corpse
to the intended animal, for this too is a practice of what used to be widely feared as necromancy.

Arlington Necrology

The Kennedy and Oswald burials were both at "Arlington": JFK at the National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., and Oswald
at Rosehill Cemetery near Arlington, Texas. "Arlington" is a word of significance in Masonic sorcery and mysticism and it has a
hidden meaning which ties in with necrolatry.

At the Kennedy gravesite there is a stone circle and in its middle a fire that is called an "eternal flame." The fire in the middle of
the circle represents a point in the circle, the same type of symbolism that is recognizable in Kennedy's bier and cof fin being in
the center of the rotunda in the Capitol. A point in a circle symbolized the sun in ancient sun worship. It was also a symbol of
fecundity, with the point symbolizing a phallus and the circle a vagina.

At the Oswald gravesite stands a small tree. There exists an old belief that a tree which grows at or on a grave is embodied
with the spirit-force of the person buried at that site, and that a twig or branch taken from such a tree has magical powers.

I suggest that Lee Harvey Oswald's mother should gently remove a twig from the tree at her son's grave and then at every
opportunity touch FBI agents, CIA operatives, policemen, etc., with that same twig. Such a procedure couldn't help but be
more efficacious in bringing the murderers of JFK to justice than the Warren Commission was.

Funerary Rites

John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald, the grandfather of John F. Kennedy, was elected mayor of Boston thanks in part to his "Wake
House" campaigns which were much imitated. These consisted of a daily surveillance of the newspapers for announcements of
deaths after which a discreet "sympathizer" would be dispatched and a good deal of political mileage accumulated in the
bargain.

For a time the Fitzgeralds lived near the former site of the Green Dragon Tavern, established around 1680 and demolished for
the widening of a street in 1820. The Fitzgerald home was on Hanover Street and the Green Dragon Tavern was on Green
Dragon Lane (now Union Street). The tavern boasted the "first lodge room of Freemasonry in America," the St. Andrew
Lodge located within the tavern proper.

In the mysticism of the Chinese tongs, the Green Dragon is a death symbol. A symbol of the dragon is worn on a ring or held in
the hand of a "hatchet man." The Green Dragon is supposed to impart the notion of a "license to kill" for it signifies that the
murder is an affair of "honor": the Green Dragon is the guardian of the god-with-a-thousand-eyes who protects the sanctity of
the third heaven.

Much of Boston's Irish population arrived in American in what were nicknamed the "coffin ships." Members of the Kennedy
family were acquainted with the "Coffin" family. The Reverend William Sloane Coffin was the son of the theologian Henry
Sloane Coffin; the younger Coffin was a member of the Peace Corps Advisory Council that Sargent Shriver headed. "Shriver"
or "Shrive" has the meaning of one who grants absolution to a penitent, and it was customary to call upon a shriver before
death. If the shriver was not available, a "sin eater" was summoned. The old pious cry which was connected with the request
for a shriving was "Shrive me O Holy Land and Give Me Peace." To this the shriver would respond "Pax Vobiscum":

...the spell lies in two words, Pax Vobiscum will answer all queries. If you go or come, eat or drink, bless or ban, Pax
Vobiscum carries you through it all. It is as useful to a friar as a broomstick to a witch or a wand to a conjurer. Speak it but
thus, in a deep grave tone, Pax Vobiscum! It is irresistible-watch and ward, Knight and squire, foot and horse, it acts as a
charm upon them all. I think, if they bring me out to be hanged tomorrow, as is much to be doubted they may, I will try its
weights upon the finisher of the sentence. ("Wamba, son of Witless")

Sargent Shriver, a Catholic and Kennedy by marriage, as head of the Peace Corps and in association with a Coffin, might be
considered to be in a sensitive position in relation to mystical onomatology.

In the ancient mysteries the aspirant could not claim a participation in the highest secrets until he had been placed in the Pastos,
bed or coffin. The placing of him in the coffin was called the symbolical death of the mysteries, and his deliverance was termed
a rising from the dead; the "mind," says an ancient writer quoted by Stobaeus, is afflicted in death just as it is in the initiation in
the mysteries. And word answers to word, as well as thing to thing; for burial is to die and death to be initiated. The coffin in
Masonry is found on the tracing boards of the early part of the last century, and has always constituted a part of the symbolism
of the Third Degree, where the reference is precisely to the same as that of the Pastos in the ancient mysteries. [My emphasis.]
(Encyclopedia of Freemasonry)

President Kennedy sat at the head of a coffin table at the White House. To his back, over a fireplace, hung a portrait of
Abraham Lincoln, an assassinated president. On either side of the picture were urns that resembled the type called "cinerary
urns" which are vessels in which the ashes of the dead are kept.

A book about JFK was called Three Steps to the White House. In Masonry are what is known as the "three symbolical
steps." "The three grand steps symbolically lead from this life to the source of all knowledge." (Encyclopedia of Freemasonry)

It must be evident to every Master Mason without further explanation, that the three steps are taken from the darkness to a
place of light, either figuratively or really over a coffin, the symbol of death, to teach symbolically that the passage from
darkness and ignorance of this life through death to the light and knowledge of eternal life. And this from earliest times was the
true symbolism of the step. (Ibid.)

The body of President Kennedy was placed in a coffin which was positioned in the center of a circle under the Capitol dome.
The catafalque was "a temporary structure of wood appropriately decorated with funeral symbols and representing a tomb or
cenotaph. It forms a part of the decorations of a 'Sorrow Lodge.' " This Masonic Encyclopedia entry refers to the ceremonies
of the Third Degree in Lodges of the French Rite.

Pictures taken of the Kennedy coffin and catafalque show these two props of the funerary rite as a point in a circle. Fecundity is
the symbolic signification of the Point within a circle and is a derivation of ancient sun worship.

In the lore of mystery cults and fertility religions was invariably the legend of the death of the hero god and the disappearance of
his body. In the subsequent search and supposed finding of the body we see the contrivance of an elaborate psychological ruse.
The body was said to have been concealed by the killer or killers of the hero god. The concealment of the body was called
"aphanism" and is a rite of the Masonic 3rd Degree. Anyone interested in comprehending the mechanics of group mind control
would do well to study the 3rd and 9th degrees in particular, and all the grades of Masonry in general. The disappearance of
the body, this aphanism, is to be found in the assassination of President Kennedy:

The President's brain was removed and his body buried without it ... Dr. Cyril Wecht, chief medical examiner of Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, past president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists, and a professor of pathology and law,
received permission from the Kennedy family in 1972 to view the autopsy materials (at the National Archives) ... When he
routinely asked to see the brain, Wecht was told it was missing, along with the microscopic slides of the brain. Marion Johnson,
curator of the Warren Commission's material at the Archives said, "The brain's not here. We don't know what happened to it."
(Los Angeles Free Press, Special Report No. I, pg. 16)

If and when the brain is recovered, the entire process will have been completed under the term "euresis." In the Masonic
Mysteries are "symbolical ladders." On the Masonic tracing board of 1776 there is a ladder with three steps, a significant
revision of the usual ladder in such references (seven steps).

There are of course all sorts of ladders: the Brahmanical Ladder (seven steps), the Kadosh Ladder (seven steps), Rosicrucian
Ladder (seven steps), Jacob's Ladder (various numbers attributed), the Kabbalistic Ladder (ten steps); then there is old "Tim
Finnegan's Ladder" which is known to some as the "Ladder of Misfortune," and it is seemingly comprised of one false step after
another.

Tim Finnegan was an Irish hod carrier who fell off his ladder while drunk. Since he was apparently dead, his friends held a
"Death Watch" (black watch or wake) at his coffin. This watch lived up to the traditional "liveliness" of these affairs and Mr.
Finnegan was splashed with some vintage Irish whiskey (Fitzgerald's?) and resurrected. "Finnegan's Wake"...

After the Kennedy coffin was removed from the center of the Capitol rotunda circle, it was taken, with pageantry, to the street
for viewing. The funeral procession made an "unplanned stop" on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the "Occidental Restaurant"
and a picture was taken of the flag draped Kennedy coffin with the word "Occidental" featured prominently over it. In Masonry
and in the lore of the Egyptian jackal-god Anubis, a dead person is said to have "gone west."

Several months after the Kennedy funeral, "Occidental Life," an insurance branch of the Transamerica Corporation, ran an
advertisement for group life insurance which it proclaimed to be "new" but contained a turn that was indeed original: the
inferential weird claim was made that "Until now there was only one way to cash in on Group Insurance" (my emphasis);
apparently some rather profound changes were made in the manner of things-as-they-are after the "Killing of the King" had
become a fait accompli.

The spontaneous stop was made because of the horse Sardar ("chief"), a gelding ("Castro"), which was wearing boots pointing
around to the rear in the Kennedy funerary rite. Horses figure prominently not only in the pleasure of kings but in their murders
as well. James Earl Ray was convicted partly on the evidence of a "white Mustang" (automobile), Sirhan Sirhan claimed to his
psychiatrists, trance-like, that he shot Robert Kennedy "for a mustang, mustang, mustang ..."

John F. Kennedy had demonstrated affection for the performance of a lady who was a renowned ostrich-feather
fan-manipulator (Norma Jean Baker a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe). In Egypt, lamenting girls with ostrich feather-fans sang a song of
entreaty of the type that Nephthys and Isis reputedly sang as a dirge, before the partial resurrection and/or erection of Osiris.
The sad dirge or lamentation has become known as a "Maneros" consisting primarily of the singers entreating the dead to
return, by singing "come to my house" and then offering inducements of some type or other.

It is a damn pity that the ritualists didn't have Marilyn Monroe and Rosemary Clooney sing a Maneros at the JFK funeral, for
Rosemary Clooney just couldn't believe that JFK was dead at the time, and Marilyn Monroe was killed because of JFK. In
Ancient Egypt the entreaty to the dead of the type said to be performed by Isis and Nepthys was usually performed with a
hawk-fertility-goddess statue present along with other funerary symbolism.

Jacqueline Kennedy was considered "fashionable, erudite, erotic and stunningly gorgeous." Mrs. Kennedy visited an exhibition
of Egyptian funerary rite symbols at the National Gallery of Art where she was photographed with a depiction of the
"hawk-headed divinity that was said to be named Hor-khenty-khem." Recently there was a traveling nightmare of funerary
symbolism touring the country (the Tutankhamen exhibit of the National Endowment of the Humanities).

Before JFK began his Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death), he was photographed with Yugoslavian dictator Tito on the
winding stairs in the White House. Tito is a significant name in Masonry since it was the title given to Prince Harodim, the first
Judge and Provost said to be appointed by King Solomon. The Tito was a reputed favorite of Solomon, whose temple was a
hotbed of thievery, money-changing, male and female prostitution and sorcery. This ancient Tito presided over the Lodge of
Intendants of this temple and was one of the "twelve knights of the twelve tribes of Israel."

Let me repeat, JFK was on some winding stairs with a man named Tito. Winding stairs are symbolically important in Masonry.

The degree of the winding stair is taught in the degree of Fellow Craft. This is the Second Degree, and a person at this grade is
of course a candidate for the symbolic assassination, euresis, autopsy and coffin resurrection of the Third Degree.

The number of steps in the winding stair are "odd" although no less so than the fact that this Tito or Harodim is a name
translating as "those who rule over" the activities of the temple Solomon.

The winding stairs of this temple, according to the Masons, begins at the porch and winds to a level purified by the Divine
Presence (Shekinah) and dominated by the Divine Strength (Oswald).

President Kennedy preceded Tito down the stairs to a portrait of the assassinated President Garfield where he was
photographed, and another picture was taken on the stairs before a picture of Lincoln (recall the black walnut rocker of JFK,
comparable to the black walnut rocker Lincoln was assassinated in; the "Lincoln Continental" limousine in which Kennedy was
shot and the dozens of other parallels between the two men). It's unfortunate that President Kennedy didn't trip Tito and then
slide down the stair-rail, for he was in a very vulnerable position as related to Masonic sorcery, and such unorthodox action
might have rattled the "Prince of Harodim."

John F. Kennedy, the one and only Catholic president of the United States, was a human scapegoat, a "pharmakos."
"Pharmakos" or "Pharmak-vos" can mean "enchantment with drugs and sorcery" or "beaten, crippled or immolated." In
alchemy, the Killing of the King was symbolized by a crucified snake on a tau cross, a variant of the crucifixion of Jesus.

Jesus Christ was tortured and murdered as the result of the intrigue of the men of the Temple of Solomon who hated and feared
Him. They were steeped in Egyptian, Babylonian and Phoenician mysticism.

Masonry does not believe in murdering a man in just any old way and in the JFK assassination it went to incredible lengths and
took great risks in order to make this heinous act of theirs correspond to the ancient fertility oblation of the Killing of the King.

I have stated that the three hoboes arrested at the time of the assassination in Dallas are at least as important symbolically as
operationally and that they comprise the "Three Unworthy Craftsmen" of Masonry. This symbolism is at once a telling
psychological blow against the victim and his comrades, a sign of frustrated inquiry-- the supposedly senseless nature of any
quest into the authentic nature of the murderers--and a mirror or doppelganger of the three assassins who execute the actual
murder.

As for the three assassins themselves:

Perry Raymond Russo told a New Orleans grand jury that [CIA agent David] Ferrie said [regarding the assassination of JFK]
that "there would have to be a minimum of three people involved. Two of the persons would shoot diversionary shots and the
third ... shot the good shot." Ferrie said that one of the three would have to be the "scapegoat." He also said that Ferrie
discoursed on the availability of exit, saying that the sacrificed man would give the other two time to escape. (Quoted by W.H.
Bowart in Operation Mind Control).

The Warren Commission

Gentlemen, don't pass me by!

Don't miss your opportunity!

Inspect my wares with careful eye; I have a great variety. And yet there is nothing on my stall.

(Witch in Goethe's Faust I, Walpurgis Night)

These are the thoughts of a huckster-witch which one need not search for dressed all in black with conical cap; instead, look
among the gray flannel suits in the board rooms and offices of the newspapers, electronic media, government and advertising
agencies-that is, those who are not busy working for the CIA or Naval Intelligence selling the public lies.

Mason Lyndon Johnson appointed Mason Earl Warren to investigate the death of Catholic Kennedy. Mason and member of
the 33rd degree, Gerald R. Ford, was instrumental in suppressing what little evidence of a conspiratorial nature reached the
commission. Responsible for supplying information to the commission was Mason and member of the 33rd degree, J. Edgar
Hoover. Former CIA director and Mason Allen Dulles was responsible for most of his agency's data supplied to the panel.

Is it paranoid to be suspicious of the findings of the panel on these grounds? Would it be paranoid to suspect a panel of Nazis
appointed to investigate the death of a Jew or to suspect a commission of Klansmen appointed to investigate the death of a
negro?

Representative Hale Boggs, the only Catholic on the commission, at first agreed with its findings and when he later began to
seriously question them he was "accidentally" killed in a plane crash.

HOODWINK. (Definition.) A symbol of the secrecy, silence and darkness in which the mysteries of our art should be
preserved from the unhallowed gaze of the profane."-Dr. Albert Mackey, Mason, member of the 33rd degree, foremost
Masonic historian of the nineteenth century, writing in the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.

That is how they see us, as "profane," as "cowans" (outsiders), unclean and too perverted to look upon their hallowed truths.
Yes, murder, sexual atrocities, mind control, attacks against the people of the United States, all of these things are so elevated,
so lofty and holy as to be beyond the view of mere humans.

Ruby

On December 20, 1947, Jacob Rubinstein changed his name to Jack L. Ruby by decree of the 68th Judicial Court of Dallas,
Texas. The etymology of the term "Ruby": (French) rubis; (Spanish) rubi; (Latin) rubinus, carbuncle.

ln old law books it was once the practice to print some of the titles of the statutes in red and these were termed rubrics or a
ruby and hence any fixed, formulated or authoritative injunction of duty was apt to be designated as being a rubric or ruby.

As a rubinus or carbuncle Ruby is associated with the "Breastplate of Judgment" used by the Chosen Mispet (High Priests) of
Jewish sorcery, enabling them to receive "divine" answers regarding the welfare of Judaism; some interpretations claim that the
"Breastplate of Judgment" manifested the immediate presence of Jehovah and was also worn by Masons in Royal Arch
chapters.

This "breastplate [which] contained twelve stones" each symbolized one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The carbuncle or ruby
was connected to the tribe of Judah (Nohpech).

The term "Jack Ruby" was once used by pawnbrokers to indicated a fake ruby.

In iconography a ruby or carbuncle symbolizes blood, suffering and death.

Truth or Consequences

District Attorney for New Orleans, James Garrison, was supported by a "Truth or Consequences" Club and is alleged to have
been an ex-FBI agent and to have been mentally disturbed at one time. Jim Garrison was an outsider in the Secret Society
machinations of the FBI and may very well have been pharmacologically or hypnotically induced to set up his ill-fated
investigation and the position he acquired in the "Truth or Consequences Commission."

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, is a town located on the 33rd degree of parallel latitude, and near the same latitude John
Fitzgerald Kennedy became an oblation and on the same latitude is the chief Temple on this planet in the minds of sorcerers,
namely the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem, which was once located there and is sworn to be rebuilt on this 33rd degree.

In a literal, alchemical sense, the Making Manifest of All That is Hidden is the accomplishment of the 3rd Law of the Alchemists
and is, as yet, unfulfilled or at least not completed; the other two have been: the creation and destruction of primordial mater
(the detonation of the first Atomic Bomb at the Trinity Site, at White Sands, New Mexico, on the 33rd degree of parallel), the
Killing of the King (at the Trinity Site, at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, near the 33rd degree of latitude).

Only the repetition of information presented in conjunction with knowledge of this mechanism of Making Manifest of All That is
Hidden provides the sort of boldness and will which can demonstrate that we are aware of all the enemies, all the opponents, all
the tricks and gadgetry, and yet we are still not dissuaded, that we work for the truth for the sake of the truth. Let the rest take
upon themselves and their children the consequences of their actions.

                            --James Shelby Downard with Michael A. Hoffman II

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