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The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, & the Battle for The New World

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This book really explains the real history of the United States and the world.Its unlike many of the conspiracy theories out there which may not back up much of what they claim.This book describes much of the hidden history of the United States in detail. Much of this information has seldom been heard before. The first parts of the book are a bit tedious though they provide much of the background for the formation of Freemasonry in the United States. Once past the first parts, though the book is a real pleasure to read.

I began this book thinking the history interesting. Although the repeated comments about "possible Freemasonic faction" concerned me, since there were no records to support these "possibilities". I wondered if I was being sucked into anti-Masonic drivel. Still there was potential for some of his ideas to be accurate, though not provable. After 80 pages he made some attempts to explain these Masonic factions but drew too many conclusions not based in fact. Still, I found his early chapter on the settling of America interesting particularly concerning the Deists and the Founding Fathers. At this stage of his work when he quoted Paine, Franklin, Washington, Jefferson ect, the sources actually pointed to things these men said. The book is plausible in many ways until we reach page 128 and the German Illuminati. He quotes Weishaupt concerning nationalism and its ills, and the quote seems to have come from Weishaupt and was a really good point. After this he quotes the nefarious plots of Weishaupt, (at which point I started checking his sources as I thought it odd that Weishaupt would have written down his secret plans and left them where they could be found) from here on every terrible offense supposedly committed by the Freemasons, whether direct quotes or otherwise are primarily sourced from 3 conspiracy writers (Still, Rivera and Daniel), when you don't count the times he quotes himself. Now Hagger moves deeper into fantasy and I began to wonder if anything he had written thus far was accurate. When Hagger begins to quote Pike, again we find that he is not actually quoting Pike but these other "authors" (I use the term loosely). When Hagger asserts that Pike wrote "that Lucifer is the God of the Freemasons", again he quotes Still not Pike, but this time goes a step further to provide Still's source (something he rarely did) this source was none other than Leo Taxil, a conman and self professed liar. Taxil wrote extensively on evil Freemasonry at the end of the 1800's on behalf of the Catholic Church, which hated Freemasonry. When pressured to bring forth his sources, Taxil who had made a fortune from the church for his efforts, confessed before a large audience that he had made up everything and explained that his purpose was to make money and ultimately embarrass the Catholic Church while at the same time sticking it to Freemasons. Taxil called it a joke. Although all that Taxil said was a lie anti-Masons still love to use Taxils "information" to denounce Freemasonry. Hagger shows that he has no understanding of Freemasonry's structure (easily found in many books and webpages), and repeatedly points to men he calls 33rd degree Masons at a time when the Scottish Rite had only 27 degrees. He also names many other so called 33rd degree Masons (from a time when there were such) with not one lick of evidence sourced. I could go on but I hope you get the idea. The last 50 pages of this book is pure crap although a few nuggets of truth might be found here and there. There are powerful interests that control the world, but they hide behind people like Hagger who are always pointing fingers in the wrong directions to distract people who believe whatever they say and are not smart enough to check sources for themselves. Quoting as fact things that other people make up is not viable historical research. I am only glad that I bought this book used and my money did not go to this author.

Any history of America that starts by referring to the discovery of the site of James Fort with a comparison to Schliemann's discovery of Troy is not a serious history book.

Troy was assumed to be a myth - as in the Greek gods were a myth. We may not have known exactly where James Fort was located, but no one doubted it had been there. No one thought the Jamestown settlers landed on some mythic spot which was instantly wrapped back up in mist like Brigadon.

His next contention is he has brilliantly discovered that the man whose house he has recently bought was the actual true father of Jamestown and not that pirate John Smith.

Well, pirate or not, John Smith was on site and kept them from starving to death. To me that's like saying Jules Verne, not Neil Armstrong, was the first man on the moon. Important yes, first, no.

To be honest, my first thought was he's figured out a way to make the purchase of his home a work deduction for tax purposes.

If you can find it second hand, it's worth the laugh.

Nicholas Hagger is a wonderful writer, whose works I have only recently discovered, and yet have thoroughly enjoyed. Here, he takes on the very important topic of the freemasonic founding, development, and current status of the United States of America. And he does so in a manner that is both wonderfully entertaining and extraordinarily insightful.

Hagger's thesis is essentially that the elite who founded America, and have ever since run her, hide behind a Christian veneer their duplicitious masonic agenda. He proves this conclusively, with meticulous documentation, and truly admirable style.

With Hagger, I always seem to have a couple points of contention. And this excellent work is no exception. Early on, he succombs, I think, to stock anti-Catholic propaganda in his description of early Catholic Florida. And his final statement reflects a certain sympathy with the notion of a One World Government, so long as that entity is animated by the "Light". Yet, these departures from sound logic and revelation do not significantly detract from the overall excellence of this very important and insightful book. I recommend this book strongly to anyone who would understand the true nature of American history and the contemporary influences on American governance. And I look forward to absorbing still more wisdom from this really quite excellent expositor.

With over 20 metaphysical books published since 1984, 68-year-old Nicholas Hagger has devoted two recent volumes to Masonic conspiracies (The Syndicate and The Secret History of the West), of which this is the third.
??In Secret Founding, Hagger expands on the themes developed in his earlier works. Broadly stated, he blames Freemasons for every major traumatic event of the past four centuries, including the American, French, and Russian Revolutions (four in Russia, as counted by Hagger); the U.S. Civil War and Abraham Lincoln's assassination; World War I and II; the Cold War; the Vietnam War; and the current oil-based turmoil in the Middle East.
??In most events, Hagger reports that Masons led both sides, promoting tragic conflict in pursuit of massive profits. Their goal today, he says, is the development of a one-world government which supercedes the New World Order as prophesied by President George H.W. Bush.
??But the grand Masonic plot is far more sinister than any mere bid for ultimate power on a global scale. Its hidden agenda, Hagger tells us (cleverly citing his own published work as the ultimate source!), is a religious plot that threatens every Christian soul on Earth. Simply stated: "The god of Freemasonry is Lucifer."
??Because secret histories are, by definition, secret, factual documentation becomes problematic in works such as Hagger's. His bibliography includes all the major anti-Masonic screeds published since the mid-19th century and some of the sources cited here are, frankly, round the bend. The late Stephen Knight, for example, offered the discredited Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a Masonic blueprint for world domination, rather than what it was--an anti-Semitic forgery published by Tsarist agents to justify turn-of-the-century Russian pogroms (See Mysteries issue #___).
??Readers with a pre-existing grudge against Freemasons will enjoy Hagger's Secret Foundation, much as Ann Coulter's fans enjoy "fair and balanced reporting" on Fox News. Their fears will be confirmed and no solutions to the "menace" will be forthcoming, thereby granting them the pleasure of extended agitation. Serious researchers, on the other hand, are well advised to spend their hard-earned money elsewhere.
--www.mysteriesmagazine.com

First, organization and style make this a difficult read. The first third is a reverse-chronology of colonial settlement, often devolving into a mere rambling rapid-fire of who killed whom where. Names and religious sects are hurled at the lost reader like an arrow barrage, sprinkled with teasers - was this player from a rival Freemason faction, etc. - long before Freemasonry's origins and stance are discussed. Hagger simply presumes you'll keep up.

Second, once he's discussed Bacon and Freemasonry, what follows is a Freemasons/elites-run-the-world version of history. Up to the Constitution, some of it's believable. An acceptable argument is made that many patriots were Freemasons and deists who believed in religious freedom vice Christianity in particular, as supported by their church practices, education, and preferences in art and literature.

Yet we're also acquainted with the layout of D.C., symbols on the dollar bill, etc., and from there things get hard to swallow. For because of the accepted degrees of secrecy in its hierarchy, supposedly even the Founding Fathers didn't grasp the true agenda: a world government, re-establishment of the Jerusalem kings, and thanks to a radical Germanic sect, worship of Satan. America was merely to be a Utopian Atlantis, strong only long enough to wipe out religion through tolerance. There's paradox and a long-term jihad-mindset everywhere.

Hagger says the Constitution is just the imprinting of the Freemason lodge system on our country, led silently (he doesn't say why) by Washington. Somehow, this uniquely equals thirteen united colonies. While the Masonic 13 supposedly figures into the U.S. seal (the French burned a Templar on Friday the 13th centuries ago), how we got to precisely 13 original colonies isn't even broached. How a wasp's nest of secret societies compares to a bicameral legislature and three government branches isn't discussed. At the same time, it's suggested that the Constitution wasn't written so much to correct the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation but, in the great omni-plan, to squash state powers and give rise to the Confederacy and the Civil War.

Then comes the chapter on the Rothschild's funding of the Civil War, where virtually everyone but Lincoln, including his assassin was a Freemason, followed by a treatise where Freemasons and offshoots (essentially treated as one and the same) have run everything from WWII and the Cold War to the U.S., Soviet Bloc, and everything in-between. We're to accept or conclude that most of our presidents including FDR, Truman, etc., being 30-something-degree Masons, were privy to the true cause and, if not devil worshipers themselves, knowingly took direction from those who were.

Don't-believe-everything-you-read applies here, and don't waste your money on a new copy. It's a given that the rich and powerful are networked: by Masonry, Skull and Bones, the CIA, KGB, military-industrial-complex, etc. Whether these entities have always acted in concert is treated much more intelligently elsewhere, without the anti-religious undertones. I recommend Superclass by David Rothkopf, who has actually interviewed many of the power-players he writes about.

Mr. Hagger has an interesting appraoch of writing history: make an assertion and then accept it as true. In this, he is far more consistent than his far-fetched (where not off-the-wall) recounting of American history from Jamestown on.

He asks that if Jones and Smith were in the same city at the same time, did they meet? Then, he proceeds with his version of subsequent evets, as if they did. The many examples of this go to prove that he thinks he knows something esoteric that he is bravely revealing for the first time. His main points (and most of the minor) points have been refuted time and again by reputable scholars and researchers.

He takes as fact his own unverifiable statements, as if he were privy to arcane sources of knowledge. The whole contention that Templar Masonry came to England with James VI (later the First) is esoteric myth. He needs stalking horse for his later case against the Free Masons. True to form, he resequences the development of French (Orient) Masonry to bring that body into the conspiracy to foment the US Civil War.

He totally ignores the Second Great Awakening (although he does, grudglingly, mention the First) and its effects on Abolitionism in favor of an all-powerful Freemasonic conspiracy to split the US in two, so that the appropriate European powers could dominate the resultant, weakened parts. His contention that the House of Rothschild, acting through August Belmont, was party to this makes a case for why Libya invited him to teach there. (Anti-Semitism always has a market among conspiracy theory addicts, and others.)

I could continue, but that would mean having to recall more of the drivel and pseudo-intellectual claptrap I suffered through the first time.

I originally purchased this "book" at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Obviously, no one read it, but merely relied on the Publisher's shamelessly misleading puffery and the catchy title.

I have been reading since the 1960's, but it is only in the last ten years that I have seen a virtual nuclear explosion of discovery, dissemination, discussion, and deliberation over matters that in the past have been hushed up, censored, ignored, ridiculed, or crushed.

This is such a book. I list a few others that merit study below. America was, as the author puts forth, a virgin territory in which the Indians were genocided (both deliberately and accidentally, e.g. by infectuous diseases not yet known to them) so that a European war could play out between Catholics, Protestants, and secret societies, the Freemasons in the forefront.

I am not a fan of conspiracy theories, but I do believe that when documentation reaches a critical mass, it is essential that we keep an open mind and "deal with it."

EDIT Inspired by 1st Comment: Rule by Secrecy, which slipped my mind, ends by suggesting that aliens populated the earth and the secret societies evolved as their "straw bosses" when it was realized that the larger mass of now much more intelligent humans could not be "penned up" as slaves. This is certainly plausible, but my own interim explanation is that the secret societies, which evolved to challenge the authorities of both king and pope, may have seen it convenient to claim that they were the represenatives of a "higher order" such as the Illuminati appear to claim. Either way, the longer we continue to eat our own seed corn and kill our own children of the Earth, the less likely we are to defeat these secret societies and redistribute the wealth--there is PLENTY of money for peace and prosperity across the planet, it is simply too concentrated in greedy, corrupt, arrogant, and irresponsible hands.

There is no question in my own mind, as a reader of non-fiction reviewed here at Amazon (the last 1000 books, not the first 2000+), but that the US Government is not in charge of anything. We the People are not in charge of the US Government. I see a very clear connection between secret societies, select bankers, corrupt corporate chiefs all too eager to screw their stockholders and their employees and their customers, and a Congress and a White House that are nothing more than prostitutes.

This is an important book, because it begins to fill the gaps. The people have a digital memory now, and those that have abused power cloaked in secrecy, now need to help create infinite wealth--there is no need to confiscate ill-gotten gains as long as those who have the concentrated wealth now do not stand in the way of our creating "seven billion billionaires" (Medard Gabel's term).

Other references:
Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids
Animal Farm (Signet Classics)
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal ReserveThe Case Against the Fed
Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project)
Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions
The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

Nicholas Hagger writes about the main episodes of the initial European footholds in the North Atlantic lands of the then New World, well before the celebrated Plymouth myth.

He brings about all the crude details, failures and misdeeds of these early settlers or planters as he likes to call them. He brings down the Thanksgiving setting to its historical reality of being secondary to the main English colony of Virginia and Jamestown as the real first English settlement in America.

This is a prelude to the real theme of the book which is to highlight the early importance of Freemasonry in the forming of the United States.
But first he reminds that the Spanish were established in North America over half a century earlier in Saint Augustine, Florida, which remained a Spanish land for an additional three centuries.

His detailed description of the conflict between Spanish and French for the dominion of Florida is definitely skewed with plenty of illustration of Spanish cruelty "for which they were reknown". The author forgets to mention that his sources are from a historical period when Spain received effective propaganda against as the then global superpower. Not to deny that Spanish armies and military leaders were cruel. They were, in the eyes of today's political correctness, yes. But so were the English and the French, as the author points out in their chapters, although not as carefully or as editorially as he puts down the Spanish.

And then, he is trying to make a point. Freemasonry was created to fight religious intolerance and to help European society shed its Church oppression. Thus the Masons wanted to create a new nation which would shine and serve as a beacon to the rest of the world. This is all good.

I would only wish he wouldn't pick on the Spanish, because these European conditions were rampant everywhere and the Inquisition, created in Italy, not Spain, had its equivalent oppressive institutions and behaviors in France, England, Germany and Switzerland. Yes the peaceful Swiss in Geneva burned a few too. That's a few catholics.

Freemasonry was also very influential in the French Revolution, and much political change in Europe and perhaps the rest of the world. But that's another story, that Nicholas Hagger is writing about in other works.

This "book" is one man's warped view on the threat of "internationalism" which he implies the Freemasons support. A better book about his subject is Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons". BTW this book is really better listed as Fiction than History. One star is too high but Amazon requires it.

Once I read his brief bio on the inside fly "lecturer at the universities of Tripoli and Tehran" I should have stopped.

There is no research, no footnotes, endless statements of "facts" based on thin threads such as Ben Franklin was in London, so and so was in London, he was believed to be a Freemason, therefor Franklin was a Freemason!

I read 100 pages to see if there was any redeeming value and then threw the book away, I won't even give it away.

There is no way to recommend this book to anyone.