Ritual America by Heimbichner, Craig -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Copyright Title Page Table of Contents FOREWORD INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: LOOK AROUND, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE

The Giant Fraternal Town Swimming Pool Traditional / Masonic / Appendant / Men-Women-and-Children A Brotherhood for Your Every Need Social / Fun / Partying / Dionysian / Bacchanalian / Philanthropic Patriotic / Police / Military Blue Collar / Labor / Farmer / Insurance Temperance Bands / Drinking Clubs Race / Nationalism Religious / Mystical / Occult Business / Professional / Community Burlesque / Hazing/ Fraternity / Minstrel The Masonic Origins of Baseball

CHAPTER TWO: POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE: EVERY MAN A KING

Cowans and the Committee of Three Contemplating Skulls and Getting Hoodwinked Structure of a Lodge Meeting, Outline of an Initiation Hierarchies An Imposter Democratizing the Monarchy Fraternal Fistfights Thousands of Orders and Their Substitution for Church and Government High Titles, Floats, and Fezzes More Secret Royalty from Red Men and Veiled Prophets Officers of the Knights of Korassan They Call It the Hoodwink Types of Initiations: Conformist, Gnostic, and Sadomasochistic Riding the Goat The DeMoulin Brothers and the Holy Goat Hazing Man Killed During Initation at Masonic Lodge

CHAPTER THREE: THE GRAND CYCLOPS: RACE, GENDER, AND THE BROTHERHOODS

Top Cat “Fighting Coons” Black Shriners and the Moorish Science Temple of Noble Drew Ali The Prophet’s Beginnings The End of Time and the Fulfillment of the Prophecies Improved Order of the Red Men Not for Red Men From the Initiation Ceremony of The Improved Order of the Red Men From the Red Men Pledge of Honor The Enigma of Albert Pike Pike’s Peak The Confederate General Pike on the Pope and Jesuits The White Knights Jacques DeMolay and the Boys Club The Fiery Cross Buggers for Baphomet? DeMolay Ritual A DeMolay’s Ethics Moose Recreation: Drinking and Sports No Loafers Among the Moose Boy Scouts and Being Square Manhood? Her Role Is Chosen Why Women Cannot Become Masons The Back of the Bus and the Kitchen Apron

CHAPTER FOUR: STRANGE, ESOTERIC AND CONFOUNDING TWILIGHT LANGUAGE

Twilight Language and Mystical Masonry Sexual Geometry and the Arithmetic of Death Cryptic Rites, Caverns, and Subterranean Masonry Robert Anton Wilson on Coded Word Games Twilight History Symbolic Human Sacrifice: The Cornerstone Ritual Orientalism, the Temple of Solomon, and the Red Heifer The Wicked Acacia Trip Arabian Nights and Muslim-Crusader Ping-Pong The Norwegian Order of Freemasons Expressing Compassion and Care Again, the Goat The Knights of Templar Appeal Masonic Muslims and the Nobles of the Shrine From the Shriner’s Oath A Shrine “Bloc” in Congress The Brotherhood of the Gun FOP Spotlights Robert F. Kennedy as “The Enemy” The Masonic Military The Masonic Pass An Officer, a Gentleman, a Master Mason The Committee of 33 Military Mystical Toponomy Bagging Baghdad Freedom Team and the Iraq Lodge The CIA and the Blackfriars J. Edgar Hoover, the Mason’s Mason Masons Bury Doubts about a Dead Kennedy From King-Kill / 33° The Warren Commission Masons on the Moon The Freemason, the Cornerstone, and the IRS A Short List of Masonic Entrepreneurs Mellon – IRS Mess Worst Yet Solomon’s Treasure: The Magic and Mystery of America’s Money COLOR PLATES Bohemian Tragedy About the Bohemian Club The Bohemian Grove Gets Literary

CHAPTER FIVE: RAISING TUBAL-CAIN

The Anti-Mason Every Lodge Loves Cooking It Up Secrets for Sale Blanchard Heads off the Plagues of Egypt Lodge Criticism Anti-Masonry Evils of Secret Societies Masonic Assassins, Lucifer, and Lodge Hookers: Léo Taxil’s Satanic Panic Baphomet’s Breasts Taxil’s Confession: The Game Begins Prayer of Release for Masons and Their Descendants What Freemasonry Means to Me by Reverend Norman Vincent Peale It Is Great to Be a Mason by Danny Thomas FATWA Regarding Freemasonry Pope Leo XIII: Tear Away the Mask from Freemasonry Southern Baptists: Eight Problems with Freemasonry The Grand Judeo-Masonic Plot Ezra Pound on Freemasonry The Elks Indulge in Every Lust of the Flesh Being Fair to Catholics, Masons, and Luciferian Spirits High Priestess of the Secret Society Potboiler From Nesta Webster, World Revolution The Illuminati: Quiet Rationalists, Satanic Subversives, or a Bit of Both? Diogenes’ Lamp by Adam Weishaupt Brother Albert Mackey on the Illuminati Robert Anton Wilson on Weishaupt An Epopt Speaks: James Wasserman on the Illuminati David Icke on the Illuminati

CHAPTER SIX: SONS OF THE DESERT: FREEMASONRY IN POPULAR CULTURE

Brotherhoods in Film and Television Lady Gaga Talks of Illuminati Dreams Televised Fraternities Mouth to Ear by Ernest Borgnine Tweets from Lindsay Lohan on Freemasonry Harold Lloyd and the World of Hiram Abiff Dan Brown and the Mason’s Boast From Tied to Masonic Apron Strings The Palace The Mother Lodge The Lamb Skin by Edgar A. Guest Fraternally Yours Modern Woodmen Selected Songs Brick by Brick: Edgar Allan Poe’s Anti-Masonic Sarcasm The Cask of Amontillado Lalla Rookh

CHAPTER SEVEN: SEX, DEATH, CLOWNS AND CRIPPLED CHILDREN

The Geometry of Generation: The 47th Problem of Euclid Paschal Beverly Randolph: Trance Medium, Friend of Lincoln, and Mulatto Sex Magician Mystical Sexual Explanations Fraternal Death Suffer the Little Children Study Shows Children Fear Clowns Cripple Joe’s Big Brothers The Masonic Jesters Mirth Is King and Silence Is Golden Code of Secrecy Human Trafficking Close to Home The Masonic Mascots MasonicLeaks and the DeMolay Molestations Elks, Moose, Eagles and Corks Brother Expelled Scouts Dishonor Boys Town Peculiar Ties Connect Boys Town to CIA Masonic Directives to Drink Not to Drink: From the International Good Templar

CHAPTER EIGHT: FOLK MAGICK, CRYPTO-MASONRY, AND HOLDING IT

The Masonic Historian Who Chartered Crowley Egyptian Rites Yarker Puts a Fresh Apron on the Beast Yarker’s Masonic Bona Fides: A Partial List Kicking Pike in the Crotch The Man Who Would Be Beast Crowley on Freemasonry Sex Magick The Quotable Beast Osho/Rajneesh on Wilhelm Reich Parsons, Hubbard, and Crowley The Son’s Story Strange, Near-Impotent Sex Magick Freemasonry and Kabbalism Madame Blavatsky and the Mahatmas Charles Leadbeater: Theosophist, Convicted Masturbator, and Co-Masonic Leader More Occult Battles The Black Rose Satan for Sale Satan Asks, “Who’s in Charge?” Folk Magick in America Mormons vs. Masons Our Man Moses The Prophet, Freemason, and Martyr Joseph Smith The Anti-Mormon Point of View The Fox Sisters and Mr. Splitfoot

EPILOGUE

Fast-Food Fraternalism Bowling Alone and Self-Initiating in the Armchair

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