Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
--James Shelby Downard with Michael A. Hoffman II

Copyright©1998. All Rights Reserved

Published electronically in conjunction with the 33rd anniversary of the JFK
assassination by the Campaign for Radical Truth in History,
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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

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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.

Recommended resources:
Essay: "Dark Side of a Bad Moon: The Ritual Aspects of Criminal Politics" by
Michael A. Hoffman II, in Revisionist History no. 12 (Jan. 2000)

Book: Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare by Michael A. Hoffman II

The complete manuscript: King-Kill 33 by James Shelby Downard and Michael A.
Hoffman II

Manuscript: Skullduggery by James Shelby Downard