Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History (12 page)

Two French radio reporters drove Marcel and eighteen-year-old Danielle Bouvier to the Paris reception for themselves and the Kennedys. After traveling some hundred miles, their car struck a tree and Danielle was killed. With her had been a beribboned box which contained a gift for the First Lady, to whom it was addressed as “For my dear cousin”; inside was a tiny nightingale “broken in its gilded cage.”

Danielle is the feminine form of Daniel and Daniel is a Hebrew word meaning “God is my judge.”

News reports failed to mention the type of tree involved in the crash which took away “Danielle” and ruined her nightingale. Whether or not it was a thorn tree of the rowan type, legend has it that a nightingale sings with its breast pressed against a thorn.

The island of Delos is the reputed birthplace of Apollo and Diana. It is located in the southwest Aegean Sea and is considered the domain of Hecate, the patroness of the ‘Infernal Arts.’ Delos is alternately known as the “Island of the Dead.”

There is nothing more appropriate for the wife of a slain “Sun God” than a pilgrimage to Delos as Jacqueline Kennedy did. She also journeyed to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, and to the ancient Greek Theatre situated above Delphi. It was here that the former First Lady performed what is known as the rite of “greeting the sun” — a fixture in mythology of great antiquity. One might observe that Mrs. Kennedy performed her “sun greeting” with the expertise of an Aleister Crowley.

Before she made her Apollo-oriented pilgrimage, she was photographed wearing a large “diamond sun-burst” on her head. She was reported to be doing some Greek “island-hopping” on the yacht “North Wind” owned by shipping magnate Marcos Nomikos. The island of Epidaurus was one of its ports of call where Jacqueline Kennedy attended Sophocles”
Electra
by the National Theatre of Greece, and then moved on to Hydra, an island named for the dreaded monster-serpent whose nine heads were capable of generation after decapitation.

Another important stop in Mrs. Kennedy’s highly symbolical peregrination is Santorina (Thera), an isle often connected in folklore to the Island of the Vampires or “sucking-fairies.” In fact, Santorina shares the same reputation for vampires as Haiti does for zombies, or the Dominican Republic for the CIA. According to these stories, there was at least as much sucking going on in Santorina (Thera) as on the island of Lesbos.

Mystical toponomy pertains to the magic and mystery of words intersecting with the Masonic science of symbolism. While it differs from the “Old Straight Track” rediscovered by Watkins in the early part of this century, in which alignments or ley lines were discovered to sweep through power sites of ancient religious uses, no one has thus far documented any political or sorcerous uses.

In considering my data, it would be helpful to consider a dictum of Einsteinian physics — a science few would accuse of fanaticism or irrationality: “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 include lines of latitude and longitude and the divisions of degrees in geography and cartography (minutes and seconds).

Let us take as an example “Mason Road” in Texas, which 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 in Masonry of the Scottish Rite is the next to the highest degree awarded. When this 32nd degree line of latitude is traced west into the “Land of Enchantment” it becomes situated midway between Deming and Columbus (NM). Slightly to the north of the town of Columbus are the Tres Hermanas (Three Sisters) mountains. The Three Sisters are found approximately 32 miles between Deming and Columbus and are a minute and some seconds south of the 32nd degree line. When this line is traced further to the west it is found to pass the ghost town of Shakespeare at a distance south of the town that is roughly equivalent to the distance which the 32nd degree line passes north of the Three Sisters Mountains. The names Shakespeare and the Three Sisters find their connection in the tragedy of
Macbeth.

When this 32nd degree line is traced some 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 the town of “Ruby.” Part of the old winding trail became known as the “Ruby Road.” The town of Ruby is established to have acquired its name officially on April 11, 1912, when a post office commenced operation. The town became 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 the Ruby road twists north into the area of two mountain peaks that are 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. The 32nd degree of latitude is but a few seconds from Johnson. In this frontier town on a December evening, 1883, a man known as Colonel Mike Smith and a man called 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) was a man of questionable character and dissolute habits, and his enmity to Masonry is said to have originated in the refusal of the Masons of Leroy…” —
Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

The attack on Mason and Smith, occurring as it did on the 32nd degree line near Keystone, is of ritual significance reminiscent of some other disputes along a certain Mason-Dixon line.

A “keystone” is the designation for the stone at the apex of an arch which, when set in place, “keys” or locks the whole. A symbolical 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 “Ancient York Grand Lodge” allegedly went out of existence at the same time as the Grand Mother Lodge and all other lodges of this rite followed it into “extinction.” Certain Masons have admitted that one of its degrees, the “Royal Arch,” is neither “arch or Royal Arch” (Secretary, Royal Arch Degree, 1759). He continues on to reveal that, “The Royal Arch Degree is not just a separate entity now, but part of the Masonic system.” Had this Royal Arch fallen into the desuetude of the York Rite as a whole, its keystone would be removed and the arch left incomplete. Arch magicians with a faulty arch can be considered to be quite unfortunate indeed.

An arch magician of high degree, according to sorcerous lore, was the third king of the Jews who was named Shelomoh and called Solomon. The principle legends of Masonry emanate from Solomon and the fabled Temple bearing his name. Every lodge is, and must be, a symbol of the Temple of Solomon. Each Master in the Chair is representative of that perfidious Jewish king. Though not all lodges are willing to frankly admit this identification with the ancient synagogue of sin, there is, in Tombstone, Arizona one which does publicly adhere to this label. Tombstone, Arizona was connected, by a variety of old trails, to the Ruby Road and the town of Ruby, which witnessed so many brutal killings.

It should also be noted that many Mexicans were involved in the Ruby shootings and Mexico is, itself, a master symbol of America mystica and a place where the very foulest deeds of Masonic sorcery and witchcraft have transpired. In 1884, the year General Guadalupe Victories became president, tremendous intra-fraternal strife broke out between the York and Scottish Rite (of which, like in America, numerous public officials were members and active participants). This strange Masonic war certainly calls into question the 18th century disbandonment of the York Rite, if it was able, some hundred years later, to resist the extremely powerful Scottish wing. If this appears to be a digression from mystical toponomy, it actually is not, for the land of Mexico is riddled with symbol place names which fit into the Three Sisters and 32nd degree symbolism.

To summarize this segment, one can chart a trail of symbolism associated with the 32nd degree by means of the Mason Road, Mason No El Bar, Tres Hermanas (Three Sisters), Shakespeare, Macbeth, MacBird, Johnson Mountain, Kennedy Mountain, Ruby Road and so on.

Shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a Canadian mountain peak was named in his honor. Kennedy Mountain is located at latitude 60 degrees 20 minutes north and 138 degrees — 58 degrees 5 seconds west. The upper part of Canada’s Disenchantment Bay touches the 60 degree line. Canada, too, has a Three Sisters mountain which lies at 58 degrees.

Senator Robert Kennedy made a journey to this mountain and made camp with the Three Sisters mountain range to his right and the Hecate Strait (a part of the intercoastal waterway reaching almost to Disenchantment Bay) to the left.

Before reaching base-camp for his high-altitude climb at Cathedral Glacier, Robert Kennedy stayed at “Whitehorse.” A white horse is a funerary symbol and is used in Oriental burials: a white stone horse guards the Imperial tomb at Nanking. In the Occident, a black horse is employed for funerals and in the case of the JFK ceremony, the mount was Sardar, the horse given to Mrs. Kennedy by President Khan of Pakistan. Actually Sardar was not black, but a red bay, and had to be dyed for the occasion and his illusion could be viewed as a minor reflection of the generally unreal aspect of the entire rite: a ceremony of disenchantment symbolized by the tying of boots onto the Pakistani horse with the toes pointing backwards.

After her ascension to the White House, Ladybird Johnson went to the ghostly mountains called “Los Chisos” which can mean, “the ghosts” or, as a corruption of the Spanish
hechizo,
signifies “evil spell,” as of the type cast by a
hechicero
and
hechicera.
Los Chisos lives up to its name by way of ghost stories told about that area, which have to do with stinking Indians, dirty greasers, filthy gringos and their victims.

Ladybird made her appearance in the Los Chisos area on April Fool’s Day, 1966. Perhaps she was there when fun-loving specters were having a macabre field day. Perhaps Hecate appeared in some crossroad melodrama and the Three Sisters lectured on mystical toponomy and Banquo talked on Shakespeare.

The Los Chisos Mountains are in the Big Bend National Park in Texas. The park is said to cover 1,100 square miles and has scenery worthy of the Arabian Nights. It is adjacent to such symbolical mountains as the Sierra de la Encantada (Enchantment), Sierra del Carmen (Carmen: charm, enchantment) and Sierra de la Cruz (Cross). The Sierra de la Cruz is a short distance from Los Chisos on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande and within that area is the town of Ojinaga. Here a so-called church, which is said to be a home of the Devil, is erected over a cave which is said to lead to the “Infernal Regions.”

Mrs. Johnson traveled from Big Bend National Park to Fort Davis to some sort of dedication. This military reservation is located very close to Coffin Mountain and Black Mountain. The inversion of the word Davis is “Sivad,” which is associated with the color black, a death coach
(coistebodhar)
and with a coffin. Meanwhile, Lynda Bird Johnson was on a National Geographic trip whose first stop was at some mountains bearing the name Three Sisters (Tres Hermanas) in Monument Valley, Utah. At this particular time, President Johnson was on a trip to the far east where he visited the “City of Demons” and entered the “13 Acre Mosque,” where he performed the Rite of Discalceation, which included a foot washing. Such ablution is widely done in Oriental nations when entering sanctuaries and temples. Whether or not he recited the following words of Macbeth are known only to the initiated few: