Explores how a secret cabal of influential families has shaped the United States according to the principles of sacred geometry and Goddess veneration
• Exposes the esoteric influences behind the National Grange Order of Husbandry
• Examines the sacred design and hidden purpose of the Washington Monument
• Reveals how the three obelisks in New York City depict the stars of Orion’s Belt
• Explains how every baseball diamond is actually a temple to the Goddess
In America: Nation of the Goddess, Alan Butler and Janet Wolter reveal how a secret cabal of influential “Venus” families with a lineage tracing back to the Eleusinian Mysteries has shaped the history of the United States since its founding. The evidence for such incredible assertions comes from American institutions such as the National Grange Order of Husbandry and from the man-made landscape of the United States where massive structures and whole cities conform to an agenda designed to elevate the feminine within religion and society.
The authors explain how the Venus families, working through the Freemasons and later the Grange, planned the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. It was this group who set the stage for the Founding Fathers to create Washington, D.C., according to the principles of sacred geometry, with an eye toward establishing the New Jerusalem. The authors explore the sacred design of the Washington Monument, revealing its occult purpose and connections to the heavens. They reveal how the obelisks in New York City depict the stars of Orion’s Belt just like the Giza pyramids and how the site of one of them, St. Paul’s Chapel, is the American counterpart to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Exposing the strong esoteric influences behind the establishment of the Grange in the United States, they connect this apparently conservative order of farmers to the Venus families and trace its lineage back to the Cisterians, who were a major voice in the promotion of the Crusades and the establishment of the Knights Templar.
The authors conclude with the startling revelation that nearly every city in America has a temple to the Goddess hidden in plain sight--their baseball diamonds--exposing the extent to which the Venus families are still at work behind the scenes.
The Champ de Mars is a large public green space in Paris, France, located in the seventh district between the Eiffel Tower and the École Militaire. The park is named after the Roman Campus Martius ("Field of Mars"), a tribute to the Roman god of war. The name refers to the fact that the lawns here were previously used by the French military as drilling and marching grounds.
Champ de Mars was originally part of a large flat area called Grenelle, which was intended for market gardening. Citizens would apply for small plots of land and use them to grow fruit, vegetables and flowers for the local market. However, the Grenelle Plain was not a very fertile place to farm.
The construction of the École Militaire in 1765, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, was the first step towards the Champ de Mars in its current form. Areas of military exercises were originally planned in the area south of the school, in the current location of Fontenoy. The choice to build an esplanade north of the school led to the noble façade that surrounds the Champ de Mars today. The planners leveled the ground, surrounded it by a large ditch and a long cobblestone boulevard, and as a final touch, the esplanade was enclosed by a fine lattice garden.
On August 27, 1783, Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon from Champ-de-Mars.
This place witnessed the spectacle and beauty of the festivals best remembered by the French Revolution. On July 14, 1790, the first celebration of Federation Day (fête de la Fédération) was held on the Champ de Mars, now known as Bastille Day, exactly one year after his incarceration. The following year, on 17 July 1791, the Champ de Mars was massacred. Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, fell victim to his own revolution and was guillotinated there on November 12, 1793.
The Champion of the Supreme Being was also held on June 8, 1794 in Champ de Mars. According to the design of the painter Jacques-Louis David, a massive "National Altar" was built on top of the artificial hill, which was crossed. at the tree of freedom. The festival is considered to be the most successful of this type of revolution. For a hundred days, the restored Napoleon Champ de Mai held a ceremony during which he vowed to follow the 1815 Charter on Champ de Mars.
In 2012, the exhibition was held at the United Buddy Bears Champ de Mars, an international art exhibition featuring individual countries from more than 140 two-meter bears. They promote peace, love, tolerance and international understanding and are displayed throughout the planet. They stand in front of the Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris.
Champ de Mars was used as the scene in James Bond's 1985 film A View to a Kill, where Bond (last played by Roger Moore) drove a Renault 11 taxi he had hijacked at the Eiffel Tower.
Champ de Mars is the venue for beach volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics and five at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
1893 Queen Isabella Commemorative Quarter. (Image via me)
A few things I’ve picked up from researching early commemorative coins:
The people behind them always hope they can raise a ton of money for a pet project or monument or expo. They rarely do.
The designs usually get denigrated by the numismatic press – oftentimes with a venom critics reserve for Limp Bizkit albums or Michael Bay movies.
The mint melts down the excess/unsold coins. As a result, the ones that did sell end up becoming valuable decades later – screwing over collectors on a budget like yours truly.
Those issues were all in play for the 1893 Isabella Quarter.
The Queen Isabella commemorative quarter traces its beginnings to the World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. Congress had already authorized the minting of a commemorative half dollar featuring Christopher Columbus, but a group of women, led by Bertha Palmer, whose husband, Potter, owned the famed Palmer House hotel in Chicago, thought they could do better.
Spearheaded by renowned women’s rights activist, and future $1 coin subject, Susan B. Anthony, the Board of Lady Managers had been awarded $10,000 in federal funds to help manage the Columbian Expo. In early 1893, the Board went before the House Appropriations Committee to ask that the $10,000 could be paid to them in the form of 40,000 specially designed commemorative quarters, which they could then sell at a profit. Congress obliged and the Board set about becoming “the authors of the first really beautiful and artistic coin that has ever been issued by the government of the United States.”
Obviously, the Board wanted a female on the obverse and decided on Queen Isabella I of Castile, who had provided vital financial support for Columbus’s voyages. Putting a foreign monarch on U.S. currency was unprecedented (indeed, there had a been a revolution over it), but according to Coin Week, the main source of conflict was over design.
Caroline Peddle, a former student of famed artist and coin designer Augustus Saint-Gaudens, was hired by the Board to design the coin. However, her sketches, which included a seated Isabella on the obverse and the inscription “Commemorative coin issued for the Board of Lady Managers of the World’s Columbian Exposition by Act of Congress, 1492–1892” on the reverse, were deemed to look too token-like and rejected. Rather than be allowed to redesign the coin, the Mint took away the reverse side and gave it to one of their in-house artists, Charles Barber, to design.
After some more back-and-forth and additional restrictions imposed by the Mint, Peddle resigned. The Mint then cobbled together some portraits of Isabella and ultimately produced an image of a young Isabella wearing a crown on her head for the obverse. On the reverse, the Mint went with an image of a woman kneeling while holding a distaff and spindle- symbolizing her industry. The Board had suggested an image of the Woman’s Building at the Expo, and Palmer later stated that the Board disliked the Mint’s reverse image because “we did not consider [it] typical of the woman of the present day.” However, the Mint made the final decision and approved the coin design.
To say that the reception for the commemorative quarter was not warm is a bit like saying that the American public didn’t embrace Apple’s Newton. The American Journal of Numsimatics was particularly brutal:
[W]e do not know who designed it, but in this instance, as in the half dollar, the contrast between examples of the numismatic art of the nation, as displayed on the Columbian coins, on the one hand, and the spirited and admirable work of the architects of the buildings, for instance, on the other, is painful. If these coins really represent the highest achievements of our medalist and our mints, under the inspiration of an opportunity without restrictions, the like of which has never been presented hitherto in the history of our national coinage, we might as well despair of its future…
The American Journal of Numismatics in October 1893, quoted by PCGS.
The Journal also drew a “mournful” comparison between the reverse design of the kneeling woman holding the distaff and spindle and the well-known “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?” anti-slavery Hard Times Token. Surely, the Board felt vindicated by that line – although there’s no evidence Palmer or anyone else affiliated with them ever wrote to the Mint to say: “See? I told you we should gone with the building on the reverse.”
1838 HT-81 “Am I Not A Woman & A Sister?” (Image via me)
Sales figures, meanwhile, were disappointing. Of the 40,000 coins minted, a little more than half (21,180) ended up selling. According to NGC, the quarter’s sales were cannibalized by the Columbian Expo half dollar, which sold for the same price and was more widely available at the fair (5 million Columbian Expo half dollars were minted – 125 times as many compared to the Isabella quarter). While it didn’t come close to selling out, Coin Week points out that the quarters, which sold for $1 each, ended up being profitable for the Board. A $20,000-plus stream of revenue may not have been much, but it was double the original federal appropriation awarded to the Board. Of the remaining 19,000-plus quarters, approximately 15,000 went back to the Mint for melting.
1893 Columbian Expo Half Dollar. (Image via me)
In recent years, the coin’s reputation has been rehabilitated and has become a highly sought-after collector’s item. Contemporary reviewers have praised its quaint design and its uniqueness among U.S. commemorative coins (until the modern commemoratives came around, it held the distinction as the only commemorative quarter in U.S. history – as well as the only one to depict a foreign monarch). Even the reverse of the coin has been somewhat vindicated. Art historian Cornelius Vermeule argued that the design wasn’t necessarily evocative of the anti-slavery token and even traced elements of it back to antiquities. “[S]ome details of drapery to a servant girl from the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, work of about 460 B.C. with additions and revisions in the first or second centuries A.D.,” he wrote.
I love the design and how it distinguishes this coin from other early commemoratives. Too many coins from that era have a generic male bust on the obverse and either an eagle or state symbol on the reverse. Because of the relative scarcity of this coin, buying one wasn’t cheap (this one had been cleaned, which lowered its value, but it still ended up costing over $100). The price tag was worth it, as this has become one of my favorite coins.
So I guess the lesson here is that I should buy more modern commemoratives – even those that I think are ugly. After all, maybe they’ll skyrocket in value in 100 years…
The Full Moon these days is the Worm of March 2003.
Spring tide
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1953"
∠1953"
Lunation 39 / 992
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 39 of Meeus index or 992 from Brown series.
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Synodic month length 29.7 days
29 days
Lunation length longer than mean
4 hours
Lunar orbit details for 03/18/2003
True anomaly ∠127.8°
∠127.8°
Moon before perigee
10 days|
Distance to Moon 366 938 km
366 938 km
Moon before descending node
8 days|
Moon after northern standstill
5 days|
Draconic month
8 days|
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Popular name: Templar Nation Continent: Europe Capital: N/A Language: Italian Other languages: English, French Area: N/A Population: 30 000 Currency: Euro Religion: Christian-yeoshuite Representative (movement that represents): N/A Contact person: N/A Website: View Website Email: info@gov-nt.com
In 1118, at the behest of the Cistercian Abbot of Clairvaux, Bernard of Fontaine-lès-Dijon, the Templar people was formed in the form of a lay-monastic Order and was called Pauperes Commilitones Christi Templique Salomonis. The Templar people were born from this constitution. The Pope's appeal during this early part of the Middle Ages was so resounding that the constitution of the Templar people was immediate. The historically best known members of the Templar People were the famous Templar Knights, but there were numerous who served the Order. In fact, in addition to the members of the Order, the Templar people were also composed of all the people who revolved around the Order: squires, waiters, cooks, teachers, farriers, artisans, etc. Moreover, all the family members of the persons indicated above also contributed to the Templars' people. As an indication, the Templar people around 1200 had about 22,000 Knights of Arms in Europe (historical data preserved in the National Library of France in Paris). At the time it was normal that there were thirty people following a knight in arms, so we can estimate the Templar Nation composed of about 150,000 people. For comparison, during the same period the city of Nice, in France, had about 3,000 inhabitants. The Templar people (knights in arms, family, servants), continued their existence until the early 1300s, to be precise until 1307, the year in which began a real attempt to exterminate by the Kingdom of France (King Philip IV) and the State of the Catholic Church (Pope Clement V). Despite the perpetrated genocide (over 100,000 people were killed, with a population that at that time had 170,000 people), the Templar people continued its existence. Initially, the Templars followed the Order in its movements, but over the centuries, permanent places of residence were created in the various cities called Priories, Granges, Commanderies. Despite the various historical vicissitudes, the Templars have arrived until today, reunited in a nation, despite being dispersed in different states and with different citizenships. In 2015 the members of the Templar Order (about 1500 people), members of other organizations that gathered a part of the Templar people and other members of the unorganized Templar people, asked the Grand Prior of V.E.O.S.P.S.S. - Pauperes Commilitones Christi Templique Salomonis to bring together the Templar people in a real nation and appointed a Council of Regency to organize the nation. After three years of studies, evaluations and consultations (many international law experts were consulted), in 2018 the Regency Council elected a President and issued a Constitutional Charter creating, through the principle of self-determination of the peoples, the Templar Nation. The Regency Council has also written a Constitutional Charter, which represents the constitutional basis of the Templar Nation. The Templar Nation today is formed by the Templar people, that is, by those people who are linked by ideological principles and a common culture, by a centuries-old ancestry and, not least, by a common religiosity (the Templars are defined as Christian-yeoshuites, because faithful to the word of Jesus Christ). From a legal point of view, under international law, the subject holder of the right to self-determination is the people as a subject distinct from the state. The principle of self-determination of a people constitutes a norm of general international law, that is a norm that produces legal effects (rights and obligations) for the whole Community of States. Moreover, this principle also represents a norm of “ius cogens”, that is, an imperative right: it means that it is a supreme and inalienable principle of international law, for which it cannot be derogated by an international convention. Therefore, a people has the right to self-determination and to choose their own political regime, regardless of whether he have been subject to foreign domination. A community of individuals (a people) who share some common characteristics such as language, history, traditions, culture, ethnicity and eventually a government, constitutes a nation, from the Latin “natio”, in english "birth", (Federico Chabod, The idea of a nation, Laterza, Bari 1961). According to Johann Gottfried Herder in the life of a nation, the unity of culture and language comes first of political unity, of the State and of the constitution (Kulturnation). The nation thus bases its cohesion on language, culture and tradition, not on the abstract rigidity of a political obligation. Ernest Renan defines the nation as the soul and spiritual principle of a people, which enjoys a rich legacy of memories and current consensus. Some authors, such as Jürgen Habermas, consider the concept of nation as a free social contract between peoples or between persons constituting a people, who recognize themselves in a common Constitution, thanks to the concept of "group of belonging". It follows that the nation exists as long as it finds its place in the minds and hearts of its constituents. Therefore, a nation is a community of individuals (a people), conscious of being bound by a common historical, linguistic, cultural and religious tradition. In the case of the Templar people, this is specifically about a "nation without a state", because the people belong to different States. The Templar Nation adheres to the "International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" of 1966 (entered into force in 1976), to the "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples", also called "Algiers Charter", dated 1976, and the "United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (UN) of 10 December 1948. Given that the current Templar population is quite small and that over the centuries has been the object of real attempts to exterminate by several States, as well as “damnatio memoriae”, it is right to define the Templar people as a "supranational minority" to be protected. All those who, for historical, cultural or ideological reasons, recognize themselves in the ideals of the Templars, can join the Templar Nation and obtain the Nationality.
The latest episode of Templar Knight TV looks at claims the Knights Templar got to America. It’s alleged they managed to do this a hundred years before Christopher Columbus reached the New World. But is there any truth to this?
The story starts with the Templars’ demise. It’s 1307 and they are being rounded up, imprisoned and some are burned to death. Little wonder some Knights Templar may have fled. A popular theory runs that when word got out that they were doomed, some knights transported treasure from the Paris Temple to the port of La Rochelle. From there, ships took the surviving Templars to Scotland. And then what happened?
Well, I was involved in a programme last year called America Unearthed presented by Scott Wolter. He is a forensic geologist and his analysis of rock carvings in the United States and Scotland has convinced him the knights made the long journey. With the help of a Scottish aristocrat called Henry Sinclair, they crossed the Atlantic to Nova Scotia.
As you will all know, proof that the Knights Templar got to America is offered in the form of items found at Oak Island in Nova Scotia; an enigmatic tower at Newport, Rhode Island and what is claimed to be the engraving of a knight in Westford, Massachusetts. But sceptics abound. They’re not convinced by the Money Pit at Oak Island, think the Newport Tower is a 17th century windmill and that the Westford Knight is a trick of the eye on a glacial boulder.
As for the Sinclair connection, sceptics point out that these Scottish nobles testified against the Templars at their trial. Far from being good friends and allies of the knights, they had little sympathy and turned on them in their hour of need.
Nevertheless, the argument rages on that the Knights Templar got to America. I go to Rosslyn chapel where some have pointed to images that look like maize – a crop that didn’t exist in the Old World before Columbus. And in the basement sacristy, lines on the wall are claimed to be a map. I had exclusive access when the chapel was empty to film for myself and you can see what I found.
I do hope you can spare a quarter of an hour to get your weekly Templar dose!
La ciudad fue fundada el 22 de marzo de 1786, nombrada en honor al descubridor del continente americano, el navegante Cristóbal Colón. En su mayor parte corresponde a un estilo residencial suburbano.2
Ubicación de Columbia en un mapa de la cuenca del rio Santee
Columbia se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas 33°59′27″N 81°4′4″O. Según la Oficina del Censo, la ciudad tiene un área total de 133,8 km² (51,7 mi²), de la cual 131,3 km² (50,7 mi²) es tierra y 6,4 km² (2,5 mi²) (1.96%) es agua.
Black monolith on the moon. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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Black monolith in orbit around Jupiter. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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NASA Photos show that the Monolith in Utah's Red Rock Desert may have visited the Red Planet just 4 years ago.
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The Mars monolith is a rectangular object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is located near the bottom of a cliff, from which it likely fell. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles away.
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Black monolith on the moon. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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Black monolith in orbit around Jupiter. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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NASA Photos show that the Monolith in Utah's Red Rock Desert may have visited the Red Planet just 4 years ago.
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The Mars monolith is a rectangular object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is located near the bottom of a cliff, from which it likely fell. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles away.
Apparently the silver Monolith discovered in Utah's Red Rock desert is part of a family of monoliths, distributed throughout our Solar System by another civilization for some unknown purpose. Either that or it's moving around through our solar system, phasing into different locations at different times.
The monolith (or monoliths), has previously been sighted by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Mars and one of its moons, Phobos.
The Mars monolith is a rectangular object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is located near the bottom of a cliff, from which it likely fell. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles away.
This of course calls to mind the 2001: A Space Odyssey, where a black monolith is found buried on the moon. Then an astronaut named Dave travels to Jupiter, only to find a black monolith in orbit for thousands of years.
The Phobos monolith was a large pillar located on the surface of Mars's moon Phobos. It measured about 279 ft across and 300 feet in height--significantly bigger than the Utah Monolith.
The Mars monolith is a bright object near Stickney crater, described as a "building sized" boulder, which casts a prominent shadow. It was discovered by Efrain Palermo, who did extensive surveys of Martian probe imagery, and later confirmed by Lan Fleming, an imaging sub-contractor at NASA Johnson Space Center.
"A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive piece of rock. Monoliths also occur naturally on Earth, but it has been suggested that the Phobos monolith may be a piece of impact ejecta," claims Wikipedia. But we know better.
The general vicinity of Phobos' monolith is a proposed landing site by Optech and the Mars Institute, for a robotic mission to Phobos known as PRIME (Phobos Reconnaissance and International Mars Exploration).
The PRIME mission would be composed of an orbiter and lander, and each would carry four instruments designed to study various aspects of Phobos' geology. At present, PRIME has not been funded and does not have a projected launch date. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has spoken about the Phobos monolith and his support for a mission to Phobos.
The object appears in Mars Global Surveyor images SPS252603 and SPS255103, dated 1998. The object may be related to another monolith located on the surface of Mars, which NASA noted as an example of a common surface feature in that region. In fact, all three monoliths may be related structures left by an unknown civilization, for us Earthlings to discover and wonder about. Or perhaps they're just rocks.
Deep in the Mars-like landscape of Utah's red-rock desert lies a mystery: a gleaming metal monolith in one of the most remote parts of the state.
The smooth, tall column was found during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, officials said Monday.
A crew from the Utah Department of Public Safety and Division of Wildlife Resources spotted the gleaming object from the air on Nov. 18 and landed to check it out during a break from their work.
They found the three-sided stainless-steel object is about as tall as two men put together. But they discovered no clues about who might have driven it into the ground among the undulating red rocks or why.
“This thing is not from another world,” said Lt. Nick Street of the Utah Highway Patrol, part of the Department of Public Safety.
Still, it's clear that it took some planning and work to construct the 10- to 12-foot (3- to 4-meter) monolith and embed it in the rock.
The exact location is so remote that officials are not revealing it publicly, worried that people might get lost or stranded trying to find it and need to be rescued.
The monolith evokes the one that appears in the Stanley Kubrick movie “2001: A Space Odyssey." It is illegal to place art objects without authorization on federal public land, which is where the tower is located.
Others remarked on its discovery during a turbulent year that has seen the world gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, and optimistically speculated it could have a different function entirely.
"This is the 'reset' button for 2020. Can someone please press it quickly?" joked one Instagram user.
"Up close it reads: 'Covid vaccine inside,'" wrote another.
Bureau of Land Management officials are investigating how long it has been there, who might have created it and whether to remove it.
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1838 HT-81 “Am I Not A Woman & A Sister?” (Image via me)
1893 Columbian Expo Half Dollar. (Image via me)
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
