The Freemasons determined the fate of America.
Author: Vladimir Moregov — commentator
Franklin, one of the greatest figures revered by Americans, was familiar to American students throughout the last century. However, at the same time, a less glorious but more realistic image gradually emerged: he was a cynical pragmatist, like Walter, "mocking religion, divine providence, rationalism of Enlightenment philosophers, family, moral goodness, human and divine justice, Newton's laws, Bacon's science, even mocking Freemasonry, and — even worse — the American Revolution" (Jerry Weinberg, "American Idol"). His entire life was closely linked with the institution of slavery. He "verbally opposed slavery while actually maintaining it in various ways" (David Waldstreicher, "The Fugitive's America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution").
Max Weber saw in Franklin's image the embodiment of the calculating bourgeois Protestant ethic, while the Briton D.G. Lawrence regarded him as the "last man" described by Nietzsche. But perhaps, the most evident manifestation of this "new man" is the essence of American "pluralism": relativism towards good and evil and unconditional trust in written laws (contracts), printed documents. It can be said that Franklin embodied the spirit of Americanism. And what is most important in this figure may be the transformation from Puritanism to Americanism, which Franklin represented. This is clearly demonstrated in his "Advice to a Young Tradesman".
But Franklin was not just a symbol; he was also the true creator of the American Revolution, the only Founding Father who signed all the major documents of that era: the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Alliance Treaty with France in 1778, the Treaty of Paris in 173 years later, and the U.S. Constitution in 1787. It is also believed that he was the real creator of the design of "The Great Seal" (although official legends question this). However, it is clear that as the oldest, most experienced, and most respected Freemason among the Founding Fathers, his words carried decisive weight.
But the most significant talent of this versatile person was as a genius political provocateur. It was precisely this strong desire to overthrow all religious doctrines, dogmas, and conventions that revealed the true spirit of this born revolutionary and Freemason. Franklin was essentially, from the depths of his being, a revolutionary and Freemason before understanding Freemasonry.
At the age of 17, this man from Boston's lower class first went to England. Three years later, he returned to America and formed the quasi-Freemason organization Junto (derived from the Spanish word junta — assembly), also known as the "Leather Apron Club." Most biographers believe that he underwent his first real Freemason initiation ceremony in February 1731. In Philadelphia, as the Master of St. John's Lodge, he drafted the earliest draft of the code of conduct for members of existing Freemason lodges in America. Soon he became the Grand Master, clearly indicating that he was a well-recognized person within the Freemason circles, entrusted with an important mission.
This mission was the American Revolution. As we know from classic works, "Revolution is postal service, telegraph, telephone," and of course, journalism. In 1729, he founded The Pennsylvania Gazette, and soon he sponsored twenty printing houses in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and even the Caribbean. By 1753, Franklin and his team controlled at least eight out of fifteen English-language newspapers in the American colonies. Thus, Franklin became the creator of the world's first news network.
But revolution also meant connections. In 1737, Franklin became the Postmaster of Philadelphia and, sixteen years later, the first Postmaster General of British North America. In this position, he actively reformed the postal system. Now, not only the American press but also the entire U.S. postal service was under his control, pushing the preparation for the revolution into a decisive stage. The postal service was now centralized, allowing mail to be sent without delay and carefully reviewed: the upcoming revolution required knowledge of communications between the British metropolis and American bureaucrats and loyalists.
In the 1760s, Franklin was in London, where he skillfully maintained the tense relationship between the colonies and the mother country. The timely introduction of the Stamp Act by the British Parliament in 1765 imposed taxes on the colonies to support the mother country. This small tax, pushed by Franklin, became the spark of the revolutionary fire, and the incitement of the press further fueled the flames. Through his colleagues in the British Parliament, American Freemasons, and his news network in the 13 colonies, Franklin stirred up public sentiment around the Stamp Act.
In 1767 and 1768, the new Townshend Acts, designed to replace the Stamp Act, became the fuse for new hostility and violence. Subsequently, in 1768, British troops occupied Boston, and in 1770, the so-called "Boston Massacre" occurred. During this period, from 1765 to 1775, Franklin was almost always in London, coordinating the actions of American conspirators and Freemasons in the British Parliament.
However, the main "bomb" detonated by Franklin was a batch of letters written by Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts to Thomas Whately, a helper to the British Prime Minister. In these letters (from 1768 and 1769), the governor and deputy governor Andrew Oliver suggested measures against radical American politicians, describing them quite rudely. However, as American historians admit, these letters did not actually contain anything beyond what the governor had already publicly expressed. Nevertheless, under Franklin's skillful manipulation, these letters became a time bomb. How these letters fell into Franklin's hands remains unknown. However, for someone who controlled all communications between America and the mother country, who had access to colonial conspiracy clues in London and was always assisted by bankers in such matters, accomplishing this should not have been difficult.
However, due to the sensitivity of the matter, there are many legends in American history surrounding this event. We will not detail these legends here, relying solely on facts: after receiving the letters, Franklin sent them to his friends in America. In mid-June 1773, his newspaper, The Boston Gazette, published these letters. Following this, other American (i.e., Franklin's) newspapers also followed suit. Subsequently, public anger erupted, and the famous "Boston Tea Party," organized by the Freemason club in Boston, became the signal for the start of the American Revolution. The scandal in London made Franklin an outlaw, forcing him to hastily return to America. When the revolution began in April 1775, he was on a ship. When he arrived in Philadelphia in May 1775, Lexington and Concord were already ablaze with conflict between the colonists and the British army. Franklin became one of the leaders of the revolution, and among other revolutionary leaders, there were also Freemasons. He was a representative of the Continental Congress and a member of the "Five-Man Committee" drafting the Declaration of Independence.
In December of the same year, he was sent as a full representative to France: this republic urgently needed an alliance with Britain's main European enemy. He stayed in France until 1785, establishing contacts with French Freemasons (as the honorary patron of the "Nine Sisters" lodge). And he once again achieved all his goals. French intervention in the war between the American colonies and the mother country played a decisive role. The French fleet effectively blocked British naval operations off the American coast, cutting off all support for British troops.
It is difficult to understand the strange nature of the American Revolutionary War without considering a key fact that is largely decisive: soldiers and officers on both sides were members of the same military Freemason chapter. It was within the upper echelons of Freemasonry that the fate of the war, the fate of America, was decided, this "New Atlantis of Francis Bacon," destined to become the main component of the Freemason experiment to build the "New World Order," which continues to this day. Perhaps, we may even witness its major collapse.
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