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Benjamin Franklin - Freemason and Jew

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Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

A very famous Jewish Mason, born in Boston to descendants of the Puritan tradition is Benjamin Franklin. His father and mother were Josiah and Abiah Franklin. Benjamin Franklin contributed to the Mikveh Israel Jewish congregation in Philadelphia. But Franklin did not practice Judaism. He did practice the occult, and things that would be weird to Christians. He became the head of the very occultic Grand Orient Freemasons when he was in France. Franklin's life was surrounded by Freemasons. Franklin's role in the establishment and promotion of Freemasonry is overwhelming. His role in the destruction of Christianity is quite unknown.

Franklin's career as a Freemason is shrouded in mystery. This Author has in his library the somewhat rare book Benjamin Franklin as a Freemason by Julius Sachse (J.F. Sachse is the last of a line of Sachses in the World Order.) This leading Masonic scholar writes, "To write the history of Franklin as a Freemason is virtually to chronicle the early Masonic history of America....A great difficulty, however, here confronts us, notwithstanding the prominence of FRANKLIN in Pennsylvania Freemasonry; strange as it appears, he does not mention a word of his Masonic connections or career in his Autobiography, or in any of his correspondence, with but two exceptions, so far as known. This omission is the more remarkable when we look at his Masonic career while in France during the later years of his life. There, his activity and intimacy with the Brethren was intimate and close, both personal and official, FRANKLIN taking an active part in their proceedings, even advancing to the so-called higher degrees."56 In spite of all his many duties, Benjamin Franklin was "never absent from a [Masonic] meeting."57

The Masonic Lodge played such a big role in Franklin's life, and yet Franklin never even hints about Freemasonry in his autobiography. The editor of his autobiography points out that Franklin tried to portray an unreal persona in his autobiography, but one that Franklin felt people would want to emulate.58 If Masonry is so virtuous, one wonders why it plays no role in his autobiography which was written on purpose to create an image worthy of emulation.

Benjamin Franklin was the founder of the American Philosophical Society.59 He was also a Rosicrucian.60 In Feb. 1730, it appears he was initiated into St. John's Lodge of Philadelphia.61 And in 1727, he started the secret revolutionary political society called the Leather Apron Club which changed its name in 1731 to Junto, and took on the appearance of being a literary society.62 The same year that this "literary" society changed its name, the St. John's Masonic Lodge that Franklin belonged to got in touch with the Grand Lodge of London whose Grand Master the Duke of Norfolk appointed Daniel Coxe. Daniel Coxe advised the Masons when he arrived of a plan for the federation of the colonies.63 In 1754, while deputy Grand Master, Franklin unveiled at Albany, NY to his brother Masons his plan to unite all the colonies under one government.64 Albany was the site of one the earliest Scottish Rite's Lodge of Perfection.

Between Jan 21, 1769 and Jan. 21, 1772 a series of inflammatory letters called The Letters of Junius, which were written in England, were circulated through out the American colonies. The letters advanced those causes that the colonists would declare to be the causes of their revolution, human rights, freedom of the press, and taxation without representation. The letters were read by Franklin and many of the Masons who initiated the American Revolution. The man who wrote these letters according to his niece, was the Reverend James Wilmot (1726-1808) a Mason and rector of Barton-on-the-Heath, in Warwickshire in 1785. He also was the first person to publicly name Bacon as the author of Shakespeare's works.65 He also apparently was in contact with the Lodge of Nine Sisters in France that Franklin would join in 1777.66

"Historians have never ceased to wonder at the enormous psychological influence which Franklin exercised in colonial politics. But up to the present day, few indeed are those who have realized that the source of his power lay in the secret societies to which he belonged and which he was the appointed spokesman."67

Independence Hall which became the famous center of the Revolution was built by the Masons. It is believed by some that the Mason Benjamin Franklin laid its cornerstone, others say it was another Freemason instead.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN & RELIGION Some of Franklin's Masonic brothers in France were impressed by the rituals, etc. that he thought up for a new religion. Turning our attention to a different aspect of Franklin's, in a statement of beliefs Franklin states, "I conceive then, that the INFINITE has created many beings or Gods... It may be that these created Gods are immortal; or it may be that after many Ages, they are changed, and others Supply their Places."68 Not only were Franklin's beliefs not Christian, but in the later years of his life all the Christian standards were violated, so that it is really a travesty of honest reporting, that Franklin is held up by so many as a role model for Protestants. The distortions in the popular history books about Franklin are but a microcosm of the distortions that history books in general suffer from.

His mother was very concerned that he had joined the Freemasons, and strongly objected. In diplomatic double-talk he advised her not to worry about what she didn't know about. "As to the Freemasons, unless she will believe me when I assure her that they are in general a very harmless sort of People; and have no principles or Practices that are inconsistent with Religion or good Manners, I know no Way of giving my Mother a better Opinion of them than she seems to have at present (since it is not allow'd that Women should be admitted into that secret Society)... I must entreat her to suspend Judgment till she is better inform'd,..."69 To paraphrase-- So Mom I can't tell you anything more, but don't judge until you're well informed about us.

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55. Friedman, op. cit. (Jewish Pioneers & Patriots), p.125 56. Sachse, Julius F.(33°) Benjamin Franklin as a Freemason. Philadelphia,PA: Compiled by order of the Grand Master of Pennslyvannia, 1906, p. 1. 57. ibid., p. 103 quoting Dr. Mease who had access to Masonic documents in 1811, that are not available anymore. 58. Lemisch, L. Jesse, ed. Benjamin Franklin the Autobiography and Other Writings. NY: The New American Library, 1961, pp. vii-xii. 59. Lemisch, op. cit., pp. 121, 205-9 60. Various Rosicrucian sources. 61. Sachse, op. cit. p.13 62. cf. Sachse, op. cit. pp. 7, 8, 15 63. Fay, Bernard. Revolution and Freemasonry, pp. 230-231. 64. Sachse, op. cit., p. 88. 65. Hall, Manly P.(33°) America's Assignment with Destiny. Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Soc., 1951, pp.85-87. 66. cf. ibid., and Sachse, op. cit. p. 5. 67. Hall, Manly P. The Secret Destiny of America. Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Soc, 1972, p. 133. 68. Lemisch. Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography and Other Writings, pp. 329-330 from Smyth, Albert Henry, ed. The Writings of Benjamin Franklin Collected and Edited with a life and Introduction, NY: 1905, pp. 411-12. 69. Lemisch, op. cit., pp. 319-320.

Fritz Springmeier is an American hero who is serving a prison term for getting too close to the truth. This excerpt is from the self-published "Be Wise as Serpents, Gentle as Doves."

Comments (9)
  • barry  - BF

    The Jews are well known for excising documents and even collecting books which are embarrassing to them as has been done with many
    archived documents in museums and libraries. All copies of Israel Cohen's books were collected by the Jews in the late 50's after a quote from one of his books, A Racial Plan for America, was entered into the Congressional record. Jews constantly harp about Nazi book burners, but they are the ones who steal, destroy, hide and outlaw books & documents they do not like. As Jesus pointed out 2K years ago, they are hypocrites.

  • Jon  - Most of the greatest murderers of modern times wer

    Some of the worst mass murderers in history were Jews: 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka.

    Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB

    We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags.

    Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members" who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party itself.

    In his new, highly praised book "The War of the World, Historian Niall Ferguson writes.. no revolution in the history of mankind devoured its children, with the same unrestrained appetite as did the Soviet revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv University's Dr. Igal Halfin writes.. Stalinist violence was unique in that it was directed internally.

    Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could not have carried out their deeds without wide scale cooperation of disciplined terror officials, cruel interrogators, snitches, executioners, guards, judges, perverts, and many bleeding hearts who were members of the progressive Western Left, and were deceived by the Soviet regime of horror and even provided it with a kosher certificate."

    All these things are well-known to some extent or another, even though the former Soviet Union's archives have not yet been fully opened to the public.

    Who knows about this? Within Russia itself, very few people have been brought to justice for their crimes in the NKVD's and KGB's service. The Russian public discourse today completely ignores the question of "How could it have happened to us?" As opposed to Eastern European nations, the Russians did not settle the score with their Stalinist past.

    Genrikh Yagoda right pictured with Maxim Gorky

    And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name Genrikh Yagoda. , the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders, and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people.

    His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system, after Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the "Bloodthirsty Dwarf.
    All these things are well-known to some extent or another, even though the former Soviet Union's archives have not yet been fully opened to the public.

    Who knows about this? Within Russia itself, very few people have been brought to justice for their crimes in the NKVD's and KGB's service. The Russian public discourse today completely ignores the question of "How could it have happened to us?" As opposed to Eastern European nations, the Russians did not settle the score with their Stalinist past.
    Kaganovich

    Stalin's loyalists included member of the Central Committee and Politburo Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich. Montefiore characterizes him as the first Stalinist, and adds that those starving to death in Ukraine, an unparalleled tragedy in the history of human kind, aside from the Nazi horrors and Mao's terror in China, did not move Kaganovich.

    Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have blood on their hands for eternity. We'll mention just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD's special department and the organization's chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist.

    In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a "carnival of mass murder," "fantasy of purges", and "essianism of evil."

    Turns out that Jews too, when they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the greatest known by modern history. The Jews active in official communist terror apparatuses, in the Soviet Union and abroad, and who at times led them, did not do this, obviously, as Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and Soviet people. Therefore, we find it easy to ignore their origin and play dumb, what do we have to do with them?

    Let's not forget them, my own view is different, I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people, when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things. Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of our hangmen, who served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its establishment, since others will always remind us of their origin..

    Anthony Sutton in his book ‘Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler’ claims that Adolf Hitler was a Jewish operative. Hitler also had 150,000 Jewish soldiers in the Nazi Army. Both of Hitler’s girlfriends, Stefanie Isak and Eva Braun were Jewish.

  • Jon  - WINSTON CHURCHILL

    WINSTON CHURCHILL 20th c. British politician. In 1920, he wrote a long newspaper article on the recent Bolshevik seizure of Russia. After praising what he called the "national Jews" of Russia, he said:

    In violent opposition to all this sphere of Jewish effort rise the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognisable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

    There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. It is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenine, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. . . In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astounding. And the prominent if not the principal part in the system of terrorism applied by the extraordinary Commissions for combating Counter Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses. The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people. Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the population is astonishing. ("Zionism Versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People." Illustrated Sunday Herald, London, February 8, 1920).

  • Jon  - NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, French statesman, general.

    The Jews provided troops for my campaign in Poland, but they ought to reimburse me: I soon found that they are no good for anything but selling old clothes...

    Legislation must be put in effect everywhere that the general well-being is in danger. The government cannot look with indifference on the way a despicable nation takes possession of all the provinces of France. The Jews have to be treated as a special people. They are a state within the state. It is discouraging for the French nation to end up under the sway of the lowest of peoples. The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age; they are the carrion birds of humanity... They must be treated with political justice, not with civil justice. They are surely not real citizens.

    The Jews have practiced usury since the time of Moses, and oppressed the other peoples. Meanwhile, the Christians were only rarely usurers, falling into disgrace when they did so. We ought to ban the Jews from commerce because they abuse it... The evils of the Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of this people. (From Napoleon's Reflexions, and from speeches before the Council of State on April 30 and May 7, 1806.)

    Nothing more contemptible could be done than the reception of the Jews by you. I decided to improve the Jews. But I do not want more of them in my kingdom. Indeed, I have done all to prove my scorn of the most vile nation in the world. (Letter to his brother Jerome, king of Westphalia, March 6, 1808.)

    (1). Every big and small Jew in the peddling trade must renew his license every year.
    (2) Checks and other obligations are only redeemable if the Jew can prove that he has obtained the money without cheating. (Ordinance of March 17, 1808. Code Napoleon.)

  • Jon  - Benjamin F about the Jews

    Benjamin Franklin. (This prediction was made in a Chit Chat Around the Table During Intermissions, at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787. This statement was recorded in the diary of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a delegate from South Carolina.):

    I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal. For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But, gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other peoples not of their race.

    If you do not exclude them from these United States, in this Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives, our substance and jeopardized our liberty.

    If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will or how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even though they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention.

  • Son of Israel  - An 'observant' Jewish perspective

    It would stand to reason that Benjamin Franklin was not a Jew. While many were still hidden Jews in the 1700's due to the on-going persecution of Jews and fear thereof, in Philadelphia there was an openly Jewish community, and BF was instead a member of a Church not far from Mikveh Israel, the synagogue he contributed to. It is noteworthy to mention BF contributed to a variety of religious institutions of various denominations.

    He surely had intimate friends who were observant Jews. This said, since many of you (readers) don't, I would think BF should be better trusted for his opinion of his fellows who were Torah Jews and their intentions, than many of you.

    In the private words of JOHN ADAMS, a leading champion of independence in 1776, and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States (first Vice President, second President), to Chrsitian Minister François Adriaan van der Kemp:

    "I will insist that the Hebrews (Jews) have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were an atheist of the other sect, who believe or pretend to believe that all is ordered by chance, I should believe that chance had ordered the Jews to preserve and propagate to all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization."

    WHAT DO WE DO TO THESE JEWS?!!!

    Either stay out of their way and let them improve everyone's collective quality of life, or assist them, and thereby yourselves no less, in any way you can, if not only CONSTRUCTIVE criticism!!!

    As a modern contemporary 'Kabalistic Torah Jew' from a family of Rabbis who has been cultivated under the guidance of many prominent Rabbis, as well as the Most prominent Rabbi during my lifetime, I hereby say to you as a product of my cultivation:

    Torah Jews hold no secret agenda!
    "And this is the reason for all man, and the reason for creating him, and creating all the worlds, lofty and low, so there should be for Him (G-d) a dwelling in the strata." (Tanya, R SZ Liadi).
    This is our mission as Jews: to improve the world.

    Even a confused Jew who holds his fellow in contempt for persecuting him throughout the ages, in following his Torah tradition could only affect good for his same fellow.

    Are we not doing a good enough job?
    Again, get out of our way, or assist!

    That we Jews have to fight to survive to better the world around us is a crying shame for our opponents.

    Do Jews intend to rule the world?!
    The Torah describes Jewish rule only in the land of Israel, until the coming of our Messiah.

    However, were rule of the world in-line with their ancient laws be imposed on Jews, the following would be required:

    1. Genuine equality of all! (except for His priests: the Jews, who are held to a higher standard)
    2. Well-being of all!
    3. Food and clothing for all!
    4. Preservation of all life!
    5. Sharing of resources necessary for life (water etc)!
    6. Life above money!
    7. Fair justice at the hand of a panel of sages who have dedicated their entire life to the pursuit of raw truth & wisdom!
    8. No death penalty *shrug*
    9. Money with real value!
    10. World peace!

    The above is merely a tip of the rainbow.

    This is what would result from Torah law being applied to world rule!

    You should rule your own lands by the harmony of Torah law, and as need be consult Torah sages.

    Good luck!

    "And all the world will fill with the knowledge of G-d like waters covers the sea."

  • Buff

    It does not matter at this point in time wheter or not BF was a jew. In Legions of Stan (circa 1876), General Cornwallis was supposed to have written to General Washington that in 200 years the USA would be practicing judaism in its churches and under the rule of the British crown. The English have been judaized for centuries.

    THE QUESTION IS: WHAT DO WE DO TO THESE JEWS AT PRESENT? THEY HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED>

  • whodareswings  - Ben Franklin Pelley forgery

    There is a letter attributed to BF warning about Jewish immigration to America. This warning was purportedly found in some American blueblood's estate and first published by William Dudley Pelley.
    Any anti-Semitic tract attributed to BF orbiting cyberspace can be written off as the work of Pelley
    as the original of that letter he published in the l930's has never been found. Pelley was a protean writer whose writings on the Jewish Q yestion are worth revisiting. However, the genuineness of his Ben Franklin letter remains shrouded in mystery.

  • natbro  - Mr.

    Mr. Springmeier begins by alleging that BF was Jewish, but offers no reason to believe it in this excerpt. He acknowledges that BF's parents were Puritans or of that tradition- not Jews. He says that BF, a well-known philantropist, donated to a synagogue, but admits that he did not practice Judaism. GHW Bush donated to the NAACP, but that does not make him a negro! If Mr. Springmeier has any more proof that BF was a Jew, I would be interested to see it.

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