by Terry Melanson
July 2001
Updated: March 15th, 2005
from ConspiracyArchive Website
“Wallace's reasons for wanting to introduce the Great Seal onto the American currency were based on his belief that America was reaching a turning point in her history and that great spiritual changes were imminent.
He believed that the 1930s represented a time when a great spiritual awakening was going to take place which would precede the creation of the one-world state.”
- Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy, p.95
Reverse of the Great Seal: All Seeing Eye
If you live in the United States of America, then from the time you become conscious of money, the Great Seal becomes a part of your psyche - whether you realize it or not. Moreover, since U.S. dollars are, in effect, standard international currency, this Great Seal infiltrates the minds of men the world over - both free and bond.
The centerpiece of this mandala is the All-Seeing Eye - an important symbol within freemasonry and rosicrucian traditions for hundreds of years.
So it is not surprising to find pride among occultists who understand the significance of this emblem:
“Our beautiful seal is an expression of Freemasonry, an expression of occult ideas.”
(Wyckoff, H. S. The Great American Seal. The Mystic Light, the Rosicrucian Magazine, p.56) 1
The first attempts at including the All-Seeing Eye on the seal were not successful. The first die of the Great Seal was cut from brass in 1782. In 1825, 1841, 1877, 1885, and 1902, new dies were cut, but each time the reverse went uncut and unused... the Illuminati's plan for the New World Order had not been advanced far enough, yet, to be announced.
The New World Order is an expression that has been used by illuminized Freemasonry since the days of Weishaupt to signify the coming world government. “It is necessary to establish a universal regime over the whole world”, Weishaupt had said.
(Writings of the Illuminati, 1780)
During the first part of the 20th century and up to the time the reverse of the seal was first used, a series of victories over the sovereignty of the United States had already been won.
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Federal Reserve System (1913)
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League of Nations (1920)
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Royal Institute of International Affairs, and Council on Foreign Relations (1920-21)
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the Stock Market Crash of 1929
The consolidation of power was complete and the reverse side of the seal, which remained largely unknown to the American people for more than 150 years, could now be placed.
The Intervention by the Masonic-Rosicrucian-Illuminati
In 1934, Secretary of Agriculture, soon-to-be Vice-President (1940-44) and 32nd degree freemason Henry Wallace submitted a proposal to the president to mint a coin depicting the seal's obverse and reverse. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, also a 32nd degree freemason, liked the idea but opted to instead place it on the dollar bill.
According to Henry Wallace, in a letter dated February 6, 1951,
“the Latin phrase Novus Ordo Seclorum impressed me as meaning the 'New Deal' of the Ages.”
“Roosevelt as he looked at the colored reproduction of the Seal was first struck with the representation of the 'All-Seeing Eye,' a Masonic representation of Great Architect the Universe. Next he was impressed with the idea that the foundation for the new order of the ages had been laid in 1776 (May 1st, 1776, founding of the Illuminati) but would be completed only under the eye of the Great Architect. Roosevelt like myself was a 32nd degree Mason. He suggested that the Seal be put on the dollar bill rather that a coin.”
Besides being a high ranking freemason and having the distinction of introducing socialism into the American political system, Roosevelt was a member of a secret society called the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystics Shrine (Shriners), attaining the grade of a Knight of Pythias.
The Order of Nobles and Mystics claimed to be an offshoot of the Illuminati.
Freemasons, Walter Flemming and William Florence founded an American branch in New York, 1872. Membership in the order was open only to Freemasons who had reached the 32nd degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite or those who've attained the last degree of the York Rite, the thirteenth degree (Knight Templar).
The Order of Nobles and Mystics have origins which date back to the seventh century - apparently founded by a descendent of Mohammed.
Author Michael Howard describes the Order's symbols.
Symbol of the Order “The symbol of the Order is a crescent moon, made from the claws of a Bengal tiger, engraved with a pyramid, an urn and a pentagram. The crescent is suspended from a scimitar and in the Order is a representation of the Universal Mother worshipped in ancient times as Isis.
The horns of the crescent point downwards because it represents the setting moon of the old faith at the rising of the Sun of the new religion of the brotherhood of humanity.”
- The Occult Conspiracy, p.93
According to Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, Roosevelt's Shriner's have a ritual similar to a satanic ritual called "The Ceremony of the Stifling Air", or better known as "L'air Epais." LaVey says that this rite was originally performed "when entering the sixth degree of the Order of the Knights Templar." Remember that if the Masonic candidate chooses to follow the York Rite, after he completes the 13th degree called the Knight Templar, he can apply to become a Shriner.
LaVey describes the Templars' ritual thus:
“The original Templars' rite of the Fifth degree symbolically guided the candidate through the Devil's Pass in the mountains separating the East from the West (the Yezidi domain). At the fork of the trail the candidate would make an important decision: either to retain his present identity, or strike out on the Left-Hand Path to Shambhala, where he might dwell in Satan's household, having rejected the foibles and hypocrisies of the everyday world.
A striking parallel to this rite is enacted within the mosques of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, an order reserved for thirty-second degree Masons. The Nobles have gracefully removed themselves from any implication of heresy by referring to the place beyond the Devil's Pass as the domain where they might "worship at the shrine of Islam."
Once the celebrant has taken this degree, he embarks upon the Left Hand Path and chooses Hell in place of Heaven.”
- The Satanic Rituals - Companion to The Satanic Bible, p. 21
Pretty powerful stuff for sure, and not what you would expect of the "merry old men" wearing "fez-hats" and tending to burn victims!
One part of LaVey's interpretation I find interesting is the choice the candidate makes in following the "Left-Hand Path to Shambhala." 2
In esoteric doctrine the principle city of the underground world is Shambhala. In this subterranean kingdom presides an all-powerful and All-Seeing ruler - The King of the World. Some have called him Sanat Kumara 3, others, King Satan. This may not be as far fetched as it seems. The Bible clearly states that Satan is the "prince" and "lord" of this world - John 12: 31 & 14: 30, Eph. 6: 12, Luke 4: 6-7, and 2 Cor. 4: 4 - and in fact has dominion over this fallen world.
This King of the World, according to Eastern tradition, has a rule and influence which stretches to the surface by means of trusted emissaries who carry out specific tasks and duties - including a secret 8 million who carry out his tasks unbeknownst to us all. 4
As we shall see, one such "emissary" had a considerable influence with Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture.
Wallace's Occult Connections
Many of Henry Wallace's ideas originated with his guru, the Russian mystic and artist Nicholas Roerich. He was an adventurer/occultist in the tradition of Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley and G.I. Gurdjieff. Roerich spent many years traveling through Nepal and Tibet studying with the lamas in the Buddhist monasteries of those countries. Roerich was searching for the lost city of Shambhala.
In esoteric circles Shambhala is the home of the Ascended Masters, Secret Chiefs, or the Great White Brotherhood - the hidden hand behind the formation and guidance of: Both Wallace and Roerich were members of the Theosophical Society, this is how Wallace met his Master.
Roerich seems to have been an emissary of sorts for the Great White Brotherhood - even bringing a mysterious stone to guide the League of Nations on behalf of the Masters. According to legend, the 'Chintamani Stone' was believed to be a part of a magical meteorite from a solar system in the Orion constellation. This Chintamani Stone is sent wherever a spiritual mission vital to humanity is set up, and is returned when that mission is completed. 5
A mysterious stone was indeed mentioned by Wallace in one of his typical 'Dear Guru' letters to Roerich: “And I have thought of the admonition 'Await the Stone.' We await the Stone and we welcome you again to this glorious land of destiny.” 6
Not surprisingly, occultists regard Roerich as the guiding hand behind the placement of America's Great Seal and the All-Seeing Eye, and matter-of-factly state that it was at Roerich's insistence that Wallace approach Roosevelt about finally printing the All-Seeing Eye on the dollar bill.
Henry Wallace was well versed in occult knowledge himself.
In a letter to Roerich he stated,
“the search - whether it be for the lost word of Masonry, or the Holy Chalice, or the potentialities of the age to come - is the one supremely worthwhile objective. All else is karmic duty. But surely everyone is a potential Galahad? So may we strive for the Chalice and the flame above it.”
The chalice he refers to, according to Michael Howard, is the Holy Grail, regarded by the Rosicrucians as a feminine symbol for perfection, and 'the age to come' is the dawning of the Aquarian Age. This I agree with, and further, "the age to come" is synonymous with Aleister Crowley's "New Age of Horus" - a Roerich occult contemporary.
It seems that Novus Ordo Seclorum and Annuit Coeptis (he has blessed our beginning) has even deeper occult meanings than we're led to believe.
Illuminist Conspiracy?
Well, yes!
These three "wise men" - by placing the reverse of the Great Seal on the dollar bill - succeeded in announcing to the world that America is on "the path", and is the world's best hope for the spiritual (occult) evolution of the planet.
Considering how deep into the occult both Roosevelt and Wallace were already - and Wallace's connections to Theosophy - they had to of known that the most esteemed Theosophist of her time, Alice Bailey, had already declared that the Aquarian Age had begun in 1932. The whole symbology of the reverse is meant to be a mandala announcing this "New Age of Horus." They could not help but see the significance of this. And giving that their fellow illuminists in the Federal Reserve had now taken control of America's currency, it was a shoo-in.
As for Roerich, he was only doing the Hierarchy's bidding for he was also a channeler of the Ascended Master El Morya - a major avatar in the pantheon of Theosophy. Roerich, after his death, apparently succeeded in joining the Hierarchy, and has now become the occult equivalent of a catholic saint himself - an "Ascended Master." His messages are now channeled by Elizabeth Clare Prophet and one such message was "received", ironically enough, on October 28, 1990 at The Roosevelt Hotel.
“Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries... By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language. Rejecting man-conceived dialects as inadequate and unworthy to perpetuate divine ideas, the Mysteries thus chose symbolism as a far more ingenious and ideal method of preserving their transcendental knowledge.
In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious, while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable. Hence, he who seeks to unveil the secret doctrine of antiquity must search for that doctrine not upon the open pages of books which might fall into the hands of the unworthy but in the place where it was originally concealed.”
— Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, p. 20
“These considerations lead us to an interesting topic, the Eye of Mind or the Eye of Horus... and conveying the idea of the 'All seeing Eye'. The end set before the Egyptian neophyte was illumination, that is to be 'brought to light'. The Religion of Egypt was the Religion of the Light.”
- Thomas Milton Stewart, Symbolism of the Gods of the Egyptians and The Light They Throw on Freemasonry, London, England, Baskerville Press, Ltd., 1927, p. 5
“On the reverse of our nation's Great Seal is an unfinished pyramid to represent human society itself, imperfect and incomplete. Above floats the symbol of the esoteric orders, the radiant triangle with its all-seeing eye... There is only one possible origin for these symbols, and that is the secret societies which came to this country 150 years before the Revolutionary War... There can be no question that the great seal was directly inspired by these orders of the human Quest, and that it set forth the purpose for this nation...”
- Manly P. Hall, The Secret Destiny of America, pp. 174, 181.
End Notes
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The Wyckoff quote was reproduced on page 59 of Robert Hieronimus' America's Secret Destiny: Spiritual Vision & the Foundation of a Nation.
Dr. Robert R. Hieronimus is the world's foremost authority on the reverse of the Great Seal. In October 1981 he received a doctorate for his work on the history and meaning of the Great Seal: An Historical Analysis of the Reverse of the American Great Seal and Its Relationship to the Ideology of Humanistic Psychology.
Much of the material in his PhD dissertation is reproduced in America's Secret Destiny. Having researched a wide array of occult/esoteric literature and studying the Rosicrucian/Freemasonic views of the American forefathers, he comes to the conclusion that the Great Seal is an initiatory mandala, in part, for the purpose of "national and global transformation."
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See the Left Hand Path; the historicity and origins of this term for a more thorough treatment of where the term might have originated.
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Sanat Kumara was made popular by the channelings of Alice Bailey. The origin stems from Hinduism, where Sanat Kumara is revered as one of the four or seven sons of Brahma.
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Many stories about Shambhala and the "King of the World" circulated widely in Theosophical circles around the turn of the 20th century. A great deal of this material is reproduced on the web, as well: In Search of Shambhala, An Excerpt From - Beasts, Men and Gods and Mystery of Shambhala with an account of Nicholas Roerich's involvement.
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Victoria LePage, Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth Behind the Myth of Shangri-la, p.10, Quest Books 1996.
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“The Black stone of the Ka'aba of Mecca and that of the Ancient Shrine of Cybele, the goddess mother of the Near East are both believed by some occultists to be pieces of the magical meteorite (called the Chintamani Stone) which is alleged to have come from a solar system in the constellation Orion, probably Sirius...according to Lamaist lore, a fragment of this stone...is sent wherever a spiritual mission vital to humanity is set up, and is returned when that mission is completed. Such a stone was said to be in possession of the failed League of Nations, it's return being entrusted to [Nicholas] Roerich.”
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The famous "Dear Guru" letters fell into the hands of Wallace's political foes. They were kept secret in 1940 when he ran as Vice President for Roosevelt's third term in office. But in 1948, when Wallace ran for president as candidate of the newly formed Progressive Party, the letters were leaked to the press. See American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace for a thorough study on the controversial, and often perplexing, man.
The Occult Meaning of the All-Seeing Eye
Lieutenant C.A.L. Totten, to Secretary of Treasury Charles J. Folger, on February 10, 1882: “The All-Seeing Eye is one of the oldest hieroglyphics of the Deity. The triangle also is a cabalistic symbol of the most remote antiquity...
The descent of the mystic eye and triangle in the form of a capstone to this mysterious monument [the Great Pyramid of Gizeh] of all times and nations, is to us as a people most pregnant with significance. The motto, Novus Ordo Seclorum, is a quotation from the 4th Ecologue and was borrowed in turn by Virgil from the mystic Sylbylline records.
The entire quotation is as follows: ‘Novus Ordo Seclorum altered from Magnus Soeclorum Ordo, a mighty order of the ages born anew. Both the prophetic Virgin and Saturnian kingdoms now return. Now a new progeny is let down from the heavens. Favor, chaste Lucina, the boy soon to be born in whom the iron age shall come to an end, and the golden one shall arise again in the whole earth.’”
“...the All-Seeing Eye, ...to the Egyptian initiates was the emblem of Osiris, the Creator.”
“... His [Osiris] power was symbolized by an Eye over a Sceptre. The Sun was termed by the Greeks the Eye of Jupiter, and the Eye of the World; and his is the All-Seeing Eye in our Lodges.”
- Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, pp. 15-16; 472
“Known as the 'Eye of Horus' or 'Utchat Eye', it is associated with both the Egyptian God Horus and his father Osiris.”
- J.C. Cooper, An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols, p. 20
“Called the 'mal ochio' (evil eye), this object is regarded by all Satanists as the symbol of Lucifer.”
- William J. Schnoebelen, James R. Spencer Whited Sepulchers, p. 20
“The Serpent promised Adam and Eve that their eyes would 'be opened' if they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The key word in this passage is eyes, which in Hebrew can be translated 'knowledge.' Opened can be translated 'broadened.' What the Serpent promised Adam and Eve was that knowledge would be broadened if they ate of the forbidden fruit.
But the most foreboding aspect of this scripture emerges from the fact that the Hebrew word for 'eyes' is not plural, but singular. What the Serpent actually told Adam and Eve was that their 'eye' would be broadened by knowledge. The 'eye' that Scripture wants us to consider is not the physical organ of sight, but the eye of the mind or the soul.
This singular 'eye' is called the 'third eye' of clairvoyance in the Hindu religion, the eye of Osiris in Egypt, and the All-Seeing Eye in Freemasonry.”
- John Daniel, Scarlet and the Beast: A History of the War Between English and French Freemasonry, Vol. III, pp. 6-7 (Source: Misc Study - The All-Seeing Eye)
“Many modern groups, though not related...claim to be offshoots of the original so-called Mystery Religion. They all carry the same symbols, such as the All-Seeing Eye, and believe in the same so-called Secret Doctrine. The symbol may represent a god, but it is not the God of the Bible. It is a human eye indicating that man is god.”
- J.R. Church, Guardians of the Grail: And the Men Who Plan to Rule the World, p. 165
Bailey's "planetary Logos" is a satanic trinity, the scheme is as follows,
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Shamballa: Ruler - Sanat (Satan) Kumara
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Hierarchy: Ruler - The [Anti] Christ
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Humanity: Ruler - Lucifer
“Roerich knew what he was doing as the symbol represents the spiritual future of the United States of America. The 'All-Seeing Eye' signifies the Spiritual Hierarchy of Light, the 'Silent Watchers' over humanity's spiritual development.”
The Secrets Of The Great Pyramid
“It is through the medium of this 'all-seeing eye' that the Adept can at any moment put Himself in touch with His disciples anywhere; that He can communicate with His compeers on the planet, and on the third planet which, with ours, forms a triangle...”
- Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
“...upon the Path of Initiation, the initiate develops his tiny correspondence to the planetary All-Seeing Eye.”
- Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Discipleship
“One of the four Lipka Lords, Who stand nearest to our planetary Logos, is called 'The Living Serpent,' and His emblem is a serpent of blue with one eye, the form of a ruby, in its head. Students who care to carry this symbology a little further can connect this idea with the 'eye of Shiva' which sees and knows all...”
- Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - A Treatise of Cosmic Fire
