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Post by Tamrin on Jul 8, 2008 7:18:06 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 12, 2008 14:06:27 GMT 10
Marianne is an icon of France, presenting the epitome of French womanhood as the personification of liberty, equality and fraternity and representing the spirit of the republic. She goes well beyond such distant figures as Britannia, because Marianne is the ‘everywoman’ of France. With new models or themes chosen every few years, her image is always contemporary and relevant. Freemasonry in France is particularly aligned to the ideals Marianne represents. Indeed, the Masonic Marianne is regarded as an expression of the French Masonic spirit.
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 15, 2008 14:48:45 GMT 10
Smothering the following anti-Masonic polemic with a great deal more than a pinch of salt, we may yet uncover a few precious grains of truth in its tirade: There is another indication that the masonic notion of liberty - freedom from the laws of God, the Church, and of legitimate civil government - has deeply influenced our culture. It is the appearance of the "Liberty Cap" on many official seals in America, as well as in the engravings of scenes of the American Revolution, dating from the eighteenth century.
The Liberty Cap is a shallow, limp cap, somewhat resembling a woolen ski cap. Its origin is in ancient times, when freed slaves would be given this sort of cap to wear as a sign of their freedom. Hence the symbolism is that the wearer is freed from some sort of slavery. Slavery to what?
In the eighteenth century the cap was worn by radicals who were bent upon the destruction of the monarchies in favor of republican or democratic regimes, in accordance with the dictates of free-thinking and atheistic "philosophers" of the same century. It was a symbol of revolt against the existing order, and a call for a new, radical order in which power was perceived to come from the people, and not from God. A modern equivalent would be the hammer and sickle or the peace symbol of the 1960's.
It is seen either worn on the head, usually by the Liberty Goddess [although absent from the head of the one standing in New York], or more often, it is seen sitting on the top of a pole.
In its second appearance, this symbol of eighteenth century radicalism forms part of a number of seals of the United States: the seal of the States of New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Idaho, Hawaii, Iowa, Colorado, West Virginia, Arkansas, and Virginia as well as that of the United States Senate and the United States Army. It is also found on the Liberty Goddess on the Morgan Dollar [the silver dollar in circulation in the latter part of the nineteenth century] as well as on the "walking" Liberty Goddess of the mid-twentieth century half-dollar, and on the Mercury dime of the same period. [Mercury, by the way, is a favorite god in the masonic menagerie of deities].
The Liberty Cap was confirmed as the symbol of radicalism in the French Revolution, when it became the fashionable attire of anyone who was in favor of the Revolution, and finally of the bloodthirsty and cruel Jacobins, the leaders of the Reign of Terror.
Needless to say, the Liberty Cap figures in a great deal of masonic symbolism. The famous "Marianne," female symbol of the revolutionary French Republic, is of course wearing the cap. In 1884, the government in France, loaded with Freemasons, had busts made of the devilish female unabashedly wearing a masonic sash over her shoulders, bearing the three dates of glory for the wicked brotherhood: 1783, being the date of the French Revolution, 1848, and 1870, being dates of subsequent revolutions in which Freemasons and their Luciferian principles came to power in what was once Catholic France. As always, Marianne had her head covered.  |
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 15, 2008 18:44:10 GMT 10
 Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity |
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 17, 2008 9:42:01 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 25, 2008 21:22:28 GMT 10
 Marianne, Mother Russia & Britannia |
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 19, 2009 13:50:15 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 24, 2009 12:01:29 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 20, 2009 6:52:45 GMT 10
 " The Mason to the left of the column in this
fourteenth-century depiction is holding a square and compass[es]." [Note their liberty caps] Jeremy Harwood,
The Secret History of Freemasonry,
Lorenz Books, 2006, p.11 |
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 21, 2009 20:01:11 GMT 10
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