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Title: Reputation as Satan's lair bedevils Washington
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Washington Post
URL Source: http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article459879.ece
Published: Apr 19, 2008
Author: Washington Post
Post Date: 2008-04-19 03:39:06 by Trace21231
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Presidential candidate John McCain keeps calling Washington the city of Satan. Turns out he's not alone. "McCain was right," said David Bay, speaking by phone from Lexington, S.C., where as director of Cutting Edge Ministries he has long asserted that Washington's streets are positioned to usher in Lucifer as "the ultimate master of Government Center." "You will need to have your maps of Washington, D.C., opened in front of you as we proceed," reads a treatise on the subject posted on Bay's Internet site. Using Dupont and Logan circles as northern points, Bay instructs, you can trace various interlocking streets to form a demonic pentagram, one that bores directly into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. "It must be true; it's on the Internet," British tourist Larraine Wolman said in perfect deadpan while gazing at the White House recently. She agreed to review Bay's map. Could she feel Satan? No. Wolman and her three British companions turned to walk back to their quarters at the Mayflower Hotel. This reporter followed, determining what they knew about the place. They knew that former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had stayed there, reportedly with a high-priced call girl. They didn't know how near the hotel is to the center of Bay's pentagram. "He didn't get in trouble with Satan," Wolman said of Spitzer. "He got in trouble with his wife." McCain, a Republican senator from Arizona, has regularly called Washington Satan's City during the past 10 years. He did so twice last month, including during a visit to the Atlanta headquarters of Chick-fil-A, the fast food chain whose founder is such a devoted Baptist he keeps the restaurants closed on Sundays. "It's harder and harder trying to do the Lord's work in the city of Satan," McCain said, according to an Associated Press account. Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said the Satan comments are obviously jokes. Indeed, on the stump, McCain doesn't refer to the District per se, but to the culture of special interests and ethical lapses in Congress he has long railed against. Satan and Washington go back. After John Wilkes Booth murdered Abraham Lincoln, printers rushed out images of a horned and clawed devil whispering into Booth's ear at Ford's Theatre, according to Manhunt, a book about the search for Booth. On Aug. 20, 1949, the Washington Post greeted readers with the front-page headline "Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil's Grip." The story told of a 14-year-old local boy who underwent "between 20 and 30" exorcisms, most of which had him breaking into violent, cursing tantrums and bouts of Latin, a language he had never studied. The article quoted unnamed "Catholic sources." The case inspired a book that became the 1973 movie The Exorcist, set in Georgetown, which scared the wits out large swaths of America. The Archdiocese of Washington knows of no officially sanctioned exorcisms since the teen boy's case, said Susan Gibbs, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese. The most persistent rumblings about Washington as the devil's workshop seem bound up in history about the city's design and the role of Freemasons in building it. It's a connection explored in the three-hour DVD Riddles in Stone: The Secret Architecture of Washington, D.C., which notched a respectable 90th out of 1,363 titles recently in Amazon's general history documentary category. Among the film's highlights is 1993 footage of Mason Strom Thurmond, then a U.S. senator from South Carolina, cement trowel in hand, marking the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Capitol in a Masonic ceremony. And though Masons served as architects to the White House, Capitol, Supreme Court and Washington Monument, the suggestion their leaders worked with Satan is "absolute nonsense," said Akram Elias, grand master of the Masons of D.C. "It's an old story," Elias added. "They don't come out with anything new." In the 2007 New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate, a central character named Nico Hadrian advances the demonic pentagram theory of Washington's street layout and describes the White House as the doorway to Hell itself. Author Brad Meltzer said he designed Hadrian, a crazed killer who shoots his way out of a mental hospital, to be a "walking Internet" of various beliefs about Freemasons, among the "great bogeymen of history." And The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, according to his Web site, is at work on a novel that "explores the hidden history of our nation's capital," as "set deep within . . . the enigmatic brotherhood of the Masons." Other satanic hot spots cited by believers include the Capitol building and the Washington Monument. The latter was described by Bay, the South Carolina author, as a filthy, phallic and satanic homage to the god Baal. Unlikely, said an avowed suburban Satanist. He agreed to meet at the Washington Monument recently, strolling up the Mall in a long black robe. A government contracting employee, the 37-year-old spoke on the condition that he be identified only by his satanic name (Gwydion Tiamat). Friends' houses have been firebombed, he said, and they're just pagans. A husband and father and the director of the East Coast office of the Brotherhood of Satan, he said "a couple of thousand" Satanists live in the Washington area. The group is widely misunderstood, he said: Members don't sacrifice cats; they're not out to hurt people; they simply acknowledge that humans are carnal animals and enjoy the freedoms and indulgences that flow from that understanding. "Having a whole Sara Lee strawberry cheesecake, for example," he said. And in one sense, he mused, while looking toward the Lincoln Memorial and the infinite regions beyond, McCain is right. "Satan," said Tiamat, "is everywhere."
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"Satan," said noone222, "is .... BUSH. Recently I heard Texe Marrs report an event that happened last January in Israel. I have been surprised that not much attention is being paid to this rather historical and telling event. Every Bible student's ears should pricked up. For those that aren't as Biblically alert as they probably should be Texe offers a synopsis of the events taking place last January in Israel. www.texemarrs.com/g og_magog_scroll_of_bush.htm The President of the United States, George W Bush, journeyed to Israel in order to receive a scroll written on ancient parchment from Rav Steinsaltz, the highest ranking member of the Sanhedrin. Sanhedrin "Sanhedrin" - (m., pl. "Sanhedriyaot") - 1. the Jewish "Supreme Court;" it consisted of seventy one great Torah Sages, who met in the "Lishkat HaGazit," the "Office of Hewn Stone," adjacent to the Temple in Jerusalem. Neither of these gentlemen do insignificant things just because they're bored. The actions of these men have meaning. The Sanhedrin were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ, they would cry, "let his blood be on us and our children". Texe Marrs states that a black mass was held in Zedekiah's Cave. I don't know where this information came from, but Malachi Martin wrote of this place as the highest Masonic Temple on earth and a place for holding significant ritualistic meetings. This place is mentioned in Ezekiel 8, along with the 70 elders and others holding a Masonic ritual. In the scroll that was delivered to Mr. Bush he was given the title of "Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal the Leader of the West. Those familiar with end times prophecy will recognize the Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal as GOG. If Christ was the persona of good, or of God, Gog is the persona of evil or satan. Gog is expected to gather his forces from the 4 corners of the earth in order to attack the saints. [See Exekiel 38 and 39] The Sanhedrin, in spite of their authority, can not ascribe a "title" such as "GOG" [Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal] to someone not entitled to it. Most of us are familiar with the illuminist organization at Yale called the Skull and Bones. The name given to George H.W. Bush as a Skull and Bonesman is Magog. GOG is described in scripture as being from the land of Magog, and I believe that the U.S. has been the land of Magog ever since Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA/MOSSAD with the intimate involvment of Daddy Bush. In Masonry there is a pin that some members wear that consists of two balls attached to a cane ... this is symbolizing "tubal-cain" another evil entity. I find it interesting that Mr. Bush (Jr.) could very well be replaced with an insane man whose name means "Son of Cain". What is even more interesting is that Vulcan (Roman god) is adored in Masonry under the name of Tubal Cain. In the Masonic Quiz Book the question is asked: “Who was Tubal Cain?” The answer is: “He is the Vulcan of the pagans.'’ I'll not drag this out, but will respond to any questions if I'm able. I see this as a warning to those that "have eyes to see and ears to hear". Many will ignore the signs or may not see the relevance of them, but I must tell you that the times we are experiencing are as strange as any, and many alliances of evil being orchestrated openly before our eyes indicates to me that the times of trouble are here. Listen to what occultist and Mason, Manly Palmer Hall, has to say: “When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mastery of his craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. He must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, Tubal-Cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a ploughshare.'’ Read more about Gog, here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_ Magog Page 1 of the 4 page SCROLL: http://www.templeinstitute.org/images/megillat-bush-1s.jpg
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