Baron Horace Ginzburg of St. Petersburg (THE THREE BARONS)

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The banker Baron Horace Ginzburg of St. Petersburg, a spokesman for Russian Jewry and promoter of the arts.

1881    Alphonse de Rothschild meets with Horace De Gunzberg, Director of The Russian Imperial Bank in St. Petersburg

1883    Alphonse de Rothschild's daughter, Beatrice, marries Maurice Ephrussi, Jewish Russian Banker

1883    Baron Edmond de Rothschild begins patronizing early settlements, including Rishon L'Tzion
1884    British victory in the Anglo-Sudan War secures Red Sea coastline strategic to the Suez sea route
1885    Royal Dutch discovers oil in Sumatra.
1885    Rothschilds enter Russian Oil business. Oil expert Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (Edmond's eldest brother)
1886    Rothschilds form their own oil company-BNITO
1887    Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements again.
1888    Rothschilds establish oil importing/distribution company
1891    Rosa Warburg marries Alexander De Gunzberg, Russian banker, son of Horace De Gunzberg (Rothschilds/Warburg agent in Russia)
1891    Samuel/Rothschild oil contract begins

http://cliffordshack.com/oil_chrono.html

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THE THREE BARONS

Friday, January 13, 2006
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In the nineteenth century in Jewish Europe there were three Jews whose wealth and social connections earned for them the title of nobility - of being a baron. Each of the three devoted efforts, wealth and time to help solve or at least alleviate the "Jewish problem" in Europe. But their tactics, aims and solutions were markedly different one from another. Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France was a scion of the famous and fabulously wealthy Rothschild banking family. He was a traditional Jew and in a most unlikely discussion with Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, the rabbi of Biyalistok and one of the leaders of the Chovevei Tzion (Lovers of Zion) organization, he became interested in creating "colonies" for Jews in the Land of Israel. The "colonies" would eventually be self-sufficient, but the Baron was willing to foot the bills until that happened. Eventually there were thirty-nine such "colonies" many of which (such as Rishon Leziyon and Zichron Yaakov) have grown into major cities in Israel.

 

Baron Rothschild was not a supporter of Theodore Herzl or of the early Zionist movement. He refused to advance to Herzl the fifteen million dollars that Herzl requested and that he wished to use in "buying" the Land of Israel from the sick and corrupt Ottoman Empire. Yet, he invested much more money than that in building the Land of Israel. His company, Carmel Wine Corporation, was founded in 1882 and continues to be the leading wine producer in Israel until this day. He later gave the company to the farmers and vintners of the company who ran it as a cooperative venture. The Rothschild family contributed funds for the building of the Knesset building in Jerusalem and there is a beautiful room in that building dedicated to the memory of the Baron. He was the nadiv hayadua - the great philanthropist of the return of the Jews to their ancient homeland.


Baron Moritz de Hirsch made his fortune in building railroads, especially in Russia for the Czar's tyrannical government. Hirsch's solution to the "Jewish problem" was to establish "colonies" for Jewish agriculture throughout the world except in the Land of Israel. He purchased land in South America, North America, Africa and attempted to recruit thousands of Russian Jews to move and populate those far flung locations. In the United States he established agricultural communities in the Dakotas, Tennessee, and New Jersey among other places. Most of his projects failed because they did not prove to be economically viable. One of his "colonies" was in Vineland, New Jersey, where a small Jewish community has survived until today. Vineland became famous as a center for raising chickens and distributing eggs. It also had vast asparagus farms.

 

Perhaps Baron Hirsch's most lasting memorial in the world to his efforts to solve the "Jewish problem" in Europe is the magnificent large synagogue and community of the Baron Hirsch Congregation in Memphis, Tennessee. It is one of the largest Orthodox synagogues and communities in the United States. I have visited there many times and the Baron's picture may be found in the lobby. Nevertheless, in spite of all of his efforts and expenditures of vast sums of money, his dream of Jewish farmers the world over did not materialize. Needless to say, the Baron was not a supporter of Herzl or of the Zionist movement, deeming its program to be too fanciful, unrealistic and impractical.

The third Baron was Baron Horace Ginzburg. He was a resident of St. Petersburg in Russia and a person of significant influence in Jewish Russia in the latter part of the nineteenth century. His bent was towards assimilating the Jewish population into the general Russian population. He believed that with secular education, the modification of Jewish dress, the acceptance of Russian language and culture by the Jews of Russia, the "Jewish problem" would be solved. He was one of the prime movers in the building of the great synagogue building in St. Petersburg, a synagogue that the more observant Jews there shunned. I visited that synagogue a dozen years ago when I was in St. Petersburg for a few days immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Baron Ginzburg's seat in the synagogue, row one, seat one, still has his name attached to it by a plaque on the back of the seat. I sat down in his seat. It was most uncomfortable. I wondered what the Baron would think of the "Jewish problem," the Jewish world, the State of Israel and his beloved Russia and St. Petersburg, as they exist today. Many are the thoughts and plans of humans, but the Lord's plans are those that come to pass. This is true even when the human beings involved are barons.

http://www.rabbiwein.com/Jerusalem-Post/2006/01/88.html

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Friday, March 26, 2010

The provision of Matza to Jewish Soldiers in the far east (1904-1905) - Part 1

The Russo Japanese War broke out in February 1904 (Shvat 5664), with an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. Within weeks Russian forces, both on land and sea where heavily committed in an attempt to reconsolidate their position and retain control over their only warm water port in the Pacific. These forces included thousands of Jewish soldiers (mainly conscripted) from Russia's large Jewish population. The tensions that led to the outbreak of war had been brewing for some months, and even before the war became a reality, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn (the Lubavitcher Rebbe referred to as the Rebbe Rashab) began to make provisions to provide Kosher Matza for the Jewish soldiers in the far-east.


Although no letters (that I know of) survive from this year (5664), detailing these efforts (many survive detailing similar efforts the following year, see below) we know that shortly after Chanukah the Rashab traveled to Paris. "There he dealt with the issue of sending Matza and other Pesach needs to the Jewish soldiers who are in the far-east due to the war between Russia and Japan" (Chanoch Lenaar, page 14).

His son and successor as Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitchok (known as the Friedike Rebbe), related, "At that time Baron [Horace] Ginzburg [or Günzburg, a Russian Jewish philanthropist and pioneer of the Haskalah (enlightenment) movement, see here] was also in Paris, he had many acquaintances in government circles. At that time we did not have a very good relationship with the Baron, due to my father - the Rebbe's opposition to enlightenment. Nevertheless, my father - the Rebbe went to see the Baron and spoke to him about the effort to obtain [government] permission to send Matza to the soldiers. The Baron answered, 'there is always the alternative option of Pesach Sheni...' [As the soldiers would still be at the front on Pesach Sheni, I presume that this comment was not meant literally, but rather as a subtle way of putting the Rebbe off]. My father - the Rebbe answered him, 'On the front there are no [sophisticated] Barons, the soldiers are simple Jews, they don't know of such rationalizations and they must have Matza for Pesech.'" (Sefer Hasichos 5702, page 89.)
Baron Horace Günzburg

The efforts of 5664 convinced the Rebbe Rashab of the need to implement the production and delivery of the Matza in a much more organized fashion, involving the efforts of a much broader range of individuals. On Thursday the 6th day of Chanukah 5665 (8th December 1904) he wrote to Reb Yeshayeh Berlin (a Chossid, philanthropist, confident and strong supporter of the Rabbeim, he was married to a cousin of the Rebbe Rashab) "We need to worry about providing Matza for our brothers in the warzone, while there is still time. Being that there are now many of brothers there – perhaps up to forty thousand – it is impossible to achieve this through the donations of individuals alone, rather we must gather funds from all the [Jewish] settlements so that also small contributions will add up and amount to a fitting sum...". Accordingly, the Rebbe continues to outline a detailed plan of action, advising that Reb Yeshayeh Berlin himself undertake the running of a central office to receive and record all contributions, and discussing the various methods of raising public awareness and the possible need to acquire government approval.

"I am thinking of writing to all the settlements of the Chassidim and also to individuals to arouse them in this regard, and also to arouse my cousins the Rabbis of Liadi [Rabbi Yitzchak Dovber Schneersohn], Babroisk [Rabbi Shmaryahu Noach Schneersohn], and Retzitze [Rabbi Sholom Dovbear Schneersohn - all of the above where Rebbes themselves] and also the Rabbonim of Brisk [Rabbi Chaim Solivietchik], Kovno [Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Rabinovitz], Vilna [Rabbi Chaim Oizer Grodzinsky] and Lodz [Rabbi Elyeh Chaim Miezel], so that each shall personally arouse the settlements and individuals under their influence... If government permission is required, I intend to request it in the name of all the above mentioned Rabbonim."

http://chabadrevisited.blogspot.com/201 ... diers.html

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Baron Nicolas Louis Alexandre de Gunzburg

(12 December 1904 – 20 February 1981) was an editor in chief of Town & Country and an influential fashion editor at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.


Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg (who appeared under the screen name Julian West)

Born    December 12, 1904(1904-12-12)
Paris

Died    February 20, 1981 (aged 76)
New York

Other name(s)    Julian West


Biography

Born in Paris to a wealthy ennobled Russian banking family called Günzburg; the umlaut was dropped and the aristocratic particle "de" added in the nineteenth century after they had been created "barons". His father was a Russian Jew, and his mother was Polish-Brazilian. The Günzburgs were, among other things, financial patrons of Russian dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his famed Ballets Russes in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century. He was himself a patron of Vaslav Nijinsky until he was swayed by Diaghilev.

Raised primarily in England his later youth was spent in France. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when he was just thirteen, had resulted in the confiscation of the family's property[1] and ended any possibility of a safe return to Russia. Living the life of a bon vivant in the Paris of the 1920s and 1930s he was popular with the artistic and social elite of Paris. He spent money lavishly, and the parties he gave included extravagant sets designed by architects and artists. His costume balls and parties of pre-war Paris were discussed not for the next week, but the next forty years.


Carl Theodor Dreyer, the Danish film director, met him in Paris. This led to their co-production of the classic horror film Vampyr (1932) which used music, sound effects, and dialogue in an impressionistic way. Loosely based on the vampire stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu collected together as In a Glass Darkly, the hero 'Allan Gray' was played by Gunzburg under the screen name Julian West.

After the death of his father, Gunzburg learned the remaining family fortune was non-existent. Left with only the money he had in a checking account, he purchased his passage to America and used what was left to throw one last, great party in Paris- "Le Bal de Valses", and then set off for America. For this farewell he co-hosted a costume ball with his close friends the Prince and Princess Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge during the summer of 1934. "Le Bal de Valses", or "A Night at Schoenbrunn", had as its theme the Imperial Court at Vienna in the late 19th century.

Arriving in America in 1934 together with his friends Duke Fulco di Verdura and Princess Natalie Paley. Gunzburg settled first in California. He was one of many European émigrés who sought refuge in the growing colony of artists in Hollywood. Here he met Erik Rhodes, an actor, with whom he would live for a number of years after the Second World War. In any case, Gunzburg soon headed back east, this time to New York City, which was his home for the remainder of his life.

Gunzburg arrived in New York on November 10, 1936. True to his aristocratic and somewhat bohemian lifestyle, his certificate of Immigration from the French Consulate General in New York listed him as "sans profession", without profession. He soon became a fixture of the American fashion industry and would build a career from his impeccable and unerring eye for fashion. Slim, impeccably dressed, always elegant he looked the part and was often known as just the "Baron" or "Nicki" as he himself often wrote his name.

One Vogue writer described him as:

    "A slender, attractive man with a really dry wit, a gift for mimicry, and a sharply developed taste for the simple but cultivated amenities of living."

Appointed editor-in-chief of Condé Nast's publication Town and Country in the early 1940s he soon extended his social circle which would include Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Lauren Bacall, the Nordstrom Sisters, Diana Vreeland, Coco Chanel, photographer Cecil Beaton, and the interior designer Billy Baldwin.

For many years a senior fashion editor of Vogue (he remained with Vogue over two decades through the 1950s and 1960s) and later a fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. Alexander Liberman, editorial director of Condé Nast Publications, called Gunzburg "One of the most civilized men in Paris."

Gunzburg also was a mentor to three young fashion designers who would go on to dominate the industry. Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein – perhaps Gunzburg's most famous protegé (whom he met in the mid-1960s) spoke of him in an interview with Bianca Jagger and Andy Warhol in Interview magazine, published not long after the Baron's death:—

    "He was truly the greatest inspiration of my life... he was my mentor, I was his protégé..If you talk about a person with style and true elegance-- maybe I'm being a snob, but I'll tell you, there was no one like him. I used to think, boy, did he put me through hell sometimes, but boy, was I lucky. I was so lucky to have known him so well for so long."

Recalling one of Calvin Klein's first major fashion shows his mentor said that immediately after the show, a nervous Klein sought out his opinions on his new designs, and on whether the event had been a success or failure. The response to his protegé, a wry assessment—chilly, but supportive and polite: "You showed great courage".

Eventually, the fame of Gunzberg's three protegés came to eclipse his own – indeed, they became household names, while Gunzburg was famous mainly within the circles of the fashion, literary, and social worlds of New York, London and Paris.

Having searched widely for just the right lake, Gunzburg was summer resident of Highland Lakes, in Vernon Township, New Jersey for the last twenty years of his life. He found and bought an island in Highland Lake which he called "Hemlock Island", constructed a causeway to the island, and built a summer house decorated and furnished with fastidiousness, which showcased his eye for the simple, austere and elegant. At the head of the causeway leading to Hemlock Island was a sign which simply said "N de G".

Gunzburg died at New York Hospital at 76 years of age. He was buried the following spring near his summer home in Glenwood Cemetery, with a small private service at which Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta, and Calvin Klein were among the mourners.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_de_Gunzburg

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1881: During a period of on-going Pogroms," a dozen of the wealthiest Jews in Tsarist Russi filed into the palatial St. Petersburg home of Baron Horace de Gunzberg" to discuss their concern that a mass exodus of Jews from Russia would convince the authorities to continue their program of violence as a way of dealing with "the Jewish problem."

1892: Birthdate of publishing giant Alfred Knopf.

1900: A mass meeting of the English Zionist Federation was held in East End.

1903: Herzl meets Jews from all circles in St. Petersburg and a banquet is arranged by the Russian Zionists.

http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot. ... story.html

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Herbert Samuel (1870-1963),son of Shell Oil founder Marcus Samuel, named High Commissioner of Palestine. He was the first Jewish ruler in the land of Israel since Herod Agrippa.

1921    Herbert Samuel welcomes Winston Churchill to Jerusalem. Standing behind Samuel is James "Jimmy" de Rothschild, son of Baron Edmond. Samuel's oil tankers were bringing Rothschild's oil through the Suez Canal to be delivered to Churchill's newly oil-fueled Royal Navy. The creation of Israel was not founded on kindness to the Jews. At least not in the minds of the powerful men behind it.

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Title: A History of the Rothschilds, Palestine and Oil
Category: other

Blog Entry: 1836 Rabbi Kalischer approached The Rothschilds to invest in Palestine.

 The Rothshilds, seeing no reason to invest, were not interested.(They would become extremely interested.) 1859 Construction of Suez Canal begins. 1859 World's first oil well drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
1869 Suez Canal completed
1870 John D. Rockefeller forms Standard Oil
1872 Montefiore visits Palestine (Rothschilds now interested) -->
1873 Baku oil region opened for development
1873 Nobels enter Russian oil business.

1870's "While Nobel Brothers dominated distribution of oil within the Russian Empire, beyond those borders Russian oil was hardly a factor. Geography locked the oil into the empire. For example, to reach a Baltic port meant '2,000 miles, intermittent water and rail transportation through western Russia.' To make matters worse, severe winter weather precluded the shipment of kerosene on the Caspian between October and March, with the result that many refiners simply shut down for half the year. Even parts of the empire were inaccessible; in the city of Tiflis, it was cheaper to import kerosene from America, 8,000 miles away, than from Baku, 341 miles to the west."(Yergin's The Prize p.60) 1875 England acquires Suez Canal with Rothschild loan Prime Minister Benjamin D'Israeli with Queen Victoria (D'Israeli was born a Jew but was baptized as a child by his father Isaac who was a well-known Cabalistic Frankist (a student of the Sabbatean Messiah Jacob Frank, alias Yakov Frankovich, actually Leibowicz). Isaac gave as a reason for baptism that Judaism "cuts off the Jews from the great family of mankind" (Encyclopaedia Britannica). And his son Disraeli was a "Judahite" crypto-Jew.) 1877-1878 A prayer service for Jewish soldiers during the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78. The Russian-Turk War was instigated to incorporate the port of Batum into Russia where the Rothschilds had strong banking connections.It was from Batum that the Rothschilds would soon ship their Russian oil to the Far East markets.

1878 Port of Batum incorporated into Russia 1881 Alphonse de Rothschild meets with Horace De Gunzberg , Director of The Russian Imperial Bank in St. Petersburg Horace De Gunzberg 1881 Egyptian resentment begins to grow against the British-French dominion over the Suez Canal. Depicted here is Ahmed Arabi, who would threaten security in the region as he would lead a revolt the following year. Ever since the Suez Canal became a plausible reality, the European Business elite quickly came to realize that the canal would soon become the "juglar" of Europe and would need special protection. European forces could protect the region initially but the future demanded a more permanent solution. The Jews would return to Zion after all. In fact, they would be coerced. The clock was ticking. A military Jewish colony would need to be established and made battle-ready before the region reverted back to the Eygptians. It was a bold plan. But how to get the Jews, comfortably established in the Pale of Settlement, to Palestine. A veritable wasteland. The answer was simple. Terror. It worked then as well as it works today. It was up to hidden world of the secret services to put things in motion. Have some patsy revolutionary Jews assassinate the Tsar. Get the pogroms going. Emigration is inevitable. Enough Jews will find themselves in Palestine.The arduous work of building the much needed colony would begin. 1881 Tsar Alexander II was assassinated on March 13, l881 by a 25-year-old Polish student named Ignacy Grinevitsky, who was Jewish. This prompted a wave of pogroms against the Jews. Which led to massive Jewish emigration in a westerly direction. This outcome benefited those people who were interested in building a Jewish colony in Palestine. Were the Rothschilds and their ilk behind the Tsar's assassination?

 Well, considering that the Rothschilds could be implicated in similar assassinations of heads of state as explored on this site...it would seem quite plausible that they were behind the group of Polish Jewish students behind Alexander's murder. . The Tsar's son, a puppet of the Rothschild-aligned Russian bankers like de Gunzberg and Ephrussi was installed upon his father's death. Russian pogroms and mistreatment of Russian Jews begin immediately- guaranteeing a flow of Jews to Palestine. These Jews were earmarked to do the initial back-breaking work of preparing the barren land of Palestine. The Jewish colony would be built from the rocks and dust of the neglected unhabitable terrain. The emigration west would bring many problems and would continue until worker immigration into the bankers' new fledgling Palestine project was no longer needed. Tsar Alexander II.People could not understand how it was possible that a Tsar who had done so much for Russia should have met his death at the hands of revolutionists. (Of course, what they didn't know was that the assassination was the result of a banker's scheme. Bankers make tsars and, if need be, break tsars (or any political leader or administrator for that matter) "Expulsions, deportations, arrests, and beatings became the daily lot of the Jews, not only of their lower class, but even of the middle class and the Jewish intelligentsia. The government of Alexander III waged a campaign of war against its Jewish inhabitants ... The Jews were driven and hounded, and emigration appeared to be the only escape from the terrible tyranny of the Romanovs."-- Berel Wein in Triumph of Survival (p. 173) 1882 Beginning of the 1st wave (Aliyah) of Jewish immigration into Palestine (The hope of a standing army within reach of Suez begins here) 1882 Egypt rebels against British-French dominion. Open revolt called "Arabi Uprising" (Anglo-Egyptian War).

 1882 Alexandria bombarded by British Fleet led by Winston Churchill's future "oil-maniac" mentor, Jacky Fisher commanding the HMS Inflexible . The Arab Uprising put down at great expense. Alternative had to be found to protecting Suez Canal region. British military puppet-state needed for region. A militant Israel, with a standing army,navy,and intelligence service capable of installing and maintaining networks of crypto-sabbatean/masonic ruler-puppets of the Middle-Eastern countries (and beyond)created as a result of the Ottoman Empire break-up after WWI) must be created out of the dust of nearby Palestine. It would be in place before Suez reverts to the Eygptians. 1882 After successfully leading the Bombardment of Alexandria, aboard the HMS Inflexible, British Admiral John "Jackie" Fischer named commander of British Mediterreanian Fleet. (Later known as the "oil maniac". Fisher would become a great advocate of converting the Royal navy from coal to oil fuel. Advisor to Churchill) 1882 Standard Oil Trust formed (far from the conflict in the middle east) 1882 Alphonse's younger brother, Edmond de Rothschild visits Zichron Yaakov (An oil expert with a vision far beyond the vineyards) 1883 Rothschild-financed Baku-Batum railroad completed (Giving Rothschild's Russian oil access to the world market) 1883 Alphonse de Rothschild's daughter, Beatrice , marries Maurice Ephrussi ,

 Jewish Russian Banker 1883 Baron Edmond de Rothschild begins patronizing early settlements, including Rishon L'Tzion 1884 British victory in the Anglo-Sudan War secures Red Sea coastline strategic to the Suez sea route 1885 Royal Dutch discovers oil in Sumatra. 1885 Rothschilds enter Russian Oil business Oil expert Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (Edmond's eldest brother) 1886 Rothschilds form their own oil company-BNITO 1887 Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements again. 1888 Rothschilds establish oil importing/distribution company 1891 Rosa Warburg marries Alexander De Gunzberg, Russian banker, son of Horace De Gunzberg (Rothschilds/Warburg agent in Russia) 1891 Samuel/Rothschild oil contract begins Marcus Samuel, Founder of Shell Oil 1892 Samuel's Shell Co.'s Murex oil tanker sails through the Suez Canal 1893 Samuel's Shell Co.'s adds 10 more tankers to fleet 1893 Alphonse de Rothschild meets with Standard Oil in NYC to discuss cartel John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil (S.O., Esso , Exxon) 1893 Edmond de Rothschild re-visits his Palestine settlements. 1896 Dreyfus Affair :Captain Alfred Dreyfus falsely accused of espionage. A stunned Theodor Hertzl, present at the degradation of Dreyfus, commences his Zionist activities. The Dreyfus scandal was designed by the French Rothschilds and their Masonic connections within the French military to stir up feelings of anti-semitism to promote the flow of a better class of Jew into Palestine.

Through the resulting anti-semitism Western European Jews, like their manipulated pogrom-plagued Eastern European Russian cousins, would too begin dreaming of a "Zionist" haven. The Degradation Ceremony of Alfred Dreyfus. The mob cried "Death to the Jews!" Henry Ford sitting in the first car he built in 1896. The automobile created a new market for oil.Ford supported Hitler because the future of the world's automobile industry would depend on an uninterupted flow of oil in the Middle-East as safe-guarded by a militant Israel. Hitler would insure the safety of Israel from a potentially fatal threat- continous waves of penniless immigrants threatening Israel's stability. Israel is the keystone of stability in the oil-rich Middle-East. Ford was aware of that. 1897 The First Cup of Wine Produced at the Rothschild Settlement, Rishon Le-Zion 1898 The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine and the Spanish-American War: Beginning of U.S. internationalism. (I remember reading some time ago that there was a Rothschild in the vicinity of the U.S.S. Maine days prior to its explosion. Anyone with information that can verify this please contact me) --> 1899 Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements again. 1900 End of Rothschild/Samuels contract 1901 A "capitalist of the highest order," English financier William Knox D'Arcy acquired the huge Persian concession in 1901. 1901 Opening up the Middle East:Oil in Persia 1903 End of 1st aliyah 1903 Wright Brother's first flight 1903 Kishinev pogrom 1904 Beginning of 2nd Aliyah into Palestine.Work for the new immigrants was often backbreaking; many could not endure the extraordinary efforts demanded. David Ben-Gurion once claimed that 90 percent of all Second Aliyah immigrants eventually despaired and left the country. Aaron David Gordon (1856-1922)believed labor was the cure for all the ills of the Jewish people. Seen as the symbol of the second Aliya, Gordon's words inspired the ragged, shabby, malaria-weakened pioneers of the second wave of Eastern European immigrants. Workers breakfast at Migdal. Draining the swamps at Ein Harod: There was a lot of malaria 1905 Within but a single week in October 1905, more than 50 pogroms took place in Czarist Russia.

With a 90 percent turnover many immigrant-laborers were needed in Palestine to accomplish the initial work needed to be done. Victims of the Bialystok Pogrom in October 1905 1907 Shell and Royal Dutch combined under Henri Deterding who coincidentally would support Adolph Hitler. The Rothschilds were the major stockholder of Royal Dutch Shell. 1907 First drive-in gasoline station opens in Seattle (not St. Louis) 1907 David Gruen shown here at Edmund de Rothschild's settlement Rishon L'Tzion. He would change his name to Ben-Gurion and would found Israel's army and later become prime minister. 1908 Oil discovered in Persia After five years of drudgery and disappointment, the engineer George Reynolds (left)--"solid English oak"--finally discovered oil in Persia in 1908, opening up oil development in the Middle East. 1909 The founding of Tel-Aviv in 1909 With the discovery of oil in Persia the establishment of the Jewish colony took on even more importance. The Eastern European immigrants could not be depended upon to get the initial work of colonization done. Immigrants from Yemen were brought in. Arriving in 1909, they were to play an important role in the campaign for Jewish labor. The Yemenites were excellent workers, making do with whatever little they had. They restored faith to many who had doubted that the concept of Jewish labor would ultimately triumph. Yemenites of the Second Aliyah:The triumph of Jewish labor 1911 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Chrchill in 1911 with Admiral Jacky Fisher (right), the "oil maniac" who persuaded Churchill to convert the Royal Navy from coal to oil in preparation for a war with Germany 1911 Bankers Natty Rothschild (London)and Max Warburg (Hamburg)secrectly conspire to engineer the Agadir Crisis which create tensions between England and Germany and leads to a naval build-up of oil-fueled battleships.The wheels would be set in motion for WWI. 1914 End of 2nd Aliyah 1914 Baron Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements again. 1914 World War I and the mechanization of the battlefield.Oil goes to war as the French commandeer Paris taxi cabs to rush additional troops to the war front. 1917 Balfour Declaration addressed to Lord Walter Rothschild Lord Walter Rothschild 1919 Versailles Treaty: Ottoman Empire carved up. Oil states created (Iraq,Iran,Kuwait) Aftermath of the Kiev pogrom of 1919. Civil war broke out in Russia when the Communists seized control in 1918. In the course of the civil war, 1,326 pogroms took place in the Ukraine alone, in which 70,000 Jews lost their lives. Zionist training farm in Berditchev, Ukraine-1919.

1919 Adolph Hitler ,suspected of shadowy ties to the Rothschilds, begins political rise. 1919 Third Aliyah begins A typical image of the Third Aliyah period -White Tents amid bare, rock-strewn hills. "We came to an empty land. There were 600,000 inhabitants here, of whom 540,000 were Arabs and 60,000 were Jews... The land was almost entirely desert and swamps. We did not feel that we were pushing anyone aside."-David Horowitz (Labor Brigade Secretary) In truth the Jews were not pushing the Arabs aside.But remember that the Jews were brought to Palestine for a specific purpose. A military purpose and they were not going to become a military people if they were allowed to exist in a peaceful environment. This is the key to understanding the middle-east conflict. Arrangements were made, as they were in Czarist Russia, to violently provoke the Jews. This time they would be encouraged and trained in militarism. It began with the classic Problem-Reaction-Solution tool. Without which Jews and Arabs would be living peaceably side-by-side until today. But the region had to be protected and it wouldn't be protected by sissys. So the Arabs had to be brain-washed to hate the Jews.(I wish I was making this stuff up.) 1920 Herbert Samuel (1870-1963),son of Shell Oil founder Marcus Samuel, named High Commissioner of Palestine. He was the first Jewish ruler in the land of Israel since Herod Agrippa. British Prime Minister Lloyd George and Churchill at Whitehall.

As Colonial Secretary from 1921-22, Churchill was to navigate Britain's policies regarding Palestine and Zionist affairs. Churchill had determined that Israel should have a population of no more than 3 million people. Hitler would be set in motion once the Jewish population quotas were satisfied. Safeguarding the future of the Jewish colony from future waves of undesirable immigrants. 1921 Herbert Samuel welcomes Winston Churchill to Jerusalem. Standing behind Samuel is James "Jimmy" de Rothschild, son of Baron Edmond. Samuel's oil tankers were bringing Rothschild's oil through the Suez Canal to be delivered to Churchill's newly oil-fueled Royal Navy. The creation of Israel was not founded on kindness to the Jews. At least not in the minds of the powerful men behind it. The Arab riots of 1921 were formented by the British through Arab leaders to toughen up the Jews in order to prepare them for their future militaristic role in the emerging Middle-East. 1922 British Home Secretary,Winston Churchill,suspected of "illegitimate" biological ties to the Rothschilds ,issues White Paper which stated that the Jewish community: ... should know that it is in Palestine as of right and not on the sufferance. That is the reason why it is necessary that the existence of a Jewish National Home in Palestine should be internationally guaranteed, and that it should be formally recognized to rest upon ancient historic connection.

The White Paper of 1922 also established a new principle as a factor for determining an immigration quota of Jews to Palestine. The White Paper confirmed the right of Jewish immigration but stipulated that this should not exceed the economic absorptive capacity of the country , an arbitrary standard that gave the British wide latitude to limit the influx of Jews. 1922 Josef Stalin, suspected illegitimate Rothschild ,becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin would play an indirect but major role in the Holocaust by allowing Hitler's killing machine into the Pale of Settlement and would wait until the the ethnic cleansing had been accomplished before chasing the Germans out of Russia. 1923 Third Aliyah ends. The Third Aliyah reached a crisis in 1923. There was famine in the villages and thousands of unemployed people in the cities. There were many cases of suicide. The situation appeared desperate and observers spoke confidently of the bankruptcy of Zionism. "There was a tremendous amount of work and little to eat, a water shortage, and terrible sanitary conditions. Do you know what it means to go out at night, with a high fever from malaria, to walk nearly half a kilometer to an outdoor toilet? We had nothing! What was there to eat?"-Golda Meyerson-Meir (Kibbutz Merhavia)

1924 Edmond de Rothschild, the "Great Benefactor", visits Palestine again. The port of Jaffa during the Fourth Aliyah was filled with ships and new immigrants. A group of Fourth Aliyah immigrants in 1924. 1924 Fourth Aliyah (1924-1931) begins. The new immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah had no intention of draining swamps or making the desert bloom. Many were independent entrepeneurs, who, with little capital and no encouragement or guidance, began to develop light industry in Palestine. A stocking factory. With no encouragement, light industry began to develop.

 1925 Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine for the last time. 1931 Fourth Aliyah ends 1932 Fifth Aliyah begins Before the Second World War there were five waves of immigration into Palestine. The first two, in the 1880s and in the decade up to 1914, brought settlers from Eastern Europe. These laid the foundations of the labour movement. The third and fourth waves brought many middle-class immigrants. The fifth, from 1929 to 1939, predominantly brought in Jews from Germany. The picture above shows a young immigrant from Germany. Children in Neve Ya'akov. The Baron would have his Jewish military colony. 1933 Adolph Hitler ,suspected of shadowy ties to the Rothschilds, becomes chancellor of Germany. 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes President of the U.S. FDR also had obscure ties to the Rothschilds.Roosevelt's fortune was inherited from his maternal grandfather Warren Delano. In 1830, Delano was a senior partner of Russell & Company. It was their merchant fleet which carried Rothschild/Sassoon opium to China and returned with tea. Sassoon's sons were busy pushing this mind-destroying drug in Canton, China. Between 1830 - 1831 they trafficked 18,956 chests of opium earning millions of dollars. Part of the profits went to Queen Victoria (also suspected of being an illegitamate child of N.M. Rothschild) and the Rothschild-controlled British government.

 In the year 1836 the trade increased to over 30,000 chests and drug addiction in coastal cities became endemic. 1934 Baron Edmond de Rothschild dies in Paris and according to his wishes is buried in Israel. He and his wife were re-interred in 1954 near Zichron Yaakov, Israel. 1937 Neville Chamberlain appointed Prime Minister of pre-war Britain.Chamberlain would become a thorn in the side of Rothschild war efforts as he sought to appease Hitler, thus interfering with war timetables. His disruptive efforts would be further aided by a newly appointed american ambassador, meddling in foreign affairs that he at first doesn't understand. 1938 In return for a political favor, Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Joseph P.Kennedy as the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James (Britain). Kennedy becomes close friends with Chamberlain and aids him in his appeasement efforts with Hitler.Kennedy felt an obligation to prevent America from getting embroiled in yet another European War.Appeasing Hitler seemed like a logical idea. Chamberlain would, as best he could, clue Kennedy into the secret dynamics behind British politics. No doubt alerting Kennedy to his real enemy...the all-powerful Rothschild banking family and their massive sphere of influence. Not a big lover of Jews in the first place, Kennedy, no doubt saw the bankers responsible for bankrolling war after war as public enemy number one. He would dedicate the rest of his life,and the life of his sons, to combating the influence that the bankers had in the U.S. The Rothschilds would prevail in protecting their interests by taking aim at Kennedy's political efforts via his sons. JPK's eldest son would die in a mysterious mid-air explosion. JFK's PT boat would be rammed at sea but he would survive. Later JFK together with brother RFK would be assassinated and their father's attempts to loosen the bankers' hold on America nullified. 1938 Outsider Chamberlain brokers big joke called The Munich Agreement aimed at appeasing insider Hitler (who is secretly an agent of war working on behalf of the British government). A proud, but naive Chamberlain waves the document he feels will stave off war in Europe.If only things were that simple.For political outsiders politics merely appear black and white.For insiders, it is.For his efforts, Chamberlain would be,IMHO,poisoned and forced to resign due to "ill-health" with insider Churchill taking his place.Chamberlain would die six months after leaving office.

A similar political end as suffered by other politicians no longer needed at critical times along the timetable, i.e.Hertzl,FDR. From left to right,Lord Halifax, Welles, Neville Chamberlain, Joseph P. Kennedy.London 1940 July 10,1940 Edouard de Rothschild arrives in New York with his wife and daughter.He carries $1,000,000 worth of museum quality gems to sustain his exile until the war ends. In 1939, he had dispatched one of his family's most portable treasures,the precious shares of Royal Dutch oil stock, to a Montreal bank to safeguard it from damage due to bombing or shelling. 1940 Fifth Aliyah ends August 1940 Joseph Kennedy abruptly removed from his ambassador post with the publishing of his controversial remarks suggesting that "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here, [in the US]." Kennedy worried that a third term for Roosevelt meant war; as Leamer reports, "Joe believed that Roosevelt, Churchill, the Jews and their allies would manipulate America into approaching Armageddon."Nevertheless, Kennedy supported Roosevelt's third term in return for Roosevelt's support of Joseph Kennedy Jr. for Governor of Massachusetts in 1942.Even during the height of the conflict, however, Kennedy remained "more wary of" prominent American Jews such as Felix Frankfurter than he was of Hitler.Kennedy would use his wealth and connections to build a national network of supporters that became the base for his sons' political careers to thwart what he considered to be the dangers of "some Jews in public office and in private life." 1941 Holocaust begins. Obscure Rothschild relative, Adolph Hitler ,eliminates the possibility of unauthorized massive Jewish immigration into Palestine thus insuring the future of a fledgling military colony and the steady flow of Middle Eastern oil to the West.The world's new energy supply would flow only after the flow of Eastern European Jewish blood. Rothschild oil investments could not and would not be compromised.The story will never reach mainstream history books. 1946 John F. Kennedy elected to Congress. 1948 State of Israel "official" 1952 John F. Kennedy elected to U.S. Senate. 1956 Israeli military proves itself during Suez Crisis alongside Britain and France. --> 1958 Construction commenced,with French assistance on the Negev Nuclear Research Center, an Israeli nuclear installation located in the Negev desert, about thirteen kilometers to the south-east of the city of Dimona. Israel's 'nuclear option' would become the very foundation of it's national security policy insisting that only the deterrent of the threat of nuclear weapons could insure Israel's survival amidst its hostile neighbors. 1961 John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President at noon on January 20, 1961. He would become an expected thorn in the side of the quiet people who actually own the the U.S. 1961 President Kennedy was 'dead-set' against Israel's nuclear weapons program convinced that the spread of nuclear weapons would make the world more dangerous and undermine U.S. interests. Kennedy placed a great deal of pressure on Ben-Gurion (Rothschild interests) in the effort to pressure for acceptance of international inspection of Dimona and Israeli abdication of their nuclear weapons.Ben-Gurion met with Kennedy in May in an attempt to convey the importance of nuclear weapons to the survival of the people of Israel.Kennedy was not sympathetic. Ben-Gurion said,"He looked to me like a twenty-five year old boy.I asked myself: How can a man so young be elected president? At first, I did not take him seriously." The Room. The inner sanctum of N.M.Rothschild during the time of the Kennedy administration.Chairman Edmund de Rothschild seated at desk rear center.

Did Eddy order the hit on JFK? Edmund de Rothschild, chairman of N.M.Rothschild during the Kennedy administration.(Cover photo of his autobiography, A Gilt-Edged Life) Spring 1962 President Kennedy's secret mistress, Mary Pinchot Meyer,planned to avert worldwide nuclear war by convincing him along with other powerful male members of the Washington establishment to take mind-altering drugs, which would presumably lead them to conclude that the Cold War was meaningless.CIA's James Jesus Angleton and his wife were counted among Meyer's close friends as she was the ex-wife of CIA super spook Cord Meyer Jr. Benjamin Bradlee of the Washington Post was also implicated as he was her brother-in-law and a close friend of JFK. Meyer said she had shared in this plan with at least seven other Washington socialite friends who held similar political views and were trying to supply LSD to a small circle of high ranking government officials. June 4,1963 President Kennedy signed a presidential document, called Executive Order 11110 giving Kennedy, as President of the United States, legal clearance to create his own money to run the country, money that would belong to the people, an interest and debt-free money. He had printed United States Notes, completely ignoring the Federal Reserve Notes from the Rothschild-led private banks of the Federal Reserve. Records show that Kennedy issued $4,292,893,825 of cash money. It was perfectly obvious that Kennedy was out to undermine the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

June 27,1963 Ben-Gurion was so preoccupied with obtaining nuclear weapons that, eleven days after resigning from office, he announced, "I do not know of any other nation whose neighbors declare that they wish to terminate it, and not only declare, but prepare for it by all means available to them. We must have no illusions that what is declared every day in Cairo, Damascus, and Iraq are just words. This is the thought that guides the Arab leaders ... I am confident ... that science is able to provide us with the weapons that will serve the peace and deter our enemies." November 22,1963 In her autobiography, Leah Rabin,wife of former Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzchak Rabin, caused quite a stir when she mentioned that her husband was in Dallas on November 22,1963. A month after JFK's assassination Rabin would be rewarded by being named Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Force. Working with French and American intelligence ,Israeli military intelligence proves itself in the JFK assassination and cover-up. OAS-employed Corsican hitmen, recruited by the Mossad's European chief assassin, Yitzhak Shamir,would be implicated in the assassination.Were the Israelis involved in the planning of the most famous motorcade assassination? --> November 23,1963 Only one day after Kennedy's assassination, all the United States notes which Kennedy had issued were called out of circulation. Was this through an executive order of the newly-installed president, Lyndon B. Johnson? Or was he merely an instrument of the Rothschilds? At any rate, all of the money President Kennedy had created was destroyed. And not a word was said to the American people. November 1963 In his biography Flashbacks Ex-Harvard Psychology professor, Timothy Leary claimed that he had a call from Mary Pinchot Meyer soon after the Kennedy assassination during which she sobbed and said, "They couldn't control him any more. He was learning too much. He was changing too fast...They've covered everything up. I gotta come see you. I'm afraid."


October 12,1964 Nobody messes with the Zohan. With two point blank shots to the heat and heart, Mary Pinchot Meyer murdered by "the same sons of bitches who killed John F. Kennedy", according to Mary's ex-husband CIA's Cord Meyer,Jr . As head of Black Ops at the Agency at the time of the assassination, he was offering up a veiled death confession though the actual murder of his ex-wife was most likely an Israeli assassin. MPM was hit two weeks after the Warren Commission cover-up was released to the public, thereby eliminating one person who knew that it was total bullshit. --> December 1964 Soon after the JFK assassination Guy de Rothschild, the force behind the French-built Dimona Nuclear reactor and Israel's Mirage jets, graces the cover of Time. The Illuminati loves hidden public irony known only to themselves. Ben-Gurion presents James Jesus Angleton of the CIA with an award for special services rendered to the State of Israel.Angleton and his wife were personal friends of Mary Pinchot Meyer,JFK's secret mistress and nuclear weapons advisor.

 Nina Burleigh, MPM's biographer claims James Angleton tapped Mary Meyer's telephone after she left her husband,Cord Meyer,Jr.. Angleton often visited the MPM's family home and took her sons on fishing outings. 1965 Chairman of N.M. Rothschild, Edmund de Rothschild and former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion at Rothschild headquarters. Is the chairman taking the time to congratulate the old man for a job well done?

Edmund was the only head of the English banking house to write an autobiography. Of all the VIPs he had met, he chose this photo with Ben-Gurion for his book.The irony isn't lost here. Are we looking at the "sons of bitches who killed JFK?" 1967 Thanks to French Mirage fighters, Six-Day War proves Israel military battle-ready to protect Suez Canal and surrounding "interests".Two years ahead of the 100 year goal set at the 1869 completion of the Suez Canal. Yehoshua Cohen trained the two men responsible for the assassination of Lord Moyne in 1944.

Moyne, a close friend of Churchill, was the British resident minister in the Middle East. Yehoshua Cohen himself,assassinated Count Folke Bernadotte, a UN-appointed peacemaker sent to Palestine in 1948 to negotiate Jerusalem's boundries. In 1965, Cohen privately confessed to the assasination in the presence of Ben-Gurion during an interview with Ben-Gurion's biographer, Michael Bar-Zohar. After Ben-Gurion abrupt exit as Israel's Prime Minister after his stormy dealings with the Kennedy administration over Dimona, he and Cohen were in daily contact as they were living on the same Negev kibbutz not far from Dimona. Did Cohen have a hand in the JFK assassination? This researcher is of the opinion that he did indeed.In the end,the Rothschild's Middle east military safeguard for the steady flow of oil to the West was firmly in place.

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The Hidden Hand that Shaped History

By Vigilant | October 20th, 2009

"Today's thinking toward a democratic world state is neither a new trend nor an accidental circumstance; the work of setting up the background of knowledge necessary to the establishing of enlightened democracy among all nations has been carried on for many hundreds of years by secret societies."
    -Manly P. Hall, Secret Destiny of America

Is there a hidden force behind the world events of the past centuries? Are the fall of European monarchies, the bringing forth of the Age of Enlightenment and our path towards a world democracy part of a great plan lead by a "hidden hand"? Before the advent of mass media, portraits depicting their leaders in majestic poses were the only artifacts people had. Do these portraits have an occult meaning?

One of those poses is the "hiding of the hand". I remember my history teacher trying to explain why Napoleon was often shown with a hand inside his shirt. The common explanation went along these lines:

    "Many theories have been presented as to why Napoleon is traditionally depicted with his hand in his waistcoat. Some of these theories include: he had a stomach ulcer, he was winding his watch, he had an itchy skin disease, in his era it was impolite to put your hands in your pockets, he had breast cancer, he had a deformed hand, he kept a perfumed sachet in his vest that he'd sniff surreptitiously, and that painters don't like to paint hands"
    -Tom Holmberg

Unless all the individuals discussed in this article had stomach ulcer or deformed hands, the gesture of hiding one's hand simply has to have a specific meaning. It does. Most of the people using this sign are proven (and often enthusiastic) members of the Freemasons. Considering the great importance of this gesture in Masonic rituals and the fact that all of the elite were either part of Freemasonry or knew of it, it is simply impossible that the recurrence of this sign could be the result of a coincidence. The "hidden hand" can, in fact, be found in the rituals of the Royal Arch Degree of Freemasonry and the world leaders that use this sign are subtly saying to other initiates of the order: "This is what I'm part of, this is what I believe in and this is what I'm working for".

The Hidden Hand that Shaped History
By Vigilant | October 20th, 2009 | Category: Vigilant Reports | 135 comments

Has the course of History been directed by a small group of people with common interests? The paintings and pictures of the great men of the past centuries reveal a common thread which links them together. Is it a coincidence that many of them hid one of their hands when posing for a portrait? It seems unlikely. We'll look at the Masonic origin of the "hidden hand" and the powerful men who used the sign in famous portraits.

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    Stalin and Washington – two opposing ideologies, one hand gesture

    "Today's thinking toward a democratic world state is neither a new trend nor an accidental circumstance; the work of setting up the background of knowledge necessary to the establishing of enlightened democracy among all nations has been carried on for many hundreds of years by secret societies."
    -Manly P. Hall, Secret Destiny of America

Is there a hidden force behind the world events of the past centuries? Are the fall of European monarchies, the bringing forth of the Age of Enlightenment and our path towards a world democracy part of a great plan lead by a "hidden hand"? Before the advent of mass media, portraits depicting their leaders in majestic poses were the only artifacts people had. Do these portraits have an occult meaning?

One of those poses is the "hiding of the hand". I remember my history teacher trying to explain why Napoleon was often shown with a hand inside his shirt. The common explanation went along these lines:

    "Many theories have been presented as to why Napoleon is traditionally depicted with his hand in his waistcoat. Some of these theories include: he had a stomach ulcer, he was winding his watch, he had an itchy skin disease, in his era it was impolite to put your hands in your pockets, he had breast cancer, he had a deformed hand, he kept a perfumed sachet in his vest that he'd sniff surreptitiously, and that painters don't like to paint hands"
    -Tom Holmberg

Unless all the individuals discussed in this article had stomach ulcer or deformed hands, the gesture of hiding one's hand simply has to have a specific meaning. It does. Most of the people using this sign are proven (and often enthusiastic) members of the Freemasons. Considering the great importance of this gesture in Masonic rituals and the fact that all of the elite were either part of Freemasonry or knew of it, it is simply impossible that the recurrence of this sign could be the result of a coincidence. The "hidden hand" can, in fact, be found in the rituals of the Royal Arch Degree of Freemasonry and the world leaders that use this sign are subtly saying to other initiates of the order: "This is what I'm part of, this is what I believe in and this is what I'm working for".


The Royal Arch Degree

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    The Triple Tau

The Royal Arch Degree (the 13th degree of the Scottish Rite or the 7th degree of the York Rite) is also known as the Mason of the Secret. During this Degree, initiates are said to receive great Masonic truths.

    "The members of this Degree are denominated companions, and are "entitled to a full explanation of the mysteries of the Order"; whereas in the former Degrees they are recognized by the common, familiar appellation of brothers, and kept in a state of profound ignorance of the sublime secret which is disclosed in this Chapter. This accords with the custom of Pythagoras, who thus distinguished his pupils. After a probation of five years, as stated before, they were admitted into the presence of the preceptor, called his companions, and permitted  to converse with him freely. Previous to the expiration of that term he delivered his instructions to them from behind a screen"
    -John Fellows, Fellows's Inquiry into the Origin, History, and Purport of Freemasonry

    "If we pass on to the Royal Arch, we receive a wonderful accession of knowledge, and find every thing made perfect; for this is the nec plus ultra of Masonry, and can never be exceeded by any human institution."
    -George Oliver, Lectures on Freemasonry

It is during this degree that the initiate learns the sacred name of God.

    "A Degree indescribably more august, sublime, and important than any which precede it, and is, in fact, the summit and perfection of ancient Masonry. It impresses upon our minds a belief in the being of a God, without beginning of days or end of years, the great and incomprehensible Alpha and Omega, and reminds us of the reverence which is due to His Holy NAME."
    -George Oliver, Historical Landmarks




This holy name is Jahbulon, a combination of words meaning "god" in Syriac, Chaldaic and Egyptian.

    "JEHOVAH. Of the varieties of this sacred name in use among the different nations of the earth, three particularly merit the attention of Royal Arch Masons:

    1. JAH. This name of God is found in the 68th Psalm, v. 4.

    2. BAAL OR BEL. This word signifies a lord, master, or possessor, and hence it was applied by many of the nations of the East to denote the Lord of all things, and the Master of the world.

    3. ON. This was the name by which JEHOVAH was worshiped among the Egyptians."
    -Malcolm C. Duncan, Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor

The initiation ritual to this degree re-enacts the return to Jerusalem of three Most Excellent Masons who were held captive in Babylon. I won't go through the whole ceremony and symbolism but at one point, the initiate is asked to learn a secret password and a hand sign in order to go through a series of veils. The following image depicts the hand sign required to go through the second veil, as documented in Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor:

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    "Master of Second Veil: "Three Most Excellent Masters you must have been, or thus far you could not have come; but farther you cannot go without my words, sign, and word of exhortation. My words are Shem, Japhet, and Adoniram; my sign is this: (thrusting his hand in his bosom); it is in imitation of one given by God to Moses, when He commanded him to thrust his hand into his bosom, and, taking it out, it became as leprous as snow. My word of exhortation is explanatory of this sign, and is found in the writings of Moses, viz., fourth chapter of Exodus":

    "And the Lord said unto Moses, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow"
    -Malcolm C. Duncan, Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor

As stated above, this hand gesture is said to be inspired by Exodus 4:6. In this biblical verse, the heart ("bosom") stands for what we are, the hand for what we do. It can thus be interpreted as : What we are is what we ultimately do. The symbolic significance of this gesture might explain the reason why it is so widely used by famous Masons. The hidden hand lets the other initiates know that the individual depicted is part of this secret Brotherhood and that his actions were inspired by the Masonic philosophy and beliefs. Furthermore, the hand that executes the actions is hidden behind cloth, which can symbolically refer to covert nature of the Mason's actions. Here are some of the famous men who used this hand signal.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was a military and political leader of France whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. He was initiated into Army Philadelphe Lodge in 1798. His brothers, Joseph, Lucian, Louis and Jerome, were also Freemasons. Five of the six members of Napoleon's Grand Councel of the Empire were Freemasons, as were six of the nine Imperial Officers and 22 of the 30 Marshals of France. Bonaparte's association with Masonry has always been played down in historical records. Masonic researcher J.E.S. Tuckett addresses the situation:

    "It is strange that evidence in favor of the Great Napoleon's membership of the Masonic Brotherhood has never been examined in detail, for the matter is surely one of interest, and – seeing the remarkable part that remarkable men played in the affairs of Europe, at a time when Continental Freemasonry was struggling out of chaos into regular order – it cannot be without an important bearing upon Masonic history"

In his essay on Napoleon and Masonry, Tuckett claims:

    "There is incontestable evidence that Napoleon was acquainted with the nature, aims and organization of Freemasonry: that he approved of and made use of it to further his own ends"
    -J.E.S. Tuckett, Napoleon I and Freemasonry (source)



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May 13, 2006
Stalin and a giant moustache
By Julian Evans

THE Rothschilds' last investment in oil in Russia and its former empire began more than 100 years ago, when Baron Alphonse Rothschild founded the Caspian and Black Sea Oil Company in 1883. Alphonse was said to be the best-informed man in Europe, with the finest moustache.

An anti-semitic Tsarist decree made it illegal for Jews to own land in Russia, but the Rothschilds were big enough investors that the law was not enforced against them.

For about 20 years the Rothschilds' Russian company was second only to Standard Oil as a global oil power. The Rothschilds used their clout in railways to take oil from Baku, now the capital of Azerbaijan, to the Black Sea coast.

Then they teamed up with a London trader called Marcus Samuel, who later founded Shell, to ship the Russian oil to the Far East. Samuel pulled off a business coup in 1892, when he lobbied the British Government to allow an oil tanker to go through the Suez Canal for the first time. The deal helped to make the Rothschilds the biggest supplier of oil to Asia.

Things started to get rocky for the Rothschilds at the turn of the century. Oil workers in Baku and the Black Sea port of Batum became restless at the hands of a young agitator called Joseph Dzugashvili — or Stalin, as he later named himself. In 1902, the oil business was paralysed by a general strike and in October 1905 open rebellion broke out across the country. The Rothschilds decided to sell their company to Shell, in 1912.

The Rothschilds have not invested in the Russian oil business since, although Lord Rothschild (Jacob Rothschild) was on the supervisory board of Yukos, the company owned by the former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

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