Monday, February 21, 2011

Coincidence05: 1717 15th St NW, DC

Located at 1733 16th Street, NW, in Washington, D.C., is the monumental  Freemason edifice that has been the national headquarters (House of the Temple aka HOT) of the Supreme Council, 33°, Southern Jursidiction, since 1915; the architect was John Russell Pope who was also famous for other DC buildings that followed this, his first in DC.

In 1947, 32 years after completion of the HOT, a building would be built at 1717 15th Street, NW to its rear side.  The building currently serves as a condominium.  It previously housed St. Augustine's Catholic Church convent, the Oznam School of Charity, offices for the Roman Catholic Archidiocese of Washington, a private residence, and a boarding house.  It is a contributing property to the Fourteenth Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.  On its roof is a cross made of reinforced concrete with coarse sand for durability.  The cross is badly damaged as if by a blow with a heavy object.

In more recent years, a bust of the first U.S. president, George Washington, a copy of the original designed and created by Avard T. Fairbanks, was placed at the rear garden of the HOT along S Street.  It was placed to honor George Washington, once a member of Freemasonry although it is suspect how active a member. Many of the new American ceremonies during his presidency, such as the very first oath of presidential office, were modeled after Masonic ritual. Masons and President Washington presided over the laying of the U.S. Capitol cornerstone in 1793.

The bust looks easterly toward 1717 15th Street, NW and the broken cross as if watching the cross that watches the HOT.





 














Sunday, February 20, 2011

Coincidence04: Pentagon Points to White House

On September 11, construction begins on Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, fifty years before the WTC attack.  Pentagons and pentagrams are linked in a geometric way.  The pentagram is related to the movements of the planet Venus, whose inferior conjunctions with the Sun against the 12 constellations of the Zodiac form such a harmonious revolving pentagram pattern in space every 1200 years.  The pentagrammic star is made up of 5 triangles around a pentagon and the sides of those triangles are in the relation of 2:3:3, where 2 is the base…2:3=0.666.... 

Nearby National Airport had opened for business on June 16.  The Congress had been kicking around airport site selection since 1927 when FDR took it into his hands to select a site in September 1938.  The first shovel of dirt was dug in November 1938.

The War Department had been housed in 17 buildings holding 24,000 people (there were only 334,000 in the armed services in 1939, 1.8 million in 1941).  The Bureau of Public Buildings wanted a moderate expansion program but some reports say the War Department’s Chief of Construction and logistics head, General Brehon B. Somervell, wanted a new building all under one roof.  He approached the Congressional sub-committee who told Chief Engineer of the Army ,General Eugene Reybold to investigate the soon to be abandoned Washington-Hoover Airport site.  Another federal building was planned for construction in the same general area.  On July 17, General Somervell instructed architects G. Edwin Bergstrom and David J. Witmer and Lt. Col. Hugh J. Casey to have a concept plan for a 40,000 people building ready by July 22.  By August 25, the plan and appropriations were approved.  There was opposition because of the size, impacts and position at the foot of Arlington National Cemetery.  FDR’s uncle had an influential position with opponents.  FDR reserved the right of final approval of site.  The original site required a bevel in the building footprint and when the original site was “discovered to be in a floodplain,” the building location was shifted and the building footprint also had to be “refined” into the shape of a pentagon.   

It is unclear if FDR or Reybold actually chose the final 67-acre [66.6?] location.  The area had been a wasteland of swamps and dumps and home to a dangerous slum known as Hell’s Bottom at one time.  There is very little written information on the construction and planning of what would be the biggest office building in the world.  What information is available is split:  the “official biography” of General Leslie R. Groves, Manhatten Project Director, gives all the credit to General Groves; other army and professional sources give the credit for overseeing construction to Captain Clarence Renshaw. 

The final location seems to have been a compromise engineered in some way by FDR with the “opponents”…FDR said to the opponents that the 5.1 million sf and 40,000 capacity would be reduced to 20,000 persons which would reduce traffic, etc…the building started construction and it was larger than what FDR said it would be but on October 10 he said go ahead anyway.  The preliminary plans were developed in 34 [33?] days.  15,000 would work 24-hour 3-shift days to build it in 16 months.  At peak war years, there would be 33,000 working inside.

The building on 9-11-01 held 24,000 people, had 3.7 million square feet and covered 34 [33?] acres.  It is supported by 41,492 piles [1492 was the year certain people and Muslims were expelled from Spain].

But in the rush, it seems that the pentagon was pointed exactly at the White House, much like the pentagram centered on 16th Street NW does. 

Coincidence03: "Ocean's 11" Poster

MOVIE:  Ocean’s 11 premieres in US on December 5, 2001 after the 911 attack.  It bumps the Harry Potter movie from the #1 position.  The movie posters considered were many.  The U.S. poster has two arabic numerals that look like two planes flying into the skyscrapers. ..showed 7 discernible pairs of feet in black pants (Men-In-Black)...the forward man stepping on the number 1…the men cast shadows at a different angle from the building which are at 330 degree azimuth...at the bottom reads “12-07-01" (1+2+7+1=11) and "Are You In Or Out? [get it?]”.   At the bottom left are six tiny-inverted “v’s” that look like pyramids with slightly flat tops.  Steven Soderbergh, the man behind such films as Sex, Lies and Videotape [get it?] and Out of Sight [get it?], directed the film.  The writer was Ted Griffin, the writer of  Ravenous and Best Laid Plans [get it?].  Jerry Weintraub was the producer, the producer of The Firm [that's what they are].  Phil Messina was Production Designer; he worked as Art Director on the Sixth Sense.  Costume Designer Jeffrey Kurland worked on Man on the Moon.  The movie was rated PG-13.

Coincidence02: Amelia Earhart's Flight Plan

Amelia Earhart is last heard from as she supposedly crosses the International Dateline where it meets the Equator - where you become a Golden Shellback according to the Crossing the Line Ceremony performed by all navies in the world - and where you meet the pagan god Neptune. She was heading toward Howland Island, part of the Phoenix Islands - Phoenix - pagan sign of regeneration and rebirth myth.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Coincidence01: Time Magazine post-911

For you 11-19.5-23-32-33-39 fans, note:  The spotlights memorializing the twin towers as they correspond to "-11" [minus, get it?] on the back cover; prominent presence of the queen of Babylon, Semiramis aka Statue of Liberty, brought to U.S. by and dedicated by Freemasons; the pyramidal hats on the remaining WTC buildings; the Saturn-like image in the Toyota logo; the pyramidal images of the mountain tops; and, the frightening phrases, "jawbone chatters, [your] spine shivers, [jet]engine roars" and "the all-new 4[fore]runner [of things to come], larger, more powerful, more capable [are we who did this]."

Saturn was not just the Roman god of agriculture, LA-types.  For a little more on the subject go here:  http://www.bibliolution.org/index3.php