ProChoiceVax - 12 October 2011 01:33 PM
If any Freemasons here are allowed to discuss this, could someone please explain why French Freemason Pierre LEnfant designed the street plan of Washington D.C. to include an upside down (i.e. “satanic”) pentagram pointing at the White House? I have seen a Freemason apologist in a documentary attempt to explain this before[1], but his explanation did not seem to adequately cover the occultic concept behind a “broken” pentagram. Thank you.
Rather than expend brain energy re-writing what I’ve written many time before here is a selection of previous responses to this particular subject:
[QUOTE=mike martin;686581] Quite right! It was the first city actually built specifically to be the Capital City of a country.
I finally got the time to use some maps and Google earth to have a look at the layout of Washington DC. It trashes your silly story! Those lines that you draw onto those old maps hide the fact that there are no complete lines to the “symbols” that you’ve found. Other really important parts are just not there at all, such as:
The 90 degree angle that makes a square a square is not present. The square that you draw is actually made up of Louisiana and Washington Avenues which start well apart from each other, with some kind of park between them. There is no join which must be present to make a square. It is also clear that they would not join in the right place if you draw accurate line to their actual routes.
The hinge of the compasses is not present, both of the roads terminate in roundabouts well apart from each other.
The right hand leg of the compasses is not complete at all. The left hand leg is made up of Pennsylvania Avenue while the right leg starts in Maryland Avenue then is broken by Independence Avenue (which goes off at a different angle) then it gets lost amongst a load of buildings.
The horns are there, well sort of! If you ignore the fact that the left hand one (which is made up of Capital Circle) is actually in reality a completely different shape (more like a floppy bunny ear). However as they are new they hardly count anyway.
Now regardless of what you want to achieve you must surely agree that if there was a decision to include Masonic symbols in the street plan they would have actually done that. They were building a brand new city, they had nothing to go around so there is no reason for the symbols not to be complete. In fact if they are not complete you’re doing what we, in England, call “pissing into the wind”
I suppose the question is really did he design any other cities? I doubt it as he was sacked by Washington (hardly a recommendation) and the design was actually revised and applied by Andrew and Joseph Ellicott.
Mike
[QUOTE=mike martin;630417] From my perspective the problem is the whole story. No one can deny that Masonic buildings in DC have Masonic sybolism. The thing is just this whole idea that L’Enfant was a Mason (which no Masonic scholar has been able to prove) operating under direct orders from Washington (although history records Jefferson was the director and amended many of L’Enfant’s original plans) orchestrated Masonic symbolism into the street plan.
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/washington_dc/washington_dc.html
The real problem though is that anti-Masons promote these half-formed and cockeyed symbols as proof of some dark Masonic/occult agenda.
Mike
[QUOTE=mike martin;630417] ALL that someone would need to show me to convince me about the DC thing is just some actual proof (claims and speculation are not proof) or just as good a statement by the Grand Lodge of DC confirming the Masonic layout.
In the death I could claim that London has a Masonic layout and I could probaby find actual Masonic symbols in there somewhere but it still wouldn’t make it true.
Mike
