Egyptian Pharaoh Netjerykhet Djoser.
(c. 2650 – c. 2575 bc) Second king of the 3rd dynasty [1]

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Egyptian High priest Kal

Pharaoh Khufu of Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom.
(c. 2589 - c. 2566) Khufu was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty.

Prince Wep-em-nefret, Fourth Dynasty, reign of Khufu

Pharaoh Amenhotep III
(c. 1386 - c. 1349)

Unknown Egyptian statue

Sir Francis Dashwood
(b. 1708 - d. 1781)

Founder of the infamous and notorious Hellfire Club in England. Quite possibly a Jacobite secret agent. Rumored to have also been involved in the Rosicrucian movement and Freemasonry.

The Hellfire Club was a secret society which engaged in depraved sexual orgies, drunkenness, Satanism, and held Black Masses.
Members included prominent men of the British aristocracy, and the most influential politicians of the day.

In 1883, after 8 years as Commander in-chief of the U.S. Army, Freemason and General George Washington bid sad farewell to his brothers in arms at New York City's Fraunces Tavern.

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John Wilkes Booth
(b. 1838 - d. 1865)

Freemason and American stage actor who assassinated U.S. president Abraham Lincoln.
Wilkes is seen here giving the claw hand, while posing for the photo.

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A portrait showing a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) giving the craw hand sign.

Known mason Pat Robertson on the February 17th, 1986 cover of TIME magazine

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Billy Graham on the cover of his book "The Challenge".

Annie Besant. Noted for being a 33rd degree Co-mason, occultist, Theosophist, Marxist, secularist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

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Egyptian salute (todo: refind source)

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George Washington (Mason and 1st president of the United States)

Illustration of Honore de Balzac's work ...

George Washington statue (1865), Union Square, NYC [2]

Pledge of Allegiance to the US flag.

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Nazi salute

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Adolf Hitler at a Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1928.

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Benito Mussolini

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Klu Klux Klan

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Islamic meeting (Palestinian military)

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Christian meeting

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Tiananmen square statue, China

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Aleister Crowley

Boris Yeltsin

David Blaine

The "three times three" position, which is assumed by the three Masons preforming the ritual of the Royal Arch Degree, in which they utter the name of the Masonic God - Jah-buh-lun.

Illustration showing the "Sign of the Master of the Second Veil" (seventh degree mason) from the 1866 book Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor. [3]

Note: the masonic foot pattern.

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Symbology of the Royal Arch Degree inscribed with the words Je-ho-vah on the outer circle, Jah-bul-on on each edge of the triangle, and three Hebrew letters at each point of the triangle.

Paul Whitehead
(b. 1710 - d. 1774)

English satiric poet and prominent member of the infamous Hellfire Club.

Founded by Sir Francis Dashwood, the Hellfire Club was a secret society that operated in England from 1749 to the late 1760's. The Hellfire Club, which included members of the British aristocracy and high-ranking politicians, engaged in all forms of sexual depravity, drunkenness, Satanism, ad held Black Masses.

It was Whitehead who wrote about the activities of the society. Before his death, Whitehead himself burned these documents, in order to prevent any revealing of the society to the outside world.

George Washington
(b. 1732 - d. 1799)

Freemason and 1st President of the United States.
Washington was initiated on November 4th, 1752 in the lodge at Fredericksburg, Virgina. [4]

After the war, Washington also belonged to and headed the exclusive secret society known as the Society of the Cincinnati (also called the Order of the Cincinnati).

The members of this society comprised of the richest and most elite men of Washington's day.

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Washington served as Grand Master of Lodge No. 39 of Alexandria, Virgina (later Alexandria Lodge No. 22) for 20 months in 1788-1790. [5]

Washington's Masonic apron was embroidered by Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, wife of fellow Freemason and personal friend, Lafayette - the French military officer and American Revolutionary War general. [6]

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Throughout his career, Washington visited several lodges and attended many Masonic functions. His correspondence has many references to Freemasonry.

In a 1791 letter to members of St. David's Lodge in Newport, Rhode Island, Washington stated: "..I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving Brother."

And in a 1798, letter to the Grand Lodge of Maryland; "So far as I am acquainted with the doctrines and principles of Freemasonry, I conceive them to be founded in benevolence, and to be exercised only for the good of mankind. I cannot, therefore, upon this ground, withdraw my approbation from it." [7]

Abraham Whipple
(b. 1733 - d. 1819)

Freemason and American Revolutionary War naval commander.

Initiated and passed in St. Johns Lodge No. 1, Providence, Rode Island on June 4, 1761. [8]

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William Dawes
(b. 1745 - d. 1799)

Freemason [9] and one of the three men who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

British POWs from the Battle of Saratoga complained to Parliament that he gave them short supplies.

John Jay
(b. 1745 - d. 1829)

Co-wrote the Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

There is no direct proof that Jay was a Freemason. However, in a letter to George Washington on April 21st, 1779 he wrote the following text which appears to have Masonic significance: "The dissolution of our governments threw us into a political chaos. Time, Wisdom and Perseverance will reduce it into Form, and give it Strength, Order and Harmony. In this work you are (in the style of your professions) a Master Builder, and God grant that you may long continue a Free and Accepted one.” [10]

Seth Read
(b. 1746 - d. 1797)

The man Instrumental in putting the Latin motto and popular Masonic phrase: "E PLURIBUS UNUM" (Out of Many, One) on U.S. coins.

Baron von Knigge
(b. 1752 - d. 1796)

Freemason and member of the Bavarian Illuminati.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(b. 1756 - d. 1791)

Freemason and Austrian composer. Poisoned, died at age 35. Mozart's involvement in Freemasonry may have played a role in his death.

Initiated in Austrian lodge Zur Wohltatigkeit on Dec. 14th 1784. [11]

Painting c. 1777.

Note: Mozart's father Leopold Mozart, was also a Freemason and composer. [12]

Marquis de Lafayette
(b. 1757 - d. 1834)

33° Freemason [13] and French military officer who was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde Nationale during the bloody French Revolution.
Lafayette was also made an honorary Grand Commander of Supreme Council of New York. [14]

More than 75 Masonic bodies in the U.S. have been named after him, including 39 lodges, 18 chapters, 4 councils, 4 commanderies, and 7 Scottish rite bodies. [15]

Maximilien Robespierre
(b. 1758 - d. 1794)

One of the best-known figures of the bloody French Revolution. Involved in perpetuating the Reign of Terror (1793-1794).

On July 28th 1794, Robespierre was executed by guillotine, without trial in the Place de la Révolution.
(according to legend, the only man to be guillotined face-up).

Napoleon I
(b. 1769 - d. 1821)

Freemason and Emperor of France, 1805-14.

Napoleon's four brothers - Joseph, Lucian, Louis, and Jerome, as well as his stepson, Eugene Beauharnais, his brother-in-law Murat, and nephew, Jerome, were all Freemason's. Most of them held high Masonic rank. [16]

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Those who were chosen by Napoleon for high honor and office in the state were usually Freemason's. Of the six, who, with the emperor himself, formed the Grand Council of the Empire, five were certainly Freemasons, including Arch Chancellor Prince Jean Jacques Regis Cambaceres, an enthusiastic and active Mason.
Of the nine lesser imperial officers of state, six at least were active Masons. Of the marshals of France who served under Napoleon, at least 22 of the first 30 were Freemasons. [17]

Note: the prominent use of the color red.

Salomon Rothschild
(b. 1774 - d. 1855)

Fabulously wealthy Jewish founder and overseer of the Vienna, Austria branch of the Rothschild clan.

Salomon Rothschild was quite possibly the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler. Hitler's father's mother was a maid in Salomon Rothschild mansion, and Salomon was a well-known womanizer. After she had become pregnant, she was abruptly dismissed. Interestingly, since this would have made Hitler part Jewish, investigating Hitler's family tree was illegal in Nazi Germany on pain of death.

Thomas Cochrane
(b. 1775 - d. 1860)

Royal Navy officer and radical politician.

Simón Bolívar
(b. 1783 - d. 1830)

Freemason. Known as the "George Washington of South America" Bolívar used genocidal terror tactics to achieve his aims. He joined Freemasonry in Cadiz, Spain and received the Scottish Rite degrees in Paris and was knighted in a Commandery of Knights Templar in France in 1807.

Bolívar founded and served as master of Protectora de las Vertudes Lodge No. 1 in Venezuela.

The country of Bolivia is named after him. Bolívar also served as the president of Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia in the 1820's. Belonged to the Order and Liberty Lodge No. 2, Peru. [18]

Victor Hugo
(b. 1802 - d. 1885)

French poet, playwright, and novelist. Hugo was also deeply involved in the occult and mysticism.

Hugo's demented mind wrote L'Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs), a story about a boy whose face had been horribly shaped into a permanent smile by fiendish cosmetic butchers.
This grotesque tale was the basis for Batman's "Joker" character. It has been alleged that Hugo was not only a Rosicrucian but was also Grand Master of the occultic order known as the Priory of Sion.

Franklin Pierce
(b. 1804 - d. 1869)

14th President of the United States

Photo circa. 1855

Possible Freemason. (unconfirmed)

Robert Anderson
(b. 1805 - d. 1875)

Freemason and Major General in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Anderson was in command of Sumter at the time of the Confederate attack.

Raised in Mercer Lodge No. 50, Trenton, N.J. May 27, 1858. He was also an honorary member of Pacific Lodge No. 233 of New York City. [19]

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Giacomo Antonelli
(b. 1806 - d. 1876)

Powerful and influential Cardinal and Secretary of the Papal States under Pope Pius IX. Antonelli was involved in the 1865 plot to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Antonelli also hid a murderous associate of assassin John Wilkes Booth in the Vatican State, where he had fled, to protect him from execution by American authorities who sought his extradition. [20]

Napoléon III
(b. 1808 - d. 1873)‎

Freemason and Emperor of France, 1852-70.

Member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of France. [21]

Note: also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte

Andrew Johnson
(b. 1808 - d. 1875)

32° Freemason [22] and 17th President of the United States.
Johnson pardoned 3 of the 8 men charged in the Lincoln assassination
Initiated May 5th, 1851 in the Greeneville Lodge No.119, Greeneville, Tennessee. [23]

First U.S. President to be impeached.
His close association with Freemasonry was one of the factors that led to his impeachment trial. [24]

William Ewart Gladstone
(b. 1809 - d. 1898)

British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886 and 1892–94).

Stephen A. Douglas
(b. 1813 - d. 1861)

Freemason and U.S. Senator from Illinois, who gained fame by his debates with Abraham Lincoln. Initiated on June 11th, 1840 Springfield Lodge No. 4, Springfield Illinois.
Upon his death, Douglas was buried Masonically, per his request.

A monument was dedicated to him Masonically in Chicago on Sept. 6th, 1866. Fellow Freemason and then - U.S. President Andrew Johnson attended the ceremony. [25]

Richard Wagner
(b. 1813 - d. 1883)

Anti-Semitic German composer, conductor, theater director, and essayist.

Wagner was greatly admired by Adolf Hitler.

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Mikhail Katkov
(b. 1818 - d. 1880)

Russian occult publisher of Moscow Gazette.

Katkov brought Hindu and Theosophy teachings to Russia. He also published some books of the Russian occultist and mystic, Helena Blavatsky

Karl Marx
(b. 1818 – d. 1883)

German - Jewish revolutionary and communist icon.

Marx authored The Communist Manifesto in 1848.

John Ruskin
(b. 1819 - d. 1900)

Tutor to illuminated students such as Cecil Rhodes. Advocated a world empire. Spent his later years in an insane asylum. Rumored to have been a pedophile.

William Tecumseh Sherman
(b. 1820 - d.1891)

Ruthless American Civil War Union general. His total war polices of "scorched earth" against the South, have earned him the reputation as the first 'modern general'.

Rutherford B. Hayes
(b. 1822 - d. 1893)

Freemason and 19th President of the United States.

Only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission.

George B. McClellan
(b. 1826 - d. 1885)

Freemason and Major General during the American Civil War. McClellan was the Democratic nominee opposing Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election.
Received all three degrees of Freemasonry Dec. 9th, 1853, in Willamette Lodge No. 2, Portland, Oregon. [26]

James A. Garfield
(b. 1831 - d. 1881)

14° Freemason [27] and 20th President of the United States. (assassinated)

Initiated in Magnolia Lodge No. 20 of Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 22nd, 1861. The third degree was conferred to him by Columbus Lodge No. 30, Nov. 22nd, 1864.
Garfield received the 4-14° ASSR (Southern Jurisdiction) on Jan. 2nd, 1872 from Albert Pike, in Washington D.C.

At his funeral, nearly all the officers of the Grand Commandery of Ohio, 14 commanderies of that state, and 8 commanderies from adjacent jurisdictions were present and participated in the funeral cortege. [28]

Ignatius L. Donnelly
(b. 1831 - d. 1901)

U.S. Congressman, populist, and writer.

In 1882, Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, which detailed his theories concerning the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.

Donnelly is credited with initiating the Atlantis mania that became such a feature of popular literature in the 20th century and contributed to the emergence of Mayanism. (non-codified eclectic collection of New Age beliefs)

Edwin Booth
(b. 1833 - d. 1893)

Freemason, Shakespearean actor, and older brother of American stage actor and assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Initiated in New York Lodge No. 330 on Sept 11th, 1857. [29]

Edwin once declared, "...to be