“Blatant Masonic Temple Right Next To Lenin Statue”
Foreground: Lenin statue, Fremont, Seattle, Washington; Background: Doric Lodge N. 92
In January last year, I read a post at conspiracycentral.info, that began…
I was driving home today and saw this huge mural with the masonic symbol and it freaked me out. I just got back from the midwest, and I saw a handful of masonic symbols, street signs, and temples all in the same area of Missouri. Imagine my surprise when I go back to Seattle and I see the biggest sign of masonic arrogance right in the middle of the most artsy fartsy area of the supposedly liberal and freedom-loving Emerald City.
Turns out the mural was part of a masonic temple/lodge that is in the middle of a shopping area, and totally out of place. Not only that, but it’s basically a block away from the HUGE statue of Lenin that haunts this area of the city.
I had almost forgotten about it, when I was reminded of it today at Nicene Truth. Jay Dyer links to a site with a good overview on the statue:
Fremont, self-proclaimed “Center of the Universe,” is the venue for America’s largest statue honoring Lenin.
No, kids — not one of the Beatles, but Vladimir Illych Lenin, hero of the workers, Communism, and the former Soviet Union.
The 16-ft. tall bronze originated in Poprad, Slovakia, where it was first erected in 1988. It tumbled along with other heroic (and out of fashion) statues when the Soviets went down in 1989. For a time, the 7-ton Lenin lay face down in the mud at the Poprad dump — until rescued by American entrepreneur Lewis Carpenter. Carpenter, who admired the artistry, mortgaged his house to buy and transport the statue to Seattle.
Carpenter died in a car accident in 1994. To recover the statue debt, Carpenter’s family made an arrangement to loan it to the Fremont district until a buyer emerged. Asking price: $150,000. In 1995, Fremont put the statue up in the center of town, near a Cold War era rocket also displayed as public art.
Here’s an article on why the statue is offensive to most of us; but especially to Russian émigrés: Lenin’s Statue: Adding Insult to Injury.
It’s the proximity of the Masonic lodge that is suspicious. I’m not sure whether Lewis Carpenter was a Mason or not - only the Masons can tell you that - as indeed I had replied to the post at the conspiracycentral forum: “You should investigate whether the lot holding it is owned by the masons or not. That, in itself, could be tough to do, though, as masons aren’t required by law to publish membership lists. It will be haphazard at best - resorting to what they choose to reveal on their websites. Perhaps Lewis Carpenter is, or various officers from the Freemont Chamber of Commerce.”
Lenin’s membership in Masonry has long been speculated upon. There are a few clues in which one can - and should - follow up on. Jüri Lina, Architects of Deception, pp. 311-12:
Lenin was a freemason of the 31st degree (Grand Inspecteur Inquisiteur Commandeur) and a member of the French lodge Art et Travail (Oleg Platonov, “Russia’s Crown of Thorns: The Secret History of Freemasonry 1731-1996″, Moscow, 2000, Volume 2, p. 417).
On his visit to the Grand Orient headquarters on rue Cadet in Paris in 1905, Lenin wrote his name in the visitors’ book (Viktor Kuznetsov, “The Secret of the October Coup”, St. Petersburg, 2001, p. 42). Lenin was a member of the most malicious lodge of the Grand Orient, the Nine Sisters, in 1914 (Soviet Analyst, June, 2002, p. 12). Lenin also belonged to the Union de Belville Lodge.
The French freemason Rozie of the Jean Georges lodge in Paris hailed his masonic brothers Lenin and Trotsky (La Libre Parole, 6 February 1918).
Many of the bolsheviks, apart from Lenin and Trotsky, were freemasons: Boris Solovyov, Vikenti Veresayev, Grigori Zinoviev (Grand Orient), Maxim Litvinov, Nikolai Bukharin (actually Moshe Pinkhus-Dolgolevsky), Christian Rakovsky, Yakov Sverdlov, Anatoli Lunacharsky (actually Balich-Mandelstam), Mechislav Kozlovsky (Polish freemason), Karl Radek (Grand Orient), Mikhail Borodin, Leonid Krasin, Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, and many more. In the KGB archives, the historian Viktor Bratyev found a document according to which Lunacharsky belonged to the Grand Orient of France (Anton Pervushin, “The Occult Secret of the NKVD and the SS”, St. Petersburg, Moscow 1999, p. 133).
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Lenin, Zinoviev, Radek and Sverdlov were also members of B’nai B’rith. This was confirmed by those specializing in the activities of B’nai B’rith, among them Schwartz-Bostunich (Viktor Ostretsov, “Freemasonry, Culture, and Russian History”, Moscow, 1999, pp. 582- 583).
And here, from the opposite camp:
[...] Lenin co-operated secretly with many forces that enabled him to usurp State power in Russia, including German General Staff through, for example, Alexander Lazarevich Parvus (Gelfand), shadow tutor of Lenin and Trotsky, big businessman, etc., this “Louis Cypher” of the Russian revolution whose connections with Geman military circles were revealed and published by a free mason P.N. Pereverzev. Allegedly French rite mason of the “L’Union de Belleville” (Paris) in 1902. Lenin was a fan and a close friend of the revolutionary pop-singer G.M. Montegus who occurred to have been a French police informer. Besides he was a member of the Masonic lodge “L’Union de Belleville” (Paris).
So, the Grand Orient’s Lodge “L’Union de Belleville” - if records still exist, and haven’t been suppressed
- might have the proof. Here’s the minutes of the Lodge “L’Union de Belleville,” April 28, 1871, translated by Mitch Abidor for marxists.org:
Considering that questions of universal morality and humanity are the constant concern of Freemasons;
Considering that without straying from the philosophical and non-political sphere that is its place, Freemasonry has the right and the duty to intervene in all questions where the principles of fraternity are misunderstood;
Considering that in the painful period of crisis through which we are passing, which is desolating our fatherland and afflicting humanity, it is the duty of all Masons to affirm the principles that appear to it to conform to universal morality, and those most apt to make the ideas of universal solidarity prevail,
A solidarity that, the day it will exist, will prevent the renewal of all impious struggles among men and will cause the last seed of barbarism to disappear by reuniting all men in one family;
Considering that the proclamation of the Paris Commune, addressed to the French people, contains nothing that is contrary to Masonic principles;
Considering that it is thus the obligation of Freemasonry, which has always been at the head of the march of progress, to employ all the moral force at its disposal to make those ideas in conformity with its principles prevail;
Considering that it is the duty of each lodge to indicate, not only to Freemasons, but to all citizens the path of the just and the true;
The Lodge “The Union of Belleville” declares:
That it desires to stop the spilling of blood, while adhering to the program of the Paris Commune as contained in its proclamation to the French people;
Consequently, and in order to arrive at this result it invites:
All Freemasons of Paris and the provinces, and all citizens, to join with it to have the government of Versailles and the Paris Commune accept the following arrangement:
Recognition of communal rights for all great cities as well as the smallest towns;
General elections for all Communes and the Constituent Assembly; and
In order to proceed to these elections, which will occur in three months, the establishment of an administrative commission composed in two equal halves of members of the Commune and members of the Assembly of Versailles, named in elections by these two powers.
Such are the bases of an arrangement proposed by the lodge “The Union of Belleville” in order to put an end to the crime we are passing through, and for the success of which it invites all its brothers, Mason or not, to employ all their moral force and all the means placed at their disposal by the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
By order: For the Lodge “The Union of Belleville”
The Tit :.Sec:. The Ven:. Or :.
Voisin H. Fernoux
The very next day, according to the BC and Yukon Grand Lodge, 10,000 Freemasons mounted the barricades in support of the Paris Commune - a ragtag bunch of socialists, anarchists, communists and “workers” who adopted the “previously discarded French Republican Calendar during its brief existence and used the socialist red flag rather than the republican tricolore.”
Jüri Lina’s documentary goes into the Bolsheviks and masonry, particularly from 21:50 to about 23:10.
And it seems Trotsky, too, was a fan of the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and the Carbonari:
It was during that period that I became interested in freemasonry. … In the eighteenth century freemasonry became expressive of a militant policy of enlightenment, as in the case of the Illuminati, who were the forerunners of the revolution; on its left it culminated in the Carbonari. Freemasons counted among their members both Louis XVI and the Dr. Guillotin who invented the guillotine. In southern Germany freemasonry assumed an openly revolutionary character, whereas at the court of Catherine the Great it was a masquerade reflecting the aristocratic and bureaucratic hierarchy. A freemason Novikov was exiled to Siberia by a freemason Empress.
I discontinued my work on freemasonry to take up the study of Marxian economics. … The work on freemasonry acted as a sort of test for these hypotheses. … I think this influenced the whole course of my intellectual development.
Leon Trotsky
My Life: The Rise and Fall of a Dictator
pages 124-127
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October 11th, 2008 at 11:02 am
fantastico info on the Lenin-Trotski ties to masonry.
Also the history of Lenin statue was appreciated.
April 25th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I’m a member of a Lodge which meets at the Doric building. It is my understanding that the area where the statue sits is not owned by Doric.
Anyone familiar with Seattle will recollect how the weird the Fremont community was in the 70’s, when the hippies put the statue there.
April 26th, 2009 at 4:13 am
The statue was not placed there by “hippies in the 70s”. It was 1995. A few facts are conveniently ignored in this article:
1. The statue was bought and imported out of a personal sense that despite being controversial and offensive to many people, it is artwork. Lewis Carpenter never espoused any other purpose for purchasing it than that.
2. The statue has well integrated into the Fremont area. I understand that right wingers hate art, and that any city or neighborhood that builds itself up around artistic principles is “godless, communist heathen that should die slowly and painfully” (yes I’m quoting you all). But by integrated I mean the residents of Fremont treat the Lenin statue with some degree of frivolity, even mockery. So what’s the big deal.
At the end of the day this is just another conspiracy theorist dog chasing its own tail.
April 26th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Comrade Ryan, you are forgetting that the statue is of a communist dictator; thus there is no need to mock “right wingers” by portraying them as equating art with godless communism. If that statue had been erected during the cold war, it would probably have been seen as treasonous. What’s next? Pol Pot? Stalin? Hitler? Here’s the facts you conveniently ignore:
April 26th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that there is in fact a fairly large statue/memorial to Hitler which was put up in I believe Minnesota by a onetime Nazi soldier who came to this country after WWII and acquired some land. After he got older, he erected this monumnet on his land and it stirred a bit of controversy. I wish I had more concrete facts, but I think he has to date fought off all efforts to make him take it down.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
This is what your local government has in mind when they refer to everything without borders as a community. Beware.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Well Comrade Ryan, Terry Melanson has straightened you out on most things, and I can add no more to that discussion on the offensiveness of erecting statues to mass murderers. But your casual assumption that “right wingers hate art” is just too egregious to let stand. I am both a libertarian type, which you probably consider right wing, and an artist myself. Let me assure you that those two things are not mutually exclusive. What’s really astounding about so called “Right Wing Art” is that it is usually traditionally representational, and that one can actually identify what is being portrayed. No canvases painted in single solid tones with a few squiggles, claiming to contain all universal truths, up to and including the nature of God and the secrets of the universe. Just paintings of things that look like the thing! What a concept! Although it is completely beneath the dignity of Left Wing Art, who would bother with such trifles? Paintings of people that look like people, in fact that might actually look like a particular person, not a grotesque, indisciplined parody of the person. Now this might seem like a small thing to you, but I assure you, it is not. Left Wing Art threw the baby of traditional skills out with the bathwater in the mid 20th century. There’s not a whole lot of Lefties that can paint the object in front of their faces, although they like to pretend that they could if they wanted to, but it’s an unworthy goal and beneath people of their profundity. That’s what so funny about a guy in a liberal and free thinking burg in Washington bringing back a communist commissioned sculpture to champion “pure art.” Because the communists understood the propoganda power that lies in traditional representational art, they kept those skills alive in their schools. The Chinese still do and their schools produce superb artists while ours turn out posturing incompetents. In the West, the Art Establishment was captured by a group that dispensed with teahing classical traditions and skills in the name of progress and free thinking. The result is that your community that “built itself up around artistic principles” is probably chock full of Left Wing artists who have NONE of the traditional skills required to represent Comrade Lenin, or anyone else for that matter, in a recognizeable and aesthetically graceful way. Hence, they have to scavenge fallen communist regime junkyards for pieces of competent realism. By the way, there’s a small network of ateliers in America, trying to resurrect traditional Art education, similar to what was to be had in the great 19th c studios of Paris. They’re staffed mostly by people who trained with someone, who trained with someone, who trained with someone, who trained with Jean Leon Gerome in Paris. And they’re a bunch of art hating Right Wingers, of course.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Just another Idol??? Lenin is not to be admired for the simple fact–HE IS A MURDERER. To preserve his image into art doesn’t seem like a good idea. Looking at sculptors can move deep emotions that dwell within. I would have to ask—What is the purpose of this statue? I think the answer to this question has become clear in this blog. Masonic connection?–YES–Designed by the nearby lodge?–Maybe–but most likely not–By a force that is not of Flesh and Blood?–most likely–YES. The chaos in our World is an engineered plan. The All Seeing Eye is quickly settling into the top of the Pyramid. Since we know everything by it’s fruits–we know from where this evil originates. Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing.
April 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Hi-Please, someone do a little research in Sufi literature or possibly some Easstern writers evaluating the origins of the Masonic Order in the East. When Eastern esoteric orders are almnost totally transferred to the West they tend to change in value, intent and oh yes, the way Western people generally live out what they say they believe in. Your point about how little we in the West have put skilled work in the art world vs China is my parallel for generally how much skill,devotion,effort,ect. we of the West put into our beliefs,and esoteric orders like the Masons not to mention our religious orders espousing “Western Christianity”. I gave up looking for any writers or teachers of anything artistic or devotional in the West, but found them arriving from the East and plenty of written works from the East,but more translations are needed…It is very offensive to hear about peoples quick judgement of an ancient order like the Masons from a superficial analysis of those in the West who set up so-called Masonic orders or any so-called artisic or devotional organization.I’m not saying there is no validity of these orders in the West, however, why don’t we see anyone of the Western Orders that has links with people of the East who know how the original orders are maintained. I cannot imagine hardly anyone in the West that can preform,for instance an initiation or rite pertaining to these Orders as well as the people of the East who are connected with the original Orders as they were functioning in the East in ancient times.. Hitler is an example of how corruption can appear when evil is mixed with an ancient symbol like the fire sign that he stole from the ancients(mainly indiginous peoples),making the fire sign “appear” evil. Therefore, beware when judging Orders from the East that have been used by ignorant manipulators and evil doers who try to ursurp the purity of the Eastern Orders. The very assumtion that the Masonic Order of the ancients can be the same as the versions we generally see in the West or especially represented by horrible “people” as you named-”people of false power” shows how easily people can build a prejudice on false evidence, not having researched the true origins of anything esoteric . regards,Art