Great Seal Sightings
Bruce Feiler's new book, America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story, discusses Ben Franklin's Moses & Pharaoh design recommended by the first Great Seal design committee in 1776.
Bruce describes GreatSeal.com as "a kind of Great Seal Anti-Defamation League," so in that spirit, here's a memo to NBC Nightly News: Please stop abusing the Great Seal in your Fleecing of America segments!
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown's latest novel
On page 278 is the reverse side of the Great Seal with a six-pointed star drawn upon it. The star's points touch the five letters in the word MASON. Brown says this image is "popular among conspiracy theorists as 'proof' that the Masons held secret influence over our early nation."
Never mind that this version of the Seal dates back only to 1935. The more important story here is what Dan Brown is not telling us. Discover the real conspiracy active at the birth of America – in The Lost Chapter.
Here we go again...
The History Channel is developing a new series titled "DECODED" and is searching for a "real-life Robert Langdon" to "uncover the hidden or little known origins of iconic American symbols."
Here again, the reverse side of the Great Seal is forced to shill shows whose content has little to do with reality about the pyramid & eye. (Did somebody say National Treasure?)
Memo to Mystery Marketeers: The origin of America's Great Seal is neither "hidden or little-known." Its history is very well documented. Less is known about the origin of the American flag. A more appropriate logo for shows like "DECODED" would be the Stars and Stripes. (After all, it has mysterious pentagrams on it.)
Mystery solved!
"That's also my pyramid." – Montgomery Burns
The Simpsons (Fox, March 15, 2009)
February 2009: Great Seal Awareness Project at the Transpartisan Alliance Citizen Summit.
GSAP coordinator Ron Cole talks about
the relevance of the Great Seal today.
Two of 17 paintings by students at Treasure Village Montessori Charter School
displayed in conjunction with the U.S. Diplomacy Center's exhibit
on June 14th at the Keys to Peace festival in Florida.
February 12, 2008: The United States Diplomacy Center opened its
Exhibition Celebrating the 225th Anniversary of the Great Seal.
"People are just not aware of the complexity and intent of the symbolism and what our Founding Fathers were trying to do with it. The hidden treasure in the Seal is the courage and presence of mind of the people who created it." – Priscilla Linn, Senior Curator at the U.S. Diplomacy Center
The new book by symbologist Robert Hieronimus (with Laura Cortner) is a fascinating exploration into the historical, contextual, and possible esoteric origins of the Great Seal's eagle and eye, the Liberty Bell and Goddess of Liberty, the American Flag and capital city of Washington DC. Whatever knowledge you have, you're sure to come away with renewed appreciation for these iconic symbols and their designers.
Not only is this timely book an inspiring reminder of the original unifying ideals of America's farsighted founders, it is also an impassioned defense of her beloved symbols. Himself having delved deeply into their esoteric dimensions, Hieronimus is well-qualified to intelligently deconstruct the faulty assumptions and expose the rigid one-dimensional interpretations put forth by what he calls the fundamentalist-conspiratorialist mindset of those taking on the role of "new Tories," 21st-century opponents of the American Revolution.
So if you're sick of hearing rants about imagined connections between America's founding symbols and evil conspiracies – whether Illuminati or Masonic, political or economic – then The United Symbolism of America is the antidote you've been waiting for.
Symbolic Solidarity with Tibet
"Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land
unto all the Inhabitants thereof."
Drepung Gomang Monks with GSAP coordinator Ron Cole discussing the similarity between the Tibetan flag symbol and reverse (pyramid) side of the Great Seal (Burton Memorial Church in Tavernier, Florida).