While researching the origins of the Religious Right for this series, we came across an obscure but significant passage in an obscure but highly significant document titled "The Belmont Brotherhood". This report is an expose of the John Birch Society, whose founding members were discovered to be, in the main, high-ranking Freemasons and members of other subversive organizations. The authors intended to develop the Belmont report into a book, but did not do so for reasons that remain unknown but should become apparent to the reader upon discovery of the various connections of the JBS founders. Since the John Birch Society successfully laid the foundation for the exploitation of Christians through the ultra-conservative movement, the Belmont Brotherhood is must reading for every Christian: http://watch-unto-prayer.org/belmont.html

The passage which intrigued us is found under section #5 -- a profile of former JBS National Councilman, J. Nelson Shepherd, who belonged to the very elite Newcomen Society. This mysterious society was to be exposed by authors of The Belmont Brotherhood in their book which never materialized, and there is scant information available elsewhere. The president of the Newcomen Society for some length of time was Charles Penrose, Jr. who was also a member of two high-level, subversive and one-world societies in the U.S. known as the Pilgrim Society and the English-Speaking Union.  We have already posted two reports by Eric Samuelson about these societies, which have their origins in the Cecil Rhodes-Milner Round Table Group of Great Britain, which purpose was to reestablish the British Commonwealth of Nations and, ultimately, to bring the world under the domination of a restored British Empire.

What Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner had in mind was the formation of a master/slave society based upon the principles of eugenics as derived from Plato's Republic. Malthusian Eugenics is the philosophy of depopulation through the reduction of inferior races --"human weeds"-- and the selective breeding of "a race of thoroughbreds" as described early in this century by Rockefeller-funded, Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger. When Thomas Malthus' theory of population was later coupled with Charles Darwin's evolutionary model, the result was known as Social Darwinism.

"The combination of Malthusian population control, which included the deliberate neglect of populations and indirect methods of killing off population, with Darwinism, produced National Socialism (Germany), International Socialism (Marxist Russia) and International Corporate Capitalism (Global Socialism, headquartered in the United States), and these forms of social conduct have constituted the main reason for the unequal distribution of planetary resources, famines, planned biological warefare, environmental poisoning, suppression of knowledge, suppression of inventions, dependence on backward technology for the population, planned wars to kill off populations and general planetary disorder. The problem is in the Social Darwin-Malthus paradigm, which has now been combined with the pseudo-sciences of behaviorism and genetics in the attempt to assert even tighter control over the planetary population, yielding forms of Neo-Darwinism being perpetrated by a host of post-Atlantean re-treads, per a 1947 Princeton consensus."

Throughout most the ninetieth century, French Freemasonry, and not English Freemasonry, was the dominant revolutionary force in the Old World - offering the lower and middle classes a voice in government. Since its beginning in 1717, the British Brotherhood was aristocratic, capitalist, and monopolistic.

When French Grand Orient Freemasonry sent a German-born Mason, Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) to England to agitate the lower classes to rebel against the British aristocracy, the British aristocracy became concerned. To counter the increasingly influential ideology of French Freemasonry, in 1870 a select group of English Masonry devised a plan which would both satisfy the proletariat and keep the Masonic oligarchy in power. The scheme was introduced at Oxford, by Freemason John Ruskin.

Ruskin's inspiration and devotion to the creation of an elite of race patriots derived directly from Plato's Republic. In the Republic, Plato called for "a ruling class with a powerful army to keep it in power and a society completely subordinate to the monolithic authority of the rulers." Ruskin sent out to recoup and extend the influence of British Masonry. He wanted to do this by education of the working man. His views on the ruling class as developed from Plato's Republic, sent shock waves through Oxford.

"[You, the undergraduates are] the possessors of a magnificent tradition of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom, decency and self-discipline but... this tradition [can] not be saved, and does not deserve to be saved, unless it can be extended to the lower classes in England itself and to the non-English masses throughout the world. If this precious tradition is not extended to these two great majorities, the minority of upper-class Englishmen will ultimately be submerged by these majorities and the tradition lost. To prevent this, the tradition must be extended to the masses and to the empire."

Ruskin's rationale for proclaiming such ideas was to plant in the fertile minds of his Oxford students the theory that if they educated the working man and elevated him to the middle class, he would labor in behalf of the aristocracy to perpetuate the tradition of the upper-class Englishmen - which tradition was to control the finances of nations through ground rent, banking and trade. Ruskin taught that it was the essential duty of the aristocracy to guarantee an education for the so that an expanded middle class would rule the country. This arrangement would be a type of legal slavery whereby both classes would benefit. Through the power of finance, the ruling class would maintain control from behind the scenes, while the working class would have opportunity to share in the common wealth made available through loans.

Ruskin successfully transmitted his vision to his students at Oxford. They in turn became the Masonic movers and shakers in the new politics and economics that today govern the seven industrial nations of the world - the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan.

A wealthy young man, Cecil Rhodes, like John Ruskin believed that only the British elite could and should rule the world to the benefit and happiness of mankind. Shortly after arriving at Oxford, Rhodes was initiated into Freemasonry at the Apollo University lodge No. 357. On April 17, 1877, he was raised a Master Mason in the same lodge. Rhodes also joined a Scottish Rite Lodge at Oxford called Prince Rose Croix Lodge No. 30.

What sort of character was Cecil Rhodes? Rhodes was a critic of English Freemasonry - of its impotence and incompetence in advancing British race interest. After being raised to Master Mason on April 17, 1877, Rhodes drafted a program for world dominion by the British race patriots. To guarantee the funding from his vast wealth of his world vision for the British empire, Rhodes wrote in 1877 the first of seven wills that he composed over his lifetime. The first will called for the formation of a "secret society" whose primary function would be focused on returning England to her former glory. He viewed English Freemasonry and its conspiracy as impotent and in effect defunct in this regard. Ironically, when the society Rhodes had envisioned was finally organized after his death, its membership consisted only of English Freemasons. "The Round Table," as it was known, soon became the most powerful appendage of the British Brotherhood.

In his third will Rhodes left his entire estate to Freemason Lord Nathan Rothschild as trustee. Rhodes stipulated that his gigantic fortune be used by his disciples to carry out the program he envisioned. Rothschild appointed Freemason Alfred Milner to head up the Secret society for which Rhodes's first will made provision. Lord Milner once remarked of himself, "My patriotism knows no geographical but only racial limits. I am a British Race patriot."

Upon his appointment by Rothschild to chair Rhodes's secret society, Milner recruited a group of young men from Oxford and Tonybee Hall to assist him in organizing his administration of the new society. All were respected English Freemasons. Among them were Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Balfour, Lord Rothschild, and some Oxford College graduates known as "Milner's Kindergarten." In 1909, Milner's Kindergarten, with some other English Masons, founded the Round Table. The grandfather of all modern British Masonic "think tanks" was born.

Three powerful think tank offshoots of the Round Table are (1) the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), organized in 1919 in London; (2) the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), organized in 1921 in New York City; and (3) the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), organized in 1925 or the twelve countries holding territory in what today we call the Pacific Rim.

The initial assignment of the Round Table was not necessarily to destroy the political experiments of French Freemasonry, such as socialism and communism, but to cooperate with them for the advancement of the English Masonic conspiracy.

Some seven years before the organization of the Round Table, of which H.G. Wells would be a founding member, Wells explained the strategy by which aristocratic English Freemasonry would reach its goal of world dominion. He called it an "Open Conspiracy" as opposed to French Freemasonry's closed or secret conspiracy.

"The Open Conspiracy will appear first, I believe, as a conscious organization of intelligent and quite possibly in some cases wealthy men, as a movement having distinct social and political aims . . ."

"Above all they were avowed elitists, intolerant of the cumbersome and apparently wasteful processes of democracy, who wanted to see England ruled by a superior caste which matched an enlightened sense of duty with a competence to govern effectively. All of them, moreover, shared Sidney [Webb]'s belief -- which had led him to spend so much effort on London education and on the School of Economics -- that social improvement depended upon the training of the superior manpower needed to carry out schemes of reform. Shaw was suggesting in his latest play that universal suffrage was a disaster, putting power in the hands of the 'riff-raff' and... Webb who could not wait until a new race of supermen had been bred up to establish the millennium, felt that improved education and intelligent politics would at least start the necessary process of regeneration." (Mackenzie, The Fabians, pp. 283, 290-1)

The existence of an American Round Table was disclosed in The Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley, a professor (now deceased) in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the mentor of President Bill Clinton:

In the middle of 1890s Rhodes had a personal income of at least a million pounds sterling a year (then about $5,000,000) which was spent so freely for his mysterious purposes that he was usually overdrawn on his account. ...These purposes centered on his desire to federate the English-speaking peoples and to bring all the habitable portions of the world under their control. For this purpose Rhodes left part of his great fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford...The power and influence of the Rhodes-Milner group in British imperial affairs and in foreign policy since 1889, although not widely recognized, can hardly be exaggerated...The American branch of this English Establishment extended much of its influence through five American newspapers (The New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, and the lamented Boston Evening Transcript).

Ron Chernow describes the Anglophile nature of the House of Morgan and the Wall Street establishment: "From its inception, the House of Morgan had been Anglo-American in spirit and character. The Great War, in particular, fused the London and New York banks in a belief in Anglo-American responsibility for peace and prosperity. Morgan partners subscribed to an idea expressed by Walter Lippman in 1915 that U.S. foreign policy would experience a 'crowning disaster' if uninformed by a 'vision of the Anglo-American future.' (The House of Morgan, p. 430)

Putting into practice the principles of Social Darwinism, "for peace and prosperity,"   the chairman of J.P. Morgan and Company, Thomas Lamont, secured a $100 million loan in 1926 for Mussolini, whose success as fascist dictator of Italy and aggression against Ethiopia would inspire Adolf Hitler.  Although American statesmen deplore the genocide of the past, Secetary of Defense, William Cohen, who conducts the current war against Yugoslavia with Great Britain, is also chair of the George Louis Beer Prize, named for the U.S. point man for the Cecil Rhodes Round Table from 1915-18.

The Beer profile identifies yet another member of the American Round Table, who in 1953 subverted a Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations chaired by Congressman Carroll Reece of Tennessee. According to a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune in 1951, there was a time, prior to the Cold War, when a measure of concern was growing over the shadow cast upon the American government by the British Rhodes-Milner Round Table. The following several excerpts from the Chicago Tribune were cited in an anonymously authored book, The Union Jack:

Why is it so easy for Americans to be confused about the source of Communism? And why can Americans not believe that the British Empire is more powerful today than ever in history? Do they think that Rhodes Scholar internationalists who have key positions in United States institutions and government are made in Russia? Certainly they come from Oxford, England. In the year 1951 there were some interesting articles printed by the Chicago Tribune on Rhodes Scholars. The Tribune of course would not do so again nor would any big newspaper. Instead they have all been assigned the job of playing down the importance and strength of the British Empire.

In the July 15, 1951 article in the Tribune entitled "Rhodes Ideals Slant State Dept. Policies," subtitled "Key Posts Held by Oxford Scholars," by William Fulton, we quote:

"New York, July 15 - Key positions in the United States department of state are held by a network of American Rhodes scholars. Rhodes scholars are men who obtained supplemental education and indoctrination at Oxford University in England with the bills paid by the estate of Cecil John Rhodes, British empire builder. Rhodes wrote about his ambition to cause 'the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British empire.' The late diamond and gold mining tycoon aimed at a world federation dominated by Anglo-Saxons. His intimates have admitted the scholarships were established for the primary purpose of instilling 'political Bias' rather than providing education." End quote.

Then on July 16, 1951, under the title "Rhodes' Ideas Find Fertile Ground in U. N." subtitled " 'Scholars' Advance British Schemes," by William Fulton, we quote:

"New York, July 16 - American Rhodes scholars, men who have received education and indoctrination at Oxford University, England,- are prominent in the affairs of the United Nations. The U.N. is an outgrowth of schemes developed by the scholars' patron, Cecil Rhodes, the British empire builder. Rhodes dreamed of an Anglo-Saxon federation with the British dominating, an organization powerful enough to police the world and preserve the peace. In his writings the diamond despot of South Africa showed he hoped the scholarships would promote his grandiose idea. Thirty-two American collegians go to Oxford each year under terms of Rhodes' will." End quote.

On July 17, 1951, under the title "Scholars Help British Cash In On U.S. Billions," subtitled "Rhodes Men Hold Key Dole Jobs," by William Fulton, we quote:

"New York, July 17-'Diamonds are a girl's best friend,' the popular song goes, and diamonds also are a Rhodes scholar's best friend. Approximately 1,400 Americans have gone to Oxford University, England, since 1904 with the way paid from the estate of Cecil Rhodes, diamond magnate and British empire builder. Today numerous Rhodes scholars are in a position to repay their educational benefactor in dollars for the sparklers dug up in their behalf from the diamond lands seized by the British in South Africa during the last century.

"Rhodes scholars dominate the United States department of state, which directs the doling out of billions in foreign aid, with the United Kingdom getting the major share. The savants also hold down important positions in the economic cooperation administration, mutual defense assistance program, and other foreign handout setups. This is all in keeping with Rhodes' overweening ambitions for a world federation dominated by Anglo-Saxons for the purpose of enforcing peace and the status quo. He also aimed at 'the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire.' With the Oxford-indoctrinated Rhodes scholars holding key positions in the Washington administration, Britain obtained 31 billion dollars from Uncle Sam in the form of 'lend lease' outlays during the war. That was followed by the 3.75 billion dollar 'gift loan' to Britain in 1946.

During the first three years of the Marshall plan ECA largesse, the United Kingdom received 2 billion 706 million dollars, by far the largest allotment. A bill providing 8% billion dollars for the military and economic aid program abroad is pending before congress." End quote.

On July 19, 1951, in the Tribune under the title "Rhodes' Wards Hawk Global Scheme In U.S.," subtitled "Peddle Propaganda for 'One World," by William Fulton, we quote:

"New York, July l9 - Rhodes scholars, returning from schooling and indoctrination at Oxford university, England, are the principal hawkers of globalist propaganda in the United States. The American scholars obtain their education abroad through terms of the will left by the late Cecil Rhodes, British empire builder and South African despot. Rhodes aimed at the return of the United States to the British empire and a world federation dominated by Anglo-Saxons. He hoped his scholars would be instilled with 'political bias' toward these ends, according to his intimate friends.

"Previous articles in this series have disclosed that many of the 1,185 living American Rhodes scholars have obtained key positions in the state department, the United Nations, the economic cooperation administration, the mutual defense assistance program, and other government agencies where they have worked toward fulfillment of the schemes of their imperial patron." End quote.

On July 20, 1951, under the title "Rhodes' Wards Head Global Foundations," subtitled "Dole Out Cash for One Worlders," by William Fulton, we quote:

"New York, July 20 - American Rhodes scholars, who are spoon-fed doses of internationalism a la mode British imperialism at Oxford University, England, are prominent back home in the affairs of the big foundations doling out funds toward globalist schemes and one world propaganda. Higher echelon offices in Carnegie, Rockefeller and other privately-endowed foundations are held by Rhodes scholars. This is in keeping with the aims of the late Cecil Rhodes, British empire builder. He left his fortune for the conversion of scholars who would promote his dream of an Anglo-Saxon federation to dominate the world. In this way Rhodes hoped to return the United States to the empire.

"So far the Rhodes will has underwritten the education and indoctrination of 1,400 Americans at the English university since 1904. The annual output is 32. They have fastened onto key positions in the state department and other governmental agencies, just as Rhodes hoped it would happen.

Funds Further U.N.

"Both-the Carnegie and Rockefeller institutions have contributed heavily toward 'international' studies to further the United Nations and other supra-governmental plans designed at chipping away American sovereignty. They have also financed organizations and students which according to congressional sources, smack of communism, in itself a form of internationalism.

"The foundations have been the big moneybags for globalist propaganda through the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, World Peace Foundation, Foreign Policy Association, Council on Foreign Relations, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Former president for the last-named, it will be recalled, was Alger Hiss, the state department adviser for Roosevelt at the Yalta conference. Hiss is now serving sentence in a federal prison for perjury involving war time espionage for the Russians.

"Two Carnegie top executives are Rhodes scholars. They are Whitney H. Shepardson, director of the Carnegie Corporation British and Colonies fund, and O. C. Carmichael, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching." End quote.

On July 21, 1951, under the title "Rhodes Grads Influential In Eastern Press," subtitled "Aid British, Global Propaganda," by William Fulton, we quote:

"New York, July 21 The picture of the American Rhodes scholars network in the United States - a rabid movement toward internationalism - is completed and glued together by their numbers in the field of molding public opinion. They are highly influential in the eastern press, magazines and radio chains.

"Rhodes scholars in this country represent 32 campus leaders carefully selected each year to go to Oxford University, England, for supplemental schooling. Their patron, the late Cecil Rhodes, British empire builder and diamond tycoon, aimed at instilling in his protégés 'political bias' rather than education, according to his intimates.

"This bias, as revealed by the Rhodes seven wills and writings, was to recover the United States for the British empire in the form of an Anglo-Saxon federation. The federation would be powerful enough to dominate the world and enforce the 'peace.'

"Time Follows Rhodes' Line

"Closely following the Rhodes' line of propaganda is the Time, Inc., magazine group headed by Henry Luce. Luce was not a Rhodes scholar but he did spend a year at Oxford where he sponged up some of the imperialistic doctrines carried later in his magazines. Several of his top brass editors have been Rhodes Scholars.

"From the start Luce followed the Anglophile trail, whooping it up for American intervention in war when the British were in trouble and damning pro-Americans as 'isolationists.' He is a charter member of the 'Eisenhower-for-President' cult, favors entrapment of Republicans by Truman's so-called bipartisan foreign policy, and the Marshall plan, which has paid off his magazines.

"In addition to pushing the British concept of policing the world with American soldiers and economic aid, the Luce publications have been infiltrated by another form of globalism. Whittaker Chambers, devotee of world communism and confessed courier for a soviet spy ring, was a senior editor ($30,000 a year) for Time magazine. Chambers informed on Alger Hiss, Roosevelt adviser at Yalta. Hiss is now in a federal penitentiary for perjury in a case involving soviet espionage.

"Rhodes Men on N. Y. Times

"The New York Times, which has been pro-British since the first World war, also has its share of Rhodes scholars on the staff. An interesting footnote in journalistic history is that at the time Rhodes' final will was published in 1902, the New York Times condemned the idea of American scholarships.

"'Why should an American youth go to Oxford when he can get a better education at home in respect of those attainments which chiefly make for national greatness?' inquired the Times in 1902." End quote.

Can anyone deny the widespread influence, or should we say control, by Rhodes scholars over America? This is in truth the "iron curtain over America" that is undermining American sovereignty. Do the paid patriots inform us about British Communism via Rhodes Scholars?

Do the "patriots" tell Americans about Masonic Communism? Do they think that Masonry was made in Moscow? Certainly not! It was made in England and every Masonic politician and federal judge in America has given allegiance to Masonry over the United States Constitution. They cannot be Americans and true to the global scheme of Masonry at the same time. Why is this so difficult to understand? The big red five pointed star that rules over Russia and China was made in England and still gives allegiance to the same.

Do the "anti-Communists" know this, or are they Masons too?

Russia is a menace to be sure, but the British Empire originated the Russian system of Communism to exploit the world as a front for British Imperialism while they use religion from the churches to set up their scheme as a divine kingdom. Confusion comes from everywhere but always the "poor" British Empire continues to crumble, so says the propaganda...

...Is it not logical and reasonable to see that anyone promoting such a gigantic movement as Communism is presumed to be, would also be wicked enough to take precautions for controlling any opposition that might arise? They could not hope for success if they did not. So, as Marx and Engels were commissioned to launch social and political Communism from London, it was London also where pretended anti-communism or Spiritual Communism originated for world consumption. [bold added]

Karl Marx was the leading figure in the First (Communist) International from 1864 until its demise in 1872. Lady Queenborough noted in Occult Theocrasy, Chapter LXXXV, that the red flag was that of the First International, a Masonic movement:

In 1862, the First International came into being and the part played in it by such Freemasons as Karl Marx, Tolain, Fribourg, Varlin, Camelinat, Beslay, Malon and Corbon is well known... Karl Marx, [was] later to be the moving spirit of the First International... destined ultimately to form the keystone of subversion throughout the world.

"...on the 5th August [1862], all the delegates met at a dinner given to them by their English colleagues at Freemason's Hall, where an address was read which formed, as it were, the foundation-stone of the International..." Mazzini and Marx were entrusted with the task of preparing the address and the constitution... A temple worthy of their cult was sought and found... near Geneva, where... a fine building, the Masonic Temple -- Temple Unique... was procured. ...the scheme of the association having been settled in London in 1864...

The International now hid itself amidst the multitude of working men's societies of all descriptions that were either authorized or at least tolerated, and made enormous progress so that its chiefs at last declared themselves able to do without any extraneous support. 'The International', said one of the speakers at the Bâle Congress (1869), 'is and must be a state within states; let these go on as suits them until our state is the strongest. Then, on the ruins of these, we shall erect our own fully prepared, such as it exists in every section...The Commune installed at Lyons began its work by raising the red flag - that of the International."

Our focus on the Religious Right continues in a series of reports on the John Birch Society, its extension, the Council for National Policy and the British-Israel Conspiracy.