Thomas Africa reveals that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543 A.D.) was not a revolutionary discoverer of a new heliocentric astronomy; he was rather a restorer of the heliocentric type of system espoused by Pythagoras of Samos (570-495 B.C.).  Some state that Pythagoras’ system was not purely heliocentric, but that it was a system where the planets, including the sun, orbited a central, invisible fire.  Nonetheless, Pythagoras’ system was the first system that called for the planets to travel in a circular orbit, and so he has been recognized by the early scientists as the true founder of the heliocentric system.  In fact, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630 A.D.) called Pythagoras the “grandfather of all Copernicans.”  Copernicus, himself, insisted that his system was not an innovation, but was rather a revival of the lost doctrine of Pythagoras.  Galileo Galilei (1564-1642 A.D.) viewed the papal edict of 1616 as a suppression of the “Pythagorean opinion of the mobility of the earth.”

Copernicus also “borrowed” from the theories of Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 B.C.) that the earth orbited the sun. Copernicus had no problem acknowledging the contributions of Pythagoras, but for some reason, he decided to conceal his knowledge of Aristarchus’s writings. Thomas Africa revels that“Copernicus knew of Aristarchus' heliocentrism but consistently concealed this knowledge, and finally deleted his one passing reference to it, from either vanity, ‘Pythagorean’ scruples, or both.”

Pythagoras was the first person to have presented the idea of the circular orbit of spherical planets around a central fire.  He is purported to have added a counter-earth to arrive at 10 orbiting planets (including the sun).   Jose Wudka alleges that the added counter-earth was to explain eclipses and because the number 10 was viewed as sacred by heathen philosophers.  Not coincidently, the 10 orbiting spheres match the 10 spherical sefirot of the Jewish Kabbalistic god, Ein Sof.

Master Mason Dr. James Anderson, founder of the London Masonic Lodge, stated in his book, Defence of Masonry, that Freemasonry descended from Pythagoras.  Master Mason William Hutchinson stated in his book, Spirit of Masonry, that ancient Masonic records indicate that the foundation of Freemasonry is in Pythagorean principles.   Another Master Mason, William Preston, in his Illustrations of Masonry, states that Pythagoras was initiated into the deep mysterious Masonic principles, which he then spread to the countries in which he traveled.  Albert Mackey, in the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry reveals the following details about Pythagoras and his Masonic connections:

In his return to Europe, he [Pythagorus] established his celebrated school at Crotona, a Dorian Colony in the south of Italy, about 529 B.C., much resembling that subsequently adopted by the Freemasons. ... Before admission to the privileges of this school, the previous life and character of the candidate were rigidly scrutinized, and in the preparatory initiation secrecy was enjoined by an oath, and he was made to submit to the severest trials of his fortitude and self-command. ... The mode of living in the school of Crotona was like that of the modern Communists.

The Jewish Encyclopedia labels some of the Kabbalistic philosophies as Pythagorean.  Both the Pythagorean occultism and the Kabbalah flowed from Babylonian mysticism.  The Jewish Encyclopedia asserts that Gnosticism was Jewish in character and is of “Chaldean [i.e., Babylonian] origin.”  That indicates that the Gnosticism finds its origins from Jews in Babylon.  The Kabbalah is the written memorialization of the mysticism that was adopted by the Jews during their Babylonian captivity.

The word “Pythagorean” is an adjective and seems to be used in the Jewish Encyclopedia to identify the kind of doctrines in the Kabbalah.  They are of the same nature as Pythagorean doctrines.  It certainly cannot mean that the Kabbalah flowed from Pythagoras, because the Jews were first brought into captivity in Babylon, in or about 597 B.C., which was approximately 27 years before Pythagoras was born.  The Jews were released from their Babylonian captivity in or about 538 B.C.

Pythagoras was a Greek. He did not travel to Babylon until in or about 525 B.C.304 Pythagoras was reportedly held captive there for 5 years. Iamblichus (born in or about 250 A.D.), who was a Syrian philosopher, writes that Pythagoras “was transported by the followers of Cambyses as a prisoner of war.  Whilst he was there he gladly associated with the Magoi and was instructed in their sacred rites and learnt about a very mystical worship of the gods.  He also reached the acme of perfection in arithmetic and music and the other mathematical sciences taught by the Babylonians.”

Pythagoras could not have been the source of any of the doctrines in the Kabbalah.  Because by the time Pythagoras came on the scene, the Jews had already been held captive in Babylon, been introduced to the Babylonian occult mysteries, and been released from their captivity. No doubt, there were many Jewish mystics still in Babylon by the time that Pythagoras arrived.  It is likely that at that time Pythagoras was initiated into the mysteries of what we know today as the Kabbalah.

The Jewish Encyclopedia, by calling some of the Kabbalistic philosophies Pythagorean seems to be more a homage to Pythagoras that is used to describe the nature of particular doctrines found in the Kabbalah.  Indeed, when called upon to identify the source of the mysticism in the Kabbalah, the Jewish Encyclopedia stated unequivocally that Gnosticism is of Jewish character and is of “Chaldean [i.e., Babylonian] origin.”

If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will  discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus (the Superior General of the Jesuit Order) are one and the same person.                               James Parton

Certainly, there could have been some synergism in the interactions between the Kabbalistic Jews and Pythagoras, but that does not erase the truth that in the end the philosophies of both the Jewish mystics and Pythagoras are rooted in occult Babylonianism.  The fact that the Pythagorean theorem, for which Pythagoras is famous, was known by the Babylonians a thousand years before Pythagoras testifies to the Babylonian origins of his philosophy.  S. Pancoast, who was a physician to the infamous occult theosophist H.P. Blavatsky, states that Pythagoras was a Kabbalist of the highest order.  He further states that the symbols of Masonry are Kabbalistic, and were known to Pythagoras.
Pancoast reveals that Pythagoras’ initiation into the secrets of the Kabbalah led Pythagoras to the heliocentric philosophy.

Pythagoras held that the Sun is the center of the solar system around which all the planets revolve;that the stars are Suns like ours, each the center of a system; that the earth revolves yearly around the Sun and daily on its axis; that the planets are inhabited, and that they and the earth are ever revolving in regular order.

Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522) was a German humanist and political counselor to the Chancellor of Germany.  He was a classics scholar and an expert in the ancient languages and traditions (Latin, Greek, and Hebrew). Reuchlin was affiliated with the heads of the Platonic Academia (della Mirandola and others).   Reuchlin confirmed that Pythagoras obtained his philosophy through the Jewish Kabbalah:

Pythagoras, who is the father of philosophy, did nevertheless not receive those teachings from the Greeks, but rather he received them from the Jews.Therefore he must be called ‘a Kabbalist,’ ... and he himself was the first to convert the name‘Kabbalah,’ unknown to the Greeks, in the Greek name philosophy.  Pythagoras’ philosophy emanated from the infinite sea of the Kabbalah.

Freemasonry can be traced to Pythagoras and is a religion that is founded upon the Jewish Kabbalah.  Pike states in Morals and Dogma that “Masonry is a search for Light.  That leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabbalah.”  Albert Mackey, in his authoritative Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, confirms Albert Pike’s averment. Mackey states that the Kabbalah, being “the mystical philosophy or theosophy of the Jesuits, ... is intimately connected with the symbolic science of Freemasonry.”

Upon what authority did Albert Pike rely for writing his authoritative Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite?  Martin L. Wagner conducted an objective and thorough study of Freemasonry and wrote a book about his findings titled Freemasonry: An Interpretation. Wagner states that “Albert Pike drew largely from the writings of Eliphas Levi,the Abbe Constant, a great Kabbalist, and whom Buck considers as knowing more of the occult science than any one since the days of the old initiates, for illuminating and illustrating Freemasonry.”  The Kabbalah is unadulterated witchcraft.  Magic and occult mysticism run throughout the Kabbalah.  The Kabbalah contains a great deal of black magic and sorcery, and invoking the powers of devils.

The Gentile facade of Freemasonry offers a cover for the beast(Rome). We can see the same hidden control by the Jesuits  over the “Christian” Zionist movement.  Freemasonry is based upon Judaism.  It is a Gentile front for Freemasonry  for  mysticism, whose history, grades, and official appointments, are rooted in  Kabbalah.

The Jesuits promote and control masonic lodges. They use those lodges as indispensable secret intelligence agencies and
organs of influence.

A candid investigation convinces us that Freemasonry is indebted in a very large measure to the Kabbalah for its philosophical ideas, its methods of interpreting the scriptures, its doctrines of emanations, its art speech, its cosmogonical views, and its veils and glyphs.  In a certain sense it is a continuation of the Kabbalah under a different name and guise.

What are the religious doctrines flowing from the Kabbalah that form the foundation of Freemasonry?  It is the worship of Lucifer.  Albert Pike, the theological pontiff of Freemasonry, explains:

That which we must say to a crowd is—We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30thdegrees—The Masonic Religion should be, by al of us initates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay whose deeds prove his cruelty, perdify and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests, calumniate him? Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also God. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black,for the absolute can only exist as two gods:darkness being necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil.

Adonay is the Hebrew word used in the Old Testament that is the name for God and is translated into English in the bible as“Lord.”  Pike blasphemously calls God “the God of Darkness and Evil.” Pike calls Lucifer, the “God of Good.” Pike admits that Lucifer is the Masonic god of light. “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” (2 Corinthians11:14) In his authoritative treatise, that is to this day the doctrinal bible of Masonry, Morals and Dogma, Pike pays homage to the god of Freemasonry: “Lucifer, the Light-Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!”  Lucifer’s name in fact means “light bearer.” The Masonic initiation ceremonies finds the candidate repeatedly seeking more light.  If the candidate reaches the highest degree of Freemasonry, he will be informed that the light he seeks is found in the light bearer, Lucifer, who is the god of Freemasonry.

Manly P. Hall, 33̊ Freemason and highly respected Masonic authority, explains that “[w]hen the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his Craft.  The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy.”

Heliocentrism is a fundamental tenet of the Kabbalah.  Consequently, heliocentrism is central to Freemasonry.  Many Masonic lodges throughout the world are named in honor of Copernicus.  The following praise of Copernicus is from the1843 Freemasons’ Quarterly Review.

Copernicus, and his successors in the study of the starry firmament, have supplanted the art of astrology by proving that all the movements of the heavenly bodies tend to promote the honour and glory of the Great Architect of the Universe.

The link between heliocentrism and Freemasonry explains the close affiliation between Freemasonry and NASA.  For example, James Edwin Webb, who was the NASA administrator from 1961-68, was a Freemason. In the November 1969 edition of the Masonic Magazine, The New Age, there appeared an article written by 33° Freemason Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, who was the Manager of the Apollo Program Command and Service Modules;the Deputy Manager of the Gemini Program; and the Manager of Project Mercury.  Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, by the way, is the brother of C. Fred Kleinknecht, 33°, Sovereign Grand Commander, The Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World), Southern Jurisdiction, USA, Washington. In The New Age article, Kenneth Kleinknecht stated:

Note how many of the astronauts themselves are Brother Masons: Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.; L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.; Donn F. Eisle; Walter M. Schirra; Thomas P. Stafford; Edgar D. Mitchell, and Paul J.Weitz.  Before his tragic death in a flash fire at Cape Kennedy on January 27, 1967, Virgil I.“Gus” Grissom was a Mason, too. Astronaut Gordon Cooper, during his epochal Gemini V space flight in August of 1965, carried with him an official Thirty-third Degree Jewel and a Scottish Rite flag. Via the lunar plaque, the Masonic ensignia and flag, and the Masonic astronauts themselves – Masonry already is in the space age.  Can we doubt Freemasonry and its spiritual relevance to the modern era when even its material representatives have today made historic inroads into the infinite expanses of outer space?

The Grand Lodge of Texas, A.F. & A.M., has posted the following explanation on the internet, regarding its chartering of a Masonic Lodge on the moon, which is titled Tranquility Lodge No. 2000.

On July 20, 1969, two American Astronauts landed on the moon of the planet Earth, in an area known as Mare Tranquilitatis , or "Sea of Tranquility".  One of those brave men was Brother Edwin Eugene (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr., a member of Clear Lake Lodge No. 1417, AF&AM, Seabrook, Texas.Brother Aldrin carried with him SPECIAL DEPUTATION of then Grand Master J. Guy Smith, constituting and appointing Brother Aldrinas Special Deputy of the Grand Master, granting unto him full power in the premises to represent the Grand Master as such and authorize him to claim Masonic Territorial Jurisdiction for The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Texas, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, on The Moon, and directed that he make due return of his acts.  Brother Aldrin certified that the SPECIAL DEPUTATION was carried by him to the Moon on July 20, 1969. (emphasis in original)

Buzz Aldrin was interviewed by Alex Jones in 2009. During the interview, there was the following exchange between Alex Jones and Buzz Aldrin:

Alex Jones: “Mr. Aldrin I always wanted to ask you this. We saw the photos of the little Masonic flag to the moon and some of the names of the missions and the numerology, is there anything to that? Or what is the Masonic influence? We know there’s Masonic influence in the founding of the country; what is the Masonic influence on NASA?”

Aldrin: “As far as I can tell, zero. There were some Masonic brothers of mine in Texas that wanted me to take some kind of a Masonic emblem to the moon, in some gesture of – I don’t know what it would be a gesture of – but I told them that it was not within my authority to do such a thing.”

Aldrin is on record with a September 19, 1969, letter he sent three days after meeting with the heads of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in the House of the Temple in Washington D.C., acknowledging that he presented the very flag he denied carrying to the moon during the 2009 Alex Jones interview.

Furthermore, There was an article in the December 1969 issue of the Masonic magazine, New Age (the official organ of the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction), which included a picture of Aldrin presenting to the Scottish Rite headquarters in Washington, the “Masonic emblem” which he allegedly carried with him to the moon and back.

Why would Aldrin lie about the Masonic connection to NASA?   Because, it would reveal the real power and influence behind NASA.  Pulling on that thread would expose the hidden agenda.  Didn’t Aldrin know that he was on record as claiming that he carried a Masonic flag to the moon in the September 19, 1969, letter sent to the heads of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry?  He certainly knew of the letter and that the Masonic brotherhood knew of his claimed possession of a Masonic flag on the moon.  So many communications, however, within Masonry are secret and sealed by blood oaths that he probably was confused as to which of the many communications he has had within Masonry were public.  His life is so compartmentalized between his public facade, which is mostly based upon deception, and his private Masonic communications, which are for the most part secret, that he simply could not keep the secret Masonic communications from the few public Masonic communications straight in his mind.  Without much time to reflect on his answer to the unexpected question from Alex Jones, Aldrin simply resorted to his standard operating procedure; he lied.

There has been (and probably continues to be) a controlling faction making up a statistically unlikely plurality of Masonic astronauts and administrators at NASA.  In fact, Kleinknecht’s list of Masonic astronauts in his New Age article is by no means complete.  For example John Glenn Jr. (Mercury 6), James Irwin (Apollo 15), and Fred Haise (Apollo 13), all of whom were Freemasons, are missing from Keinknecht’s honor roll of astronaut Freemasons.

Freemasons are very proud of their NASA connection.  Aldrin’s denial of any Masonic connection to NASA suggests that knowledge of the connection is to be kept within the Masonic brotherhood.  Below is a Masonic medallion struck in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Apollo 11 alleged moon landings.

The following description of the medallion appears on the Phoenix Freemason Museum website:

This 1979 medallion was struck to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of our flags on the moon. Many people were never aware that Astronaut and Brother Neil Armstrong carried aboard on his Apollo flight to the moon 2 (two) flags. One was the American flag, the other was a flag designed by the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite depicting the double-headed eagle emblem. This flag now resides in the museum collection of the Scottish Rite Museum at the House of the Temple. It is a spectacular three-dimensional medallion and measures 1 3/4 inches in diameter. It was made by the Medallic Art Co. of Dansbury, CT.

Richard Hoagland, who was a former Science Advisor to CBS News during the Apollo program, from 1968–1971, alleges in his book, Dark Mission:   The Secret History of NASA, that NASA is controlled by Freemasons, and from NASA’s beginnings, it has had an occult underside that has been carefully concealed from the public.  While Hoagland’s statement is true, Bill Kaysing has good reason to believe that Hoagland is a shill, working for NASA, who is trying to divert attention away from the fact that NASA never went to the moon.  From 1956 to 1963, Kaysing was the head of technical publications for the entire propulsion laboratory at Rocketdyne, which was a research facility for the development of large liquid propellent rocket engines. Rocketdyne was a division of North American Aviation and later of Rockwell International, which built the Saturn V rockets used in the NASA Apollo Missions. While at Rocketdyne, Kaysing had top secret clearance, which gave him access to documents pertaining to the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Kaysing became convinced by what he saw at Rocketdyne and subsequent research that the Apollo moon landings were a complete hoax. He set forth his evidence in a book, first published in 1976, titled: We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle.

There seems to be merit to Kaysing’s allegation about Hoagland. Hoagland has made an effort to spin the evidence of the clearly faked NASA photos and videos, not as proof that the moon landings never took place, but rather as proof that NASA is concealing the existence of space aliens. In the intelligence community, that is called a limited hangout, where a part of a conspiracy is seemingly exposed by a shill, in order to spin the people in a direction away from the truth and provide some plausible, but less nefarious, explanation for the government deception.

Hoagland avers that only some of the moon photos and videos are faked. He advocates a position that NASA went to the moon, and NASA doctored only some of the photographs to hide evidence of intelligent life. In a radio interview, Hoagland stated:

I’ll give you my bottom line. I think that there is an enormous Apollo conspiracy, but I think we’ve been sold the wrong conspiracy, to keep people like you, bright guys who are asking good questions, looking in the wrong direction, which these people are task masters at doing. The real conspiracy is not did we go to the moon, but what did we find on the moon that they don’t want you to know. .... I have found areas where NASA faked the imagery, I believe to hide really cool stuff.”

Hoagland uses hyperbole and inaccurate information. One way the intelligence community discredits opposition to its programs is to expose inaccuracies that have been sown by its own shills. Care should be taken to verify the facts. That is why this author has provided end notes establishing the authority for virtually every fact in this book.

Hoagland presents some evidence that is true (the occult Masonic influence in NASA and the fake photos and videos) but then spins their significance away from hoaxed moon landings and toward space aliens. That serves to discredit the information about the occult practices and the fake photos and thus causes many people to dismiss any thought that the moon landings were fake. For other people, Hoagland’s theory of NASA fabricating videos and photos in order to conceal life on other planets gives some plausible, less nefarious, explanation for the NASA deception and serves to steer those people away from the fact that NASA did not go to the moon. The purpose for NASA’s existence is to conceal the flat earth in order to condition people to believe the Satanic lie of a spinning orbiting earth where man is an insignificant part of an infinite, godless universe. Hoagland furthers that end.