The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for the New World

by Nicholas Hagger

Overview

The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years earlier in 1607. The Secret Founding of America introduces these two groups of founders - the Planting Fathers, who established the earliest settlements along essentially Christian lines, and the Founding Fathers, who unified the colonies with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - and it argues that the new nation, conceived in liberty, was the Freemasons' first step towards a new world order. Drawing on original findings and an in-depth understanding of the political and philosophical realities of the time, historian Nicholas Hagger charts the connections between Gosnold and Smith, Templars and Jacobites, and secret societies and libertarian ideals. He also explains how the influence of German Illuminati worked on the constructors of the new republic, and shows the hand of Freemasonry at work at every turning point in America's history, from Civil War to today's global struggles for democracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786780324
Publisher:	Watkins Media
Publication date:	11/15/2016
Series:	America's Destiny Series , #1
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Nicholas Hagger has written more than forty books. The two previous books in his American trilogy, The Secret Founding of America and The Secret American Dream, have been widely discussed and acclaimed. He is a Renaissance-style polymath able to draw on several disciplines – history, literature, philosophy and the sciences, mysticism, comparative religion, international politics and statecraft, and world culture – in setting out the establishment of a World State based on political Universalism that it is America’s destiny to bring in. He Lives in Essex.

Table of Contents

Picture Acknowledgements viii

Introduction: Skeleton of a Planting Father xi

Part 1 The Planters: Who Apparently Founded America?

Chapter 1 English Separatists in Plymouth, Puritans in Massachusetts 2

Chapter 2 English Anglicans in Virginia and Chesapeake Bay 27

Chapter 3 Spanish Catholics in Florida 63

Part 2 Who Really Founded America?

Chapter 4 Freemasons in Virginia and Massachusetts 84

Chapter 5 Enlightenment Deists in New England 107

Chapter 6 German Illuminati 128

Part 3 Consequences of the Founders' Vision

Chapter 7 A Freemasonic State 146

Chapter 8 Freemasonry's Battle for America 171

Chapter 9 The Freemasonic State Today 187

Appendices: Constitutional Documents

I John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charitie, 1630 205

II Fundamental Orders of 1639 220

III Anderson's Constitutions, 1723 225

IV Albany Plan of Union, 1754 231

V Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 235

VI The Articles of Confederation, 1781 242

VII The Federal Constitution, 1787 253

VIII The Bill of Rights, 15 December 1791 267

IX George Washington's Masonic Record, 1752-99 278

Chart: History of Freemasonry/Secret Organizations 282

Notes and Sources 284

Bibliography 307

Index 313