Recently we reported an obscure piece of history: that the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol had been installed by George Washington in an outright Freemasonic ceremony.
One exorcist we know has prayed over it, detecting on multiple occasions the presence of demons at the cornerstone (on display in the Capitol’s basement).
More recently we were made aware that something similar occurred in New York-New Jersey with the Statue of Liberty. The man who designed the statue—and specifically put the torch in her hand—was the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi.
The statue arrived in New York in pieces and in 1875 a fearless construction crew of American workers, many new immigrants, physically assembled it and put the torch into place on Bedloe’s Island in 1886.
He was a Freemason who’d been initiated in 1875 into Lodge Alsace-Lorraine in Paris, France (as had several other key figures, such as Édouard René de Laboulaye, who first proposed the idea of the statue).As for the Masonic ceremony, it was conducted by William A. Brodie, the Grand Master of Masons in New York State, along with a full retinue of grand officers.
The ritual followed a precise, centuries-old operative tradition meant to symbolically dedicate a building to truth, liberty, and enlightenment
Grand Master Brodie struck the stone three times with a gavel and delivered an address explicitly tying the principles of Freemasonry to the concepts of American liberty and international friendship. A copper box was placed inside the cornerstone containing various historical items, including a copy of the US Constitution, portraits of the designers, and a list of Grand Lodge officers.
Once funded, the elites took center stage for that final unveiling in 1886, a dedication presided over by President Grover Cleveland, his cabinet, various diplomats, and New York’s high-society leadership, cementing the monument as an official, world-stage symbol of the nation.
No matter how well-intentioned aspects of the Masonic involvement were, we submit for discernment that they may bequeath a spiritual shadow over New York Harbor.
Prayer need: Cleanse the island. Cleanse the pedestal. Cleanse the bronze. Let the torch be the Light of Christianity, not of mystery religion and paganism.
