Tag: George Washington

  • George Washington on the Sacred Fire of Liberty and the Republic

    George Washington on the Sacred Fire of Liberty and the Republic

    The doctrine on the sacred fire (i.e., the divine spark) and noumenal fire came from far antiquity — from Africa, from the Jewish Sodalites, from Aryavarta, from the natives of Persia, the seven Greek sages, and the Hellenistic and Roman Stoicism down to American Republicanism. When first chief, George Washington stated in his first Inaugural…

  • Letter on my Political Ideas, History and Critiques of Conservatism

    Letter on my Political Ideas, History and Critiques of Conservatism

    THE SECRET DESTINY OF AMERICA The purpose of The American Minervan began as a side project to question and refute by myself, certain unverified claims made in Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Destiny of America and to lay out what was addressed between William Q. Judge, Dolatram and H.P.B. on the question of Freemason and…

  • Limits of American Political Imagination: Bronze Age Pervert on Republics

    Limits of American Political Imagination: Bronze Age Pervert on Republics

    The classical republics and democracies would be called “Nazi” by Americans in our day, especially with the loose manner people employ the terms against their political opponents of being Nazi and Fascist — a demonstrably failed tactic. This tactic has proven to be a failure for anti-right forces, statistically and observably. I am not sure…

  • Minerva leads America in “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington”

    Minerva leads America in “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington”

    MINERVA, Goddess of Wisdom leads America in “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.” The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington is a copperplate-printed toile fabric produced in several colorways in Britain between 1785-1800, after the first defeat of the British Empire. A banner reads “Where Liberty Dwells, There is My Country.” GALLERY…

  • Why the Statue of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus carries a Fasces?

    Why the Statue of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus carries a Fasces?

    the Founding of a City and its Character Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, the legendary Roman who defeated the Aequians and rescued the trapped Roan Army. With one hand he returns the fasces, symbol of power and fraternity to the Dictator of Rome. In the other, a plow, which represents his life as citizen and farmer. Cincinnati…

  • Beelzebub and Baphomet

    Beelzebub and Baphomet

    Beelzebub (Gr. Βεελζεβούλ., Heb. ba’al z’bub). Described as “Monarch of Hell” (The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2., 389 fn.) in Demonology. This god is defined as “lord of the flies” in the text of the Torah: 2 Kings 1: 2-3, 6, and 16; and in the Christian canon: Matthew 10:24-26, Matthew 12:22-28, Mark 3:21-26, and Luke 11:14-20, where Iesous…

  • American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome

    American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome

    A number of the American founders were classicists, and were trained in the classics in their colonial education, and American Romanità demonstrates how Classicism was integral to education in the U.S., and not simply an “elite education.” It should also be kept in mind, that the first U.S. president, George Washington was honored on Masonic…