Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History (11 page)

Crossroads were considered sacred to Diana-Hecate, the deity who is both virgin and whore (“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”), and such crossroads were the favored sites of the wanton women-witches and the Grand Masters (Masonic sorcerers) who were her votaries.

Crossroads are significant to ritual sex magic; the wearing of clothes of the opposite sex and the performance of bisexual acts are called “crossroad rites.” The women engaging in these perversions were referred to as “dikes,” and it was said that they traveled “the old dike road” and “the old dirt road.” These sorts of activities, in keeping with Hecate lore, are secret to the extreme.
Tacitisque paebens conscium sacris jubar, Hecate triformis.
(“Triple Hecate, who giveth forth rays cognizant of secret mysteries.”)

Crossroads were also places of human and animal sacrifice. Such rites were often carried out in conjunction with
magica sexualis
since the participants recognized an existing relationship between fertility and death. Hecate is therefore also identified as a “death goddess,” and her sex-and-death attributes are similar to those ascribed to Venus (Aphrodite, Prone, Kypris).

The idea for the play
MacBird
possibly originated at an anti-war rally in Berkeley, California when Barbara Garson, in a speech referred to the First Lady as “Lady MacBird Johnson.” She is said to have subsequently decided to write a play based on
Macbeth
and have it performed at the “International Day of Protest,” but it actually had its premiere at the Village Gate Theater in Greenwich Village.

Newspaper publisher William Loeb charged that Garson’s
MacBird
implies that President and Mrs. Johnson were conspiratorially involved in the JFK assassination. Loeb asked his attorney: “… to research immediately if there is any action this newspaper can take to ask the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York to request the appropriate court to issue an injunction against the further showing of
MacBird.”

Newspapers throughout the country took up the cry. A drama critic for United Press International wrote, “
MacBird,
presented yesterday at the Village Gate, is a sophomoric, heavy-handed parody of
Macbeth
that strikes a new low in theatrical taste.”

The word “sophomore” is derived from the Greek words “sophos,” meaning wise, and “moros,” meaning foolish. Granted, it seemed foolish for Barbara Garson to challenge the system with the play
MacBird,
but let us see if there is anything shrewd, astute or erudite about the Garson parody. In the words of Erasmus, can Barbara Garson be said to be a “morosopher,” a wise fool?

President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s name is phonetically linked to the Macbeth clan. Clansmen were divided into two classes: those who were related by blood and those individuals and groups who were under clan protection. Consequently, clans had sects of different appellations and people with the same surname are known to have been attached to different clans.

The Macbeth clan is related, in a clannish manner, to the Baine clan. The lack of clear distinction between blood relatives and those under clan protection in Scottish genealogy has become so complex as to baffle expert genealogists. Numerous Scottish names are rendered with a variety of spellings and it is a matter of record that the sons of many Scotsmen spelled their names differently from their fathers. With this in mind, consider a clan listing of the Bain and Macbeth clan structure.

Bain, Macbean, Mackay, Macnab — Bayne, Macbean, MacKay, Macnab — Bean, Macbean — Beathy, MacBeth — Binnie, MacBean MacBain, Macbean — Macbeath, MacBean — MacBeth, Macbean, Macilvain, Macbean — Melvin, MacBeth.

The MacBeath, MacBean and the MacBeth, Macbean part of this clan structure apparently had tartans of their own. “Mac,” of course, means “son of,” and all the Masons of the Bain, Bayne, Bean, Beathy, Binnie, Beath, Beth clans all publicly claim to have the same ancestor.

The Bains (Baines), in keeping with this name-exchange, are apt to refer to the same clan even though the spelling may be Bain, Baines or even Bane, as it has sometimes appeared. All of these are in a clan structure with Macbeth.

We have ascertained that President Lyndon Baines Johnson, through the magic of mystery and words, is associated with Bain-Bean-Macbeth. Bain, in French, means, among other things, bath. There are obviously many types of baths — sweat baths, mineral water baths, champagne baths, milk baths, blood baths, baptismal baths. The resurrection bath of alchemy denotes rebirth, and the purification or absolution baths are given to Masonic “Knights of the Bath” before performing heinous deeds. There are many ritual aspects to the bath; for example, when he was vice-president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, of “blood bath” association, removed his shoes before entering a Moslem bath house reminiscent of the Rite of Discalceation in the Third Degree of Masonry, which has to do with assassination.

Shortly before the assassination of President Kennedy,
Macbeth
was performed in the White House. The part of Macbeth was played by actor Franklin Cover. In a photograph widely circulated in a national magazine, Cover is seen standing under a chandelier. The chandelier is a magnificent work of art said to comprise 5060 pieces of cut glass. Jacqueline Kennedy ordered the chandelier removed from the White House as one of her last acts as First Lady.

Chandeliers have tremendous symbolical importance in sorcery. For example, a chandelier is said to be the test of a “jettatore’s” power. A jettatore is a man possessed of the “malocchio,” the “evil eye.” Jettatore literally means, in Italian, “thrower,” or one who casts.

A photograph was also taken of Mrs. Kennedy at the performance, also showing her standing underneath the same chandelier that hung over Franklin Cover in his Macbeth costume. There is, in folklore, the superstition that when a wife believes her husband has been injured or killed by sorcerous means instigated by a
jettatore,
she is to go to that jettatore’s chandelier and throw her shoe at it. (None of this is intended to imply that Mr. Cover is a sorcerer, only that his picture under so symbolical an artifact is striking in and of itself.) It is also a folk belief that the taking of a position under a chandelier by a practitioner of the evil eye is accompanied by a sound. Slightly to the east of “Crescent City” (New Orleans) there is an area called “Chandeleur Sound’” beneath it, on many maps, is the word “Freemason.”

Recall Miss Chudleigh, the woman who served as the “great whore” for a time with the sorcerer-oriented Hell-Fire Club: after the edicts and bulls issued by the Pope, Miss Chudleigh was hard-pressed to find refuge on the continent and yet she was finally successful in the camp of a supposedly Catholic Prince — Radzvil — in an undoubtedly Catholic country. This protection may have somehow caused the string of misfortunes which later befell the apostate Catholic Radzvils since it was maintained that Madame Chudleigh was imbued with a curse or mystical taint due to her involvement in ritual sex perversions.

Gore Vidal, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and Caroline (Lee) Bouvier were the “stepchildren” of Hugh D. Auchincloss. Mr. Vidal is, of course, a well-known author. Some of his work describes the Kennedys as an “Illusion-Making Clan,” and alleges “they [the Kennedys] create illusion and call it facts.” However, in fairness, it should be noted that Vidal has also called them the “Holy Family” and the President and First Lady the “Sun God” and Goddess.”

When JFK was 22, Irene Wiley sculptured a likeness of him as a winged angel; her work was presented to the Vatican where it was used as a part of a panel in which the angel hovers over St. Therese while she writes in a book. After his fatal trip to Dallas, President Kennedy’s remains were code-named “Angel” and that was also the name of the “flying hearse” (Air Force One) which returned him to the capitol.

Tragedy seems to live with the Kennedy family, newspapers tell us. Indeed, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, Teddy Kennedy suffered a severe back injury in a plane crash; before JFK’s assassination, his father suffered a crippling stroke, sister Rosemary has been mentally handicapped since birth, Kathleen was killed in a plane crash, and eldest son Joseph was killed in action during World War II. Only a few years ago, the son of Senator Ted Kennedy was forced to undergo the amputation of his leg; prior to that, his father was involved in the drowning of a young secretary which effectively silenced the Senator against those who murdered his brothers, since, with typical J. Edgar Hoover morality, most of the facts of the case were suppressed and would find a swift and international messenger should the senator from Massachusetts renege on his “commitments.” Let us examine the incredible symbolism deeply related to the Kennedy family and perhaps discern an etiology.

The “Rowan” is a death plant in herbal lore and was an ingredient in a sleeping potion witches gave their husbands when they wanted to perform activities to which their spouses would strongly object. The rowan, like so many “magical,” plants was used by Christians as protection against ill fortune. It was also a means of church decoration and was widely planted in cemeteries in the belief that it would restrain the dead from premature resurrection. In some places, the First of May was called Rowan or Hawthorne Day, or Rowan Tree Witch Day.

Peter Lawford, one time brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, was later married to Mary Rowan, the daughter of
Laugh-In
series television star Dan Rowan. Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy Lawford were divorced in 1966 and it was then that Lawford took his “Rowan” to bed. He also made certain similar arrangements for Marilyn Monroe in the service of John and Robert Kennedy. Marilyn Monroe has been described as the “Silvery Witch of us all” (Norman Mailer) and she is important in the fertility and death symbolism pervading the “Boston Brahmins.”

President Kennedy was the recipient of a birthday party in his honor in Madison Square Garden and Peter Lawford invited Marilyn Monroe to sing “Happy Birthday” there. When she was scheduled to sing, a spotlight was thrown on an empty stage and she was announced three times. She appeared after the third call and was introduced as “the late Marilyn Monroe.”

Among her husbands was a Shriner (Mason) named Robert Slatzer. In Slatzer’s book,
The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe,
circumstantial evidence is presented suggesting that Attorney General Robert Kennedy was somehow involved in the “curious death.” At no time, however, has Mr. Slatzer referred to Masonic sorcery.

The European news magazine,
Das Neue Blatt
details not only the much touted love affair between the Hollywood star and the President, but the rivalry between the First Lady and the star. The Das Neue Blatt article broadly hinted that Jackie “helped drive Marilyn to her suicide.” Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis has a family and a past at least as strange and enigmatic as that of her deceased first husband.

Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale was the sister of John Bouvier, the father of Jacqueline. Mrs. Beale and her daughter Edith (Edie) lived in a state of wretchedness and destitution in a decaying mansion in East Hampton, Long Island. Eviction proceedings against the Beales were initiated because the women were discovered to be living in total squalor amid piles of empty pet food cans, newspapers and assorted filth. For some reason, Madame Onassis permitted a film crew to record the degradation of her aunt and niece, and anyone viewing
Grey Gardens
will certainly attest to the “House of Usher” eccentricities of the pair. As an analogy of control, it is interesting to note that a peculiar rapport occasionally exists between owners and domesticated animals, and that the Beale mansion reflects a reversal of roles in the master-pet relationship.

John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 at 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. Beals-Beale-Beal are names associated with the Kennedys through the magic and mystery of words. Beale onomatology is rendered thus: El-Bel-Baal-Be al-Beal-Beale. El is said to be one of the Hebrew names of God, signifying the “mighty one.” It is the root of many other divine names and therefore, many of the sacred names in Masonry. Approximately one mile from Lindisfarne (the “Holy Island”/”Holy House”) is a barren place known as “Beal.” Lindisfarne is associated with Heredom, and the legends of King Arthur, the Round Table, Merlin, and other Camelot stories, as well as the Scottish Black Watch.

Bouvier means “cowherder” and
Look
magazine has traced this family to Grenoble, France where their first mention appears in 1410. “Jackie’s” great-great-grandfather, Eustache Bouvier, fought in a French regiment under the command of George Washington while his elder brother Joseph remained in France.
Look
magazine located Mrs. Kennedy’s Bouvier relatives in “the ancestral town” and this genealogical find brought relief and joy to the family, for as “Mama” Bouvier put it: “We know what they have been whispering about us. We had to swallow our tongues. Now they can say no more.”

Arrangements were made for a delegation of Bouviers to journey to Paris and meet with their famous relation while the President was conferring with de Gaulle. During this period, a painting of the renowned Pont St. Esprit, located in ancestral Bouvier country was painted by the brother-in-law of Marcel Bouvier and shipped to the White House. This “Spirit Bridge” is equated with the “Bridge of Souls,” which, in turn, linked with the “Bridge of Dread,” “Baine Bridge,” “Log of Lerma,” “Al Sirat,” and “Cinvato Paratu.” Such bridges are symbolically associated with death and crossing them can be a difficult and harrowing experience. (Cf. Poe’s “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” and Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King.”)