The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C.

Author - David Ovason ... [Goo?] [Posters]

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1) Paperback Book The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C. by Harper Paperbacks. I just discovered the key to selling a new book, put the word Secret in the title. Currently books with the Secret are selling like Gangbusters, The Secret by Rhonda Bryne and the sequels, The Secret Life of Bees, according to Amazon, there are over 74,725 book with Secret in the title.
Okay so let´s talk about this book, it is a comprehensive history which is why I gave it 3 stars instead of 2. The book moves slowly, the author did his research and I have no quibble with that - I know this topic; however, the significance of why the Freemasons chose to do things that have been done, in the manner that they did is just not revealed, I was really disappointed because there is some terrific information out there and I am well versed in this topic based on my own research. I am wondering if this is because he wasn´t allowed to "get to the point", no pun intended. I think the true reason he left out answers to why (Astrology is important but he didn´t say why among other points never addressed is because Mason´s aren´t allowed to share the key precepts of their faith or beliefs to the uninitiated - that leaves out all females and many men.
There are many good books out there to understand the significance of Masonry -you won´t find them by doing an internet search using the word - avoid the publications that will come up will give you books written by Masons (who often don´t share that information, up front) these books reveal much of the same stuff rehashed, instead try books by William Schnoebelen, John Ankerberg, David Weldon, Tom C. McKenney, or anything Published by Chick Publications all provided excellent, well documented, significant information -though Ankerberg is very dry.
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2) Paperback Book The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C. by Harper Paperbacks. A remarkable amount of research has gone into this book. The previous reviewer complained that it was "undocumented" but why does the author need to document a road, a building, or a statue if it exists in plain sight and is common knowledge? This proves that the author´s thesis touches a raw nerve to those who are comfortable only with conventional understandings of history that sugar coat the past and pull the wool over our eyes. Clearly, there was a powerful cult behind the formation of the United States. They were not devout Christians, but were committed only to the esoteric ideals of their own secret society. Ideals that apparently originate in ancient Egypt, not Jerusalem. The author, however, coming from a Christian background and perspective dances around this truth. He prefers to view them as Christians who were simply outside the mainstream. Their obssession with "Virgo" proves this, because as everyone knows Virgo represents the Virgin Mary, right? Wrong.
In the heretical thread of Western history, the Virgo was always Venus, otherwise known as Mary Magdalene. This was the Mary so beloved by the Knights Templar and inheritors of their occult traditions. Not the mother of Jesus. The author fails to grasp this nettle and meanders into a neverland that maintains Washington´s "Christianity," so we´ll have to wait a while longer for the rest of the story.¤

3) Paperback Book The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C. by Harper Paperbacks. There is not much to be said about this book except that it is total hogwash. Not even the author can pull all of his undocumented assumption together into a sensible hypothesis.¤

4) Paperback Book The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C. by Harper Paperbacks. Overall its an informative book well worth reading so I give it 5 stars. He rehashes the virgo thing to death throughout the book where I felt he could have laid that out better in 1 or 2 chapters.Also as mentioned by others below he left alot of Masonic stuff out.I recommend watching on video AMERICAS SECRET DESTINY and RIDDLES IN STONE they add and parallel this book quite well.¤

5) Paperback Book The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C. by Harper Paperbacks. Ever wonder why the city of Washington D.C. was an explicitly designed city, but the streets are laid out in a seemingly illogical manner? Wouldn´t you design a simple grid pattern for a city instead of the bizarre pattern found there?

David Ovason attempt to give meaning to this street pattern and for some of the architecture found in the city. His analysis is brilliant but I find myself wandering in the sometimes meandering pattern of his investigation, just like the layout of the city. It would probably help for the reader to have a background in astrology/astronomy to give greater meaning to this analysis, for I often found myself scratching my head.

It was interesting to learn that Pierre L´Enfant, the French Freemason given credit for the design of the city, was later sacked from the construction team for criticism of some of the builders for messing up his design. He would later go broke, wander around the city, and pester congress for a greater share of payments that he thought were his for the design of the city. He died broke and is buried near Arlington House.¤

6) Paperback Book The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C. by Harper Paperbacks.

Today, there are more than twenty complete zodiacs in Washington, D.C., each one pointing to an extraordinary mystery. David Ovason, who has studied these astrological devices for ten years, now reveals why they have been placed in such abundance in the center of our nation´s capital and explains their interconnections. His richly illustrated text tells the story of how Washington, from its foundation in 1791, was linked with the zodiac, with the meaning of certain stars, and with a hidden cosmological symbolism that he uncovers here for the first time.

Fascinating and thoroughly researched, The Secret Architecture of Our Nation ´s Capital is an engrossing book that raises provocative questions and otters complex insights into the meanings behind the mysterious symbols in Washington.¤

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