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"The President's Book Blog – What Aren't They Telling Us?"
Disney's marketing scheme for National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a classic expression of the PCT gene. Unfortunately, those predisposed to perceive conspiracy threats might believe the fiction.
The Great Seal is the subject of entry 18 in the President's Book Blog: "Eyeing the Dollar – FDR and the President's Book." Mysterious blogger "Vox Veritas" theorizes why President Roosevelt put the reverse side (pyramid & eye) on the back of the one-dollar bill. Vox begins:
"In 1935, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace brought an almost forgotten design to the attention of President Roosevelt: the Great Seal of the United States. According to the official story, he suggested it be added to the official currency. The official story denies any mystical or secret knowledge embodied in any of the dollar's markings or design."
First of all, there was no official story. It was Henry A. Wallace's story: his later recollections about showing FDR the reverse side of the Great Seal and suggesting it be put on our money where all Americans could see the other side of the emblem that represents them and their nation.
And nothing was denied. "Mystical or secret knowledge" wasn't even mentioned because the Great Seal is not mystical. It is rational. Nor is it secret. The 1782 explanation of the symbolism is unequivocal. As with most symbols, it simply requires intelligence to comprehend – something Roosevelt and Wallace had plenty of.
Blogger Vox says FDR's decision was a "bold act." Really? Putting a symbol created by the Founding Fathers on our money is a bold act? Yes, quite a conspiracy to hide it in plain sight.
Because Vox Disney's conspiracy theory is founded on the myth that the Great Seal has "potent Masonic symbolism," he can't accept the fact that Roosevelt (a member of the Freemasons) had been unaware of the reverse side's pyramid & eye.
Worse, Vox suggests Wallace is deceiving us, that his story "merely conceals what really happened." This PCT moment reveals a profound ignorance of Wallace's character.
Another entry (#27) in the "President's Book Blog – What Aren't They Telling Us?" (formerly: ThePresidentsBook.com) theorizes that George Washington passed on his secret book to "his brother in Masonry, Thomas Jefferson." One problem. Jefferson was not a Freemason. Never was.
Thus the back story of National Treasure: Book of Secrets is founded on a significant fiction – reminiscent of the one at the outset of the first National Treasure where the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence (Charles Carroll) is said to be the Freemason who sets the treasure hunt in motion with the first clue (Charlotte). But Charles Carroll was not a member of the Freemasons.
