Great Seal Sightings
Mystery solved!
"That's also my pyramid." – Montgomery Burns
Bruce Feiler's new book, America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story, discusses Ben Franklin's Moses & Pharaoh design recommended by the first Great Seal design committee in 1776.
Bruce describes GreatSeal.com as "a kind of Great Seal Anti-Defamation League," so in that spirit, here's a memo to NBC Nightly News: Please stop abusing the Great Seal in your Fleecing of America segments!
The recent book by symbologist Robert Hieronimus (with Laura Cortner) is a fascinating exploration into the historical, contextual, and possible esoteric origins of the Great Seal's eagle and eye, the Liberty Bell and Goddess of Liberty, the American Flag and capital city of Washington DC. Whatever knowledge you have, you're sure to come away with renewed appreciation for these iconic symbols and their designers.
Not only is this timely book an inspiring reminder of the original unifying ideals of America's farsighted founders, it is also an impassioned defense of her beloved symbols. Himself having delved deeply into their esoteric dimensions, Hieronimus is well-qualified to intelligently deconstruct the faulty assumptions and expose the rigid one-dimensional interpretations put forth by what he calls the fundamentalist-conspiratorialist mindset of those taking on the role of "new Tories," 21st-century opponents of the American Revolution.
So if you're sick of hearing rants about imagined connections between America's founding symbols and evil conspiracies – whether Illuminati or Masonic, political or economic – then The United Symbolism of America is the antidote you've been waiting for.
February 12, 2008: The United States Diplomacy Center opened its
Exhibition Celebrating the 225th Anniversary of the Great Seal.
"People are just not aware of the complexity and intent of the symbolism and what our Founding Fathers were trying to do with it. The hidden treasure in the Seal is the courage and presence of mind of the people who created it." – Priscilla Linn, Senior Curator at the U.S. Diplomacy Center
Drepung Gomang Monks with Great Seal Awareness Project coordinator Ron Cole discussing the similarity between the Tibetan flag symbol and reverse (pyramid) side of the Great Seal (Burton Memorial Church in Tavernier, Florida).
Symbolic Solidarity with Tibet
"Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land
unto all the Inhabitants thereof."