Nicholas Hagger - The Secret Founding of America

T he United States of America boasts the most advanced civilization the world has ever known. Its technology is awesome. It has reached the moon, sent spacecraft to the far reaches of our solar system and produced images of our galaxy. Its satellites transmit instant pictures from across the world on our television screens. Its computers send instant messages round the globe via the internet. Its precision-bombing has raised war to a new level, enabling surgical strikes to be made while limiting damage. Its skyscrapers, aircraft, cars, housing and potential for wealth are unrivalled, and it has opened its doors to the tired, the poor, the homeless huddled masses yearning to breathe free and admitted refugees from all corners of the world. It stands for liberty and democracy and is a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world, which is apprehensive, fearing US domination and world hegemony.

All this technological inventiveness and administrative genius has developed very rapidly in a country that only 400 years ago was an empty landscape occupied only by native Americans, a place of great scenic beauty but also a terrifying wilderness. Into this vast, seemingly sparsely populated tract came Europeans from England, Spain and France at a time when navigators were exploring the limits of the Earth. The prevailing view was still that the Earth was the centre of the universe and the planets travelled round it in spherical orbits. New heresies were asserting that the Earth revolved around the sun and that its movement caused the stars to appear to move. But it was only a theory that the world was round and that a ship sailing west might reach the Indies of the East. Rumour had it that beyond the mariners horizon there was a huge waterfall that ships would plunge over and be lost forever more.

In this bewildering time European voyagers set sail in small-masted ships that leaked like old tubs to unknown destinations, knowing they would be absent for a year or two and unsure whether they would ever return home. What drove them? Some, like Vasco da Gama, were in quest of knowledge. Some, gentlemen adventurers, were seeking their fortune and hoping to bring back cargos of gold and diamonds, or at least precious wood, that they could sell for commercial gain. Some hoped to own land, an impossibility for the poor under the medieval feudal system. Some were fleeing religious persecution and yearned for the freedom to worship in the way they wanted without being penalized by the State.

When they reached America after their heroic voyages, they planted settlements, and a backwoods life of great primitiveness, of hand-hewn wooden huts, shacks and fences, grew up along the eastern coast. As more colonists arrived, the lands that were settled grew more extensive. For more than 150 years there were English colonies in the north. Eventually these threw off their colonial yoke, became independent and wrote themselves a constitution, which enabled the United States to grow into the superpower it is today.

This book is about the founding of the United States from the planting of the first settlements to the constitutional founding of 1787. It shows that while religion was behind the first plantings, circumstantial evidence indicates that Freemasonry was also present and that a secret Deistic Freemasonry, subscribing to a non-Christian concept of God and hiding behind a religious faade, inspired the constitutional arrangements that prepared the way for todays superpower. Indeed, the first United States was a Masonic State. As we shall see, Freemasonry remained strong during the Civil War and is still a very powerful force behind the apparently Christian United States today. We shall see that today Freemasonry has an agenda for a new world order, a federal-continental United States of the World in which nation-states are subsumed as states within regional blocs.

All was not as it seems in the early planting of America. The story that schoolchildren learn is that Separatists came over on the Mayflower in 1620 and settled at New Plymouth. But they were not the first. Before this there is a real story involving Jamestown, which was settled in 1607. That is what America has chosen to base its 400th anniversary on in 2007. But, as we shall discover, even that is not the true start of America.

I first became interested in the founding of America when I did research for my study of the origin, growth, rise and fall of 25 civilizations, which became