America: Nation of the Goddess

America: Nation of the Goddess
Author: Alan Butler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1620553988

Explores how a secret cabal of influential families has shaped the United States according to the principles of sacred geometry and Goddess veneration • Exposes the esoteric influences behind the National Grange Order of Husbandry • Examines the sacred design and hidden purpose of the Washington Monument • Reveals how the three obelisks in New York City depict the stars of Orion’s Belt • Explains how every baseball diamond is actually a temple to the Goddess In America: Nation of the Goddess, Alan Butler and Janet Wolter reveal how a secret cabal of influential “Venus” families with a lineage tracing back to the Eleusinian Mysteries has shaped the history of the United States since its founding. The evidence for such incredible assertions comes from American institutions such as the National Grange Order of Husbandry and from the man-made landscape of the United States where massive structures and whole cities conform to an agenda designed to elevate the feminine within religion and society. The authors explain how the Venus families, working through the Freemasons and later the Grange, planned the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. It was this group who set the stage for the Founding Fathers to create Washington, D.C., according to the principles of sacred geometry, with an eye toward establishing the New Jerusalem. The authors explore the sacred design of the Washington Monument, revealing its occult purpose and connections to the heavens. They reveal how the obelisks in New York City depict the stars of Orion’s Belt just like the Giza pyramids and how the site of one of them, St. Paul’s Chapel, is the American counterpart to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Exposing the strong esoteric influences behind the establishment of the Grange in the United States, they connect this apparently conservative order of farmers to the Venus families and trace its lineage back to the Cisterians, who were a major voice in the promotion of the Crusades and the establishment of the Knights Templar. The authors conclude with the startling revelation that nearly every city in America has a temple to the Goddess hidden in plain sight--their baseball diamonds--exposing the extent to which the Venus families are still at work behind the scenes.

City of the Goddess

City of the Goddess
Author: Alan Butler
Publisher: Watkins Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-09
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9781780280295

This book goes further than any other in its deconstruction of the design of Washington, DC, and its obvious link to Freemasonry and the sacred feminine - showing how the world's most powerful capital city was specifically planned and created to embody and venerate a female deity .

One Nation Under God

One Nation Under God
Author: Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465040640

The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. To fight the "slavery" of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for "freedom under God" that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was "one nation under God." Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.

The Goddess and the Nation

The Goddess and the Nation
Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822391538

Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country’s diverse communities. Soon after Mother India’s emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, both famous and amateur, began to picture her in various media, incorporating the map of India into her visual persona. The images they produced enabled patriotic men and women in a heterogeneous population to collectively visualize India, affectively identify with it, and even become willing to surrender their lives for it. Filled with illustrations, including 100 in color, The Goddess and the Nation draws on visual studies, gender studies, and the history of cartography to offer a rigorous analysis of Mother India’s appearance in painting, print, poster art, and pictures from the late nineteenth century to the present. By exploring the mutual entanglement of the scientifically mapped image of India and a (Hindu) mother/goddess, Sumathi Ramaswamy reveals Mother India as a figure who relies on the British colonial mapped image of her dominion to distinguish her from the other goddesses of India, and to guarantee her novel status as embodiment, sign, and symbol of national territory. Providing an exemplary critique of ideologies of gender and the science of cartography, Ramaswamy demonstrates that images do not merely reflect history; they actively make it. In The Goddess and the Nation, she teaches us about pictorial ways of learning the form of the nation, of how to live with it—and ultimately to die for it.

Goddess of Anarchy

Goddess of Anarchy
Author: Jacqueline Jones
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 154169726X

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the Haymarket "martyr" Albert Parsons-Lucy was a fearless advocate of First Amendment rights, a champion of the working classes, and one of the most prominent figures of African descent of her era. And yet, her life was riddled with contradictions-she advocated violence without apology, concocted a Hispanic-Indian identity for herself, and ignored the plight of African Americans. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Jacqueline Jones presents not only the exceptional life of the famous American-born anarchist but also an authoritative account of her times-from slavery through the Great Depression.

The Goddess, the Grail, and the Lodge

The Goddess, the Grail, and the Lodge
Author: Alan Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2006
Genre: Goddess religion
ISBN: 9780760776124

Examines the theory that the Grail is a symbol replete with feminine overtones and that its central place in modern religion suggests the survival of age-old religious beliefs focusing around a Great Goddess.

American Gods

American Gods
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2002-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0380789035

Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever he the same...

Christina Powers American Goddess

Christina Powers American Goddess
Author: James Aiello
Publisher:
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2021-02-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781637951859

Christina Powers American Goddess I welcome you to take a fantastic roller coaster ride of raw emotions, as you read the most proclaimed and controversial novel of the twenty first century, Christina Powers American Goddess! This is a fiery, sophisticatedly provocative adult novel which tells the dramatic, heart-felt story of the rise to power of a true American Goddess! You will immediately fall in love with the enchanted starring character, Christina Powers, as you meet a beautiful eight-teen-year old rising movie and pop star, who seems to have it all. Then you will be crushed with her as you watch her evil uncle, the notorious Frank Salerno, destroy this innocent rose of pure beauty with such viciousness, it leaves her shunned by the entire nation. Be prepared to be swept away with tears, laughter, pain, and triumph by this once innocent child, as she vows and works toward her revenge. In her all-consuming drive to destroy her uncle, she becomes the perfect 'black widow', devouring every man and obstacle that gets in her way. Supernaturally chosen by the extraterrestrial alien beings who guide her steps, watch as she schemes her victory over her uncle, through a road of fortune and world-renowned fame. In her drive for revenge, her alien guides force her to become aware of her own true spiritually, as well as the needs of the people and the world around her. As she grows in popularity, this awareness of the pain and suffering of others begins to eat away at her hardened heart, so much so, she finds her passions building to help those less fortunate than herself. Thus, she decides to use her wealth and popularity with her fans to catapult herself as a world advocate for human rights and a cleaner environment. That's when the fire really begins to burn! She uncovers an international plot by a group of united Arab nations, headed by the newly anointed King of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Fehd, and the governments of Russia and China to under-mine the economies of the western world. Their plans include the destruction of the nation of Israel and the economic enslavement of the entire world under the King's oil rich thumb. With this discovery, Christina finds herself fearfully compelled by her extraterrestrial guides and this ruthless world leader's plot, to run for the office of President of the United States of America, in order to stop this madman and save the world! Now please sit back, hold on, and enjoy the adventure, because you are about to be swept away, by the mesmerizing, 'Christina Powers'.

It's All in the Mind

It's All in the Mind
Author: Robert R. Hieronimus
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-01-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736049860

Details the merry and wildly creative tribe who produced The Beatles' Yellow Submarine, the ground-breaking, one-of-a-kind visual adventure, first released in 1968. Get to know the formerly undiscovered artists and the technical wizardry behind your favorite scenes. Symbolic interpretations and subconscious messages of peace and love, plus in-studio hijinks by frustrated animators. How does the Yellow Submarine inspire such wonderful feelings of peace and love? This book lifts the veil of the animation screen to see behind The Beatles and detail that one magical year, during the Summer of Love in Swinging London, when a band of young artist-fans fell into the groove and brought their heroes to animated life. Part two of the internationally acclaimed Inside the Yellow Submarine: The Making of the Beatles Animated Classic by Dr. Robert R. Hieronimus and Laura E. Cortner. Full-color, with 203 illustrations, 368 pages.

The Goddess Pose

The Goddess Pose
Author: Michelle Goldberg
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-06-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101874643

New York Times best-selling author Michelle Goldberg tells the globetrotting story of the incredible woman who brought yoga to the West. When Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced around the world. Here Michelle Goldberg tells the globetrotting story of the incredible woman who helped usher in a craze that continues unabated to this day. A sweeping picture of the twentieth century that travels from the cabarets of Berlin to the Mysore Palace to Golden Age Hollywood and beyond, The Goddess Pose brings the Devi’s little known but extraordinary adventures vividly to life.