chris the cynic on 4/9/2003 at 01:13

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1378 Christian Rosenkreuz, the reputed founder of Rosicrucianism, was born. (This is disputed as many belive he didn't exist.)
1407 Rosicrucian order is founded by Christian Rosenkreuz.
1417 Prince Henry, the Navigator becomes grand master of the Knights of Christ. Under him they undertake a plan for the the conquest of Africa for Christ and His Faith
1430 The Order of the Golden Fleece, allegedly a neo-Templar group, is founded in Burgundy.
1469 The Order of St. Michael, allegedly a neo-Templar group, in France.
1484 Christian Rosenkreuz dies.
1492Columbus, son in law to a former grand master of the Knights of Christ makes trip to America, under a “Knights of Christ” Templar cross.
-Pope Alexander VI commuted the vow of celibacy to that of conjugal chastity finding regular marriage preferable to concubinage. This marked the decline of the order, which though it never died became less warrior monks, and more just plain warriors.
1493 Paracelsus, whose real name is Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, is born. He is regarded by many as the true founder of Rosicrucianism.
1541 Paracelsus dies.
1561 On January 21st Sir Francis Bacon is born. He becomes a prominent Rosicrucianism. Some say he was the founder. (Yes that's right everyone founded this damn order. Even you and me, it makes it hard to find a date of founding.)
1586 German Lutheran pastor Johann Valentin Andrae is born. Some say he is the founder of Rosicrucianism.
1610 The German manuscript Fama Fraternitatis (Account of the Brotherhood) ** probably begins circulating around this year and the work is subsequently published in several languages.
1614 The first printed edition of Fama Fraternitatis appears in the town of Kassel in western Germany.
1615 The Confessio Fraternitatis (Confession of the Brotherhood) is published.
1616 The Third Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz is published.
1630 John Winthrop uses “city on a hill” to describe America's destiny to be a shining example to the rest of the world.
1638 The Muses' Threnodie by H. Adamson is published. It says “For what we do presage is riot in grosse, for we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse; We have the Mason Word and second sight, Things for to come we can fortell aright.” This is the only one of the links between Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry that I have been able to put a date on (and thus include.) It is unsure whether the links are small overlap of ritual and idea, or larger more telling things.
1646 The earliest recorded 'making' of a Freemason in England is that of Elias Ashmole.
1654 Johann Valentin Andrae dies.
1694 The first Rosicrucian society in the United States is founded in Pennsylvania.
1700s Almost six million exhumed bodies are moved to the Paris catacombs as a health measure.
1717 June 24th Organized Freemasonry begins with the founding of the Grand Lodge of England.
1730 December 8th Benjamin Franklin prints the first documented notice about Freemasonry in North America in The Pennsylvania Gazette. The article was prefaced by the statement that 'there are several Lodges of free masons erected in this Province'
1731 Franklin becomes a Freemason in February
1734 Franklin becomes Provincial Grand Master of Pennsylvania.
Franklin brings into print the first freemasonic book to be published in America, an edition of Anderson's Constitutions.
1753 George Washington, age 20, becomes a freemason.
1776 January Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet "Common Sense"
-May 1st Adam Weishaupt, a freemason, starts Illuminati from scratch in Bavaria.
-June 11th The Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft a declaration of independence. Of the five men on this committee, two are Freemasons and two are believed to be. Jefferson though apparently not a freemason, later founds the Illuminati in America.
-July 4th the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, of the fifty-six signatories nine are definitely Freemasons, while ten others may be.
1783 May 13th General George Washington founds the Order of the Cincinnati.
1786 Bones are removed from the grossly overcrowded Cemetary of Innocents to be stored in the quarries of Mont-Rouge, marking the beginning of the Paris catacombs.
1787 May 25th Constitutional convention opens. There are five “dominant and guiding spirits” behind the Constitution - Washington, Franklin, Randolph, Jefferson and Adams. The first three are freemasons, Jefferson founded the Illumnati in America, and Adams is believed to be a mason.
1789 Constitution is adopted. Of the 40 signatures 13 are freemasons and 6 more would later become freemasons.
1791 Washington wrote that freemasonry was "founded in justice and benevolence," and "the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race."
1798 Washington writes, ". . . So far as I am acquainted with the principles and Doctrines of Free Masonry, I conceive them to be founded on benevolence and to be exercised for the good of mankind. If it has been a Cloak to promote improper or nefarious objects, it is a melancholly [sic] proof that in unworthy hands, the best institutions may be made use of to promote the worst designs."
1802 May 19 Napolean Bonaparte creates Chevalier in the Ordre Royale de la Legion D'Honneur.
1818 Thomas Paine's Origin Of Free-Masonry, which proposes that Masonry's embodiment of the sun worship of ancient Druidism is a legitimate alternative to Christianity, is published.
1848 July 4th the cornerstone of the Washington Monument was set with masonic ceremonies by the Grand Lodge of Masons of DC.
1867 Society of Rosicrucians formed in England.
1900 90 percent of Americans are self-employed
1902 Estimated birth year of Lucius De Beers.
-Theodore Roosevelt says, "One of the things that attracted me so greatly to Masonry . . . was that it really did live up to what we, as a government, are pledged to -- of treating each man on his merits as a Man."
1909 Harvey Spencer Lewis founds The Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC).
1918 Cathedrale de Payens purchased and renovated by a group of European investors as a corporate retreat.
1920 League of Nations proposed by Woodrow Wilson.
1940s Illuminati gather genetic data via the smallpox vaccinations.
1945 Corporations pay 50 percent of federal taxes.
United Nations charter.
1946 The land for the United Nations building was "graciously" donated by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The land had been a slaughterhouse and the soil where the U.N. buildings now stand had been fully saturated with the blood of the slaughtered animals.
1954 Founding of the Bildeberger Group, which some say is the executive committee of the Illuminati. The group meets for 4 days every year and is made up of 115 of the most powerful people on earth. The meetings are secret.
1963 President Kennedy says, "The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
-To quote Lucius DeBeers, “he's out, no discussion, no matter that we got him elected.”
-President Kennedy is assassinated ten days after that speech.
1973 David Rockefeller forms Trilateral Commission.
1976 Peter Langston's seminal oracle program which is written for the research V5 Unix system at the Harvard Science Center.
1989 Lars Huttar uses a description of the seminal oracle program to write his oracle program, which is posted to alt.sources in August. This program inspires the Usenet Oracle.
-Steve Kinzler, a systems administrator and graduate student at Indiana University, installs Huttar's program on silver.ucs.indiana.edu, where it proves to be quite popular. The best Oracularities are posted to in.bizarre, a group local to Indiana.
1996 March 12th The Usenet Oracle is renamed The Internet Oracle. Ray Moody, a graduate student at Purdue University, wrote the core software for this after correspondence with Kinzler.
-Kinzler would continue the development of the system, adding support for the Oracularities postings and ratings and, eventually, the Oracle Priesthood -- a hardy and loyal band of volunteers who read through the hundreds of questions and answers each week to choose the best for publication.
2013 "The Wheels Come Off" by Ophelia Carter is published. Suposedly demonstrated that there could have been no "Soviet-American pact" because America had already sold-out to the Grays. According to this theory the polio and influenza outbreaks of the later 20th century were test runs in a larger governmental biowarfare program.
2029 JC Denton born on 3/17
2033 Alex Denton's assigned birth date is on 11/20 of this year. This does not match other data showing Alex to have been born some time in the year 2047.
-Nick Pausback's assigned birth date is on 5/13 of this year.
2034 Wade Walker's assigned birth date is on 2/25 of this year.
-Toxicological study found no carcinogenic effects at chlorine concentrations a thousand times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency revised Kyoto standards.
2042 Sporting Weapons Act of 2042
-NSF formed from gun toating people who refuse to let go of their rifles, grenades, land mines, and other "collectibles." Lead by Leon Woods they intended the “liberation” of Washington, Montana, Oregon, and Northern California.
2045 Leon Woods dies in (in)famous last stand.
2046 In response to the Upper West Side bombing that killed 45 people and wounded over a 100, the grid zoning laws allowed the police to wall off regions of Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs. Foot traffic between these "zones" was prohibited, and traveling between zones was restricted to authorized subways or highways subject to police surveillance.
-The crash of '46. Construction of some building in Paris stopped.
2047 Most likely year of Alex Denton's Birth given that he/she is five years old when the game takes place at some point in 2052.
-"Somnolente Ile" scandal rocks the Serra administration.*
-Beth DuClare's involvement would cause members of the Republican Social Union for French Democracy (RSUFD) party disputed her right to be awarded the position of Chevalier in the Ordre Royale de la Legion D'Honneur posthumously.
-Bilderbergs may have been involved.
-Rumored to be the approximate beginning of the work on Aquinas by Page Industries.
2049 Doctor Moreau starts to work in MJ12 lab under UNATCO.
2050 Silhouette inserts 20th century style commercials into the Net broadcast of the World Cup
2051 The Templars are “diminished” by a combined UNATCO/Interpol raid on their Paris. Tmeplars are classified as inactive.
-15,234 young people served sentences in the state's FBI-run "good behavior" camps, a legacy of the Northwest War.
-UNATCO bombs Statue of Liberty, attack latter blamed on Silhouette.
-Gray Death “surfaces.”
-Gunther Hermann warns UNATCO not to trust Paul Denton.
-Dr Gary Savage and company walk out of Area 51, stealing “everything smaller than a paper clip” and C-4'ing the large pieces of machinery making up the UC. They form X 51.
-Beth DuClare passes away in September.
2052 JC Denton becomes and active agent, leaves UNATCO with brother Paul, defeats Majestic 12.
-Corporations pay 5 percent of federal taxes.
-2 percent of Americans are self-employed
-Beth DuClare is awarded the position of Chevalier in the Ordre Royale de la Legion posthumously.
-According to Area 51 data cube Nick Pausback's incept date is 5/13 of this year.
2054 According to Area 51 data cube Wade Walker's incept date is 2/25 of this year.
-According to Area 51 data cube JC Denton's incept date is 3/17 of this year.
2055 According to Area 51 data cube Alex Denton's incept date is 11/20 of this year.

*Somnolente Ile, an exclusive resort in Cote d'Azur, was the site of a clandestine meeting between then President Serra and reputed members of the Zuganov crime family in an attempt to funnel almost three billion credits of tainted money through French banks. The deal was reportedly brokered by a cabal of major banking interests - including deceased financier Beth DuClare, her involvement was never proved. Some sources went so far as to suggest that the entire meeting was the result of a plot hatched by the "Bilderbergs", a supposedly secret society formed of wealthy and powerful industrialists shortly after World War II.

** Called in English The Universal and General Reformation of the Whole Wide World: together with the Fama Fraternitatis of the Laudable Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, Written to All the Learned and the Rulers of Europe.

If anyone happens to know when Aquinas spoke of a city on a hill please be so kind as to tell me.

chris the cynic on 4/9/2003 at 20:19

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No problem with you saving a copy, I learned the hard way (from OHND) that if you find something you like you should save it. Just give me credit if you use it for something.

I also have most of the conversation text sorted and linked to on this page
(http://christhecynic.o-f.com/ConText.html)

Same idea, copy all you like, but it you start useing it somewhere be co kind as to give me credit (for the Timeline give me credit for makeing it, for the conversation text give me credit for coverting it to a readable format -Took forever- and sorting it.)

chris the cynic on 4/9/2003 at 21:58

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I undestood you weren't talking about hosting, I just meant that if you should at some point decide that you want to put part or all of it up no the net give me credit.

As to haveing everything, not quite yet. My site doesn't have all of the conversation text up yet.

Joben on 5/9/2003 at 20:30

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I did a little looking around.

The 'City on the Hill' phrase aparently was not originated by Aquinas, in whatever way he used it he was aparently making referance to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Matthew chapter 5, verse 14 holds the quote. The contexts encourages the audience to 'shine' as examples of righteousness just as a city on a hill would be seen to shine in the darkness.

I have seen some referances to people such as the pilgrims (and later) using the City on the Hill referance in regard for their dreams of America.

[edit]For the record
an overview of Sir Thomas Aquinas writings (which i have not read...err ether the writings themselves or the summary :P ) can be found here.

(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aquinas.htm)

Great work on the timeline Chris. Thank you very much.

Joben on 5/9/2003 at 22:00

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want some dates?

Jesus born 2 BC died 33 AD. (thats with a fair degree of precision)
The sermon in question was fairly early in his ministry...30 AD maybe.