Lightning Over The Treasury Building

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Lightning  Over  The  Treasury  Building

Grace Van Duzen   October 14, 1962

A book came into my possession. It is called Lightning Over The Treasury Building. I should like to read portions of it, but first I marked in my Bible a few references which we might bear in mind as we go.

In Exodus, "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." Another word for usury could be interest. In Leviticus, "Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase." In Nehemiah, this is one perhaps we are familiar with. Remember when Nehemiah went back to Jerusalem to re-establish a nucleus there. Here was the beginning of something, and the remnant that went back to Jerusalem were of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin, but no longer of the twelve tribes, no longer of the whole thing. Here was a remnant now, a remnant of Judah particularly, that went back, and they began to move into a certain pattern. And Nehemiah was very angry and he said, "I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them. And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer." "Restore, I pray you," he said, "to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and the corn, the vine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them."

This was a very important thing all the way down through the history of the children of Israel, something very vital. Not just a little thing in passing. It has been repeated too many times in the Old Testament. They were not to exact interest. They were to help those in need, but interest was very wrong, and absolutely forbidden. In the Psalms, again, the fifth verse of the fifteenth Psalm. "He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He is one who feareth the Lord." And in the Proverbs, "He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor." Jeremiah, "Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me." Just to show how it was held, in what manner: "He hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die." And that sounds like an exaggeration, but we find that even in the time of the first Christians—the first Christian church established—it was forbidden that interest should be used on money lent, and at certain times during the periods of history it was punishable by death. In Ezekiel, "In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken us usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God."

I would just like to read parts of this book to you. I found it very enlightening. Perhaps we can bear in mind a few things that we noted this morning after listening to Martin's wonderful service with respect to Cain and Abel. We are not here to judge according to good and evil. However, to my mind it is very worthy of our attention. Its value lies in the opportunity afforded us to see a control in the body of Cain, in the world of fallen man—not to strike fear to our hearts but that we may perhaps have a little better idea or picture of the nature of it.

[Quotations from the book are in blue.] This is an introduction: "For several years the Author’s blood has been kept at the boiling point by the legalized injustices of our inequitable, unethical, unworkable and unconstitutional debt and bond-based money system." So now you know that that is what this is all about. "The knowledge that every dollar in circulation in America is a borrowed dollar and pays its toll of interest to the money-creating and money-manipulating Bankers—who contribute not a single thin dime of value in goods or productive services to the Nation's welfare—by which they skim off the cream, leaving but the pale blue milk for public use."

"When it became necessary, under the present asinine system, to raise the Nation's debt ceiling to permit the borrowing of still other billions of dollars on interest bearing bonds, that the Nation might be placed irredeemably in hock to the Money Powers, he went to Washington to peer, if possible, behind the scenes to find out why our Treasury Department follows the ridiculous policy of printing money, giving it to the Bankers, then printing interest-bearing bonds, placing them in the vaults of the Bankers—and then borrowing the money out and leaving the bonds in. He was determined to learn, if possible, how that process just described added anything to the soundness or value of the Nation's money and why the money required by the Government could not be printed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving and used directly by Congress to pay the Nation's bills—without the formality of bonds and the requirement of interest to private Bankers."

He has written this little work revealing the foundation of the present money system, not just in the United States but in every country. Did you ever wonder about our national debt? Until I read this, I did. I knew we didn't owe money to other countries—then who in the world did we owe all this money to? this vast national debt? And I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this. We have this great debt to pay. We don't owe other countries. To whom do we owe it? Billions and billions of dollars. Here we see the beginning of how it happened.

"During the autumn of 1694 a number of very grave and sagacious men met regularly in, of all places, Mercer's Chapel, in London—to discuss matters of vital importance to England and to the entire world. Sir John Houblon and William Paterson, with a number of goldsmith colleagues, were busily employed working out the details in connection with the founding of a bank. When William III asked for more money, they stated the conditions, upon which the money would be loaned to the English Parliament were the following: 1. A Charter must be granted to the lenders for the establishment of a bank—to be known as ‘The Bank of England' and, 2. That the bank must be given the right to issue currency against the gold in its vaults. On those conditions would the money lenders loan the English Government the badly needed $6,000,000." And these were private persons, and the Government had to beg for the money. These are private individuals. So in 1694 the Bank of England was established, and it was privileged to issue credit against borrowers' collateral in excess of the cash it held on deposit or actually had to lend, thus creating England's money out of nothing to the extent of such excess. Ever since then, up the centuries, bankers the world over have so issued paper credit money against borrowers' collateral to varying degree in excess of their cash, most of the time greatly in excess. Thus have they created the world's money out of nothing; to the precise extent of such excess. They still do so today. Be the collateral ever so adequate, this IS wholesale legalized counterfeiting, legalized robbery on a gigantic scale.

"The banker likes to say that he is merely exchanging bank credit which is generally acceptable for borrowers' credit. The borrower's credit which the collateral represents must however, from every premise of equity, remain the property of the borrower to the extent that the banker has issued paper credit money in excess of his cash against it. It cannot, to this extent, become the banker's property from any premise of equity, to be converted into the nation's medium of exchange in any form, for this is wholesale legalized counterfeiting when it is done by any privileged private minority, be they private bankers or any other private group. From what premise of equity should they have the enormous predatory privilege to create money out of nothing and to collect interest-tribute thereon? For the collection of interest on money created out of nothing by a privileged private minority is in reality the exaction of tribute.

"All this however is being done, and as if this were not enough of predatory privilege, the Federal Reserve conspiracy was enacted. The deceptively misnamed Federal Reserve Banks are private corporations. The Government owns not a single share of stock in the Federal Reserve System. All this adds up to the privilege of unlimited wholesale legalized counterfeiting by a privileged private minority. It is wholesale legalized robbery on the most gigantic scale, far surpassing the sum total of all other forms of robbery both legalized and illegal, the greatest steal ever conceived by the mortal mind of man.

"This enormous legally stolen wealth, and the usurped issuing power, this enormous money power is the main, the only really effective weapon of the enemy, the international banking cartel, (for the Bible castigates and identities Mammon, international money power as the arch enemy of God) with which to make and break governments at will, to install and maintain wire pullers behind the scenes on the world stage, to control press, TV and radio, to dictate curricula, etc., in short to absolutely rule, exploit and oppress all upon this planet. That is the goal.

"In 1750 Amschel Moses Bauer became weary of peddling his wares throughout the country (particularly silver articles of his own manufacture, since he was by trade a gold and silversmith)—and upon his return to Frankfort, Germany, he decided to settle down. He opened a little shop in the Jundenstrasse section and established himself in a permanent business. Over the door of his goldsmith shop he hung a red shield. From that ingenious man, shop and shield, sprang the most powerful firm of international bankers of the next and present centuries. He, like the goldsmiths who had preceded him, had a strong-room in which he kept his precious metals and that of others who needed the security of a safety deposit vault in which to keep their treasures—and, after the manner of his goldsmith predecessors—practiced the loaning of money at interest on metal and credit which did not belong to him.

"Amschel Moses Bauer had a son. He named him Maier Amschel—and he turned out to be a very clever, studious boy. His father decided to make him a rabbi—but in 1754, when Maier was only eleven years of age, his father died. The boy obtained a clerkship in the Oppenheimer Bank in Hanover. Because of his adaptability to the banking business, after a number of years he became a junior partner. Later he returned to Frankfort, bought the little house with the red shield and, assuming the name of Red Shield, established the House of Rothschild," which means literally Red Shield. Very interesting name from which this Rothschild was derived.

"During the period of his employment with the Bank of Oppenheimer, but more particularly while he was a partner in the firm, he acquired considerable money. This, with that left him by his father, was sufficient to launch him into business. A rather unholy business it was, to be sure, but very lucrative. It was the business of inducing such German soldiers as he could influence to volunteer and selling them to England to fight its wars with Scotland, France, and others—and failing to obtain volunteers, he would kidnap the men. In 1787, for example, he supplied England with 12,000 men and received in payment, 80,000 pounds sterling. These men virtually became slaves. Such sales were numerous year after year—and thus was the foundation of the Rothschild great fortune laid.

"Maier Amschel (Bauer) Rothschild had five sons. These sons, through their natural, if unscrupulous, genius—and through the tutorship of their adroit father—became Captains of High Finance in all the Nations of Europe. So powerful did the combination become that they could overthrow governments and dethrone kings. They were international bankers with a vengeance. Nathan Rothschild became the greatest financial wizard of his, or probably any other, generation. He became interested in national and international investments. Napoleon was over-running Europe and was a real threat to the thrones of England and Germany. Nathan Rothschild was undecided as to the outcome of the war. If he was to profit, regardless of which armies were victorious, he must be in a position to obtain authoritative information before the English Parliament or the rank and file of the people were in possession of it. The decisive battle of the campaign was about to be fought—The Battle of Waterloo. Nathan knew that Wellington had been victorious and that Napoleon had suffered his downfall.

"He made his decision and acted with great haste. Upon his arrival in England he found the Nation in despair. A little bird had brought the word that Wellington had been defeated at Waterloo and that Napoleon was ready to launch his campaign against England and take the throne. Panic was rampant. The bottom dropped out of values. English pound sterling could be bought for a song or a shilling. That little bird (a carrier pigeon) had been released by a confederate of Nathan as soon as Wellington's victory was certain, and to its leg was tied the lie. Nathan Rothschild scooped up the pounds, shillings and sixpence of England at a fraction of their value. Nathan Rothschild, after the haul, found it possible to loan England, because of the magnanimity of his noble heart, 18,000,000 pounds—and to Prussia he loaned 5,000,000 pounds—to repair the damages of war.

"All four of Nathan's brothers indulged in much the same brand of banking policy. Their Al Capone system was to juggle a government into a position of distress and then squeeze it as tightly as the case would permit, leaving a tax-burdened and impoverished populace to bear the heavy weight of taxes occasioned by their exploitation. Nathan Rothschild died in 1836, twenty years after the Rothschild clan had gained control of the Bank of England. His son, Lionel, was elected to the British Parliament, where he wielded a great influence, but not in the interests of the common people. His central office he maintained in Frankfort in the house of the Red Shield. Even to this day the Rothchilds are dominant figures in the financial and banking world. The story of the attempt of the Rothschilds to extend their financial kingdom to America and to gain control of this, our Nation, will be told in succeeding chapters."

It certainly shows the ruthless nature of those in control of money. There is a hypnotic quality which drives them to do anything rather than lose their money or rather than to keep as much as they have. It must be a constant getting, and the more is gotten the more must be added to it.

"The arrival of the Mayflower, with its load of robust souls, at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 proved to be the first mighty vanguard of a great multitude to arrive from across the sea. Little money, during those first years of colonization, was seen in America. The settlers bartered their produce and goods with each other. But after the first few hardy pioneers had hewed out their homes and cleared the forests for their new fields, men of considerable means joined the steady procession westward from the Old World. They brought gold and silver coin and this was used to facilitate trade between the people comprising the various Colonies, and also the trade between the Colonies themselves.

"Wampum became legal tender in some of the States. Colonies also stamped gold and silver coins and put them in circulation. It became apparent, however, after a time, that trade was being hindered because of insufficient money—or something to use for money. Thus it came about that a circulating medium—called ‘Colonial Scrip’—was printed by the Governors of the various Colonies. With this release of adequate purchasing power great prosperity came to the Colonies since there was an abundance of produce and goods available.

"The Nations of Europe, from which the colonists had come, were repeatedly at war. These wars spread to America so that we find the various Colonies frequently at war with each other. The Indians also were induced to become involved. The colonists from England, supported by soldiers from across the sea, finally succeeded in vanquishing their foes.

"About this time Benjamin Franklin made a visit to England. While there he was asked how he accounted for the prosperous condition of the Colonies. His reply was 'That is simple. It is only because in the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip and we issue it in the proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry.'

"It was not very long until this information was brought to the Rothschild's bank, and they saw that here was a Nation ready to be exploited; here was a Nation that had been setting up an example that they could issue their own money in place of the money coming through the banks. The Rothchild Bank caused a Bill to be introduced in the English Parliament, therefore, which provided that no Colony of England could issue its own money. They had to use English money. Consequently the Colonies were compelled to discard their 'Scrip’ and mortgage themselves to the Bank of England in order to get money. For the first time in the history of the United States our money began to be based on debt.

"Benjamin Franklin stated that in one year from that date the streets of the Colonies were filled with the unemployed, because when England exchanged with them she gave them only half as many units in payment in borrowed money from the Rothschild Bank as they had in 'Scrip'. In other words, their circulating medium was reduced fifty percent, and everyone became unemployed, according to Benjamin Franklin's own statement. Quoting from Senate Document No. 23: "Mr. Franklin went further than that. He said that this was the original cause of the Revolutionary War. In his own language: 'The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the Colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction.'"

"It was Maier Amschal Rothschild who had said 1790, ‘Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who writes its laws.'"

In the enactment of this law by the English parliament (at the instigation of the Rothschilds) we have a perfect illustration of the truthfulness of the Rothschild boast.

"On April 19th, 1775, the first armed clashes of the Revolution against Bankerism took place at Lexington and Concord." It brings out also that the history books have been written to deliberately cover up the real reason. You will never find that in any history book, that any war was fought against Bankerism. It was supposed to have been fought because they were not allowed to have freedom of worship, something like that, or against the tax on tea. It wasn't against the Church of England but the Bank of England that the thing actually was, and of course that is a part of an international setup. It is not a national thing. Those who are in this control care not for country, whatever the country. They have no interest in patriotism; they don't know the meaning of the word. They are above such things. This is an international thing. We can see how in the wrong way the Law works. We are told to come out of country. They did it. They don't care anything about anybody's country. This is purely, purely selfish. To an nth degree it reveals the depths to which man can and has fallen."

It brings out how the European countries sent over soldiers so that the war in the States could be prolonged. Soldiers from different countries were brought over; it wasn't really a war of the States. Well, he goes on to speak of the war.

"On July 4th of the next year Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. In 1786 fifty-five delegates from the majority of the States met to formulate a plan whereby the states would be enabled to live amicably with each other, and to outline a policy to facilitate trade and industry. The delegates labored for four months over the problems presented, the principal one being as to how the Northern States, with paid labor, could compete with the southern States, with free labor. It appeared doubtful, for a time, that an agreement could be arrived at and a unified Nation established. Both sides made compromises. The Constitution, minus the Bill of Rights, was the result. A Constitutional Convention was called for the next year at Philadelphia. At that Convention the Constitution of the United States, which embodied a provision for its amendment, was adopted by a majority of the States, with few alterations.

"The Founding Fathers made sure that provisions were made by the Constitution for an honest and debt free money system. Thus, in spite of the strenuous opposition of banker-minded delegates to the Convention, Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 5 was drafted and adopted, with the rest of the Constitution. It is still an important, though disregarded, Article of the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 5, states, in part: 'Congress shall have power to coin money and regulate the value thereof.' It is most evident that by this provision, Congress alone should be the money-creating agency of the Nation. That the term, 'coin-money', included the printing of currency was later established by at least eight decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.

"Although the Constitution is regarded by the citizens of the United States as being a well nigh sacred document, and all laws are supposedly made to conform to its provisions, yet, because of the entrenched power and intrigue of the bankers, Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 5 has been violated, almost continually, since the adoption of the Constitution. The bankers are the money-creators of the Nation. To this fact can be traced the cause of every depression, every bank failure, our staggering National debt and the poverty of the vast majority of our citizens, and the slow starvation of one-third of our population, while vast amounts of the produce of the Nation are being intentionally destroyed."

The thing which strikes one upon reading this is the—as one goes along—is the deliberate intent with which all of this is done. The wars are deliberately manipulated for one reason only and that is the enriching of a few people on the face of the earth.

"In 1783 the Bank of America was organized by Alexander Hamilton and Robert Morris, front men of the racketeers behind the scenes." If you have read the same history book as I did you thought Alexander Hamilton was a hero. "The secret leaked out that this supposedly American institution was, in reality, a branch of the Bank of England, and that that bank's policy of perpetuating the goldsmith's racket of issuing receipts—or promises to deliver gold—for about ten times the amount they had in gold or real money, and—of course—charging interest on their promises to deliver receipts was to be the policy of the newly established Bank of America.

"The knowledge of this fact precipitated prolonged and bitter controversy. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, John Adams, James Madison and Benjamin Franklin led the assault against the avaricious foe. They knew that were the monopolistic control of the Nation's money to pass, once more, into the hands of the Bank of England, the gaining of National Independence would have been accomplished in vain, for that which the money powers of England had lost through revolution would ultimately be returned to them through the process of mortgage and foreclosure. A charter was refused the proposed bank. In 1791 death removed the mighty defender of the people's rights, Benjamin Franklin, and the logical protests of the other able statesmen were swept aside by the surge of bankers' gold. In 1791 Congress granted the exclusive privilege of grinding out currency based on public and private debts to Alexander Hamilton—who had by that time inveigled his way into the Office of the Treasury."

All this is very interesting. It shows that something was going on underneath and behind the scenes which has been kept out of the history books for a deliberate reason. The next generation must not learn this secret which is nicely kept, and for the sole purpose of keeping a few people in control, not of one country but of the world. And this may seem fantastic but it is absolutely true. As pawns in a game, they move the men, or the pieces, and wars appear. It is because war is the best money making convenience there is. More money is made through wars for those in control than anything else. The reasons of course are always, "We fight a war for democracy", but it is fighting to put money into the pockets of a few. And then he went on to reveal the attempt in 1857 of the Rothschild family.

"Their grip was so powerful in America and their greed so great, that they planned the actual possession of the Nation. It came about in the following manner. The marriage of Lenora, daughter of Lionel, to her cousin Alfonso of Paris, was the occasion which brought the members of the family, and other great personages, together in London.

"Disraeli, the noted English Statesman, was there and, according to at least one historian, made a most audacious speech, a part of which, it is reported, was as follows: 'Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild, a name famous in every capital in Europe and every division of the globe. If you like we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James, and one for you, Lionel. Napoleon will do exactly, and all that I shall advise him, and to Bismarck will be suggested such an intoxicating program as to make him our abject slave.'

"The plot was laid by the internationalists, to repossess, divide, exploit and plunder the United States. Subsequent events clearly indicate that the plot was planned and put into effect. Judah P. Benjamin, a Rothschild relative, it is reported, was appointed by the Rothschilds, professional agitator and campaign strategist in America. The Civil War, which all but split the Union, became a fact."

So we have looked upon these things as something which sprang up for certain reasons, but the thing behind it every time was money. And he brings out in here that one of the greatest men of all times was Abraham Lincoln. He is down in our history books as a great man, and if you read this book you will agree that he is far greater than anyone imagined. He gave his life for this cause. It was not a struggle for anything but money.

"Napoleon III was persuaded that he could greatly increase the power and wealth of France by extending his empire to Mexico. England was assured that the Northern States could be made a Colony once more. The slave problem was, as we have seen, an economic problem. The Civil War was an economic war—as most wars are. The Northern States had voluntarily freed their slaves and found, as the Founding Fathers feared, that they could not compete, industrially and economically with the southern states.

“Abraham Lincoln was a true Statesman—a humanitarian and an idealist. He was profoundly sincere in his desire to free the people. He was also profoundly concerned about America's future, realizing, as he said: 'No nation can long endure half free and half  slave.'

“Rothschild money flowed into the South, and a loan of 201,000,000 francs was granted by them to Napoleon for his Mexican campaign. Napoleon was offered Texas and Louisiana in exchange for French intervention against the Northern States. When the Czar of Russia heard of this he notified France and England that should they extend military aid to the South it would be regarded as a declaration of war against Russia." Everybody had their hand in it. "To strengthen his statement he sent warships to New York and San Francisco and placed them at Lincoln's disposal. But the North was facing extreme difficulty in financing the war. The interest rate set by the banks was 28%.

"At the outset it was expected that the conflict would last but a few months, which probably would have been the case had the European nations, at the instigation of the Rothschilds, not come to the assistance of the South. In his extremity Lincoln did a very wise thing. He turned to the Constitution of the United States"—and remember that that has been in the Constitution; the solution to that particular thing, to all of this, has been in the Constitution ever since it was created—“and sure enough, there he found the solution to the nation's financial problem. The bankers and their hirelings, of course, fought Lincoln bitterly when he declared his intention to issue money according to the provisions of the Constitution. They disapproved of the idea of creating money which did not pay them interest.

"Lincoln held his ground. Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 5 was sufficient authority for him to disregard the powerfully entrenched bankers. He did not believe that the Constitution meant 'Banker' where it states: 'Congress' shall have power to coin money...' So, in spite of the greedy bankers' protests he caused to have printed in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving a total of $450,000,000 of honest money, Constitutionally created on the credit of the nation. The outraged bankers got busy. They caused a Bill to be passed through Congress which ruled that 'Lincoln Greenbacks'—as the United States Notes were, in derision, called—would not be accepted in payment of interest on government bonds nor for import duties. In this way they caused them to become almost worthless, because they could refuse to accept them, unless at a discount. The bankers beat the value of the 'Greenbacks' down to about 30 cents on the dollar, and then brought them in—the King Midas touch was applied and they were then used, at face value, to buy Government Bonds at par, a neat profit of 70 cents on the dollar accruing to the Shylocks.

"The patriotic, Constitutional act of President Lincoln in issuing 'Greenbacks' caused a furor in the banking circles of the world. Regarding this policy, an editorial in the London Times (which, like most other metropolitan papers, was dominated by the banking interests) said: 'If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in the North American Republic, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe." This is quoted from the London Times.

"Hurriedly the bankers held a convention in Washington. They evidently found many vulnerable Senators and Congressmen there. The National Bank Act of 1863 was drafted. There were willing hands across the sea to assist them in fighting to gain control of the Nation's money. From London came 'The Hazard Circular'—to be distributed among the banking fraternity here. It reads as follows: 'Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power. This I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European Plan, led by England, is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages. The great debt that Capitalists will see to it is made out of the war must be used to control the value of money. To accomplish this government bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are now waiting for the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to make that recommendation.''It will not do to allow greenbacks to circulate as money for any length of time as we cannot control that. But we can control the bonds and through them the banking issues.' The National Bank Act became law by an act of a servile Congress over President Lincoln's strong protest.

"Two very revealing letters, which show how a banker's mind works, and which also indicate the enormity of their well laid plot against America through the National Banking Act, reads: (This is by the Rothschild Brothers.) 'A Mr. John Sherman has written us from a town in Ohio as to the profit that may be made in the National Banking business, under a recent act of your Congress. Apparently this act has been drawn up on the plan formulated here and by that Association recommended to our American friends, as one that, if enacted into law, would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout the world.'"

And on it goes with other letters. He quotes excerpts from letters from true men. Always with respect to every one of these true—patriots isn't the word actually, but—men of God, there was the perception to see beneath that which was going on, and this greed for wealth was recognized, and Lincoln most certainly had that perception.

"It is quite obvious that by the provisions of the National Banking Act there was placed in the hands of the bankers the power not only to get money for nothing, with which to start a bank, but also the power to create propitious conditions whereby rich harvests could be reaped on the stock market as well as through foreclosing upon the real property placed in their hands by those who borrowed money or credit from the bankers." He gives many figures and he has a chapter here on Silver Demonetized.

"The Rothschilds succeeded in having silver demonetized in England as a base upon which currency could be issued. Gold was made the only base for the issuance of paper money. They and their stooges in America decided, in 1872, to have silver demonetized in the United States. This was desirable to the Rothschilds because England had very little silver, but much gold, while America had much silver and very little gold. The bankers on both sides of the Atlantic knew that so long as currency was based on silver in America they could not obtain absolute control of the money system in this nation." And so they had a plot here. "'A Bill to Reform Coinage and Mint Laws,' was the title of it. It way very deceiving, and it was at the time of President Grant, and it was proposed by Senator Sherman, and worded thus: 'I rise for the purpose of moving the Senate to proceed to the consideration of the Mint Bill. I will state that this Bill will probably not consume any more time than it takes to read it. It passed the Senate two years ago, after a dull debate. It was taken up in the present house and passed there. It is a matter of vital interest to the government, and I am informed it should pass promptly.'" And with this he sat down and it was regarded as something very unimportant, and the President very unwisely took the word of his colleagues, who had been bribed. It passed, and the Rothschilds had another victory. It vas a very stupid thing on the part of President Grant, but it was not malicious. However, the result was the same. And so the absolute control came into being, because the silver in the nation was worthless. It was not allowed to be used as a basis. And so the Rothschilds again succeeded.

He has a whole chapter on the Federal Reserve; and it carries the name Federal Reserve and it has absolutely nothing to do with the government. It started out that it did, but it is purely a personal thing. With respect to the racket of interest, I will read this short paragraph:

"The Government needs, we will say $1,000,000,000 for its Works Program. Bonds for that amount are printed in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, and as soon as—or even before—they are issued the Federal Reserve Bank, by extending credit to the Government in the amount of the bond issue, buys the bonds. The bonds are carted over to the Federal Reserve vaults, which gives the Government the right to draw checks against the Bank for the amount of the bonds. The Bank, of course, draws interest from the Government (the People) on the billion dollars from the day the bonds are delivered. Then, when the Bank needs new, or more currency, to transact its business, it takes the bonds over to the Treasury for safekeeping and asks the Treasury Department for a billion dollars of new Currency. The cost of printing new currency is on the average, depending an the denomination of the notes, about 27¢ per thousand dollars."

And that is all they pay—the government then pays interest on everything. It goes on to show how the interest on a project undertaken by the government, for instance, Coulee Dam or anything else, the interest far, far exceeds the actual cost of that which is undertaken. It is by comparison almost unbelievable. And this goes to private persons, or groups, and of course, when you get right down to it, the Rothschilds, that international evil. Not exclusively, there are many who have joined them. President Kennedy made a statement that the wealth of this nation is contained within, I think it was 60 families in the United States.

"Abraham Lincoln said: 'I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country: corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggravated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. Government possessing power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest, as the means of financing Governmental work and public enterprise. The Government should create, issue and circulate all currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity.'"

And then this little bit which I just read, where he ended, "...that the republic will be destroyed if it continued in that way." "Shortly after making that prophetic statement which has been all but fulfilled, Abraham Lincoln was shot to death one evening in a darkened theatre, and the people of the nation still wonder who instigated his assassination. It is passing strange, however, that a coded message was found in the trunk of Booth, the assassin, the key to which was discovered in Judah P. Benjamin's possession." Remember I read about him. "Benjamin, you will remember, was the Civil War campaign strategist for the House of Rothschild."

There was one called Abraham in the Bible, and of exactly that same caliber was the one we read about tonight. He gave his life, not because of some prejudice between the North and the South which we have been taught was true. It had nothing to do with it. Remember that these unscrupulous ruthless beings with their animalistic natures, were behind the scenes, looked upon as fine and wonderful because of the wealth which they possess, that Midas touch which he mentioned which seems to impart a air of superiority and something to be looked up to, something fine, when it is utterly filthy underneath. They control, they instigate, deliberately, wars, because of the money which accrues to them. Here they were, behind this assassination of one who saw that deep evil and saw that the solution to it was right there in the Constitution of this which started out as surely a nation of the children of God as any that we ever called the children of Israel. Surely we can see that. Here was something that saw the evils in the world and this international control, and there were those who stood up and said, "If we are to survive, if anything of God is to come on earth there must be that which will see the state of affairs and do something about it," and the means for doing it was there, and Abraham Lincoln did it. But he was alone, or too much alone to let it carry forward. He did not have in those close about him who were to be his nucleus, his Congress and all the rest, enough who could resist the Midas touch, or the self-centered grasping thing. And alone he couldn't do it any more than anyone alone can do it today. This is a worldwide evil thing and it cares for nothing, not for country, not for family, not for anything but money—Mammon.

Without our centering, without our grounding, it can look like there isn't any hope. They can meet anything that is done—so it seems. Lincoln undertook to do something about it. He was in position to do something about it, he was in that place, and he had the means at his hand, and he acted on it. He could not do otherwise, with his integrity. He was a man of God, and the instrument of the Rothchilds killed him.

We have been talking about coming together, the body of Abel; we have been talking about the cyst in the body of God, we have been talking about the body of Cain. It is well established, but it isn't almighty. It has no power actually if there is a body of Abel on earth. If there is no body of Abel it has the power to destroy the whole earth and everything in it. And that is why I shared this with you tonight; first, because it showed me something. It showed me the state of the world, and I didn't of course have time to go into that which would show the way it really works with respect to wars, and how it looks like there is no way out.

There is only one way. All the body of Cain must go. We can't reform that condition, we can't reform that system, it will simply go. How? We don't know. But we can remember the Flaming Sword, something which man cannot control. That was an aspect of something over which man has no control, and this which has built itself up, international control, so that it can move the nations like puppets, thinks that it is almighty, there is nothing higher. Never in the history of the world as man knows it has there been anything so completely in control for selfish gain, the enriching of a few at the misery and suffering of the many.

I didn't have time also to read about the dispossessing of the many people of their homes, their property, deliberately. All of this is taken as collateral and it is entered into the bank books as a deposit, not as a loan, as a deposit. It is an interesting study to see how it has been twisted around and how it is accepted as something absolutely essential. The country could not get along without that system—and everybody believes it! It couldn't possibly, and when Abraham Lincoln tried it, it didn't take long before they could out maneuver him. As was said, boasted by one of the Rothchilds: “Give me control of the money of a country, and I don’t care what laws they make."

We can look at this in the light of the place where we stand and see how absolutely necessary it is that we move right on to the mountain top. We have an opportunity to let the Lord use us to wipe out this evil thing which thinks it can own the world. The national debt at this moment is staggering and it is not just an accident. This is being deliberately manipulated, and one of these international bankers made the boast that before long they can take over the government. If we think it is Russia, or the Communists, or Hitler, or anybody else—these things are used by something far beneath the surface and behind the scenes.

And as I say, anyone not grounded could think, "What could possibly defeat that?" Well, in the world nothing can, because it is all man’s world. One man cannot do it; even Abraham Lincoln couldn't do it without a body to back him up. Surely we can see that. He gave his life for it and he couldn't do anything more than that, but he didn't have a body to back him up. Let us remember that, for we would do anything to let God's world come here on earth. The body of Abel is God's world, it is the Kingdom of Heaven which is at hand. Remember, they are few in number and they control the wealth of the world, and so they think they are masters of all the world. They are still few in number. We are few in number. The medium of exchange in the world is a substitute for that pneumaplasmic substance which comes from God and which can re-create and make new. The New Heaven which creates the New Earth. So, in trusting the Lord and His great power, we are to let that be used so that the one in whose hand it is will find he has a body on earth. Too long the body of Cain has thought everything was just fine. And back there, in those old days, they knew the evil of this thing, of usury, using brothers and sisters, the inhumanity of man to man. And the Master at one point cast out the money changers from the Temple. “Money changers" is a very good term, isn't it? The money changers. The changing of its form into these bits of paper, as we noticed how it evolved over the years. The money changers in the Temple. The casting out of this whole miserable filthy mess. That is why we came into the world.

I have enjoyed sharing this with you tonight. Let us see it as a cause for rejoicing, and remember in the last chapter of this book, in the last book, Revelation, there is the picture of the downfall of Babylon, of that great thing, so-called, which has been built up, and those who did the mourning were those who found that no one bought their goods any more. It is very interesting, in that chapter. They are the ones who do the crying because everything they had was gone, and that day will a come—one way or another—and they will be the ones to mourn and gnash their teeth. And the word of the Lord is, "Rejoice over her, thou saints." Rejoice over the destruction of all of this, for it will and must come. Praise the Lord! It is for us to have no tentacles connected with ourselves in this evil thing.

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