ParaPower Mapping

In the third installment of The Secret History of MasSUSchusetts and the second part of our Historical Materia Ultima miniseries, we continue our mapping of the New England node of the transatlantic Rosicrucian and alchemical brotherhood that initiated the colonization, enslavement, & transmutation of America.

The sundry foci of this EP:

Slave-owning ministers & congregants of King’s Chapel; the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the colonizing and plantation-owing arm of the Anglican Church; shitty modified baptismal rites; John Winthrop Jr.’s tutelage of George Starkey; the 17th century obsession with social-reforming “utopias”; Winthrop Jr.’s relationship w/ Jan Comenius; his John Dee fandom and library; his uncle Emmanuel Downing’s push for the enslavement of indigenous Americans; John Winthrop Sr.’s bloody rule of MA during the Pequot War and the fact that the Mystic Massacre cleared the land for Winthrop Jr.’s alchemical plantation; John Winthrop Sr.’s membership in the General Court that drafted the MA Body of Liberties, the first legal document in New England, which legalized slavery...

...John Locke’s secret Rosicrucian triumvirate w/ Isaac Newton & Robert Boyle, his hypocritical investments in Companies & employment by Councils directly responsible for creating the slavery economy, and the justifications for slavery in his “liberal” political theories; Newton’s millenarian interpretations of the Book of Revelation; alchemical & Rosicrucian philosophies reifying social hierarchies...

...the Templar origins of England’s Inns of Court barrister society, and the Inner Temple & Gray’s Inn’s connections to Rosicrucianism through Winthrop Jr. & Francis Bacon (+ the Order of the Pegasus); Hospitallers, fighting monks, and Wat Tyler’s Rebellion; Winthrop's education there, and alchemical experiments...

...alchemical ciphers; Winthrop’s search for legit Rosicrucians & pilgrimage to Constantinople; Winthrop Jr.’s alchemical economic development of New England, including its first ironworks, salt works, etc.; pansophic & millenarian attempts to convert Native Americans; the divine nature of salt; Winthrop’s Eurotrip and a shit ton of alchemists named Johann; Moraien’s “universal menstruum” and his beef w/ Descartes; Glauber’s salt; animist metallurgical beliefs and spiritual alchemical allegories that Winthrop used to justify Native conversion & colonization; thiccccccc deposits of limonite; makin’ money in the Enlightenment; Winthrop’s connection to slave-trading Gov. Endecott...

...the saga of Thomas Morton; John Adams, J. Quincy Adams, & Thomas Jefferson's interest in Morton; Morton's arms-trading with local Ninnimissinuok; his friendly relations w/ his indigenous neighbors; his matriculation in the Inns of Court; work on behalf of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, anti-Puritan royalist; his frontier rager & the infamous maypole; a comparative religious & literary analysis of Hawthorne’s “The May-pole at Merry Mount” by way of J.G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough; May Day, Lord of Misrule, Beltane, wicker men; the Lord & Lady of the May; the quasi-Oedipal story of Attis & Cybele; Bacchanalia; Saturnalia; dick sacrifices; Morton’s poem to Hymen; Midsummer (& Midsommar); St. John’s Eve; Myles Standish's attack on Merry Mount; Morton's arrest and marooning on the Isle of Shoals; and much more.

A list of all the texts, research papers, & articles referenced will be uploaded w/ notes on Substack or Patreon at a later date.

Songs: 

| Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel ~ “White, White Dove” |

| The Wizard of Oz ~ “Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead” |

| Nina Simone ~ “Four Women” |

| Barney & Friends ~ “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” |

| Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) ~ Midsommar (Mushrooms & The Maypole Queen Dance Scene) |

| Leonard Cohen ~ “Dress Rehearsal Rag” |

The second episode of ParaPower Mapping continues our investigation of The Secret History of MasSUSchusetts and kicks off a mini-series within the series, throughout which we will map the New England node of a transatlantic alchemical & Rosicrucian brotherhood that set the English colonization of America in motion, founded plantations & settlements patterned after alchemical "utopian" visions, and pushed for the colonies to institute slavery in the service of "economic development".

Episode II includes: Protestant eschatological schemes of world domination; accompanying philosophies such as millenarianism and pansophism; the life of Jan Comenius; some basic Christian alchemical terminology; the archwizard John Dee, his plans for a Protestant British global empire, his Arthurian justifications for colonizing the New World, his influence on American alchemists like John Winthrop Jr., & his belief that his work was inspired by angels (perhaps he was wrong… and he was conversing with demons instead); the relationship between Francis Bacon & John Dee and their influence on Rosicrucianism; a discussion of the Rosicrucian manifestos Fama Fraternitatis, Confessio, & The Chymical Wedding; the Invisible College/ Royal Society; a ton of Rosicrucian Enlightenment figures, such as Isaac Newton, Elias Ashmole, Michael Maier, Samuel Hartlib & the Hartlib Circle, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Robert Boyle, Robert Fludd; the introduction of American alchemists like John Winthrop the Younger & George Starkey; the odyssey of Scottish alchemist Alexander Seton, who toured Europe performing the transmutation of metals into gold; the Rosicrucian royals Frederick & Elizabeth of Bohemia and their brief reign prior to the Thirty Years War; connections between Rosicrucianism and speculative Scottish Freemasonry; the Ancient & Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis (AMORC); a possible voyage to Massachusetts by the Scottish Sinclair family (who are connected to the Templars, Rosicrucianism, & Freemasonry) and a Venetian prince named Zeno; Puritan and Protestant practitioners of Cabala, alchemy, and magic; the prevalence of the occult in colonial New England and Puritan interpretations of Biblical magic; various judges of the Court of Oyer & Terminer from the Salem Trials & their connections to alchemy & witches; Col. Israel Stoughton, father-in-law of alchemist George Starkey, and his involvement in the Pequot War and the enslavement of Native Americans and connections to the slave-trading Endecott family; Cotton Mather's interests in astrology, bibliomancy, and Cabala; the Harvard alchemical curriculum and various Ivy League practitioners of alchemy; the Pequot War; John Winthrop Jr.’s alchemical plantation in Connecticut; a psychogeographic history of King’s Chapel and the King’s Chapel Burying Ground; the podcaster's uncanny experience photographing the tombstone of the Winthrop family tomb in the King's Chapel Burying Ground and a blue orb appearing; evidence from Levenda for a Massachusetts curse; the beginnings of a thesis of the alchemical transmutation of America into a land of unbridled profits for the capitalist ruling elite; etc. 

Some of the texts cited in this episode: 

| Dame Frances Yates - The Rosicrucian Enlightenment & The Occult in the Elizabethan Age |

| Peter Levenda - Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft |

| Jason Louv - John Dee and the Empire of Angels |

| Steven Sora - Rosicrucian America |

| D. Michael Quinn - Early Mormonism and the Magic World View |

| Lewis Putnam Turco - Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England & New England |

| Walter H. Woodward - Prospero’s America: John Winthrop Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture |

Songs:

| XTC - Human Alchemy |

| Wheel of Fortune (Australia) - Theme from 1981 - 1985 |

| Boldy James (Prod. Alchemist) - Pinto |

| The Sugarcubes - Dear Plastic |

| Cathedral - Alchemist of Sorrow |

In the first episode of ParaPower Mapping, we introduce the topics of this initial series: a secret history of the occult in colonial New England, the influence of fraternal secret societies on the Sons of Liberty/ American independence movement, and the formation of the Massachusetts mercantile & textile dynasties that would wield considerable power and influence over American affairs—whether at home or abroad—in the early days of the republic and the lead up to the Civil War. Over the course of the next 100 minutes, we'll embark on a psychogeographic tour of downtown Boston, exploring the United States' sus origins through famous landmarks and haunted locales, such as the Green Dragon Tavern, the Union Oyster House, the Boston Massacre Site, the Parker House hotel, and King's Chapel Burying Ground. We'll discover the outsized importance that some of these sites had for the power elite of their day, numerous uncanny synchronicities linking some of the darkest moments of American history (from the Salem Witchcraft Trials all the way to 11/22/63 and the assassination of JFK), and all kinds of unexpected weirdness along the way. We'll learn how the Parker House, the longest running hotel in the United States, not only hosted John Wilkes Booth and his brother Edwin 8 days prior to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but was also where Ho Chi Minh learned to bake and Malcolm X worked as a busboy as a young adult...  Not to mention where John F. Kennedy delivered his first "speech" as a little boy, later held his bachelor party, and even announced his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Sources: 

Heaven, By Hotel Standards: The History of the Omni Parker House, 2nd Edition—Susan Wilson 

Omni Parker House: A Brief History ~ https://web.archive.org/web/20121015123231/http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/~/media/Images/hotels/bospar/pdf/bospar_history%20book%20pages%20pdf.ashx 

Caleb Cushing Papers: Finding Aid from Library of Congress— https://findingaids.loc.gov/exist_collections/ead3pdf/mss/2000/ms000002.pdf Salem Witch Museum: King’s Chapel Burying Ground— https://salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/kings-chapel-burying-ground/ 

Salem Witch Museum: Artists and the Witch Trials— https://salemwitchmuseum.com/online-exhibit/ 

Old Corner Bookstore: The Freedom Trail Website— https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/trail-sites/old-corner-bookstore 

King’s Chapel and King’s Chapel Burying Ground— https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/trail-sites/kings-chapel-kings-chapel-burying-ground 

Boston Common: https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/trail-sites/boston-common 

Ghosts of Boston: Haunts of the Hub— Sam Baltrusis 

Secret Societies of America’s Elite—Steven Sora 

Caleb Cushing wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb_Cushing 

Saturday Club wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Club_(Boston,_Massachusetts) 

James Russell Lowell wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell 

Lowell Family wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_family 

Francis Cabot Lowell wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cabot_Lowell 

Boston Brahmin wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin 

Boston and the Parker house; a chronicle of those who have lived on that historic spot where the new Parker house now stands in Boston— James W. Spring: https://archive.org/details/bostonparkerhous00spri/page/n5/mode/2up?q=Parker+House 

Green Dragon Tavern details: https://www.massar.org/bostons-historic-taverns/ ; http://www.boston-tea-party.org/mystery.html