In an earlier post, I commented on a possible Spanish/Masonic/Treasure link. This is from my post #335.
"I've wondered about the allegation that the LUE caches were Spanish. I wonder if the LUE map was created by one or more Spaniards. Von Mueller lived during a time, before and during WW II, when Masons were being persecuted by the fascist governments of Europe. The persecution in Spain was brutal. Here's a portion of an article that I posted about that persecution.
Francoist Spain
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It is claimed that the dictator
Miguel Primo de Rivera ordered the abolition of Freemasonry in Spain.
[45] In September 1928, one of the two Grand Lodges in Spain was closed and approximately two-hundred masons, most notably the Grand Master of the Grand Orient, were imprisoned for allegedly plotting against the government.
[46]
Following
the military coup of 1936, many Freemasons trapped in areas under Nationalist control were arrested and summarily killed in the
White Terror, along with members of left wing parties and trade unionists. It was reported that Masons were tortured,
garroted, shot, and murdered by organized death squads in every town in Spain. At this time one of the most rabid opponents of Freemasonry, Father
Juan Tusquets Terrats, began to work for the Nationalists with the task of exposing masons. One of his close associates was Franco's personal chaplain, and over the next two years, these two men assembled a huge index of 80,000 suspected masons, even though there were little more than 5,000 masons in Spain. The lodge building in Cordoba was burnt, the
Masonic Temple of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the
Canary Islands was confiscated and transformed into the headquarters of the Falange, and another was shelled by artillery. In
Salamanca thirty members of one lodge were shot, including a priest. Similar atrocities occurred across the country: fifteen masons were shot in
Logrono, seventeen in
Ceuta, thirty-three in
Algeciras, and thirty in
Valladolid, among them the Civil Governor. Few towns escaped the carnage as Freemasons in
Lugo, Zamora,
Cadiz and
Granada were brutally rounded up and shot, and in
Seville, the entire membership of several lodges were butchered. The slightest suspicion of being a mason was often enough to earn a place in a firing squad, and the blood-letting was so fierce that, reportedly, some masons were even hurled into working engines of steam trains. By 16 December 1937, according to the annual masonic assembly held in Madrid, all masons that had not escaped from the areas under nationalist control had been murdered.
[46]
After the victory of dictator General
Francisco Franco, Freemasonry was officially outlawed in Spain on 2 March 1940. Being a mason was automatically punishable by a minimum jail term of 12 years.
[47] Masons of the 18º and above were deemed guilty of "Aggravated Circumstances", and usually faced the death penalty.
[48]
According to Francoists, the Republican Regime which Franco overthrew had a strong Masonic presence.[
citation needed] In reality Spanish Masons were present in all sectors of politics and the armed forces.
[49] At least four of the Generals who supported Franco's rebellion were Masons, although many lodges contained fervent but generally conservative Republicans. Freemasonry was formally outlawed in the Law for the Repression of Freemasonry and Communism.
[50] After Franco's decree outlawing masonry, Franco's supporters were given two months to resign from any lodge they might be a member. Many masons chose to go into exile instead, including prominent monarchists who had whole-heartedly supported the Nationalist rebellion in 1936. The common components in Spanish Masonry seems to have been upper or middle class conservative liberalism and strong anti-clericism.
[51]
The Law for the Repression of Freemasonry and Communism was not abrogated until 1963.
[50] References to a "Judeo-Masonic plot" are a standard component of Francoist speeches and propaganda and reveal the intense and paranoid obsession of the dictator with masonry. Franco produced at least 49 pseudonymous anti-masonic magazine articles and an anti-masonic book during his lifetime. According to Franco:
[48]
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: masonry and communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.
End of excerpt
I wonder if any of the Spanish Masons went into exile in the United States. Was the LUE map created to give the locations of Spanish wealth that was left in the United States and Mexico?
The treasure hunter, Charles Kenworthy, was also a Mason. He wrote several books describing symbolism to be found at Spanish cache sites in North America. Was there any connection between the information that Kenworthy introduced to the public, and the LUE map?" This is the end of my post #335.
I did a little more research and found that some Spanish Masons did flee to Mexico.
I saw an interview where a treasure hunter related an unconfirmed story that the Masons asked Kenworthy to hold back on some of the symbols that were provided to him. They also asked him to let them know when he found the "bell" symbol at suspected cache sites.
And when I say it looks Masonic, I am referring to the 'map' itself and not any GE images with lines on top, and of course, the author's use of the word Shibboleth.
