Mysteries of the Obvious -- Explained!

"Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?"

-- Groucho Marx, You Bet Your Life

In every mystickal Tradition there is a Question at the heart of Mystery; from "Who
serves the Grail?" to "What is the Mason Word?" to "Why has the Bodhi-Dharma left
for the West?" But one Mystery, one Question, lurks beneath and hovers above any
discussion of the secret governance of America, the hidden lords of shadow whose
every whim has become Federal regulation for the past 508 years. The Question
hides in plain sight, a veritable byword for an empty riddle. "Pass me by," it seems
to say, "Go on about your daily quotidian life unconcerned with the True Mysteries."
But it's always worthwhile, when examining a Secret Tradition to ask the Question
that They claim is meaningless -- to ask Who is buried in Grant's Tomb.

"The man used by our Government for years and thousands of cases as their
'Doctor' and 'Expert' on remains was a total FRAUD. He was not a 'Doctor' and the
techniques used by this FRAUD were derided as unscientific and in the words of one
eminent Forensic Anthropologist; 'Disgusting and fraudulent: Voodoo forensics' . . .
. The old joke about 'Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?' is no longer funny. Someone
in Congress has got to make a stand on this issue. The far reaching ramifications
will be felt in the next war. The time is now to act."
-- Maj. Mark Smith (Ret.), "The Remains Charade Is A Fraud"

The question begins with paradox. As a tomb, nobody is buried there -- if Someone
(or Something) lies within, they lie above ground; immured but not inhumed. The
question, then, takes on a newly important cast of meaninglessness -- not only do
we not know that we know Who (or Whom) is buried in Grant's Tomb, we don't even
know that we shouldn't know why we don't know. You know? To ask, then, is the
point of the question -- and precedes even the first of the Great Tasks of the
Magus according to Eliphas Levi, who should know, even though he began the list
with "to know." And not to ask. Consider that carefully; not to ask. If we've learned
anything so far, we've learned nothing. (To know that you know nothing is the
beginning of wisdom, said Socrates, although Eliphas Levi began somewhere
entirely different. Paris, in point of fact.) Thus, Somebody (or Something) deep
within Grant's Tomb doesn't want us to ask.

"GRANT'S TOMB:
A. Kill everyone.
B. Get Green Pendant.
C. Free Alexander Tennent."
-- walkthrough for Bloodnet, from Codebook 3.0 for the Macintosh
And They cover it well, not only with the scrim of inanity that has made asking the
Question a byword for pointlessness, but with other defenses. Consider this: Grant's
Tomb was dedicated on April 27, 1897. The occult and mystical pianist and
composer Alexander Scriabin died on April 27, 1915, screaming in a madhouse
about imaginary tumors killing him (imaginary death -- a proper fate for one linked
to a burial that is not a burial). The New York City (Grant's Tomb is traditionally
located in New York City) poet Hart Crane (the Crane, of course, being the sacred
bird of Hermes, who guides souls to the underworld) suicided on April 27, 1932.
Speaking of sacred animals, April 27 is the day of Tyi Wara, the beast-man who
brought poetry and learning to Mali -- just as Hermes brought it to Greece, or Thoth
(Hermes' twin, whose bird is also a Crane) to Egypt. The web grows tighter, we
measure a circle, as Charles Fort hastens to remind us, beginning anywhere, even
with "to know" or "in Paris." Phil King of the Blue Oyster Cult died on April 27, 1972
(a Biblical forty years after Crane), and to cap it off -- and to demonstrate that They
mean business -- former CIA director William Colby died on April 27, 1996. Is Death
itself buried in Grant's Tomb?

"It sounds a jokey, frivolous question, on a par with 'Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?'
I mean, Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, didn't he?"
-- marketing copy, A Common Reader catalog

Grant's Tomb follows more than one path back to Hermetism. (Do you feel the
spirits of the Merovingian kings hovering around us as we discuss a Tomb famously
findable and famously unfillable -- a mystickal mirror to the Other Tomb, with its
famous occupant, now lost? Do you? Why the heck not?) It sits on Riverside Drive -
- just as the edge of the afterlife sits on the river's side, the River Styx, itself but one
of the rivers of the dead -- the River Lethe conferring forgetfulness, of the type that
might make one ask who is buried in Grant's Tomb. William Colby, of course, died
on a river side; Hart Crane drowned. Fear death by water.

The cross-street for Grant's Tomb at Riverside is 122nd; 122 being the number of
Asmodeus, lord of Hell, demon of the second decanate of Aquarius (water again).
Not to mention that 1+2+2 = 5, and the pentagram of magick. 2930 also adds to 5
(2+9+3+0 = 14 and 1+4 =5), and I hardly need to point out that it's hardly
coincidence that that number is second baseman Rogers Hornsby's lifetime hitting
total. Rogers Hornsby, born exactly one year before Grant's Tomb was dedicated;
the mystickal Moonchild prefiguring the sacred Tomb of the Unknown. Hornsby, who
played primarily for the St. Louis Cardinals -- another secret hint of a sacred tie to a
religious order; and 122nd is also known (near Grant's Tomb) as Seminary. Perhaps
the Tomb hints at the Seminary of St.-Sulpice, shadowy executors of the Rennes-
le-Chateau decretals. (1/22 also being the date that Cleopatra's Needle rose in
Central Park in the palindromic year of 1881.) Did the Prieur?de Sion dedicate
Grant's Tomb to commemorate the final defeat of the Stuart Bloodline at Culloden,
exactly 150 years before Rogers Hornsby's birthday? Does that explain why 150 plus
1434 (the year Ren? d'Anjou, Nautonnier of the Prieur? designed the Cross of
Lorraine) equals 1584, the year that John Dee received the 48 Enochian Keys --
and Rogers Hornsby's lifetime RBI total?

"It was a standing joke at the seminary I attended for students to ask one another:
'Who wrote the epistle of Paul to the Hebrews?' It was admittedly weak humor -- on
a par with 'Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?' But it served to raise a primary question
about Hebrews: who actually wrote this brilliant treatise on the person and work of
Christ that has been a part of our New Testament from the beginning?"
-- Ray C. Stedman, Introduction to Hebrews
But aren't we doing Their work for Them now? Once the Prieur?/i> are involved,
don't we really know Whose Tomb it is? Again, we approach gingerly, fearing the
sound of horns and motors. Rogers Hornsby played one season for the New York
Giants (in the earth in those days), in 1927, his only season in New York City,
location of Grant's Tomb. 19+27 is 46, the number of Levi, the sacred hereditary
priesthood. Grant's Tomb holds a High Priest (perhaps, if it holds one of the Greys
from the 1897 Airship, a very high priest indeed) of the Prieur? perhaps the Highest.
(Remember; Giants plus Cardinals.) During that year, Hornsby scored 133 runs (the
number of the ocean, the ocean that claimed Hart Crane), 26 home runs (A-Z;
completeness, the Alpha and Omega), 205 hits (the mountain; earth plus water --
again, the river's side), 125 RBIs (5 (or 1+2+2) cubed, much as 27 is 3 cubed), and
maintained a .361 average (361 being "Mount Sion" kabbalistically, revealing the
Prieur?/i> yet again). It's obvious that They manipulated Rogers Hornsby's entire
career, Making Manifest That Which Should Be Hidden, and playing a giant game of
misdirection centered squarely (and on the level) upon Grant's Tomb.

"Grant's Tomb is not accessible to the mobility impaired."

-- U.S. Park Service informational pamphlet

An interesting thing about Grant's Tomb. It's made of granite. "Granite," which
sounds a lot like -- "Grant." There's one more peculiar tie to the Tomb and to this
kabbalistic pattern of simultaneous revelation and concealment that swirls around
the Tomb like the interface between water and earth, between life and death,
between Rogers Hornsby and Alexander Scriabin. April 27, 1822, was the birthday of
a figure still steeped in mystery to this day. He changed his name -- for kabbalistic
reasons? We may never know for sure. He was at the center of many vast and
interlocking banking conspiracies -- but died penniless. And yet, his picture adorns
the fifty dollar bill to this day; fifty being the number associated with the mysterious
Annunakim, the precursors of the "giants in the Earth" hinted at by Rogers Hornsby
in the year of Glozel and the Crystal Skull, 1927. Could the mysterious Entity within
Grant's Tomb, the Sacred Focus of Merovingian kabbalah, the slip point between
Making Manifest and What Is Hidden, actually be Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of
the United States of America? If so, it would answer a lot of questions. Or at least
one.

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Article publication date: March 31, 2000

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