The Hellfire Club and Kubrick

History repeats, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NO HERO

SOURCE: Ashe, Geoffrey (2000). The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-2402 …

Ben Franklin was a very wicked man, that history has been kind to, by omitting his publicly sinful lifestyle.

  1. Franklin was a drunk. He had weekly meetings at a tavern, where he got drunk with several of his associates. Franklin wrote, in a piece called, “The Antediluvians Were All Very Sober,” that “Virtue and Safety in Wine Drinking is found, while all that drink water deserve to be drowned.” Proverb 20:1 states, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
     
  2. Franklin was a whoremonger. Of course, all that drinking can lead to fornication, which Franklin was also very fond of. Not only did Franklin write a letter to a friend on “How to Choose A Mistress,” but he had an illegitimate son. This is strange behavior for a God-fearing “deist.” While in France, he attempted to seduce a married woman who was 40 years younger than himself.
     
  3. Franklin was an occultist, Satanist and indulged in child sacrifice. Franklin attended the drunken, ritual orgies of a secret society called, among other things, the Hellfire Club. They would get drunk, dress prostitutes up like Nuns and have orgies in underground caves, which resembled Black Masses (although they “worshipped” pagan deities Bacchus and Venus). While not actual professed Satanists, their motto Fait ce que vouldras (Do what thou wilt) was later used by Satanist Aleister Crowley.

(SOURCE: Ashe, Geoffrey (2000). The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-2402).

What is most disturbing is that on February 11, 1998 The London Times reported that workmen restoring Benjamin Franklin’s London home dug up the remains of six children and four adults hidden below the home. “Initial estimates are that the bones are about 200 years old and were buried at the time Franklin was living in the house, which was his home from 1757 to 1762, and from 1764 to 1775. Most of the bones show signs of having been dissected, sawn or cut. One skull has been drilled with several holes. Paul Knapman, the Westminster Coroner, said: “I cannot totally discount the possibility of a crime. There is still a possibility that I may have to hold an inquest.”

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