I've blogged about the Red Hat Society and Conical Hats. Today, let's talk about the Phrygian Cap which combines both - spiraling cones, consciousness.

The Phrygian Cap is a soft, red, conical cap with the top pulled forward, worn in antiquity by the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia.

In sculpture, paintings and caricatures it represents freedom and the pursuit of liberty. During the 18th century, the red Phrygian cap evolved into a symbol of freedom, held aloft on a Liberty Pole during the American Revolutionary War.

The cap was especially adopted during the French Revolution, along with other symbols adopted from classical Antiquity. To this day the national emblem of France, Marianne, is shown wearing a Phrygian cap.

The bonnet rouge, which eventually appeared on almost every conceivable manufactured article, made its appearance early in the Revolution, first seen publicly in May 1790, both at a festival at Troyes, adorning a statue representing the nation, and at Lyon, on a lance carried by the Goddess Liberty (Statue of Liberty).

In 1792, when Louis XVI was induced to sign a constitution, popular prints of the king were doctored to show him wearing the bonnet rouge.

The bust of Voltaire was crowned with the red bonnet of liberty after a performance of his Brutus at the Comedie-Francaise in March 1792.



By wearing the red Phrygian cap, the Paris sans-culottes made their Revolutionary ardour and plebeian solidarity immediately recognizable. During the period of the Great Terror, the cap was adopted defensively even by those who might be denounced as moderates or aristocrats and were especially keen to advertise their adherence to the new regime.

The spire (conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building) of the cathedral in Strasbourg was crowned with a bonnet rouge in order to prevent it from being torn down in 1794.

Spires take us us to Spiraling Cones and Gyres and sacred geometry, from which all things are created in the architectural blueprint of our program's design.

Taking this to the Freemasons:

Although the influence of the Masons on the French Revolution of 1789 has been denied by mainstream scholars, it is evident that they exercised an influence on its symbolism.

In France, the intellectual activities of famous Freemasons such as Volaire, Jean-Jasques Rousseau and Montesqieu, contributed to a philosophical movement, referred to as the Enlightenment, which helped to stir resentments that led to the revolution.

The Phrygian cap of the Mithraic mysteries, known as the Bonnet Rouge, became the emblem of the revolutionaries and the Masonic tenets of 'Equality, Liberty and Fraternity', their rallying cry.

HonorŽ Mirabeau, one of the founders of the Revolution, allegedly said when the Bastille was stormed, "The idolatry of the monarchy has received a death blow from the sons and daughters of the Order of the Templars."

This take us to secrets and geometry at Rennes Le Chateau in Languedoc southwestern France, Mary Magdalene, the Blue Apples (apo, alchemy, navy sky, knowledge, DNA, bloodlines), and the movement of the bloodline and codes from Europe to the American Continent linked with secret societies, le Prieure de Sion ... you know the drill !