Between 1827 and 1843, the plans of the conspirators received a temporary setback with the

emergence of the AntiMasonic Party as a national force. This political movement threatened to

expose the entire conspiracy as a Masonic operation. From its outset, the Anti-Masonic Party was

handicapped by its inability to penetrate the shroud of secrecy which veiled every act of the

conspirators. Without direct evidence of this conspiracy which could be presented in court or laid

before the people, they soon lost their popular support. In fact, they were soon infiltrated by the

very conspirators whom they sought to expose, and they were rendered impotent! Albert Pike later

boasted that "The Anti-Masonic Party actually was of great assistance to us." After its dissolution,

Freemasonry never again faced any organized opposition in the entire United States. Those who

mention this subject are quickly discredited as "poor overwrought fools" and paranoid "Know-

Nothings" who see Masons behind every tree. In most cases, they are quickly consigned to the

nearest lunatic asylum, a la Soviet Communism's handling of its "dissidents. "

"Abstract" art was promoted by the Rockefellers because it is the modern depiction of the cults of

the ancient world, principally the demon worship of Baal. These mystical symbols are understood

by only a few cognoscenti, the Gnostics, or knowing ones, who perpetuate the secret organizations

and dabble in their mystical powers. These same symbols are to be seen in the background of many

Renaissance paintings, when Baal-worship was sanitized as "NeoPlatonism." Aby Warburg, of the

Warburg Institute, spent his life studying these occult symbols of the Renaissance, except for a

fortuitous nervous breakdown lasting four years, which kept him out of army service during the

First World War. War burg traced the development by which the classical representation of deities in

art were transformed into occult symbols by the artists of the Renaissance, in which they now

appeared in a demonic mien. War burg was able to trace this symbolism through the emblems

reproduced on heraldry and the costumes used in these paintings. This occult symbolism now is the

mainstay of the modern "abstract" school of painting.