32nd Degree Mason Robert W. Sullivan IV explains how the Royal Arch of Enoch, a high degree Masonic Ritual developed in France in the 1700s, has had a huge hidden influence on our world. Whitley Strieber calls the Royal Arch of Enoch "one of the deepest, most revealing and most intelligent books about Masonry that I have ever read." Whitley’s special connection to Masonry arises out of his own life in close encounter, and the fact that, as he points out in a number of his books, the visitors used Masonic principles and, in one situation, Masonic ritual in their relationship with him.
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Persistent rainfall and flooding across the central US is being caused by an unusual condition in the jet stream that has meteorologists scratching their heads. Normally in midsummer, the jet stream rises to the north and becomes weaker, flowing over central Canada and occasionally dipping down into the US, bringing outbursts of summer thunderstorms with it. This year, however, it has been acting in an erratic manner. In June, it looped high into the arctic, bringing record temperatures to Alaska and Siberia and accelerating summer ice melt dramatically. Then it dropped further south than usual, the summer melt ended and became normal, but the central US began to experience a cooler and wetter summer. Until August 10, one loop of the stream was stationary over the US midwest.read more

On August 4 rescuers desperately freeing Katie Lenz from her mangled car at an accident site in Missouri were astonished when a priest who had come to offer comfort suddenly seemed to disappear. Now a priest whose face closely matches that of that of an artists’ impression of the mystery man has come forward and identified himself as the priest who stopped to reassure the rescuers and give comfort to the woman trapped in the damaged car. According to a press release from the Diocese of Jefferson City, he is Father Patrick Dowling, a Diocesan Priest.
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