Benjamin Franklin

Words / music, vocals, gtrs, drums, synths, electric sitar, mellotron, Jeff Cannata. Piano: Jeff Batter. Lead guitar: Robert Giannotti. Recorded, mixed and video editing, by JC @ Oxford Circus. Mastered by Jay Franco at Sterling Sound, New York.

Footage and credits / ownership to: PBS, Rituals of The Masons, Secrets of the Dead: Ben Franklins Bones, BBC,Time Travelers House,The Rosicrucians, Dublins Hell Fire Club

The genius of Franklin was so overwhelming, and manifested in so many different directions, that no short biography can begin to list his achievements; Printer, author, editor, inventor, scientist, diplomat, speaker, philosopher, politician and Freemason. He was not only the amazing intellect, the Voltaire of Colonial America, but one of the most complex and gifted men of all times.

Benjamin Franklin helped design the occult and mystical Great Seal of the United States, he was a past Grand Master of the Pennsylvania Freemasons as well as a Rosicrucian.

Freemasonry is an initiatory system containing the keys to the ancient mysteries, which are experienced through a series of mystery dramas designed to open up and deepen awareness and understanding.

The Rosicrucians are a community of mystics who study and practice the metaphysical laws governing the universe.The central feature of Rosicrucianism is the belief that its members possess secret wisdom that was handed down to them from ancient times.

One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, he represented the United States in France during the American Revolution, and he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

Franklin was also a member of The Hellfire Club, an 18th-Century Ritual Cult for the Famous and Powerful