Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi

I made a film 40 years ago on the history of the Statue of Liberty.

It's designed and fabricated by a French sculptor, Bartholdi, in Paris, and it towers over on the Rue de Chelles, the, the rooftops of Paris.

And, uh, Victor Hugo, just a couple moments, uh, from his death, comes to visit it, and he looks at Bartholdi, he looks at the statue, he looks at back at Bartholdi, and he says, "The idea, it is everything." And what we have in the American Revolution is the introduction into the blood system of the human race, this notion of liberty and freedom.

It is true that we can parse it in a purely political or social context and say, "Well, it didn't really do this, it didn't advance, it was more of the same." It's going to be the model, including the French Revolution, model for revolutions for the next 200 plus years.

And in verse 2 she writes... which helps man to find his way through the rocks and sandbanks of life, for Lucifer is the Logos in his highest.

Lucifer, as the guiding beacon, is symbolized by the torch of illumination, one of the key symbols of the Illuminati, representing the illumination of Lucifer, a fact that French Freemason Frederick Bartholdi designer of the Statue of Liberty would have been well aware of.

Gonna pause for a moment here, folks, just to point out the fact.

This was a Freemasonic-produced statue, and they knew full well what it represented when they commissioned this statue and they gave it to America, the new Atlantis.

Will America be behind? At this moment, two American citizens, Shepard and that noble Virginian Morrison, are about to be tried at Boma for telling the truth about the scoundrels.

Morrison in the dock makes a finer Statue of Liberty than Bartholdi's in New York Harbor.

Attempts will be made in America, for the Congo has its paid apologists everywhere.

To pretend that England wants to oust Belgium from her colony and take it for herself.

Mr. Laboulaye, or L, let's call him, uh, for the purpose of this [laughs] trivia.

Uh, Mr. L and, uh, another person whose name I'm gonna probably mispronounce, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.

This is a more famous person, at least I've heard of him, a famous sculptor.

Uh, both of these people were staunch abolitionists- And, uh, in an after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Mr. L, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, said that, "If a monument should arise in the United States as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort, a common work of both our nations," both our nations being United States of America and France.

The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World.

Described by the sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.

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The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World.

Described by the sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.

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