Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

Torch races have a pagan origin. The Hephestia was an “Athenian festival in honour of Hephaistos, the Greek Vulcan, in which races were run with lighted torches, handed from one to another.” Also the Prometheia was a “festival held at Athens in honour of Prometheus, in which a torch race was run, from the belief that Prometheus stole fire from heaven, and hence was called the torch-bearer.” “Torch races date back to the ancient Greeks. A sanctuary in Olympia dedicated to the goddess Hestia, sister of Zeus, ‘housed the glowing embers which, every four years, would be fanned into flame by the winning athletes. To preserve the purity and power of the fire, it had to be moved with speed. Soon competitions developed to see which individual or group—a relay—could move the torch the fastest. The winner won the honor of lighting the fire in the name of the patron deity of the city.’” As just mentioned, the Statue of Liberty also holds a torch in her hand. It’s no surprise to learn that the Masons gave us this “goddess.”

“Towering above the shimmering but polluted waters, she holds in her outreached arm and hand a torch of fire and light. A gift of the Masonic Order, the modern inheritors of the Illuminati heritage, the Statue of Liberty was sculptured by Frederic Bartholdi, a member of the Masonic Lodge of Alsace-Lorraine in Paris, France. The statue is significant to the secret societies plotting the New World Order.”