The original founder of the Astor fortune was John Jacob Astor (1763-1884). John Jacob Astor was
born in Walldorf, Duchy of Baden (Germany) from a Jewish bloodline. The Jewish origins have been
hidden, and quite a number of various ideas of the Astor’s heritage have been put into circulation by
the Astors. John Jacob Astor was a butcher in Walldorf. In 1784, he came to America after a stop
over in London, England. Although the story is that he came to America penniless--and that may be
true--he soon joined the Masonic Lodge, and within 2-3 years had become the Master of the Holland
Lodge No. 8 in N.Y. City. (This Holland Lodge is a prominent lodge in that many of its members
have good connections to the Illuminati elite. An example of just one Lodge #8 member is Archibald
Russell, 1811 - 1871, whose father was President of a real hotbed of Illuminati action for many years:
The Royal Society of Edinburgh).

By 1788, Astor was a master of masonic lodge#8. This is rather interesting considering Astor could
not speak Englishwhen he arrived in America, and supposedly was very poor. John Jacob Astor was
always very famous for being coldhearted, anti-social, “a man who didn’t have charm, wit or grace.”
(This quote comes even from a relative of the DuPont family who wrote a sympathetic Biography
entitled The Astor Family.) If this man lacked social graces and was so cold, and was so poor
during his first years in the U.S., why did he rise to such prominence in Freemasonry? Certainly not
because of his social graces. For instance, one time later in life at a meal given for elites, when his
hands got dirty at the table he reached over and used the shirt of the man beside him to wipe
his hands. The original financial break came by carrying out a series of shady and crooked real estate
deals in the N.Y. city area.

The next breakcame when two men who are now known to have been in the Illuminati gave John
Jacob Astor a special government privilege. The two men were Pres. Jefferson and Secretary
Gallatin--both Illuminati members. The United States government had placed an embargo on all U.S.
ships from sailing with goods in 1807. But Astor got special permission from these two men for his
ship to sail with its cargo. His ship sailed and made close to a $200,000 profit in that day’s money.
Astor strangely profited greatly from the War of 1812, which crippled almost all the other American
shippers. Astor also worked together with George Clinton, another member of the Illuminati, on
land deals. Even at that period in history, British intelligence worked for the Committee of 300 and
for the Thirteen Top Families, it is interesting then, that John Coleman who had access as an
intelligence agent to secret documents, discovered that the original John Jacob Astor was also a
British secret agent. The Thirteen Families have very intimate roles with the American and British
intelligence cults.

Prior to 1817, John Jacob Astorentered into the fur trade and remained the biggest player in the fur
tradeuntil he got out of it in 1834. Over the years, he had managed to build up a monopoly. How he
managed to push everyone else out is a good question.

Bear in mind, white people had been trapping furs in the New World for several centuries, and the
Indians for who knows how long. Then this guy Astor comes along and in a few years totally owns
the whole industry! Again this could only have happened, because the occult power of this Astor
family gave them the right. Obviously, others in the Committee of 300 had to step aside, if his
position in the hierarchy had not given Astor the right, believe me the other families that originally
controlled the fur trade would have gotten rid of Astor. One result of his fur company, was
that Astoria, OR was created. Today, perhaps in honor of the family that originally took interest in it,
Astoria is a real hot-bed for the secret Satanic covens in Oregon. John Jacob Astor did have a few
helpful connections. Three of his relatives were captains on clipper ships. He had connections in
London to the Backhouse family. He married a Todd, a family frequently associated with Satanism.
His wife, a Todd, was also connected to the influential Brevoort family. And finally for some reason,
John Jacob Astor was also on good relations with the politicians of the day, perhaps because most of
them were Freemasons too.

For a few years John Jacob Astor had participated in the opium trade, but in 1818-he publicly quit
running opium to China. John Coleman in his good book The Conspirator’s Hierarchy: The Story
of the Committee of 300, p. 131 notes, “John Jacob Astor made a hugh fortune out of the China
opium trade .... it was the Committee of 300 who chose who would be allowed to participate in the
fabulously lucrative China opium trade, through its monopolistic BEIC, and the beneficiaries of their
largess remained forever wedded to the Committee of 300.” Interestingly another Top 13 family, the
Russells, was also one of the lucky ones to get a slice of the China opium trade. It is clear
repeatedly from history that Astor was privy to inside information in the government, and maintained
his own courier system. John Jacob Astor bought up large amounts of land in NY which land greatly
increased in value. The Financial Panic of 1837 allowed him to foreclose on a large number of
mortgages. John Jacob Astor’s wealth continued to skyrocket. As one biography said, “When it came
to a question of principle versus profit,Astor was a practical man.” Put simply, he had no scruples.
Astor had a reputation for being a ruthless landlord. He also had the reputation of not paying his
legitimate debts. Astor became a banker, and sat on the board of 5 directors of the new national bank
that Hamilton created for the U.S. government called the Bank of the United States. Astor owned a
large block of the stock of the Bank of the United States. Astor also was fairly active
during his life as a Freemason, holding several more key positions in the secret lodge life. John Jacob
was the richest man in the United States. Note this reference. Meyers, Gustavus. History of the Great
American Fortunes. London: Stationers Hall, 1909, p. 147 said, “Statistics issued in
1844 of manufacturers in the United States showed a total gross amount of $307,196,844 invested.
Astor’s wealth, then, was one-fifteenth of the whole amount invested throughout the territory of the
United States...” Is having 1/15th of all of what American money is invested not rich? John Jacob
Astor’s descendents had a penchant for secrecy, and set up things to rule from behind the scenes. In
contrast, to some of the other top families, the Astors perferred not to sit on boards of corporations
they controlled. In 1890, a real estate expert calculated the Astors owned 1/20 of New York
City real estate. After making their fortune while residing in the New York area, the Astors by and
large have all gone to England. They still wield great financial power in the United States through
proxies. Forum Magazine, Nov. 1889, commented that authorities estimated the Astors were
worth $300,000, but that that figure had to be an underestimate. Today, my estimate of the Astors is
that they are worth about 40 billion dollars. One of the many foundations that the Astors created was
the Vincent Astor Foundation, which is controlled from England by the Astors and has in the
range of $100 million tax exempt dollars. The Vincent Astor Foundation has typically given to
Catholic and Episcoplian needs, among other things. They also give money to agencies opposed to
private ownership of guns. They give money to NY’s public library. Imagine how much influence
that gives them, when the library is receiving regular help for general support? A 1971 Foundation
Directory stated that the V. Astor foundation had its present emphasis on preventing juvenile
delinquency. Why don’t I trust the Astor’s in helping out with law enforcement? The William
Waldorf Foundation states that its purpose is ‘Promotion of mutual understanding and the diffusion of
knowledge and culture among the United States and the dominions, colonies, and countries of the
British Commonwealth.’ This sounds very similar to the public statement of purpose that the secretive
Pilgrim Soc. has given out to those who need something about them.

Assets for this foundation are a mere $64,000. Vincent Astor (now deceased) was a member of 41 private clubs, To give an idea of
how much power just one of the many Astor men wield some of the businesses Vincent was involved
include:
director- American Express Company dir. Atlantic Fruit and Sugar Co.
dir. Chase Manhattan Bank (of the Rockefellers)
dir. City and Suburban Homes Co.
dir. Classical Cinematograph Corporation
dir. Cuban-Dominican Sugar Co. dir. Great Northern Railroad
dir. Ill. Central Railroad
dir, Inter. Mercantile Marine Co. dir. National Park Bank of NY
dir. NY County Trust Co.
dir. Weekly Publications Inc.
dir. Western Union Telegraph trustee NY
Zoological Soc.advisor to Bankers Trust of NYmember Amer. Museum of Nat. Hist. member Nat.
Instit. of Soc. Sciences(notice these last two like so many elite controlled organizations are heavily
involved in the spread of the evolution theory.)
Just like the Rothschilds, DuPonts, and Rockefellers, the Astors always set one of their Astor males
as the head of the entire family. This headship is passed down as a birthright within the different
branches of the family, just as any King passes on his throne. On the corner of 33rd St. and 5th
Ave. (the site later began the site of the Empire State Building) the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
was built by William Waldorf, et. al. The hotel opened in Mar. 1893. It is described as ‘the ultimate in
snob appeal.’ Later two Astor cousins built the Astoria (another even taller elite Hotel) in New York
which opened in 1897. Of course, like many of the other elite famIlies, the Astors have theIr Maine
property to get away and relax. In 1894, John Jacob wrote a novel A Journey in Other Worlds where
he describes a society which operates on the idea of conserving energy. Strange how the elite likes to
promote conservation among us ‘cattle.’ In the late 1800’s, the Illuminati began to reconfigure its
outward face. The higher levels started creating innocent sounding cover organizations to hide their
meetings behind. In 1901, the Astors contributed toward the creation of the Pilgrim Society, which
was the cover organization for Amer. & Brit. 6° Princes of the Illuminati. I believe at least five Astors
are now members of the Pilgrim Society. The Pilgrims had recently included David Astor, John Jacob
Astor 8th, and William Waldorf Astor 3rd. And during the 1970s, Baron Astor of Hever was the
President of the London branch of the Pilgrims. This implies that Astor of Hever was at least the
next level up in the chain of command.
The Astors also have been veryprominent in the Group’ which is Britian’s equivalent to the Skull &
BonesSoc. In Britain, the Astor, along with about 20 other families dominate the Group, just as
certain families like the Whitneys in the U.S. help dominate the Order of Skull & Bones. Again, as
was earlier pointed out, the key to understanding Satanism is the bloodlines. In 1910, the muscle and
bone branches of the Illuminati reconfigured themselves with the creation of the Round Table
groups in 1910. The Astors were the part of the financialbackers behind the Round Table groups
along with Abe Bailey. Rhodes and Milner were key players is setting up The Society of the Elect, a
supersecret top circle of Illuminati. Rhodes Trust in part helped by the Astor, helps finance the
Rhodes Scholarship system. Rhodes a high ranking Freemason wanted the Masonic clap-trap as part
of these various new groups, but Milner and Brett did away with the Masonic rituals and costumes,
etc.

In 1919, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) was created. And the Astors were the
major financial backers of the RIIA which functions as the 4° cover of the Illuminati. For those who
are new to this, the RIIA is the British equivalent to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which
takes a major role in the policy making process in the U.S. Waldorf Astoria was appointed to the
RIIA. Just above the CFR/RIIA are round table groups which were initially named by Cecil Rhodes
as the “Association of Helpers”. Cecil Rhodes set up the Rhodes Scholarships to recruit and bring top
men from several nations to Oxford to be initiated into the Illuminati and to learn about how to bring
in a One-World-Government, So the initialselection into the Rhodes program--ist degree of the
Illum.- is equivalent to the initiation into the Skull & Bones. In the picture you see how the
Cliveden Astors were intimately connected to the Rhodes Scholars. Rhodes Scholars frequently went
to the Cliveden Estate. By looking at the genealogy chart you can see how the family in London
broke up into two powerful segments. One part centered around the Cleveden Estate. Another
group became Barons-the Astors of Hever - or the Hever Astors for short. William Waldorf Astor
owned the Pall Pall Mall Gazette, the Observer, and the Pall Mall Magazine. The London Times was
largely controlled by the Astors, and since 1922 they have owned this major source of British news.
The DuPonts and the Rockefellers also have some major businesses where they too own blatant large
holdings. However, most of the wealth of the 13 Top families is hidden so that the ties to who owns it
are difficult to track. Hoyt Ammidon has been a proxy for Vincent Astor and the other Astors. (See
membership list of Illuminati in this newsletter). The Astor family also used Owen Lattimore as their
proxy for opium trade, who in turn used Laura Spelman who was funded by the Institute for Pacific
Relations (IPR).

The lPR was the group that supervised the Illuminati’s decision to allow Red China to share in the
Opium trade. The puppet strings behind big world events may not be seen by the public, but if we
trace the origins of several big events we see the Astors helping pull strings. The IPR helped lay the
groundwork for the Pearl Harbor attack. The Astors also were behind the appeasement policy
in Europe which allowed Hitler to become a threat. The Astors were also involved in the temperence
movement against alcoholic drink which was begun by the Women’s Christian Temperence Union.
The temperence movement was an elite created movement just like today we have big issues like
Aparteid which are made up by them to keep us busy. Joseph Kennedy and Onassis, two other top 13
Illuminati families got rich off of the temperence movement by bootlegging. So many people have
exposed the temperence movement (See Occult Theocracy for just one expose of Freemasonry’s
involvement) that it is not pertinent to cover it here.

Today’s equivalent of the temperence movement is the drug war. Col. Jack Astor, one of the world’s
most powerful men, was among those who went down with the Titanic. To his honor, he didn’t have
to sacrifice his life, but did. If he had been a scoundrel he could have chased a woman and her
children from some lifeboat. Many sermons have been preached on the significance of the Titanic,
and I personally am beginning to feel that God laid it on the hearts of so many of his ministers to
understand that the Titanic was a judgment upon the pride of the world. More specifically it
was a warning to the New World Order’s elite. Another Illuminati invention was Communism. This
has been so thoroughly documented I don’t know why I have to state it here, except that there are still
people who haven’t taken the time to study it out. James II. Billington’s book Fire In the Minds of
Men - a very scholarly work, and Occult Theocracy are some good starting points to study this. The
Fabian Society was also connected to the Illuminati. For instance, Illuminati prince Prof. George
Edward Gordon Catlin, Pilgrim Soc. member was a member of the Fabian Society’s executive
committee. The Fabian logo is a Wolf in Sheep’s clothing!!

Fabians like H.G. Wells who wrote so eloquently on the New World Order with such books as The
New World Order, A Modern Utopia, The Open Conspiracy Blue Prints For A World Revolution was
a wolf in sheep clothing. H.G. Well’s made the New World Order something that sounded
advantageous to everyone, a Utopia of sorts. That is not what it will be. During the 1930’s, the Fabian
Socialists created the Political and Economic Planning group (PEP). Mason Viscount Waldorf Astoria
was a leader of PEP. A confidential program that the PEP created and implemented through the
British government was later described in a book Principles of Economic Planning in 1935. The book
doesn’t explain why its cover has a ostentious Masonic square and compass displayed on its cover.
George Berhard Shaw, who was a communist and Fabian Socialist was the best friend of Lady Nancy
Astor, who became the first woman Member or Parliment. These two spend vast amounts of time
together, much more than Nancy did with her husband Waldorf who she didn’t care to be around.
Waldorf was the Mason that was mentioned earlier who helped lead PEP. After Nancy Astor was
elected (or selected by the elite) to be the first lady MP, one of the Russell ladys soon afterwards also
became an MP.


Communism pretends it is the enemy of the rich capItalists, but both the rich elite and the communist
leaders are committed to wipe out Christianity, to wipe out free trade with monopolies, and to set up
an Illuminati One-World-Government. Do you see they have similar goals? A picture is included of
Waldorf and Nancy Astor’s visit to Russia during the 1930s. The Astors were not treated like enemies
but like royalty. Can we see how the elite controlled press have deceived us? Do not trust our
Illuminati-controlled elite to protect us from communism, they control communism. Besides
socialism, Nancy Astor was a big supporter of Christian Science. Christian Science was a front for
witchcraft from Its very beginning. For more information on what Christian Science is about I suggest
people study Be Wise As Serpents, chapter 2.6 ‘The Healing Light”. Nancy Astor wrote The Natural
History of the Vampire and a book on the early Mason/Communist Bakunin. She used Grenfell
family papers. The Grenfell family were close friends to the Cliveden Astors. David Astor,
(The Honorable) attended Bilderberger meetings in 1957 and 1966. Alpha Lodge is the lodge in
England that is traditionally for royalty. There are other elite lodges too, where the those of the elite,
can protectthemselves from rubbing shoulders with those of less social stature. These are the type of
masonic lodges that the Astors Join.

In summary, an examination of the Astor family reveals their close connections with the full spectrum
of Illuminati activities ranging from Freemasonry, the Illuminati itself, the Pilgrim Society, the Round
Tables, Communism, Fabian Socialism, CFR, RIIA. the Bilderbergers, as well as the various
politically (that is Illuminati) tainted banks such as Chase Manhattan. Ava Alice Muriel Astor was an
occultist. She was born in 1902, was pretty but also a very serious woman. She was a very strong
willed person that was able to dominate a person in her presence unless they were also strong willed.
She was into Egyptian magic and believed she was the reincarnation of an Egyptian princess and a
disciple of Ikhnaton. Alice Astor may have been one of the first people to enter King Tut’s tomb,
where she got herself a necklace. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as a picture of things that
were to come --most people think as a expose, but it was really more as a plan or blueprint Aldous
Huxley and Alice did a great deal of occult things together. Their financial power is unchecked.
Myers and others have noted the Astors are above the law. The Top 13 families don’t obey the law--
they are the law. The Astors may have Illuminati Kings and Princes in their ranks, they may have
dozens of billions of assets, yet it will all be nothing when they face their Creator at judgment.


One of the items that I felt I should have given the readers back in the 1/1/93 issue was the Masonic
background of John Jacob Astor (1763-184. For the record here is his masonic involvement:
Master of the Holland Lodge No.8, of N.Y.C.-1788
Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of New York-1796-1801
Junior Grand Warden on two occasions-1796 & 1801
Secretary of the comamandery (then called encampments).
For a busy man, he kept himself busy In his Masonic work.

Stay safe and stay healthy,
Where We Go One We Go All.