Illuminati Bloodlines

 
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Fritz Springmeier, Feb. 10, 1995 
     
 
Chapter 1: THE ASTOR FAMILY 
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 

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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 

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