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You need to do a bit more research. NOVUS ORDO SECLURUM does not mean "New World Order" (didn't they teach you Latin roots in your courses? We had to struggle through that)
Novus, of course, is the root for new and Ordo is the root for Order, but Seclorum has nothing at all to do with "world".
NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM = New Order of the Ages or "A new era."
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread3931/pg1http://www.electricinca.c(...)us_ordo_seclorum.htmhttp://www.greatseal.com/mottoes/seclorum.htmlNovus ordo seclorus - could be translated as:
"A New Order of the Ages"
A Latin expert translates "Novus Ordo Seclorum"
and shows why it cannot mean "New World Order."
Seclorum means "of the ages" or "of the generations." This is easily seen in the phrase sometimes found at the end of prayers in Latin bibles: "secula seculorum" – forever and ever (literally, "ages of ages"). Seclorum (seculorum, saeculorum, saeclorum) is a genitive plural form that could not properly be translated as "of the worlds."
Seclum was used to mean "world" in ecclesiastical (church) Latin – in the sense of worldliness – hence the meaning of the English word secular (from the Latin adjective secularis). Moreover, since "seclorum" is plural, even if it did mean "world" in the sense of "planet" (which it does not), "novus ordo seclorum" would have to be translated "new order of the worlds." For example:
"Immaculatus ab hoc saeculo" means "unstained by this world."
"Et servientem corpori absolve vinclis saeculi" means "and free him who serves the body from the chains of the world."
Notice that the phrases, "this world" and "the world," could be replaced by the word "worldliness." This is decidedly not the case for the phrase "New World Order."
In Classical Latin, "world" – in the sense that it is used in the phrase "new world order" – would be "orbis terrarum/terrae" (or sometimes terra alone), or "mundus," or maybe "tellus." In Latin-English dictionaries, "seclum," in all its forms, is conspicuously absent from the listing of Latin words for "world."
The Great Seal was not designed by Masons.
According to the U.S. State Department's official history:
"It seems likely that the designers of the Great Seal and the Masons took their symbols from parallel sources, and unlikely that the seal designers consciously copied Masonic symbols with the intention of incorporating Masonic symbolism into the national coat of arms."
The Great Seal is a uniquely American symbol. Its revolutionary arrangement of natural elements (eagle, olive branch, stars, cloud, light rays, eye) and universal symbols (pyramid, arrows, shield) does not belong to any special group – past or present, covert or overt.
Patriotic Americans honor and protect their Great Seal as they do their flag.
Commentary:
Conspiracy theorists have a good imagination, except when it comes to choosing a symbol for their campaign. Associating the Great Seal with their fearful agenda is reminiscent of how an ancient universal symbol of well-being, the swastika, was commandeered in the mid-20th century and perverted into a negative image.
It is sad when Americans demonize the symbols their nation's founders created – and their own ancestors probably supported – symbols of the very liberty they now enjoy.
The Great Seal belongs to the people who gave us our freedom, not to those trying to take it away.
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