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Everyone of us has seen the American one dollar bill. Most of us would wonder what does the symbols on it mean. While I was reading Dan Brown’s book called “Angels and Demons”, I found some of the meanings of some of these symbols. But are they true? Also on wikepedia, I found another translation for the same symbols. The question that is always roaming in my mind “which translation is correct?”.

According to Dan Brown’s book, Robert Langdon, the main character in this book, in his conversation with Vittoria Vetra, the second main character, translates the signs of the American one dollar bill as follows:

“I became fascinated with the cult (illuminati) when I first learned that U.S. currency is covered with illuminati symbology.” Then he adds,” look at the back. See the great seal on the left. The pyramid. Do you know what pyramids have to do with U.S. history?” then he answers,” absolutely nothing. An eerie bit of history. The pyramid is an occult symbol representing a convergence upward, toward the ultimate source of Illumination. See what’s above it?” the woman replied,” an eye inside a triangle”. He answers:” it is called trinacria. It’s emblazoned on Masonic lodges around the world.” The woman says,” the symbol is Masonic?” he answers,”actually, no it is Illuminati. They called it their shining delta. A call for enlightened change. The eye signifies the illuminati’s ability to infiltrate and watch all things. The shining triangle represents the enlightment. And the triangle is also Greek letter delta, which is the mathematical symbol for change.” The woman says,” so you’re saying the U.S. great seal is a call for enlightened, all seeing change?” he replied,” some would call it New World Order. Novus Ordo Seclorum means New Secular Order.” She asks,” Secular is nonreligious?” he replies,” nonreligious. The phrase not only clearly states the illuminati objective, but it also blantaly contradicts the phrase beside it. In God We Trust.”

While I was researching on wikepedia about the same topic and to see if what I read was the correct meaning, I found totally different meaning. I will quote what is found on wikepedia in the following:

“To the left is the reverse of the seal which portrays an unfinished pyramid. The separated cap of the pyramid, portraying the all-seeing eye, symbolizes that the United States is still far from finished. The shadow cast by the pyramid from the rising sun represents the undiscovered lands to the west. The sun, which is rising, represents that a new nation has begun. The Latin phrase Annuit Cœptis is located above the pyramid. Taken from the Latin words annuere (to nod, approve) and coepere (to begin, undertake), it literally means “he/it favors the things having been begun.” The official translation given by the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Mint, and the U.S. Treasury is “He (God) has favored our undertakings.” Novus Ordo Seclorum is shown on a ribbon below the pyramid and is a phrase taken from the fourth Ecologue of Virgil. In English, the Latin seclorum is the genitive plural form of the word saeculum, meaning “generation, century, or age.” Thus the motto can be translated as “a new order of the ages”. Written at the base of the pyramid in Roman Numerals is MDCCLXXVI or 1776, the year the United States Declaration of Independence was signed.” In front of these two translations, I keep wondering which one is true. I hope that in the near future the United States of America would introduce to us the real meaning that were meant by these symbols so that we can know the real truth and not the hidden one.

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