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Today I saw part of an episode of a TV documentary series, "Forbidden History", which was looking at the mysteries and conspiracy theories surrounding the Illuminati (and, apparently, the Freemasons).
An investigator in London spoke to a journalist named David Hambling who believes that Hawksmoor's churches form a pentacle, meaning they create a "sacred space" that was intended to allow the Illuminati / Freemasons to control London.
Naturally, as one church is in Spitalfields, Jack the Ripper was brought up, his victims referred to as "part of a ritual", and eventually Robert D'onston Stephens was mentioned as a Ripper suspect who was interested in the occult. Some will undoubtedly be disappointed to know the dramatized scenes showed a well-dressed man carefully wiping the blood off from a number of knives laid in a case.
This series mostly lets the people with strange theories talk, and does seem to also present more sensible people offering opposing viewpoints, so it tries to be balanced.
An investigator in London spoke to a journalist named David Hambling who believes that Hawksmoor's churches form a pentacle, meaning they create a "sacred space" that was intended to allow the Illuminati / Freemasons to control London.
Naturally, as one church is in Spitalfields, Jack the Ripper was brought up, his victims referred to as "part of a ritual", and eventually Robert D'onston Stephens was mentioned as a Ripper suspect who was interested in the occult. Some will undoubtedly be disappointed to know the dramatized scenes showed a well-dressed man carefully wiping the blood off from a number of knives laid in a case.
This series mostly lets the people with strange theories talk, and does seem to also present more sensible people offering opposing viewpoints, so it tries to be balanced.
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