I got an e-mail from a pal of mine and they didn’t know if to be shocked or laugh themselves sick. It’s about Rihanna, it’s about Devil worship, it’s about coded messages and all in the same breath – from a Bajan who touts Christianity and of course has a massive dollop of a desire to Save The World From Evil! I took a look at it and was bored no end, think it’s utter crap and about as close to the truth as the assumption that yes, there is a Great Pumpkin, in fact, the Great Pumpkin is more likely to be true than this! Marshall obviously has a lot of time to contemplate nothing! Still, for those who’d like a laugh or target practice for rotting vegetables – please search for this Marshall and not me, as I in no way agree nor accept this treatise as Gospel…

?Umbrella? ? The Occult Connection

By Roger Marshall*

?If music is used outside of God’s intent, i.e., to promote sex, violence and the occult, it can tear down the very fabric of a society.? ¹

Christian News review

?Pop music is sex and you have to hit them [teenagers] in the face with it? ²

Andrew Oldham, manager of the Rolling Stones

The sex in your face philosophy, delineated above by Andrew Oldham, still prevails in much of today?s pop music culture. Rihanna?s highly acclaimed, Grammy Award winning single ?Umbrella?, from her Good Girl Gone Bad album, is no exception. On top of that, the music video is punctuated with occult imagery.

Rihanna herself told her music video director Chris Applebaum that she was prepared to ?Take more chances. Musically, lyrically and even visually? and assured him that she was prepared to do something ?sexy? in the ?Umbrella? music video. ³

That desire of hers to do something sexy has been accomplished in the music video in no uncertain terms.

In reviewing the music video of ?Umbrella?, the feminist website ?Femtique: feminist critique of pop media? has observed: ?For the rest of the music video, Rihanna subjects herself to utter objectification. It is the sexual fantasy all men are wanting . . . a ?good girl gone bad? ? that?s the name of her entire album, by the way. The [accompanying] snapshot is one of the most sexually submissive posses she performs in the video. There are many parts of the video in which she dances around the umbrella as if the umbrella was some phallic sculpture to be worshiped. While she dances around the umbrella in between her legs, she taunts and chants to the video watcher by saying ?Baby come into me? repetitively??⁴

The music video and pop culture blog, Obtusity, observes: ?At about 2 minutes and 30 seconds into this glossy new video, a nearly-nude Rihanna poses provocatively inside a huge triangle. But long before that blatant moment of female sexuality director Chris Applebaum establishes ?Umbrella? as a multi-faceted metaphor. From the way Rihanna’s short skirt mimics the look of an open umbrella to the suggestive way she places a closed one between her legs, the artist presents her femininity as a sensual and protective attraction.?⁵

The Triangle/Pyramid as a Phallic Symbol

As mentioned earlier, during Rihanna?s ?Umbrella? music video she poses provocatively in the nude, covered with nothing but body paint, in a huge triangle/pyramid. Since (as the commentators cited earlier have clearly shown) the umbrella is used as a ?multi-faceted metaphor? representing at one and the same time the male sex organ (phallus) and her skirt under which is the female sex organ, could it be that the triangle also has a symbolic sexual meaning? When we search the occult literature the answer is yes.

Masonic author, R. Swinburne Clymer, in speaking of the Masonic symbolism of the triple Tau within the triangle states: ?The Phallus, or Lingam, and the Yoni, the male and female emblems of generation, are found in the triangle and the tau.? ⁶

During one of Rihanna?s postures in the triangle she forms what appears to be the out line of an inverted triangle, if that is the case it proves to be yet another occult sex symbol known as the Hexagram.

Rihanna in Triangle/Pyramid Hexagram Compass & Square

Masonic author, Albert Mackey, tells of the sexual connotation of the hexagram: ?The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam … When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.? ⁷

In other words the interlacing triangles of the hexagram depict sexual intercourse.

The same is true of the compass and square emblem of Free Masonry. Albert Pike explains this fact to members of the 32nd Degree. He wrote: ?The Compass, therefore, is the Hermetic Symbol of the Creative Deity [the phallus], and the Square of the productive [the yoni]?? ⁸

Standing under her ?Umbrella?

The erection and worship of phallic monuments/images (known as obelisks in Egypt and there constructed as towering stone columns capped with a pyramid) was common place throughout the ancient Near East. Such practices were strongly condemned by God (Leviticus 26: 1; Jer. 43:13; Micah 5:13) but unfortunately they still penetrated the Jewish faith (I Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 17: 9-12; cf. 2 Kings 18:4; 23:14). In the Bible these phallic images were identified as ?standing images? (Hebrew: Matzebah). The term speaks at one and the same time of the erect ?standing? stone monument and the erect ?standing? male sex organ (phallus) which the image represented.

In occult circles it is said that the sublime posture for sex magick is to have the female on top the male (the so called ?goddess position?) with the male phallus ?standing? erect in the female vagina/yoni. ⁹ Could this be the hidden (occult) imagery and meaning of the line in Rihanna?s song when she sensually calls for her lover to ?stand? under her ?umbrella?? Personally, bearing everything in mind which has been discussed so far, I think it is and that it is graphically portrayed in the music video when, Rihanna, with her legs sprawled open holds a closed umbrella in an erect position standing from the base line of the floor vertically up to and between the mid-line of her genital area, upon which she slowly and provocatively descends on the perpendicular line of the erect standing umbrella in what appears to be the simulation of the sex act upon a phallus. The imagery is complete when, on her knees and haunches with her legs straddled apart, in the mid point of the triangle?s base line and at the bottom of the plane of the perpendicular line, she bows over her head as if to kiss the base line with her two arms extended back touching the two sides

of the triangle to form the outline of an inverted triangle/Masonic square (the yoni). As Masonic author, R.H. MacKenzie, states: ?among Egyptians, the base [of the triangle] represented Osiris, or the Male Principle; the perpendicular, Isis, or the Female Principle??¹⁰

The article entitled Free Masonry Proven to Worship Satan, its Symbols Venerate the Sex Act notes that ?in Masonic symbolism, the sex act is portrayed as the union of the perpendicular and the base line of the triangle? ¹¹

When we connect all the dots in light of this analysis thusfar, Rihanna?s provocative dancing throughout the ?Umbrella? music video (flanked by men wallowing in the rain) and her sexy, seductive taunts towards the end of the video when she, almost in an orgasmic tone says: ?Ooh baby it’s raining? and beckons with her index finger to the video watcher to ?Baby come into me?, smacks of an ancient pagan sex ritual (also enshrined in the teachings of Freemasonry) which obligated a woman to offer her body to a stranger at least once in her life time. As Dr. Sanger Brown II, Assistant Physician at Bloomingdale Hospital, points out: ?A custom which shows even more clearly that prostitution was held as a sacred duty to women was that in Babylonia every woman, of high rank or low, must at one time in her life prostitute herself to any stranger who offered money. In ?Ancient Sex Worship? we read: ?There was a temple in Babylonia where every female had to perform once in her life a (to us) strange act of religion, namely, prostitution with a stranger. The name of it was Bit-Shagatha, or ‘The Temple,’ the ‘Place of Union.’ ? ¹²

In keeping with this conclusion arrived at heretofore, one observer said: ?It is so obvious, but I?ll just mention it for no one did before: If you read “ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh” backwards, it says, “he he he.. alle alle” alle is german, in english “all” so she is singing:
“you can stand under my umbrella, hehehe, everybody is. And just something to add:
Virgin Records has some nasty symbols also! For instance one of their symbols [is] something like this freemason sign, which was looking like a woman (virgin) with spread open legs ?also, this is talked about in this song. She is the virgin that spreads her legs.? ¹³

{BR Ed’s Note: For a true story on how Virgin logo was created please visit here}

Interestingly enough, and reminiscent of the rock song: ?We sold our souls for Rock?n? Roll?, Rihanna has been highly rewarded monetarily both on the international stage and even in her homeland Barbados for her ?Umbrella? song and music video.

Keeping in mind what we have learnt thus far PR-Inside.com Entertainment News notes: ?R&B singer/songwriter THE DREAM has hinted RIHANNA?s chart smash UMBRELLA has a dirtier meaning behind it, because he penned the song using the word simply as a “metaphor”. The Def Jam artist – real name Terius Youngdell Nash – has written songs for stars like B2K and Mya, but points to Umbrella?s more adult-orientated theme which he penned in just 12 minutes. He says, ?That?s right, (Umbrella took) 12 of them nice lil? minutes. I?ve gotten to the point where songwriting is like freestyling – you enter the booth and let it come out. I?ll use certain things for metaphors, like ?Umbrella?? ?Once I get the thing I?m attaching the song with, then I?m running all the other tricks through the song to create that element? ? ¹⁴

Whereas the Bible warns Christian youth to ?flee youthful lusts? (2Tim. 2: 22), songs and music videos like ?Umbrella? are designed to arouse youthful lusts, particularly sexual lusts, in this our lust saturated world. The fact of arousing sexual lust is borne out by comments from some of Rihanna?s male fans. In responding to the symbolism of her ?Umbrella? hit song one fan said: ?She is gorgeous. If I wasn?t married, I?d find my way under her umbrella too…haha. I really like this song??¹⁵ yet another said: ?The umbrella is her skirt, and the rain is, well?.lets not go there. It?s a pop song about sex?.just like 99 million other pop songs about sex.? ¹⁶ Still another, this time a professed consultant for several music labels in Chicago, who describes himself as one who has ?been involved in hip-hop off and on for about ten years and have many friends in the industry? also says that ?Umbrella? is ?really about sex? ¹⁷

Understanding the Masonic/Occult Connection

Finally, the question must be asked: Why is there such apparent use of Masonic symbolism in ?Umbrella?? Answer: Jay-Z (Rihanna?s boss and mentor) from all the available evidence is himself a Free Mason who is deeply involved in the occult. The occult imagery and symbolism used in ?Umbrella? and his other entertainment enterprises is deliberately being employed to subliminally introduce his audience into the occult worldview of Free Masonry and the Illuminati (the overarching New World Order secret society) as a conditioning tool, no doubt, to make the masses more comfortable and at ease with the ?morals and dogma? of Masonic occult philosophy. In fact, the triangle or pyramid (the?ROC.?/?Diamond?) is Jay-Z?s own peculiar grand hailing sign and that of his hip-hop comrades Kanye West and Nas et al, which they throw up and flash at will. Of this practice the website Illuminati Archives notes: ?When the symbol is held against the face it is vital that the left eye be featured prominently within the pyramid shape. It is deliberately meant to match the eye at the top of the Masonic pyramid.? ¹⁸ This pyramid which is found on the back of the

US one dollar bill is actually the insignia of the Illuminati secret society ? the so called ?illumined? or ?enlightened? ones who follow Lucifer ?the light bearer.?

In its conspiracy to abolish Christianity and Christian morality the Illuminati has long espoused the objectification of women as displayed in 1789 during the French Revolution (engineered by an Illuminati conspiracy) when a half-naked prostitute was placed on the altar of the Cathedral of Notre Dame and extolled as the ‘Goddess of Reason.’¹⁹

Further still, Jay-Z?s recording company, Roc-a-fella records, was named after the

late Illuminist and New World Order architect David Rockefeller.²⁰ Additionally, his Rocawear company logo is the astrological symbol of Virgo and alchemical symbol for Mercury which are both employed in the Masonic Craft. ²¹

One observer, DocMoreau (a twenty plus years hip hop vet and Jay-Z fan), on the website Above Top Secret.com notes: ?There are numerous accounts surrounding Jay-Z and illuminati symbolism in his lyrics and videos. While much of it seems to be conjecture, there is enough ‘truth’ in the findings that the story continues to have legs. Perhaps they are examples of overzealous attempts by Jay-Z to seem ‘connected’, or perhaps they are examples of him actually being so.

?However, here is one example that is not conjecture. In his 1996 song D’Evils, from his debut album, the chorus is a sample that states: ?Illuminati want my mind, soul, and my body. Secret society, tryin to keep they eye on me?

?The whole song is about rising through organized crime, but the following lyrics give some insight to his mindstate:

?That’s right it’s wicked, that’s life I live it
Ain’t asking for forgiveness for my sins, endz
I break bread with the late heads, picking their brains for angles on
all the evils that the game’ll do
It gets dangerous, money and power is changing us
And now we’re lethal, infected with D’Evils…?

?More examples of Jay-z’s use of occult/illuminati/masonic symbolism can be found extensively throughout his work. So either Jay-z was ‘enlightened’ or he himself accumulated a vast knowledge of the esoteric on his own. Either way, he is spot on with his use of symbolism. Plus his reputed cocaine dealings in his past (glorified in his lyrics) point to at least some connection to the ‘shadow government’ and the CIA. Jay-z is connected, that much is for sure?There are many others out there questioning Jay-Z and his possible connection to the Illuminati. A simple Google search will unearth many discussions on the topic.

?So yes, I believe that Rhianna’s Umbrella song probably does have ‘something’ more to it.? ²²

Even the imagery, in which the umbrella is used as a sex symbol representing at one and the same time the male sex organ and the woman?s skirt under which is the female sex organ, is not without Masonic significance as it is in keeping with the androgynous Masonic/occultic doctrine of Baphomet.

According to the Creed of the Masonic Gnostic Catholic Church (one of which is located in Barbados on River Road) also known as the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) ?Baphomet can be seen as the Dialectic Union of Opposites? the sperm and egg united in the zygote; Yod the Father and Heh the Mother united in Vav the Son? the Androgyne, the Hermaphrodite? the double-headed eagle of the Freemasons? the Demiourgos which manifests in the Middle Space between the male Great Power and the female Great Thought? the Sun and Moon conjoined; the Point [the phallus] within the Circle[the vagina]? the Hexagram (as union of Fire & Water)? the Unicursal Hexagram (as Sun [male/female] and Moon [female/male] united by the 4 Elements)? the Emblem of Venus[female]; the Emblem of Mars[male]? the Square [female] and Compasses [male]…? ²³

This doctrine allows for all sorts of sexual immorality among Masons and other occultists.

In 1914, the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley, a 33? Mason and the self styled ?Beast whose number is 666?, took over leadership of the O.T.O. in Britain and Ireland. He was an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn. His influence extends into much of today?s pop music culture. Crowley?s stated purpose for the O.T.O. was ?to restore Christianity to its real status as a solar-phallic religion.?²⁴

Further still, Jay-Z?s recording company, Roc-a-fella records, was named after the late Illuminist and New World Order architect David Rockefeller.²⁰ Additionally, his Rocawear company logo is the astrological symbol of Virgo and alchemical symbol for Mercury which are both employed in the Masonic Craft. ²¹

One observer, DocMoreau (a twenty plus years hip hop vet and Jay-Z fan), on the website Above Top Secret.com notes: ?There are numerous accounts surrounding Jay-Z and illuminati symbolism in his lyrics and videos. While much of it seems to be conjecture, there is enough ‘truth’ in the findings that the story continues to have legs. Perhaps they are examples of overzealous attempts by Jay-Z to seem ‘connected’, or perhaps they are examples of him actually being so.

?However, here is one example that is not conjecture. In his 1996 song D’Evils, from his debut album, the chorus is a sample that states: ?Illuminati want my mind, soul, and my body. Secret society, tryin to keep they eye on me?

?The whole song is about rising through organized crime, but the following lyrics give some insight to his mindstate:

?That’s right it’s wicked, that’s life I live it
Ain’t asking for forgiveness for my sins, endz
I break bread with the late heads, picking their brains for angles on
all the evils that the game’ll do
It gets dangerous, money and power is changing us
And now we’re lethal, infected with D’Evils…?

?More examples of Jay-z’s use of occult/illuminati/masonic symbolism can be found extensively throughout his work. So either Jay-z was ‘enlightened’ or he himself accumulated a vast knowledge of the esoteric on his own. Either way, he is spot on with his use of symbolism. Plus his reputed cocaine dealings in his past (glorified in his lyrics) point to at least some connection to the ‘shadow government’ and the CIA. Jay-z is connected, that much is for sure?There are many others out there questioning Jay-Z and his possible connection to the Illuminati. A simple Google search will unearth many discussions on the topic.
?So yes, I believe that Rhianna’s Umbrella song probably does have ‘something’ more to it.? ²²

Even the imagery, in which the umbrella is used as a sex symbol representing at one and the same time the male sex organ and the woman?s skirt under which is the female sex organ, is not without Masonic significance as it is in keeping with the androgynous Masonic/occultic doctrine of Baphomet.

According to the Creed of the Masonic Gnostic Catholic Church (one of which is located in Barbados on River Road) also known as the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) ?Baphomet can be seen as the Dialectic Union of Opposites? the sperm and egg united in the zygote; Yod the Father and Heh the Mother united in Vav the Son? the Androgyne, the Hermaphrodite? the double-headed eagle of the Freemasons? the Demiourgos which manifests in the Middle Space between the male Great Power and the female Great Thought? the Sun and Moon conjoined; the Point [the phallus] within the Circle[the vagina]? the Hexagram (as union of Fire & Water)? the Unicursal Hexagram (as Sun [male/female] and Moon [female/male] united by the 4 Elements)? the Emblem of Venus[female]; the Emblem of Mars[male]? the Square [female] and Compasses [male]…? ²³

This doctrine allows for all sorts of sexual immorality among Masons and other occultists.

In 1914, the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley, a 33? Mason and the self styled ?Beast whose number is 666?, took over leadership of the O.T.O. in Britain and Ireland. He was an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn. His influence extends into much of today?s pop music culture. Crowley?s stated purpose for the O.T.O. was ?to restore Christianity to its real status as a solar-phallic religion.?²⁴

One Rihanna fan that saw her perform ?Umbrella? at the February, 2008 Brit awards said: ?Last week Rihanna performed at the Brit awards, and she was inside a neon lit pyramid for the entire performance, with an animated backdrop of rising pyramids. I thought it was odd at the time and completely irrelevant to the song. It was a duet with a band called the Klaxons?The rest of the show was full of occult symbology, with a winged reptile over the award rostrum.? ²⁵

In regard to the performance in question, it is worth noting that there was flashing blue laser light emitting from the apex of the neon lit pyramid. The light came on and flashed brilliantly every time she sang the line ?When the sun shines, we?ll shine together?? Simultaneously, the lighted outline of the pyramid turned to green, and green laser lights flashed on the stage bathing the pyramid and the darkened stage in brilliant green. ²⁶ To the observant eye the pyramid seems to be a depiction of the pyramid at the back of the ?green back? US one dollar bill, which is based on the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, and as noted earlier, is the insignia of the Illuminati/Masonic conspiracy for world control. Even Rihanna?s garb (a tribal-print hooded gown) used during the performance was probably not without occult significance either, as it bore some resemblance to the hooded robes worn by occultists like Druids, Satanists or members of the Golden Dawn. While one fan approvingly said the gown looked ?bizarre?²⁷, the celebrity entertainment site Faded Youth Blog in a review of the performance said ?She appeared in a hooded cloak on a platform above her collaborators Klaxons, who were wearing primitive sci-fi-style costumes, as if they were all part of a post-apocalyptic pagan pop cult.? ²⁸

Incidentally, the Klaxons, who backed Rihanna at the Brit awards, is a rock/new-rave band that are also into the occult and have cut songs revering Aleister Crowley and the Order of the Golden Dawn! Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia in describing the Klaxons musical style said: ?Klaxons’ music is often supernatural and magic-realist in theme, as shown in a number of song titles and lyrical content. Examples of this are “As Above, So Below” (favourite saying of Aleister Crowley), “Atlantis to Interzone” (a William Burroughs reference) [and] “Magick” (Crowley)?? ²⁹

Interestingly enough, there is currently (at the time of writing) a discussion on line asking the question: ?Music Artist, Rihanna- 4th degree pagan?? The question was raised by a woman who described herself as one who has some nominal experience in pagan religious teaching/training. She indicates: ?I witnessed a (semi-Greek) Masonic ritual?the Masonic rituals I’ve experience have been set up in Greek style or Egyptian style.? Her question goes as follows: ?Is Music Artist, Rihanna- a 4th degree pagan initiate? I was born catholic but am not so naiive that I don’t educate myself beyond Catholicism. I read somewhere in pagan books that some initiated pagan women wear belts on their thighs that symbolize (also to fellow pagans) what degree initiate they are. Since Rihanna was clearly showing off the belts on her legs during her aired concert recently, are these the same leg belts I’ve read of but never seen in pagan culture? Can any of the pagans on here give me a serious answer?? ³⁰

On top of the issue of wearing what appears to be pagan initiate belts, Rihanna has been photographed (as seen below) flashing the occult hand sign known as the ?Il Cornuto? which stands for the pagan god Pan and more so ?allegiance to Baphomet/Satan?!

Backmasked messages

Further to all this, there appears to be some evidence that backmasked messages (words only heard when the song is played backwards) with sexual obscenities are on the ?Umbrella? song track. ³¹ If this charge stands, this would yet be another occult technique that has been employed by several rock bands in the past.

For example, the song Stairway To Heaven by the occult rock group Led Zeppelin, when played backwards, reveal the words: “Satan is Lord”. “I’ll give you 6-6-6.” “Jesus betrayed us”. “I sing because I live with Satan”. ³²

Another example is the song We’ll see if eternal life is meant to be by the group ELO/Electric Light Orchestra. The backmasked message says: “For He is the nasty one – Christ, you’re infernal.” ³³

Jay-Z himself has been accused of having a backmasked message on a song which says: “666 Murder, Murder Jesus”. ³⁴ However, some claim the backmasked message is really the work of DJ Danger Mouse who remixed an album called ?The Grey Album? which features Jay ? Z and the Beatles. ³⁵

Be that as it may, it appears that the whole idea of backward messages comes from Alister Crowley, who trained his disciples to think backwards by writing backwards, listening to phonograph records reversed, speaking backwards and walking backwards. Therefore (as Crowley instructed) instead of saying, “I am he” one would say, “eh ma I”.³⁶

The Christian Response

Jesus? statement that the world loves its own (John 15: 19) explains why non-Christians would sing the praises of Rihanna?s accomplishments (regardless of her song?s immoral overtones). On the other hand, the Bible commands Christians to ?Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them? (Eph. 5:11). Instead of singing the praises of Rihanna?s accomplishments the Christian community needs to speak out against the message of this kind of music since it is diametrically opposed to the high moral standards of the Judaeo-Christian faith which Christians are enjoined to up-hold and defend.

Further still and has been rightly suggested, we also need to pray for Rihanna and many more like her that ??God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.? (2 Tim. 2: 25 ? 26)

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*Roger Marshall is executive director of Project PROBE Ministries a Barbadian Christian apologetics organisation.

08-02-24

Foot Notes

1. Christian News review (July, 2007) posted at http://home.hiwaay.net/~contendr/2001/8-1-2001.html

2. Time, April 28, 1967, p. 54

3. Rihanna’s ‘Painful’ ‘Umbrella’ Shoot Kept Her On Her Toes, MTV video music Awards, posted at

1568860/20070904/rihanna.jhtml

4. Rihanna: ?Umbrella?, June 29^th, 2007, posted at http://femtique.net/2007/06/29/rihanna-umbrella/

5. Rain Over Me: Rihanna feat. Jay-Z “Umbrella”, April 30^th, 2007, posted at

http://obtusity.blogspot.com/2007/04/rain-over-me-rihanna-feat-jay-z.html

6. Clymer, The Mysteries of Osiris or Ancient Egyptian Initiation, Quakertown, PA, The Philosophical Publishing Company, 1951, p. 131

7. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry, 1869, p. 195, 219, 361; also Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, 1871, p. 13; also Wes Cook, Editor, Did You Know? Vignettes in Masonry from the Royal Arch Mason Magazine, Missouri Lodge For Research, 1965, p. 132

8. Morals and Dogma, p. 850-1; cited in Freemasonry Proven to worship Satan, its symbols venerate the sex act ? Study of Symbols pt. 5 of 5 posted at http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/symbology/5o5.htm

9. See Rituals for Sex Magick, posted at http://members.aol.com/darkmistress1/page66.html

10. Kenneth R.H. MacKenzie, The Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia of History, Rites, Symbolism, and Biography , New York, J.W. Bouton, 1877, p. 743

11. Posted at http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/symbology/5o5.htm, emphasis mine.

12. The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races posted at http://www.worldwideschool.org, emphasis mine.

13. Umbrella is this song masonic or something? posted at http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread337743/pg3

14. The Dream Hints at Dirty Meaning behind Rihanna?s Umbrella, August 8^th, 2007, posted at (emphasis mine)

15. Rihanna: ?Umbrella?, June 29^th, 2007, posted at http://femtique.net/2007/06/29/rihanna-umbrella/

16. Umbrella is this song masonic or something? posted at http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread337743/pg1

17. Ibid

18. David Rockefeller and Jay-Z Rocafella connections by EmceeArSn posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBnKjfqG-M

19. The Illuminati ? A Brief History posted at

20. David Rockefeller and Jay-Z Rocafella connections by EmceeArSn posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBnKjfqG-M

21. Is Jay Z a Free Mason? posted at

22. Umbrella is this song masonic or something? posted at http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread337743/pg1

23. The Invisible Basilica: The Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church posted at http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/creed_egc.htm

24. The Templar?s Reich Milieu posted at

25. Umbrella is this song masonic or something? posted at http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread337743/pg4

26. Video Rihanna and The Klaxons – Umbrella – BRIT Awards 2008 posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNbGvwODrLs

27. Ibid

28. Rihanna Takes the Stage posted at (emphasis mine)

29. Klaxons posted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaxons

30. “Music Artist, Rihanna- 4th degree pagan?” posted at http://www.yelp.com/topic/brooklyn-music-artist-rihanna–4th-degree-pagan

31. http://www.nme.com/video/id/wuSs3XXs7rs/search/backmasking

For an insightful study on backmasking see Ted Schwartz and Duane Empey?s

Is Your Family Safe? Satanism, Zondervan Books, ? 1988, pp. 144 ? 159

32. Occult Stepping Stones to Witchcraft posted at http://patholliday.com/otherexcerpts/thewalkingdead.html

33. Ibid

34. Umbrella is this song masonic or something? posted at http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread337743/pg1

35. Preacher Accuses Jay-Z of Promoting Devil Worship posted at http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2006/09/28/clip-of-the-day-preacher-accuses-jay-z-of-promoting-devil-worship/

36. Manual on Magic pp. 481-482; cited in Occult Stepping Stones to Witchcraft posted on http://patholliday.com/otherexcerpts/thewalkingdead.html