Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History
decaying mansion in East Hampton, Long Island. Eviction proceedings against the Beales were initiated because the women were discovered to be living in total squalor amid piles of empty pet food cans, newspapers and assorted filth. For some reason, Madame Onassis permitted a film crew to record the degradation of her aunt and niece, and anyone viewing
Grey Gardens
will certainly attest to the “House of Usher” eccentricities of the pair. As an analogy of control, it is interesting to note that a peculiar rapport occasionally exists between owners and domesticated animals, and that the Beale mansion reflects a reversal of roles in the master-pet relationship.
     
    John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 at 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. Beals-Beale-Beal are names associated with the Kennedys through the magic and mystery of words. Beale onomatology is rendered thus: El-Bel-Baal-Be al-Beal-Beale. El is said to be one of the Hebrew names of God, signifying the “mighty one.” It is the root of many other divine names and therefore, many of the sacred names in Masonry. Approximately one mile from Lindisfarne (the “Holy Island”/”Holy House”) is a barren place known as “Beal.” Lindisfarne is associated with Heredom, and the legends of King Arthur, the Round Table, Merlin, and other Camelot stories, as well as the Scottish Black Watch.
     
    Bouvier means “cowherder” and
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magazine has traced this family to Grenoble, France where their first mention appears in 1410. “Jackie’s” great-great-grandfather, Eustache Bouvier, fought in a French regiment under the command of George Washington while his elder brother Joseph remained in France.
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magazine located Mrs. Kennedy’s Bouvier relatives in “the ancestral town” and this genealogical find brought relief and joy to the family, for as “Mama” Bouvier put it: “We know what they have been whispering about us. We had to swallow our tongues. Now they can say no more.”
     
    Arrangements were made for a delegation of Bouviers to journey to Paris and meet with their famous relation while the President was conferring with de Gaulle. During this period, a painting of the renowned Pont St. Esprit, located in ancestral Bouvier country was painted by the brother-in-law of Marcel Bouvier and shipped to the White House. This “Spirit Bridge” is equated with the “Bridge of Souls,” which, in turn, linked with the “Bridge of Dread,” “Baine Bridge,” “Log of Lerma,” “Al Sirat,” and “Cinvato Paratu.” Such bridges are symbolically associated with death and crossing them can be a difficult and harrowing experience. (Cf. Poe’s “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” and Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King.”)
     
    Two French radio reporters drove Marcel and eighteen-year-old Danielle Bouvier to the Paris reception for themselves and the Kennedys. After traveling some hundred miles, their car struck a tree and Danielle was killed. With her had been a beribboned box which contained a gift for the First Lady, to whom it was addressed as “For my dear cousin”; inside was a tiny nightingale “broken in its gilded cage.”
     
    Danielle is the feminine form of Daniel and Daniel is a Hebrew word meaning “God is my judge.”
     
    News reports failed to mention the type of tree involved in the crash which took away “Danielle” and ruined her nightingale. Whether or not it was a thorn tree of the rowan type, legend has it that a nightingale sings with its breast pressed against a thorn.
     
    The island of Delos is the reputed birthplace of Apollo and Diana. It is located in the southwest Aegean Sea and is considered the domain of Hecate, the patroness of the ‘Infernal Arts.’ Delos is alternately known as the “Island of the Dead.”
     
    There is nothing more appropriate for the wife of a slain “Sun God” than a pilgrimage to Delos as Jacqueline Kennedy did. She also journeyed to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, and

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