Not what I expected

I expected this book to be a scholarly look at the connections between the Founding Fathers and the occult, including Masonry. Unfortunately, it's filled with the usual speculations about Templars reaching America before Columbus, the Founders being inspired by Rosicrucians, American Indians having Masonic rituals, and so on. There is also a lot of material about astrology (including the horoscopes of the Founders), spiritual paradigm shifts, "vibrations" and what have you. One of the author's main sources is Corinne Heline's book "America's Invisible Guidance", apparently an occult work! Frankly, I stopped reading and started skimming after about half the book.

Weirdly, "Founding Fathers, Secret Societies" is distributed - probably without the author's knowledge - by the Bircher-related Reality Zone website, which is anti-Masonic! Presumably, G Edward Griffin and the John Birch Society considers this pro-Masonic work to be the smoking gun evidence that the Illuminati really do exist....