The Truth About The Fiery Cross

and it's relation to the Ku Klux Klan

    Let's finally set the record straight on this fiery cross controversy. I went to a Catholic grammar school and Catholic high school. We studied the origins of the fiery cross and its religious symbolism in class. Now here it is contrary to anyone else's propaganda.

    According to church doctrine the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine, beheld a vision of a fiery cross in the sky on the eve of a battle. With the fiery cross vision in the sky were the words: "With this sign ye shall conquer." Constantine adopted the fiery cross as his symbol on his shield and won the battle. That's how it all got started and since then the fiery cross has been a religious symbol not only for the Catholic Church, but numerous Protestant churches as well. As a religious symbol these churches use the fiery cross in various ways. Blow are two examples. In each photo you can plainly see a cross that is aflame.

    Does it make any difference whether or not the cross is drawn or painted burning, or is actually lighted with fire? Have you ever stopped to think of just how many times God and fire are connected in the Bible? The Bible often uses fire as a symbol of God. In Deuteronomy 4:24 and in Hebrews 12:29, God is referred to as a consuming fire. In Malachi 3:2, the promised Messiah is referred to as a refiner's fire. In Mathew 3:11, John the Baptist speaks of Christ saying, "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." In Exodus chapter three, God spoke to Moses out of a burning bush. In chapter 14 of Exodus, God came down as a pillar of fire. In Genesis chapter 19:24-25, Leviticus 10, Second Chronicles 7, and First Kings 18, Second Kings 2, God is again and again symbolized with fire, and fire gives light. Now the cross has been long established as the symbol of Christ and Christ is the Light of the world. The Gospel of John 1:4-5 states: "In Him (Christ) was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness and the darkness grasped it not." Thus, this passage has been symbolized by illuminating a cross with fire at night.

    So what's so hard to figure out about that? I wish to point out here, that recently I have seen on TV documentaries several deliberate distortions. I have seen the fiery cross of Constantine's vision being changed to a vision of just a cross, not a flaming or fiery one. I've recently seen the cross being dropped all together and replaced with the cross keys of the church. This is deliberate lying on the part of modern propagandists for the sake of  brain washing a gullible public with politically correct rubbish. They are deliberately trying to change every symbol of Christianity into a symbol of racist hate. The Christian religion is being twisted and perverted by the powers of anti-Christ right before our very eyes.

    Now, how did the Ku Klux Klan get tied up with all this? As I've said in other sections of this web page, the original KKK did not use the fiery cross. In the 47 volumes that make up the Ku Klux Report to Congress there is not one newspaper, not one eye witness, not one ex-Klansman, not one surviving victim who makes a reference to a fiery cross of any kind during the era of the original KKK. The Klan - fiery cross "link" is the work of fiction writer, Thomas Dixon, in his novel, "The Clansman". When questioned years later as to why he did that, Dixon said that he put the fiery cross into his Klan novel because his Uncle had told him that on one occasion the Klan used a small fiery cross as a signal light. This one use of a small fiery cross by a local Klan unit may not have even happened! However, when D.W. Griffith made the Dixon novel in to the epic motion picture, "The Birth of a Nation", Griffith embellished the fictitious usage of a fiery cross by the Klan. He knew a good movie prop when he saw one.

    Then came Col. Simmons who revived the KKK in 1915. He was a former Methodist circuit minister and as you saw above, the fiery cross is a Methodist religious symbol. After he saw Birth of a Nation, he quickly incorporated the fiery cross as a major ceremonial prop in his revived Klan. However, the use of fiery crosses were quickly misinterpreted on one hand and on the other, unauthorized use of fiery crosses by local units led to misuse and then, abuse by renegade Klansmen and pranksters. The revival Klan disbanded in 1944.

    The Klan was revived again in 1946 and the fiery cross was kept as a ceremonial prop. But during the violent 1960's Civil Rights era renegade Klans and rabid rednecks truly abused the fiery cross and did use it as an act of intimidation, terror, and lit it in some cases as to make it a part of arson. The modern media, with its beloved yellow journalism, lies, falsehoods, half truths, and distortions (in other words, politically correct brain washing) was always quick to run wild with such incidents for the sake of its self serving sensationalism. (So what else is new?)

    So now what? Well, recently various wannabe Klan groups have held their imitation cross lightings against the orders of the police who have cited various newly passed federal, state, or local laws regarding such. They then found themselves on the losing end in court room cases because these amateurs couldn't even defend their use of the fiery cross by proving it a well established religious symbol and thus protected under the First Amendment. Again, establishment media was quick to carry on its anti-Christ propaganda campaign and has all but demonized the ceremony and defamed the symbolism.

    But! All these pipsqueak Klans claim to be the direct descendent Klan of the original (hence, true) Ku Klux Klan So why, then, do they need to use the fiery cross at all when the original Klan never used it? If these Klans were to singularly model themselves after the revival Klan and bring back all  the ceremonies, degree work, and Klankraft of that Klan as a great fraternal order, then I could see them still using the fiery cross, in private or where public permission had been given (whether that permission had to be obtained after a court battle or not). But these wannabe Klans still consider themselves as a group of regulators as was the original KKK. While the more extreme illegal Klans actually consider themselves in rebellion against our Constitutional Free Republic and seek to impose a dictatorship. To regulate or purge our government of political prostitutes and New World Order traitors is one thing. To advocate the destruction of our Constitution and Freedom is another. But either way why do these "Klans" want to burn a cross when they neither practice, nor even understand its deep religious meaning? Ignorance, that's why. These idiots are now starting to have swastika lightings at the same time at some of their rallies. A pagan symbol being considered the same are Christian symbol? Talk about a contradiction, how dumb can they get? We don't call them illegal Klans for nothing. But contradictions are their stock in trade. I've seen their web pages and literature where they all claim to be a strictly legal, law abiding, moral, Christian fraternal order. Yet, I've gone to their rallies and have dealt with them in person. They break the law like crazy. They are always losing major lawsuits or going to jail. They live drunken, drug abusing immoral lives, and the last thing they ever do is anything fraternal or Christian. They lie, they steal, they slander and stab everyone in the back including themselves. Then they wonder why no normal people want to join their little sham con Klans.

    So where does that leave the true Klan now? Well, late last year, the highest Klan authority decided that the actual practice of lighting a cross with fire would no longer be done by the Ku Klux Klan, though it may be used as a logo on literature and other printed matter for the time being. From now on any Klan that actually has a cross lighting is doing so against orders and is obviously not a recognized legitimate part of the true Klan. Thus, they are illegal renegade Klans. Associate with them at your own risk.

    It has also been declared that the true Klan will no longer have public rallies or events until further notice. It has been decided that because of the negative image given the KKK by the illegal Klans and the negative media attention they have attracted, the authentic KKK will only meet in private. Business will be legal as usual, but from now on strictly secret for everyone's protection. People who have allowed any kind of a Klan affiliation to become known have become the victims of unjustified intimidation, harassment, and in some cases violence and terror. The illegal Klans get what they deserve, but as the establishment media is out to smear all Klansmen for the misdeeds of a few illegal renegades and imposters, the respectable members of the authentic Ku Klux Klan must take measures to protect their identities and themselves. Hence, cross lighting ceremonies and open public activities are now a thing of the Klan's past.

                                                                  A true copy, by order of the Great Blufustin, GSKKK

The Ku Klux Klan is not a church

and was never intended to be one!

    The KKK is not a self declaring belief system. No one is born a Klansman or has the right to call themselves one unless they are an actual member of a legitimate branch of the KKK. The Ku Klux Klan is not something you make up as you go along. The original KKK defined itself, defined its structure, and defined its activities and wrote them all down in the original Prescripts in 1867. They revised and amended the Prescripts in 1868. That was it. There were specific rules and regulations to follow if you were to be a part of the Klan. If anyone takes the time to read the original Prescripts (available from us in our booklets section) you will plainly see that in no way, shape, or form was the KKK intended to be a church, cult, or religion of any kind. What was the original Klan? After it's beginning as a harmless fraternal order it was reorganized under Grand Wizard Forrest to be a protective society of regulators who fought to restore law and order and protect the rights of the disenfranchised militarily conquered South.

    When the Klan was revived in 1915, Imperial Wizard Simmons, again, wrote everything down. The rules, regulations, ceremonies, activities, functions, structure and so on were not only written down, but copyrighted and placed on public record for all the world to see. (I refer you to the Kloran, Klan Constitution, Klan in action booklet, Klansman's Manual, and all the other defining books and ceremonies, called Klankraft, available from us in our booklets section.) Imperial Wizards Simmons, Evans, and Colescott made it plain and clear that the KKK was not a religion, church, or political party. It was a Protestant Fraternal Order.

    When the Klan was revived in 1946, by Grand Dragon Green (He did not take the title of Grand or Imperial Wizard for technical reasons concerning the IRS and the Klan's prior disbandment.), Green, too, established his Klan as a Fraternal Order. And it was carried through as such right up to the 1990's. Though it occasionally engaged in political activity and other things, whenever a branch of the Klan established itself in a new area, incorporated, or was chartered it always did so as a Fraternal Order in the 20th century.

    So, how did this "Klan as a church" nonsense come about. It was the idea of wannabe wizard Ray Larsen (it's an alias he uses, but I won't give his real name here). In the mid 1990's, Imperial Wizard James Venable died and his National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (an authentic Klan organization), which had been fading for years, disbanded. Ray Larsen was quick to claim the name of the National Knights as the name for his own miniscule group of assorted odd personalities. He then told me, at one of his rallies and by phone call a few times, that he was thinking of declaring his Klan a church. For the above stated reasons, I told him that that was an absurd idea and that the original Klansmen would flip in their graves if they heard of it. As usual, these upstarts don't listen to common sense, nor do they follow the rules and established facts of history. So he went off on his wild tangent and declared himself "Reverend" Ray Larsen (who isn't honest enough with you to use his real name), Imperial Wizard of the Church of the National Knights of the KKK. The idea was not an act of zealous faith. It was just a political ploy to attempt to gain better legal protection under the Constitution.

    Following in his tracks came the renegade Jeff Berry. Jeff Berry split off from the Liberty Knights of the KKK (who had, themselves, split off from the Templar Knights of the KKK) in the mid 1990's. Berry couldn't figure out what to name his new "Klan". He called me about it and I suggested the name "American Knights" which he liked and adopted for his own. (Keep in mind, this guy's going to save the whole white race, yet he couldn't even figure out what to call his own Klan and had to ask my help.) Shortly afterward, Berry took to Larsen's idea and declared himself, "Reverend" Jeff Berry, Imperial Wizard of the Church of the American Knights of the KKK. Since then a number of tag along "Klans" have done the same. But it is the dumbest thing they could do and it is a complete misuse of the Klan name and misinterpretation of the Klan itself. These Klans don't need enemies when they do such a good job of fouling things up themselves. (Kook Klutz Klowns.)

    If anyone takes the time to look past the shabby superficial lip service they pay to Christianity, you'll see nothing religious or Christian about them at all. Ray Larsen openly associates with, and has as speakers at his events, publicly known illegal drug abusers, such as the many times convicted neo-nazi Ted Dunn. "Reverend" Jeff on the other hand is presently serving a seven year prison sentence for threatening a news reporter with a gun. Prior to that, "Rev." Jeff was caught and prosecuted for cheating senior citizens with his fly by night home repair business. He over charged for work he did and charged others for work he did not do. Way to go "Rev." Jeff. A man of God (???) cheating senior citizens. To get himself out of the legal mess  he agreed to become an informer for the police. He provided the police with so much information it resulted in 70 arrests. Now, he was not informing on Klan organizations but drug abusers. In that respect he deserves a medal. But, I live a clean life. I don't hang around with the drug using crowd. If I even suspect it, I disassociate with any such individuals because it is illegal and I am a law abiding citizen. It is not a Christian life style. I couldn't even point to anyone and be able to say I even suspect them of using illegal drugs. I have always kept myself separate form all that.

    I don't know what kind of low social life Jeff Berry had, but how could a man of God be so steeped into the drug underworld, and so trusted by them, as to be able to provide enough information as to get 70 drug law breakers arrested? Does all this sound like the work of a church to you? How can they even call it a church when at most of their meetings all they do is talk about hanging or shooting somebody? Before he went to prison, Berry's property was shot at several times and since his incarceration his church klan has faded.

    The moral of all this is don't fly in the face of God and mock God by declaring something a church when it is not. Don't exploit religion for the sake of politics and don't claim Godliness when you are engaged in criminal activity; unless you want the wrath of God to come down on your head, too. Neither should you claim to honor the memory of the true Klansmen of the past and then mock their memory by distorting the Klans they founded so far out of shape as to make them unrecognizable.

    One final note. It is not my intended purpose to stir things up and make others look bad. But, these Klans are public organizations and their leaders are public figures. The public has the right to know the truth. Any Klan built on a foundation of lies is doomed to fail. Anyone wishing to affiliate with any Klan organization must take the time to know and understand the true principles, intentions, and purposes of the KKK. They must look past the mask of the leaders they, in fact, know nothing about. What is their past, it that their real name, what is their occupation and educational level? Are they just con men looking for easy money? Are they engaged in any real activity to attain their claimed goals? Look past the self serving propaganda before you get suckered into an illegal Klan that gets busted by the law for assorted criminal activities. Be warned, if you lie with dogs, you die with dogs.

   Updated December 17, 2007