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Surveying the Golden Rectangle
I recently had the opportunity to give a tour of the Golden Rectangle to a religious leader. We began with lunch discussing the power of prayer but in details specific to the practices of church.
The next step was to visit the origin of the Spiral. Getting there we noted the NE Corner which is marked by a high-rise hospital (Catholic) and charter school Corpus Christi (Body of CHRIST). We could see that easily from the Interstate as we approached Facilities Operations at the Spiral's origin:
From there we proceeded to the SE Corner on the private Colorado College campus. The chancellery there has always been masonic. Many of the books in the Tutt Library are donated from the private libraries of Freemasons. We toured through the Lincoln Room, the microfiche Statutes at Large from 1789 (I ran him a copy of the 'saving to suitors' clause) and to the basement vaults, the federal repository or Government Documents. However, the geophysical coordinates are very near the American Numismatic Association building which houses a Treasury vault with enough gold coin to make me wonder if I am not actually looking at a significant portion of the original $300M in value set to redeem the US notes still in Fed vault "circulation":
We went next to the Mason Lodge on the hill - Mesa Hill - the NW Corner caddycorner from the federal respository. We briefly explored the Library and the Museum. Then we went directly south to the old Territorial Capital where Governor Gilpin issued the script to pay Union soldiers in 1861. This is interesting because it seems to have set the precedent for the Treasury to begin issuing Greenbacks shortly after consternating whether to honor the Gilpin Notes.
We concluded the tour without visiting the Thomas MacLaren Charter School. That would have been boring except to see the Spiral in the logo.
