Hi "The Mule",
I have to say this isn't an Illuminati thread, or a new world order, but secret beliefs by many secret societies many of which have no connection to each other than a belief in Sirius and Alnilam, many mason groups are not bad, however a few fringe masonic groups can cause problems, pardon the pun, lets look to a link from the horses mouth, look under "What is Freemasonry?"....it will say they believe in the ancient mysteries of Orpheus, Isis and Eleusis, and if you scroll down further to "7 Ceremonial and inner energies it mentions that some masonic rituals is what they believe is magic.
http://comasonic.net/
The Eastern Order of International Co-Freemasonry is one of the larger groups that have beliefs different to many of us, however the mark of a good democracy is allowing freedom of belief within the law. In the renaissance era ancient beliefs become popular again in secret and it follows through to this day, they are often called hermetic beliefs.
Many times this involves aligning the start of the day, which can be Sun rising with Sirius, Sun rising as Sirius is in middle of sky, Sun rising as Sirius is setting along horizon or Sun rising as Sirius is on Nadir (opposite to middle of sky above).
The same applies to sunset with Sirius and Alnilam, and same again with midnight, they use a margin of one degree or four minutes of time, usaully this would give us 24 days of a year out of 365 where this could happen in any location, however a lot of the time there is one missed with the application of Summer time, and usaully there is one or two days that have a double alignment happening, thus a good margin for any location is approx. 21 days out of 365 that this can happen by chance.
However these dates are no hocus pocus, but are days that are used for world events, aligning architecture or calendars, we consciously align Easter to the first full Moon after the Vernal Equinox, then the next Sunday after that becomes Easter Sunday....aligning the stars isn't so different!
It has to be said that i'm neutral in Middle Eastern Problems that we have at the moment involving Palestine and Israel, i'm just reporting history and probably intentional alignments.
I have nothing against the now extinct Jewish Colonization Association, however this was established in Izmir, Turkey on 11th September 1891, please scroll down to "Colonies established after 1906", however first colony was established before this in Iznik.
http://en.wikipedia....ion_Association
The Jews start the day by previous sunset, so we would be looking for the sun setting while Sirius or Alnilam was on one of four points in the sky, Alnilam was on the Nadir, it is messy to show the Nadir by astronomy, and you need to know what you are looking at so below i'm showing the Nadir on an astrology wheel, i'll show astronomy graphs on next topic being the British Mandate of Palestine.
Graph on link:-
http://2012forum.com...=6305&mode=view