Listen to the Summary of Fritz Springmeier's Bloodlines of the Illuminati Volume 1 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The original founder of the Astor fortune was John Jacob Astor, who was a butcher in Walldorf, Germany, in 1784. He came to America in 1784 and joined the Masonic Lodge, becoming the Master of Holland Lodge No. 8 in N. Y. city by 1788. He was always very anti-social and coldhearted...