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SHEDDING LIGHT ON FREEMASONRY
Gloria Jumalale
Reprinted with permission.
The charitable works of Freemasons and Shriners are well known and applauded. Freemasonry and animal lodges appear to offer a kind of fellowship that is sorely needed in today's world of personal alienation. Men who join the Lodge are proud of their affiliation. Often they do not understand why other people oppose Freemasonry. Anti-Masons are often accused of bigotry.
Much has been written by Masonic authors about the necessity to oppose anti-Masonry, even hinting at the use of dark means to protect Masonry's existence6. This ignores the possibility that people may have valid objections. For these reasons, if you are a Mason, a member of a women's auxiliary, a member of an animal lodge, or a close friend or relative of a Mason, you may not believe what we are about to tell you. After all, nearly all Masons are very nice people!
But please remember it later on when you see and hear things that will help to verify these claims. In the meantime, read as many of the starred books in the bibliography as you can, while your mind is still intact. The material in this essay is drawn from Masonic authors such as Pike, Mackey, Clausen, Coil, Wilmshurst, Macoy, and Hutchins, and from other people who are sympathetic to Masonry1,4,16,19,21,28,35,38,42,46,52 or neutral2,10,11,15,18,27,47,48.
A little of it is drawn from former Masons14,17,34,40, or people who started out neutral and came to oppose it25,26. Some authors do not comment on Masonry, but describe certain teachings incorporated into Mystic Masonry3,12,32,41,43,47. We have kept references by anti-Masons to a minimum22,33,37,39,49.
Speculative Freemasonry was started in 1717 by two clergymen, Rev. James Anderson, and Rev. John T. Desaguiliers33. Much older origins are claimed by some, and indeed, pagan beliefs of antiquity have been incorporated. When 45,000 members left the Lodge in the United States following the murder of Captain William Morgan14,34, pagan authors completely reworked the teachings and rites 36.
Many churches oppose Freemasonry. This includes the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the Orthodox and Reformed Presbyterian Churches, the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in America, the Christian Reformed Church in America, the Evangelical Mennonite Church, the Seventh-day Adventists, the Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland, the Baptist Union of Scotland, the Methodist Church of England, the Christian Reformed Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Synod Anglican Church of England, the Church of the Assemblies of God, and the Church of the Nazarene22,33,37,39. The Southern Baptist Convention is embroiled in controversy over the question of whether a Mason can be a member of a Baptist church22,35,42. Why do these churches oppose Masonry? In part, it is because it is a religion, a fact which Masonic authors have admitted9,29,36.
It is a religion that slowly distorts what the Masonic Christian believes, without his knowledge. Freemasonry has close ties with a number of nonchristian religions and cults. These include the White Brotherhood of ancient Egypt, the pagan religions of the Greeks, Romans, Essenes, Persians, and Hindus8,16,23,33,36, Rosicrucianism16,19,28,33, Mormonism16,19,20,40, Theosophy4,6,33, pagan philosophical ideas of Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras, Zoroaster, and Confucius 6,23,33, Kabbalah and numerology6,16,33, the Illuminati33, Gnostics, and Alchemists16,33. It is humanistic, deistic, and occult6,8,10,13,16,19,23,24,25,28,29,32,33,36,37,38,39,40,41,43,47,48,50.
One theory circulating among Masons is that Jesus did not die on the cross but married and had a family, and that his bloodlines still exist; the Crusaders were protecting this secret and those bloodlines1. Freemasonry indoctrinates men in pagan teachings and belief in false gods. It teaches men to promote its causes and to shut Christ out 6,8,10,13,14,16,17,19,24,25,28,29,31,33,36,37,38,40,50.
Certain cult mind-control techniques are used, most notoriously love-bombing, deception, the instillation of fear of leaving, done through the blood oaths, and insider doctrine: indoctrination over time. Masonry is a religious cult18.
As a political cult, Masonry influences governments and courts in secret, undermines democracy, and corrupts the police and legal profession24. Masonic Supreme Court justices have taken all semblance of religion out of America's public schools through court decisions and left us a school system that produces illiterates, uses mind-control techniques such as Values Clarification 44, and which is full of extortion, drugs, free sex, violence, murder, and abortion without parental knowledge; in short, armed prison camps surrounded by barbed wire and patrolled by guards. Masonry has close ties with the Ku Klux Klan15,27.
The blood oaths require a Mason to protect its secrets upon pain of death 6,13,14,17,24,25,26,31,33,36,40,50. This includes not only protecting its occultism and even demonic teachings from being known by the Masonic initiate in the Blue Lodge, but also protecting a felon who is a Mason from justice13.
In earlier degrees, an exception is made for murder and treason; later, there are no exceptions. The Master Mason, who achieves the Third Degree of the Blue Lodge, takes an oath requiring him to protect his fellow Mason or himself by committing one or more felonies, including perjury, suborning witnesses and jurors, concealing the felon, tampering with physical evidence, and bribery; and as a judge or juror, allowing oneself to be influenced.
Under some circumstances, committing one of these felonies makes the man an accessory after the fact, chargeable with the same crime which was committed by his fellow Mason 13,14,25. When two Masons oppose each other in civil suit, it causes the dilemma of whom to support.
The penalties speak of murder with hideous mutilations, including these from the Blue Lodge:
having one's throat cut across, his tongue torn out by its roots, and his body buried in the rough sands of the sea at low-water mark; having one's breast torn open, his heart plucked out, and placed on the highest pinnacle of the temple, there to be devoured by the vultures of the air; having one's body severed in two, his bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes, the ashes scattered before the four winds of heaven, that no more remembrance might be had of so vile and wicked a wretch as he would be13;
And these from the York Rite:
having one's right ear smitten off, that he may forever be unable to hear the word, and his right hand chopped off; (in addition to all former penalties) to have one's tongue split from tip to root, that he might forever thereafter be unable to pronounce the word; having one's breast torn open, and his heart and vitals taken from thence, and exposed to rot on the dunghill; having one's skull smote off, and his brains exposed to the scorching rays of the meridian sun; his eyes torn from their sockets, his hands chopped off, his body quartered and then thrown among the rubbish of the temple; having his thumbs cut off, his eyes put out, his body bound in chains of brass and carried away to a strange and distant land; his house torn down, the timbers thereof set up and hung thereon and when the last trump shall sound he be forever excluded from the society of all true and courteous knights; having his head smote off and placed on the highest spire in Christendom13;
and these from the Scottish Rite:
having one's body opened perpendicularly and to be exposed for eight hours in the open air, that the venomous flies may eat of his entrails, his head cut off and put on the highest pinnacle of the world and he will always be ready to inflict the same punishment on those who shall disclose this degree; to be perpetually in darkness, his blood running from his body...the death of the cross may complete his punishment; having his heart eaten by the most venomous of serpents and left thus to perish; that his brother may seize him and thrust his tongue through with a red hot iron, to pluck out his eyes and deprive him of his sight and his smelling, to cut off his hands and expose him in that condition in the field to be devoured by the ferocious animals and if none can be found, may the lightning of heaven execute on him the same vengeance.
The Shriners’ Oath reads in part:
In willful violation whereof may I incur the fearful penalty of having my eyeballs pierced to the center with a three-edged blade, my feet flayed and I be forced to walk the hot sands upon the sterile shores of the Red Sea until the flaming sun shall strike me with a livid plague, and may Allah, the god of Arab Moslem, and MOHAMMEDAN, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS, support me to the entire fulfillment of the same. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Masons will sometimes claim that they have not taken these oaths. This is a sham. The oaths they have taken differ only slightly in wording, and have the same essence. Such penalties offend the sensibilities of ordinary men of upright character and were one reason many Christians left Freemasonry in the early 19th century. The oaths were then declared seditious in a number of jurisdictions, for example, in Connecticut in 1833. Sedition is a crime comparable to treason. These oaths are still used, and heavily guarded under the cloak of secrecy 14,34.
President John Quincy Adams once said, "Notwithstanding these horrid oaths and penalties of which a common cannibal would be ashamed, the general Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the U.S.A. forbade their abandonment."17 The word spoken of in some of the penalties is one of several, depending on the Degree and the Rite. One example is the word Jahbulon. This word is made up of three syllables. The first, Jah, stands for Jehovah; the second, bul, stands for Baal; and the third, on, stands for the Egyptian god Osiris13.
Christians regard this as blasphemy. The oaths appeal to the initiate's manhood, but since they are required before a man is told anything of the deeper beliefs, they represent the signing of a blank check drawn on the man's integrity. If they are not taken seriously, the man has just thrown his integrity out the window. Regardless, the fact that a man is a Mason is evidence that he is gullible.
Several murders have been attributed to Masons. These include the Jack the Ripper murders, done according to Masonic ritual as described in the oaths above 25,26, the murder of Captain William Morgan, who published the rites of the Blue Lodge, drowned in the Niagara River14,34, and Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon religion, who incorporated Masonic rites into Mormon temple rites, shot to death40. A participant in a Masonic murder is rarely brought to justice 14,25.
Some will argue that we cannot prove that Masons committed these murders. However, as long as Freemasonry keeps secrets, we will never know for sure. The lack of openness makes everything they do suspect. If Masons dislike this, they have only to renounce their secrecy, and open their initiations and meetings to the general public.
Masons argue that the Lodge is not a secret society, inasmuch as information about the Lodge is available in the public library. What they do not tell us is that this information was made public by a few brave people who paid with their lives, and that books about Masonry routinely disappear from library shelves. I have personally found a book missing that was listed in the card catalogue, and upon questioning, librarians have told me that there are certain organizations, the Lodge among them, that routinely cause undesirable books about themselves to "walk." So much for being open.
A woman may not become a member of the Eastern Star, the women's auxiliary, unless she is sponsored by a Mason. If that man is subsequently expelled from Masonry, she, too, will be expelled, even if her conduct has been exemplary31. Women are not allowed into the Lodge itself31, which is due in part to an underlying theory that the eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge [of Good and Evil] resulted in learning the sex act, that sexual pleasure stands in the way of spiritual enlightenment, and that women are therefore a source of corruption for men19.
In the Rite of Adoption, the Initiate into the Eastern Star is taught to emulate Jephthah's daughter, who willingly submitted to murder at her father's hand, when he fulfilled his vow to God if granted victory in battle, to sacrifice the first thing that came out of his house to greet him upon his return 31.
It would seem evident that this account was placed in the Bible to teach men not to take foolish oaths. However, women are taught that Jephthah's daughter was somehow ennobled by her willingness to obey her father. Masonry is full of extreme prejudice against the elderly, blacks and the handicapped, who are rarely accepted into membership. For this reason, blacks formed the Prince Hall lodges, and most blacks never attempt to apply for membership in a white lodge39.
Freemasonry uses occult and demonic symbols8. For example, the inverted pentacle, used in both the Eastern Star and the Lodge, is the symbol of Satan 31,32,43,47. The point within a circle is a symbol of Lucifer (Satan), and of worship of the phallus (male sex organ)8. Initiates are told the exoteric or revealed meanings of these symbols. They are told that these are the true meanings. Only after having taken many blood oaths will the esoteric, occult, demonic meanings and insider doctrines be revealed 6,8,13,24,36,50. Masonry indoctrinates, defrauds, traps, and deceives its very own members, literally hoodwinking them13.
Freemasonry is far more damaging than a mere consumer purchase. We need protection from its frauds and religious and political consequences 25 in the form of a Truth in Affiliation law, which would require disclosure of insider doctrines to potential members, and make Freemasonry and other cults civilly liable for fraud to anyone who has been harmed in any way18. It is the least we can do.
Footnotes and Bibliography
· 1. Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, THE HOLY BLOOD AND THE HOLY GRAIL, NY, Delacorte Press: 1982.
· 2. Barber, Allen H., CELESTIAL SYMBOLS, Bountiful, Utah, Horizon Publishers & Distributers, Incorporated: 1989.
· 3. Baskin, Wade, THE SORCERER'S HANDBOOK, NY, Philosophical Library: 1974.
· 4. Campbell, Bruce F., ANCIENT WISDOM REVIVED A HISTORY OF THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, University of California Press: 1980.
· 5. Churchwood, James, THE SACRED SYMBOLS OF MU, NY, Paperback Library, Incorporated: 1933.
· 6. *Clausen, Henry C., 33rd degree, CLAUSEN'S COMMENTARIES ON MORALS AND DOGMA, San Diego, CA, The Supreme Council, 33 degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A.: 1976.
This book is written by a Mason in good standing, and shows some additional examples of the pagan nature of the Scottish Rite.
· 7. Clegg, Robert Ingham, 33rd Degree, editor, MACKEY'S JURISPRUDENCE OF FREEMASONRY, Chicago, Illinois, The Masonic History Company: 1927.
· 8. *Clegg, Robert Ingham, 33rd Degree, editor, MACKEY'S SYMBOLISM OF FREEMASONRY ITS SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, LEGENDS, MYTHS AND SYMBOLS, Chicago, Illinois, The Masonic History Company: 1945, 1952.
This book gives examples of the occult nature of the symbolism.
· 9. *Coil, Henry Wilson, Richmond, COIL'S MASONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, VA, Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply Co., Inc.: 1973.
This is written by a Mason in good standing. It is a lengthy work. It is full of general information.
· 10. Cooper, J. C., AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRADITIONAL SYMBOLS, London, Thames and Hudson Ltd.: 1978.
· 11. Davis, Lenwood G., Janet L. Sims-Wood, THE KU KLUX KLAN A BIBLIOGRAPHY, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press: 1984.
This book helps document the Masonic-Klan connection. It is by an objective author.
· 12. DeGivry, Grillot, WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND ALCHEMY, NY, Dover Publications Incorporated: 1971.
· 13. **Duncan, Malcolm C., DUNCAN'S RITUAL OF FREEMASONRY New York, David McKay Company, Inc. No copyright.
I recommend you get this book. It contains all of the Blue Lodge and York Rite ceremonies. I have copies of the Scottish Rite ceremonies, and they are comparable.
· 14. *Finney, Charles G., Rev., The CHARACTER, CLAIMS and PRACTICAL WORKINGS of FREEMASONRY, Ohio, Western Tract and Book Society: 1869.
This is the book about the murder of Captain William Morgan. It is difficult to obtain copies of this book.
· 15. Goldberg, Robert Alan, HOODED EMPIRE, THE KU KLUX KLAN IN COLORADO, Urbana, Chicago, London, University of Illinois Press: 1981.
This book helps document the Masonic-Klan connection. It is by an objective author.
· 16. Hall, Manly P., THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES: AN ENCHCLOPEDIC OUTLINE OF MASONIC, HERMETIC, QUABBALISTIC AND ROSICRUCIAN SYMBOLICAL PHILOSOPHY, LA, The Philosophical Research Society.
Hermetic refers to alchemy, which actually emphasized the transmutation of the character through good works above the transmutation of physical elements. Hall is a Masonic author in good standing.
· 17. **Harris, Jack, FREEMASONRY THE INVISIBLE CULT IN OUR MIDST, Springdale, PA, Whitaker House: 1983.
· 18. **Hassan, Steven, COMBATTING CULT MIND CONTROL, Rochester, VT, Park Street Press: 1988, 1990.
· 19. *Heindel, Max, ANCIENT AND MODERN INITIATION, Oceanside, CA, Rosicrucian Fellowship Press: 1931. Heindel was a Freemason who wrote extensively in Rosicrucianism. He was affiliated with one of the large Rosicrucian orders.
· 20. Hill, Douglas and Pat Williams, THE SUPERNATURAL, NY, Hawthorne Books: 1965.
· 21. Hogan, Mervin B., P.M., Secretary, Research Lodge of Utah, MORMONISM AND FREEMASONRY: THE ILLINOIS EPISODE, Richmond, VA, Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply Co., Inc.: 1977. This book refers to the murder of Joseph Smith. Macoy is a Masonic publishing company. The perspective is pro-Masonic.
· 22. **Holly, James L., M.D., THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND FREEMASONRY, VOLUME II, Beaumont TX, Mission and Ministry to Men, Inc.: no copyright.
This book is excellent for the Christian, and mainly discusses the subject from a biblical point of view. It is difficult to obtain.
· 23. *Hutchins, Rex R., 33rd Degree, Rev. Donald W. Monson, 32nd Degree, THE BIBLE IN ALBERT PIKE'S MORALS AND DOGMA, Washington, DC, The Supreme Council, 33rd Degree: 1992.
· 24. *Hutchins, Rex R., 33rd Degree, A BRIDGE TO LIGHT, Washington, DC, The Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General Knights Commander of the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third and last degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America: 1988.
· 25. *Knight, Stephen, THE BROTHERHOOD, London, Dorset Press: 1984.
Knight is an independent British reporter. This book discusses the way in which Freemasonry subverts democratic government.
· 26. *Knight, Stephen, JACK THE RIPPER: THE FINAL SOLUTION, London, Harrap: 1976.
In this book, Knight details his belief that the Jack the Ripper murders were done to protect Masonic secrets.
· 27. Lay, Shawn, ed., INVISIBLE EMPIRE IN THE WEST, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press: 1992.
· 28. Lewis, H. Spencer, F.R.C., ROSICRUCIAN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER, Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tenn.: 1929, 1941, 1965, 1971, 1977.
· 29. Mackey, Albert G. and Edward L. Hawkins, AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREEMASONRY, NY and London, The Masonic History Company: 1920, REVISED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREEMASONRY, Richmond, Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co.: 1966.
· 30. Mackey, Albert G., THE MANUAL OF THE LODGE, New York, Clark Maynard: 1870.
· 31. *Macoy, Robert, ADOPTIVE RITE RITUAL, New York, Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co.: 1947.
This is the ritual of the Eastern Star, with explanations.
· 32. Manning, Al G., HELPING YOURSELF WITH WHITE WITCHCRAFT, West Nyack, NY, Parker Publishing Company, Inc.: 1972.
· 33. **Morey, Robert, THE TRUTH ABOUT MASONS, Eugene, Oregon, Harvest House Publishers: 1993.
This excellent book is obtainable from a Christian bookstore.
· 34. *Morgan, Capt. Wm., ILLUSTRATIONS OF MASONRY FREEMASONRY EXPOSED, Batavia, NY, Col. David C. Miller: 1827.
This is the book that prompted Captain Morgan's murder.
· 35. *THE NORTHERN LIGHT, February 1993.
This is a Masonic magazine.
· 36. **Pike, Albert, MORALS AND DOGMA OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY, Charleston, AM 5641; 1871, 1905.
This is a good book to dip into to get the flavor of Freemasonry. I often see copies of this book in used bookstores. Theoretically, it is not supposed to leave Masonic hands.
· 37. *Pope Leo XIII, HUMANUM GENUS, Rome: April 20, 1884.
This is the encyclical that condemns Catholic participation in the Lodge.
· 38. Robinson, John J., BORN IN BLOOD THE LOST SECRETS OF FREEMASONRY, New York, M. Evans & Company: 1989.
This book is one of two that explains the theory that Jesus had children and that the Crusaders were descended from His bloodlines.
· 39. **Rongstad, L. James, HOW TO RESPOND TO THE LODGE, St. Louis, MO, Concordia Publishing House: 1977.
This is an excellent short introduction. It is published by the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. It can be obtained in a Christian bookstore.
· 40. **Schnoebelen, William J. & James R. Spencer, MORMONISM'S TEMPLE OF DOOM, Boise, ID, Triple J Publishers: 1987.
Schnoebelen is a former Mason, Mormon, and Witch. This book documents the occult symbolism in the Utah Mormon temple.
· 41. Scholem, Gershom G., ed., ZOHAR THE BOOK OF SPLENDOR BASIC READINGS FROM THE KABBALAH, NY, Schocken Books: 1949.
· 42. **SCOTTISH RITE JOURNAL, February, 1993.
This Masonic magazine documents the fact that the Masons deliberately subverted the attempts of the Southern Baptist Convention to expel them from the denomination.
· 43. Simon, NECRONOMICON, NY, Avon Books: 1977.
This book is about activities involving the dead and seeking death. This is a violation of the Old Testament injunction against having anything to do with consulting the dead.
· 44. *Simon, Sidney B., Leland W. Howe, Howard Kirschenbaum, VALUES CLARIFICATION, NY, A & W Visual Library: 1972, 1978.
This is THEIR book telling how to brainwash public school students. It is detailed. This is part of Masonry's vision for the future.
· 45. Spence, Lewis, "Kabala," AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM, Secaucus, NJ, University Books: 1960.
· 46. Stillson, Henry Leonard and William James Jughan, HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HONORABLE FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS, Boston and NY, The Fraternity Publishing Company: 1902.
· 47. Tyson, Donald, RITUAL MAGIC WHAT IT IS & HOW TO DO IT, St. Paul, MN, Llewellyn Publications, Inc.: 1992. This book is useful for the comparisons that can be made between witchcraft and Masonry.
· 48. *Wedge, Thomas W., THE SATAN HUNTER, Canton, Ohio, Daring Books: 1988. This book is used by law enforcement people to learn about satanist crimes.
· 49. Whalen, William J., HANDBOOK OF SECRET ORGANIZATIONS, Milwaukee, WI, The Bruce Publishing Company: 1966.
· 50. *Wilmshurst, W. L., THE MEANING OF MASONRY, New York, Bell Publishing Company: 1927, 1980. Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, P.M. 275, Past Provincial Grand Registrar, West Yorks. Wilmshurst is a Mason in good standing.
· 51. Wilson, Colin, THE OCCULT--A HISTORY, NY, Random House: 1971.
· 52. Wright, Dudley, ed., GOULD'S HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1936.
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