freemasonry
A Concise Appraisal by Ecclesia Apostolica Jesu Christi
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Until the 17th century, there
were only “operative Masons.” However, in circa 1600, Masonry evidently
began initiating non-stonemasons into its ranks. This formed the final catalyst
that brought modern Masonry into being. Most Masons trace their founding to the
first “Mother” Lodge that met in a tavern in London on the feast of St John, 24th
June 1717. This is a day held most sacred by the Knights Templar. In 1726 this
lodge became the “Grand Lodge of all England.” This was followed by schisms
between other “Grand Lodges,” both in England and on the Continent. In 1773,
the second most influential Grand Lodge, the “Grand Orient” was formed in
France. This brings us to a most significant date in modern Freemasonry ~ 1st
May 1776 ~ when the final element in the equation of Freemasonry was
introduced. It already possessed by this time strains of fertility cults,
Islamic mysticism, alchemy, Templary and Rosicrucianism. These were symbolic
stones in the arch that
formed a doorway to witchcraft.
Adam Weishaupt
The keystone on the arch was provided by
an obscure Jesuit-trained professor of canon law at the University of
Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Adam Weishaupt. The important date on the
witchcraft calendar of May 1st was selected for the foundation of
the Ancient and Illuminated Seers of Bavaria. It was founded on a mixture of
Masonic secrets, Islamic mysticism and Jesuit mental discipline. The element
that made it even more unique and dangerous was its scientific use of the drug Almamout
Hashish to produce an “illuminated” state of mind. This was the drug of the
Assassins. Illumination had long been a cherished component of Masonry and
other occult groups. The Masonic candidate requests, and is promised, “light in
Masonry.” As he goes up the ladder of initiation, he receives “more light.” It
is because of this society’s emphasis on illumination that the Ancient and
Illuminated Seers of Bavaria became known by its more common title of The Illuminati. The trapezoid (unfinished
pyramid with four sides) is a most significant symbol in Satanism. The symbol
is actually a metaphor for the oppressive hierarchy that reigns over the
Masonic Lodge, and over many “democratic” governments, not least the American
government where the all-seeing-eye above a trapezoid is used on the Great Seal
of the United States (as depicted on the reverse of any dollar bill). The
Illuminati eye is perched atop an incomplete pyramid with the date 1776 AD (the
year Weishaupt founded the Illuminati) in Roman numerals at the bottom. The
Muslim connection to the origins of Masonry is also difficult to ignore. The
most glaring example in the world of the Lodge is, of course, the Shrine. The
actual title of the Shriner organisation is the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine. The Shrine is openly evocative of Arab culture and the
“shrine” in Masonry is the sacred shrine of Islam in Mecca. A Shrine initiate
must swear the usual oath on the Koran, in addition to the Bible, ending thus:
“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.” (Shrine
Ritual Monitor, Allen Publishing, pages 35-39). Muslims, of course, deny
the deity of Jesus Christ and His Resurrection.
Masonic
coat-of-arms.
An Illuminatus is a Master Mason who has
received all the “light” Masonry can bestow. He is beyond 33°. Such people are
known as Masters or Masters of the Temple, and collectively they are known by
several names other than the Illuminati; but, whatever they are called, they
form an elite cadre of “super-Masons” with understanding of the principles of
Freemasonry far beyond even the typical 33° Mason. The Bavarian seers
themselves can be traced back to a 16th century Muslim cult of
illuminated men called the Roshaniya in Afghanistan. Again we see the pervasive
influence of Islam in these secret orders. It was probably from this Afghan
connection that Weishaupt acquired his knowledge of hashish.
Alex Sanders
giving the sign
of the Mason on
the square.
Weishaupt affiliated himself with the
Masons, joining the Munich Lodge, in 1777. He played on the egotism that runs
through Masonry and created a secret order within a secret order. The most
powerful image in Illuminist sorcery is the sign of Dagon (1 Samuel 5): the
hand, palm forward with the five digits extended. Weishaupt taught that
everything occurred in fives. Human history came in a cycle of five stages and
someone who understood these could manipulate history to his own ends. The five stages were: Chaos; Discord;
Confusion; Bureaucracy; Aftermath. Weishaupt gave wings to the geo-political
ambitions of the Masons in a fashion not seen since the Templars. Though Masonry
always had its political overtones, Weishaupt’s use of the Law of Fives, drugs
and occult intrigues added momentum to the evil currents of the Lodge. This
final fusion of statecraft with sorcery created the Freemasonry we know today
without which modern witchcraft and the satanic revival of the 20th century
would not have been possible. Every leading and influential witch, occultist
and Satanist has invariably been a high-ranking Mason.
Aleister Crowley:
his left-hand offering a Masonic sign.
Arthur Edward Waite, occult author,
magician and Masonic historian, wrote an encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Dr Wynn Westcott,
member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, was also a founding member of
the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn whose members introduced Tantric sex
magic rituals to Western society as a form of worship. S L MacGregor Mathers
co-founded the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Aleister Crowley, pursued in
letters by pseudo-scientist Alfred Kinsey for his “sexual experiences,” founded
an anti-Christ religion called Thelema. Crowley, a master Satanist of the 20th
century, advocated child sacrifice in one his published work Magick in
Theory and Practice, used children in perverted sexual rituals, and held
several Masonic titles including the highest (33°) in the Ancient and Accepted
Rite, and the second highest (96°) in the Ancient and Primitive Rite. Dr Gerard
Encaussé, (Papus) masterful author, exponent of the Tarot, and leader of the
occult Martinistes Society. Dr Theodore Reuss, head of the German satanic
society Ordo Templi Orientis. (The OTO was represented in the British Isles by
Aleister Crowley). George Pickingill, witch and sorcerer in England and leader
of the “Pickingill covens.” Annie Besant, leader of the occult Theosophical
Society and Co-Masonic hierarch. (Yes, there are female Masons!) Alice Bailey,
founder of the New Age Lucis (formerly Lucifer) Trust. C W Leadbetter,
Theosophist, mentor of the failed avatar, or New Age “Christ,” Krishnamurti,
and prelate in the occult Liberal Catholic Church. Manly P Hall, Rosicrucian
adept and author of popular Freemasonry manuals. Gerald B Gardner, member of
Crowley’s depraved Ordo Templi Orientis, and founder and practitioner of modern
witchcraft, or, as it known, wicca. Alex Sanders, self-styled “King of the
Witches” based in London, England, and one of the most influential leaders of
wicca after Gardner. Freemasonry welcomed all of these occultists and sorcerers
into its highest ranks. In addition many minor occultists are drawn to the
Lodge by its mysterious power. While all levels of Masonry have their share of
occultists and wiccans, the Illuminati, the Ancient rites and the Supreme
Council are especially likely to have them.
Alex Sanders
and his high priestess.
There could not
be a witchcraft and
occult revival
without Freemasonry.
Soon after the infiltration of
Illuminism into Freemasonry at the end of the 18th century, another
extraordinary figure emerged. His name was Albert Pike (1809-1891) and his
impact was akin to that of Weishaupt’s. Pike became a Mason in 1850 and then,
in a meteoric rise to power, was elected Grand Commander of the Southern
Jurisdiction of the United States in 1859. He essentially made Scottish Rite
Masonry the institution it is today, and expressed contempt for Christianity at
every opportunity. One of his Masonic titles was “Sovereign Pontiff of
Lucifer.” Pike regarded Lucifer as the true god, as do many witches and pagans
today.
Symbol of the Ku
Klux Klan.
Pike chose to follow the mystery
religions of Baal. If we look at his writings and statements attributed to him,
we find that he acknowledged Lucifer as the true god and Adonay (the Biblical
God) as the “god of evil.” Pike’s “fruits” are definitely satanic (Matthew 7:
15-20). Pike was influenced by the Italian Freemason and revolutionary,
Giuseppi Mazzini (1805-1872). Mazzini had formed a society in Sicily called the
Oblonica that means “I reckon with a dagger.” As is typical with the Masons,
Mazzini formed an order within an order. This elite inner group was called by a
term most people will recognise ~ the Mafia. The name is an acronym for Mazzini
autorizza furti, incendi, avvelenamenti ~ Mazzini authorises thefts, arson
and poisoning. The Mafia was also known by another term, Il Mano Nigro ~
the Black Hand. Mafia crimes were often sealed by a black handprint at the
scene. This, of course, was an Illuminati touch: the hand with palm forward and
five digits extended. Pike helped create the Ku Klux Klan, a secret terrorist
society in the southern states of America. No black men were ever admitted to
Masonic Lodges in the Southern Jurisdiction. Thus Negroes were obliged to adapt
their own form of Masonry that is called Prince Hall Masonry.
In 1870 Pike and Mazzini completed an agreement to create
a supreme, universal rite of Masonry that would over-arch all the other rites,
even the different national rites. It centralised all high Masonic bodies in
the world under one head. This head was, ultimately, Lucifer. Pike an Mazzini
were his human regents. To this end the Palladium Rite was created as the
pinnacle of the pyramid of power. Palladism is necessarily a Luciferian rite.
Its religion is Manichæan neo-gnosticism, teaching that the divinity is dual
and that Lucifer is the equal of Adonay, with Lucifer the “god of light and
goodness” struggling for humanity against Adonay the “god of darkness and
evil.” Albert Pike had only specified and unveiled the dogmas of the high
grades of all other masonries, for in no matter what rite, the Masonic “Great
Architect of the Universe” is not the God worshipped by the Christians. The
Luciferian doctrine is implicit in the lower degrees, and only becomes an
explicit teaching on the highest degrees. The highest of the high was the
Palladium: an international alliance to bring in the Grand Lodges, the Grand
Orient, the ninety-seven degrees of Memphis and Mizraim (the Ancient and
Primitive Rite), and the Scottish Rite (the Ancient and Accepted Rite).
The traditional Palladium imprecation
is: “Glory and Love for Lucifer! Hatred! Hatred! Hatred! To God accursed!
Accursed! Accursed!” Palladism took the fuel from Adam Weishaupt’s dangerous vision for humanity
and connected the energy to the pistons of Freemasonry. Those pistons were then
driven in rhythm by the Palladium. In common with other Gnostic cults, the
Palladium teaches that the serpent told the truth in the Garden of Eden.
Candidates are exposed to a five-step programme: (1) Adoption: This is where
the Mason is brought into the “fellowship” of Lucifer. He is guided into
swearing an oath and being yoked to the temple of Lucifer. Ultimately, he is
led into making a pact with Lucifer. (2) Illumination: Through drugs and occult
techniques of the seers, the so-called Third Eye is opened. This “eye,” or the
Ajna chakra, is felt to be the point of contact between humans and Lucifer
consciousness. It is supposedly located in the forehead, above and between the
two visible eyes. To “open” the eye a little is to experience psychic powers.
To open it completely is to have the mind flooded with “pure” Luciferic
consciousness. This is why one of the Masonic symbols is the “all-seeing-eye.”
It is a symbol of Illumination. (3) Conversation: This involves communicating
with the “mighty dead.” Spiritualism plays a significant part in the Palladium.
Mediumship is encouraged and “conversation” with the sages of history is vital.
(4) Congress: The initiate is led into being literally “married” to these dead.
Usually this is done by having a medium of the appropriate gender become
possessed by the “dead spirit” (ie demon), and then a sacrilegious
wedding ceremony is consummated. It is believed that the magical “virtue” of
the spirit flows from the possessed medium into the initiate through the act of
intimacy. (5) Union: At this point, the soul of the initiate is totally
eclipsed by the evil spirit. This is known as “perfect possession” and takes
years of inviting the demons to come and own the person.
The Royal Arch degree is the climax of Craft Masonry. It is described as “the root and marrow of Freemasonry” and is the complete story of Jewish history during some of its darkest hours. In the 7°, the Royal Arch, the name Jah-Bul-On is discovered.
Only to those Master Masons who elect to be exalted to the
Holy Royal Arch degree of Masonry is the “lost name” of their supreme being revealed.
This “Grand Omnific Royal Arch Word” and “ineffable name” is contrary to
everything ordinary Craft Freemasons have previously been told about the
Mason’s god: TGAOTU (The Great Architect of the Universe). They cease to be
free to believe in a generic term for God, according to their personal creed,
or religion, but must now subscribe to Freemasonry’s idolatrous, unholy and
counterfeit trinity composed of three deities: JAH-BUL-ON. (1) Jahweh, the Old
Testament or Jewish Tanakh name for Almighty God; (2) Baal, the Canaanite
fertility god associated with licentious rites and imitative magic; and (3)
Osiris, the Ancient Egyptian god of the underworld. The 16th century
demonologist, John Weir, identified Baal as a demon. Freemasonry is found to be
contrary to the first three of the ten commandments, and denies Christ as “Lord
of Lords and King of Kings” and “the only name by which we are saved.” In the
words of Pike himself Jahbulon is “a mongrel word, in part composed of the name
of an accursed and beastly heathen god whose name has been for more than two
thousand years an appellation of the Devil.” In Morals and Dogma, Pike
states that Masonry is the universal religion and that senior Masons take a
conscious decision to mislead and deceive those in the lower degrees: “There
true interpretation is reserved for the Princes of Masonry.”
The Order Knights Templar is conferred in the Order of the
Temple. It was founded in the 12th century and is considerably older
than Craft Masonry in its present form. It defines the eleven rituals and laws
governing state and local level organisations. The state level is called a
Grand Commandery of Knights Templar. This represents members of a state or an
area of equivalent size. The local level is called a Commandery of Knights
Templar. Women, Negroes and the poor are not admitted. The Templars are said to
have represented the first wide-scale attempt to organise and mobilise the
forces of occultism for the purpose of gaining control of the world. Today’s
Masonic symbol is the same as worn by the Knights Templar of old who at first
were a Christian-orientated organisation founded in the 11th century
to protect and defend pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem. Over the years the
Templars became tainted with the Islamic mysticism and Gnosticism embraced by
some while in Palestine. They became further contaminated by a sect known as
the Assassins. The Order of Knights Templar inevitably degenerated, and some
are believed to have engaged in the practice of Phallicism, or sex worship, and
Satanism ~ venerating Baphomet, the idol of Luciferians. The crime of sodomy
was eventually a rite of Templar initiation. Freemasonry is clearly Luciferian
worship, despite their very clever attempts to hide this fact. The Grand Master
at the time when King Philip IV of France tried and executed key members, was
named Jacques de Molay. Since de Molay was Grand Master of the Knights Templar,
it can be assumed he was also involved in these satanic and homosexual acts.
“DeMolay” is somewhat disturbingly one of the orders of Freemasonry for young
men.
According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia
(Imprimatur: +Patrick A O’Boyle, Archbishop of Washington, 5th
August 1966): “Membership in, associating with, or contributing to any aspect
of Freemasonry under any title, including Mason, Freemason, Illuminati,
Shriner, Order of the Eastern Star, Order of DeMolay, and many others, even if
believed for a worthy cause (children’s hospital) or under the guise of
entertainment (circus), should be understood as a grave offence against
God. No organisation that is a separation from Freemasonry or a mimic thereof
should be seen as anything but humanistic and self-serving. While any theist
should be strongly opposed to any taint of Freemasonry, for Catholics it
constitutes automatic excommunication once they have knowledge that the
teachings of the Church proscribe any association or activity related to them.”
Twenty-one years after the organisation of the Grand Lodge
of England, Catholics were forbidden to seek membership in any Masonic group.
In the bull In Eminenti of 28th April 1736, Clement XII
condemned Freemasonry in the first of twenty bulls against Freemasonry. Since
1738 seven other popes have specifically proscribed Freemasonry: Benedict XIV,
Pius VII, Leo XIII, Pius VIII, Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII. Pius IX
issued six bulls attacking Masonry. In 1884, Leo XIII, in Humanum Genus,
endorsed the view that the Freemasons’ “real supreme aim” is “to persecute
Christianity with untamed hatred, and they will never rest until they see cast
to the ground all religious institutions established by the Pope.” The
following words issued by Cardinal Ratzinger were approved and ordered by John
Paul II in November 1983: “The Church’s negative judgment in regard to Masonic
associations remains unchanged since their principles have always been
considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore
membership in them remains forbidden. Catholics who enrol in Masonic associations
are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion. Local
Ecclesiastical authorities do not have the faculty to pronounce a judgment on
the nature of Masonic associations which may include a diminution of the
above-mentioned judgment.”
Baptist leaders have referred to Freemasonry as “an ungodly brotherhood of satanic darkness”; “there is an inherent incompatibility between Masonry and the Christian faith”; “there is a great danger that the Christian Mason may find himself compromising his allegiance to Jesus.” (The Baptist Union of Scotland, 1965).
Lutherans say “Masonry amounts to idolatry.” (Missouri Synod, 1959).
Presbyterians: “Masonry is a religious institution and as such is definitely anti-Christian.” (General Assembly, Rochester, 1942).
Methodists: “There is a great danger that the Christian who becomes a Freemason will find himself compromising his Christian beliefs. Methodists should not become Masons.” (General Assembly, London, 1985).
The Church of England: “A number of very fundamental reasons to question the compatibility of Freemasonry with Christianity.” (General Synod, London, 1987 ~ where several members of the committee were Masons!)
Russian Orthodox Church: “Any Orthodox who joins Masonry loses all the right and privileges of his membership in the Church.” (Strange Altars, Acker, page 60).
Roman Catholic Archbishop Emanuel Milingo: “We are now in the last days of Satan’s reign and he is working overtime through his agents to complete the takeover of the world. His agents are nothing less than the Freemasons who have permeated to the very heart of Christ’s Church. It is the task of Freemasons to lull Christians, especially priests, into believing that the Devil and his demons do not exist. Satan plays with priests like toys when they do not believe in him. After the last war bring young Freemasons were placed in seminaries around the world. These agents of Satan were waiting for their time to come. … The Freemason antichrists became priests for this purpose. They aim to take religious power throughout the world, just as they have taken economic and political power.” (Powers of Darkness, Powers of Light, Cornwell, 1991).
“Beware lest anyone cheat
you through
philosophy and empty deceit, according
to the traditions of men,
according to the
basic principles of the
world, and not
according to Christ.”
Colossians
2: 8