I've noticed a lot of pro-Masons here act really brainwashed. They act like their organization is the best. Well consider me in the anti-Mason
camp. Most Masons just go out and deny in many of their threads that there are any secrets to their organizations. They act like they're better than
other people. Masons think that Masonry makes other men better. What it really does is give other people a group to be a part of... and they just
want to be a part of it. It's more like a social club.
I'm really interested in the real free-mason history. I'm not into the conspiracy realm yet of it... I've been there already... but I'm checking
out the facts first... and I find it highly laughable that the Masons on this forum will act as if everything on the internet is false and that their
Masonic secret non-secret society has no secrets. Well let's begin from an article I found... I shall present some evidence I've found just now.
I'm going to go back later on and use this thread as kind of a thread for when I find more information about the Masons that I can prove so I can go
on and say HEY look I've found more stuff to get the Masons with... or at least catch them when they say there are no secrets. That is totally
right. You know what? I guess they are right. It's not really a secret. What they have been doing for centuries has been right in the open and
the truth is out there and we haven't seen it. I'll start with what I know now... as I gain more knowledge on the Secret Masonic History I'll post
more of what I know... something tells me I should probably read a book by Jim Marrs on it.
Anyhow, it's a commonly known fact that about half the founding fathers were Freemasons. They openly celebrated their free-masonry status.
Presenting exhibit A: George Washington was a free-mason, and, was elected the leader of the country.
There are those who claim that the Freemasons constitute a powerful secret brotherhood of darkness that is planning to take over the world.
According to some scholars of the occult, the Masons' "Supreme Architect of the Universe" is none other than Lucifer, who cloaks himself in Masonic
literature under such names as Zoraster, Shiva, Abaddon, and other pagan-god disguises. The so-called "holy writings" of Freemasonry, as well as
their secret rites, passwords, initiations, and handshakes have their origins in the Roman mystery religions, Egyptian rituals, and Babylonian
paganism. Often linked to the Illuminati, Freemasonry is said to have exerted its influence on every aspect of American society—including its
currency.
Of all of the above alarmist concerns, only the part about the currency may have some credence. On the front of a one-dollar bill, there is a portrait
of George Washington (1732–1799), an avowed Mason, who donned his Masonic apron and presided over the dedication of the United States Capitol. The
flip side of the bill displays the Great Seal of the United States. The front side of the seal depicts the spread eagle, arrows in one claw, olive
branch in the other, and a banner proclaiming E Pluribus Unum in its beak. Opposite the spread eagle, the backside of the seal, is an incomplete
pyramid with an eye floating in a glowing triangle where the capstone should be. Above the eye is the caption Annuit Coeptis, commonly translated as
"He has favored our undertaking," and in a scroll beneath is the slogan Novus Ordo Seclorum, "a new order of the ages."
If you look on the dollar bill all the Masonic symbolism is there. That should certainly be a bit surprising. Most historians will acknowledge that
the founding fathers were Masons. Yet Free-masons seem to consistently deny that Masons have had much to do with history and they act like their
society is just for fun and just something that's happened now.
Congress first authorized the creation of a Great Seal of the United States in 1792, but no real effort was made to have anyone design one.
Nearly 100 years later, in 1884, Congress once again authorized the task of designing a Great Seal for the nation. In 1892, funds were allocated in
the hope that an appropriate seal would be finished in time for the Chicago's World Fair. At last both sides of the seal were finally completed, but
at its premiere showing, the side that featured the pyramid with the all-seeing eye was turned to the wall because some viewers were
Masonic temple in Alexandria, Virginia. (CORBIS CORPORATION)
offended by the symbol's Masonic associations. The backside of the Great Seal, first authorized by Congress in 1792, was not seen by the American
public until 1935 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945), a 32nd-degree Mason, put it on the back of the one-dollar bill.
So FDR, was himself a Mason. He had to oversee the great depression. And he put the All Seeing Eye on the dollar bill. Yeah, so Masons don't
really have any real power. They're just a faceless organization. Sure!!!
While the Free and Accepted Order of Freemasons is the oldest fraternity in the world, it doesn't really extend back to the stone masons
working on Solomon's Temple—nor does it date even farther back to those who labored on the Egyptian pyramids, as some Masons have claimed.
Freemasonry did evolve from the guilds of the stonemasons who traveled from city to city in Europe of the fourteenth century looking for work on the
great cathedrals being constructed at that time. The secret passwords and handshakes were unique ways by which a newcomer to a city might prove that
he really was a true member of the guild. While there are references to Freemasonry as early as 1390, the fraternity did not come into being until
1717 when four London lodges united.
From its actual beginnings in the early 1700s, Freemasonry exerted a great deal of influence upon society. For one thing, in the midst of seemingly
incessant quarreling over religion throughout the European nations, the Freemasons were nondenominational, asking only that its members recognized a
Supreme Being and sought somehow to better humanity through the course of their own lives. Because men of low rank could become members and no
religious philosophy was deemed
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superior to another, the lodges of Freemasonry became champions of the emerging concepts of democracy that were suffusing the Enlightenment. Such
freedoms of thought and spirituality did not endear the Freemasons to many facets of established society, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, who
condemned the fraternity as anti-Christian.
By the mid-1700s, Freemasonry had established its lodges throughout Europe and had been carried across the ocean to the New World by numerous
immigrants. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin (1706– 1790), John Hancock (1737–1793), Paul Revere (1735–1818), and many other of the Founding
Fathers of the United States were openly proud of being Masons. A freed slave, Prince Hall, who was initiated into Masonry by a British soldier in
Boston, later founded an African lodge, which became the still-extant Prince Hall Masons.
After the Revolution (1775–83), American Freemasonry became extremely powerful in the United States. Lodges were constructed in the smallest of
villages, and it became an undeniable sign of prestige in any community to be a member of the Masons. For businessmen who wished to succeed, it was
almost a requirement to join the Freemasons.
So the heroes of the revolution were Masons also? Yeah. So there really is no conspiracy there. So perhaps there were genuine heroes in the
revolution. I am no doubt well aware of that... but we were created by Masons. Who knows what else Masons wanted?
(Source:
www.unexplainedstuff.com...)
On the website it goes on to talk about how William Morgan was sentenced to jail and not given a fair trial by a pro-Mason court. He was going to
expose the Masonic society for the bizarre rituals that it was. The article goes on to talk about the anti-Mason party and how that lead to a drop in
the Masonry membership.
Well so my Mason friends, you've always told me that there are no secrets to your society. And you're absolutely right!! It's all out in the
open. I know the power that your organization has had in the past... and what could you possibly tell me that would ease my mind about the Masonry
movement? You've lied to me time and time again saying that there was nothing that I need to worry about and things along those lines with things
regarding Freemasonry. I would like an answer.
I'll continue to expose your society and what it's done through provable historical facts... but either you Masons on here will have to persuade me
that your organization isn't really that evil, or, I'll probably end up in the anti-Mason camp here at ATS...
I'm just wondering, why shouldn't I think that Masons want to take over the world? I've learned about their movement... and it's all provable
historical facts that they had a lot of people in high-power in their membership. So what's to stop me from thinking that it's an elitest club?
