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Originally posted by BlackOps13
Maybe there is a reason why this confession isn't given much publicity. Maybe this confession was just a load of b.s......
"What is True to the philosopher, would not be truth, nor have the effect of truth, to the peasant. The religion of many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflected few, not so much in its essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied. The truest religion would, in many points, not be comprehended by the ignorant, nor consolatory to them, nor guiding and supporting for them. The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant peoplethe practical essentials of the doctrine."
[ Albert Pike "Morals and Dogma," 14th Degree, p. 224 ]
"The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahweh reversed; for Satan is not a black god but a negation of God. The Devil is a personification of Atheism or Idolatry.
For the initiates this is not a person but a force, created for good, but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of liberty and free will."
[ Albert Pike "Morals and Dogma," Master Mason / 3rd Degree p. 102 ]
Note -- italics were included in the original text but - surprise, surprise - Mr. I-stole-my-name-from-the-Matrix didn't include them.
"Masonry is a search for light. That light. That search leads us back, as you see, to the Kabalah. In that ancient and little understood medley of absurdity and philosophy the infinte sorry, no, the word is Initiate will find the source of many doctrines; and may in time come to understand the Hermetic philosophers, the Alchemists, all the Anti-papal Thinkers of the Middle Ages, and Emanuel Swedenborg."
[ Albert Pike "Morals and Dogma," 28th Degree p. 741 ]
"All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabala and return to it; everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of the illuminati, Jacob Boeheme, Swedenborg, Saint Martin, and others is borrowed from the Kabala; all Masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols."
[ Albert Pike "Morals and Dogma," 28th Degree p. 747 no, actually, it's page 744 ]
"Though Masonry is identical with the ancient Mysteries, it is so only in this qualified sense: that it presents but an imperfect image of their brilliancy, the ruins of their grandeur, and a system that has experienced progressive alterations, the fruits of social events, political circumstances, and the ambitious imbecility of its improvers."
[ Albert Pike "Morals and Dogma Fellowcraft Degree p.22 got the page wrong again... it's on page 23 ]
"Masonry, successor to the Mysteries Guess what? Yes, you're right, this parenthetical remark, contained in italics as well, wasn't in the text, but Mr. Look at my Head decided to pupt it in. By the way, what's "Whicka?" (Babel, Mythras, Tummuz, Whicka,etc.) still follows the ancient manor of teaching."
[ Albert Pike "Morals and Dogma Fellowcraft Degree p.22 ]
"These two divinities hey, another added parenthetical remark. Looky: (Sun and Moon, Osiris and Isis, etc) the Active and Passive principles of the Universe, were commonly symbolized by the generative parts of a man and a woman; to which, in remote ages, no idea of indecency was attached ; the Phallus here our sadly compulsive guide decides to interpret this word for us, to wit: (penis) and the Cteis and again: (vagina) you are aware, Mr. Head, that Albert Pike would NEVER have used these words, because they were considered rude in his time and place, emblems of generation and production, and which, as such appeared in the Mysteries And another editorial remark added: (I believe Masonry is the revival of these). The Indian Lingam was the union of both, as were the boat and mast and the point within the circle: all of which expressed the same philosophical idea as to the Union of the two great Causes of Nature, which concur, one actively and the other passively, in the generation of all beings: [etc.]" Our guide adds: (key Masonic symbols)
[ Albert Pike "Morals and Dogma," 24th Degree, p. 401 ]
"If your wife child, or friend should ask you anything about your invitation - as for instance, if your clothes were taken off, if you were blind folded, if you had a rope tied around you neck, etc, you must conceal.. hence of course you must deliberately lie about it. It is part of your obligation ..
" [ Ibid p. 74 ]
"You must conceal all the crimes of your brother Masons... and should you be summoned as a witness against a brother Mason be always sure to shield him.. It may be perjury to do this, it is true, but your keeping your obligations."
[ Ronayne, "Handbook of Masonry" p. 183 ]
"We shall unleash the Nihilists and atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirit will from that moment be without a compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the pure light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."
-Albert Pike, on a plan for world conquest, written in a letter to Mazzini dated August 15, 1871.
"..Thirty-third degree Freemason Albert Pike (1809-1891), the man destined to develop the Luciferian Doctrine for the Masonic hierarchy, could not accept the Lucifer and Satan were the same personality. While teaching his beliefs to a select few in the Supreme Council, Pike became the most powerful Mason in the world. Although an obscure general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, he was hardly inconspicuous in Freemasonry. From 1859 until his death in 1891, Pike occupied simultaneously the positions of Grand Master of the Central Directory at Washington, D.C., Grand Commander of the Supreme Council at Charleston, S.C., and Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry. He was an honorary member of almost every Supreme Council in the world, personally receiving 130 Masonic degrees. Pike also was one of the most physically and morally repulsive individuals in American history. Weighing well over three hundred pounds, his sexual proclivity was to sit naked astride a phallic throne in the woods, accompanied by a gang of prostitutes. To these orgies he would bring one or more wagon loads of food and liquor, most of which he would consume over a period of two days until he passed into a stupor. In his adopted state of Arkansas, Pike was well known as a practitioner of Satanism, Portraits of his later years show him wearing a symbol of the Baphomet around his neck."
-Scarlet and the Beast, John Daniel, vol 1
"Masonry gives rogues and evil-minded characters an opportunity of visiting upon their devoted victim, all the ills attending combined power, when exerted to accomplish destruction. It works unseen, at all silent hours, and secret times and places; and, like death when summoning his diseases, pounces upon its devoted subject, and lays him prostrate in the dust. Like the great enemy of man, it has shown its cloven foot, and put the public upon its guard against its secret machinations."
-CAPT. WM. MORGAN'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF MASONRY, 1827.
"Membership of secret societies such as freemasonry can raise suspicions of a lack of impartiality or objectivity. It is therefore important the public know the facts. I think it is the case that the freemasons said they are not a secret society but a society with secrets. I think it is widely accepted that one secret they should not be keeping is who their members are in the criminal justice system."
- Home Secretary Jack Straw, 1997 Home Affairs Committee England
You can spew forth the standard Masonic rhetoric but it is clearly known by those who have avoided brainwashing that the fraternity of Freemasonry is just a puppet organization for the Illuminati.
You can deny this to the end of time but I don't think you will convince too many on this discussion board.
Isn't that why they sent you here anyways, in an attempt to divert and twist our perceptions of the truth?
Isn't this what it says in their brochure?
Aren't you acting on behalf of they who really know what is going on?
By posting this thread does that make you eligible to move up a degree?
As a Junior Warden (??? degree), do you honestly think that you know all of the hidden agendas set forth by those in the upper ranks?
Does your knowledge of the mandate of Freemasonry equate to that of a 33rd degree Mason? Even they are only the peons compared to the real rulers behind the scenes.
Please don't waste your time with 3000 word essays as they don't really change our views on the Masonic society and how it fits in with the secret societies higher up. It's all smoke and mirrors.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
Originally posted by The Merovingian
As a Junior Warden (??? degree), do you honestly think that you know all of the hidden agendas set forth by those in the upper ranks? Does your knowledge of the mandate of Freemasonry equate to that of a 33rd degree Mason? Even they are only the peons compared to the real rulers behind the scenes.
Originally posted by BlackOps13
freemasonary may not be devil worship and it may not be an organization controlling the world, but, the heart of it definitely is anti-christian. i would guess that most men who become masons go in with good intentions of helping mankind, but whether or not they ever realize it, they are being deceived. the humanist spirit that freemasonary is built around goes against christianity (which doesn't really matter much if you're not a christian).
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
Originally posted by elmariachi
what
I just asked the mason if someone who doesn't have faith in a god can join and he said no.
What is so anti-christian about the concept of helping your fellow man?