Originally posted by Masonic Light
Originally posted by czqjtohypmdu
There was also a strong Masonic tradition in the 19th century Prussian Lodge, which was a nationalistic one. It would have been political suicide for Adolf Hitler to oppose all Freemasonry.
Yet he did, and did so openly and utterly.
Your rebuttal would be that he opposed Freemasony because he was a tyrant and Freemasonry is loved by all except tyrants, but this is pure hubris. He opposed the Masonic lodges that allowed Jews to rise in its ranks.
His objections were toward the humanistic Masonic lodges that allowed Jews to join, and to eventually infiltrate its ranks.
Jews have been admitted to Freemasonry since 1724. This is why the religious requirement was changed from belief in the "Most Holy Trinity" to belief in a Supreme Being.
Jews also founded the Scottish Rite, but have Jews been admitted into the Prussian Lodge since 1724?
Hermann Goering once considered joining, but had cold feet.
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Then I guess he grew impatient from waiting.
Helena Blavatsky was named an honorary Freemason even though she was a woman.
Blavatsky was a member of an irregular lodge that admitted both men and women. She was not recognized as anything by orthodox Freemasonry.
That an American Rite, thus spuriously organized, declines to acknowledge the Patent of an English Sovereign Sanctuary, duly recognized by the Grand Orient of France, does not at all invalidate my claim to Masonic honours. As well might Protestants refuse to call the Dominicans Christians, because they—the Protestants—broke away from the Catholic Church and set up for themselves, as for A. and A. Masons of America to deny the validity of a Patent from an English A. and P. Rite body. Though I have nothing to do with American modern Masonry, and do not expect to have, yet, feeling highly honoured by the distinction conferred upon me by Brother Yarker, I mean to stand for my chartered rights, and to recognize no other authority than that of the high Masons of England, who have been pleased to send me this unsolicited and unexpected testimonial of their approval of my humble labours.
Of a piece with the above is the ignorant rudeness of certain critics who pronounce Cagliostro an "impostor" and his desire of engrafting Eastern Philosophy upon Western Masonry "charlatanism." Without such a union Western Masonry is a corpse without a soul. As Yarker observes, in his Notes on the Mysteries of Antiquity:
As the Masonic fraternity is now governed, the Craft is becoming a storehouse of paltry Masonic emperors and other charlatans, who swindle their brothers, and feather their nests out of the aristocratic pretensions which they have tacked on to our institutions—ad captandum vulgus.
www.blavatsky.net...
Albert Pike is said to have been a member of the Theosophical Society.
Pike was a vocal critic of the Theosophical Society, and in his book "Esoterika" described Blavatsky as a fraud.
Could you quote where it says that?
Foster Bailey is known to have been both a 32 Mason and a member of the Theosophical Society at the turn of the 20th century, when the Prussian Lodge was still in operation.
Prussian Lodges are still in operation today. That has nothing to do with the Theosophical Society or Foster Bailey, who was a member of a Lodge in New York.
I didn't say that Bailey was a member of the Prussian Lodge, rather that he lived at a time when the Prussian Lodge was nationalistic.
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