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Originally posted by Masonic Light
Unfortunately, there have been Masons in the past who were members of the Ku Klux Klan. On the other hand, and fortunately, there have been Klansman who joined the Masons, and after accepting the teachings of Masonry, had left the Ku Klux Klan, and denounced it after having a change of heart. Harry S. Truman and Strom Thurmond are examples.
Originally posted by lost in the midwest
Masonic Light. What is your referance material on H. S. Truman being a past Klansman. I have never hear this before?
Truman’s background produced what one would have expected and the young Truman would have had the same views as most other youths in Independence. When he got involved in politics at an early age, he did what any aspiring politician did in the South, he paid $10 to join the KKK.
Originally posted by MacDonagh
So. Does anyone know that if the KKK indulged in occult activities?
Originally posted by MrNECROS
The Pike / KKK connection is not slight; although many other connections to the KKK are "questionable" this one is not.
Also Pike is clearly a racist and even goes so far to deride democracies that allow negros (who are but one step away from barbarity) the vote and declares that the day when blacks are allowed into the lodges is the day he will leave in several of his writings.
The KKK is a offshoot Masonic organisation just as "The Shriners" or "Tall Cedars of Lebanon", "Eastern Star" etc...
Originally posted by MrNECROS
The Pike / KKK connection is not slight; although many other connections to the KKK are "questionable" this one is not. Also Pike is clearly a racist and even goes so far to deride democracies that allow negros (who are but one step away from barbarity) the vote and declares that the day when blacks are allowed into the lodges is the day he will leave in several of his writings.
The KKK is a offshoot Masonic organisation just as "The Shriners" or "Tall Cedars of Lebanon", "Eastern Star" etc...
it's guiding priciples are very much within the broad framework that The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry depicts
Originally posted by MrNECROS
The Pike / KKK connection is not slight; although many other connections to the KKK are "questionable" this one is not.
The KKK is a offshoot Masonic organisation just as "The Shriners" or "Tall Cedars of Lebanon", "Eastern Star" etc
but it is one of the more extreme organizations that appeared during the late 19th centuary alongside "The Thule Society" (Nazism) and Communism.
Originally posted by MrNECROS
The Nazi's outlawed Thule?
They WERE The Thule Society, hence the swastika.
Originally posted by Nygdan
Originally posted by MrNECROS
The Nazi's outlawed Thule?
Yes. You were unaware?
They WERE The Thule Society, hence the swastika.
The swatsika is a vedic symbol. Did Thule even use it? I am not that familiar with them using it. Also, did they use the actual nazi swastika, the one tilted and counter-rotating?
Originally posted by MacDonagh
But first I will like to focus on the original aims of the KKK.
[snip]
Those rules were made up in 1865-66. It didn't seem to mean to have any sort of overall racist agenda. It seemed to be more about looking after the Southern folk a neighbourhood watch or something. No mention of the lynching or the persecution of black people. I find it strange that a racist organisation, has nothing on any rules of race.
Originally posted by MacDonagh
I don't buy that Ku Klux just means "circle clan". I suspect you could find some different meanings for Ku and Klux. I wonder what Ku or Klux means in other languages. I think I recall somewhere that Klux in Slovakian for a type of fairy who does evil things, for the sake of doing evil. Eats children as well : /.
I just find it quite queer that these ill-educated Southerners created a name so obscure like The Ku Klux Klan. I mean, we still don't know what it means, and we are only speculating on what it could be. Another question would be, who suggested such a name? And where did they get the idea from?
Originally posted by Pictnation
Not that it really matters in this discussion but the KKK also use the Scottish Lion Rampant Flag as thier own aswell.
This flag was used by the Jacobites during the rebellion in Scotland and guess who helped them out???
The good old Knights Templar.....
Now I ain't a genius, but if I put two and two together..... I can see a long standing connection appear here.
Originally posted by Pictnation
Not that it really matters in this discussion but the KKK also use the Scottish Lion Rampant Flag as thier own aswell.
This flag was used by the Jacobites during the rebellion in Scotland and guess who helped them out???
The good old Knights Templar.....
Now I ain't a genius, but if I put two and two together..... I can see a long standing connection appear here.