First, I hold nothing against anybody that is in any of the organizations I've mentioned. It is a grand deception by the master of lies. I will explain for those willing to read on.
Truth is a belief system while facts are what they are regardless of what you believe. I can say I believe OJ is guilty but the *fact* is that a jury found him innocent. He may have been guilty but that doesn't change the fact and neither does what I *believe* to be true. I believe the jurors were mislead but can't prove it.
What I said in my last post I *can* prove. I will hold a mirror up to many. Some will see and accept where they are and some will turn away or lash out at me to try to break the mirror.
TK said the mason stuff is hilarious. He wouldn't think so if he knew more about it.
He's about to learn.
Allen, you claim to be a Christian. That means you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior and follow the teachings of the bible as best you can. Your reply to my previous post ignored the contradictions between Freemasonry and the Bible. How do you "square" the admonitions against ALL oaths in James 5:12 and Matt. 5:33-37 with the fact that masonry requires the initiate to take a blood oath at *every* degree??
You never addressed that issue.
Let's start with excerpts from the oath taken by every mason entering the third, or "Master Mason," degree.
"I will... ever conceal, and never reveal any of the secrets, arts, parts, point or points... I most solemnly swear... binding myself under no less a penalty than having my body severed in two, my bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes, the ashes scattered before the four winds of heaven... should I ever, knowingly, violate this my Master Mason's obligation."
I've left out parts I mentioned in my previous post about protecting brother masons, preferring them above all others, and extracting them from trouble if within my power to do so without putting myself in danger, "murder and treason excepted."
Allen says I don't know anything about it. But according to the oath he and other masons take he's trapped. He can't verify what I say to be true or he violates his oath to conceal "secrets" and he can't deny it because that would be a lie.
Nothing can be revealed to a non-Mason or a Mason of a lower degree including one's spouse.
That's another part of the trap.
If Nancy asks Allen about all the events at the lodge he is obliged to ignore the biblical promise he made of honoring her and two becoming one flesh and either refuse to answer or lie to her. If he tells her the truth he has violated his oath. Either way he lies. Either to her or when he took the oaths or when he took his vows of marriage.
Keep in mind that official Masonic documents (membership application, recruiting pamphlets, etc.) don't require a belief in "God" they require that the initiate believe in a "Supreme Being by whatever name He may be known."
In "Instructions to the Twenty-Three Supreme Councils of the World" Albert Pike (mentioned in my last post) wrote, "Lucifer is God and unfortunately Adonay (the God of the Christians) also is God. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black...pure and philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal with Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil."
The FACT that Albert Pike is still honored and revered today by the Masonic leadership is proof that his teachings are in line with Masonic doctrine.
Let's move on to the book mentioned in my last post. My apologies for being incomplete in this. I can't find my 1919 edition that is highlighted and has my notes in it. From the title page of my 1930 edition:
MORALS AND DOGMA
OF THE
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE
OF
FREEMASONRY
PREPARED FOR THE
SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE THIRTY-THIRD DEGREE
FOR THE
SOUTHERN JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES
AND
PUBLISHED BY ITS AUTHORITY.
Page 218: "It is for each individual Mason to discover the secret of Masonry..."
Page 218-219: "Much of Masonic secret manifests itself, without speech revealing it,... particularly to those who advance to the highest Degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. That Rite raises a corner of the veil, even in the Degree of Apprentice; for it there declares that Masonry is a
worship." (emphasis in original)
Two questions:
Have you advanced to the highest degrees to put all the symbolic hints together?
What does Masonry worship? This second question will be answered later.
The "Blue Degrees" are the first 3 degrees of Masonry. The Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master.
Page 818-19: "The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry.... It is well enough for the mass of those called Masons, to imagine that all is contained in the Blue degrees; and whoso attempts to undeceive them will labor in vain.... There must always be common-place interpretations for the mass of the Initiates, of the symbols that are eloquent to the Adepts."
Have you advanced past the "Blue Lodge" and do I labor in vain to undeceive you? I told you about the deception but you choose to believe the deceivers rather than those that would guide you to the reality of it all.
Page 726 declares, "The Moral Code of Masonry is still more extensive than that developed by philosophy. To the requisitions of the law of Nature and the law of God, it adds the imperative obligation of a contract. Upon entering the Order, the Initiate binds to himself every Mason in the world."
The Bible states that we are not to be "yoked with unbelievers" yet that is exactly what every "Christian" that joins the lodge does in direct contradiction of God's word.
On page 321 Pike states, "LUCIFER, the
Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, Son of the Morning! Is it
he who bears the
Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not! for traditions are full of Divine Revelations and Inspirations: and Inspiration is not of one Age nor of one Creed." (emphasis in original)
And NOW you have the answer to my second question above.
Page 324 at the bottom he quotes "the Great Egyptian Hierophant: "What is Superior is as that which is Inferior, and what is Below is as that which is Above, to form the Marvels of the Unity." "
The Bible states that there will be those that call evil good, and good evil. Am I evil for revealing these facts of the lodge?
Some will say so.
I've just proven that Christianity and Freemasonry are not compatible by direct comparison
Allen, and others, you have a choice to make. Don't let your pride keep you from realizing the position you've placed yourself in. Pride is Satan's favorite sin. It keeps man from humbling himself. Your last response to me tells me you are making the wrong choice by putting the lodge above the teachings of the Bible.
PLEASE, my friend, make the right choice.
My offer to speak personally with anybody who wishes still stands. I have much more to share but if this isn't enough to make you want to know more then nothing I will say will get you to accept the facts.