Freemasonry Watch - Monitoring the Invisible Empire, the World’s Largest Secret Society
Some people say Freemasonry’s definition is :
A secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons, spread by the British Empire, with actually about 5 million members; 3 million in the USA, with 250,00 on the black “Prince Hall” Masonry (rejected by many white lodges)
and that its main motto is : “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
Some Masons define it as “a beautiful system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols”… also as “the realization of God by the practice of Brotherhood”: To reach God by doing good works to your neighbor…
It has been described as “the biggest, richest, most secret and most powerful private force in the world”… and certainly, “the most deceptive”, both for the general public, and for the first 3 degrees of “initiates”: Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason (the basic “Blue Lodge”)…
These Initiates are purposely deceived!, in believing they know every thing, while they don’t know anything about the true Masonry… in the words of Albert Pike, whose book “Morals and Dogma” is the standard monitor of Masonry, and copies are often presented to the members, “the first three degrees are but the outer court of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally mislead by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understand them… it is well enough for the mass of those called Masons to imagine that all is contained in the Blue Degrees” (”Morals and Dogma”, p.819).
Masonry: (form the french “mason”, “stone masons”), started in the 13th century as a “Union of Workers” of the cathedral builders to help each other; it was the “working” or “operative masonry”, meeting in “lodges”.
Freemasonry: With the decline of cathedral building, some lodges of operative masons begun to accept honorary members to bolster their declining membership… and from here, “Freemasonry” was born, not to build “cathedrals”, but to build “cathedrals of men”, and “the cathedral of the whole world”… it is the “speculative masonry”, adopting the rites and trappings of ancient religions, orders, sects, the occult, and chivalric brotherhoods.
Officially, Freemasonry was born in 1717, when 4 Craft Lodges gathered at the Apple Tree Tavern in London, and set up a constitution for Free and Accepted Masons, written by Anderson… but they claim their roots can be traced to Egypt, Syria, Babylon… and the stonecutters of the Solomon Temple, specially “Hiram Abiff” , a celebrated figure because of his death-defying refusal to reveal trade secrets to intruders… the “Jesus Christ” for many Masons… though it is “an irony”, because the Temple of Solomon was not built with stones, but with wood, brought by another “Hiram”, the King of Tyre .
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February 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
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