Christians Beware - of Freemasonry

we think it is diabolically in league with Satan
"Satan's synagogue"
 

Since Freemasonry has attempted so strenuously to claim that they are just a "good ole boy" fraternity that does good works and has a good time, most people will be shocked to learn the bitter truth behind that facade.

 

The Lying and Deception begins with the "G"

Freemasonry is one of many apostate religions dedicated to the destruction of traditional Judaism and Christianity.  Those who aspire to grow in their closeness to Jesus Christ, and to increase their discernment in these days, would do well to stay very clear of Freemasonry.  Are your loyalties with Jesus Christ or are they with the lodge? Both are diametrically opposed to one another as you will see below.

Masons have mixed idolatry, paganism, the occult, Kabala, fertility cults, Satanism, spiritualism, demonology, and put it into a blender and come up with the Masonic religion.  It is not of God!  It is a false religion; the Harlot of Babylon.  Masons say they offer new candidates "the light".  The light they are actually giving is: Lucifer.  The Christian Bible says that Satan walks to and fro on this earth masquerading as an "angel of light",  that many might be deceived.  As occultist Benjamin Creme states, "in Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor, and symbol"...   Unknown to most Masons, there is an occult side to Masonry.  It is at levels in Masonry that most Masons never get to.   about $12.00 See at Amazon.com   In his book Masonry "Beyond the Light", William Schnoebelen (now a saved Christian) talks about his experiences as first a Satanist and then a Mason who passed through nearly all the Mason Degrees, including some that American Masons are unaware of; such as degrees in Masonry like the Egyptian rites of Masonry and the Paladin. During his initiation into Palladium Masonry William sadly admits to standing with Masons, some who were also Satanists and chanting; "Glory and Love for Lucifer! Hatred! Hatred! Hatred! to God accursed! accursed! accursed!". He says that hashish provides some of their "illumination", taking after the 1st "Illuminati" 18th century Mason Adam Weishaupt.  During the Palladium "program" William tells how Masons promised to surrender themselves body and soul to Lucifer, usually for 7 years, and Lucifer promised to grant them all their worldly desires.  Through drugs and occult William says that they practiced opening the "Third Eye" which when opened completely flooded their brains with the "pure" consciousness of Lucifer himself--which is Satan's counterfeit of the Christian's "being born again". He says one would then look at the world and people as Satan does. William says that as this degree progressed, they had conversations with the dead and then went on to "marrying" the dead when the demons ultimately possessed them entirely to a point that "there is no longer anyone home" in the host body. William says he experienced being linked mentally into a "vast spider web" of communication as part of an invisible army of slaves almost totally dependent on Satan. The Secret of Masonry is this: As a Mason you will be led and hoodwinked into believing there is useful knowledge to be learned in Masonry.  This is the "hook", and in each level you will be disappointed with these so-called Secrets, which are all frivolous, made up, and insignificant.  This so-called "knowledge" will also be monetarily costly, and very time consuming -- away from your family.  It is the lure of curiosity and nothing more that will be satisfied by Masonry.   You will be made to "swear" things and take "solemn oaths"; and in doing so, to act against your conscience as both a Christian and an American.  These oaths and pledges will in time act upon your conscience in such the same way as a Christian who has knowingly taken the mark of the beast.  At some point it will dawn on you that you have chosen the lodge, the occult and Satan over the Lord Jesus Christ.  When you notice there is a complete "black out" of even the mention of Jesus Christ in your lodge, you will feel trapped because of all the "solemn Masonic oaths" you had made, without knowing in advance of just what you were in for. Your "swearing" to keep Mason secrets is forbidden by the Word of God to "Swear not at all".  Yet diabolically, you may be asked to do this with your hand on a Bible and a compass & square.  Your oaths will be awful, and you will need to pledge to keep undefined secrets.  And you will pledge to maintain these frivolous secrets under the penalty of death.  This is an extrajudicial oath.  And as such, contrary to the laws of the land.  Yet you will be enticed to make them.

As a group they are officially known as the "Free and Accepted Masons," sometimes called the "Ancient Free and Accepted Masons." Most often they're referred to simply as "Freemasons" or "Masons."  One main difference between Freemasonry and Christianity is that Christianity holds that Jesus is everything, while Masonry teaches that He is nothing, equal to pagan gods such as Allah and those taught by Buddha.  The Bible kept in Masonic Lodges is there just like a piece of furniture.  The Holy Name of Jesus is never to be read from it.

 

Freemasonry Exposed by one of its top leaders.

How can Christians remain tethered to this blasphemous religion of Masonry?  On page 84 Jim Shaw writes; " Albert Mackey wrote (in the Masonic Ritualist), "Thus the trestleboard (blueprint for life) of the Jew is the Old Testament, of the Mohammedan the Koran; the Veda Scriptures of Hinduism and the writings of Baha-ullah are just as good as the Word of the Christians' God, for the fact is that all religions are never as good as the pure teachings of Freemasonry."

Masonry teaches that Jesus is no greater than the other "exemplars" of history (such as Mohammed, Buddah, Aristotle, or Joseph Smith). Page 94

33-degree Jim Shaw walked away from Freemasonry one day, after participating in a a Masonic Maudy Thursday "black communion" ceremony in his Scottish Rites Temple in Florida.  Participants of this ceremony are required to refer to Jesus as an "apostle of mankind who was neither inspired or divine". They then proceed to mock Jesus further by enacting a strange "black communion" ceremony. Pages 105-107

The "Black Communion" of Maundy Thursday:

During this ceremony, Masons blaspheme the Lord.  They make an evil, black mockery of His pure and selfless death, and the Lord's will that we take communion "in remembrance of Him."

To elaborate on this, take a good look at Masonry's "Maundy Thursday" ceremony.  We call it a "Black Communion" where Masons chant words calling Jesus merely an "apostle of mankind" who was neither inspired nor divine!

 

In the Scottish Rite the Thursday before Easter, "Maundy Thursday," is an important day. On this day Masons always perform a special ceremony of "Communion" in their local Scottish Rite Temple.

Dressed in long black, hooded robes during this Thursday ceremony, Masons chant:

"We meet this day to commemorate the death of our 'Most Wise and Perfect Master,' not as inspired or divine, for this is not for us to decide, but as at least the greatest of the apostles of mankind."

“Masonry makes no profession of Christianity…but looks forward to the time when the labor of our ancient brethren shall be symbolized by the erection of a spiritual temple…in which there shall be one altar and one worship; one common altar of Masonry on which the Veda, Shastra, Sade, Zend-Avesta, Koran and Holy Bible shall lie…and at whose shrine the Hindoo, the Persian, the Assyrian, the Chaldean, the Egyptian, the Chinese, the Mohammedan, the Jew, and the Christian may kneel…” (“The Kentucky Monitor,” Fellowcraft Degree, p.95)

Masons pass unnoticed by the general public. But this wasn't always so.  In 1827, the United States witnessed the birth of a third political party. This had never happened before. The new party offered America its first alternative to the two dominant political groups. Like so many third parties to come, this one had a rather narrowly-focused platform. It was dedicated to countering the malevolent and subversive influence of the international cabal known to the world as Freemasonry. It was named the Anti-Masonic Party, and the Anti-Masons were well aware that theirs was an uphill battle. In 1830, John Quincy Adams  was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on the Anti-Mason Party ticket.  In 1832, the Anti-Masonic Party managed to elect Millard Fillmore to Congress, but their candidate for President received only seven votes in the Electoral College.

Letters on Freemasonry, by our 6th President, John Quincy Adams, first published in 1833, is finally back in print. Until now, it was nearly impossible for the general public to obtain a copy of this fascinating book. John Quincy Adams, a devout Christian, was probably America's most intelligent President.  He spoke and wrote 7 languages.  He mastered the Latin, Greek, French, Dutch, and Spanish languages.  He also studied law, and graduated from Harvard University in 1787 second in his class, with high honors.  Adams was a determined opponent of the secret society and fraternity of Freemasonry, the Masonic Lodge. President Adams was convinced Freemasonry was Luciferian, noxious, detrimental and highly evil.  So convinced was Adams of the devilish and negative effects of Freemasonry in the affairs of men that the former President of the United States helped to found the Anti-Mason Political Party. In 1830, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on the Anti-Mason Party ticket.  It was the tragic murder of Captain William Morgan by a group of Masons in the state of New York in the year 1826 that further heightened Adams’ sense of urgency to warn of the dangers of the Masonic Lodge. Morgan, an ex-Mason, had revealed some of the secrets of the Masons—oaths, handshakes and ritual trappings, etc. In retaliation, he was ritually murdered in a particularly gruesome manner, and his lifeless, mutilated body abandoned in a lake. The facts of Morgan’s murder were subsequently covered up by lawful authorities, reputed themselves to be Masons. When evidence ensued that the Masonic Society had assisted the culprits responsible for Morgan’s death to elude capture and escape punishment, the event caused a national scandal.   "Freemasonry is deceptive and fraudulent...Its promise is light—its performance is darkness." -President John Quincy Adams "Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong—essentially wrong—a seed of evil, which can never produce any good." -President John Quincy Adams

The Masonic Blaspheme continues:

In the Royal Arch degree of the York Rite, the  Companion Captain  of the Host is asked if he is a Royal Arch Mason and  he replies  "I am, that I am." If you remember, Moses, in Exodus 3:13, asked God  what name he should give to the people of Israel when they asked  what the  name of this god is that he brings to them. God replied:  "I am  that I am."

"Also, in the Scottish Rite, one of the officer's title is Rabboni which is a name given to Jesus by Mary Magdalene found in John 20:16. The using of his name and combining it with other gods  or pagan  deities would seem to make any Christian  understand  that this is certainly blasphemous.

Masons numbers have been dwindling:

The Masons, by their own statistics, have gone in the 1980's from 4 million members in the world to under 2 million members in 1996 (according to the Dallas Morning News).  Lately, the Freemasons have been advertising on the radio and television for more members (lots of dues are important to them).  These ads always play up their links to other famous Masons in U.S. history like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.  Just as the rank and file Mason is clueless about Masonry today, these early Americans, including presidents were also clueless about Masonry before joining it.  They too were hoodwinked by oaths and promises of "Secrets" that turned out to be more frivolous nonsense in each degree.  What Masons won't tell you is that in the later years of his life, George Washington showed indifference to Masonry. He even sought to distance himself from Masonry.  From Mount Vernon George Washington wrote in 1798:

"to correct an error you have run into, of my Presiding over the English lodges in this Country. The fact is, I preside over none, nor have I been in one more than once or twice, within the last thirty years."

And, that both George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were not very good Christians.  Franklin was a Deist.  A Deist generally believes in a God who created the universe and then abandoned it.  Dr. Priestley, an intimate friend of Franklin, wrote of him: 

"It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers" (Priestley's Autobiography)

Thomas Paine, a Mason, who wrote the extraordinarily successful pamphlet called "Common Sense" during the American Revolution tells us what Masons really teach and believe when he wrote about it:

Paine, like Franklin, was a Deist.  He believed in one God, but rejected all religions, saying:  "My own mind is my own church."

He also maintained an interested in Freemasonry. His pamphlet, Origin Of Free-Masonry, proposed that Masonry's embodiment of the sun worship of ancient Druidism was a legitimate alternative to Christianity. He notes that Freemasonry's god, "...Osiris and Isis, theologically represented the Supreme Being and universal Nature..."

Paine wrote in his famous "The Age of Reason": "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of.  My own mind is my church. "

Karl Marx, Lenin and Trotsky, were all Freemasons.  Essentially these three were all dysfunctional losers who were employed by the Illuminist bankers to hoodwink the masses. Lenin for example had been an unsuccessful lawyer who had only six cases in which he defended shoplifters. He lost them all. A short time later he gave up the law to become a highly paid revolutionary.

Lenin declared: "Peace means quite simply the domination of Communism over the entire world." His reign of terror caused nine million deaths but you never see him compared to Hitler. 1.7 million people were murdered in Russia during the 1918-1919 period, including 300,000 priests.

"A river of blood flowed through Russia". "According to official Soviet Reports, 1,695,904 people were executed from January 1921 to April 1922. Among these victims were bishops, professors, doctors, officers, policemen, lawyers, civil servants, writers...Their crime was 'anti social thinking' "

Christians step out of the light into a new false (Mason) Religion:
For those Christian Masons who doubt they have stepped out of Christianity, you need to read what the great mason occultist Albert Pike writes:  "Every Masonic Lodge is a Temple of Religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion." (Morals and Dogma, pg. 213) .  Regardless to claims to the contrary, Masons are clearly embedded in a false mystical religious system of salvation through works.  Any "God" will do in this Masonic religion, because the Lodge teaches the heresy that it isn't God who saves one's soul anyhow: it's one's own good works.

Freemasons insist Freemasonry is not a religion. However, it is strange that the room they meet in is referred to as a ‘temple’, the seat the Worshipful Master (the chairman for that year) sits on is referred to as an ‘altar’ and the ceremonies end with the phrase ‘so mote it be’ - the same words used in major satanic rituals. A blue lodge always has an altar. Altars are always associated with religious worship and sacrifice. This calls an important question to mind. What does "Worshipful Master" mean? Doesn't it mean what it says --that the so-called Worshipful Master of the Masons is to be worshipped? Shouldn't only Jesus be worshipped? But no, Masons say ALL religions are equal.  Christians, see the light!

The lie... “…salvation by faith and the vicarious atonement were not taught as now interpreted, by Jesus, nor are these doctrines taught in the esoteric scriptures.  They are later and ignorant perversions of the original doctrines.” (J. D. Buck, “Mystic Masonry,” p.57) "Acacian: a term signifying a Mason who by living in strict obedience to obligations and precepts of the fraternity is free from sin." (A. Mackey, "Lexicon of Freemasonry, page 16). Strict obedience includes not witnessing about Jesus or even mentioning His name in the Lodge.

The truth... “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life." (John 6:47) “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)

At the Heart of Masonry is Lucifer:

High level Masons believe that Lucifer never fell to earth and that Lucifer is really God, and refer to Yahweh by the name of ‘Adonay.’  Masons say that it is Yahweh that is the god of evil, because he forces men to be subservient to his repressive dictates. Masonic books given to handpicked members of the 32nd and 33rd Degrees, say that Jesus was an impostor, and that Lucifer is the true God. The Masons have their own Luciferian based calendar. Where ours is based on the years before (B.C.) and after (A.D.) the birth of Christ, theirs counts its years with the suffix A.L. means Anno Lucis or ‘Year of Light (Lucifer).  Masons usually refer to God with the vague and general term “Deity.” The god of Masonry can be one of their own choosing, spoken generically as the “The Great Architect of the Universe.” Human nature is also worshipped by some Masons as “Deity,” as are Knowledge and Reason.

Freemasonry has a plan of salvation which is based on imitation of their savior, Hiram Abiff...  New candidates are told that Masonry is based on Hiram Abiff who lost the "secret name of God" while he was building the great pyramid.  As punishment he was entombed alive in the pyramid.  Masons think that salvation refers to being brought from the material to the spiritual; i.e., when man returns to "his forgotten inherent spirituality." Masons believe that the degree of Master Mason is symbolical of old age, which allows a person to happily reflect on a well-spent life and to "die in the hope of a glorious immortality." Because they deny the reality of sin, Masons see no need of salvation in the Biblical sense. They see salvation as a step-by-step enlightenment, which comes through initiation into the Masonic degrees and their mysteries. 

 

The fundamental of Freemasonry is the idea that there are no knowable ideas, only mysteries which some people have been given the key to and others haven't. Masons think God likes some and doesn't like others - and that's all there is to it.  And we know who we are, and we know who you are.  Early on in Freemasonry it was always white protestants (their) god likes.  Later, to increase dues, it became, god (their god) likes everyone, with the exception of: women, children, blind, deaf, lame, poor, retarded, slaves or Negroes.  Of course the poor cannot become Masons, because they can't pay the dues.  Is it a coincidence that those whom Masonry rejects are among the same ones that Jesus was happy to minister to?

During the initiation for the Master Mason, the Master instructs the kneeling candidate with his hand on God's Holy Word to affirm, and the candidate does affirm that the lodge in which he is kneeling is erected to God and dedicated to the holy order of St. John. Remember this is said in and of every Master Masons' lodge. But is this true? No, indeed, it is mere mockery. The words are a mere profane form. Does not every Freemason know this?

This, and all the following oaths of Masonry, are administered and taken as additions to all the previous oaths which the candidate has taken. (See the oath)

 

All that is wicked and profane in the former oaths is indorsed and reaffirmed in this and in every succeeding oath. Thus Freemasons proceed to pile oath upon oath in a manner most shocking and revolting. And is this a Christian institution? Is this obedience to Him who has said "swear not at all?"

You will observe that in this oath the candidate also swears, that "a Master Mason's secrets, given to me in charge as such," * * "shall remain as secure and inviolate in my breast as in his own, murder and treason excepted, and they left to my own election." Now, this section of the oath is very broad, and may be understood to cover secrets of every description. But to put it beyond all doubt whether crimes are to be kept secret, murder and treason are excepted, showing that the oath has respect particularly to concealing the crimes of a Master Mason. He may commit Theft, Robbery, Arson, Adultery, Rape, or any crime whatever, Murder and Treason excepted, and however well the commission of these crimes may be known to a Master Mason, if a Master Mason has committed them, he is under oath to conceal them.

 

Even within Masonry the spirit of elitism, the principle of the superiority of the "chosen few," prevails.  Those Blue Lodge Masons who lack the money cannot pursue the higher degrees and the Shrine. And, even for those who can afford the higher degrees and the Shrine, there are offices and positions closed to some who haven't the wealth, nice home or social position required."   book "The Deadly Deception", page 148

Ex 33 Degree Mason Jim Shaw says that this promised "Light" is never found.  "The Candidate receiving the 32nd Degree is told he still has not reached the light".  Reference: his book "The Deadly Deception", page 156

 

This never ending search for more light only culminates with more dues being paid to the Lodge and nothing else; except the realization everything one is taught in the first 3 degrees is a lie. 

 

Masons - Masters of Denial:
Beware: Masons have mastered the "denial technique".  All those who write critically of Freemasonry are "anti's"; and all "anti's" are frauds, liars, zealots, or extremists and cannot be accepted. Their other main tactic is: "baffle them with bee's wax."  According to Masonic law and tradition, All non-Masons are, "profane persons".  This includes the Mason's wife, children and parents, unless they, too are Masons.

"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, and their power of forgetting is enormous." --Adolph Hitler, "Mein Kampf"

 

The rank and file Mason hasn't got a clue that the goal of Masonry is the same as Satan's and Islam -- world domination.  Masons seek this through control of currency, control of major corporations including banking, media, entertainment, and communications.  They also work towards this through control of educators and textbooks, and most importantly the infiltration of religions. Major efforts at infiltration have also been focused upon the Catholic (Universal) Church.  

 

In 1884, Pope Leo XIII said there is a battle raging between "the kingdom of God" and the "kingdom of Satan," and that "partisans of evil...led on or assisted by...Freemasons" are "boldly rising up against God Himself."  The ultimate purpose of Freemasonry, Leo said, is "the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and Laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism."  Fundamental to Masonry and to naturalists Leo said, is that human nature and human reason "ought in all things to be mistress and and guide."  Sincere adherents to Masonry, he continued, "care little for duties to God, or pervert them by erroneous and vague opinions.  For they deny that anything has been taught by God; they allow no dogma of religion or truth which cannot be understood by human intelligence, nor any teacher who ought to be believed by reason of his authority."

 

Leo XIII also said; Masons "teach the great error of this age --that regard for religion should be held as an indifferent matter, and that all religions are alike."

The homosexual agenda, now supported by many Protestant denominations who are now in apostasy, is seen as a means of undermining the faith of Catholics. Freemasons support and promote this agenda. They also support the breakdown of religion through the use of media that is pro-immorality, pro-abortion, pro-pornography, and pro-population control.  This latter is already seen as destroying Europe, North America, Japan and Israel through negative natural replacement birth rates.

Most new candidates to Masonry also have no idea that what they are told initially are lies.  At the heart of Masonry is a secret Luciferian doctrine which a Mason only comes to understand as he reaches the higher levels..  New candidates are falsely taught that the beginnings of Freemasonry are lost in the "mists of time". Beware: That is just a clever lie candidates easily accept, to be deceived.

Manly Palmer Hall, a great authority on Masonry, writes, "When the Mason ... has learned the mystery of his Craft, the seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands. ..." (Manly Palmer Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, p. 48). 
 

Masons practice the virtues of brotherly love, forgiveness, and charity--on the surface.  They do this as a ploy, to make their satanic religion appear acceptable and sugar coated --- to the community. 

Belief in God (by whatever name he is known to them) is a condition of membership.  To receive the benefits of Freemasonry every candidate has to confess his belief in one, eternal and true God, creator and ruler of the universe, and in the immortality of the soul.  No candidate for Masonry, however, is to be asked for the particular opinion of his religious belief, so Lucifer as this prerequisite god is quite acceptable.  Its members are taught masonry's precepts by a series of ritual dramas, which follow ancient forms and use stonemasons' customs and tools as allegorical guides.  Freemasonry is deep into the occult, and it is also connected with the cult known as Rosicrucian. 

Shriners are a pagan Islamic branch of masonry who have reached higher "levels" in Freemasonry.  Islamic symbols, including of world conquest are everywhere in Shriner Temples.  As a Mason goes through the 32 degrees of the Scottish rite, he ends up giving worship to every Egyptian pagan god, the gods of Persia, gods of India, Greek gods, Babylonian gods, and others.

The Blue Lodge Masonic Degrees:
Men who join the Masonic orders undergo several initiations -- as many as thirty-three -- of which the third degree is the one most commonly attained. Candidates of this 3rd degree undergo a mock death and resurrection that simulates the death and resurrection of a legendary character, Hiram Abiff. From the very beginning new candidates are lied to as to what the symbols mean and who they are really serving (Lucifer). Like New Agers, Masons are working towards a one world government and a one world religion at the top.  Yet because of their desire to "belong", the new candidates haven't got a clue what is happening. 

Masons think the day will come when all of the Ancient Mysteries will be revealed to all those dwelling on the earth. In the Masonic Legend of Hiram Abiff, that day will be marked by his resurrection to rule the world.  According to the Bible, Hiram Abiff will most certainly rule. He will come as Hiram Abiff to the Mason, Crishna to the Hindu, Imam Mahdi to the Muslim, or Sosiosch to the Zoroastrian.  But in the Word of God, he is called the Beast (Antichrist).

History of Masonry:
Freemason theology, like Knights Templar theology is not compatible with Christianity.  Although Masons will admit to a history only as far back as 1717, research indicates that the same Masonic rituals and beliefs were in use by the Knights Templars. The Lodge idea came from a fraternal beginning.  For a period of 700 years (900 A.D. to 1600 A.D.), England went through a period of cathedral building. Masons (men in construction trades who specialized in brick or stone) formed guilds or craft organizations for self protection. In current terminology we would call them "unions." At that time structures called "lodges" were used by workers as shelter. Later this became the basic unit of Freemasonry. It is for this reason that most symbols are founded on the tools and practices of the building profession.  Their rituals are mostly occult, with building trade rituals mixed in.

The London Headquarters of the Knights Templars was Temple Church, which still stands.  It lies 'off street' between Fleet Street and the Thames River.  This building, which was consecrated in 1185 A.D. by the patriarch of Jerusalem saw most of the Knights Templars' new recruits pass through them.  Here secret rituals took place, that are not so unlike present day Masonry rituals.  Templar Recruits were first initiated as monks at Temple Church.  In addition to the church, the new compound originally contained residences, military training facilities, and recreational grounds for the military brethren and novices, who were not permitted to go into the city without the permission of the Master of the Temple.

The Knights Templars were initially established to protect Christian pilgrims en route the Holy Land.  The Templars reached the zenith of their might in the 13th century, when they wielded great power both in the Holy Land and in Europe. But when the Holy Lands fell back into Muslim hands in 1291, the Templars lost their apparent reason for existence.  Many Templars gathered great wealth in the Holy Lands and actually became powerful lenders of money in Europe.  Various powers, including the pope, made plans to consolidate the Templars with their rival order, the Knights Hospitallers. The Templars, perhaps overconfident of their prestige, did not maneuver very capably in this situation. On the morning of Friday the 13th, in April of the year 1307 AD, just before dawn, the King of France had all his constables descend at once on all Templar centers in France.  It is from this, we probably get the tradition of Friday the 13th being unlucky.  Good Friday was certainly not unlucky for Christians.  That day Christ took our sins upon Himself.  Most of the Templars were rounded up, tortured and executed.  Most also had their wealth stolen by the King of France. The Order of the Temple (Templars) was officially dissolved by papal bull in May of 1312.
 

The last Grand Wizard of the Knights Templars who Masons admire and have ritualistic ties to was the slain Jacques de Molay.  Masons probably deny their ties with the Knights Templars because the last Grand Wizard (Jacques de Molay) of the Knights Templars denied Christ in front of both Pope Clement and the King of France.  Yet, if de Molay did admit guilt, in fairness to him, it was probably under torture.  He is said to have recanted his admission, prior to being burned at the stake.  Being associated with the Templars, many who admitted the guilt of blaspheming the Lord, would make the Masons very unpopular, regardless of how many Christian sounding names their Masonic degrees contained.  The 27th Masonic Degree, however,  tells of the false condemnation of the Knights Templar, and the importance of the denial of the cross.

 

Knights Templars and Masons at the highest levels deny the cross, and that Jesus was the Son of God.  Although, Masonic rituals have often shown a cross with the letters "JN" (Jesus Nazareus) and "JBM" (Jacques Burgundus Molay) on it as equals (as if they were the First and Second Messiahs).  Both think much as Jehovah Witnesses do.  They believe in Jehovah (Yahweh), but deny Christ and His death on the cross for us as our way to salvation.

 

Have the pagan Mason's captured the Ark of the Covenant?
The earliest written copies of Masonic ritual state unequivocally that the ancient masons found the Ark of the Covenant hidden in a cave under the site of King Solomon's temple.  The Knights Templar's quartered in the Al Aqsa mosque on Temple Mount. There are many stories told that the Templar's spent the first 10 years or so of their existence digging under Temple Mount.
 

At the levels above the highest in masonry, reports indicate that masons toy with demon possession and spirit channeling.  Many Satanists are also drawn into freemasonry.

 

In his book Masonry "Beyond the Light", William Schnoebelen (now a saved Christian) talks about his experiences as first a Satanist and then a Mason who passed through nearly all the Mason Degrees, including some that American Masons are unaware of; such as degrees in Masonry like the Egyptian rites of Masonry and the Paladin. During his initiation into Palladium Masonry William sadly admits to standing with Masons, some who were also satanists and chanting; "Glory and Love for Lucifer! Hatred! Hatred! Hatred! to God accursed! accursed! accursed!". He says that hashish provides some of their "illumination", taking after the 1st "Illuminati" 18th century Mason Adam Weishaupt. 

 

In their 32nd degree, Masons are told that the name for god is composed of 3 Hindu gods: Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva.  Siva (Shiva) is a synonym for Satan.  Satanist Anton LaVey shows Shiva as a synonym for Satan in his satanic bible.

IS MODERN DAY FREEMASONRY AN "ILLUMINATI" OFFSHOOT?

Historical records seem to the "Illuminati" emergence as a united society of some kind in Frankfurt, Germany when, in 1773, one Meyer Amschel Rothschild assembled 12 of his most influential Jewish friends whom he later referred to as the "elders of Zion" to convince them that if they got their resources together, they could rule the world. He told them he had found someone - Adam Weishaupt - who had incredible intellect and ingenuity to lead the organization.  Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) played a key role in advancing this monstrous conspiracy. He was a follower of the occult Cabbalism (or Lucifer worship) that is the basis of Illuminism and Freemasonry. (See Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.) Funded by Rothschild and guided by a mysterious occultist named Kolmer, Weishaupt formed the "Order of Perfectibilists", which was later known as the Illuminati. Some claim that this founding date is the origin for the date of the Communist May Day observance. He adopted the name of "Brother Spartacus" within the order.  It was to direct a worldwide attack on all religion and government. It wanted a Universal Republic or a New World Order. The actual character of the society was determined by its traditionalist enemies to be an elaborate network of spies and counter-spies, though with the high goal of ensuring virtue. Each isolated cell of initiates reported to a superior, whom they did not know, a party structure that was later effectively adopted by some later groups, including more recently by the early Ba'ath party in Syria and Iraq. Weishaupt was initiated into Freemasonry Lodge "Theodor zum guten Rath", at Munich in Bavaria. He worked at first to divest Freemasonry of its pseudo-historical mumbo-jumbo and reform it. A book by Father Adolf Faroni of the Society of Don Bosco cites historical records indicating that the inner circle of the Order "was structured around the pentagram", the symbol of the blazing star Sirius. It was initially made up of five men: Kolmer, Francis Dashwood who founded the Satanic Hellfire Club, Alphone Donatien DeSade from whom the word "sadism" was derived, Mayer Rothschild, and Weishaupt. Then they began recruiting members initially referred to as "minerval" who could advance to the order of "illuminati minor". The latter would have to prove absolute devotion to the order to be able to advance to the top-most circle of initiates called "illuminati major", a position just below the Rex which, soon after the order was founded, was held by Weishaupt. Said Wieshaupt: "The power of the Order must be turned to the advantage of its members. All must be assisted. They must be preferred to all persons otherwise of equal merit. Money, services, honor, goods, and blood must be expended for the fully proved Brethren." From Germany, Freemasonry under the leadership of the illuminati spread to other countries. Weishaupt's radical rationalism, sweeping away nations and religions, private property and marriage, with the vocabulary used by the French Revolution, was not likely to appeal. Weishaupt's writings were intercepted in 1784.  They were interpreted by the Bavarian government as seditious.  His Society was banned by Bavaria's government in 1784, and Weishaupt lost his position at the University of Ingolstadt before fleeing Bavaria. In the latter part of the 18th century, the freemasons had mapped out a plot for a revolution in France. A freemason concocted a story that while the people of France were suffering from poverty, Queen Marie Antoinette had purchased a diamond necklace costing about $1.5 million. The Duke of Orleans then bought up a huge quantity of bread and grain in France to create artificial famine. This was followed by the Siege of Bastille on July 14, 1789. In November 1793, priests all over France were massacred as the Feasts of Reason were celebrated in churches in Paris. It came to a point that entire France was in chaos. The freemasons felt it was time to have a "man on a white horse" to reign again over the country and eventually spread his power over the rest of Europe towards the creation of a Universal Republic. Napoleon Bonaparte was thus initiated thrice into Masonic French lodges. After the Napoleonic Wars, freemasons in France assumed Europe would be ready for peace, so they set up the Congress of Vienna in an attempt to create the first League of Nations. However, Czar Nicolas Romanov of Russia went against this. Freemasons determined to eliminate him, and they did, when the czar and his entire family were executed at the height of the Bolshevik revolution in their country in 1917. It will be interesting to note that the Bolsheviks or Russian revolutionaries called themselves Spartacusts, which was the illuminati pseudonym of Weishaupt. A century after his death, occultist interest in Weishaupt and the Bavarian Illuminati picked up, through the writings of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Modern adepts trace the imagery of symbolism like the eye in the pyramid, and embrace the secrecy of the Illuminati traditions but ignore the specifics of Weishaupt's published essays and correspondence. Father of modern Satanism Aleister Crowley in Freemason regalia Crowley claimed in his 'Confessions...' that in 1904 he had been raised (taken the 3rd degree) in the Craft at the Anglo-Saxon Lodge No. 343 in Paris Crowley in his later years A study in contradictions, Crowley was a pioneering mountain climber, a pioneering homoerotic poet, a pioneering ritual magician, a heroin addict, a sleazy womanizer, a closet homosexual, a vocal feminist, a racist, a German collaborator, a British secret agent, a civil rights advocate, a talented amateur artist, a legitimately profound mystic and an infuriating charlatan.  Some claim that Crowley was a 33 Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Scottish Rite and also held the 95 of the Rite of Memphis and the 90 of the Rite of Mizraim. Crowley had been given the title by the Media of "the wickedest man alive". It can be documented that Crowley partook of and taught drug induced rituals that included perverted sexual acts, homosexuality, bestiality, and the eating of bodily emissions and excrement. Crowley who advocated blood sacrifice earned his other title "The Father of Modern Satanism".

 

Masonic Apron a symbol of defiance?

Almost in symbolic defiance to God, new Masons are given aprons and told it is the most precious symbol of Masonry.  Remember, in the Garden of Eden once they realized they were naked Adam and Eve sewed together an apron of fig leaves.  God was displeased with this and gave them coats made from skin.  In the 3rd degree many Masons get a silver serpent emblem for his apron.

"The heart of Freemasonry is the Blue Lodge with its three degrees. The climactic degree (and the final one for most Masons) in the Blue Lodge is the Third, or Master Mason Degree. The heart of the Master Mason Degree, the thing that gives it both meaning and substance, is without any doubt the reenactment of the Legend of Hiram Abiff (which in realty is about Osiris the Egyptian Sun God). It is this central figure in the legend, this Hiram the 'Widow's Son,' the 'Tyrian Architect,' this 'First Grand Master' who is impersonated by every man who is initiated as a Master Mason. It is Hiram who is at the very heart of the foundation of all of Masonry…"

Once completing the three degrees of the Blue Lodge, a mason is then allowed to go into either the Scottish rite of Freemasonry which has 32 degrees or the York rite which has 13 degrees. These are advanced degrees, where you pay more dues, and expect to learn (and don't) the secrets of Freemasonry. As one progresses through the degree work of these rites, they tell you that you are on a quest to find the lost name of God.

Where Mason dues go:
The Temple of the Supreme Council of the 33rd  and Last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite stands on the east side of Northwest 16th Street, between “R” and “S” Streets in Washington, D.C. High above the entrance is an elaborate image of the Egyptian sun god, backed by radiating sun and flanked by six large golden serpents. The interior walls are also decorated with serpents. Buried inside one of its walls is the acclaimed Mason, Albert Pike, a Massachusetts Tory, went south to incite whites against the Union during the Civil War.  Pike is also believed to have been high up in the Klu Klux Klan.

Get used to bowing to pagan gods.
As a Mason goes through the 32 degrees of the Scottish rite, he ends up giving worship to every Egyptian pagan god, the gods of Persia, gods of India, Greek gods, Babylonian gods, and others. As you come to the 17th degree, the Masons claim that they will give you the password that will give him entrance at the judgment day to the Masonic deity, the great architect of the universe. It is very interesting that this secret password is "Abaddon".

 

"It is generally believed, in spite of the fact that the Masonic authorities and writers of doctrine agree that it is not only a myth, unsupported by facts, but acknowledge that it is but a retelling of Isis and Osiris…"