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Definition
History
Masons
Symbols
Anti- Masonery
Emblem
- Compass and square
forming the triangle of God, with
the letter "G" in the center, or
the "eye" of God... or on top of
an open Bible.
- They are the 3
indispensable jewels of a
Lodge, representing "equality,
liberty, and fraternity".
- The "compass" is the male
element, represents solidarity,
by making a circle; the "square",
the female element, represents
righteousness.
Masonery: art or trade of building in stone; universally practiced
since ancient times.
For example the English Cathedrals, such as the Orvieto Duomo
Umbria, Italy. Even though Masons (Freemasons) are members
of the largest and oldest fraternity in the world, and even though
almost everyone has a father or grandfather or uncle who was a
Mason, many people aren't quite certain just who Masons are. A
Mason (or Freemason) is a member of a fraternity known as
Masonry (or Freemasonry). A fraternity is a group of men who
join together because. There are things they want to do in the
world. There are things they want to do "inside their own minds.
They enjoy being together with men they like and respect.
The word "lodge" means both a
group of Masons meeting in some
place and the room or building in
which they meet. Masonic buildings
are also sometimes called "temples"
because much of the symbolism
Masonry uses to teach its lessons
comes from the building of King
Solomon's Temple in the Holy Land.
The term "lodge" itself comes from
the structures which the
stonemasons built against the sides
of the cathedrals during
construction. In winter, when
building had to stop, they lived in
these lodges and worked at carving
stone.
Every lodge has an altar holding a "Volume of the Sacred
Law." In the United States and Canada, that is almost
always a Bible.
No, Freemasonry is not a
religion. Masons who treat it as
such are mistaken.
Freemasonry strongly
encourages its members to
belong to an established
religion, although that is a
requirement for membership
(only that a candidate profess a
belief in a Supreme Being).
Masonry is a fraternal
organization that encourages
morality and charity and
studies philosophy. It has no
clergy, no sacraments, and
does not promise salvation to
its members.
It is difficult to learn the name of the deity of
Masonry, since it is a closely guarded secret! To
outsiders, the god of the Lodge is usually
referred to as "The Great Architect of the
Universe" (or T.G.A.O.T.U.). That sounds alright,
if a bit vague. This is, sadly, exactly how it is
intended to sound.
The blandness of the titles of the Masonry's
god diminishes as the degrees climb. As in
most secret societies, the revealed material
gets more bizarre as you get further into the
club. As an example, in the first prayer the
candidate hears, deity is addressed as
"Almighty Father of the Universe." Throughout
the lower degrees, the deity is addressed either
as "God" (as when the candidate swears his
oath by saying, "so help me God…", or as
T...G...A...O...T...U...
The masons originated in originated in the
14th century as a guild of craftsmen;
restricted to stonecutters. It is considered
as the largest and most widely
established fraternal order in the world.
Until the completion of the building of the
cathedrals in the 17th century, and
especially in England during the
Reformation, they admitted as members,
men of wealth or social status. The guilds
then became societies devoted to general
ideals, such as fraternity, equality, and
peace, and their meetings became social
rather than business occasions. As a
result of the patronage of the order by
members of the nobility, the rising British
mercantile class looked upon
Freemasonry as an adjunct to social
success, and the order became popular.
The Masonic ideals of religious toleration
and the basic equality of all people were in
keeping with the growing spirit of liberalism
during the 18th century. One of the basic
tenets of the Masonic orders throughout the
English-speaking world has been that
religion is the concern solely of the
individual. Opposition on the part of the
Roman Catholic Church has been chiefly on
the grounds that Freemasonry, with its
binding principles and religious nature, has
usurped the prerogatives of the church. As a
result, the Freemasons have never been
permitted in some strictly Roman Catholic
countries, such as Spain. In France, however,
following the atheistic and Protestant trend
of the French Revolution, the order
flourished.
FREEMASONS (1881)
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS
Masonry teaches that each person has a
responsibility to make things better in the world.
Most individuals won't be the ones to find a cure
for cancer, or eliminate poverty, or help create
world peace, but every man and woman and child
can do something to help others and to make
things a little better. Masonry is deeply involved
with helping people -- it spends more than $1.4
million dollars every day in the United States, just
to make life a little easier. And the great majority of
that help goes to people who are not Masons.
Some of these charities are vast projects, like the
Crippled Children's Hospitals and Burns Institutes
built by the Shriners. Also, Scottish Rite Masons
maintain a nationwide network of over 100
Childhood Language Disorders Clinics, Centers,
and Programs. Each helps children afflicted by
such conditions as aphasia, dyslexia, stuttering,
and related learning or speech disorders. Some
services are less noticeable, like helping a widow
pay her electric bill or buying coats and shoes for
disadvantaged children. And there's just about
anything you can think of in-between. But with
projects large or small, the Masons of a lodge try
to help make the world a better place. The lodge
gives them a way to combine with others to do
even more good.
Many colonial Masons were involved in the American Revolution.
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, John Hancock, John Paul Jones - even
Benedict Arnold – were all Masons.
In addition, a free black man named Prince Hall was made a Mason, along with 14 of his
friends, on March 6, 1775.
The period of the American Revolution also saw the first American Indian to be made a Mason.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Masonry dates back to the
middle ages or far back. It’s a
secret society that originated
as a crusader order (the
Knights Templars) that bowed
to fight for Christianity. Using
their military strength and
political connections they
acquired vast fortunes; at
such an extent that they
achieved greater material
power and wealth than the
church and the states of
Europe. They became capable
of imposing their will on the
rulers and church authorities.
After two centuries of defending the
Christian faith, the Order met its demise
when Philip IV (the Fair) sought to
destroy the Templar’s. During the
tortures they confessed: trampling and
spitting on the cross, homosexuality,
sodomy and worshipping an idol. In
1312 the Templar’s were officially
dissolved by Pope Clement V at the
Council of Vienne. Although the
Templar’s were not found guilty of the
crimes they were charged with, it was
felt that the reputation of the Order had
fallen to a low state that it was
dissolved. They kept organizing
underground until they reappeared with
another name: the Masons.
Blue Lodges are those in
which the first 3 degrees
are conferred: Entered
Apprentice, Fellow Craft,
and Master Mason. The 3
Degrees wear "blue"
aprons, the official color of
Freemasonry, and the only
proper form to address the
Master of the Lodge is
"Worshipful Master".
- "Foot to foot": To go to help your brother.
- "Knee to knee": Pray for your brother. - "Breast
to breast": Keep the secrets. - "Hand to back":
Assist your fallen brother, and vindicate his
character behind his back, as well as before
his face.
"Mouth to ear": Whisper good council.
The idea of a widespread freemason
conspiracy originated in the late 1700's and
flourished in the US in the 1800's. Persons
who embrace this theory often point to
purported Masonic symbols such as the
pyramid and the eye on the back of the dollar
bill as evidence of the conspiracy.
Robison, a professor of Natural Philosophy at
the University of Edinburgh in Scotland,
argued that the Illuminati evolved out of
Freemasony, and called the Illuminati
philosophy "Cosmo-politism." According to
Robison:
"Their first and immediate aim is to get
the possession of riches, power, and
influence, without industry; and, to
accomplish this, they want to abolish
Christianity; and then dissolute manners and
universal profligacy will procure them the
adherents of all the wicked, and enable them
to overturn all the civil governments of
Europe; after which they will think of farther
conquests, and extend their operations to the
other quarters of the globe, till they have
reduced mankind to the state of one
indistinguishable chaotic mass."
Sherman Adams Governor of New Hampshire and U.S. Congressman.
Louis Armstrong, Jazz musician. Montgomery Lodge No. 18 .
Simón Bolívar, Leader of South American independence.Lodge Order and Liberty No. 2, Peru, 1824
Walter Chrysler Founder of Chrysler Corporation.[5]
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Studholme Alliance Lodge No. 1591, Rosemary Lodge No. 2851.
Samuel Colt Manufacturer of Colt revolvers
Leroy Cooper, U.S. astronaut, member of Carbondale Lodge No. 82, Colorado
King Edward VII, King of Great Britain, UGLE
King Edward VIII, King of Great Britain; UGLE
Gustave Eiffel, Designer and architect of the Eiffel Tower
Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. London Scottish Rifles Lodge No. 2310.
Gerald Ford, U.S. President. Malta Lodge No. 465, Grand Rapids, MI
Benjamin Franklin, February 1731, St. John's Lodge of Philadelphia;
John H. Glenn, Jr., Astronaut and US Senator[
Harry Houdini, Escape artist
Andrew Jackson, U.S. President. Harmony Lodge No. 1
John S. McCain, Sr. (1884-1945), US admiral, Carrollton Lodge No. 36
John S. McCain, Jr. (1911-1981), US admiral, made "Mason at Sight", Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, 1975, enrolled
St. John's Lodge No. 11
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President. Holland Lodge No. 8, New York
Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President. Matinecock Lodge No. 806,
The New World Order is a movement supposedly related to the masons. It’s a vision of a one universal or
one world government and a one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary
hierarchy who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the
Middle Ages. In this entity the population will limited by restrictions on the number of children per family,
diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be
strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population.
It states that there will be no middle class, only rulers and the servants. All laws will be uniform under a
legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World
Government police force and a One World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where
no national boundaries shall exist. The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are
obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those
who are rebellious will simply be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who
wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited.
In conclusion, Masonery, is a "lodge"
aimed to seek the truth, and
promotes the intellectual and moral
development of mankind. Despite
their rare and secret meetings and its
symbols as secret fraternity,
Masons have been identified and
confused with Iluminattis, another
secret "lodge" whose purpose is to defeat
the governments and kingdoms
in the world and eradicate all religions
and beliefs to rule the
nations under a New World Order. It is a
fact what comes to mind when
we hear the word Masons is: satanic cults,
New World Order,
Illuminatti and the "all seeying eye". But
Masons and Illuminattis are
not the same. The Masonic main symbol
is a compass and a square not a
pyramid.
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