Freemasonry

  What is a Mason? What do they do? These are just a couple of questions you may
  ask. Most people know them to be a fraternal order of men that is usually
  involved in good civic activities, such as the Shriner's collecting money for the
  children's hospital. However, very little is known to the non-Mason, about what
  the Masons believe or what they do behind closed doors. Most Masons have
  never read some of the sources cited in the following. All of these Masonic
  sourcebooks are in the libraries of most local Lodges and the libraries of the
  Grand Lodges of the states. Let us further state that there are a lot of well
  meaning men and professing Christian men who are members of the Masonic
  lodges in small town America, and many never advance beyond the Blue Degrees.
  Remaining at this level, they are kept in the dark about a lot of what goes on as
  one obtains "more light," as they call it. If much of what is about to be disclosed,
  was known to a lot of these men and Christian men, they would not be a part of
  such an organization. 

   We urge those that really want to know the truth to check out these materials cited
  below, also before going any further, ask God to confirm in your own heart the
  truth as you read it. 
 

                            JESUS CHRIST

As found in the "Introduction to Freemasonry"...
  "In his private petitions a man may petition God or Jehovah, Allah or Buddha,
  Mohammed or Jesus; he may call upon the God of Israel or the First Great Cause.
  In the Masonic Lodge he hears petition to the Great Architect of the Universe,
  finding his own deity under that name. A hundred paths may wind upward
  around a mountain; at the top they meet." 
  (Carl H. Claudy, "Introduction to Freemasonry." p. 38) 

As found in the Word of God...
   Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the Life: no man cometh to the Father, 
   but by me. (Jn.14:6) 

  Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name {but Jesus} under
  heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12) 
 

                                   GOD

As found in Freemasonry books...
  "...Since every man's conception of God must be proportioned to his mental
  cultivation, and intellectual powers, and moral excellence. God is, as man
  conceives Him, the reflected image of man himself. (Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma,"
  14th Degree, p. 234) "The only personal God Freemasonry accepts is humanity in
  toto...Humanity therefore is the only personal God that there is." (J.D. Buck, "Mystic
  Masonry," p. 216) "The Absolute is Reason. Reason IS, by means of itself. It IS
  because IT IS...If God IS, HE IS by Reason." (Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma," 28th
  Degree. p. 737) 

As Found in the Word of God...
   In the Beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen. 1:1) 

   For there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word
  {Jesus}, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (I Jn. 5:7) 
   
   God said undo Moses, I AM THAT I AM... (Ex. 3:14)  
 

                          THE HOLY BIBLE

As found in Freemasonry books...
  "...the literal meaning (of the Bible) is for the vulgar only." (Albert Pike, "Digest of
  Morals and Dogma," p. 166) "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 but one alter 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) The removal of the name of Jesus and references to Him
  in Bible verses used in the ritual are "slight but necessary modifications." (Albert
  Mackey, "Masonic Ritualist." p. 272)  

As found in the Word of God...
  The Words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of
  earth, purified seven times. (Psa. 12:6) 

   All Scripture is given by inspiration of God... (II Tim. 3:16) 

   ...if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them. 
   (Isa. 8:20)  
 

                            REDEMPTION

As found in Freemasonry books...
  "These three degrees (1st, 2nd, 3rd) thus form a perfect an harmonious whole,
  nor can it be conceived that anything can be suggested more, which the soul of
  man requires." (Daniel Sickles, "Ahimon Rezon or Freemason's Guide." p. 196) "If we with
  suitable true devotion maintain our Masonic profession, our faith will become a
  beam of light an bring us to those blessed mansions where we shall be eternally
  happy with God, the Great Architect of the Universe." (Daniel Sickles, "Ahimon Rezon or
  Freemason's Guide." p. 79) "...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)  

As found in the Word of God...
  As it is written. There is none righteous no not one: (Rom. 3:10) 

  For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. (Rom. 3:23) 

  For He hath made Him {Jesus} to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might
  be made the righteousness of God in Him. (II Cor. 5:21) 

  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. (Eph. 2:8-9)  
 

                                 SATAN

As found in Freemasonry books...
  "The conviction of all men that God is good led to a belief in a devil..." (Albert Pike,
  "Morals and Dogma." 19th Degree, p. 324) "...there is no rebellious demon of Evil, or
  Principle of Darkness coexistent and in eternal controversy with God, or the
  Principle of Light..." (Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma," 32nd Degree, p.859)  

As found in the Word of God...
  Ye are of your father, the devil...he is a liar, and the father of it. (Jn.8:44) 

  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (Jas. 4:7) 

  Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of
  the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against powers, against the 
  rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 
  (Eph. 6:11-12)
  ...your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
  (I Pet. 5:8)  
 

                           TRUTHFULNESS

  The Mason Doctrine teaches that it's right to lie, if necessary to protect the secrets
  of the Lodge, or to protect brother Masons by concealing his wrongdoing. It can
  even be right to deliberately deceive sincere Masons seeking to learn the lessons
  and secrets of Masonry.  

  "The Blue Degrees are but the portico (porch) 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; but it is intended
  that he shall imagine that he understands them...their true ecplication
  (explanation / understanding) is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of
  Masonry." (Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma," 30th Degree, p. 189) "You must conceal all
  crimes of your brother Masons...and should you be summoned as a witness
  against a brother Mason be always sure to shield him...It may be perjury to do
  this, it is true, but you're keeping your obligations." (Ronayne, "Handbook of Masonry."
  p. 183) "Furthermore do I promise and swear that a Master Mason's secrets, given
  to me in charge as such, and I knowing them to be such, shall remain as secure
  and inviolable in my breast as in his own, when communicated to me, murder
  and treason excepted; and they left to my own election." (Master Mason's / 3rd
  Degree Oath of Obligation)  

As found in the Word of God...
  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. (Ex. 20:16) 

  Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. (Lev.
  19:11)

  ...lie not to one another. (Col. 3:9) ...all liars, shall have their part in the lake which 
  burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev 21:8)  
 

                  SECRECY & BLOOD OATHS

As found in Freemasonry books...
  Secrecy is indispensable in a Mason of whatever degree." (Albert Pike, "Morals and
  Dogma," 4th Degree, p. 109) I...do hereon most solemnly and sincerely promise and
  swear that I will always hail, ever conceal and never reveal any of the arts, parts
  or points of the secret arts any mysteries of ancient Freemasonry which I have
  received, am about to receive, or may hereafter be instructed in..." (Oath of
  Obligation, Entered Apprentice/1st Degree, and include in all subsequent degrees, 
  always on penalty of mayhem and violent death) "...binding myself under no less a 
  penalty that that of having my body severed in twain, my bowels taken out and burned to
  ashes, the ashes scattered to the four winds of heaven..." (from the Oath of Obligation,
  Master Mason/Third Degree) "...In willful violation whereof may I incur the fearful
  penalty of having my eyeballs pierced to the center with a three-edged blade, my
  feet flayed and I be forced to walk the hot sands upon sterile shores of the Red
  Sea until the flaming Sun shall strike me with a livid plague, and may Allah, the
  god of Arab, Moslem and Mohammedan, the god of our fathers, support me to
  the entire fulfillment of the same." (from the Oath of Obligation, Ancient Arabic Order of
  Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ["Shriners"]) 

As found in the Word of God...
   I {Jesus} spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and
  in the temple...and in secret have I said nothing. (Jn. 18:20) 

  Provide things honest in the sight of all men. (Rom. 12:17) 

  Thou shalt not kill (murder). (Ex. 20:13) 

  But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, 
  neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into
  condemnation. (Jas. 5:12)  

  Seek the Truth through the Word of God!

      "...ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (Jn. 8:32) 
 

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