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Bill Gilman
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helpforhomeschoolers,
You have done a valuable service with your series of articles/postings.
freemasonry is a worldwide evil and, it is quite possible, may represent the antichrist in revelation. It certainly has many of the charicteristics.
Taken one step further, you can connect freemasonry to Washington Dc and both the republicans and democreats and can understand the evil eminating from that city.
It's tied in with the one world order pushed by both Clinton and Bush, the United Nations, the European Union. Its all there.
By the way, the freemasons have donated tens of thousands of dollars to establish a DNA data base for children here in Massachusetts. Ostesibly, its about IDing kids that are missing but it involves dental imprents and DNA samples and video tapes of each kids.
It's called the CHIPs program. Dont be surprised if this leads to microchips in every kid very soon.
Starting now, that would lead to the entire nation having the microchips within about 60-70 years.
All I can say is Come Lord Jesus and ...
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Lord, save me!
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PART SIX: THE GOD OF THE LODGE: LUCIFER
A. ALBERT PIKE: LUCIFER IS GOD
What are the lies which the Lodge is designed to conceal? Why, if the Lodge is such a noble organization, does it need to deceive others? The truth is that the lies are necessary to conceal that Lucifer is the god of the Lodge and that all worship in the Lodge is the worship of Satan himself.
Every cult has its god. Every occultic society has its god. This is what is being covered up: the identity of the god of Freemasonry. Albert Pike re- vealed this in a speach given July 14, 1889, as Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World of Freemasonry in Paris, France:
"That which we must say to the crowd is -- We worship a god, but it is the god that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees -- The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine. If Lucifer were not god, would Adonay, (the God of the Christians) whose deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priest, calumniate him?
Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods: darkness being necessary for light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive.
Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil." (Reference: "Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World", Albert Pike, Grand Commander, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, July 14, 1889, Reported by A.C. De La Rive, *La Femme et L'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle* p.588
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In the late Nineteenth Century many anti-masonic books were written, pur- porting to be written by masons. Some have argued that this is one such book. There is no conclusive evidence either way. However, the contention that Lucifer is the god of the Lodge does not rise or fall on this quote from a book about masons. The following discussion will establish that fact from the mouths of Masons themselves.
B. W.L. WILMSHURST: LUCIFER IS GOD
Lucifer, worshipped as god, has been the goal of the mystery religions since Egypt worshipped the sun. W.L. Wilmshurst stated:
"Out of Egypt have I called My Son's is, in one of its many senses, a biblical allusion to this passing on of the catholic Mysteries from Egypt to new and virgin regions, for their enlightenment."
This is blasphemous, equating the Egyptian mystery religions with the Only Begotten Son of God. The purpose of the mystery religions in the ancient world was the establishing of Luciferian worship among men. Lucifer, who was the "bright one", the most beautiful of all of God's creation, lusted in his heart after the throne and majesty of God. The Word of God states:
"How art thou fallen from heaven. O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! for thou hast said in thine heart. I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." (Isaiah 14:12-14)
Lucifer did not succeed in exalting himself over the stars of God, nor did he succeed in being "like the most high". That honor was already the Eternal Possession of the One Who had been with the Father always. That One was, is, and ever shall be the Lord Jesus Christ.
But what did happen to Lucifer? Issiah 14:15-16 states:
"Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the houses of his prisoners?"
Lucifer -- Satan, the enemy of our souls, the adversary of Matthew 5:24 and I Peter 5:8 -- is an imitation "light" and a defeated foe. He has been cast out of heaven and placed under the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. Neverthelewss, there are allies of this "chief demon"that have been encouraging men from Adam's time to bow their knee to the "god of this world", Lucifer. These efforts have been through the ancient mystery religions and more recently through cultic and occultic practices, such as
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Freemasonry. It is in this way that Satan has "made the earth to tremble" and in this way he "did shake kingdoms."
Freemasonry is the successor to the mystery religions. WHILE THIS IS OBVIOUS, THE WRITINGS OF THE AUTHORITIES OF FREEMASONRY WILL BE QUOTED TO PROVE IT TO MASONS WHO WANT TO MAINTAIN THEIR LODGE ASSOCIATION BECAUSE OF BUSINESS ADVANTAGE AND STILL PRETEND TO SERVE JESUS CHRIST.
The blasphemous comment of Wilmshurst, who cited Matthew 2:15 as proof that our Lord Jesus Christ, the "image of the Father", was a successor to the mystery religions of Egypt has already been quoted. This is one of the greatest proofs of the condemnation of Freemasonry. Our Heavenly Father called the Lord Jesus Christ out of Egypt to demonstrate forever to all mankind that His Son is to be worshipped rather than the false god of Egypt, the sun god, Isis. Isis is but a flickering candle in comparison to the radiance of the Glory of the God of Israel.
Wilmshurst confirms the relationship between Freemasonry and the ancient mysteries with its chief representative, the Jewish Kaballa, when he stated:
"But that light, like that of a Master Mason, has never been wholly extinguished, however dark the age, and by the tradition, this of ours is spiritually the darkest of the dark ages. 'God has never left Himself without a witness among the children of men,' and among the witnesses to the Ancient Wisdom and Mysteries is the system of Masonry; a faint and feeble flicker, perhaps, but never- theless a true light and in the true line of succession of the primitive doctrine, and one still able to guide our feet into the way of peace and perfection." (*The Meaning of Masonry* p.178)
Wilmshurst affirms:
a. Freemasonry is the modern manifestation of the ancient mystery religions.
b. Masonry is able to guide men "to peace and perfection". This is proof that masonry claims to be "a way" to salvation.
c. Freemasonry is a "witness" of and to the ancient mystery religions, not the Lord Jesus Christ.
C. FREEMASONRY: MODERN VERSION OF CONDEMNED MYSTERY RELIGIONS
Masonry is the successor to the mystery religions. Masonry claims to be the "true light" through which men can come to "peace" and "perfection." Recall the discussion of the condemned "fables" in Titus 1:10-16, in Timothy 1:6-7, in I Timothy 4:4 and in II Timothy 4:3-4. *Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon* iden- tifies "fables" as:
"The fictions of the Jewish Theosophists and Gnostics, especially concerning the emanations and orders of the aeons."
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"Peace" is the Christian equivalent of salvation. "Perfection" is the Christian equivalent of sanctification. Both of these are achieved, argues Wilmshurst, through the Masonic Lodge.
In *Morals and Dogma*, Albert Pike stated:
"All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kaballa and return to it; everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the illuminati, Jacob Boeheme, Swedenborg, Saint Martin, and others, is borrowed from the Kaballa; ALL MASONIC ASSOCIATIONS OWE TO IT THEIR SECRETS AND SYMBOLS." (p.744)
Emanuel Swedenborg was the eighteenth century occultist who denied all of the books of the Bible except the Gospels and the writings of John. There is a Swedenborg Masonic Order and there is a church, which in the United States has several thousand members, founded on the occultic teachings of Swedenborg. Albert Pike affirms Swedenborg. In *Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry*, Mackey embraces Swedenborg also:
"...if there was really a borrowing of one from the other, and not an accideental coincidence, it was the Freemasons of the advanced Degrees who borrowed from Swedenborg, and not Swedenborg from them... WE CANNOT DENY THAT HE HAS UNWITTINGLY EXERCISED A POWERFUL INFLUENCE ON FREEMASONRY." (Volume 2, p.997)
No Christian should be associated with anything that an occultist like Swedenborg influenced. No Christian should have anything to do with anyone who denies the Word of God.
A brief review of *Morals and Dogma* reveals that all of the symbols of Freemasonry are interpreted in light of the "emanation and orders of the aeons" of the Kaballa. The Word of God specifically and categorically condemns and rejects the godless speculations such as these very activities in which Albert Pike and his Masonic "Brotherhood" are engaged.
In an article on the Kaballa, in *The Encyclopedia of Freemasonry*, Albert Mackey states:
"The mystical philosophy or theosophy of the Jews is called the Kaballa. The word is derived from the Hebrew Kabal, signifying to receive, because it is the doctrine received from the elders." (Volume 1, p.166)
According to *Thayer's* definition of "fables", God has condemned the Jewish Kaballa or mystery religions of the Jewish philosophers. But what is the connection, if any, between the condemned Kaballa and Freemasonry? Listen! Albert Mackey said:
"...INTIMATELY CONNECTED with the symbolic science of Freemasonry, the Kaballa may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and
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metaphysical speculations concerning the Deity, man and spiritual beings." (Ibid, p.166)
On page 5 of this study, *Expositor's Greek New Testamnet* is quoted demonstrating that the Bible condemns bizzarre and esoteric interpretations of scripture. The Kaballa and the Masonic Lodge employ scripture in a spec- ulative and occultic manner. In fact, in a manner which the Word of God condemns.
In a passage of Scripture quoted on page three of this paper, Paul warned Timothy about such idle speculations; he said:
"I am repeating in this letter the advice I gave you just before I went to Macedonia and urged you to stay at Ephesus. I wanted you to do this so that you could order certain persons to stop inventing new doctrines and to leave hoary old myths and interminable genealogies alone. Such things lead men to speculation rather than to the ordered living which results from faith in God. The ultimate aim of the Christian ministry after all, is to produce the love which springs from a pure heart, a good conscience and a genuine faith. Some seem to have forgotten this and to have lost themselves in endless words." (I Timothy 1:3-6, *Phillips*)
Masons busy themselves about "hoary old myths" which lead to "idle spec- ulation." God wants His people involved in "ordered living" which results in faith.
D: DOCTRINE OF EMANATION: GOD BECOMES MATTER
The "intimate connection" between the Kaballa and Freemasonry is more than illusory. The Kaballa, and other mystery religions, such as Zoroaster, teach the doctrine of "emanation". "Emanation" is defined by *Webster's Third New International Dictionary* as:
"The origination of the world conceived in Neoplatonism not as a creation out of nothing but as a series of hierarchically descending radiations from the Godhead to nous (consciousness) and other intermediate stages and ultimately to matter."
The contradiction of the Word of God as to Creation is clear. Biblical creation was DE NOVO, out of nothing. The doctrine of emanations is the precise opposite of this. Either the world was created by an emanation, by a gradual transformation of god into matter; or God spoke, and out of nothing, that which is came forth. The two theologies are mutually exclusive; one is true and the other is false.
The Supreme Being of the Kabbalist is not the God of the Bible. Of the Supreme Being of th4e Kabbalist, Mackey writes:
"The Supreme Being, say the Kaballists, is an absolute and inscrutable unity, having nothing without him and everything within him. He is called EN SOPH, 'The Infinite One'. In this infinitude he cannot be comprehended by the intellect, nor
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described in words intelligible by human minds, so as to make his existence percepttible." (Ibid, p.167)
This is certainly not a description of the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob. The "knowable-ness" of God by man is not only affirmed by Scripture (Romans 1), but is established as the very dynamic behind creation. The "mystery" becomes even more bizzarre as the god of the Kaballa, "The Great Architect of the Uni- verse", is further described by Mackey.
Because of his transcendent nature, and therefore "un-knowable-ness", the Supreme Being of the Kaballa needed to make himself comprehensible. Mackey stated:
"It was necessary, therefore, that, to render himself comprehensible, the EN SOPH should make himself active and creative. But he could not become the direct creator; because, being infinite, he is without will, intention, thought, desire or action, all of which are qualities of a finite being only." (Ibid, p.167)
The roots of secular humanism with its deification of man and its anthro- pomorphizing of God are seen here as the Kaballist creates a god who is inept.
Anyone familiar with the history of religion begins to recognize who EN SOPH really is. He is a "first cause", a "prime mover", the "creative force" in the world. Yet, he is a "first cause" of limited capacity. He is a god who is manageable by man. He is certainly not the caring, compassionate, communing God of David and the Psalms. He is not the omnipitent, creator God of Genesis and Jeremiah. Mackey commented further:
"The EN SOPH, therefore was compelled to create the world in an indirect manner, by ten emanations from the infinite light which he was and in which he dwelt. These ten emanations are the ten Sephiroth." (Ibid, p.167)
Thus, "god" "created" matter and the world by sequential transformations of himself into concrete, real objects. Man or matter then returned to its origin- al state as "god" or light through the reversal of these emanations, argues the Kaballist. The "plan of salvation" for the Kaballist was the progressive ascent back through these emanations until he was fused, once again as at the begining, with the EN SOPH.
MASONIC PLAN OF SALVATION
In *The Encyclopedia of Freemasonry*, Albert Mackey explained the relation- ship which emanations have to the Lodge:
"These ten Sephiroth, represented in their order of ascent from the lowest to the highest...FORCIBLY REMIND US OF THE SYSTEM OF MYSTICAL LADDERS WHICH PERVADED ALL THE ANCIENT AS WELL AS MODERN INITIATIONS; the Brahmanical Ladder of the Indian mysteries; the Ladder of Mithras, used, the Persian mysteries; the Scandinavian Ladder of the Gothic mysteries, and IN THE MASONIC
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MYSTERIES THE LADDER OF KADOSH; AND LASTLY, THE THEOLOGICAL LADDER OF THE SYMBOLIC DEGREES." (Volume I, p.167)
What does this mean? It means that salvation for the Indian, the Persian, the Scandinavian and the Mason is through a sequence of emanations or ladders of excellence, through which each progresses by initiation into ever higher mysteries within their "faith". Through the emanations -- through passing through higher and higher degrees -- the Mason can return to the substance of god from which his Craft teaches him that he came.
It is through rising in the degrees of Freemasonry that the Mason becomes a god. It is the same for the Mormon, who is on his way, he is told, to god- head, if he is "good enough." The hellish doctrine of man becoming God, taught by Joseph Smith and his disciples came straight from the Masonic Lodge, as did the secret endowment ceremonies of the Mormon Temple. It is the Lodge and its craft that the Mason trusts for his redemption. And, so he swears as shall be seen from the examination of the thirtieth degree of Scottish Rite masonry. The Masonic plan of salvation is a works righteousness religion. There is no place for atonement, grace, faith and mercy. It is no wonder that Masons will build hospitals, churches and orphanages, at the same time that they blaspheme the name of Christ. They are, in their mind and in the Lodge's teaching, earning their salvation.
EN SOPH IS LUCIFER
But who is this god, EN SOPH? It is clear that he is not the God of the Bible or the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then who is he? The Kaballist identifies him, for Albert Mackey reported that in the death and resurrection ritual of the Kaballist it is said:
"This is he who causes the earth to quake and the kingdoms to shake." (Ibid, p.167)
Who, according to Scripture "caused the earth to quake and kingdoms to shake"? Re-read Isaiah 14:16 which states:
"They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying is this the man that make the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms..."
Who was this? The Word of God tells us that it was Lucifer. In 1889, Albert Pike identified Lucifer as god. In *The Encyclopedia of Freemasonry*, Albert Mackey established that the god of Freemasonry is Lucifer.
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