Freemasonry

 

 

        Albert Pike stated in his 'Instructions' issued on July 14, 1889, to the 23 Supreme Councils of the world, recorded by A. C. De La Rive in La Femme et l' Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle (page 588) from which is translated and quoted as follows:

     "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 high 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 priests, 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 to light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive.”

     "In analogical and universal dynamics one can only lean on that which will resist. Thus the universe is balanced by two forces which maintain its equilibrium: the force of attraction and that of repulsion. These two forces exist in physics, philosophy and religion. And the scientific reality of the divine dualism is demonstrated by the phenomena of polarity and by the universal law of sympathies and antipathies. That is why the intelligent disciples of Zoroaster, as well as after them, the Gnostics, the Manicheans and the Templars have admitted, as the only logical metaphysical conception, the system of the two divine principles fighting eternally, and one cannot believe the one inferior in power to the other.”

     “Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic 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."

        One must not lose sight of the fact that Pike occupied simultaneously the positions of Grand Master of the Central Directory of Washington, that of Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Charleston and that of Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry.

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All references below are from a 1930 reprint of Albert Pike’s 1871, “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.

 

 

In the 20th Degree “Knight Kadosh” you will find the following on:

 

Page 819:  “[The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico or 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 he understands them.  Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry.  The whole body of the Royal and Sacerdotal Art was hidden so carefully, centuries since, in the High Degrees, as that it is even yet impossible to solve many of the enigmas which they contain.  It is well enough for the mass of those called Masons, to imagine that all is contained in the Blue Degrees; and whoso attempts to undeceive them will labor in vain, and without any true reward violate his obligations as an Adept.  Masonry is the veritable Sphinx, buried to the head in the sands heaped around it by the ages.]”

 

As you just read, most members are Blue Lodge level only and therefore do not know what they are into.

 

Now read Albert Pike’s own admission that Freemasonry is Occultic.

Page 820:  “But before his execution, the Chief of the doomed Order organized and instituted what afterward came to be called the Occult, Hermetic, or Scottish Masonry.”

Page 821:  “To unite the Rose to the Cross, was the problem proposed by the High Initiation; and in fact the Occult philosophy being the Universal Synthesis, ought to explain all the phenomena of Being, Religion, considered solely as a physiological fact, is the revelation and satisfaction of a necessity of souls.  Its existence is a scientific fact; to deny it, would be to deny humanity itself.”

In the 28th Degree, “Knight of the Sun, or Prince Adept” you will find the following on:

Page 729:  “The occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse or the godmother of all religions, the secret lever of all the intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute Queen of Society, in the ages when it was exclusively reserved for the education of the Priests and Kings.”

Albert Pike admits that Occultic Freemasonry’s natural enemy is Christianity.

Page 730-731:  “This is what magic had been, from Zoroaster to Manes, from Orpheus to Apollonius Thyaneus; when positive Christianity, triumphing over the splendid dreams and gigantic aspirations of the school of Alexandria, publicly crushed this philosophy with its anathemas, and compelled it to become more occult and more mysterious than ever.”

“At the bottom of magic, nevertheless, was science, as at the bottom of Christianity there was love…”

“Christianity should not have hated magic; but human ignorance always fears the unknown.  Science was obliged to conceal itself, to avoid the impassioned aggressions of a blind love.  It enveloped itself in new hieroglyphs, concealed its efforts, disguised its hopes.  Then was created the jargon of alchemy, a continual deception for the vulgar herd, greedy of gold, and a living language for the true disciples of Hermes alone.”

“Resorting to Masonry, the alchemists there invented Degrees, and partly unveiled their doctrine to their Initiates; not by the language of their receptions, but by oral instruction afterward; for their rituals, to one who has not the key, are but incomprehensible and absurd jargon.”

Albert Pike now claims esoteric enlightenment through the Occult to fully understand Ezekiel and Revelation.

“Among the sacred books of the Christians are two works which the infallible church does not pretend to understand, and never attempts to explain, -the prophecy of Ezekiel and the Apocalypse; two cabalistic clavicules, reserved, no doubt, in Heaven, for the exposition of the Magian kings; closed with Seven seals for all faithful believers; and perfectly clear to the unbeliever initiated in the occult sciences.”

Albert Pike expresses his frustration that Jesus was not allowed to unite with the Occultic Magi and reveal the keys to enlightenment.

“The mysterious founder of the Christian Church was saluted in His cradle by the three Magi, that is to say by the hieratic ambassadors from the three parts of the known world, and from the three analogical worlds of the occult philosophy.”

“In the school of Alexandria, Magic and Christianity almost take each other by the hand under the auspices of Ammonius Saccos and Plato.”

Page 732:  “The dunces who led primitive Christianity astray, by substituting faith for science, reverie for experience, the fantastic for the reality; and the inquisitors who for so many ages waged against Magism a war of extermination, have succeeded in shrouding in darkness the ancient discoveries of the human mind; so that we now grope in the dark to find again the key of the phenomena of nature.”

In the 32nd Degree “Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret” you will find the following on:

Page 839:  “The Occult Science of the Ancient Magi was concealed under the shadows of the Ancient Mysteries: it was imperfectly revealed or rather disfigured by the Gnostics: it is guessed at under the obscurities that cover the pretended crimes of the Templars: and it is found enveloped in enigmas that seem impenetrable, in the Rites of the Highest Masonry.”

“Magism was the Science of Abraham and Orpheus, of Confucius and Zoroaster.”

It all boils down to Magic!!!  Did you know that Jesus was a Magician?

Page 840:  “The Hermetic Science of the early Christian ages, cultivated also by Geber, Alfarabius, and others of the Arabs, studied by the Chiefs of the Templars, and embodied in certain symbols of the higher Degrees of Freemasonry, may be accurately defined as the Kabalah in active realization, or the Magic of Works.”

Page 841:  “Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws.”

“Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods, itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star, to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle.”

In the 3rd Degree “The Master” you will find the following on:

Page 102:  “The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God.  The Devil is the personification of Atheism or Idolatry.”

Satan’s favorite lie is that he is not a real person or being but is only a force or a negation of God!

“For the Initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil.  It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will.  They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythologic and horned form of the God Pan; thence came the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend.”

In the 19th Degree “Grand Pontiff” you will find the following on:

Page 321:  “The Apocalypse, that sublime Kabalistic and prophetic Summary of all the occult figures…”

The Apocalypse is another name for the book of Revelation in the Bible.

“The Apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth Degree, the Apotheosis of the Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer.  Lucifer, the Light-bearer!  Strange and mysterious name given to the Spirit of Darkness!  Lucifer, the Son of the Morning!  Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls?  Doubt it not!  For traditions are full of Divine Revelations and Inspirations: and Inspiration is not of one Age nor of one Creed.  Plato and Philo, also, were inspired.”

Doubt it not!!  Lucifer is the Light-Bearer of Freemasonry!!

Page 324:  “Hence it is that certain beliefs are universal.  The conviction of all men that God is good led to a belief in a Devil, the fallen Lucifer or Light-bearer, Shaitan the Adversary, Ahriman and Tuphon, as an attempt to explain the existence of Evil, and make it consistent with the Infinite Power, Wisdom, and Benevolence of God.”