The unfortunate reality of speaking freely on the internet about Freemasonry is that there’s a cohort of anti-masonic speculators eager to voice their opinions about the so-called malicious intent and evil secrets of the fraternity I’ve encountered some flavor of this thinking in person at your everyday bars restaurants public events
And of course online forums where everyone is anonymous no one cites their sources or evidence and no one is held accountable from the first time I learned about the Freemasons and began doing research on the world’s oldest so-called secret society I was surprised at how quickly I was exposed to every apparent wrongdoing
And supposed religious secret the Freemasons were responsible for but as far as demonstrating these alleged Masonic crimes any primary sources required to make the arguments were always AB absent in on Second Glance the sheer volume of figures in history who were Freemasons made it unpalatable and in probable that they could all be
Involved in some overarching conspiracy driving by most any populated county in the US one can see their local Masonic lodges often in the humblest buildings and at times in the grandest at least 14 US presidents were Masons as well as George Washington Ben Franklin Paul River John Hancock and Chief
Justice John Marshall who influenced the shaping of the Supreme Court evidence shows about 16% of the men that signed the Declaration of Independence were Masons and about 33% that signed the US Constitution were as well a short list of freem Masons would range from Daniel Boone and Mark Twain to Mozart kasanova
And kagle Ostro saving you from a longer story a couple of years after having become a Master Mason and visiting many small or large Masonic lodges and monuments up and down the East Coast I learned the reality is no evidence exists to make any case for the Masonic
Conspiracy and by this I mean the Masonic conspiracy in any form the world take over the luciferian the occult Magic Ritual suspicion even the more positive romantic notion that the Freemasons are direct descendants from the Egyptian or Dare we say Atlantean Mystery Schools and have wearing one
Cloak or the other been the covert custodians of Enlightenment for some 10,000 years is spous if only any of it were that exciting if only any aspect of masonry did not apply to the simple daily principles that demand our personal self-improvement because in the end masonry is an allegory of stone masonry
Applied to the Improvement of the individual and by extension the world Guided by the same moral and spiritual simplicities that serve as the garnish of world religion now the intention of this video is to refute negatives I could hardly justify coupling this with a formal video on Masonic philosophy so
With some level of tedium we’ll begin with the first delusion that of world takeover I’ve already made a video on the Bavarian Illuminati and its alleged ties to Freemasonry you can of course watch that for further context but in brief the globalist Sonic conspiracy Tethered to the historical Illuminati
Which some people have imagined to be a modern phenomena is old news at best this legitimate Illuminati was a secret society founded by Adam weal in 1776 in Engel stat Bavaria Germany and Adam with many other illuminists did eventually found a masonic lodge and at one point required all members to be initiated
Into masonry prior to being members of The Illuminati but if you know anything about the Illuminati you would know its lesser and majority members did not know in the slightest the agenda of their order’s founder because wisal used compartmentalization and hierarchical deception to avoid having to divulge his
Secrets to the lower degrees now here is a case where it is unfortunate so many Grand assumptions are made when the actual facts are far more interesting because the historic Illuminati did possess a one stage and limited to its highest circle of members an agenda to take over World Government abolish
Private property infiltrate religious institutions and overthrow the monarchy coupled with this is the varying degrees of literature essays and copycat adaptations of masonic ritual indeed Adam weop was himself no real lover of Freemasonry referring to it as a frivolous business on multiple occasions and making other patronizing remarks to
That effect effect the slightest observation he says shows that nothing will so much contribute to increase the Zeal of the members as secret Union we see with what keenness and Zeal the frivolous business of Freemasonry is conducted by persons knit together by the secrecy of their Union it is
Needless to inquire into the causes of this Zeal which secrecy produces it is an Universal fact confirmed by the history of every age except this Illuminati did not last In the Flesh on July 10th 1785 lightning struck and killed Johan Jacob Lang a Catholic priest and member of the Illuminati in
Lang’s Pockets the police found Illuminati letters and documents and for the first time the authorities actually have the words of the secret society itself this lightning strike led to the first arrests and fueled the investigation resulting in The Illuminati’s banishment and its gradual disintegration its founder Adam weal even later deradicalized his former
Young aims and instead prais the more public-facing philosophies he once championed while it is true the actual Illuminati conspiracy penetrated Masonic lodges across Europe and George Washington wrote a letter acknowledging their threat to some degree there is no evidence that the Illuminati in modern Freemasonry have any attachment in fact
It was a Freemason John Robison who published one of the first books about the Illuminati condemning them for their conspiratorial names that said the critiques of Freemasonry seem to apply a miraculous coherence to the Masons not knowing we operate in separate lodges and remain active at an extremely local
Capacity these days consisting mostly of a membership of senior citizens I always remind people who look for a governmental agenda within masonry that it is within the means of any person whether they be the most honored Mason alive to commit any form of transgression in the long list of human wo
A group of any people Masons included could band together and carry out any action they wanted wear Masonic regalia and pretend to possess esoteric knowledge we have a thing in masonry called clandestine lodges these are lodges not granted any legitimate Charter and hold no affiliation with Freemasonry but purport to carry some
Level of masonic secrets and I’ve personally run into scammers claiming to be part of such a lodge and have seen the negative effects of those who join these lodges and later realize they have nothing to do with the masonry they wanted to join it is certainly the case that
Members within the clandestine lodges could perform rituals and convey knowledge of the strangest kind but real Masons take a solemn vow not to associate with any of these Pretenders to say nothing of us taking responsibility for the misinformation bubbles they create so accusing anyone of a grand criminal Enterprise at least
Warrants some evidence if we’re ever going to take it seriously and no evidence of this kind has ever been offered unless you want to attract the most gullible and excitable Minds like some YouTubers who otherwise would seem perfectly levelheaded thus beyond the groping back to the Illuminati and some quarter baked misconceptions about
Albert Pike’s alleged strange quote about Lucifer and the pure misunderstanding that accompanies the leaked ritual videos there is nothing substantive in fact the more pressing question becomes why and how is there so much misinformation about Freemasonry and how do otherwise credible professionals buy into it there’s an estimated 6 million Masons worldwide
Which means only that some 6 million people around the world have at least earned their Ed Apprentice or first degree in masonry I remind you that there are only three degrees in standard blue Lodge Freemasonry the EA Entered Apprentice then the fellow craft and master m Mason beyond that and you’re talking
About the Scottish right the York right and so on and all Masons have to believe in a higher power a spiritual Creator or a grand architect as we call it but as to what specific God a Mason believes in this is not really the business of the
Lodge to know or to influence Brahma Allah Yahweh or God will all suffice now within the last 2 years I attended a district convention in Virginia where over 200 Masons were present among them some leaders from the Grand Lodge I actually think there was one other
Person there close to my age 25 at the time and to be sure more than half of every Mason I’ve have met possess little interest in what we would call the esoteric and especially what we would call the occult the vast portion of Masons are involved for reasons of Brotherhood fraternity private Sanctuary
Where Believers can discuss ideas and in turn gather weakly with those men who become life long friends if a lodge can manage even to pay its dues and keep its lights on these days then donating to Charities and hospitals running food drives or creating scholarships might be
The next task on the docket at this District event I mentioned the speeches never once roamed outside of the dealings of the local lodges unless the speaker was championing the principal Freemason standby in general saying how by providing this example we do our nation a service at this meeting the
Virginia Grand lodged announced if you can believe it the development of the first Advanced Digital portal for Masons where members could pay dues and look up each other online look up lodges read of news and events and keep their local lodges calendar so it really took Co to
Stir the Masons up enough to finally create this digital Alias this made sense because many Elder members were having trouble getting to the lodge and staying active and many younger members are in the military and often gone from months at a time does this sound like a situation where a mass coordinated
Conspiracy can be born well if you knew anything about the stringent formalities involved in the regular operation of Freemasonry you would be further dissuaded from attaching to us some overarching plan for the world oh but I misunderstanding you might say it’s not that the majority of Masons are in on it
But those at the top of course this is how the Illuminati operated after all the problem with this is once again show us the money the records the meetings the policies give us the names chart for us the dispersion of responsibilities and Link the actual actions of any modern Masonic bodies with political
Conspiracy even if you find a few isolated cases this does not count as proof of an overarching conspiracy within masonry at large now if you’re already thinking that I’m giving too much credit to the accusers well you’re right some of this is akin to playing chess with a basset hound if you’re not
Among those who Heap abuse onto the quiet Masonic fraternity then you don’t need to hear these arguments beyond their entertainment value to me the misinformation isn’t even the concern the people who can buy into these ideas are not usually the type who would want to be held morally accountable by
Fraternity where morals and godly service is presented in allegory symbol example and ritual and the thing is no serious Mason actually cares Beyond disappointment what the anti-masonic mob has to say anymore that’s because they’re busy and in history anti-masonic movements are nothing unusual it’s simply that America’s current Internet
Conspiracy subculture operates with a level of delusion often bordering on mental illness the Masons I grant you are not the cause of your personal incapacity to spend your time wisely I always say tongue and cheek that Freemasons have wife problems and lawnmowers too but evidence for anti-masonry actually precedes the first historically
Documented reference to a Grand Lodge the hamic legend or a third degree in 1698 a leaflet printed in London warned men of the evil practices of Freemasons and often referred to them as the Antichrist and in 1884 Pope Leo the 13th on April 20th defined Freemasonry as the
Kingdom of Satan and never has his subject been so worth discussing now that the Vatican has once again banished all Catholics from joining Freemasonry in a recent publication their stance was expressed by the vatican’s doctrinal office this year quote active membership and Freemasonry by a member of the
Faithful is prohibited because of the irreconcilability between Catholic Doctrine and Freemasonry this is a shame as I know many Catholic Masons and if the Catholic church leaders actually crack down this could present an issue but I doubt it will do any lasting damage because Masons around the world
Have endured far worse than Catholic Rome’s occasional misgiving Free Masons have fought on opposite sides of wars and endured in the spirit of Brotherhood still but more worth mentioning is the history around the Masons who helped each other in those Wars using secret signs and phrases to identify themselves
Which when heard or seen by another Mason calls to mind those vows the brothers speak before God in the Civil War Masons pulled their brothers of gray or blue out of trenches and saved each other from certain death in their acts of fraternity on the battlefield this is
Documented in the better angels of our nature Freemasonry in the American Civil War written by Michael a howerin now we turn to the most used and abused anti-masonic quote on the internet written by Albert Pike in his Masterwork morals and Dogma a work not originally ever supposed to be available
To the public this quote is used by people people I argue have no bearings on the Biblical history mistranslation or the literary Traditions or they are prone to the belief of a grand political and religious conspiracy regardless and so the Masons suit perfectly this belief to say nothing of their capacity to
Actually understand the book morals and Dogma without being Masons themselves or having done extensive research into the variety of religious and textual Traditions Albert Pike selects from now don’t get me wrong there are masons who quit their lodges and leave Freemasonry claiming to possess some dark secret which they shall now heroically bestow
Onto the public in an effort to demonstrate the Masonic satanic conspiracy I have come across former active Masons myself who are as human beings go perfect snakes in sheep’s clothing possessing little to nothing of what I personally would hope to see in a Mason who takes the craft
Seriously now once and for all I’m going to put to rest the apparent quote from Albert Pike that has led many impulsive thinkers to deem him some sort of Satanist then I will demonstrate how Lucifer became entangled with Satan and why there is such confusion but here
We’re going to give you the most used quote from Albert Pike without context and then the expanded and legitimate one quote Lucifer the lightbringer strange and mysterious name to give 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 well even by this Pike isn’t saying anything about Lucifer being the possessor of masonic light in fact he says Lucifer with his Spenders blinds the feeble and the sensual but really this quote is part of a lengthy
Passage on the apocalypse and it is by no means the only place in morals and Dogma where Pike refines his own definition of Lucifer but conveniently this quote is given without the preceding sentence or even the rest of the sentence it’s quoted in they present it as if the exclamation point stops the
Sentence when in fact it goes on now here’s the full paragraph the apocalypse is to those who receive the 19th degree the apotheosis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer then the old quote 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 Pho also were inspired so we can clearly see Pike recognizes we should aspire to God and despise the Pomp and works of Lucifer and elsewhere in morals and Dogma he provides a more refined understanding of the situation
The true name of Satan the cabalist say is that of Yahweh reversed for Satan is not a black God but the negation of God the devil devil is the personification of atheism or idolatry 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 of free will they represent this Force which presides over the physical generation under the mythologic and horned form of the god pan then came the he goat of the Sabbath brother of the ancient Serpent
And the lightbearer or phospher of which The Poets have made the false Lucifer of the Legend okay so it’s the poets who have confounded Lucifer with Satan but let’s look again at the origins of Lucifer and how this name became erroneously and thematically applied to Satan the only mention of Lucifer in the
Bible comes from Isaiah 14:12 addressed to the king of Babylon how you have fallen from Heaven Morning Star son of the Dawn you have been cast down to the Earth you who once laid low the Nations but in the Vulgate Bible’s rendering of Morning Star we find Lucifer which made
It into additional translations this word being a translation of the Hebrew word hel lucifero is Latin for light bringing so what does Lucifer mean when you read it in Isaiah it is an alternate name for the king of Babylon playing off a symbolic comparison the author is
Making between Venus a bright planet or star in heaven to the current state of the then king of Babylon a man who sought to challenge God now there are places in the New Testament like Revelation 22:16 where this morning star is also referenced and here in a
Positive context qu I Jesus have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches I am the root and The Offspring of David and the Bright Morning Star from this quote some leap into scriptural acrobatics to suggest Jesus is also Lucifer using also a contrived Gnostic account of Jesus being the
Serpent in the garden of Eden except what about when Jesus or new testament authors refer to Satan disguising himself as a being of light and falling from a high place and no Marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of Light quot so the Great Dragon
Was cast out that Serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world he was cast to the Earth and his angels were cast out with him so while it can be understandable to compare Satan to Isaiah’s taunt to the king of Babylon in the book of Isaiah
And then use the rendering of the Morning Star as Lucifer to confound Satan with him this has never been technically accurate Albert Pike himself would know plenty more about the situation than his shallow critics who misuse his quote about Lucifer as a device against him and all Masons this
Being one of many doll blades the anti-masons hold up which when it fails they resort to other unprovable criticisms of Pike’s personal character as if Pike’s alleged moral transgression R RS could somehow taint all Freemasons worldwide but this confounding of Lucifer with Satan stems also from John Milton’s Paradise Lost where Milton
Gives Satan the name Lucifer prior to his fall from Heaven Milton also makes the snake in the Garden of Eden out to be Satan like Revelation 129 even though there is nothing scripturally in Genesis that translates the serpent to Satan what Lucifer has become in the popular
Imagination though is more of a fallen angel like those discussed in The Book of Enoch if anything simza or ail are more respective of the modern interpretation of Lucifer but the situation gets even more confused because Milton himself doesn’t appear to equate the name Satan and Lucifer Beyond
Alluding to their comparison for Milton Lucifer applied to Satan’s Heavenly name prior to his fall which allegorically relates to Isaiah 14:12 in that once Satan was like Venus the brightest star in the heavens before he rebelled and fell where you really see the messy equating of the two names is by later
Writers and Christian figureheads who for whatever reason think these names are interchangeable on a scriptural basis now another reason Albert Pike and Freemasonry have become associated by a fringe minority to satanic beliefs is documented in a 2020 publication of the Scottish wri research Society in heom volume 28 written by David B bore
This focuses on a particularly passionate hoaxer in the 1800s who wrote Under the pin name of Leo taxel you can find Leo in the new Catholic encyclopedia described as quote one of the most notorious religious hoaxers of the 19th century Leo is described as having attempted to make a livelihood by
Launching scandalous attacks on the Roman Catholic Church he founded the Society of free thinkers in 1880 as an anti-roman Catholic organization which grew up to 17,000 members and published books against them one of which he was later fined for in 1881 Leo taxel became a Freemason of the first degree but was
Soon after expelled from the craft afterwards over the years taxel writes numerous anti-religious works and his anti-masonic Fabrications and so Leo becomes the first writer to launch repeated accusations of Satanism against the Freemasons and succeeded in no small part to convince people predisposed to such beliefs and actually there is
Strong evidence to show that the very term Satanism was created because of taxel in 1887 taxel visited Pope Leo the 13th and was given a special reception the pope even approving his accusations made against Freemasons conveniently forgetting taxel was a charlatan who previously made such attacks against
Roman Catholicism and later it is taxel who writes about Albert Pike with a forged instruction for m that have Lucifer becoming a masonic God this forgery is also documented in AE weight’s new encyclopedia Freemasonry this kind of situation goes on further and influences other writers to drum up similar excrement to fling at
Albert Pike and Freemasonry providing us with another example of the links people are willing to take to convince a gullible public to hate something just as much as they do if perhaps the real values of masonry weren’t so hard for some people to live by then the convoluted variety of
Miasmic slander they hurl our way would seem less of a projection and more the prototypical witch hunts undertaken by the faction of uneducated and pseudo religious who resemble more so the kind of illiterates exposed to scripture only when a person of clerical Authority lectures it to them now it is not my
Place to document the entire history of anti-masonry but this should suffice to show you some of the misconceptions and out chicanery involved in the anti-masonic Heritage to get a glimpse at some of the nonsense floating around today I encourage you to revisit this video a few months from now and just
Scroll the comment section where user 313 Illuminati 666 or some such will no doubt leave their trite anti-masonic statement without a single reference citation or presentation of evidence other misinformation suggests that there are higher degrees than a Master Mason this is not true the third degree is universally considered the highest
Degree in Freemasonry from there you can pursue a pendant bodies such as the Scottish W York W Knights Templar Etc but these additional degrees or optional branches off the essential blue Lodge degrees now I close then with a hint at the humble positives of Freemasonry and assure you that far beyond a grandiose
And over romantic purpose Masons are in fact given instructions and Prin principles of self-improvement foremost that only then are we in the refined place to contribute to the overall great work the spiritual Temple the common peaceful objective of a spiritual Humanity part of the conferred benefit any new Mason receives is the sudden
Wealth of symbols they’re exposed to and an open door to literate and philosophic ideals with their Roots across the ancient world these roots in this context are not the physical Roots but the idealis IC and philosophical the symbolic and moral many Masonic lodges in the US are also troves of literature
And translations of sacred texts replete with the works of masonic Scholars who albe it with some level of bias towards the judeo-christian tradition demonstrate a keen understanding of the western esoteric tradition this became one of my personal reasons for seeking out Freemasonry and in this regard I was anything but disappointed the
Misconception however in the the esoteric circles is that Masons are somehow all educated on esotericism or the occult or the ancient mystery schools on the contrary I estimate 90% of the brothers in my own Lodge had never heard of a mystery school or mystery religions until I gave my short
Lecture after receiving the degree of Master Mason I often wonder how little it is known among Masons that in the ancient world too there were secretive societies who held sacred rituals possessed a grab bag of symbols and guarded their wisdom from profanity during my lecture too one of the
Gentlemen in the audience who did possess a keen grasp of the esoteric tradition was moved enough to publish a transcription of my lecture in the Masonic Herald the largest Masonic magazine in Virginia and I say this not to mount any kind of pedestal myself but to point out that masonry is neither
Filled with esoteric education or disinclined to receive it once young members come into their degrees and show they have more to offer than even their Brotherhood and fraternity alone with that I genuinely wish for this small seed of masonic defense to help settle the matter once and for all and provide
You with more arguments to dissuade any more reasonable persons from buying in to the Masonic conspiracy delusion if you want to support the channel you can find a link to my patreon Below in the description and if you have more to add to the subject please leave a comment
And join the discussion for the Masons out there I would love to hear from you and I think other people could benefit from hearing your positive stories about the fraternity please be well see you soon
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