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"Please provide proofs of your claims that Freemasory is anti-Christian and I shall read them."
"In Freemasonry the god of the secret societies is covertly substituted for the One True God. This false god is identified in the Masonic lodges as "the Great Architect. Freemasonry is a hidden fraternal order, and defined by them as a system of morality. The first three steps are the Blue Lodge. The first degree is called Entered Apprentice. The second degree is called Fellow Craft. The Third degree is called Master Mason. Most men only go to the third degree, but if one chooses, he may advance either through the York Rite or the Scottish Rite. The Scottish Rite has thirty-two degrees. In each degree, the Mason pledges himself to a different Egyptian deity. There is a thirty-third degree that is largely honorary, but the thirty-two degrees give you access to becoming a Shriner. As a Shriner you will place your hand on the pagan Muslim Qur'an (Koran) and pledge yourself to the pagan "god" Allah; who by the way lies that Jesus did not even die on a cross, and that God has no Son. This pagan 'Allah' never once shows that it knows the real name of God (Jesus/Yeshua/Yahweh/I am). Masonry teaches that Jesus is no greater than the other so-called 'exemplars' of history (such as Mohammed, Buddha, Aristotle, or Joseph Smith) 33-degree Jim Shaw walked away from Freemasonry one day, after participating in a a Masonic Maundy Thursday 'black communion' ceremony in his Scottish Rites Temple in Florida. Participants of this ceremony are required to refer to Jesus as an "apostle of mankind who was neither inspired or divine". They then proceed to mock Jesus further by enacting a strange "black communion" ceremony. (Source: Christians Beware - of Freemasonry )
[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1]"[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE]If you are not a mason, you, like myself, may have had only a vague idea about freemasonry. Yet this is a cult that all should be aware of, in view of its considerable infiltration into society at all levels and through the centuries. Your life is probably influenced by masonic doctrines whether or not you are aware of it. Masons look after their own, capable of believing themselves above the law. [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Rat poison is 98% food, but the 2% kills rats. The majority of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree masons are not bad people; they have been deceived. It is almost impossible for them to understand this (that they are deceived). The design of the system is deliberate so that they, appearing and believing themselves innocent will attract others to the lodge.(Source[SIZE=-1]: [/SIZE][/SIZE]Freemasonry - cult, religion, brotherhood? )
OH and Congrats on becoming a Christian, but beware of false doctrines my friend.
"In Freemasonry the god of the secret societies is covertly substituted for the One True God. This false god is identified in the Masonic lodges as "the Great Architect. Freemasonry is a hidden fraternal order, and defined by them as a system of morality. The first three steps are the Blue Lodge. The first degree is called Entered Apprentice. The second degree is called Fellow Craft. The Third degree is called Master Mason. Most men only go to the third degree, but if one chooses, he may advance either through the York Rite or the Scottish Rite. The Scottish Rite has thirty-two degrees. In each degree, the Mason pledges himself to a different Egyptian deity. There is a thirty-third degree that is largely honorary, but the thirty-two degrees give you access to becoming a Shriner. As a Shriner you will place your hand on the pagan Muslim Qur'an (Koran) and pledge yourself to the pagan "god" Allah; who by the way lies that Jesus did not even die on a cross, and that God has no Son. This pagan 'Allah' never once shows that it knows the real name of God (Jesus/Yeshua/Yahweh/I am). Masonry teaches that Jesus is no greater than the other so-called 'exemplars' of history (such as Mohammed, Buddha, Aristotle, or Joseph Smith) 33-degree Jim Shaw walked away from Freemasonry one day, after participating in a a Masonic Maundy Thursday 'black communion' ceremony in his Scottish Rites Temple in Florida. Participants of this ceremony are required to refer to Jesus as an "apostle of mankind who was neither inspired or divine". They then proceed to mock Jesus further by enacting a strange "black communion" ceremony. (Source: Christians Beware - of Freemasonry )
[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1]"[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE]If you are not a mason, you, like myself, may have had only a vague idea about freemasonry. Yet this is a cult that all should be aware of, in view of its considerable infiltration into society at all levels and through the centuries. Your life is probably influenced by masonic doctrines whether or not you are aware of it. Masons look after their own, capable of believing themselves above the law. [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Rat poison is 98% food, but the 2% kills rats. The majority of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree masons are not bad people; they have been deceived. It is almost impossible for them to understand this (that they are deceived). The design of the system is deliberate so that they, appearing and believing themselves innocent will attract others to the lodge.(Source[SIZE=-1]: [/SIZE][/SIZE]Freemasonry - cult, religion, brotherhood? )
OH and Congrats on becoming a Christian, but beware of false doctrines my friend.
Freemasonry's big secret in a nutshell:
Gnosis is a Greek word, originally used in specifically Platonic philosophical contexts. Plato's original use of the terms gnostikoi and gnostike episteme were in his text known as Politikos in Greek and Politicus in Latin (258e-267a). In this work, the modern name of which is the Statesman, gnosis meant the knowledge to influence and control. Gnostike episteme also was used to indicate one's aptitude. In Plato's writings the terms do not appear to intimate anything esoteric or hidden, but rather express a sort of higher intelligence and ability akin to talent.
Neoplatonism and Gnosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
it's the Great Work.
Communitarianism.
Technocracy.
same little group using duped initiates as armies and cover.
Gnosis is a Greek word, originally used in specifically Platonic philosophical contexts. Plato's original use of the terms gnostikoi and gnostike episteme were in his text known as Politikos in Greek and Politicus in Latin (258e-267a). In this work, the modern name of which is the Statesman, gnosis meant the knowledge to influence and control. Gnostike episteme also was used to indicate one's aptitude. In Plato's writings the terms do not appear to intimate anything esoteric or hidden, but rather express a sort of higher intelligence and ability akin to talent.
Neoplatonism and Gnosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
it's the Great Work.
Communitarianism.
Technocracy.
same little group using duped initiates as armies and cover.
FREEMASONRY IN RELATION TO THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES.
"...Souls are drawn but slowly to the Light, and their perfecting and transmutation into that Light is often very gradual. For long before it is able to distinguish shadow from substance, Humanity must try its prentice-hand upon illusory toys and substitutions for the genuine secrets of Reality. For long before it is worthy of actual initiation upon the path that leads to God it must be permitted to indulge in preliminary unintelligent rehearsals of the processes therein involved. The approaches to the ancient temples of the Mysteries were lined with statues of the Gods, having no value of themselves, but intended to habituate the minds of neophytes to the spiritual concepts and divine attributes to which those statues were meant to give objective form and semblance. But within the temple itself all graven images, all formal figures, symbols and ceremonial types, ceased; for the mind had then finally to learn to dispense with their help, and, in the strength of its own purity and understanding alone, to rise into unclouded percep*tion of their formless prototypes and "see the Nameless of the hundred names".
If Wisdom to-day is widowed, all Masons are actually or potentially the widow's sons, and she will be justified of her children who seek her out and who labour for her as for hid treasure. It remains with the Craft itself whether it shall enter upon its own heritage as a lineal successor of the Ancient Mysteries and Wisdom-teaching, or whether, by failing so to do, it will undergo the inevitable fate of everything that is but a form from which its native spirit has departed."
University of Bradford : Web of Hiram : Meaning Of Masonry Section < click
"...Souls are drawn but slowly to the Light, and their perfecting and transmutation into that Light is often very gradual. For long before it is able to distinguish shadow from substance, Humanity must try its prentice-hand upon illusory toys and substitutions for the genuine secrets of Reality. For long before it is worthy of actual initiation upon the path that leads to God it must be permitted to indulge in preliminary unintelligent rehearsals of the processes therein involved. The approaches to the ancient temples of the Mysteries were lined with statues of the Gods, having no value of themselves, but intended to habituate the minds of neophytes to the spiritual concepts and divine attributes to which those statues were meant to give objective form and semblance. But within the temple itself all graven images, all formal figures, symbols and ceremonial types, ceased; for the mind had then finally to learn to dispense with their help, and, in the strength of its own purity and understanding alone, to rise into unclouded percep*tion of their formless prototypes and "see the Nameless of the hundred names".
If Wisdom to-day is widowed, all Masons are actually or potentially the widow's sons, and she will be justified of her children who seek her out and who labour for her as for hid treasure. It remains with the Craft itself whether it shall enter upon its own heritage as a lineal successor of the Ancient Mysteries and Wisdom-teaching, or whether, by failing so to do, it will undergo the inevitable fate of everything that is but a form from which its native spirit has departed."
University of Bradford : Web of Hiram : Meaning Of Masonry Section < click