SECRET MEANINGS OF MASONIC
SYMBOLS AND GOALS
by Robert Goldsborough
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- IN 1871, GRAND SOVEREIGN MASTER ALBERT PIKE wrote Morals and Dogma,
the book which has become the Masonic bible. Now, as then, Masonic
lodges and chapters throughout the world abide by Pike's dictates. Pike
decreed that only Masons of the highest degrees could be told the
hidden meanings of Masonic symbols and goals thus deceiving lower
initiates as to the real purpose of Masonry.
- As part of their deception of the public, Masons claim their
purpose is to do good works and make men better. They repeat the
deceptive claim that Masonry is not a secret society but a society
with secrets.
- The symbolism of Freemasonry which Pike declared was to be
revealed only to the highest level Masons was explained in 1959 by
Rev. E. Cahill in Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement:
- "Most of the Masonic symbolism, in its original and proper
meaning, refers primarily to the Solar and Phallic worship. . .This
fact is testified to by the great authorities of Anglo-American
Freemasonry — Pike, Mackey, Thomas Webb Smith, William Preston,
Hutcheson, etc. Jean B. Marie Ragon, the 'Sacred author" adds his
testimony to that of the Anglo-American writers. Ragon expressly says
that the Masonic god is the God of the Pyramids, thus
identifying the Masonic cult with the religion of the ancient
Egyptians....
- "According to the vast majority of the great Masonic authors,
the Masonic secret cult is derived from the ancient 'mysteries' of
India, Egypt Persia, Greece. . .These mysteries are nothing more or
less than those obscene and indescribable forms of worship, in which
the generative process of nature, symbolized by the human organs of
reproduction were the object of licentious homage. . .this worship
is the real pivot of the Masonic religion, and the centre of
Masonic ritual and symbolism. . .the Masonic deity, called the Great
Architect,. . .is closely connected with the most hideous and degraded
of the pre-Christian cults, one of which is commonly believed to
betray the direct and immediate influence of the Evil One."
- Fr. Cahill explains that even the initiation rite of the 1st or
apprentice degree of the Blue Lodge dramatically displays the birth of
Masonry's pagan anti-Christian Nature God, for it denies the existence
of a personal, supernatural God, and ". . .signifies that God is
a bisexual being, a hermaphrodite." (The Masonic symbols of
the square and the compass represent the pagan deities of the female
Isis and the male Osiris.)
- Historian and researcher Paul Fisher unearthed a vivid description
of the unbreakable bond amongst Masonic brothers in an 1861 (during
the Civil War) letter from the Grand Lodge of York Masons in
Pennsylvania to their brothers in Tennessee:
- "Masonry is as old as government. It constitutes a government
in itself. . . Masonry is a sovereignty and a law unto itself. . .it
knows nothing but the principles and teachings of its faith...
- "The proud position [of Masonry is to] stand aloof from the
rise and fall of empires, the disturbance in States, the wars of
contending nations. . .
- The claims of a brother are not dissolved by war. . .and the tie
once formed, is only sundered by death." (Behind the Lodge
Door, Paul A. Fisher, 1988, Tan Publishers)
- This insoluble bond of Masonic loyalty explains why, during the
Civil War, Grand Master Albert Pike had promised to obtain weapons for
a masonic military lodge, an action which caused him to be tried and
found guilty of treason. Ironically, it was that same bond of loyalty
which caused President Johnson (also a Mason) to pardon Pike for his
treasonous activities.
- That pardon became an important issue in Johnson's impeachment.
General Gordon Granger was present at the White House meeting between
Grand Master Pike and Fellow Mason Johnson, and his testimony before
the Judiciary Committee states, "I gathered that he [Pike] was
the superior of the President in Masonry. . .and that the President
was his subordinate in Masonry."
- The power of the Masonic bond was evidenced in the impeachment
trial of President Clinton. In high school Clinton had been
president of the Masonic youth group De Molay and in 1988 was inducted
into the International De Molay Hall-of-Fame. Three Senators, all
33rd degree Masons, were instrumental in his acquittal: Majority
Leader Trent Lott limited the time and the number of witnesses
available to the House prosecutors; Republican Arlen Specter led the
10 Republican Senators who voted to acquit; Democrat Robert C. Byrd,
although publicly acknowledging Clinton's guilt, actually voted for
acquittal, and set the example for all other Democrats.
- The secret oaths and insoluble bonds of Freemasonry bring them
ever closer to their ultimate goals the destruction of Christianity
and the establishment of a pagan New World Order.
(Emphasis has been added)
- Robert H. Goldsborough, author of his column, Washington
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The above article was published in All These Things,
May 25, 1999
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