Freemasons and Devil Worship: All a hoax?

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To whoever feels they can address this, I recently decided to research the Catholic Church, Christianity in general, and how they all relate to the fraternity of the Freemasons. What I discovered is that a lot of people believe that this fraternity is actually worshipping Lucifer or Satan, and that they conjure up demons or something.

What I found in my research is the name of one French writer by the name of Léo Taxil, which was really a pen name; his real name was Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès. The story goes that this man was quite an obnoxious writer, in the sense that he would write very lewd and pornographic material and terrible mockeries towards organized religion; the Catholic Church in particular. It seems that in 1885, he converted to Catholicism and at the same time seeker admission to a Masonic Lodge in France. Here’s where it gets interesting…

He either leaves or is thrown out of the Lodge after only a year, after only receiving the First Degree of it (I guess there are 3 of them), and proceeds to write books and pamphlets revealing the secrets of Freemasonry; that they engage in demon conjuring, devil worship, or the claim that he had managed to help a woman escape the Lodge who had been made a sex slave of demons, and who had been forced to have a demon inscribe blasphemies on her back with its tail.

This is, by the way, the very same man that Pope Leo XIII met with and issued his condemnation against Freemasonry; based on these exposé thereof.

It gets more interesting…

On the evening of April 19, 1897, this man calls a press conference in Paris to produce this very woman. Instead, he admits to the entire exposé of being an elaborate hoax, and that the woman in question (Diana Vaughan) to have been merely the name of a typist that worked for him. The story of this confession, I found, was published on April 25, 1897 in the newspaper “Le Frondeur”, and even caught the attention of America’s own “Boston Sunday Post”.

This makes me start to wonder, now…is the Church’s opposition to Freemasonry truly based on irreconcilable differences in principle and teaching, or has the Church allowed themselves to sadly fall victim to a charlatan?
 
The problem with Freemasonry is not that it’s overtly Satanic, but that it’s basically modern gnosticism. It emphasizes hidden knowledge for the initiated and utilizes a complicated system of rites and symbols to convey ideas that are contrary to Catholic teaching. One immediate concern is it’s indifferent attitude towards the major religions and sells itself as compatible with all traditions while peddling it’s own beliefs.

Edit: Pope Clement XII spoke out against Freemasonry in the mid 18th century: https://fisheaters.com/ineminenti.html
 
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In addition to what Bonaventurian said, Freemasonry at certain times in history and particularly in certain European countries was basically being used as an organization for those who wished to destroy the Church and its influence, including its political influence. There were huge Masonic rallies and riots around the theme of destroying the Church and the Pope. These were personally witnessed and written about by many people including some saints (I believe St. Maximilian Kolbe saw one as a child). Obviously, in view of this, the Church put the Masons on the blacklist probably forever. It doesn’t matter whether they’re only playing cards and eating sandwiches at their meetings rather than doing anything occult, they’re considered an anti-Catholic organization and with good reason.
 
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Totally unrelated. Back in October our parish had its rosary rally at the city park. As we marched uptown carrying our banners, and statue of the Virgin Mary, we sang “Ave Maria”. We went right past the masonic temple, and there were a number of people, maybe half a dozen on the steps. To my surprise they broke out in applause. I couldn’t help but smile.
 
Well, there are many confused catholic who are freemasons (they even have specific lodges for christians). However, what they don’t get is that freemasonry is relativistic, and that its philosophy is basically the fruit of the more secularist side of the Enlightment.

Wheter they are truly satanic or not doesn’t matter, they don’t treat christianity as the true religion but as “one of many” manisfestations of his deist god. And they seem to overemphasize on Reason, leaving nothing to Faith.
 
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(I am stating these things only for the sake of argument; not to defend Freemasonry)

But they state time and again, even in their own “ritual” (script for meetings and degrees) that they do not wish to interfere with any duties a man owes to God, country, family, or self; they do not wish to be a stand-in for anything.

Also, did the Lord not tell us that any who are not against us are for us?

(Again, these are only for the sake of argument)
 
In the Gospel of Mark, chapter 9, verse 40
This?
9:40. For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because you belong to Christ: amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.
Does this not refer to someone giving us a cup in His name, a brother in faith, it does not refer to anyone I think? Because it says in His Name.
Freemasonry is plural in theology, not just Christian. A cup from them is not in His Name, it’s a cup in who-knows-what’s name. Aren’t freemasons encompassing a multitude of religions? Being international and all that…
 
His name, a brother in faith, it does not refer to anyone I think?
The whole point of the parables of the Good Samaritan was that he was not a brother in faith, as far as the Jews were concerned. Same with the parable of the woman at the well, who gave Jesus a drink.

Spurning kindness from any source would fly in the face of what Jesus came to this earth for.
 
But they state time and again, even in their own “ritual” (script for meetings and degrees) that they do not wish to interfere with any duties a man owes to God, country, family, or self; they do not wish to be a stand-in for anything.
One of the main barriers for a Christian in freemasonry is that to reach the higher degrees you have to deny the divinity of Christ. You can accept Christ but not as the divine Son. Men come into freemasonry at the lower levels not realising this but will never get far without taking that necessary step.
 
Spurning kindness from any source would fly in the face of what Jesus came to this earth for.
Fly in the face of something is like adversity to that something is it not? We certainly don’t aim to fly in the face of God but fly with God.
 
If you read there books they reveal everything hidden in plain sight !
 
May I get a quote from the Bible where He says that?
Luke 9:49-50

John answered, “Master, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us.” But Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him; for he that is not against you is for you.”
 
Luke 9:49-50

John answered, “Master, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us.” But Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him; for he that is not against you is for you.”
Thank you. And Freemasonry has been actively against the Catholic Church. So how are they not against you?
 
Oh I wasn’t commenting on that. I don’t know enough to know except that I follow the Church. Just sharing the relevant verse.
 
I hardly know anything of the the Freemasons, but I think rumours of them being Satanists is false.

I’ve been reading about witch hunts, and the writers who advocated witch hunts believed that witches were a conspiracy of Satanists out to attack Christianity. I think that ideas of witches being Satanic conspirators changed to Freemasons being Satanic conspirators.
 
After further research, it seems that the Church’s stance against them isn’t the false accusations about Satan worship; it’s that they refer to other holy books from other religions as the “Volume of Sacred Law”, and that truth thereof is relative to each member of their fraternity.

Simply put, it’s mostly the non-sectarianism of Freemasonry that the Church says makes them off-limits.
 
This was not my experience when I became a Freemason (no longer practicing, for some of the reasons mentioned in this thread). We only had a Bible permanently in the lodge. We would have gotten a holy book for folks of other religions to join (we had a Hindu fellow who was sworn in on one of their holy books, for example). But I never had to affirm anything along the lines of all religions’ being equal. All men being equal, yes.

Maybe if I had gone beyond Blue Lodge into the Scottish or York rites something along these lines would have shown up, but it’s not required for becoming a Freemason.
 
Your criticisms were correct in spirit, just off in details. It is true that it is the position of Freemasonry that all religions are equal; it is not true that to become a Mason one must first affirm that principle (else my Methodist grandfather would not have been a Mason). Think of that view, at least in the Blue Lodge, as Masonic adiaphora.
 
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