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What is Freemasonry?
‘They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father…We have one Father, even God. Jesus therefore said to them:
If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do.’ (John 8:39-44.)
Martin L, Wagner, in one of the most revealing manuscripts on freemasonry ever written, Freemasonry: An Interpretation (1912), summarises this well known society thus: ‘Freemasonry in its chief and essential features is a religious institution, and as such has marks and elements that are peculiar to itself but which also differentiate it from Christianity’.—Professor G.H. Gerberding, D.D., quoted by Martin L, Wagner, Freemasonry: An Interpretation.
‘ “Masonry is a religion. If it is not why should it have temples, altars, official rituals, with hymns or odes, prayers, consecrations, and benedictions? Why have high priests, chaplains, written and authorised forms for opening and closing its meetings, for corner stone laying, and dedications, for instillations, for the burial of its dead and what not? Why the grotesque imitations and caricatures of the church’s forms, even to its sacraments?” —Professor G.H. Gerberding, D.D., quoted by Martin L, Wagner, Freemasonry: An Interpretation.
Freemasonry is a church of the Antichrist. It has taken the form of pseudo-Christianity with its good works, thus luring into its ranks some Catholic as well as anti-Catholic supporters. The institution is esoteric and ‘the symbolism is the very soul of freemasonry’ (Pike). ‘It least does mean what it most does say and show.’ The spirit of freemasonry has its origins in the first pagan religions on earth. ‘Its peculiar religious ideas and doctrines have survived from the periods of remotest antiquity until the present time, and continue with a persistence that is marvellous. It has diffused over the whole habitable earth. Like the mysterious force or energy in nature upon which it is based, the essence or data has been constant, but the forms in which it has found expression have varied in different ages and among different people. The marvel lies in its persistence. So long as there is unregenerate human nature, so long will the root of masonry find a congenial soil and keep alive the organization in some form’ --M. L. Wagner: Freemasonry: An Interpretation.
Manley Palmer Hall 33º, in his The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, states that freemasonry has no meaning or real purpose outside its ‘Melchisedech context’. This is the order of combat in the great conflict predicted in Genesis 3:15, the war of priests and kings, that war involving Christ the High Priest and His priests and kings of Christendom against the combined army of the Antichrist. Now, whereas the great battle of the Melchisedech kingships is temporarily lost, the battle against the Melchisedech priesthood is - as was depicted allegorically in the 1879 apparition at Knock Ireland - in full flow today. Currently, it is the scientist-as-priest and not the priest as Saint, who men and women look to for wisdom today.
‘These vital and essential elements in this religion are not spiritual facts and spiritual mysteries, but carnal and psychical, the facts of life, and the mysteries involved in the generation and reproduction of life, and from their nature appeal most powerfully to man…. On its theological side, Freemasonry is a sort of pantheism, the deity being the generative principle, the reproductive power that pervades all animated nature….…The most dangerous antagonists of Christianity in its earliest days were the worshipers of Isis, under various modifications as Demeter, Cybele, Diana, or as the power of fertility, and the Mithraism, the worship of the generative power under the aspect of light [the heresy of Copernicanism]. The enemies of Christianity clothed these ideas in the language of the New Testament and of the Church. By skilfully veiling their pagan ideas under the terminology of Christian doctrines many who thought themselves serving the Lord Jesus Christ were led unconsciously into the pagan cults. And this is the method of Freemasonry.’—M. L Wagner: Freemasonry: An Interpretation.
Masonry and Lucifer
In 1738, a mere twenty-one years after the Masonic Order first went public in London (1717), Pope Clement XII, in his encyclical letter *In Eminenti described freemasonry as ‘Satan’s synagogue’ with ipso facto excommunication for any Christian who joined or associated with it, reserving absolution to the Holy See alone. This excommunication was extended by Pope Pius IX in his Apostolicae Sedis of October 12, 1869 to include the Carbonari and other secret societies also active in the republican revolution in Italy at the time. In all, the Church has issued twenty bulls warning the faithful against masonry for while the organisation gives the outer appearance of being Christian their inner core of initiates are ultimately about the work of the Devil. This was further emphasised in Pope Pius IX’s Scite Profecto of July 1873, wherein he personally attributed masonry to Satan, for he says it can only be the Devil, the eternal adversary of God, who is responsible for it; founded it, and contrived its development. The most comprehensive of all these epistles however, was Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus (1884). Subsequently, in 1890, the vernacular encyclical Dall’ Alto, addressed to the clergy and people of Italy was published. The Pope here described freemasonry as pervaded with the spirit of Satan. Another warning appeared in the same pope’s Custodi *of 1892. Addressing the Italian bishops, the Holy Father asserted that ‘the diabolical spirit of all former sects is revived in masonry that attacks everything sacred, while the public, lulled in false security, does not recognise the danger, for Christianity itself is at stake.’
‘They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father…We have one Father, even God. Jesus therefore said to them:
If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do.’ (John 8:39-44.)
Martin L, Wagner, in one of the most revealing manuscripts on freemasonry ever written, Freemasonry: An Interpretation (1912), summarises this well known society thus: ‘Freemasonry in its chief and essential features is a religious institution, and as such has marks and elements that are peculiar to itself but which also differentiate it from Christianity’.—Professor G.H. Gerberding, D.D., quoted by Martin L, Wagner, Freemasonry: An Interpretation.
‘ “Masonry is a religion. If it is not why should it have temples, altars, official rituals, with hymns or odes, prayers, consecrations, and benedictions? Why have high priests, chaplains, written and authorised forms for opening and closing its meetings, for corner stone laying, and dedications, for instillations, for the burial of its dead and what not? Why the grotesque imitations and caricatures of the church’s forms, even to its sacraments?” —Professor G.H. Gerberding, D.D., quoted by Martin L, Wagner, Freemasonry: An Interpretation.
Freemasonry is a church of the Antichrist. It has taken the form of pseudo-Christianity with its good works, thus luring into its ranks some Catholic as well as anti-Catholic supporters. The institution is esoteric and ‘the symbolism is the very soul of freemasonry’ (Pike). ‘It least does mean what it most does say and show.’ The spirit of freemasonry has its origins in the first pagan religions on earth. ‘Its peculiar religious ideas and doctrines have survived from the periods of remotest antiquity until the present time, and continue with a persistence that is marvellous. It has diffused over the whole habitable earth. Like the mysterious force or energy in nature upon which it is based, the essence or data has been constant, but the forms in which it has found expression have varied in different ages and among different people. The marvel lies in its persistence. So long as there is unregenerate human nature, so long will the root of masonry find a congenial soil and keep alive the organization in some form’ --M. L. Wagner: Freemasonry: An Interpretation.
Manley Palmer Hall 33º, in his The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, states that freemasonry has no meaning or real purpose outside its ‘Melchisedech context’. This is the order of combat in the great conflict predicted in Genesis 3:15, the war of priests and kings, that war involving Christ the High Priest and His priests and kings of Christendom against the combined army of the Antichrist. Now, whereas the great battle of the Melchisedech kingships is temporarily lost, the battle against the Melchisedech priesthood is - as was depicted allegorically in the 1879 apparition at Knock Ireland - in full flow today. Currently, it is the scientist-as-priest and not the priest as Saint, who men and women look to for wisdom today.
‘These vital and essential elements in this religion are not spiritual facts and spiritual mysteries, but carnal and psychical, the facts of life, and the mysteries involved in the generation and reproduction of life, and from their nature appeal most powerfully to man…. On its theological side, Freemasonry is a sort of pantheism, the deity being the generative principle, the reproductive power that pervades all animated nature….…The most dangerous antagonists of Christianity in its earliest days were the worshipers of Isis, under various modifications as Demeter, Cybele, Diana, or as the power of fertility, and the Mithraism, the worship of the generative power under the aspect of light [the heresy of Copernicanism]. The enemies of Christianity clothed these ideas in the language of the New Testament and of the Church. By skilfully veiling their pagan ideas under the terminology of Christian doctrines many who thought themselves serving the Lord Jesus Christ were led unconsciously into the pagan cults. And this is the method of Freemasonry.’—M. L Wagner: Freemasonry: An Interpretation.
Masonry and Lucifer
In 1738, a mere twenty-one years after the Masonic Order first went public in London (1717), Pope Clement XII, in his encyclical letter *In Eminenti described freemasonry as ‘Satan’s synagogue’ with ipso facto excommunication for any Christian who joined or associated with it, reserving absolution to the Holy See alone. This excommunication was extended by Pope Pius IX in his Apostolicae Sedis of October 12, 1869 to include the Carbonari and other secret societies also active in the republican revolution in Italy at the time. In all, the Church has issued twenty bulls warning the faithful against masonry for while the organisation gives the outer appearance of being Christian their inner core of initiates are ultimately about the work of the Devil. This was further emphasised in Pope Pius IX’s Scite Profecto of July 1873, wherein he personally attributed masonry to Satan, for he says it can only be the Devil, the eternal adversary of God, who is responsible for it; founded it, and contrived its development. The most comprehensive of all these epistles however, was Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus (1884). Subsequently, in 1890, the vernacular encyclical Dall’ Alto, addressed to the clergy and people of Italy was published. The Pope here described freemasonry as pervaded with the spirit of Satan. Another warning appeared in the same pope’s Custodi *of 1892. Addressing the Italian bishops, the Holy Father asserted that ‘the diabolical spirit of all former sects is revived in masonry that attacks everything sacred, while the public, lulled in false security, does not recognise the danger, for Christianity itself is at stake.’
(before he became the Pope)
