And finally the sad part is there are some guys (one of them who became a supreme ritualist in Masonry) who have a real hard time worrying about what happens to their loved ones when they die and a Masonic Funeral is conducted. The former Freemason basically said: do you want them to condemn your soul to Osiris after you die, and this guy knew the whole ritual.
So when one dies, where Catholics may put up tombstones with Crosses or Statues of the Virgin Mary (if one can afford it), Masons I’ve seen buried put up NO crosses on their tombstones or put up Egyptian obelisks on their grave. The husband and even wife (who cannot join the Lodge) can have the seal of the Grand Architect of the Universe, the square and compass with a big “G” in the middle of the triangle on the tombstone or obelisk.
We go to the cross, and in their Masonic crowning finishes to life, no cross or prayer to Christ if you do a Masonic Benediction. Now how can one look at an organization like this as not an religion or supra-religion: the GAOUT grand architect symbol is a religious symbol for Freemasonry, their god, engraved on their tombstones and when you check out the obits in your local paper, you’ll find where others put the cross besides the name of the deceased, they put the GAOUT symbol. I don’t wish them ill; it’s their choice. But that is religion, not just fun and games as they claim. Some proMasons, an English canon, once called it Masonry the supreme religion and he was a proud Mason and found no problems with this.
When you join, Masonry does not care what god you believe in…could be any god, just has to be some God. And that’s why the world’s most famous Satanist, Aleister Crowley, could breeze through all the secret rites of Scottish Freemasonry and never be condemned by the Grand Lodge. They knew what he stood for but he graduated magna cum laude so to speak. They’ve never disavowed him.
And as for them defending their oaths, it’s a catch 22 when they get initiated into Masonry, get a noose around their necks, get a hoodwink placed over their eyes, go down on one knee with one pant leg and shirt sleeve up with a gold compass pointing at their bare chest from the Master Mason and are forced to pronounce a bloodcurdling oath with one hand on an open Holy Bible if Christian in a
Temple and in front of a Masonic
Altar.
The catch 22 is that there are only 2 explanations of what happens during the initiation ceremonies and both are sins:
- either the nature of the oath and threats of torture are just jokes and not to be taken seriously, in which case the Masonic Christian candidate has just committed blasphemy by swearing a mock oath on the Bible for fun; or
- the oaths with their penalties do mean something, in which case a Christian Masonic Candidate has again committed blasphemy by using Scriptures to bound himself to physical torture.
You cannot just produce the Bible for oaths and penalties and just say its a joke or just symbolic. The Bible is neither a joke nor just a symbol. It’s a catch 22 for the Christian Mason. If its all fun and games, our Bible should not be used in a pagan Masonic Temple.
