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SATAN'S TOP TEN HOAXES:

1.  THE NEW WORLD ORDER / ONE-WORLD RELIGION
2.  LUCIFER / THE ANTICHRIST
3.  THE TETRAGRAMMATON / RELATED GOD-NAMES
4.  JESUS IS GOD / TRINITY / THE VATICAN
5.  THE "APOSTLE" SAUL-PAUL / TORAH ABOLISHED
6.  THE TALMUD / KABBALAH / FREEMASONRY
7. EVOLUTION / BIG BANG / HELIOCENTRISM / DINOSAURS
8.  EXTRATERRESTRIALS / UFO'S
9.   OUR "HISTORY" BOOKS / WORLD WARS / FED RESERVE / 911
10.  POST-APOSTOLIC CANON --- SAUL/PAUL'S EPISTLES INCLUDED,
ENOCH, JASHER, THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS et al OMITTED

Dis-Honorable Mention:
THE LADY OF FATIMA, THE CROSS, TERRORISM, THE COLD WAR.....
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Jesuit General
Adolpho Nicolas
THE BLACK POPE
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Featured article for the week of August 24, 2008

Excerpted from the book "Rule By Secrecy"  by Jim Marrs
copyright 2000


FREEMASONRY VS. CHRISTIANITY

Any attempt at an in-depth discussion of the inner workings and philosophies of
Freemasonry would bog down in endless details and unresolved controversies. They are,
after all, a secret fraternity and require some secrets.

Suffice it to say that Freemasonry has provided an overt bridge to the modern era for
the covert teachings of the Ancient Mysteries, incurring the wrath of both church and
state along the way.

This was stated clearly by Masonic author Hall, who wrote, "Freemasonry is therefore
more than a mere social organization a few centuries old, and can be regarded as a
perpetuation of the philosophical mysteries and initiations of the ancients."

Wilmshurst was even more to the point. He wrote, "When Christianity became a stare
religion and the church a world power, the materialization of its doctrine proceeded
apace and has only increased with the centuries. Instead of becoming the unifying force
its leaders meant it to be, its association with 'worldly possessions' has resulted in
making it a disintegrative one. Abuses led to schisms and sectarianism ...whilst the
Protestant communities and so-called 'free' churches have unhappily become self-
severed altogether from the original tradition and their imagined liberty and
independence are in fact but a captivity to ideas of their own, having no relation to the
primitive gnosis and no understanding of those Mysteries which must always lie deeper
than the exoteric popular religion of a given period. . . . Since the suppression of the
Mysteries in the sixth century, their tradition and teaching have been continued in
secret and under various concealments and to that continuation our present Masonic
system is due."

So another secret is out. Freemasonry and its progenitors have passed along knowledge
inimical and dangerous to organized religion.

While espousing the Christian ideals of brotherly love, charity, and truth, even Masonic
authors make it cleat that Freemasonry is not an adjunct to the Christian religion. The
innermost secrets of the order, some of which appear to be the antithesis of Christianity,
have raised considerable suspicion and concern over the years, including an early
church prohibition.

On April 28, 1738, just one year after the Mason Ramsey publicly connected
Freemasonry to the outlawed Knights Templar, Pope Clement XII issued his famous
bull, In Eminenti. He condemned Freemasonry as pagan and unlawful and threatened
any Catholic who joined with excommunication.

Modern Christian authors have continued this condemnation of the order. "The Masons
have but one purpose": concluded author Epperson, "They exist to utterly destroy
Christianity...."

Others see in Freemasonry an ambivalent public view on religion at best. Journalist Still,
who conducted a lengthy study of the group, wrote in 1990, "Every aspect of Masonry
seems to have both a good and a bad side to it—an evil interpretation and a benign
interpretation. Those who wish to find a Christian interpretation in its symbols can find
ample published Masonic justifications. Those who wish to show that Masonry is really a
form (it Deism—built for all religions and faiths—can easily do so."

Webster, that earlier Freemason researcher and author, concurred, writing in 1924,
"The truth is that Freemasonry in a generic sense is simply a system of binding men
together for any given purpose, since it is obvious that allegories and symbols, like the x
and y of Algebra, can be interpreted in a hundred different manners."

Yet Masonic authors themselves reveal that the order is not without metaphysical
thought, rather it is very much devoted to divine understanding. "Freed of limitations of
creed and sect, [the Mason] stands master of all faiths." wrote Manly P. Hall.
"Freemasonry ... is not a creed or doctrine but a universal expression of Divine Wisdom
. . .revealing itself through a secret hierarchy of illumined minds."

Hall saw Freemasonry as a "world-wide university, teaching the liberal arts and
sciences of the soul to all who will hearken to its words."

He said the traditions of hundreds of religions and the knowledge of a thousand ages
spawned Masonic philosophy.

Wilmshurst stated clearly that Masonry "is a system of religious philosophy in that it
provides us with a doctrine of the universe and of our place in it."

Though writing in the 1920s, Wilmshurst sounded like a consummate New Ager. He
wrote of "positive energy," reincarnation or regeneration of the spirit, as well as a
person's "aura," by which he explained the biblical Joseph's coat of many colors. He
even went so far as to state that "just as our Craft organization has its higher
assemblies and councils . . .so in the mighty system of the universal structure there are
grades of higher life, hierarchies of celestial beings working and ministering . . .
beyond our ken."

Having addressed all this, Wilmshurst stated that the "secrets" of Freemasonry deal
with introspection of the human soul but that "beyond this brief reference to the subject
it is inexpedient here to say more." Obviously, all Masonic secrets are not publicly
available despite a wealth of published material.

One can readily see why authors Still, Epperson, Webster, and others saw in
Freemasonry an insidious attempt to subvert Christianity. Still claimed Masonic
initiation rites "provide a system to gradually and gently realign a man's religious
beliefs. Thus, a Christian is slowly encouraged to become a Deist [one who believes in
no supernatural intervention by God in human affairs]; a Deist becomes so Atheist; an
Atheist to a Satanist."

At another point, journalist Still backed away from the claim that Masons are Satanists.
He stated the god of Masonry is actually Lucifer and explained that the difference is
that "Luciferians think they are doing good [while] Satanists know they are evil."

Epperson concurred with this Luciferian interpretation, writing, "So the secret inside the
Masonic Order is that Lucifer is their secret god." He quotes Master Mason Pike as
writing, "You may repeat ir to the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees—The Masonic religion
should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the
Luciferian doctrine."

Wilmshurst explained with typical Masonic obscurity, "To clear vision, Christian and
Masonic doctrine are identical in intention though different in method. The one says 'Via
Crucis' [through the Cross]; the other 'Via Lucis' [through Lucifer]; yet the two ways are
but one way."

This belief in two separate but equal gods provides significant support to those
connecting Freemasonry directly to the Cathars of France and the earlier Gnostics, both
of which were mercilessly exterminated by the Catholic church. Both of these sects were
known dualists, those that believe in the equal power of good and evil, light and dark.

It is illustrative to note that in the 1980s fundamentalist Christians were upset to learn
that the Lucis Trust, a New York tax-exempt, nonprofit "New Age" organization
concerned with topics dear to the secret societies such as economics and
environmentalism, originally had incorporated as a publishing house under the name the
Lucifer Publishing Company. The firm published the works of Alice Bailey and Madame
Blavatsky, both advocates of Theosophy. Trust officials explained "Lucifer as here
used means 'bringer of light or the morning star' and has no connection whatsoever with
Satan as conventional wisdom would have it."

Contrary to the idea that Pike and his fellow Masons were simply secret Satan
worshipers, several Masonic writers demonstrate that less simplistic issues arc
involved. Even anti-Mason author Epperson demonstrates that Pike made a deeper
examination of his subject by quoting Pike's book Magnum Opus as stating, "All have
admitted two gods with different occupations, one making the good and. the other the
evil found in nature. The former has been styled 'God,' and the latter 'Demon.' The
Persians or Zoroaster named the former Ormuzd and the latter Ahriman; of whom they
said one was of the nature of Light, and the other that of Darkness. The Egyptians
called the former Osiris, and the latter Typhon, his eternal enemy."

Author Still explained that to Luciferians, God has a dual nature— the loving side,
Lucifer, and the bad side, Adonai, both equal in power but opposite in intent. "This idea
is symbolized by the circular yin-yang symbol of the Buddhists or the black-and-white
checkerboard pattern seen on the floor of Masonic lodges or buildings," he wrote.
Mason Pike wrote that Adonai, one of the biblical names for God, was the rival of
Osiris, the Egyptian sun god, a prominent figure in Masonic traditions.

Some anti-Masonic writers saw in the Masonic symbols of ancient Egypt a return to the
worship of the pagan sun god. However, Pike, in his book Morals and Dogma intended
only for the inner core of Masonry, made it clear that worship of the sun was an
adulteration of an earlier belief. "Thousands of years ago, men worshipped the sun. .. .
Originally they looked beyond the orb four solar system's sun] to the invisible God.. . .
The worship of the Sun [the invisible God] became the basis of all of the religions of
antiquity," he wrote.

This secret becomes clearer when closer study reveals chat this Great Architect of the
Universe is a supreme creative being, while, according to Pike, "[Osiris] the Sun God...
created nothing."

Masonic authors draw a distinction between the celestial "sun" and the "Sun" god
which, they say, is the bringer of light. The gift of light— light usually being interpreted
as knowledge—is greatly venerated in Masonic rituals. Interestingly enough, the
appellation "Morning Star" and "Bringer of Light" were at times applied to Jesus.

So one inner Masonic secret echoes the belief of the ancient Gnostics and Cathars,
namely that there is only one great creative cosmic God, referred to in Masonic
literature as the Great Architect of the Universe, but that there may be two opposing
aspects to this deity. A hidden aspect of this belief is the idea that in the distant past on
Earth there walked "gods," or powerful nonhuman beings of the Hebrew Bible and the
even earlier Babylonian and Sumerian legends. According to various traditions, it was
these "gods" who brought humans civilization and science.

That inner-core Freemasons understood scientific principles as well as metaphysical
ones is exemplified by their veneration of the collection of Greek writings that Plato's
disciples called Hermes Trismegistus after the Greek god Hermes, who established
alchemy and geometry. Freemasons also trace their philosophies to the Greek
philosopher Pythagoras, who greatly influenced Plato, the idol of Cecil Rhodes and John
Ruskin.

Both Pythagoras, who stated the Earth moved around the sun, and the Hermetic writings
were said to have utilized secret "science" that survived Noah's Flood. Hermes, deified
as Thoth by the Egyptians and thought to have intimate knowledge of the gods and the
stars, voiced the principle "As above, so below." This indicated a knowledge of
universal unity, comparing favorably with Albert Einstein's unified field theory. "From
the smallest cell to the widest expanse of the galaxies, a repetitive geometric law
prevails and this was understood from the very earliest of times," explained author
Laurence Gardner.

Wilmshurst said the person who reaches "the summit of the Mason's profession" will
become "conscious of being the measure of the universe; he realizes that the earth, the
heavens, and all their contents, are externalizations, projected images, of corresponding
realities present within himself."

Alchemy became known as the "Hermetic science" and Freemasonry contains both
Hermetic branches and Hermetic rites. The mythical and magical practice of alchemy
was passed down from the Egyptians. "It was more than science," explained authors
Picknett and Prince. "The practice embraced a fine web of interlinking activities and
modes of thinking, from magic to chemistry, from philosophy and hermeticism to
sacred geometry and cosmology. It also concerned itself with what people today call
genetic engineering and methods of delaying the aging process, and of trying to attain
physical immortality."

"There can be no doubt that in some of what are called the [Masonic] High Degrees
there is a very palpable infusion of a Hermetic element. This cannot be denied," wrote
Masonic historian Mackey. This Hermetic tradition was focused in a companion secret
society to Freemasonry—the Rosicrucians.

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