Henry Makow Ph.D. is the author of "Cruel Hoax: Feminism and the New World Order." (www.cruelhoax.ca) His articles can be found at his web site www.henrymakow.com He enjoys receiving your comments, some of which he posts on his site using first names only. hmakow@gmail.com
SEE TESTIMONY ON FREEMASONRY BELOW
Henry,
I visited my old college, since some of the guys I know there were participating in a literary reading of their own work. After the reading was over, everyone was mingling, and I hear this one guy, no older than 22, speaking about the Masons. He is apparently a member. I walk over, listen, and start to ask basic questions. We laugh about the "conspiracy theorists" and their ideas.
Masons, he says, are good for raising money for their communities and giving members a sense of being a part of something that actually matters. Only two rules apply to join, he says: 1) You must be male. 2) You must believe in a God/higher power.
The guy gives me his business card and invites me to partake in a personal tour of the lodge where he is a member. In fact, he then offers me to join the Masons. He would be the personal reference I would need, and after an extensive background check, I would be good. Within a year, I should be able to move up to 3rd degree Mason. I took the card, said thank you and left. I have not contacted him.
Weeks later, I spoke to a friend of mine about this experience, and he reminded me that the Masons are, after all, the avenue to fame and fortune. Was I tempted to join? Absolutely. The thought still runs through my head. I still have the guy's business card. This avenue would probably solve problems and bring comfort to my family's life. But at what price?
(anon)
Hi Henry,
I've had the occasion of meeting several Masons over the years and my verdict is: Losers all. From what I've witnessed, talentless or lazy people join this "fraternal order" because they want an easy way to material success. It's a haven for deadbeats.
In their system, a Mason's first duty is to one of their "brothers." Thus, when one of them needs a job, he gets one regardless of his qualifications. He then must "perform" for his lofty status by trading in his honor, morales, etc and doing whatever is asked of him. If the task(s) is so done and is approved of, he gets his reward -usually the granting of a wish or desire within the the company. Anyone else working alongside the Mason ends up doing all his work. No support from management, no objections entertained.
The Order always has several high ranking executives under their thumb and these weaklings-in-spirit protect the more feeble and easily controlled ones beneath them.
It was my father who warned me about Masons. He said they were in all the utilities, board rooms and any institutions where decisions affecting a lot of people were made. Maybe that explains why our society, country and civilization is so screwed up.
b
Henry,
More on track, I read what the young man wrote about being approached to join the Freemasons.
My advice for him, having been approached over and over since I was 13 (first time was at my grandfather's funeral), is that the lure of 'solving problems' is strictly material, and as the old saying goes, 'if they make ya, they can break ya'. He would find that he would have merely exchanged one set of problems for another, more complicated set. As for the price, he would eventually be set up to betray whatever he loves most. That's an intitiation: "never love a thing you cannot bear to watch
die".
And that's only the beginning. Freemasonry is pure Luciferianism--Satanism--on the inside. And they don't play. I never did enter a lodge, because my grandfather told me before he died never to have anything to do whatsoever with them, and the reasons for it. They ruined his life.
Don't be tempted. Coin is a sorry substitute for keeping the autonomy of your own soul.
Truth Seeker Comment
As this writer understands it there is a trade-off in Freemasonry, although most don’t realise it when they join the order. By serving masonry and taking rewards in this world for their services – essentially reaping rewards in the physical world – masons forfeit certain energies and opportunities (for want of a better word) in the next.
That is the essence of the trade-off; the Lodge appropriates energies and prospects that should have been for the individual to use in the next world.
This is the real meaning of Black Magic: using esoteric arts for earthly gain; for the fulfilment of earthly ambitions and desires in exchange for a payment to be made in the next. Almost like the spiritual equivalent of usury and the ignorant, unsuspecting mason ends up paying the price – for eternity. Ed.
Last updated 06/02/2008