SealedEternal
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"Occultists" are drawn to Freemasonry only because they hear stories about "secrets." There are no secrets in Freemasonry.
So all of the revered occultists of all time were duped into thinking they joined an esoteric occult secret society which holds some of the most profound hidden knowledge in the world, only to climb their way through the degrees and discover there is nothing there? Then why are your leaders teasing them and lying to them with promises of finding higher enlightenment that doesn't exist?
No, I would have you BELIEVE anything at all; I would have you KNOW that there is no such thing as high-level Masonry. Any move beyond the Blue Degrees in Masonry is lateral, not vertical.
How absurd is that? If it were vertical then there would be no point in doing it, yet seemingly all of the famous Masons opt to work toward the 33 degree.
But you are on the wrong track anyway, since Masonry is not about any particular system at all. Its about morality, not about esotericism or religion, and the moral principles it teaches are equally applicable in many systems. The root foundation of it, though, is in the Bible.
That's just absurd. Some of the concepts are loosely based on Biblical imagery, but the meanings are completely antithetical to the Bible. The true foundation is based on ancient paganism that goes back at least to Nimrod, and probably before the flood. That is evident by the symbology being used by Masonry, which has been used for thousands of years, and is based on the occult mystery religions. Obelisks are biblical for example, but only in the sense that God condemned the pagans who erected them. So yes Masons can claim they are following the Bible, but they are not on God's side.
And addressing the specific question of the thread, how could a Christian take oaths that promise to have grotesque violence committed against themselves and others, to conceal each other's crimes, to retaliate and persecute unto death the violators of Masonic obligations, and the many other ungodly things they are forced to promise to do? The answer is they can't.
And as I already pointed out also in this post, the so-called higher degrees are not a promotion in any sense. And as I pointed out in the previous post, entering the appendant degrees these days is not a process in any sense at all, not when you can attend a one-day class in most of the Grand Lodge jurisdictions in the U.S. and get ALL the degrees at once.
Then why aren't all Masons in the highest degrees? Are they just too lazy to attend the one day class?
By way of comparison, thats like saying that because people like William Miller, Ellen G. White, John Darby, and Charles Taze Russell showed an interest in Christianity and devised their own versions of it, the rest of Christianity has to be defined by THEIR opinions and not by orthodox or evangelical views, simply because someone is of the opinion that there is a definite link there. It doesnt work that way. Christianity is not defined by its imitators, nor is Masonry defined by its imitatorsor for that matter, by its detractors.
The problem is I have never heard Masonry deny these supposed frauds as not being one of them. In fact, many still read the books of these so-called fake Masons like Albert Pike and Manly Hall, and hand out their books in the lodges to up and coming adepts to learn about the craft. Yet if I quote any famous Mason about any substantive issue, you guys simply obfuscate and deny that they were real Masons or spoke on behalf of the craft. Any evidence I could possibly present, you have your built in excuse of "nope not one of us, we don't teach that", yet in this information age everyone who wants the truth can see what this organization is about, and it's not just a little charity club that studies the Bible.
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