What the Bible Says about Secret Societies

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The Occult Nature of Secret Societies

Occult Secret Societies in the Bible

Biblical Encounters with Occult Secret Societies

How God Overcomes & Redeems from Occult Secret Societies

Secret Societies: A Curse

Today’s Encounters with Occult Secret Societies

Spirits Operating with Occult Secret Societies

Off site links:

·         Prayer of Release for Freemasons and their Descendants (by Selwyn Stevens)

·         David Julian, a Christian Mason critiques Selwyn Stevens (Prayer for Release above)

·         Freemasonry in early Mexico

·         Ron Campbell, Free from Freemasonry

·         Charles Finney, Why I left Freemasonry

·         Jack Harris, Freemasonry

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The purpose of this page is to help people who want to better understand the occult nature of secret societies, especially freemasonry, and how to receive spiritual healing in the name of Jesus Christ either for themselves or their loved ones.  We love Masons. We do not hate Masons. We are trying to help people help themselves and their families out of curses associated with this form of idolatry.

This is one of the most accessed pages on this website, so there seems to be interest in this subject, and people are looking here for various reasons. If you are a Mason and want to straighten me out, we probably will not change each others' minds, so consider that before you write a lengthy diatribe or ugly email.  If you would like to help me correct a statement on the page, please kindly let me know.

 

I am also aware that there are many anti-mason websites run by "Christians" which are unkind, rude, and offensive to Masons. Those who call themselves Christians should remember Whom we represent.  I am not trying to "straighten out" or stir up Masons. I am presenting what I have found in my own search in the Bible re: secret societies. I realize my own fallibility and present a witness as best I can to my conviction of the truth. This information is for people who want more information in this area.

Unfortunately, as a kind Mason wrote recently, there seems to be more real fellowship at a lodge meeting than in many church meetings. While that may be true, it shouldn't be that way. Look over the information below with an open mind as Masons frequently mention they have.  If you are not a believer in Christ, the following does not really apply to you. This information is for Christians who desire the Lordship of Christ in their lives. Look at it yourself. Check out the Scriptures. Make up your own mind.

 

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Freemasonry: General Information on the Curse

I watched two lengthy videos on Freemasonry because I wanted to see the symbols and watch the ritual being done. I found a video that did just that. The first video gave an overview of freemasonry and linked it with ancient paganism. The second video was the John Ankerberg Show where they let Masons debate with anti-Masons and show the ritual. A former Worshipful Master named Jack Harris explained all the symbolism. Here is what I learned.

Freemasonry's Levels

Freemasonry is a hidden fraternal order, and defined as a system of morality. The first three steps are the Blue Lodge. The first degree is called Entered Apprentice. The second degree is called Fellow Craft. The Third degree is called Master Mason. Most men only go to the third degree, but if one chooses, he may advance either through the York Rite or the Scottish Rite. The Scottish Rite has thirty-two degrees. In each degree, the mason pledges himself to a different Egyptian deity. There is a thirty-third degree that is largely honorary, but the thirty-two degrees give you access to becoming a Shriner.

Origin of freemasonry

Masons as an organization originated in 1717 when the Craft Masons (plain old brick & mortar masons) were infiltrated by Speculative Masons who were interested in academics and ideals. They wanted to overthrow the kings of Europe, and establish new world order. There are an estimated 5 million freemasons in North America today and 1 million Shriners. The spiritual roots of freemasonry, though, go back through the ages of witchcraft through France's Enlightenment, through Rome and Greece, through Egypt, through the Jewish Kabbala, to the Tower of Babel.

Entered Apprentice

At the Entered Apprentice degree, the new man is initiated into the Egyptian trinity. The apprentice is bare chested with a noose around his neck, knocks on the door to the lodge, comes before the altar and the Worshipful Master, kneels blindfolded. The Worshipful Master touches his left breast with a sword and forces the initiate to take a blood oath that if he tells any of the secrets of freemasonry he will have his throat cut from ear to ear.

True Power

Albert Mackey, one of the foremost authorities on freemasonry from the nineteenth century, in Lost Keys to Freemasonry (p. 48), states that the God of freemasonry is Lucifer the God of Light, and Adonai is a God of Darkness. When one learns how to use the power of Lucifer's energy, according to Pike, the freemason has received true power.

Link with Paganism

The initiation ceremony for paganism and for freemasonry is nearly identical. An initiate has to be recommended, must be blindfolded, naked, with a noose around his neck. The Worshipful Master or High Priest is in the east end of the building, the place of authority in paganism, where the sun rises from. Both put a sword to the chest and make you swear a blood oath not to tell the secrets. Then the blindfold comes off to bring the initiate from darkness into light. All prayers are ended with "So Mote it Be," the same phrase and ceremony used in initiation rites to join a coven in witchcraft.

Lodge Furniture

Lodge furniture is set up in imitation of pagan ways. The Worshipful Master's seat is on the east wall. It is the place of authority because it is where the sun rises. On either side of him sits the senior deacon who is in charge of the initiation process for all new initiates and the chaplain who is usually an ordained minister. In the center of the room is a table with a Bible or Veda or Qu'ran or Torah depending on the religion of the lodge members with a square and compass on top, the square representing the male and the compass the female, both together the sex act of generation, or in Egyptian thought, the resurrection through offspring.

The Curse

At the first initiation, the initiate knocks on the door to petition to come from the darkness into the light. The Worshipful Master lays hands on the initiate, dedicates him to the god of the lodge and asks that the secrets of the lodge be used and "by the secrets of our art he may gain eternal life."

The Letter G

The Letter G is the symbol for geometry or Grand architect or sacred deity “god” or the Generating force, i.e., the male creative force or male organ. Before this symbol the initiate must humbly bow. This letter is on the lambskin apron that every freemason must wear. The letter G covers the spot of the Generating Principle on the male body as a cover for the deity.

The Great Lights

There are three Great Lights: the Holy Bible (or whatever holy scripture), the Square that squares one's thoughts with what should be, and the compass that circumscribes one's desires. There are three lesser lights represented by Candles: the Sun, the Moon, and the Worshipful Master. These are in the center of the lodge.

Hiram Abiff

The legend of Hiram Abiff is used in moving into the third degree. A Hiram is mentioned in 1 Kings 7 as the master mason of Solomon's Temple. The initiate is prayed over and receives the spirit of Hiram Abiff, and he walks around the central table blindfolded several times with the Senior Deacon. In the skit, three ruffians attack him to see if he will share the secrets of freemasonry. The exoteric meaning of this ceremony is to test the loyalty of the initiate to keep the secrets of freemasonry. The esoteric meaning is a false death, burial, and resurrection.

The first ruffian attacks the blindfolded man and says, "Hiram Abiff! Tell me the secrets of freemasonry!" The senior deacon answers for him: "I will not tell you the secrets of freemasonry!" The ruffian answers, "Tell me or you die!" The deacon answers again for the initiate, "I will die first!" The ruffian answers, "Then die!" That is the first curse of death.

Then a second ruffian does the same thing. Two curses of death. Then a third ruffian does it again. Three curses of death. With three curses of death, the initiate is hit over the head with a mock club and killed.

Then the ruffians are fearful because they have killed their master mason, Hiram Abiff, and the decide to bury him on the west side (sunset side) of the table. After they bury him, they run away. Then the Senior Deacon and the Worshipful Master appear over the body of the initiate. The Worshipful Master commands the Senior Deacon to pull the body out of the grave by a special hand grip which does not work. The Senior Deacon says the flesh is tearing away from the bone, meaning the body is decomposing.

Then the Worshipful Master, the incarnation of Osiris the God of the dead, orders the Senior Deacon, an incarnation of the demon of death assigned to the initiate, to try another grip. Again, the flesh tears from the bone. Then the Worshipful Master orders the Senior Deacon to try the lion paw grip (a roaring lion, perhaps?), with five points at the fingers. The initiate is accordingly raised to new life to become an immortal Master Mason, pleasing to God (which God?). When this process is complete, the initiate is a full member and has cursed his family, himself, and his church.

This cursing process may explain the reason Francis MacNutt has to command the demons three times to come out of a demonized person involved in the occult. Also a spirit of death is quite easily seen through all these sequences, and can easily account for the existence of a spirit of death associated with freemasonry.

Principalities?

One former 32nd degree Mason on the video said something that was intriguing and scary and may lead to understanding of why freemasonry demons are so powerful, especially for higher degree freemasons. This fellow said that when one goes up a degree, he dedicates himself to another Egyptian deity. These deities would be principalities and therefore very high ranking and if given a foothold, very powerful. Could it be that when we deal with freemasonry, we are really dealing with some of Egypt's ancient principalities like Osiris, Ra, and Isis?

Missionary, Power-Demonstrating God

At the new moon festival, the Egyptians were forced to sacrifice a pig and smear the blood on the doorpost so that the avenger Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead, would not bring an untimely death on that home. What a missionary God we have. He contextualized the good news of redemption for enslaved Hebrews steeped in over four centuries of Egyptian paganism, and He did it with a clean animal, a lamb. YHWH demonstrated his power over the enemy, the angel of death Osiris, in the spectacle of the Passover. What a powerful and loving missionary God we have in Christ Jesus the lover of our souls.


The Occult Nature of Freemasonry

It is intriguing to me that those involved in various forms of paganism and witchcraft seem agreed that secret societies are kith and kin with their religions. As an anecdote, let me tell you about a witch I talked with in lower South Carolina once. The man with me asked her if her Wiccan religion had any similarity with freemasonry. She laughed, “Oh, they all act like they are so much better than us, but their rituals are exactly the same as ours.” The quotation below from a book on esoteric (secret) religions offers further intrigue.

 

“The highly ritualized and secretive practices of freemasonry are based on degrees of initiation, involving the individual’s “death” and “rebirth,” in which increasing amounts of esoteric knowledge are imparted.  The symbols and rituals imployed by alchemists, Rosicrucians, and Freemasons, as well as their ultimate purpose, are, to an extent, interlinked, and many have been absorbed into the vocabulary of the “mainstream” of the occult.  Certainly most modern occultists sympathize with their common quest for spiritual knowledge and perfection.” 
                                                                                    --- Drury and Tillett, The Occult: A Sourcebook of Esoteric Wisdom, 1997, p. 57.
 

Occult Nature of Freemasonry
 Strange statement by revered Masonic scholar, Albert Pike

 “The Master Mason, if he be truly a Master, is in communication with the unseen powers . . . He is the spokesman for the spiritual hierarchies of his Craft . . . a priest-King after the Order of Melchizedek, who is above the law.  He wears the triple crown of the ancient Magus [Magi] . . . he seeks to be worthy to pass behind that veil and join that band [of spirits].  It is then and then only, that a true Mason is born.  Only behind this veil does the mystic student come into his own.”     – Albert Pike’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, 1:449.


 Laying the Cornerstone of the US Capitol
 “On 18 September 1793, the cornerstone of the Capitol was officially laid.  The Grand Lodge of Maryland presided over the ceremony, and Washington was asked to serve as Master.  There was a great procession, which included a company of artillery.  Then came a band, followed by Washington himself, attended by all officers and members of the lodges in full regalia.

 “When he reached the trench in which the south-east cornerstone was laid, Washington was presented with a silver plate commemorating the event and inscribed with the designations of the lodges in attendance.  The artillery fired a volley.  Washington then descended into the trench and placed the plate on the stone.  Around it, he placed containers of corn, wine and oil – standard symbolic accoutrements of Freemasonic ritual.   All present joined in prayer and masonic chanting, and the artillery fired another volley.

“Washington and his entourage then moved to the east of the cornerstone, where the president, standing on a traditionally masonic three-stepped rostrum, delivered an oration.  More masonic chanting followed, and a final volley from the artillery.”  – Baigent and Leigh, The Temple and the Lodge, 1989, p. 261.

 

Occult secret societies in the Bible
 
FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:
 “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters below.  You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of their fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to thousands who love me and keep my commandments.” — Exodus 20:4-6 NIV

 Occult secret societies in the Bible
 The Bible is rife with denunciation for this activity

 
 
 Biblical Encounters with Occult secret societies

The Fraternity of the Pharisees

 “To realize the state of religious society at the time of our Lord, the fact that the Pharisees were a regular “order,” and that there were many such “fraternities,” in great measure the outcome of the original Pharisees, must always be kept in view.

 The Pharisees were avowedly a “Chabura” — that is, a fraternity or “guild” — [In Acts 23:12,] we need not wonder that the rage of the whole “order” against Paul should have gone to an extreme . . . A grosser outrage on every principle and vow . . . of being of the whole “Chabura” could scarcely be conceived than the conduct of St. Paul and the views which he avowed.”  
 – Alfred Edersheim Sketches of Jewish Social Life, 1876, pp.  208-218

 

Today’s Encounters with occult secret societies
 
Freemasonry distorts the truth: Acts 20:28-31; 1 Timothy 4:7; 5:21; 2 Peter 2:1-3

 “Let us take a look at the number of great Bible classes for men which have been organized by the Church.  Many of these classes are being led by enlightened Masons . . . these laymen are bringing into the interpretation of the Bible many of Masonry’s great revelations.”  
 – Leaves from Georgia Masonry (Educational and Historical Commission of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, 1947), p. 74.
 
How God Overcomes & Redeems from occult secret societies


 Spirits Operating with occult secret societies


 Breaking Wicked Dedications Over Our Generations
 Because a third degree initiate receives a curse of death three times in the ceremony of Hiram Abiff, these generational seals must be broken three times.  Francis MacNutt says that seals of dedication can be contracted in blood, in words, or by desire. 

 “To break free from any contract the person has made, he needs to renew his baptismal promises or their equivalent three times [including renouncing Satan’s works and turning toward the goodness of Christ.] After renewing his promises the person needs to break and take back the contract.  He should do it as specifically as it was made.  Have him renounce it three times.  With the authority of Jesus Christ the exorcist breaks the seal, then proceeds with the deliverance.”     – Francis MacNutt, Deliverance from Evil Spirits, 1995, pp. 220-221.

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