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The Maze Of Masonry
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: How many have had a family member or friend that was or is currently a Mason? Most people don’t know very much about this group except for their generous works that they do for children.
4. Is This The Same God As In The Bible?
Masonry teaches 3 things about God:
a. God is defined as G.A.O.T.U.
Great Architect of The Universe.
Coil’s Mason Encyclopedia states, “Men have to decide whether they want a god like the ancient Hebrews Yahweh, a partisan god, with whom they can talk and argue…or a boundless, eternal, universal, undenominational and international Divine Spirit so vast remove from the speck of man…The Masonic test is a Supreme being, and any qualification added is an innovation and distortion…Monotheism violates Masonic principles, for it requires belief in a specific kind of Supreme Deity.”
b. God’s secret name is “Jahbulon”.
The new candidate is instructed to learn the term “Jahbulon” composite of “Jah” for Jehovah and “bul” for Baal. They even admit that Bul or bel refers to the Canaanite or Assyrian deity. “On” refers to the Egyptian deity, Osiris.
In Masonic Rituals and Monitor, “This compound name is an attempt to show by co-ordination of divine names…the unity, identity and harmony of Hebrew, Assyrian and Egyptian god ideas…Brahma, Jehovah, Baal, Bel Om, On, denotes the generative principle, and that all religions are essentially the same in their ideas of the divine.”
c. Their God is not the Christian God.
An article that I found fascinating on this subject was by Mason G.A. Kenderdeine, he says, “Masonry holds and teaches that with all and above all there is God, not essentially a Christian God.”
The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, by Mason Manly P. Hall, pages 92, 54-5, "Man is a god in the making, and as in the mystic myths of Egypt, on the potter’s wheel he is being molded. When his light shines out to lift and preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of godhood and joins that throng of Master Masons who, in their robes of Blue and Gold, are seeking to dispel the darkness of night with the triple light of the Masonic Lodge."
"The glorious privileges of a Master Mason are in keeping with his greater knowledge and wisdom...For Him the Heavens have opened and the Great Light has bathed him in its radiance. The Prodigal Son, so long a wanderer in the regions of darkness, has returned to his Father’s house. The voice speaks from the Heavens, its power thrilling the Master until his own being seems filled with its divinity, saying, ’This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’ He [The Master Mason], in truth has become the spokesman of the Most High. He stands between the glowing firelight and the world. Through him passes Hydra, the great snake, and from its mouth there pours to man the light of God."
Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World, Albert Pike, Grand Commander, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, July 14, 1889… "To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of 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.
"Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods: darkness being necessary for light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive.