08-08-2011, 04:17 AM
First there is no "antichrist" nature in any Masonic vow, ritual or teaching. There is no reference to Lucifer in any vow, ritual or teaching. In the lecture, there are references to the Kabbalah; the ancient, and legitimate, mystical tradition of Judaism. And there are references to the ancient Vedas of India. One of the sources you cite comes from Rev. Jonathan Blanchard's "Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated" (1887-1888). Blanchard's outdated book was actually an exposure of Cerneauism, an illegitimate pseudo-Masonic organization founded by Joseph Cerneau and chiefly active during the 1800's. Oaths of fealty and other references to the Cerneau "Supreme Council" appear throughout Blanchard's exposure. These references would have raised red flags to competent researchers, but anti-Masons conveniently ignore or misunderstand them. They seem satisfied that if something is in print and is negative about Freemasonry, it must be true. Also, Rev. Blanchard was never a Mason, not even a Cerneau Mason, much less a Sovereign Grand Commander. He was an anti-Mason from his youth.
Once you have convinced yourself that Freemasonry is the work of Satan, you are easily duped by the enticing "Luciferian Conspiracy." You can trace the modern usage of this fabrication to Lady Queenborough, Edith Starr Miller, who wrote "Occult Theocracy"in 1933. This is the source of your Order of Mizraim/Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Her work is excerpted and treated as gospel truth. Lady Queenborough found her quotation in the 1894 book by Abel Clarin de la Rive, La Femme et L'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle ("Woman and Child in Universal Freemasonry"). Mr. de la Rive, like Lady Queenborough, was duped by the hoax; but were willing to believe the worst about Freemasonry. The ultimate source was the pornographer, anti-Mason, anti-Catholic Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pages, much better known by his pen name Leo Taxil. Taxil publicly confessed his deception in 1897, and his story is widely available for anyone willing to look for truth.
There is one other point I wish to make here. What I find very disturbing is that no one, here, seemed to be bothered by the usage of that infamous lie The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. This insidious, anti-Semitic pamphlet has long since been proven a forgery and lie. Whether it has been the Czarist Okhrana, the Nazis, the Soviets, and now the Arab world; it is continually resurrected. Today, its format uses Zionism as the modern bogeyman. I see that many, here, have bought into the toxic mind-set: "Zionism is is part of the vast conspiracy to control the world." This is sad. I assure you that Zionism is not part of any "deep political" system. Instead, you should be looking at where and who is propogating this venom.
Once you have convinced yourself that Freemasonry is the work of Satan, you are easily duped by the enticing "Luciferian Conspiracy." You can trace the modern usage of this fabrication to Lady Queenborough, Edith Starr Miller, who wrote "Occult Theocracy"in 1933. This is the source of your Order of Mizraim/Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Her work is excerpted and treated as gospel truth. Lady Queenborough found her quotation in the 1894 book by Abel Clarin de la Rive, La Femme et L'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle ("Woman and Child in Universal Freemasonry"). Mr. de la Rive, like Lady Queenborough, was duped by the hoax; but were willing to believe the worst about Freemasonry. The ultimate source was the pornographer, anti-Mason, anti-Catholic Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pages, much better known by his pen name Leo Taxil. Taxil publicly confessed his deception in 1897, and his story is widely available for anyone willing to look for truth.
There is one other point I wish to make here. What I find very disturbing is that no one, here, seemed to be bothered by the usage of that infamous lie The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. This insidious, anti-Semitic pamphlet has long since been proven a forgery and lie. Whether it has been the Czarist Okhrana, the Nazis, the Soviets, and now the Arab world; it is continually resurrected. Today, its format uses Zionism as the modern bogeyman. I see that many, here, have bought into the toxic mind-set: "Zionism is is part of the vast conspiracy to control the world." This is sad. I assure you that Zionism is not part of any "deep political" system. Instead, you should be looking at where and who is propogating this venom.