Posted on 01/23/2009 9:26:51 AM PST by mnehring
...One-third of the signers of the Constitution, many of the Bill of Rights signers and America's first few presidents (except for Thomas Jefferson) were Freemasons, a fraternal organization that became public in early 18th-century England.
...Still, as the first president, George Washington had to come up with appropriate rituals for the new country. He borrowed many of them from Masonic rites he knew as "worshipful leader" of a lodge in Alexandria.
His Masonic gavel is on display at the Capitol Visitor Center. Until this inauguration, Washington's Masonic Bible - on which he swore his obligations as a Freemason - was used for the presidential oath of office. President-elect Barack Obama will use Abraham Lincoln's Bible.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
No argument with what you said about Jesus and the truth.
But, “truth” from men is always suspect.
The top echelon of masonry do swear blood oaths to lucifer as noted by the masonic hero Albert Pike himself, not an outside source. Aleister Crowley a devout satanist and Aldous Huxley, who was instrumental in bringing on the cultural revolution of the 60’s, were all ascended masons along with many others.
If you want to bind yourself to these types of people in secret blood oaths that’s your business, but I’m just telling you I would hope you would reconsider for the sake of your own soul.
You masons should note that the information is out & you can’t stuff it back into the box. People are becoming more and more aware of the dark agenda of masonry and it’s my hope many of it’s low ranking members will be the ones enlightened so they can free themselves from it. If you’re more dedicated to your pride in freemasonry than anything then I guess you better hang on to it, but if not, I beg you to reconsider for your sake.
As far as your healthy advice, I think it’s a mark of your masonry that believes a person can’t find the truth. Jesus said he is the way, the truth and the life & no one goes to the Father but by Him. I take His word for it. So you have to run from those who have found Jesus? How can you be a baptist and hold such a philosophy? It doesn’t make any sense. You can either know the truth & it can set you free, or you must run from people who have found it, which doesn’t sound so healthy, especially for a baptist. You cling to known luciferians yet run from those who have found the truth, Jesus? It doesn’t make any sense.
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