Catholic Word of the Day: SECRET SOCIETY, 02-06-10

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[Salvation]

I was aware of the Odd Fellows and the Freemasons. The others I had not heard of.

[Salvation]

Sorry could you please change that date in the title to
02-06-10

Thanks.

[Salvation]

Catholic Word of the Day – links will be provided later by another FReeper.

 

Monogamy	Sanctoral Cycle/Proper of the Saints	Prinknash
Gift of Knowledge	Nine Offices	Imputability
Thesis	Hypapante	Evangelist of Mary
Grace of God	Morality of Dancing	Priest
Henotheism	Creationism	Incommunicable Attribute
Homoousios	Credence	Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Baptism	Darius	Papal Decoration
Secret Society

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[SkyDancer]

Those are societies with secrets - a secret society is invisible to others ....

[the invisib1e hand]

got to have one of these:

[cajuncow]

As I was reading, I thought about the government for a second there.

[Salvation]

New book explores similarities between Mormons, Masons
Masonry has its decalogue, which is a law to its Initiates. These are its Ten Commandments
MORALS and DOGMA by ALBERT PIKE
Good Catholics should not wear aprons
What of Freemasonry?

Sandra Miesel explains why Catholics can't be Masons
"LOST SYMBOL" PICTURES: Masonic Symbols Decoded
Masonic Lodges Open Those Mysterious Doors
Freemasons to ‘Birthers’: rise of D.C. conspiracy theories (Flop Sweat continues...)
Fiji detains freemasons over 'magic rituals'

Georgia freemasons at loggerheads over admission of black man to lodge
Three Sisters Mystery Masonic Link?
Masonic rituals live on
Masonic rituals live on
First-Ever Masonic Inaugural Ball to be Held[In honor of President-elect, Barack Obama]

Regent Restates Vatican's Anti-Masonry Position

[Salvation]

Not a bad idea. We keep hearing “Behind closed doors.” LOL!

[redgolum]

The ban on secret societies used to be more widespread in Christianity. Now, only the Catholic Church, some Orthodox, the more conservative Lutheran Synods, and maybe a few flavors of Baptist retain those rules. And to be honest, in many areas it is honored more in the breach than the observance.

[wolfcreek]

Apparently the CC and Freemasons made up.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090305120306AA46s08

[Cap'n Crunch]

Here you go Salvation, here’s some interesting reading. Pike is the only confederate general who’s statue is in Washington DC. He also wrote about worshipping Lucifer.

Confederate General Albert Pike, whose statue stands today in Judiciary Square in Washington DC, was the founder of both the Ku Klux Klan and the Scottish Rite Free Masons, Southern Jurisdiction and was the author of ‘Morals and Dogma’ the Masonic Bible.

The Civil War was a covert Masonic operation run out of England, the home of the Mother Lodge, headed today by Prince Phillip, the Duke of Windsor. He also wrote in 1871 a very important letter to his European counterpart, Guiseppi Mazzini, detailing the plans for three world wars in the 20th Century to lay the ground work for a world government ruled by the ‘Illluminati’. We have seen World War I and II as predicted.

What about the Third World War?
Could we be witnessing that one too?
Read excerpts from that famous correspondence between two leading lights of world masonry.

“The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the “agentur” (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions.”

“The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine.

During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.”
“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other.

Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.

Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view.

This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”

[Tax-chick]

The Knights of Columbus are not a “secret society” because, although the members do Secret Guy Stuff that they’re not supposed to tell the ladies about, any Catholic clergyman can attend any Knights of Columbus meeting, ceremony, or event.

[Straight Vermonter]

Earlier Catholic Words of the Day

Monogamy	Sanctoral Cycle / Proper of the Saints	Prinknash
Gift of Knowledge	Nine Offices	Imputability
Thesis	Hypapante	Evangelist of Mary
Grace of God	Morality of Dancing	Priest
Henotheism	Creationism	Incommunicable Attribute
Homoousios	Credence	Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Baptism	Darius	Papal Decoration
Secret Society

[annalex]

An organization whose members may not disclose the purposes, practices, or activities of their society to civil or ecclesiastical authorities

Parse carefully. There is legitimate need for secrecy that the Church recognizes and endorses. The confessional secrecy, military secrets, trade secrets etc. are all examples of secrecy that are not condemned, and at least in the case of confessional secrecy are vigorously supported by the Church against all non-ecclesial intrusion.

There seem to be three parts to the ban:

• it has to be an organization, and not an individual or an ad-hoc temporal group. For example, it is not sinful for a Catholic to form a group which purpose is to study Chinese pottery (or turnip agriculture) and not tell anyone.
• it has to be kept secret from the church authority AND from civil authority. For example, the CIA is a very secretive organization, but it is supposed to disclose anything to the proper civil authority.
• it has to be the fundamentals of the group; the phrasing seems to allow for some specifics to be kept in general secrecy, for example, as secrets in science or trade. We don't know the Coca-Cola recipe, but we know Coca Cola's purpose, practices and activities in general. In principle, the courts might compel to disclose even the recipe to the court, in a context of a lawsuit.

[Salvation]

While reading your post I wondered about the KKK.

Don’t ask me why it came to mind.

[Salvation]

**What about the Third World War?
Could we be witnessing that one too?**

Coming, pray that it doesn’t come.

BTW, good to see you!

[Salvation]

Great analogies to legimate secrets.

The Seal of Confession is definitely one as are the trade and CIA secrets totally legimate.

[Bigg Red]

I have heard of all but the Sons of Temperance.

[Bigg Red]

:-)

[AnAmericanMother]

They were an American anti-drink society with a very restricted membership, you had to be invited to join.

Membership was mostly in New York and adjoining states. They were very active from the 1840s to the Civil War, but sort of died off after that.

The organization survives in Britain as a "friendly society" (i.e. mutual benefit insurance).