Posted on 02/22/2024 7:53:40 AM PST by ebb tide
On Feb. 16, 2024, representatives of the main Italian Masonic lodges and a number of influential Catholic prelates gathered in Milan for a day of study. The seminar, sponsored at the Ambrosianum Foundation by the Gris (Group for Socio-Religious Research and Information), was attended by the three Grand Masters of Italian Freemasonry: Stefano Bisi for the Grand Orient of Italy (GOI), Luciano Romoli for the Grand Lodge of Italy of the ALAMs (GLDI, and Fabio Venzi (in connection) for the Grand Regular Lodge of Italy (GLRI). On the Catholic side, Archbishop Mario Delpini of Milan, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, former president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, Franciscan theologian Father Zbigniew Suchecki, and Bishop Antonio Staglianò, president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, participated in the meeting. Archbishop Delpini gave the opening address and Cardinal Coccopalmerio the closing one. The meeting was behind closed doors, but the relevance of the participants leaked its contents, which Riccardo Cascioli first brought to light in The New Daily Compass on Feb. 19.
I’ve read it. It’s mostly moronic!
Here is an interesting article from Tanzania Africa—some tidbits you will not find anywhere else:
While the article seems designed to debunk “conspiracy theories” it gives some I have not heard before.
I have heard Manley Hall called a lot of names but nobody thinks he is stupid.
His research is meticulous.
Only the ignorant are Freemasons, if they truly profess belief in Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity yet reject Him within their lodges in favor of some "Grand Architect" acceptable to all men, whether they be christians, muslims, hindus, etc.
And now Hamas has renewed the evil of ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ to use against Israel.
Looks like the Freemasonry haters keep pretty stinking company.
Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865. He had previously served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. A prominent member of the Freemasons, Pike served as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite (Southern Jurisdiction, USA) from 1859 to 1891.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, or simply Morals and Dogma, is a book of esoteric philosophy published by the Supreme Council, Thirty Third Degree, of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. It was compiled by Albert Pike, was first published in 1871 and was regularly reprinted thereafter until 1969. An upgraded official reprint was released in 2011, with annotations by Arturo de Hoyos, the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction's Grand Archivist and Grand Historian.
One of Pike's influences was the French author Éliphas Lévi, the pen name of Alphonse Louis Constant. Lévi was a prolific writer on occult topics who, in Pike's day, was considered an expert on pagan mysteries and Gnosticism.
Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant (8 February 1810 – 31 May 1875), was a French esotericist, poet, and writer. Initially pursuing an ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church, he abandoned the priesthood in his mid-twenties and became a ceremonial magician. At the age of 40, he began professing knowledge of the occult. He wrote over 20 books on magic, Kabbalah, alchemical studies, and occultism.
He (Lévi)had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later on ex–Golden Dawn member Aleister Crowley... Lévi's ideas also influenced Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society.
In his book Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855), Lévi claimed that Freemasonry had its roots in ancient pagan rituals, and Pike accepted many of these claims. According to Chris Hodapp, "whole passages of Levi's book [were] made into Pike's".
French philosopher René Guénon noticed that "a considerable part of ... Morals and Dogma of Freemasonry is clearly plagiarized from Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie by the French occultist Éliphas Lévi". Craig Heimbichner and Adam Parfrey write that Pike "seemed untroubled by the need to properly attribute text that he borrowed or lifted" and that in Morals and Dogma "Pike plagiarized from the French occultist Eliphas Lévi."
Pike was heavily influenced by the occultist Lévi. Lévi also influenced Aleister Crowley - an admitted occultist, as well as Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society.
The Theosophical Society is the organizational body of Theosophy, an esoteric new religious movement. It was founded in New York City, U.S. in 1875. Among its founders were Helena Blavatsky, a Russian mystic and the principal thinker of the Theosophy movement, and Henry Steel Olcott, its first president. It draws upon a wide array of influences among them older European philosophies and movements such as Neoplatonism and occultism, as well as parts of Asian religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.
As recently as 2011 a new edition of Morals and Dogma was published.
Eventually Morals and Dogma entered the public domain and like many public domain works, it was reprinted many times by various publishers. In August 2011, the Supreme Council, 33°, S.J., announced that they had published a new annotated edition. Titled Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma: Annotated Edition, the work was prepared by Arturo de Hoyos, 33° the Scottish Rite's Grand Archivist and Grand Historian. The text is reprinted in full, with about 4000 scholarly notes on difficult passages, touching on historical, religious, and philosophical issues. The new edition is augmented by subject headings, and illustrations from the original books Pike used, new paragraph numbers, and corrections based upon original texts.
Freemasonry continues to embrace the whole of Pike's work in Morals and Dogma. To not recognize Freemasonry's connection to occultism is to be willfully blind.
It looks like we have some “guilt by association” going on here.
That is a five yard penalty.
There are a lot of very good and very bad people who have been Masons.
It would be unfair to judge the organization based on just a few of them.
The problem with this topic is that neither its defenders nor its attackers seem to have much of a handle of what it is and how it really works.
My conclusion—which I know you disagree with—is that in the current modern era it is a force for evil—regardless of the past history which we could debate endlessly.
So you just pulled that out of thin air to defend your defense of freemasonry?
That's not only weak, but pathetic.
Oh we sure do have Freemasons here and I’ll say to you what I said to them. They may have some bad actors but for the most part for their supposed networking and connectedness at best does nothing for troubled America and does nothing to stem the attacks against a stabilizing morality that keeps evil in check. At best they have proved themselves impotent to effect change in in our trouble land. At worst many of the more renegade lodges may be instrumental in accelerating our national demise!
Thank-you for that post.
It is more profound...
Let me ask:
Which is the first/chief importance of the gospel in accordance with the scriptures?
The Vatican’s
Friday,Saturday,Sun day?
Or
The Father’s
Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits?
Both are the 6th day, 7th Day, 1st day,on their respective calendars..
That’d be news for lunar only followers in Islam and solar followers in Judeo Christianity..
Go proofread your own post 73.
It’s really small and a cheap diversion to call someone on a misspelling, when it happens to everyone here at one time or another.
And just how do you know that?
Strike that reverse that...Masons at the highest levels Hate Israel. The use of many Muslim symbols and images Masons use tells me all about the company Masons keep.As for those “Protocols”...The Muzzies have never stopped using them against Israel.
I have nothing but blessings for Israel and for the Hebrews where-ever they are in the world. Christ will bring Israel back into his fold as Paul said!
It’s rather instructive that you would raise such an accusation. Are you saying that Masonry can be compared to the Jewish experience?
Each religion has a God.
“Efile”, really?
And he called me the idiot?
Here is a Wikipedia article on Hindu deities—quite a list—good luck pronouncing many of them—lol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_deities
Here is an article on India’s Freemasons:
The first lodge in India dates back to 1729.
Go read The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas. They equate Freemasonry with ‘Zionist organizations of sabotage and saboteurs’ and accuse Jews/Israel/Zionism, with the aid of Freemasonry, of all the great wars, controlling world media, sparking revolutions, etc.
The Nazis would be proud.
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I believe Jumper meant that every religion believes in God and expresses that belief IN ITS OWN WAY.
I know you think you’re on some sacred ‘mission’, but you are not getting anywhere with it here. Maybe you should have a rest.
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