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To: Vendome

You would seriously take this oath??????

The Scottish Rite Third-Degree Master Mason oath

This commits the oath-taker to commit murder, if necessary:

I do promise and swear upon the Holy Bible never to reveal where I have received this degree . . . and in failure of this I consent to have my body opened perpendicularly and to be exposed for eight hours in the open air, so that the venomous flies may eat my entrails, my head to be cut off and put on the highest pinnacle of the world, and I will always be ready to inflict the same punishment on those who shall disclose this degree and break this obligation. So may God help and maintain me. Amen.


137 posted on 03/08/2012 8:47:54 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

“Scottish Rite” + “Third Degree Master Mason oath”?

Your entire post is bogus, including “if” and “the”.

First off, the Scottish Rite has no involvement with the Third Degree. One must attain the Third Degree before one can even pursue the Scottish Rite degrees.

Secondly, that’s not the wording of the oath in the Third Degree.

Thirdly, in NONE of the Masonic degrees does the oath involve swearing to actually inflict the penalty on somebody. The swearer is, in essence, inviting the penalty down on himself...at least one author has suggested that the invitation is for God Himself to inflict the penalty for such an egregious violation, along the lines of “cross my heart and hope to die”.


146 posted on 03/09/2012 7:11:23 AM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: caww

Are you serious? I really don’t believe you were ever raised.


150 posted on 03/09/2012 7:28:42 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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