“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”.
and that right there is when I knew he wasn’t a Mason.
That and I just participated in a practice for the 3rd last night for another lodge.
Pretty funny guys.
You might reread the oaths taken...and further reports of how they can “harm” without anything physical.
You can protect Masonary all you care to...I will not for I know the great damage it can and has done to people and their families.
Further sharing that the initiate does indeed “swear” a penalty on himself....does speak volumes. What sort of stupidity to even consider such an oath and the ritual which goes with it.
A Christian is not ‘in darkness’ as Masons announce when they first begin the ritual....so then what kind of “light” are Masons bringing them into, via their ritual? There is only one “light of the world” and that is in Jesus Christ. So you see Masons start out on the wrong foot right from the get go in their intition ceremony...and that should give Christians a heads up from the get go as well.