SCRIPTURAL EXAMINATION OF FREEMASONRY:

1. Masonic view of the Holy Bible If we are to look at Freemasonry in a realistic manner, we will have to examine Freemasonry in the light of its Great Light, the Holy Bible, to see if the view of the Holy Bible is the same in Freemasonry as it is in Christianity.

2. .Christianity views the Holy Bible as the inspired, infallible and inerrant Word of God. (taken from the Believers Statement of Faith.

3. What does Freemasonry say about the Holy Bible? The Masonic Bible given to each Mason upon completion of the 3rd Degree (Master Mason Degree) states the following about the Holy Bible. Page 26 of the 32 page addendum to the Masonic Bible "The Bible itself has a similar multiplicity of uses and meanings; it is the Bible and at the same time is the Volume of the Sacred Law; it is the Book of the Old and New Testaments and at the same time represents each of the world Bibles, and may be replaced by the Koran, the Zend Avesta, the Vedas, etc.: it lies on the Altar and yet does not have possession of it because the Square and Compasses lie on the Altar with it; it is the textbook of the Christian and Jewish religions yet the Lodge does not use it as a textbook because the Lodge is not a church and has no theology - the Lodge uses it as the literature of religion; and yet though it is a book of religion it is at the same time for Masonry a legal book also, because it gives sanction to the Obligations;

What is Freemasonry saying here?

1. That the Holy Bible represents all the world Bibles, all the holy books of all world religions.

2. That the Holy Bible can be replaced by any of the world's Volumes of the Sacred Law. I have included a list of volumes of the Sacred Law from Coil's Masonic Encyclopaedia - Page 674.

"Volume of the Sacred Law (V.S.L.). The various Volumes of Sacred Law or Writings are:

• The Pentateuch or the Old Testament of the Hebrews
• The New Testament of the Christians though some would include the Holy Bible
• the Koran of the 'Mohammedans or Islam
• the Zend Avesta of the Persians
• the Tripitaka of the Buddhists
• the Rig Veda and other Vedas of the Brahmins
• the Tao Te King of the Taoists of China
• the Bhagavad-Gita of the Hindus
• the Book of Mormon of the Latter Day Saints.

3. That the Bible use is only a legal book upon which to obligate candidates.

4. That the Lodge does not use it as a textbook for teaching Divine Law.

5. Coil, in his book, Coil's Masonic Encyclopaedia, Page 520, states that it is not looked upon as God's Divine Law inspired and revealed.

"The prevailing Mason,-. opinion is that the Bible is only a symbol of Divine Will, Law or Revelation, and not that its contents are Divine Law, inspired or revealed. So far, no responsible authority has held that a Freemason must believe the Bible or any part of it. Also, that it is not necessary to believe any of its contents.

6. The Holy Bible is considered as a piece of furniture of the Lodge. Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry - A. Mackey, page 286 states:

"Furniture of the Lodge: The Bible, square and compass are technically said to constitute the furniture of a Lodge.

7. That the Holy Bible is incomplete. This is the taproot of every cult. That there is a higher, more knowledgeable revelation. Morals & Dogma - A. Pike, page 744, states:

"The Bible, with all the allegories it contains, expresses, in an incomplete and veiled manner only, the religious science of the Hebrews. The doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient Egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils. The Hebrew books were written only to recall to memory the traditions; and they were written in symbols unintelligible to the profane.

8. That the Holy Bible is a collection of monstrous absurdities. Morals & Dogma - A. Pike, Page 745 states:

"The Pentateuch and the prophetic poems were merely elementary books of doctrine, morals and liturgy; and the true secret and traditional philosophy was only written afterward, under veils still less transparent. Thus was a second Bible born, unknown to, or rather uncomprehended by, the Christians; a collection, they say, of monstrous absurdities; a monument, the adept says, wherein is everything that the genius of philosophy and that of religion have ever formed or imagined of the sublime; a treasure surrounded by thorns; a diamond concealed in a rough dark stone."

9. That the Kabalah (the key to the Hebrew occult) is a revelation to be admired. Morals & Dogma - A. Pike Page 745, states:

"One is filled with admiration, on penetrating into the Sanctuary of the Kabalah, at seeing a doctrine so logical, so simple, and at the same time so absolute."

Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry - A. Mackey, Page 375 states:

"Buxtorf (Lex.. Talm.) defines the Kabbala to be a secret science, which treats in mystical and enigmatical manner of things divine, angelical, theological, celestial and metaphysical; the subjects being enveloped in striking symbols.and secret modes of teaching. Much use is made of it in high degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles. Hence it demands a place in any general work on Masonry. The first mention of the veneration of the Kabalah is in the initiation of the 4th Degree in the Scottish Rite.

10. That to require a profession in the belief in the Holy Bible as a prerequisite to initiation is in direct opposition to the expressed regulations of Freemasonry. Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry - A. Mackey, page 672, states:

"Although in Christendom very few Masons deny the Divine authority of the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, yet to require, as a preliminary to initiation, the declaration of such a belief, is directly in opposition to the express regulations of the Order,-which demand a belief in God and, by implication, in the immorality of the soul as the only religious tests.

The God mentioned in the above quote refers to a God, but not the God of the Holy Bible. "Is he meaning the Masonic God?"

In conclusion - the masonic view of the Holy Bible is in direct opposition to the Believer's Statement of Faith regarding the Holy Bible, and a believer who has given his oath to an organisation that has the above view of the Holy Bible, cannot seriously partake in the Christian faith.

In addition, it is most interesting to see what a leading Masonic authority has to say about the Masonic Bible. Here, he is referring to the 32 page Addendum at the front of the King James Version of the Holy Bible. Coil's Masonic Encyclopaedia, page 518-519 states:

"There has been and still is a great deal of proselyting for the creeds of various denominations in the Society and certainly a great deal for the Bible, especially a type of book called the Masonic Bible, often containing unauthorised additions, explanations, fictitious Masonic history and doctrine, but generally leading up to the conclusion that Freemasonry and the Bible are the same!"

Here, the author is acknowledging that the 32-page Addendum to the Masonic Bible is an attempt to deceive the candidate.

Here is an example of the misuse of scripture in Freemasonry. In the initiation of the 4th Degree in the Scottish Rite, Solomon here is reading Scripture, taken from Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated J. Blanchard, Page 45, Quote: it Solomon - While the Lord reigneth, let the people tremble, he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved; Praise ye the Lord - praise, 0 ye servants of the Lord, praise ye the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth forevermore; From the rising of the Sun unto'. the going down of the same, the Lord's name is to be praised; The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the Heavens - Praise ye the Lord, praise him, O ye servants of the Lord, ye that stand in the house of the Lord - in the Courts of the house of our God, praise the Lord for the Lord is good - sing praises unto his name for it is pleasant: For the Lord had chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure: Let them praise the name of the Lord - for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the Earth and Heaven-Thy name, 0 Lord endureth forever, and thy memorial throughout all generations: Bless the Lord -0, my soul.-. and all that is within me bless his holy name."

Upon close examination of this scripture reading, I find that the above passage is a collection of verses from the Psalms, namely Psalm 99, 135, 113 and 103. These collection of verses are so set up as to worship a God that is void of the other two persons of the Trinity, makin2 this so called scripture line up with the concept of the Masonic God, who is not the God of the Holy Bible, if we take into consideration the Masonic view of the Holy Bible.

If you regard the Holy Bible to be the true word of God and you have taken oaths to an organisation that regards the Holy Bible in terms I have shown you, as a Christian you are living a contradiction and you must consider your position.

What is the Masonic view of God? Pure logic tells you that if: 1. the Holy Bible can be replaced by other volumes of Sacred Law 2. If a belief in the God of the Holy Bible not necessary for membership 3. If there are higher extra biblical revelations 4. If the Holy Bible is looked upon as only a symbol of Divine Law, a piece of furniture in a Lodge then the God of Freemasonry is not the God of the Holy Bible and the questions asked a candidate during the initiation of the 1st Degree are a deception.

Then, who is the God of Freemasonry?

1. He is an umbrella God, that Masonic God that swallows into himself all the Gods of all the world religions, including the God of Christianity. The Grand Architect of the Universe (the Masonic God) to whose glory the Masonic Bible is dedicated, is not the God of the Holy Bible.

2. The Masonic God is a trinity, but not in the trinity of the Holy Bible. The trinity of the Masonic God is represented in the Lodge by three burning candles surrounding the Masonic Altar in a triangular,.f-ashion. The Works, Page 33 - quote-. "The T.L. Ls are the S., M , And the W.M. rule and govern his [] with, equal regularity. They are represented by three burning tapers situated in a triangular position about the A.

3. This trinity is the Sun, Moon and Worshipful Master of the Lodge, who represents the Masonic God in the Lodge, who is identified with Horus, the son of the widow Isis, the Moon Goddess of Egypt, and the Sun is Osiris the Sun God of Egypt. This may sound strange to you, but here is what A. Pike, in Morals & Dogma, page 87, states:

"Now the Egyptians arranged their deities in Triads - the Father or the Spirit or Active Principle or Generative Power; the Mother, of Matter, or the passive Principle, or the Conceptive Power; and the Son, Issue or Product, the Universe, proceeding from the two principles. These were Osiris, Isis, and Horus. In the same way, Plato gives us Thought the Father; Primitive Matter the Mother; and Kosmos the World, the Son, the Universe animated by a soul. Triads of the same kind are found in the Kabalah.

You see every Mason is a widow's son, not the widows son that is implied in the 3rd Degree (Hiram abiff), but as stated by one of the Masonic authorities. Lost Keys of Freemasonry - Manly Hall, page 109, states: "In Egypt, the Mysteries, or institutions of philosophic rebirth, were called Isis and those born out of the temple were designated the Sons of Isis. Now, through the death of Osiris, her husband, this goddess had donned the badges of mourning and through the loss of the Word (symbolised by the phallus-or Osiris), had become the great Widow. Hence, those born our of her, the philosophic elect, were termed the Widow's Sons, a designation which has clung to Freemasons, even in this age.

4. The Egyptian trinity of Sun Worship is represented in the Masonic Lodge as well as in the Past Master s Jewel, which a Worshipful Master of a Lodge wears after he has completed his term of office. The trinity is hidden in the 47th problem of Euclid and covered over by the lecture on Geometry. Whether you know it or not, this is the trinity to which you have bound yourself by the Masonic Oath. You see the Worshipful Master of your Lodge represents the Sun, who in ancient Sun Worship was Osiris or under other names. Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry - A. Mackey, Page 800 states:

"'The right-angled triangle is another form of this figure which is deserving of attention. Among the Egyptians, it was the symbol of universal nature; the base representing Osiris or the male principle; the perpendicular, Isis, or the female principle; and the hypotenuse, Horus, their son, or the product of the male and female principle.

This symbol was received by Pythagoras from the Egyptians during his long sojourn in that country, and with it he also learned the peculiar property it possessed namely, that the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides is equal to the square of the longest side - symbolically expressed by the formula, that the product of Osiris and Isis is Horus. This figure has been adopted in the Third Degree of Masonry, and will be there recognised as the forty- seventh problem of Euclid.

5. Now that you have been shown the Masonic trinity, Osiris, Isis and Horus of the ancient Egyptian Sun Worship religion, I will show you the Sun Worship trinities that Freemasonry recognise and you will notice that the Holy Trinity of the Holy Bible is not included as any trinity, Sun Worship or other. Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry- A. Mackey, Page 798-799 states:

"Triad. In all the ancient mythologies there were triads, which consisted of a mysterious union of three deities. Each triad was generally explained as consisting of a creator, a preserver and a destroyer. The principal heathen triads were as follows: the Egyptian, Osiris, Isis, and Horus; the Orphic, Phanes, Uranus, and Kronos; the Zoroastric, Ormuzd, Mithras, and Ahriman; the Indian, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva; the Cabiric, Axercos, Axiokersa, and Axiokersos; the Phoenician, Ashtaroth, Milcom, and Chemos; the Tyrian, Belus, Venus and Thammuz; the Grecian Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades; the Roman, Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto; the Eleusinian, Iacchus, Persephone, and Demeter; the Platonic, Tagathon, Nous and Psyche; the Celtic, Hu, Ceridwen, and Creiwry; the Teutonic, Fenris, Midgard, and Hela; the Gothic, Woden, Friga, and Thor; and the Scandinavians, Odin, Vile, and Ve. Even the Mexicans had their triads, which were Vitzliputzli, Kaloc, and Tescalipuca. This system of triads has, indeed, been so predominant in all the old religions, as to be invested with a mystical idea; and hence it has become the type in Masonry of the triad of three governing officers, who are to be found in almost every degree. We must, perhaps, look for the origin of the triads in mythology, as we certainly must in Masonry, to the three positions and functions of the sun. The rising sun or creator of light, the meridian sun or its preserver, and the setting sun or its destroyer.

You see, the trinity of Freemasonry is heathen and a Christian has no place within that organisation.

6. These trinities of Sun Worship line up with the trinities of the Kabalah. Morals & Dogma - A. Pike, Page 305, Quote:

"For the Kabalists, Light represents the Active Principle, and Darkness or Shadow is analogous to the Passive Principle. There- fore it was that they made of the Sun and Moon emblems of the two Divine Sexes and the two creative forces.

Morals & Dogma Page 12-13 - A. Pike, states:

"The three lesser, or the Sublime Lights, you have heard, are the Sun, the Moon, and the Master of the Lodge; and you have heard what our Brethren of the York Rite say in regard to them, and why they hold them to be Lights of the Lodge. But the Sun and Moon do inno sense light the Lodge, unless it be symbolically, and then the lights are not they, but those things of which they are the symbols. Of what they are the symbols the Mason in that.Rite is not told. Nor does the Moon in any sense rule the night with regularity. The Sun is the ancient symbol of the light- giving and generative power of the Deity. To the ancients, light was the cause of life; and God was the source from which all light flowed; the essence of Light, the Invisible Fire, developed as Flame manifested as light and splendour. The Sun was His manifestation and visible image; and the Sabaeans worshipping the Light - God, seemed to worship the Sun, in whom they saw the manifestation of the Deity. The Moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male. It was the symbol of Isis. Astarte, and Artemis, or Diana. The "Master of Life" was the Supreme Deity, above both, and manifested through both; Zeus, the Son of Saturn, become King of the Gods; Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, became the Master of Life; Dionusos or Bacchus, like Mithras, become the author of Light and Life and Truth.

7. Horus, the Master of Light, the Son of the Egyptian trinity, a type of Christ, with whom the Worship Master is identified, is also represented in the Lodge by the all seeing eye. Lost Keys of Freemasonry Manly Hall, Page 48, states:

"Bearing his now flaming cross, Aradamas entered the room and instinctively gazed upward to the lofty dome. There, floating in space, far above his head, he saw a great closed eye, surrounded by fleecy clouds and rainbow colours. Long Aradamas gazed upon the wonderful sight, for he knew that it was the Eye of Horus, the All-Seeing Eye of the Gods. As he stood there, he prayed that the will of the Gods might be made known unto him and that in some way he might be found worthy to open that closed eye in the temple of the living God. Egyptian Magic, by E.A. Budge, page 55 states:

12. THE AMULET OF THE EYE OF HORUS The Eye of Horus amulet, or Utchat, is one of the commonest of all, and its use seems to have been universal at all periods. Egyptian Book of the Dead, by E.A. Budge, Page 105 - within the darkness. Hath arranged me the eye of Horus, hath nursed me

The Book of the Dead is the key to the Egyptian occult.

The origin of the All Seeing Eye is Occultic and has no place in an organisation involving Christians.

8. In the Third Degree caricature of the "Resurrection" in the Hiram abif legend, the Worshipful Master of the Lodge represents God, the giver of life, the male regenerative principle of the Sun the Egyptian Sun God, and here the Sun is called the Father. The Spirit of Masonry - Foster Baily, Page 41, states:

"Later in the third degree the strength and power of the great first aspect of Deity emerges and gives life to dead forms, and lifts with its strength the Master from the gates of death to life everlasting. Only W.M. can do this, as a symbol of God the Father, the giver of Life.

9. The trinity of the Masonic God represents the male regenerative principle attributed to the Sun, the female regenerative principle attributed to the Moon and Horus, the All Seeing Eye. This constitutes nature worship and is identical with witchcraft-who worship the same trinity in the same context.

10. The male and female principles constitute phallus worshi 9 which is another aspect of Sun Worship and is "the core doctrine. In the The Egyptian Book of the Dead, the symbol "a point within a circle" is seen often and denotes deity or the sun. It also denotes the phallus of Osiris, the Sun God of Egyptian Sun Worship. When Isis could not find the phallus of Osiris after he was murdered by Thyphon, his brother, and scattered over the earth in 14 pieces, she erected a column in the temple of Isis to represent the missing phallus of Osiris, and the point within the circle is a representation of that phallus, the male regenerative principle. Do you now see why you took an oath that you would not-be present at the making of a woman a Mason. She does not process the phallus. The point within the circle symbol is found in the Egyptian Book of the Dead and denotes the Sun at its various stages, rising, setting, etc., and Deity such as Ra or Sun Gods under different names. It also symbolises the two divine sexes. This symbol is on the wall of every regular and well governed Lodge of Master Masons. But, it is surrounded by Christian symbols and is given a nice moral explanation so as to deceive the initiate in the Blue Lodge by suggesting a Christian perspective. This is the symbol of the true Masonic God. Egyptian Book of the Dead A.E. Budge, page 123 - his rising, Tmu-Harmachis. Adored art thou [when] thy beauties are in my two eyes. of Ra, is my face open, is my heart upon its seat. An adoration of Ra in his rising in the horizon, when becometh.

Here is what the Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry - A. Mackey, Page 573 states about the "Point within the Circle."

Point Within a Circle - This is a symbol of great interest-and importance, and brings us into close connection with the early symbolism of the solar orb and the universe, which was predominant in the ancient sun-worship. The lectures of Freemasonry give what modern Monitors have made an esoteric explanation of the symbol, in telling us that the point represents an individual brother, the circle the boundary line of his duty to God and man, and the two perpendicular parallel lines the patron saints of the Order - St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist.

But that this was not always its symbolic signification, we may collect from the true history of its connection with the phallus of the Ancient Mysteries. The phallus, as I have already shown under the word, was among the Egyptians the symbol of fecundity, expressed by the male, generative principle. We have seen that the phallus and the point within a circle come from the same source and must have been identical in signification. But the phallus was the symbol of fecundity, or the male generative principle, which by the ancients was supposed to be the sun (they looking to the creature and not to the Creator), because by the sun's heat and light the earth is made prolific, and its productions are brought to maturity. The point within the circle was then originally the symbol of the sun; and as the lingam of India stood in the center of the lunette, so it stands within the center of the Universe, typified by the circle, impregnating and vivifying it with its heat. And thus the astronomers have been led to adopt the same figure as their symbol of the sun.

Now it is admitted that the Lodge represents the world or the universe, and the Master and Wardens within it represent the sun in three positions. Thus we arrive at the true interpretation of the Masonic symbolism of the point within the circle. It is the same thing, but under a different form, as the Master and Wardens of a Lodge. The Master and Wardens are symbols of the sun, the Lodge of the universe, or world, just as the point is the symbol of the same sun, and the surrounding circle of the universe."

Some Masonic authorities speak of another aspect of the Masonic God, namely the Luciferian Doctrine. Lost Keys of Freemasonry Manly Hall, Page 48 states:

"When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper appli- cation of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy.

A. Pike's speech to World Masonry in 1889 as quoted from the source below: "That which we must say to the crowd is - We worship a God but it is the God that one adores without superstition.

"To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees - The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine."

"If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (The God of the Christians) whose deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests, calumniate him?"

"Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods; darkness being necessary for light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive."

"Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil." (Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World, Albert Pike, Grand Commander, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, July 14, 1889. Recorded by A.C. De La Rive, La Femme et 1'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle, page 588).

12. In the 17th degree of the Scottish Rite, the sacred word communicated to the Candidate is Abaddon. In the Satanic Bible by Anton Levay on page 145-146 Abaddon and Apollyon are one of the infernal names in Satanism. Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated.- J. Blanchard, Vol. 1, page 453, states:

"Touch Tyler's forehead, when he answers by putting his hand on your forehead. Pass Word:- Jubulum. Sacred Word:- Abaddon.

In the Book of Revelation, during the period of the fifth seal, the locusts who came out of the abyss had, quote, Rev. 9:11 "They had as king over them the angel of the abyss whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek, Apollyon.

Here is God's answer to the Luciferian Doctrine, from Isaiah 14:12-15 "The Word of God, the Bible, clearly puts Lucifer in his proper place, and gives God's reasons. How Art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thineheart, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."

It is interesting to note that all the symbols of the Masonic Diety, the Grand Architect of the Universe, are all symbolic of occult dieties of heathen Sun Worship and are clothed in Christian moral interpretations. These interpretations give the symbols dual meanings - one for the Mason who is being deceived and one for the Mason who knows the true meaning of the Masonic religeon.

In Conclusion, if the Masonic God is :-

• not of the Holy Bible
• not of the Holy Trinity of the Holy Bible
• is above all Gods of all world religions
• of the trinities of Sun Worship and Witchcraft

then the Masonic concept of God is in direct contradiction with the God of the Holy Bible and taking oaths to the Masonic organization constitutes a denial of the true God of the Holy Bible.

I believe that a Christian who is a member of Freemasonry has done this as a result of a deception, skillfully concealed by fine sounding philosophies and the pomp and pageantry of the ritual of Freemasonry. Your eyes have been directed towards the Masonic God and taken off Jesus Christ. Y ou cannot exist with one foot in each camp. You have been deceived into worshiping nature and creation rather than the creation.

Listen to what God has to say to us in Col. 2:8 "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive phylosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."

And Romans 1:25 says:

"They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the creator - who is forever praised, Amen.