Freemasonry
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Freemasonry is a fraternal organization. Arising from obscure origins (theorized to be anywhere from the time of the building of King Solomon's Temple to the mid-1600s), it now exists in various forms all over the world, and claims millions of members. All of these various forms share moral and metaphysical ideals, which include in most cases a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being.
The fraternity is administratively organized into Grand Lodges (or sometimes Orients) that each govern their own jurisdiction, which consists of subordinate (or constituent) Lodges. Grand Lodges recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There are also appendant bodies, which are organizations related to the main branch of Freemasonry, but with their own independent administration.
Freemasonry uses the metaphors of operative stonemasons' tools and implements, against the allegorical backdrop of the building of King Solomon's Temple, to convey what is most generally defined as "a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols."
Alleged Jewish connection
Freemasonry is a Jewish organization whose history, grades, symbols and conventional passwords are Jewish from the beginning up to the end” this is the definition of the Freemasonry made by jewish publication Israelite of America[1].
And Jean Bidegain in a speech held before the Great Orient of France adds: „The Jewish people both remarkably by their instinct of domination and by their science to rule created the Freemasonry to enroll in it the people that not belonging to their nation bind themselves nevertheless to help them in their actions, to collaborate with them in order to establish the reign of Israel among people”[1].
According to Florin Becescu, “The supreme leadership of the universal Freemasonry is held by the international Order B’nai B’rith headquartered in Chicago together with the ascending secret groups , B’nai Mosche, B’nai Israel, B’nai Zion, occultly ruled on their turn by those mysterious Wise Men of Sion”[1].
Masonry in Romania
The book Romanian Masonic Order, on page 344 says: „April 1929: gr. 30, Octavian Goga militates for foundation of the Freemasonic Christian Block. «Mr. Octavian Goga, that although is Mason, has no idea of the role of Freemasonry as he dared to speal in the lodge about Christianity– mistake for which the Masons will never forgive him. Mr. Goga went so far with his naivety as he proposed that the National Lodge to be called the Christia-National Lodge.»(V.Trifu, 1932)”. And Nichifor Crainic, in Orthodoxism and Masonry, saying about the reason of being present the Bible as ritual object in certain lodges, he comments: „The Romanian Freemasons of Scottish rite (;) say: «We are not against the Orthodoxism as they are those from the Great Orient. We admit the Bible. We swear on Bible». What is it true from all these? The Masonry, either Scottish or the other one, is a kind of upside-down religion. It has a temple, a cult organized with various rituals and some symbolic objects. Among these symbolic objects the Scottish Masonry accepts also the Bible. What does this mean? That the Masonry accepts the doctrine comprised in Bible? In this case, it would be only a religious sect as many sects emerged from Christianity[1].
But no! The Bible in Masonry has another meaning. Let’s consult the book of Mr. Eugen Lannhoff. «The Bible, the protractor and the compasses» – he says – «are the three great lights of Masonry». «Bible, the light above us, NOT AS A DOGMATIC AUTHORITY but as an expression of faith in an universal moral order!» It means a common symbol, as the protractor, «light within us» and as the compasses, «light around us». Consequently, in Masonry the Bible plays a role of precise symbol as any other object, for instance the compasses and the protractor. Instead of it, even a bowl could also mean the same symbol as the symbolic meaning is not linked to the dogmatic authority of Bible ! But what does the Bible also mean if you take out the dogmatic authority of the revealed doctrine? Is it not here about a supreme mockery that is brought to the divine book reducing it to the meaning that may have an apron, a trowel or the compasses?”(Nichifor Crainic, Orthodoxism and Masonry, in Ioan M. Mareş, Freemasonry in the movie «Ecaterina Teodoroiu», 1933, pages 54, 55)[1].
As to the self-presentation as being deist of some lodges, the same Nichifor Crainic says: „There is no separation between the two Masonries: the Scottish one and that of the Great Orient. They work hand in hand. Only that the Scottish one is said to be deist. This does not mean in any case that it accepts the Christianity. The Deism is a philosophical conception that accepts at the origin of the world an abstract, creative and impersonal principle but with which the world has nothing in common any more. In fact, this learning is only a nuance of the Atheism, a hidden Atheism. The symbolic formula from the Scottish rite «in the name of the great architect of all the worlds» according to the interpretation that is given by Mr. Eugen Lannhoff does not mean a formula of faith in a personal God. It is maintained as a purely symbolic expression to bring together those that reach the Masonry with the religious beliefs of the Church ”., ibidem, page 54[1].
The author also mentions that „All my sayings have an objective character. They are based on a monumental book Die Freimaurer by Mr. Eugen Lannhoff, convinced Mason, published in 1929 in Vienna. The book was given to me as a gift by my distinguished friend Dr. Heinrich Studer, the owner of Amaltheea Publishing House where it was published the work. Die Freimaurer, i.e. the Feemasons, is a book of narrating and defending an occult institution made up according to the documents that were put at the author’s disposal by the Mason lodges. Hence, an absolutely Masonic book ”., ibidem, page 53[1].
