bible – Ecclesiastical Freemasonry

Most of the information in this article comes from a fascinating book, ‘Pope Leo XIII and the Prayer to St. Michael’. The book looks at various accounts of the origin of the prayer as well as its significance.

Pope Leo XIII famously composed the prayer to St. Michael after seeing a vision in which God gave the devil permission to have free reign over the earth from the mid-twentieth century. The date of that apparition is traditionally given as October 13, 1884 – coincidentally, that is exactly 140 years ago today. This date is significant for several reasons, none of which should be a surprise to my readers. October 13, as well as being the anniversary of Leo’s apparition, it is the date of the miracle of the sun at Fatima (1917) and of the final apparition of Our Lady at Akita (1973).

Some sources believe that Leo’s decision to write the prayer coincided with his increasing concern over the influence of Freemasonry on the Catholic Church. His predecessor, Pius IX, had ordered a set of prayers to be prayed by priest and faithful after Low Mass for the protection of the Church. Leo inserted the prayer to St. Michael into that set of prayers – a practise which continues today in traditional parishes – requesting this from his priests in his classic encyclical against Freemasonry, Humanem Genus.

Leo issued continued warnings to his priests to be increasingly vigilant with regard to dangers both within and without the Church. As well as the St. Michael prayer, Leo composed an exorcism prayer just for priests which is based on the St. Michael prayer as well as a longer version of the St. Michael prayer to be used by the laity.

Statue of Giordano Bruno at the Campo de ‘Fiori in Rome.
SOURCE: Livioandronico2013 via Wikimedia Commons

Leo’s strong condemnations of Masonry drew the ire of the secret societies against him. In particularly egregious incident, the Masons erected a statue of an infamous heretic in Rome. The heretic, Giordano Bruno had been condemned and executed under the Inquisition in 1600.

Bruno was a hero to the Freemasons and other subversive groups and the statue’s sculptor went on to become the Grand Master of the Grand Orient lodge of Italy. By erecting Bruno’s statue, the Masons were in effect thumbing their noses at Pope Leo. Leo’s response was to release another encyclical, Dall’alto dell’Apostolico Seggio, condemning the Freemason’s act. The date of issue was October 15, 1890, just two days after the mysterious and highly significant date of October 13th.

[As an aside, Giordano Bruno was posthumously rehabilitated by the highly suspect Cardinal Angelo Sodano in the year 2000! As another aside, and this is very strange: St. Michael is a saint who is perversely venerated by the Masons, who think of him as the ‘planetary angel of the sun.’]

One reason why Pius and Leo sought to engage extra help from the archangels can be found in the records of exorcists. During exorcisms performed after their pontificates, demons admitted that there had been ‘unusually numerous and strong invasions by diabolical spirits on the earth’ during Pius’ pontificate. One exorcist wrote:

In their battle against the Church, the demons use the wicked people as their allies. They have succeeded in enlisting a large number of people under their banner.

“We have the will of the people on our side,” they say.

The demon ‘Caesar’ leads their forces to stir up governments against the Church. “The people are our trusty storm troops”, he stated.

The Masons are among the main supporters of the demons. Lucifer admits that they are his ‘dearly beloved children’ and calls them his ‘representatives on earth.’

The exorcist continued:

Once they are defeated, the time will come when the members of the secret societies will be humiliated. The Virgin will destroy the secret societies. She has already set herself against them.

So we can see that before Modernism infiltrated the Church, Freemasonry was identified as being Her fundamental enemy, leading Pius to institute extra prayers after Mass for the protection of the Church and leading Leo to compose some very powerful new prayers invoking the great St. Michael.

IMAGE SOURCE: detail from James Powell and Sons of the Whitefriars Foundry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

unless otherwise noted, this information is Taken from ‘The Hidden dangers of the rainbow’ by Constance Cumbey.

The New Age Movement has several important symbols for identification and mystical (hypnotic) use. They are not all used simultaneously, but all are in current use within the Movement.

Rainbow
Triangle
Rays of Light
Cross
Circle
Swastika
666
Pegasus/Unicorn

The Rainbow

(also called the Antahkarana or Rainbow Bridge)/ This is used an a hypnotic device. They also call it an ‘International Sign of Peace.’ They claim they are building a rainbow bridge between the personality (you) and the over-soul or Great Universal Mind (literally Sanat Kumara, i.e., Lucifer!) See Isaiah 24:5 which states that one reason the Lord is destroying the earth in the latter days is for breaking the everlasting covenant. The rainbow is the sign of the everlasting covenant according to Genesis, chapter 9.

The Triangle

The information in this section comes from Tradition in Action.

The triangle is an ancient symbol venerated since pagan times, as representing the harmonious balance of Earth, Sky and Sea. Although they were misguided in their interpretation, their reverence for the triangle reveals some truth that God placed in the human understanding, which reached its plenitude in the Holy Catholic Church.

An eye was sometimes added to the center of the triangle to symbolize God’s omniscience as the all-seeing Father watching over His creatures through His Divine Providence, as expressed in the Holy Scriptures: “Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear Him: and on them that hope in His mercy.” (Ps. 32:18)

At right. Eye of Providence on the gallery of St. Gallus Church in Kappel, Germany.The eye of God is also a reminder that, “the eyes of the Lord in every place behold the good and the evil.” (Prov. 15:3) And so, trying to destroy God’s Holy Church the Devil has attempted to mock His omniscience by setting up his own secret societies that fight against the Church.

Kappel eye

Freemasonry stole the symbolism of the eye in the triangle from the Church and adopted it to symbolize the “Supreme Architect of the Universe” and “bestower of light.”

The “light,” which their “Architect” proposes to bestow on his initiates is the light of Gnosis, that pretense secret knowledge that masonry reserves for select members who pass into the higher Orders. The real “god” of the Masons is Lucifer, their Architect who enables the enlightened Masons to become architects of a new world based on equality, fraternity and liberty.

But despite all of their efforts, they themselves are ever under the power and eyes of the Holy Trinity. Their true wretchedness will be made manifest at the Day of Doom: “Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth.” (Amos 9:8)

Rays of light

They represent the seven rays believed to exist in nature and in the rainbow.

The Cross

One version has diagonals placed against it.

The Circle

with a point in the centre
Centre-ing Symbol: a series of progressively smaller circles within a larger circle leading to a dark and distant (or light and distant) centre
divided into two
divided into four

The Swastika

The Number 666

Some believe this number has sacred qualities and that by its frequent use, the coming of the Antichrist will be hastened.

Pegasus/Unicorn.

SOURCE: ‘The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow’ by Constance Cumbey Click here to buy the book. (Please note that I derive a small commission from sales made through this link.)

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