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Freemasonry and Judaism

Freemasonry and Judaism

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From ‘the plot against the church’ by maurice pinay. Chapter two: The Jews as Founders of Freemasonry.

“To unmask Freemasonry” – said Leo XIII – “means to conquer it.” When we lift its mask, then every honest mind and every Christian heart will turn away from it with revulsion; and through this fact alone will it fall, completely destroyed and detested particularly by those who obey it. The learned scholar and Jesuit Monsignor Leon Meurin, S.J., Archbishop, Bishop of Port-Louis, shows us in his so very richly authenticated work, “Clarification of Freemasonry”, with crushing authority that the Jews are the founders, organisers and leaders of Freemasonry, which they use to attain world domination, in order to destroy the Holy Catholic Church and the remaining existing religions. Among the attested literature that he presents in this connection appear several quotations, which we mention in the following:

“The First Highest Masonic Council was, as we have already said, formed on 31st May 1801 in Charleston, 33 degrees northern latitude, under the chairmanship of the Jew Isaac Long, who was made inspector general by the Jew Moses Cohen, and who had received his degree from Hyes, from Franken, and the Jew Morin.”1

“The Jews were thus the founders of the First Great Council, which was to transform itself into the middlepoint of world Freemasonry. And they placed it in America, in a city chosen exactly on the 33rd parallel, Northern Latitude. The successive head has lived in Charleston since 1801. In the year 1889 this was Albert Pike, whom we have already mentioned in his circular letter of 14th July 1889, the famed anniversary and tercentenary.

“He assumes the title of each of the 33 degrees and in addition adds the following:

“Most mighty and all-highest Commander, Grand Master of the Supreme Council of Charleston, first highest council of the globe, Grand Master and preserver of the holy Palladium, all-highest Pontifex of world Freemasonry.
“With these pompous titles he published his circular letter in the one and thirtieth year of his Pontificate, supported by ten high dignitaries, most enlightened and most sublime brothers, rulers, grand-general inspectors, chosen magi, who form the most illustrious grand collegium of ancient Freemasons, the council of the chosen troops and of the holy battalion of the Order.”2

“The circular letter enumerates the 23 highest councils, which previously were directly ‘created’ through that of Charleston and are dispersed over the entire world. Then it lists the hundred Grand Orients and Grand Lodges of all rites which are connected with the highest Council of Charleston as the all-highest power of Freemasonry; the exclusive rite of the Jews. For example, the Grand Orient of France, the General Council of the Rite of Mizraim, the Grand Council of the Freemason Oddfellows, etc. From the preceding we must conclude that Freemasonry all over the world is one in countless forms, however, under the supreme direction of the all-highest Pontifex of Charleston.”3

JEWISH ORIGIN

“The rites and symbols of the Freemasons and of the other secret sects remind one constantly of the ‘Cabbala’ (secret Jewish mystique) and Jewry: The reconstruction of the temple of Solomon, the star of David, the seal of Solomon; the names of the different degrees, as for example, Knight Kadosh. ‘Kadosh’ means in Hebrew ‘holy’; Prince of Jerusalem, Prince of Lebanon, Knight of the serpent of Airain, etc. And does not the prayer of the English Freemasons, which was recorded in an assembly held in 1663, recall Judaism in a most clear manner?”4

“Finally the Scottish Freemasons made use of the Jewish calendar; for example, a book, which was written by the American Freemason Pike5 in the year 1881, is dated ‘Anno mundi 5641’. At present this calendar is retained only in the highest degrees, while the Freemasons in general add four thousand years to the Christian calendar, and not 3760 like the Jews.”6

The clever Rabbi Benamozegh writes the following:

“Those who wish to make the effort to examine the questions of relations between Jewry and philosophic Freemasonry, between Theosophy and the secret doctrines in general, will lose a little of their arrogant despisal of the Cabbala (Jewish Mysticism). They will cease to smile contemptuously at the idea that the ‘Cabbalistic’ theology perhaps has to fulfil a mission in the religious re-shaping of the future.” 7

“Who are the true leaders of Freemasonry? This is one of the secrets of the sect, which is very carefully kept; but one can assert that Freemasonry all over the world develops in agreement with one and the same plan; that its methods are always and in all parts identical, and that the aims pursued are permanently the same. This occasioned us to believe that a uniform middlepoint exists, which directs all movements of the Sect.

“Further on we will touch upon this question; however, here let us recall that ‘Carta de Colonia’, dated 24th June 1935, speaks of a director of Freemasonry: the Grandmaster or patriarch, who, although known by very few brothers, exists in reality; and Gougenot des Mousseaux points out that this choice of the Order, these real directors, whom only a very few initiates know, exercise their function in useful and secret dependency upon the Israelite Cabbalists (Mystics)’ and that the true directors of Freemasonry are the friends, the helpers and the vassals of the Jew to whom they do homage as their highest Lords. The same judgment is shared by Eckert, Drumont, Deschamps, Msgr. Jouin, Lambelin and other savants of Freemasonic and Jewish questions”.8

Let us leave the dogmatic teachings of the Freemasons and Jewry to one side and let us examine the alliances between both from the purely practical and realistic standpoint. If one proceeds logically, one cannot avoid drawing the conclusion which is formulated by L. de Poncins in “The Secret Powers Behind Revolution.”

“The manifoldness of Freemasonry, its permanence, the inalterability of its goals, which are completely explicable since it is a question of a Jewish creation to serve the Jewish interests, would be completely incomprehensible if its origin were of a Christian nature.

“Even the purpose in itself of Freemasonry, namely the destruction of Christian civilisation, reveals to us the Jew, for only the Jew can draw advantage from it, and the Jew alone is inspired by a sufficiently violent hatred towards Christianity to create such an organisation.”

“Freemasonry”, continues de Poncins, “is a secret society and is directed by an international minority. It has sworn Christianity an irreconcilable hatred. These three characteristics are exactly the same as those that describe Jewry and represent the proof that the Jews are the leading element of the lodges.”9

Already in 1867 the “permanent international league for peace” came into existence, and its secretary, the Jew Passy, outlined the ideas of a court of justice, to settle all conflicts between the nations without appeal.10

The newspaper “The Israelite Archive” dreamed of a similar court of justice in the year 1864. “Is it not natural and necessary” – wrote a certain Levy Bing-“that as soon as possible we see erected an additional court of justice, and in fact a highest court of justice, to whom the great open conflicts and the quarrels among the nations are submitted, which in the last instance passes judgment, and whose last word is given powerful weight? This will be the word of God, which is uttered by his first-born sons (the Hebrews), and before which the general rest of mankind will bow in respect before our brothers, our friends and our pupils.”11

These are the dreams of Israel. As always they accord with those of Freemasonry. The “Freemasons calendar” writes:

“When the Republic has been set up in the whole of old Europe, Israel, as ruler will rule over this old Europe.”12

At the world congress of Jewish youth, which was held on 4th August 1928, H. Justin Godard announced that the Jews were the firmest supporters of the League of Nations, which had to thank its existence to them.”13 The Jew Cassin gave more exact information:

“The rebirth of Zionism is the work of the League of Nations. Through it the Jewish organisations place themselves as defenders of the League of Nations, and therefore Geneva swarms with representatives of the ‘chosen people’.”14

The most venerable Cardinal Jose Maria Caro R., Archbishop of Santiago and Primate of Chile, also proves, in his authoritatively supported work “The Secret of Freemasonry”, that it is the Jews who direct this sect, in order to rule the world and to destroy Holy Church. In connection with its origin he affirms:

“The Freemasonic rite clearly betrays its Jewish origin: the symbols, which begin with the Bible itself; the coat of arms upon which an attempt is made to explain the different forms of the Cherubim described by Ezekiel in his second poem, an ox, a man, a lion and an eagle; the two pillars of the Freemasonic temple in remembrance of the temple of Solomon; the rebuilding of the temple which is the work of the Freemasons, etc. The reading matter and the handbooks, which in greater part are taken from the Bible, they turn almost always towards Freemasonic taste, especially the legend of Hiram, which plays an important role in the Freemasonic rite.

“The customary words and expressions, like the names of the pillars Boaz’ and Jachin’, the words of knowledge and of admittance: Tubalcain, Shibboleth, Giblim or Moahon, Nekum or Nekam, Abibalc, etc; the the importance, which is allotted to numbers, a matter very original to the Cabbala, all these are further proofs of the Cabbalistic influence on Freemasonry.

“Finally the facts, the rule of terror, the outbreak of Satanic hatred against the Church, against our Lord Jesus Christ, the terrible blasphemies against God that the revolutionary Freemasons perpetrated in France, are nothing more than the expression and the fulfilment of the Cabbalistic and secret sects, which already for several centuries have fought secretly against Christianity. What the Jewish Bolshevists to greatest part do in Russia against Christianity, is only another edition of the deeds of the Freemasons in the French revolution. The executioners are others; however, the doctrine that motivates and empowers them and the supreme leadership are the same.”15

  1. Pablo Rosen, Satán y Cia, Buenos Aires, 1947, p. 219. ↩︎
  2. Adolphe Ricoux, L’existence des loges de femmes. Paris, Téqui, 1891, pp. 78-95. ↩︎
  3. Monsignor Leon Meurin, S. J., Archbishop, Bishop of Port-Louis, Simbolismo de la masonería. Madrid: Editorial Nos, 1957, pp. 201-202. ↩︎
  4. “Revue Internationale des Sociétés Secrètés” (RISS). Paris, 1913, no. 2, p. 58. ↩︎
  5. Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Anno mundi 5641 (1881). ↩︎
  6. Maurice Fara, La masonería en descubierto. Buenos Aires: La hoja de roble, 1960, p. 23. ↩︎
  7. Rabino Benamozegh, Israel y la humanidad. Paris, 1914. p. 71. ↩︎
  8. Gougenot des Mousseaux, Le juif, le judaïsme et la judaïsation des peuples chrétienne. Paris, 1869, pp. 338-339. ↩︎
  9. León de Poncins, Les forces secrètes de la Révolution, pp. 139-140. ↩︎
  10. “Revue Internationale des Sociétés Secrètes” (R.I.S.S.), 1926, no. 8, p. 269. ↩︎
  11. “Archivos Israelitas”, 1864, p. 335. ↩︎
  12. Freimaureralmanach, Leipzig, 1884. ↩︎
  13. Les Cahiers de l’Ordre, 1926, nos. 3-4, pp. 22-23. ↩︎
  14. Maurice Fara, op. cit. p. 111. ↩︎
  15. Cardinal Jose Maria Caro, R., Archbishop-Bishop of Santiago, Primate of Chile: The Secret of Freemasonry, Difusion Publishers, page 258. ↩︎
The Fake St. Michael of the Occult

The Fake St. Michael of the Occult

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While Catholics acknowledge the importance of invoking St. Michael in their daily struggle against the Evil One, the Archangel Michael also appears in occult mythology, where He is venerated as a ‘planetary angel’ of the sun. But are practitioners of the occult referring to the same being found in Scripture?

The answer is no, not at all. Like all anti-Christians, the masters of the Dark Arts – just like their unwitting students, the Modernists – like to use the language of the Church while inserting their own meaning into the words. This is how they communicate with each other while fulfilling their twofold aim: instilling confusion into the minds of the faithful while mocking God.

There are various interpretations and role given to St. Michael in the occult world. The most superficial version is found in some New Age circles, where there is an imprecise notion of St. Michael – and angels in general. This school tends to view angels, as well as God Himself, simply as archetypes. In this case, St. Michael is a fairly vague character – he might represent a concept, such as ‘goodness.’ 1 This is possibly the meaning given to Michael in the sculpture mentioned at the end of the article.

However, some systems have a more specific idea of their fake ‘St. Michael’. Most seem to agree, as do Christians, that Michael was created prior to man and was present at the fall of the angels from heaven. There the similarity ends, for the occultists hail Lucifer as the supreme good while presenting the Trinitarian God as evil. (In the occult world, Lucifer and God are equally powerful; this is echoed in Eastern philosophies which search for balance: between good and evil, dark and light, male and female and so on.)

The search for balance between two opposing forces is a feature of Freemasonry. Freemasons have a specific concept of St. Michael, as Albert Pike explained in his book, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry:

“The pavement (of the Lodge), alternatively black and white, symbolizes the Good and Evil principles of the Egyptian and Persian creeds. It is the warfare between Michael and Satan, Light and Darkness, Freedom and Despotism, Religious Liberty and the Arbitrary Dogmas of a Church that thinks for its votaries and whose Pontiff claims to be infallible.”

Albert Pike 2

Further, Masons regard St. Michael as the “planetary angel of the Sun,” a solar being,
ruler of the “Cosmic Fire,” who assists mankind in expanding their consciousness and becoming liberated.3

The idea of ‘solar being’ is found in several secret orders; these are entities who dwell on the sun. They are luminous, perhaps the size of a dinner plate, with the greatest of these being the Archangel Michael.4

The Occult Encyclopedia5 gives some principles related to the false St. Michael:

  • His Hebrew letter is hod
  • He governs the direction of south
  • His element is fire
  • Astrologically, Michael is related to Mars and the Sun and to the signs of Aries, Sagittarius and Leo
  • The day of the week he rules is Sunday.
  • He is Prince of the angelic choir of Virtues (In Catholic theology, opinions vary as to the status of St. Michael, although none place him as head of the Virtues6.)

According to the same source, the consensus among most occultists is that Michael is an Ascended Master7. The infamous Theosophist, Helena Blavatsky, for example, believed that all the archangels were spiritual messengers.

One of Blavatstky’s disciples, who went onto to create his own occult movement was Rudolf Steiner. Steiner built a fairly sophisticated philosophy around angels, including St. Michael. Steiner taught that Michael was a spirit with whom man could engage; that the ‘Age of Michael’ began at the end of the nineteenth century; and that a principle ‘sin’ against the spirit of Michael was nationalism. Here we see an example of the message of globalism being given incessantly to occultists.8

Another mention of the fake St. Michael is found the esoteric legend of the Holy Grail. In the great battle fought between the good angels and the fallen ones, Michael dislodged a precious gem from Lucifer’s crown. This gem, a sapphire known as the Lapis Exilis, was later used to fashion that legendary treasure: the Holy Grail – Christ’s chalice at the Last Supper.9

St. Michael again appears in the world of the occultist Eliphas Levi, who had recourse to the archangel when creating magical swords. Along with the names of other angels (Gabriel and Samuel), Levi instructed that Michael’s name and his famous cry, Quis est Deus, ‘Who is like God?’, should be inscribed on the sword.10

The Kabbalah has yet another idea about St. Michael. According to Jewish mysticism, God used His angels to communicate Kabbalistic ‘secret knowledge’ to the Patriarchs. Adam was said to have been visited by Raziel; Isaac by Raphael and Moses by Metatron. It was to King David that St. Michael is said to have divulged the mysteries of the Kabbalah.11

IMAGE SOURCE:

According to the Cathedral website, the sculpture is shows the “triumph of good,” but this is apparently not the angel, acting as an agent of God, defeating the fallen Lucifer. Rather, a benevolent St. Michael shows mercy to his pathetic captive. It reads, “St Michael holds his spear upright, not pointing at his captive with aggression, or intention of revenge.”12.

SOURCES

  1. Cannibalism, Blood Drinking and High Adept Satanism by Kerth Barker (purchase here) ↩︎
  2. Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, p. 14 (purchase here). ↩︎
  3. David Ovason, The Secret Architecture of our Nation’s Capital: The Masons and the building
    of Washington, DC (purchase here) ↩︎
  4. Secret Teachings of All Ages – Manly P. Hall (purchase here) ↩︎
  5. Occult Encyclopedia online ↩︎
  6. New Advent online ↩︎
  7. Occult Encyclopedia online ↩︎
  8. The Rudolf Steiner Archive online ↩︎
  9. Secret Teachings of All Ages – Manly P. Hall ↩︎
  10. Secret Teachings of All Ages – Manly P. Hall ↩︎
  11. Secret Teachings of All Ages – Manly P. Hall ↩︎
  12. Coventry Cathedral website ↩︎

As Above, So Below

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This article will look at the principle quod est superius est sicut quod inferius, et quod inferius est sicut quod est superius, meaning “that which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above”, often shortened to “as above, so below”. It will also examine a gesture used by occultists which embodies the principle.

In his work, The Mystery of Iniquity, Pierre Virion states that the “as above, so below” principle is a false analogy which is at heart anti-Christic: “Illuminism and the theogony (stories of the gods) of the sects thus lead to an inversion of the data of revelation and consequently of Catholic theology.”

Thus transformation or regeneration is evil when it relies on occult means rather than on the graces flowing from Christ’s Redemption. For the proud occultist, however, transformation and enlightenment without Jesus Christ are desired, and he believes they are achieved by the recognising and balancing of opposing forces.

This well-known image of the demon Baphomet comes from the 1856 book, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, Volume 2 by Éliphas Levi.

Levi, a French occultist of the 19th century, greatly influenced Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, the founder of Synarchy.

Levi’s depiction embodies the principle of duality, reconciling opposites such as light and dark, male and female, spiritual and material. Baphoment, known to traditional Catholics as the demon of fornication, is androgynous and holds its hands in opposing directions in the familiar “as above, so below” formation. One explanation of the gesture is that it “signifies the flow of spiritual knowledge and the grounding of that knowledge in the material world.” The occultist believes that by using this gesture he can balance the opposing forces surrounding him.

A detail from the Redemptoris Mater chapel, created by the disgraced artist, Fr. Marco Rupnik. Christ is depicted with hands in the “as above, so below” configuration. Pope John Paul II can be seen in the background.

The principle of duality is found in a number of occult traditions such as Hermeticism and Kabbalism. In Hermeticism, the “as above, so below” represents the macrocosm (the universe) reflecting the microcosm (the individual). The Kabbalah applies a similar meaning, using the dualistic principle of the Macroprosopus and the Microprosopus (the great world and the small world). In Alchemy, this duality represents transformation, both of base metal into a precious metal and of man through spiritual enlightenment.

The characteristics of the god Baphomet with his up-down” gesture are said to be shared by the god, Baal. Baal is known as the demon responsible for promoting abortions.

This link is an interesting one given the video compilation shown in the Tweet below. In it, one finds the ultra-pro-abort Kamala Harris repeating variations of a specific phrase, accompanied by the “as above, so below” hand gesture. Harris’ gestures and repetition of the phrase, “what can be, unburdened by what has been”, are reminiscent of a witch performing an incantation.

The principle of “as above, so below” is also found in Freemasonry where it has particular significance. It refers to the presence of the Divine in both the spiritual and physical worlds and emphasises their interconnectedness. Masonry also includes the explicitly Hermetic idea that the spiritual realm is reflected in the physical realm and vice versa. Another application of the principle is found in the Masonic obligation of each human being to maintain balance and harmony, especially as expressed through Masonry’s tolerance of various creeds.

The “as above, so below” theme is found in three of Masonry’s integral symbols: the square and compass; the hexagram, also known as the Seal of Solomon; and Jacob’s Ladder.

This quote from a Freemason, explaining how Masonry’s rituals reference the “as above, so below” principle, point to a diabolical inversion of the Catholic Mass:

I believe that in the heavens (Above) a ritual is taking place all the time.  A divine drama with the building theme of making perfection out of imperfection. When, therefore, here upon earth, a ritual is enacted, symbolising that eternal process, then some of the spiritual realms above are brought down to earth. It is this mysterious unity of thought, synchronising above to below. This my brothers, is my belief, that this gives Freemasonry its magic and eternal purpose.

INFORMATION SOURCES:https://whowhatwhere.substack.com/p/hand-signals-of-baphomet-and-baal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism

Pierre Virion, La Mystere_iniquite

Esoteric Freemasons website

On the Square website

IMAGE SOURCES: Eliphas Levi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pblpitt, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://www.vatican.va/content/dam/vatican/virtualtour/redemptorismater/resources/tour-en.html