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	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:00:44 -0800</pubDate>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:44:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<p><font size="3" color="red" face="georgia"><b>"Religion being the chief band of human society, it is a happy thing when itself is well contained within the true band of unity.  The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen.  The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief; for you may imagine what kind of faith theirs was, when the chief doctors and fathers of their church were the poets.  But the true God hath this attribute, that he is a jealous God; and therefore his worship and religion will endure no mixture nor partner."<br />
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- Francis Bacon, Essays, <i>Of Unity of Religion</i><br />
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<font size="2" color="white" face="georgia"><b>Francis Bacon was a Rosicrucian, which means he pretended to be Christian, but was actually an occultist - Luciferian.  Their symbol was a rosie cross, or red cross, or cross with a red rose next to it.  The red rose and the color red symbolized Satan and secrecy.  It was only their exoteric cover story that they were Christian.  In the dark, they worshiped Satan.   <br />
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	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:56:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<p><font size="5" color="yellow" face="georgia"><b><u>Manly P. Hall, 33rd degree Freemason, on the Direct Descent of the Esoteric Schools</u></b></font><br />
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<font size="3" color="yellow" face="georgia"><b>"The direct descent of the essential program of the Esoteric Schools was entrusted to groups already well-conditioned for the work.  The guilds, trade unions, and similar protective and benevolent Societies had been internally strengthened by the introduction of a new learning.  The advancement of the plan required the enlargement of the boundaries of the philosophic overstate.  A World Fraternity was needed, sustained by a deep and broad program of education according to the "method"." ...<br />
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"While it is difficult to trace the elements of a pattern never intended to be obvious, the broad shape of the design is dimly apparent.  The Invisible Empire, integrated and ensouled by Bacon and his so-called literary group, was the archetype of those democratic Societies which directly and indirectly precipitated the era of revolution." ... "There can be no enduring freedom for those who cannot protect liberty with intelligence." ..."It was inevitable that the Orders of Fraternity should sponsor world education." ... "The program included a systematic expansion of existing institutions and the enlargement of their spheres of influence.<br />
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Slowly, the Orders of Universal Reformation faded from public attention, and in their place appeared the Orders of World Brotherhood.  Everything possible was done to prevent the transitions from being obvious.  Even history was falsified to make certain sequences of activity unrecognizable.  The shift of emphasis never gave the impression of abruptness, and the motion appeared as a dawning of social consciousness.  The most obvious clues to the secret activity have been the prevailing silence about the origin and the impossibility of filling the lacunae in the records of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fraternal Orders.<br />
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It is usual to consider fraternal Orders as merely Societies of good fellowship, but <i>fraternity</i> actually implies much more.  The brotherhood of man must become a social reality before the New Atlantis can exist as an ideal commonwealth in this world." ...<br />
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"The Orders of Fraternity were attached by slender and almost invisible threads to the parent project.  Like earlier Schools of the Mysteries, these Fraternities were not in themselves actual embodiments of the esoteric associations, but rather instruments to advance certain objectives of the divine plan, especially the accomplishment by man of such self-improvement as was immediately necessary.  In spite of every adversity and impediment, the advance of the human estate was inevitable.  It was, indeed, the way of heaven unfolding in the sphere of human society through the machinery of the Mysteries and their adepts.<br />
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The era of exploration revealed a vast continent in the Western Hemisphere suitable for colonization and ideal for the political experiment of democracy.  By circumstances which appear more than fortuitous, Lord Bacon was a member of the Virginia Company, which included several illustrious names associated with the Baconian literary group.  His lordship was also an organizing spirit in the whole English colonization scheme.  It is evident from his writings that he regarded America as an ideal location for his Philosophic Commonwealth." ...<br />
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"During the formative period of Colonial growth, numerous Baconian landmarks were set up as monuments of enterprise.  Even through the Revolutionary period, American patriots worked hand in hand with members of English and European Secret Societies.  It may require an extensive research to reveal the details of the well-laid plan, but the general workings of the design are reasonably obvious.  Bacon carefully prepared a model for those who succeeded him, bestowing upon them not only a legacy of learning, but also a code of procedure." <br />
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- Manly P. Hall, from the Foreward of <i>Masonic Orders of Fraternity</i><br />
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	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:04:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<p><font size="3" color="white" face="georgia"><b>Freemasonry boasts itself as the oldest secret society, and claims its knowledge and traditions go back to ancient Egypt and even Atlantis.  They call themselves "The Craft", short for witchcraft.  This is pretty strange.  But what makes it even more strange, is that anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2 of all U.S. Presidents have belonged to this fraternity.<br />
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Of the categories of sources of information on Freemasonry and related secret societies, there are only a few.  There are the writings and accounts of members, the writings and accounts of ex-members, and the writings of outside researchers.  If you have sufficient curiosity to investigate these categories of sources, which most people do not, a consistent picture emerges.  Freemasonry, as well as <b>ALL</b> secret societies, are Satanic.  And if you have the audacity to research what is involved in Satanism, your understanding of this world will turn on its head.<br />
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In the next four posts, I list quotes from four of the most highly honored Freemasons.  These are people who are in good standing with the fraternity, and yet reveal the Luciferian allegiance of the organization.<br />
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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:55:44 -0700</pubDate>
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The Luciferianism of Freemasonry</u> (1 of 4)<br />
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<font size="3" color="white" face="georgia"><b>Albert Pike was the most influential Freemason of the 19th century.  He was the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of the Freemason Southern Jurisdiction.  He wrote "Morals and Dogma", and rewrote the rites for the 33 degrees of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.  He is buried at the Masonic Temple in Washington D.C..  There's a stature of Pike in Washington D.C., which is the only public statue of a Confederate General in Washington D.C.  In his writings, he makes it clear that people do not know what Freemasonry is about until they make it to the top.  The public and members in the lower levels are purposefully misled.  Members are slowly reeled in, degree by degree, until their initiation.<br />
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<center>"The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry."<br />
- Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma pp. 104, 105 & 819<br />
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"Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts or Sages, or the Elect, and use false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it."<br />
- Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma<br />
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"That which we must say to the crowd is, we worship a god, but it is the god one adores without superstition.  To you sovereign grand inspector general, we say this and 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 cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and His priests culumniate 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 exist only as two gods, darkness being necessary for light to serve as its foil, as the pedestal is necessary for the statue, and the brake to the locomotive."<br />
- Albert Pike  <br />
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"Lucifer, the Light-bearer!  Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness!  Lucifer, the Son of the Morning!  Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual or selfish souls?  Doubt it not!"<br />
- Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, p. 321<br />
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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:55:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<font size="3" color="white" face="georgia"><b>Manly P. Hall was called Freemasonry's Greatest Philosopher by the Masonic magazine The Scottish Rite.  He wrote close to 200 books, including "The Lost Keys of Freemasonry" and the famous "Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy".  He's considered an expert on the occult and secret societies.  Here he reveals the key pursuit of the upwardly mobile Mason to be the ability to harness the energies of Lucifer.<br />
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<center>"When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application 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 onwards and upwards he must prove his ability to properly apply (this) energy."<br />
- Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, p. 48<br />
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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:53:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<font size="3" color="white" face="georgia"><b>Madame Blavatsky was a <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/to//www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/HPBlavatskysMasonicPatent.htm/t:4afaf9d695ca7;src:blog">Co-Mason</a>, the branch of Freemasonry which allows female membership.  She was a spiritualist, famous for founding the Theosophical Society, and for authoring two occult books, "The Secret Doctrine" and "Isis Unveiled".  She was quite open in her Satanism.  Adolf Hitler cites her as the primary influence on his philosophy, keeping a copy of "The Secret Doctrine" next to his bed.  She makes it clear Lucifer appears in both male and female forms, and goes by many names, including Satan and the Devil.<br />
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<center>"Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos..  the Serpent, the Savior."<br />
- Helena Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol II, Helena Blavatsky, pgs 171, 225.<br />
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"It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God."<br />
- Helena Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol I, Helena Blavatsky, pgs. 215, 216, 220, 245, 255, 533<br />
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"The Celestial Virgin which thus becomes the Mother of Gods and Devils at one and the same time; for she is the ever loving beneficient Deity... but in antiquity and reality, Lucifer or Luciferius is the name.  Lucifer is divine and terrestrial Light, 'the Holy Ghost' and 'Satan' at one and the same time."<br />
- Helena Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky, p. 539.<br />
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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:52:58 -0700</pubDate>
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Aleister Crowley..............................................Baphomet</center><br />
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<font size="3" color="white" face="georgia"><b>It's difficult for Freemasony to distance itself from Satanism when you have the famous Satanist and Freemason Aleister Crowley in a photo dressed in his Masonic garb, quoted in his book "Confessions of a Heretic"  discussing his Masonic honors and awards, "I possess more exalted titles than I have ever been able to count. I am supposed to know more secret signs, tokens, passwords, grandwords, grips, and so on, than I could actually learn in a dozen lives. An elephant would break down under the insignia I am entitled to wear."  <br />
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Crowley reveled in his title as the "Wickedest Man in the World", and authored many books including "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley" and "Magick".<br />
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<center>"This serpent, Satan, is not the enemy of man... He is 'The Devil' of the (Egyptian) Book of Thoth, and his emblem is the 'Baphomet', the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection.. But moreover his letter is Ayin, the Eye; he is Light, and his zodiacal image is Capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is liberty."<br />
- Aleister Crowley<br />
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"I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.<br />
- Aleister Crowley <br />
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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."<br />
- Aleister Crowley<br />
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"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."<br />
- Aleister Crowley <br />
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"Satan! Cry aloud!  Thou exalted most high!  Oh my father Satan!  The Eye!"<br />
- Aleister Crowley, Magnum Opus Book 4<br />
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<font size="3" color="white" face="georgia"><b>The esoteric traditions put a lot of emphasis on symbols.  Many of the symbols represent concepts.  Some are codes to signify allegiance.  But another usage of symbols is in the performance of magick.  I don't really understand how symbols are used in magick, but practitioners seem to take it seriously.  They speak of the symbols having an actual effect.  The Pentagram and Pentacle seem to be coming back with the popularization of New Age concepts.  So fashionable.  But the New Age is really the same as the ancient esoteric traditions.  It's the occult.  Witchcraft.  And once you get far enough into it, it is Satanism.  But they seem to prefer the term Luciferianism.  <br />
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There are a lot of New Age / Pagan types around SU sporting symbols like this, either a pentacle or a pentagram.  Most try to say it's not a symbol of evil.  I'm not convinced.  I don't know if they actually ignorant on the issue, or they are not being honest.  I have a few quotes from authoritative sources on the issue.<br />
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- Janet and Stewart Farrar, The Witches Bible <br />
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"In symbolism, an inverted figure always signifies a perverted power.  The average person does not even suspect the occult properties of emblematic pentacles."<br />
- Occultist and 33rd Degree Freemason Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages <br />
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"...to the magician, the inverted pentagram has one use only, and that is to call up the power of Satan, and bring the Kingdom of the Devil into manifestation on earth."<br />
- Former Freemason and Ex-Satanic priest Bill Schnoebelen <br />
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