'Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also God.-Albert Pike
 

One of the most hidden secrets involves the so-called fall of Angels. Satan and his rebellious host will thus prove to have become the direct Saviours and Creators of divine man. Thus Satan, once he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious spirit of the church, grows into the grandiose image. It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God. Satan (or Lucifer) represents the Centrifugal Energy of the Universe this ever-living symbol of self-sacrifice for the intellectual independence of humanity. Sister H.P. Blavatsky The Secret Doctrine Pages 215, 216, 220, 245, 255, 533

A Sampling of some of writings about Lucifer by High Level Masons

(Note: In a sign of obvious apoplectic desperation one Masonic Disinformation site which calls itself the Grand Lodge of BC is now attacking our site by saying we are "perpetuating lies" about Freemasonry by providing quotations about Satan and Lucifer by High Level Masons. Curiously enough they completely contradict and demolish their own thesis by inserting the proviso "Lucifer is a name for God, Satan doesn't really exist and besides even if he did 'he is really just doing God's work'. Get a clue boys, Lucifer is not God, the Great White Lodge of Sirius is not heaven, and Jesus was not a Freemason! Freemasonry takes weird men and makes them weirder...)

'Brother' Eliphas Levi
The Mysteries of Magic

"What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism." page 428

Masonic Diversion: 'But Levi wasn't a Mason!'

Fact: Eliphas Levi was a Freemason.

He was initiated at the Lodge Rose du Parfait Silence of the Grand Orient of France on 14 March, 1861 in Paris. M. Caudet who was the Venerable(Worshipful Master) at Levi's Masonic initiation is quoted in the Masonic Work 'Eliphas Levi, written by Paul Chacornac thusly:

"In his reception speech, Eliphas Levi, to the great astonishment of his auditors, little inclined to paradoxes, made the following statement: 'I come to bring you your lost traditions, the exact knowledge of your signs and emblems, and in consequence to show you the aim for the attainment of which your association has been constituted.' He then tried to demonstrate to his coreligionists that Masonic Symbolism is borrowed from the Cabala. It was time wasted. No one believed him."

Fact: Pike provided the first English language translations of Levi's works, for inclusion in Degree Lectures for the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in 'Morals and Dogma', 'Legendas', 'Sepher Ha Debarim', and 'The Book of the Words'.

Fact: When Pike's library was turned over to the Supreme Council most of Levi's writings were found to be part of it.

Fact: Given Pike's practical worship of Levi's writings, their place of promincence in Pikes own writings which are the primary books offered for sale today by the Scottish Rite Supreme Temple, the placing of Freemason Levi in the Masonic Luciferography is well earned.

We say let Brother Levi be brought to light...

'Illustrious' Arthur Edward Waite 33°
The Book Of Black Magic

"First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me. I command and I conjure thee in the Name of the Mighty Living God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to appear without noise and without ...." page 244

'Illustrious' Manley Palmer Hall 33°
The Secret Teachings of All Ages

"I hereby promise the Great Spirit Lucifer, Prince of Demons, that each year I will bring unto him a human soul to do with as as it may please him, and in return Lucifer promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the earth and fulfil my every desire for the length of my natural life. If I fail to bring him each year the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him. Signed..... { Invocant signs pact with his own blood } " page CIV

'Illustrious' Manley Palmer Hall 33°
The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry

"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 onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply this energy." page 48

Masonic Diversion: But Hall was a nobody, who no one has even heard of save for a few anti's, etc., etc..

Fact: Manly P. Hall was a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason who also headed the research school of the Rosicricians at San Jose. He was honoured by The Scottish Rite Journal, who called him 'The Illustrious Manly P. Hall' in Sept, 1990, and further called him 'Masonry's Greatest Philosopher', saying "The world is a far better place because of Manly Palmer Hall, and we are better persons for having known him and his work." (Lectures On Ancient Philosophy was originally published as a companion guide to the encyclopedic The Secret Teachings of All Ages)

 

Sister Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 32°
Ancient and Accepted Primitive Rite
Grand Orient of France
The Secret Doctrine

"Lucifer represents..Life..Thought..Progress..Civilization.. Liberty..Independence..Lucifer is the Logos..the Serpent, the Savior." pages 171, 225, 255 (Volume II)

"It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God." pages 215, 216, 220, 245, 255, 533, (VI)

"The Celestial Virgin which thus becomes the Mother of Gods and Devils at one and the same time; for she is the ever-loving beneficent Deity...but in antiquity and reality Lucifer or Luciferius is the name. Lucifer is divine and terrestial Light, 'the Holy Ghost' and "Satan' at one and the same time." page 539

Masonic Diversion: But Blavatsky wasn't a Freemason!

Fact: Blavatsky was a Freemason.

There is considerable literature relating to Blavatsky's Masonic connections. In her Scrapbook, vol.III, p.256, on January 1878, she recorded that she received a diploma of the 32nd Degree in the Ancient and Primitive Rite of England and Wales. In the following month the issue was raised in the Franklin Register and Norfolk County Journal, the material of which has been published in H.P. Blavatsky. Collected Writings. Volume One. 1874-1868. On p.309, we learn that the Ancient and Primitive Rite was originally chartered in America, on 9 November 1856, with David McClellan as Grand Master, and that it submitted entirely in 1862 to the Grand Orient of France.

-The Secret Zodiacs of Washington DC, David Ovason
Preface by C. Fred Kleinknecht, 33°, Sovereign Grand Commander,
The Supreme Council, 33° (Mother Council of the World),
Southern Jurisdiction, USA, Washington DC

We, the Thrice-Illustrious Sovereign Grand Master General, and we, the Sovereign Grand Conservators, thirty-third and Last degree of the Sovereign Sanctuary of England, Wales, etc., decorated the Grand Star of Sirius, etc., Grand Commanders of the Three Legions of the Knights of Masonry, by virtue of the high authority with which we are invested, have declared and proclaimed and by these presents do declare and proclaim our illus- trious and enlightened Brother, H. P. Blavatsky, to be an Apprentice, Companion, Perfect Mistress, Sublime Elect Scotch Lady, Grand Elect, Chevaliere de Rose Croix, Adoniramite Mistress, Perfect Venerable Mistress, and a crowned Princess of Rite of Adoption.

Given under our hands and the seals of the Sovereign Sanctuary for England and Wales, sitting in the Valley of London, this 24th day of November, 1877, year of true light 000,000,000.

John Yarker, 33° Sovereign Grand Master
M. Caspari, 33° Grand Secretary
A. D. Loewenstark, 33° Grand Secretary

1. 'Illustrious' Albert Pike 33°
Legendas XIX° ~ XXX°
Pg. 40 - 44.

"If the buckler of Satan did not stay the flight of Michael's lance, the power of the Archangel would be lost in the void, or would necessarily display and manifest itself by an infinite destruction, directed from above to below.

"And if the foot of Michael did not arrest Satan in his ascent, Satan would go to dethrone God, or to lose himself in the abysses of height.

"Satan is then necessary to Michael, as the pedestal to the statue; and Michael to Satan, as the brake to the locomotive.

"In analogical and universal dynamics we rest only on that which resists.

"Wherefore, as we have said before, the Universe is balanced by two forces, which maintain it in equilibrium; and the force which attracts, and that which repels. This is the equilibrium of the mountain of gold, which the Gods on one side, and the Demons on the other, hold tied by the symbolic Serpent of India; and its scientific reality is demonstrated by the phenomena of Polarity, and by the universal law of Sympathies and Antipathies...."

2. 'Illustrious' Albert Pike 33°
Instructions to World Supreme Councils
Aug. 14, 1889

The following quotation is taken from Edith Starr Miller's ('Lady Queensborough') Occult Theocracy (Published originally in 1933 e.v., later published by the Christian Book Club of America.), pp. 220 - 221.

The theological dogma of Albert Pike is explained in the 'Instructions' issued by him, on July 14, 1889, to the 23 Supreme Councils of the world and have been recorded by A. C. De La Rive in La Femme et l'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle (page 588).

You will often see Freemasonry try and associate the well known French occult author Abbe Clarin de la Rive with Taxil. This is a bare faced lie, de la Rive had absolutely nothing to do with him or anything that this Mason was alledged to have written or said. NOWHERE in ANY of Freemason Taxil's writings does the following quotation appear, in whole OR part. If it did believe us the Freemasons would have the Taxil writing which included it plastered from one end of the Net to the other. We challenge the Freemasons to produce ANY document written by the anti-clerical Freemason Gabriel Jogand(Leo Taxil) that includes the following quotation! It's a wonder they don't try and pin what Albert Pike wrote in Morals and Dogma on Taxil. Perhaps that is next!

'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 of purity of the Luciferian doctrine.

'If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay 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 to light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive.

'In analogical and universal dynamics one can only lean on that which will resist. Thus the universe is balanced by two forces which maintain its equilibrium: the force of attraction and that of repulsion. These two forces exist in physics, philosophy and religion. And the scientific reality of the divine dualism is demonstrated by the phenomena of polarity and by the universal law of sympathies and antipathies. That is why the intelligent disciples of Zoroaster, as well as, after them, the Gnostics, the Manicheans and the Templars have admitted, as the only logical metaphysical conception, the system of the two divine principles fighting eternally, and one cannot believe the one inferior in power to the other.

'Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic 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.'"

Incidently the above doctrinal description of Luciferianism is identical to that currently being taught in the open by many New Age, Rosicrucian, Pagan, and Theosophic occult groups who freely admit that many of their members are also members of 'regular' Masonic Lodges.
 

3. 'Illustrious' Albert Pike 33°
Sovereign Grand Commander Supreme Council 33°
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Pg. 321

"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 it's splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!"

(Right:)Pike's infamous occult magnum opus Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. This is the most widely held and read book in Freemasonry and is still given to 'Brothers' on the attainment of the 32 degree, along with the certificate and the Scottish Rite Ring. As long as they have paid their $425 dollars, the cost of the degree 'package'. Cash, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express accepted. No cheques.

4. Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike 33°
Letter to Italian Grand Master Guiseppie Mazzini 33°
15 August 1871
Archives British Museum, London*

"We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effects of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."

*As quoted in? Le Diable au XIXème Siècle [The Devil in the 19th-century]


 

Grand Lodge of British Columbia, Canada
Lucifer and Satan
G.L. of B.C. official internet site

"Lucifer is the term originally used by the Romans to refer to the planet Venus when that planet was west of the sun and hence rose before the sun in the morning, thereby being the morning star."

Fact: Lucifer is Latin. Did you expect that the Babalonians and Egyptians 3,000 years earlier to have spoken in an Italian dialect? Your "orginally" arguement is worthless, pointless, and a complete canard. The ancients used their own tongue to describe a title of "light bearer" which they attributed to the "Goddess". The planetary symbol for the "Goddess" is 'Venus', her astrological sign is 'Virgo', and her Tarot is 'The Empress'. But WHO and WHAT is the "Goddess"? THAT is the question you continue to avoid answering.

"The same planet was called Hesperus, Cesperugo, Vesper, Noctifer, or Nocturnus, when it appeared in the heavens after sunset. Lucifer as a personification is called a son of Astraeus and Aurora or Eos, of Cephalus and Aurora, or of Atlas. He is called the father of Ceyx, Daedalion, and of the Hesperides. Lucifer is also a surname of several goddesses of light, as Artemis, Aurora, and Hecate.

Fact: You left out her more controversial names - Astarte, Ashtoreth, Lilith, Isis, Cemeramis, Mari, and Ishtar. But are they good or evil? You Occultists NEVER answer that. Here is a clue boys since you appear to be so completely clueless. Astarte/Ashtaroth/Lilith/Ishtar, which are the names for the same entity known commonly in all the various tongues as the "light bearer" or "lucifer" were all worshipped by performing human sacrifices with fire, normally the babies of prominent families. This is a fact proven by tenured Doctors of Archeology, History and Theology. Why don't you Masonic "Historians" try and use the published research of Academics instead of regurgitating the hackneyed, mystical baloney of your supposedly "illuminated" "Masters"? Just because some entity says they stand for light and liberty doesn't mean they do. It is their deeds which you have to judge them by. Any "God" or "Goddess" which demands lighting on fire or roasting live babies for it to intervene is pure evil. Do you remember that little bit about Moses throwing down the ten commandments after coming back down the mountain and finding his flock and erected a bull and where worshiping it? Well one of the symbols for this "goddess" is a bull. This is the "beautiful winged virgin crying" you "Adepts" have at the center of your "teachings". This is the Masonic 'Goddess of Light'.

The word "Satan" is from a Hebrew word, "Saithan", meaning adversary or enemy; in original Jewish usage (see the book of Job), Satan is the adversary, not of God, but of mankind; i.e., the angel charged by God with the task of proving that mankind is an unworthy creation. The archangel Michael is supposed to be mankind's defender in this heavenly trial. Thus Satan is not in opposition to God but in fact doing His will.

Fact: The word Satan comes not from Hebrew but from Aramaic - Satana. Go to the back of the coven, er class.

"Satan is not the adversary of God, Satan is doing God's will".

http://www.freemasonry.bc.ca/Writings/LuciferandSatan.html

[Deceptively deleted fall 2001 with no notation rather than respond to this pointed criticism. So what is it 'G.L. of B.C.', is Satan an adversary of God or not? Why did you have this posted on your official website and then delete it after we 'shined some light' on this bizarre statement of yours?]

Fact: So sayeth the Grand Lodge of British Columbia. Obviously this is another clever forgery by that arch-demon Mason, er, 'Anti' Leo Taxil. But how did he get the password for their i.s.p.? Egregore 'Anti's' are evidently all powerful...

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FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM
International Headquarters
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Lucifer, the Widows Son

THE MASONIC LEGEND has points of variance from as well as agreement with the Bible story. It states that Jehovah created EVE, that the Lucifer Spirit SAMAEL united with her but that he was ousted by Jehovah and forced to leave her before the birth of her son Cain, who was thus THE SON OF A WIDOW. Then Jehovah created ADAM, to be the husband of Eve, and from their union Abel was born. Thus from the beginning there have been two kinds of people in the world. One begotten by the Lucifer Spirit Samael and partaking of a semi-divine nature imbued with the dynamic martial energy inherited from this divine ancestry, is aggressive, progressive, and possessed of great initiative, but impatient of restraint or authority whether human or divine. This class is loath to take things on faith and prone to prove all things by the light of reason. These people BELIEVE IN WORKS rather than faith, and by their dauntless courage and inexhaustible energy they have transformed the trackless wilderness of the world to a garden full of life and beauty, so lovely in fact that THE SONS OF CAIN have forgotten the garden of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, whence they were expelled by the decree of the lunar God Jehovah. Against Him they are in constant rebellion because He has tied them by THE UMBILICAL "CABLE TOW." They have lost their spiritual sight and are imprisoned in the forehead of the body where it is said Cain was marked; they must wander as prodigal sons in the comparative darkness of the material world, oblivious to their high and noble estate until they find the door of the temple, and ask and receive LIGHT; then as "PHREE MESSEN" or children of light they are instructed in methods of building a new temple without sound of hammer, and when the spirit realizes that it is far from its heavenly home, a prodigal, feeding upon the unsatisfactory husks of the material world, that apart from the Father it is "POOR, NAKED AND BLIND," when it knocks at the door of a mystic temple like that of the Rosicrucians and asks for light, when it receives the desired instruction after due qualification by building and ethereal soul-body, a temple or house eternal in the heavens, not made with hands, and without sound of hammer, when its nakedness is clothed with that house (see Cor. 4.5,) then the neophyte receives "THE WORD," the open sesame to the inner worlds and learns to travel in foreign parts in the invisible worlds. There he takes soul-flights into heavenly regions and qualifies for higher degrees under more direct instruction from THE GRAND ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE, who fashioned both heaven and earth. Such is the temperament of THE WIDOW'S SONS inherited from their divine progenitor Samael and given by him to their ancestor Cain. Their past history is a struggle with adverse conditions, their achievement is victory wrested from all opposing forces by indomitable courage and persistent effort, unchecked by temporary defeat.

'The Beast 666'
Illustrious Aleister Crowley 33°
Hymn to Lucifer

Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act?
Without its climax, death, what savour hath
Life? an impeccable machine, exact
He paces an inane and pointless path
To glut brute appetites, his sole content
How tedious were he fit to comprehend
Himself! More, this our noble element
Of fire in nature, love in spirit, unkenned
Life hath no spring, no axle, and no end.

His body a blood-ruby radiant
With noble passion, sun-souled Lucifer
Swept through the dawn colossal, swift aslant
On Eden's imbecile perimeter.
He blessed nonentity with every curse
And spiced with sorrow the dull soul of sense,
Breath life into the sterile universe,
With Love and Knowledge drove out innocence
The Key of Joy is disobedience.

'2B1ASK1'...

Summary

The quotations we provide for Pike three of which he wrote himself and are not contested by Masonry in any way(the 1st, 3rd, and 4th) and the quotations we provide from other Masons entirely agree with each other in the essence and substance of what Pike and each other is saying about Lucifer, Samael, Satan, and Jehova. There are many other writings by prominent Masons and occults bodies that restate this Luciferian belief system which you will discover as you research this subject.

Works vs Faith, Cain vs Abel, Samael-Lucifer vs Jehova-God, Freemasonry vs the Universal Church.

The Son's of Cain, descended from the Father of Lies, who is the murderer from the beginning say they are the bringers of light. The Son's of Seth, descended from the Father of Truth, know truth will conquor all.

With Freemasonry the Devil is in the details...

"Whatever bigotry is in evidence in the United States is exhibited solely by the Roman Catholic hierarchy; that the Canon Law of the Roman Church and the directives of the Pope validate the fears of the people that the dual allegiance of American Catholics is a present danger to our free institutions, and lastly that the people in passing upon the qualifications of a Catholic candidate for the Presidency will be guided by their knowledge of history and their great store of plain old-fashioned common horse sense, and their innate caution not to gamble when their Liberties and National Security are at state.

Among American citizens there should be no question or suspicion of allegiance to any foreign power, but in the case of the Roman Catholic citizen, his church is the guardian of his conscience and asserts that he must obey its laws and decrees even if they are in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the United States."

Illustrious Luther A. Smith 33°
Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council 33°
S.J., U.S.A.
The Mother Supreme Council of the World
New Age Magazine
The official organ of the Supreme Council 33°
February 1960

Courtesy of freemasonrywatch.org

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Freemasonry and Lucifer Masonic Grand Lodges promote the teaching that Lucifer is the Holy Spirit. Do Freemasons worship Lucifer? Over the years, some people have claimed that Freemasons worship Lucifer, or Satan. The truth of the matter is that the name Lucifer is not found in the rituals of the Blue Lodge, or the York Rite. We do not believe that Lucifer is mentioned by name in the Scottish Rite degrees, either. However, one of the "Sacred Words" in the17th Degree of the Scottish Rite is "Abaddon," the angel of the bottomless pit, mentioned in Revelation 9:11. Worship does occur in Masonic Lodges. One of the primary purposes of Freemasonry is worship. That fact is clearly stated in the Declaration of Principles which is contained on pages 37-39 of the Indiana Monitor and Freemason's Guide. (To examine the source materials, see footnotes.) Masons worship a god which they call the Great Architect of the Universe. The symbol they have chosen to represent their god is the All Seeing Eye, which the Egyptians used to represent their pagan god, Osiris. Many Masons are well aware of the pagan connection. It is clearly stated in a number of Masonic Monitors. An example is found on page 116 of the Kentucky Monitor. Since Freemasonry teaches a false plan of salvation, Masons are not following in the teachings of Jesus Christ. 2 John 1:9 allows us to know that since they are not following in the teachings of Jesus, they do not have God. Freemasonry is classic paganism. 1 Corinthians 10:20-21 allows us to know that the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, rather than God. Although we can say with certainty that the god of Freemasonry is a demon, we do not know specifically which demon Masons worship in lodge. We simply know that they refer to their demon as the Great Architect of the Universe, or GAOTU. All demons are under the leadership of Satan. Therefore, Freemasons cannot avoid worshiping Satan by proxy. Very few of them realize the facts in this aspect of Masonic worship. A great many Masons, even some who do not claim to be Christians, would leave the lodge immediately if the names of Satan, or Lucifer, were substituted for the GAOTU in Masonic prayers. Satan would not allow that to occur, because the more effective lie is the one which is closer to the truth, without being true. The reason that a name such as the GAOTU is chosen for the object of worship is discussed in The Men's Club, an essay on the Ex-Masons for Jesus website. Do Satanists worship Lucifer? Many people believe that Satanists worship Lucifer, however Satanists tell us that such is not always the case. Satanist Anton LaVEY wrote The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals. On the front cover flap of The Satanic Rituals, LaVEY wrote: Satanism is a vital philosophy which asks you to take your fate in your own hands--break the barriers that confine you--sweep aside all that is smothering you--realize your full innate power. The most important commandment of Satanism is: Satanism demands study - not worship. Satan does not need to receive worship to achieve his goals. All he has to do is to keep a man from following Jesus. Satan knows that anyone who does not follow in the teachings of Jesus does not have God. (2 John 9) How do the Grand Lodges point the way to Lucifer? Freemasonry demands study also, if one is to become a Master Mason in fact, as well as in name. The Committee on Masonic Education of the Grand Lodge of Iowa has written a small booklet which has been adapted for use by a number of Grand Lodges, including Indiana. The booklet was produced to encourage the new Mason to study and learn more about Freemasonry, so that he will do his part to fulfill its mission. The text reads as follows: It is safe to say that among the countless thousands who have in the past been raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason, no one of them realized at the time the full implications of the ceremony. This clearly would be impossible. Yet it is vitally important that the deeper meanings of this degree be understood if one is to become a Master Mason in fact as well as in name. Your enjoyment of Freemasonry, its value to you in your future life, your contribution to the fulfillment of its great mission, will be in direct proportion to your understanding of its secrets, which, if you recall the degree through which you have just passed, you do not yet have and which can only be gained by your own endeavors and the assistance of your brethren. Your own endeavors will depend entirely on your devotion to Freemasonry’s great mission of bringing to mankind a full comprehension of the Brotherhood of all men under the Fatherhood of one everliving God. Much has been written of Freemasonry. Probably your own Lodge possesses a library of books telling of the history of Freemasonry and treating of its philosophy, symbolism, and jurisprudence. These books are at your disposal at all times and there are many others that you may purchase for study in your own home. There are also many magazines on the subject. Your own Grand Lodge publishes a monthly magazine, The Indiana Freemason. Recognized as one of the very best Masonic publications now available, The Indiana Freemason will be sent to you for only a few cents per issue. Thus you can learn more and more about Masonry if you will--but you yourself must furnish the will. This booklet is only an introduction to the great field of Masonic learning an invitation to you to enter that field for your own pleasure and profit. We hope it will provide a starting point from which you will go on and on in a search for Masonic light. Your efforts will be richly rewarded. (The Master Mason, Grand Lodge of Indiana text from pages 2,3,4) Since Grand Lodges stress the importance of a Masonic education, and they recommend reading Masonic publications as the most effective means, we will take a look at Masonic literature and expose some of "the deeper things of the craft." Beginning with Grand Lodge documents, we will establish the connections between Freemasonry and Lucifer. The Mason who reads Masonic literature could uncover the connections as easily as we have. Please Note: We do not recommend discussing the connections between Satanism and Freemasonry with a Mason, in an attempt to lead him from the lodge. You will not be given a good hearing. The conversation will likely end before you have documented the connections. Most Masons are not aware of the connection and will be offended by your approach. We present this material here, that you might know that this is a spiritual battle. Paul wrote: Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:11-12) Having said that, we know that Masons will find this page and be offended by it. We fully believe that it is of little significance that we offend them with the truth. What is of major significance is that they continue to offend God by practicing Freemasonry. Most Masons who read the information presented here will not admit that it is true. Some will send us Email telling us that we don't know what we are talking about. If that were true, how could we provide the source documents for the quotes which follow to verify our claims? We make the following offer to Masons: If any of you can find any significant error in the material which follows, we will remove the entire web site from the internet. In order to "claim the prize," you must PROVE a significant error. Simply stating that we are wrong, when we have provided the evidence, (the source documents are downloadable) will only make you look foolish. After you have considered the evidence, and you can't prove it wrong, we suggest you ask yourself a few questions: When I stand before Jesus Christ on judgment day, will He believe that I was not aware of the connections between Freemasonry and Satanism?" Can a Christian knowingly remain a member of an organization which lifts up Lucifer, without denying Jesus Christ? What will Jesus say? Who else's opinion is going to matter? You might ponder Matthew 7:21-23, Matthew 10:32-33, 1 Corinthians 10:20-22, 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1, 1 John 1:5-2:6, 1 John 4:4-6 and 2 John 9. It is your soul which is on the line. Establishing the connection from the Grand Lodges to Lucifer Grand Lodges are the authorities of Freemasonry. Grand Lodges recommend that Masons read Masonic literature that they might realize all that Freemasonry holds for them. While encouraging the membership to study, Masonic leadership knows that the majority will not. The man who does begin to study Masonic literature might begin by reading his Masonic Monitor. A statement contained in the Indiana Monitor and Freemason's Guide recommends a Masonic book known as The Builders, with the words: WHEN IS A MAN A MASON? The following was written by Brother Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, as the closing paragraph of his widely read book “The Builders.” It bids fair to become a Masonic classic. . . . (Indiana Monitor and Freemason's Guide, page 172) The Builders is an especially good book with which to start a study of Freemasonry. Henry Wilson Coil stated that The Builders was written at the express request of the Grand Lodge of Iowa. Coil states that the book is in widespread use among Masons. He wrote: Dr. Newton was an active Freemason and lectured widely to lodges in Iowa, delivering especially a lecture called The Men’s House. At the request of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, he wrote The Builders, a copy of which was presented to every candidate raised in that State. It has also become one of the most widely read Masonic books of modern times. It has been translated into several foreign languages and, after the first edition in 1914, it appeared in editions as follows: 1915, 1916, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, and 1926. A revised edition was published in 1930, 1945, and 1946, and a revised and enlarged edition was issued in 1951 (315 pages), . . . (Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia, page 445) The book is currently available from Masonic sources. The publisher described the book in a recent catalog as "The outstanding classic in Masonic literature of all times. Many Grand Lodges present a copy to each newly raised Mason." On page 57 of the builders, in the chapter entitled The Secret Doctrine, and continuing through page 59, is a glowing tribute to Arthur Edward Waite. It contains the following: Perhaps the greatest student in this field of esoteric teaching and method, certainly the greatest now living is Arthur Edward Waite, to whom it is a pleasure to pay tribute. (The Builders, page 57) Speaking of Waite's books, Newton wrote: And the result is a series of volumes noble in form, united in aim, unique in wealth of revealing beauty, and of unequalled worth. Beginning as far back as 1886, Waite issued his study of the Mysteries of Magic, a digest of the writings of Eliphas Levi, to whom Albert Pike was more indebted than he let us know. (The Builders, page 59) The Mysteries of Magic contains the following on page 428: What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil, The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the Paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism. To personify evil and exalt it into an intelligence which is the rival of God, into a being which can understand but love no more-this is a monstrous fiction. To believe that God permits this evil intelligence to deceive and destroy his feeble creatures is to make God more wicked than the devil. By depriving the devil of the possibility of love and repentance, God forces him to do evil. Moreover a spirit of error and falsehood can only be a folly which thinks, nor does it deserve indeed the name of spirit. The devil is God’s antithesis, and if we define God as He who is we must define His opposite as he who is not. (The Mysteries of Magic, page 428) Masonic literature, such as this work of Eliphas Levi and Arthur Edward Waite, often does not contain what Christians would consider a conventional understanding of Lucifer, or the devil. This work declares Lucifer to be God, if we view the statements from the perspective of someone who believes in the Trinity. Levi and Waite have blasphemed the Holy Spirit. The Reverend Dr. Joseph Fort Newton has commended them for it. Notice that they claim also that the devil does not exist. Masonic literature does not embrace a conventional understanding of Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit, or Satan. We have linked the Grand Lodges of Iowa and Indiana to a book which clearly states that Lucifer is the Holy Spirit. Notice the path here. It does not involve the "higher degrees" of Freemasonry. The path begins with the Grand Lodges, which promote The Builders. The Builders points to The Mysteries of Magic, which states that Lucifer is God. The path from the Grand Lodges to Luciferianism and/or Satanism is quite short. Many Freemasons would dispute the fact that Freemasonry is Satanic, claiming that Lucifer is not Satan, or the devil. They often point out that the Roman name, Lucifer, appears in the KJV translation of Isaiah 14:12. The original text is Hebrew and does not contain the Roman name, Lucifer. That is true. We have heard this defense from so many Freemasons that it seems obvious that the argument is being taught within the Masonic system, as a defense of Masonic literature which lifts up Lucifer. Some Masons we have debated have considered Lucifer to be one of the "good guys." Obviously, Levi, Waite and Pike thought so. Pike wrote on page 321 of Morals and Dogma that, "Lucifer is the Light Bearer." Freemasonry is said to be a search after light. Grand Lodges cannot directly tell Freemasons that Lucifer is God without scaring a lot of them off before they are sufficiently ensnared. Grand Lodges obviously want their members to find this material, yet they also want to be able to claim, "We have never taught any such thing." When the documentation is on the table, such denials are seen to be just another Masonic lie. Masons should ask themselves why they would remain a member of an organization which promotes literature which declares Lucifer to be God? What impact does this have on the church? The Bible states: Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. (2 John 9-11) By allowing Masons to be members of the congregation, the other members have a share in the evil work of Freemasonry. Satan is served and he has a legitimate charge to bring against the church. Freemasonry is a malignant growth which Jesus does not want in His church. The seven letters to the churches in the book of Revelation reveal that God will hold the church responsible not only for what it does, but also for what it tolerates. Did you ever wonder why you are not seeing revival? The Reverend Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, the man whose book pointed to The Mysteries of Magic, was both a Mason and the pastor of a church. The Mysteries of Magic declares that Lucifer is God. Newton declared the words in the works of Arthur Edward Waite to be "noble in form, united in aim, unique in wealth of revealing beauty, and of unequalled worth." Newton knew enough about Masonic literature to know that Albert Pike had borrowed from the writings of Eliphas Levi when he wrote Morals and Dogma. That fact demonstrates that Newton knew the literature well. One of Waite's books contains four pages of instructions to conjure Lucifer. We will not be placing that on the site, as we would not want to enable anyone to try it. With Masons, you never know how far into the pit they are leaning. Who can tell which member of your congregation they will ensnare next? Who is to stop them from going after your brother, your son, or your grandson? Fortunately, it is much easier to keep a man out of the lodge by talking to him before he joins than it is to get him out once they have him ensnared. If men know the truth about Freemasonry, they usually won't join the lodge. The Reverend Dr. Newton obviously knew that Freemasonry was incompatible with Christianity, yet we sincerely doubt that he would have admitted that he was not a genuine Christian. If he were really a Christian, why would he have praised the works of Levi and Waite? You should not expect any Mason who is standing in the pulpit to admit that he is a phony. But if he won't repent and renounce Freemasonry when confronted with the facts, can he be the genuine article? Is your pastor a Mason? If so, part of his "ministry" is to maintain that a man can be both a Christian and a Mason. Are you contributing to his salary, or otherwise funding his "ministry?" That is the most effective way to say Godspeed to him. Don't share in his evil deeds. Feed the poor instead. Footnotes The Master Mason, pages 2, 3, 4. The Indiana Monitor and Freemason's Guide, pp. 37-39, 172. The Kentucky Monitor, page 116. Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia, pages 444-445. The Builders, pages 57-59. The Mysteries of Magic, page 428. Courtesy of Ephesians 5:11, Inc.