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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 171
Masonry. These Masons belong to the Blue degrees of Masonry or the first three levels.
According to Albert Pike:
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 mislead 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 explanation is
reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry.
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Again Pike reveals that the lower level Masons are deceived, he writes:
Masonry…conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or
the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to
mislead those who deserve only to be mislead; to conceal the Truth, which it calls
light, from them, and to draw them away from it.”
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Masonry involves secret ceremonies, secret signs and secret initiations and
these initiations involve secret oaths. Pike writes: “If you reflect, my Brother…
you will no doubt suspect that some secret meaning was concealed in these
words.”
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He further writes: “That Rite raises a corner of the veil, even in the
Degree of Apprentice; for it there declares that Masonry is a worship.”
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So far Pike has revealed that the Blue degrees of Masonry are deceived, they are deceived
about the truth of the light, there is secret meaning in their words and Masonry is a worship or
religion. So what is the light, what is the secret meaning of the words and who are Masons
worshiping?
The answer to the above questions lies in the secret initiation ceremonies initiates are
required to go through. An initiate has to go through a separate secret ceremony each time he
advances to a new degree within Masonry. “During each (initiation) ceremony the candidate is
asked, ‘What do you desire most?’ He is told to respond either ‘the Light’ or ‘more Light,’ but is
never told what the Light represents.”
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Christians believe the light represents Jesus Christ, the
light of the world but in Masonry this is not so. Pike reveals that the light represents Lucifer. He
writes:
…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! for traditions are full of Divine Revelations and Inspirations….
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Pike again revealed that Freemasonry is a religion and that the one they worship is
Lucifer. He did this in a speech given on July 14, 1889 to the twenty-three Masonic Supreme
Councils of the world whom he was instructing. He further enlightens that this information is
meant only for those who have advanced to the 30th Degree or beyond. He states:
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