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THE QUESTION OF FREEMASONRY
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INTRODUCTION
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The question of the Christian stand regarding Freemasonry seems to confront
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our ministry at every turn lately. Because I have seen the exact parallels
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of the Masonic legends and rituals carried throughout the "mysteries" of
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Mormonism, I have had to study deeply into Masonic origins, purposes and
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doctrine.
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In doing so, I have had to come to grips with the sad fact that the
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esoteric doctrines of Freemasonry separate it, just as unequivocally as do
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those of Mormonism, from the Christian theology. this holds true for every
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branch of Masonry, from the Shriners to the Blue Lodge, the Eastern Star,
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the Demolay, Job's Daughters and the Rainbow Girls! It holds true for the
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Scottish rite or York rite!
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I know that this will cause offense to many Masons, and for that I am truly
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sorry. But I would rather that the Mason be offended at me and be restored
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to true fellowship with Jesus Christ than to remain silent any longer.
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This word of warning is not to the Masonic fraternity at large, but to
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those Masons who claim to be both Masons and Christians!
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A recent newspaper insert, called "FREEMASONRY - A WAY OF LIFE" appeared in
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many metropolitan areas. It pictured Freemasonry as a family-centered,
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fraternal, benevolent organization, "as American as apple pie!"
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(page 7)
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Not only does the article demonstrate the strength of Freemasonry among our
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political leaders (both past and present), but makes much of its use of the
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Holy Bible and its foundational belief in God. Masonry has a very strong
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representation in the Christian denominations throughout the world. In
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many of the churches we visit, I find Masons involved as deacons, elders,
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board members and even pastors.
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Their claim and the claim of every Mason tot he outside world is that
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Masonry and Christianity are totally compatible. They tell me that
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religion is the experience of relating to God, and Masonry the experience
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of relating to mankind. While separate, they can and do naturally coexist.
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The article mentioned above explains its "religious" position this way,
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"Masonry is NOT a religion in any sense of the word, yet it is religious.
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Church membership is not a requirement, yet membership in ANY church is no
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bar to admission. There is nothing in the requirements of Masonry to
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prevent a Catholic, a Mohammedan, a Jew, a Buddist, a Protestant, a Mormon,
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or any member of any religion from becoming a member."
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(page 3)
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On the surface, this might seem quite reasonable. I find no offense in
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being involved in social, civic and benevolent activities with people of
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other religious backgrounds. In fact, it's really an integral part of the
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excitement of life! But, when it comes to my own personal worship of God,
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and His revelation to me of His Word, there are some very clear guidelines!
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If Freemasonry is truly what it professes publicly, then "Bravo!"; it is a
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welcome fellowship. If it is being deceptive, then it should be exposed.
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It is simple.
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Let's see what Masonry TRULY teaches within its closed doors, and through
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its own published documents. NO "anti-Masonic" publications will be cited
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in explaining their TRUE theological position.
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The key document from which I quote is the most readily available and
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universally approved doctrinal book of Freemasonry, "Morals and Dogma of
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the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry," By Albert Pike,
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Grand Commander, 1859-1891. Its title page states that it was prepared for
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the "Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree and Published by its
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Authority." Originally published in 1871, I have used the 1966 Edition.
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Except where other sources are noted, I cite page numbers only when using
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this work. Emphases within quotes are my own.
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MASONRY DESCRIBED
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CUSTODIAN OF TRUTH
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(Masonry)..."The custodian and depository (since Enoch) of the great
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philosophical and religious truths, unknown to the world at large, and
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handed down from age to age by an unbroken current of tradition, embodied
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in symbols, emblems and allegories."
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(page 210)
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A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
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"Masonry is, in every sense of the word, except one, and that its least
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philosophical, an eminently religious institution - that it is indebted
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solely to the religious element which it contains for its origin and for
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its continued existence and that without this religious element it would
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scarcely be worthy of cultivation by the wise and good."..."Freemasonry is
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NOT Christianity not a substitute for it"..."But the religion of Masonry is
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not sectarian. It admits men of every creed within its hospitable bosom,
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rejecting institutions; and on this ground mainly, if not alone, should the
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religious Mason defend it."
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(Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Albert G. Mackey, Revised Edition, 1921,
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pages 618,619)
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THE FOUNDATION OF RELIGION
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"It [Masonry] is the universal, eternal, immutable religion, such as God
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planted it in the heart of universal humanity. No creed has ever been
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long-lived that was not built on this foundation. It is the base and they
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are the superstructure."
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(page 219)
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TEMPLE OF RELIGION
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"Every Masonic Temple is a Temple of Religion, and its teachings are
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instructions in religion."
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(page 213)
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BUDDHA THE FIRST LEGISLATOR
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"The first Masonic legislator whose memory is preserved to us by history,
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was Buddha, who, about a thousand years before the Christian era, reformed
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the religion of Manous."
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(page 277)
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REVERENCES ALL REFORMERS
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"It [Masonry] reverences all the great reformers. It sees in Moses, the
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lawgiver to the Jews, in Confucius and Zoroaster, in Jesus of Nazareth, and
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in the Arabain Iconclast, great teachers of morality, and eminent
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reformers, if no more; and allows every brother of the order to assign to
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each such higher and even divine characteristics as his creed and truth
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require."
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(page 525)
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NOT CREED-BOUND
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"The true Mason is not creed-bound. He realizes with the divine
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illumination of his lodge that as a Mason his religion must be universal:
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Christ, Buddha or Mohammed, the name means little, for he recognizes only
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the light and not the bearer. He worships at every shrine, bows before
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every altar, whether in temple, mosque or cathedral, realizing with his
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truer understanding the oneness of all spiritual truth."
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(The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Manly P. Hall, 33rd, page 65, Macoy
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Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. Richmond, Va., 1976.)
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THE BAALIM
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"Masonry, around whose altars the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the
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Brahmin, the followers of Confucius and Zoraster, can assemble as brethren
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and unite in prayer to the one God who is above ALL the Ballim, must needs
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leave it to each of its initiates to look for the foundation of his faith
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and hope to the written scriptures of his own religion."
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(page 226)
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The word, Baalim, is simply defined as "false god or idol." The Masonic
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author has included the God of the Christian in that category.
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THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD
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"Everything good in nature comes from OSIRIS - order, harmony, and the
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favorable temperature of the seasons and celestial periods."
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(page 476)
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Osiris was the ancient Egyptian god whose annual death and resurrection
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personified the self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature. "The All
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Seeing Eye" is a masonic representation of Osiris.
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MASONRY CONCEALS ITS TRUTHS
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"Masonry, like all the religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and
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Alchemy, CONCEALS it secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the
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Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to
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mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it
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calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for
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those who are unworthy or unable to receive it, or would pervert it."
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(pages 104-105)
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THE BLUE LODGE TO BE DECEIVED!
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"The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part
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of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally
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misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall
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understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands
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them."
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(page 819)
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WORSHIPFUL MASTER THE SOURCE OF LIGHT
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"Worshipful Master: The Head and Chief of the Lodge, the Source of Light,
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of Knowledge and instruction in Masonry. He personifies the Sublime Art of
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Masonry and is the Spokesman thereof."
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(Arthur Waite, A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, 1970, page xxiv)
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OBEDIENCE THE FIRST RULE
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"The first duty of every Mason is to obey the Mandate of the Master...The
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order must at once be obeyed; its character and its consequences may be
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matters of subsequent inquiry. The Masonic rule of obedience is like the
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nautical, imperative: 'Obey orders, even if you break owners'."
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(Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Albert Mackey, page 525)
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THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE BIBLE
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"The teachers, even of Christianity, are, in general the most ignorant of
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the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so
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little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as
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incomprehensible as the Sohar."
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(page 105)
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THE INCOMPLETE BIBLE
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"All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to
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it. Everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of the
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Illuminati, Jacob Boehme, Swedenborg, Saint-Martin, and others, is borrowed
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from the Kabalah; all the Masonic associations owe to it their secrets and
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their symbols.
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"The Kabalah alone consecrates the Alliance of the Universal Reason and the
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Divine Word...
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"The Bible, with all the allegories it contains, expresses, in an
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incomplete and veiled manner only, the religious science of the Hebrews.
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The doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, identical at bottom with that of
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the ancient Egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils.
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"The Hebrew books were written only to recall to memory the traditions; and
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they were written in symbols unintelligible to the profane...thus was a
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second Bible born, unknown to, or rather uncomprehended by, the Christians;
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a collection, they say, of monstrous absurdities.
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"One is filled with admiration, on penetrating into the Sanctuary of the
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Kabalah, at seeing a doctrine so logical, so simple and at the same time so
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absolute."
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(pages 744-745)
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The "Kabalah" is a book of ancient Jewish mysticism and magic.
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DEITIES OF MASONRY
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THE ENERGIES OF LUCIFER
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"When the Mason learns that the Key to the warrior on the block is the
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proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the
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Mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of LUCIFER are in his hands
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and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to
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properly apply [this] energy."
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(Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Manly P. Hall, page 48)
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YES, LUCIFER IS GOD
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"That which we must say to the crowd is - We worship a God, but it is the
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God that one adores without superstition.
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"To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may
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repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees - The Masonic
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Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained
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in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine.
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"If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (The God of the Christians) whose
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deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, barbarism and
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repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests, calumniate him?
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"Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the
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eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without
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ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two
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gods: darkness being necessary for light to serve as its foil as the
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pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive.
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"Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure
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philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but
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lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against
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Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil."
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(Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World, Albert Pike, Grand
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Commander, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, July 14, 1889.
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Recorded by A.C. De La Rive, La Femme et l'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie
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Universelle, page 588)
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The Word of God, the Bible, clearly puts Lucifer in his proper place, and
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gives God's reasons. "How Art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of
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the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
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nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will exalt my throne above
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the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
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the sides of the north. I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like the
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most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the
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pit."
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(Isaiah 14:12-15)
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THE GRAND ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE
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Masonic ritual is concerned with the recovery of the "Lost Word," presumed
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to be the name of God - supposedly lost through the murder of the
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architect, Hiram Abiff, during the building of Solomon's Temple. This
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quest is attained during the ritual of the ROYAL ARCH DEGREE. It is here
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that the SECRET NAME of the DEITY OF MASONRY is revealed. That name is
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"JAOBULON." "JAO" is the Greek word for Jehovah. "BUL" is a rendering of
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the name, BAAL. "ON" is the term used in the Babylonian mysteries to call
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upon the deity "OSIRIS"! The secret ritual book of the Craft prints the
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letters J.B.O. It states that: "We three do meet and agree - in peace,
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love and unity - the Sacred Word to keep - and never to divulge the same -
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until we three, or three such as we - do meet and agree." Thus, no Royal
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Arch Mason can pronounce the whole sacred name by himself!
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What you see represented, then, as the god of Freemasonry, is a three-
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headed monster so remote from the Christian trinity and so blasphemous as
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to damn the eternal soul of anyone who would dare to pronounce its name in
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a ritual of worship!
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THE GOD OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE
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The candidates for this ritual kneel at the ALTAR OF OBLIGATION with arms
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bound, leaning upon the top, heads bowed. There they are required to
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"assume a most powerful and binding oath, inseparably uniting yourself with
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us, and once taken, it can never be retracted or departed from."
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The oath itself is curse enough, being four pages in length. Its penalty
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includes "having my eyeballs pierced to the center with a three-edged
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blade."
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The revelation of truth is in the candidates' sealing of the oath,
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revealing the true nature of the masonic god of the "Mystic Shrine":
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"...and may ALLAH, the god of Arab, Moslem and Mohammedan, the GOD OF OUR
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FATHERS, support me to the entire fulfillment of the same, Amen, Amen,
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Amen.
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(The Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, pages 35-39, Allen
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Publishing Co. NY, NY.)
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I AM THAT I AM
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During the ceremonies of the ritual for the Royal Arch degree, the
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candidate is asked, "Brother Inspector, what are you?" and he replies, "I
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AM THAT I AM." Can you imagine that? When Moses asked God to name
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Himself, God said, "I AM THAT I AM" and He said, "Thus shalt thou say unto
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the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."
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(Exodus 3:14)
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Tell me how a Christian can take to himself the Biblical name of the God of
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Israel? The God of the Christian faith said, "Ye are even my witnesses!
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Is there a God besides me? Yea, I know not any! They that make a graven
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image are ALL of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit;
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and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be
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ashamed."
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(Isaiah 44:8,9)
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THE MASTER MASON - A GOD IN THE MAKING
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"Man is a god in the making, and as in the mystic myths of Egypt, on the
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potter's wheel he is being molded. When his light shines out to lift and
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preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of godhood and joins that
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throng of Master Masons who, in their robes of Blue and Gold, are seeking
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to dispel the darkness of night with the triple light of the Masonic
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Lodge."
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"The glorious privileges of a Master Mason are in keeping with his greater
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knowledge and wisdom...For Him the Heavens have opened and the Great Light
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has bathed him in its radiance. The Prodigal Son, so long a wanderer in
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the regions of darkness, has returned to his Father's house. The voice
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speaks from the Heavens, its power thrilling the Master until his own being
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seems filled with its divinity, saying, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I
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am well pleased.' He [The Master Mason], in truth has become the spokesman
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of the Most High. He stands between the glowing fire light and the world.
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Through him passes Hydra, the great snake, and from its mouth there pours
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to man the light of God."
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(The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Manly P. Hall, pages 92, 54-55, Macoy
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Publishing and Supply Co., Richmond, Va, 1976)
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Friend, there is only one for whom the Father uttered those words and it
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wasn't a Master Mason...nor will it ever be so. Jesus Christ is God's only
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mediator for you and me. Do not let any MAN ever tell you that he is, or
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you may become, the spokesman of the Most High! Further, if you think that
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God speaks through HYDRA, the great snake, your god comes right out of the
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pit!
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OTHER TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES
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USURPING THE PRIESTHOOD OF JESUS
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In the 19th level of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, the Initiate receives the
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degree of GRAND PONTIFF. It is during this ritual that the candidate
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swears an oath of secrecy and an oath of total obedience "to any Chapter of
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this degree to which I may belong; and the edicts, laws and mandates of the
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Grand Consistory of Sublime Princes and Commanders of the Royal Secret, as
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well as those of the Supreme council of the 33rd degree..."
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It is then that the "Thrice Puissant" anoints him with oil on the crown of
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his head and says "Be Thou a Priest Forever, after the order of
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Melchizedek."
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After receiving the password (Emanuel) and the sacred word (Alleluia), he
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is dressed in a robe of white linen and given a cordon (a ribbon or sash of
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honor worn across the breast) of crimson color, with 12 starts representing
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"the 12 gates of the "new city," and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, the
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twelve fruits of the tree of life, the twelve tribes of Israel and the
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twelve Apostles." (Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated, The Complete Ritual,
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Vol. 2, pages 26-27, E. Cook Publications, 1974)
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It must be pointed out that what has taken place here, is the Masonic
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priesthood taking upon itself the Holy Priesthood of Jesus Christ. That is
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a Priesthood that can be held by only one person and that one person is
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clearly defined in scripture as Jesus Christ!
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Chapters 7 and 8 of the Book of Hebrews clearly explains that it was
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ANOTHER priest to be raised up, not a group of priests! This Priest would
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be our HIGH PRIEST and would be able to save from the Uttermost! He would
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have "endless life"! The holder of THIS Priesthood would be "holy,
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harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the
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heavens." (7:26) This is Jesus, our Holy Lord and God!
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This "ritual" takes Christ's Holy Priesthood from Him, and the Grand
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Pontiff boldly puts it upon his own breast! Even the use of "Biblical"
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words fails to cover up the adding in of the "signs of the Zodiac," a
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direct alliance with the powers of darkness and a demonstration of
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disobedience to God's Word. In Deuteronomy 18:10-12, it says that he who
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"useth divination" (consulting the signs of the Zodiac to tell the future),
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"or is and observer of times" (which is an ancient description for Augury
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or Astrology - again dealing with the Zodiac) "is an abomination unto the
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Lord"!
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Again, we see a mirror image of Biblical truth. The Priesthood power of
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Jesus is given to the deceiver, Lucifer, the true god of Masonry, who hides
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behind its mystery, ritual and allegory to snare his prey.
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WASHED IN THEIR OWN BLOOD
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In the seventeenth degree, or Knights of the East and West, after the
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candidates have completed the initiation and after revealing the password
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(Jubulum) and the Sacred Word (Abaddon), "the Senior Warden conducts the
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Candidate to the elevated vacant canopy at the right of the All Puissant."
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"This is supposed to represent the end of the world when all good masons
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receive their reward by being conducted to a throne at the right hand of
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the All Puissant, having been purified by washing their robes in their own
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blood."
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In the lecture which follows between the All Puissant and the Senior
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Warden, the Book with Seven Seals - which none but one can open (Rev. 5:5)
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- is twisted to represent "A Lodge or Council of Masons which the All
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Puissant alone has the right to convene and open."
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The Fourth Seal is represented by a skull or "Death's Head" and Masons are
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told it "is the image of a brother who is excluded from a Lodge or
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Council." The Fifth Seal is represented by a "Cloth Stained with Blood."
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The All Puissant identifies this as a symbol "that we should not hesitate
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to spill ours for the good of masonry." (Scottish Rite Masonry
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Illustrated, The Complete Ritual, Vol. 1, Pages 453, 457, E. Cook
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Publishing, 1974)
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What a gross misrepresentation of God's Holy Word! First and foremost, It
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is Christ and He alone who "hath prevailed to open the book and loose the
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seven seals thereof." To presume that honor and power is to deny Christ,
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or yet in deeper perversity, to replace his power and authority with that
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of the All Puissant, even in the representation of the power to save and to
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enthrone. This is the very spirit of the AntiChrist!
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Again, another clue to the true identity of the Masonic deity is revealed
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in the "Sacred Word" of this ritual, "Abaddon." In Revelation 9:11, we
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learn that "they [the demons and workers from hell] had a king over them,
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which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue
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is ABADDON!"
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BLOOD OATHS NOT OF CHRIST!
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Throughout the initiation rituals of the "BLUE LODGES" and through all 33
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degrees of Freemasonry, the candidates are sword to secrecy by bloody
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oaths. Such as is the oath swore by the Entered Apprentice of first
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degree, "...binding myself under no less penalty than that of having my
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throat cut across, my tongue torn out by its roots, and my body buried in
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the rough sands of the sea, at low-water mark." The Master Mason swears,
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"...under no less penalty than that of having my body severed in two, my
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bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes, the ashes scattered before
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the four winds of heaven..." (Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry by Malcom
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Duncan, Third Edition, pages 36, 39, D. McKay Publishing Co., N.Y., N.Y.)
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RAISING THE DEAD
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It is in this final "Blue Lodge" degree that that candidate is laid out "in
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death" and is raised from the dead by the "Worshipful Master" of the Lodge
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(representing King Solomon), using the "strong grip" (or "Lion's Paw") of
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the Master Mason.
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Let no Mason deceive you! We again face this replacement of our Savior by
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the power and authority of Lucifer. Paul said that if anyone should preach
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any other gospel "than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
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accursed." (Gal. 1:8,9)
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The simplicity of the Gospel is this, "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto
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you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and
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wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I
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have preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. for I delivered
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unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for
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our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he
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rose again the third day according to the scriptures." (1 cor. 15:1-5)
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The infinite power of Jesus was confirmed by Him when He said, "ALL power
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is given unto ME in heaven and in earth." (Matt. 28:18) This power is His
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alone! "For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they
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which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall
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reign in life by one, Jesus Christ!" (Romans 5:17)
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Jesus was the one who rose from the dead. Jesus is the only one with the
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power to raise from the dead. Jesus is the only one who frees us from the
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sting of death!
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How can a Mason who calls himself Christian allow himself to partake of a
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ritual resurrection by the power of Lucifer? This is Satanic! He stands,
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having been born again and raised from the dead as a Master Mason, through
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the power of the Masonic god, whom the God of Israel cast into the pit!
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MASONIC OATHS ABOVE THE LAW
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One the "five points of fellowship," he and his "savior" pass the sacred
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word, Mah-Hah-Bone.
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Also, while in this position, the new Master Mason solemnly vows "3d,
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Breast to Breast: that you will ever keep in your breast a brother's
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secrets, when communicated to you and received as such, murder and treason
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excepted." (Duncan's Rituals, Revised and Complete, pages 35, 96, 120, 121,
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E. Cook Publications, 1974)
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It should further be noted that in the Royal Arch Degree, the candidate
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swears to protect the "brethren," "Murder and treason not excepted!" This
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places the Masonic oath above that of our courts and our country. What hope
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would you have against a Mason in a Criminal or Civil court with a Judge
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who is a 32nd or 33rd degree Mason? None, by the nature of their oaths!
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PAGAN COMMUNION - EATING THE DEAD
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"QUESTION: What is to us the chief symbol of man's ultimate redemption and
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regeneration?
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"ANSWER: The fraternal supper, of bread which nourishes, and of wine which
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refreshes and exhilarates, symbolical of the time which is to come, when all
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mankind shall be one great harmonious brotherhood; and teaching us these
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great lessons: that as matter changes ever, but no single atom is
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anniliated, it is not rational to suppose that the far nobler soul does not
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continue to exist beyond the grave: that many thousands who have died
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might claim to be joint owners with ourselves of the particles that
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compose our physical bodies; for matter ever forms new combinations; and
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the bodes of the ancient dead, the patriarchs before and since the flood,
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the kings and the commonpeople of all ages, resolved into their
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constintuant elements, are carried upon the wind over all continents, and
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continually enter into and form part of the habitations of new souls,
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creating new bonds of sympathy and brotherhood between each man that lives
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and all his race. And thus, in the bread we eat, and in the wind we drink
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tonight may enter into and form of us part of us the identical particles of
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matter that once formed parts of the material bodies called Moses,
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Confucius, Plato, Socrates, or Jesus of Nazareth. In the truest sense, we
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eat and drink the bodies of the dead; and cannot say that there is a single
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atom of our blood or body, the ownership of which some other soul might not
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dispute with us." (page 539)
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I EXHORT YOU!
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COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM
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IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HIS SHED BLOOD AT CALVARY, I EXHORT YOU
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WHO CLAIM TO BE A MASON AND A CHRISTIAN, "Come out from among them and be
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ye separate, saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing; and I will
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receive you." (2 Cor. 6:17)
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"This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become
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the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for
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there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
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saved." (Acts 4:11-12)
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"For there is One God and One Mediator between God and men, the man Christ
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Jesus." (1 Tim. 2:5)
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"According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise
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masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation and another buildeth thereon.
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But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other
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foundation can no man lay that that is laid, with is Jesus Christ." (1 Cor.
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3:10-11)
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"Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is
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above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
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things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that
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every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
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the Father." (Phil. 2:9-11)
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"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship
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hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hat light with
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darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he
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that believeth with an infidel?" (2 Cor.6:14,15)
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ONE OR THE OTHER
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Even as Elijah called out "Ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord
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and thou has followed Baal!" I cry out "How long halt you between two
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opinions?L If the Lord be God, follow Him. But if Baal, then follow him!"
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(1 Kings 18:18,21)
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I am sorry, but there is not other choice for you right now. If you are a
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Mason who professes to be a Christian either renounce your Christian faith
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or renounce Masonry. One is from on high and the other is from the pit!
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You cannot cling to both!
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Dare YOU risk laying your good works before the Lord on that last day only
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to be told, "I never knew you, depart from me!" (Matt. 7:21-23)
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Every "Blue Lodge" member who reads this can no longer maintain his defense
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of ignorance. Today, it stands revealed! Today, you must make your
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choice! Every Mason, through the highest degree, has had the mask of
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secrecy ripped away. You are without defense. Choose Jesus or choose
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Lucifer. Renounce Jesus if you must, but do not stand in the assembly of
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His saints and mock Him! Your unrepentant presence in the congregation of
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a Christian body is a grieving of the Holy Spirit.
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I pray that you will choose Jesus, repent, and be set free from this wicked
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power unto whom you have submitted your very soul! If this is your desire,
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remember that we have this promise, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful
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and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
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unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9)
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Pray this prayer with me right now! "Father in Heaven, in the name of the
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Lord Jesus, I confess that I have sinned. I confess that I have allowed
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myself to fall under the power and authority of Lucifer, the god of
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Masonry. I confess it as sin, and ask that you forgive me. I reject it
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and cast it from me and will immediately remove my name from its rolls!
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Jesus, I call you Lord and Saviour and ask that you come into my heart and
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fill me with your love and Holy Spirit. Let no unclean thing remain! I am
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yours and yours alone! I am set free! In Jesus' name, Amen!"
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Write to me, dear friend and let me know of your decision for Jesus Christ!
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Your Brother in the Lord, J. Edward Decker Jr.
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"And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David;
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Is it a small thing for you to weary men,
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But will ye weary my God also?"
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ISAIAH 7:13
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