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Chapter 14
LUCIFIER: GOD OF FREEMASONRY
The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degree,
maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.... 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.(1)
Albert Pike, 33rd Degree, 1889
Albert Pike (1809-1891) was a General in the Confederate Army during our
American Civil War (1860-1865). From 1859 until his death in 1891, he was the
most powerful Mason in the world. He occupied simultaneously the positions of
Grand Master of the Central Directory at Washington, D.C. Grand Commander of
the Supreme Council at Charleston, S.C., and Sovereign Pontiff of Universal
Freemasonry.(2) He was an honorary member of almost every Supreme Council in
the world, personally receiving 130 Masonic degrees.(3)
On October 26, 1919, twenty-eight years after Pike's death, Alva Adams of
Colorado addressed the Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish
Rite at Washington, D.C., with the following commendation of Albert Pike:
As the Laws King Alfred wrote a thousand years ago are still a part of
England's glory and liberty, so in another thousand years will the ideals,
the poetry, the moral code and philosophy of Albert Pike be shaping the
influence and destiny of Masonry. It is a patent of nobility to be a Brother
to this god-like leader -- Prince in the House of Solomon and Hiram.(4)
There is a subversive side to Albert Pike, however, about which many remain
silent. Before accession to his prestigious Masonic positions, Pike secretly
organized the rebellion of the southern states against the United States,
using the Southern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Freemasonry to conceal his
conspiracy. Most of the political and military leadership of the Confederacy
were Masons under Pike's secret command. In reality, our Civil War was
another battle in the war between English and French Freemasonry.(5)
Prior to our 1776 War of Independence, 32nd degree French Templarism had not
yet reached America. Although a few Templar lodges from Ireland and Scotland
were scattered throughout the northeast U.S., most were military lodges and
had not progressed beyond nine degrees. Predominant were the three-degree
English lodges. By the time George Washington was elected our first
President, 32nd degree Templar Scottish Rite Freemasonry had already been
established at Charleston, S.C. -- on the 33rd degree parallel. The Scottish
Rite assisted our new government in developing French republican ideals. In
1801, nine American Masons created the 33rd degree and the Charleston lodge
became the Mother Council of the World.
High-degree Scottish Rite lodges soon dotted the southern portion of the
United States, and the Rite moved northeast where low-degree English Masonry
was strongest. Evidence suggests that to counter this intrusion into English
Masonic territory, the British sent John James Joseph Gourgas (1777-1865) to
New York to organize clandestine Scottish Rite Lodges throughout that
region.(6)
Gourgas was well-suited to this subversive task. The Gourgas family had been
French Scottish Rite Masons living in Switzerland prior to the French
Revolution. During the Reign of Terror, the family emigrated to England,
where John James Joseph became a well-known merchant on the royal exchange.
As a matter of course, he joined low-degree English Freemasonry.(7)
The Gourgas family sailed from England to Boston in 1803, finally settling in
Weston, Massachusetts. J.J.J. Gourgas went to New York around 1806. By 1813
he had organized five clandestine Scottish Rite lodges, one of which was
called the Cerneau Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of
the Thirty-Third Degree. These subversive lodges had assisted England in her
War of 1812- 1814 against the young American nation.
In the early summer of 1813 Emanual de la Motta, a Supreme Council member
from Charleston, was visiting New York and discovered the five clandestine
lodges. An investigation ensued, and none were found to have received
sponsorship from Charleston. After conferring with the Charleston hierarchy,
Motta was told to rectify the situation as quietly as possible. He
immediately worked out a territorial arrangement with Gourgas. Thus was born
the Northern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Freemasonry on August 5, 1813,
with confirmation on December 24th by the Mother Supreme Council at
Charleston.(8)
Permanent headquarters for the Northern Jurisdiction of Freemasonry was later
established at Boston, where English Freemasonry first entered America.
Boston was given Masonic dominion over all the states north and east of the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. This legitimacy gave English Freemasonry a
permanent foothold in America from which to continue her subversive activity.
The agreement also stipulated noninterference by the South in the Northern
Jurisdiction. Hence, behind northern lodge doors big business deals were
settled without southern participation or knowledge. Gradually the
northeastern Masons became the power brokers for all the nation, dominating
industry, finance and politics. Thus, the Northern Jurisdiction of
Freemasonry acquired the nickname, "The Eastern Establishment."
The non-aggression treaty signed between the U.S. and England in 1814 did not
stop Great Britain from attempting to reclaim the Americas. She may have lost
the War of 1812, but through her Scottish Rite lodges of the English
obedience in the North, she controlled the northeast's wealth. Southern
wealth was counted in slaves. In order to exercise economic control over the
South, slavery would have to be abolished. London planned to divide America
over the slavery issue. A nation divided would be easy to conquer, if not
militarily, then economically and financially. By 1860 we were in a civil
war, ostensibly over slavery.
Against this British intrusion into American politics, finance and industry,
General Albert Pike initiated the southern rebellion. In 1859 the Southern
Jurisdiction of Freemasonry founded the Knights of the Golden Circle as a
front to direct the insurrection. When the South lost to the North, and
Abraham Lincoln reunited the Union, the Knights of the Golden Circle plotted
Lincoln's assassination. John Wilkes Booth, a 33rd degree Mason and member of
Mazzini's Carbonari of Italy, was selected by the Knights to kill Lincoln.(9)
After Lincoln's assassination, the Knights of the Golden Circle attempted to
rekindle the Civil War. Riots erupted throughout the South. Even 3rd degree
Freemason, Vice President Andrew Johnson, who assumed the Presidency
following Lincoln's assassination, believed these riots were an attempt to
incite another civil war.(10) Young Jesse James (1847-1882), a 33rd degree
Freemason and member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, was assigned to rob
northern banks to fund this new war. Regarding James's success, Ralph
Epperson, in The Unseen Hand, wrote: "It has been estimated that Jesse and
the other members of the Knights had buried over $7 billion in gold all over
the western states.''(11)
In the meantime, a crisis was brewing which brought heavy Masonic pressure to
bear upon the newly appointed president, Andrew Johnson. During the Civil
War, General Pike had led a band of Indians who conducted warfare with
barbarity by scalping Union soldiers while they were yet alive.(12) After the
war and Lincoln's assassination, Pike was tried and found guilty of treason.
Andrew Johnson, himself a 3rd degree Mason, was pressured by high Masons to
pardon brother Pike.
Master Mason Johnson was under no Masonic obligation to pardon his treasonous
Masonic superior. For clarification we recite part of the Master Mason
ceremony. When the 3rd degree initiate is symbolically raised from the dead
by the strong grip of the "lion's paw," he is taught the "Five Points of
Fellowship," which are foot to foot, knee to knee, breast to breast, hand to
back and cheek to cheek. The second point of fellowship, which is breast to
breast, teaches "that you will ever keep within your breast the secrets of a
worthy brother Master Mason as inviolable as your own when communicated to,
and received by you as such, murder and treason excepted."(13)
Relentless pressure from Masons was too great, and the President succumbed to
their bidding. Paul Fisher reports that
Benjamin B. French, a 33rd Degree Mason and member of the board of directors
of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, wrote a letter, dated July 1,
1865, to President Andrew Johnson...urging him to pardon Pike. Additional
appeals on Pike's behalf were made to the President by Masons from different
parts of the United States.(14)
Johnson bowed to Masonic pressure and pardoned the man who was most
responsible for the Civil War, who undoubtedly was in favor of the
assassination of President Lincoln, and who may himself have been directly
involved in the plot. Nine months later a list of pardoned rebels, including
Pike, was released to the press. Fisher informs us that "[i]n March, 1867,
the House Judiciary Committee began an investigation into charges by some
Congressmen that Johnson should be impeached. Later, when the committee
finally issued its report, a key charge against the President was that he
pardoned large numbers of public and notorious traitors...."(15)
Three months later, Freemasonry honored Johnson for pardoning the treasonous
Albert Pike. "On June 20, 1867," reports Fisher, "the President received a
delegation of Scottish Rite officials in his bedroom at the White House where
he received the 4th through the 32nd Degrees of the Scottish Rite as an
honorarium. "(16)
The trial for Johnson's impeachment proceeded as scheduled. In May 1868,
fourteen months after the Congressional investigation of Johnson was
initiated, the final vote fell one short of the necessary two-thirds for
conviction. Freemasonry celebrated by erecting the only monument to a
Confederate general in the nation's capital. Between Third and Fourth Streets
stand the U.S. Department of Labor Building and the city's Municipal
Building. On public property between these two buildings, on D Street, N.W.,
"is a statue of Albert Pike, the grand philosopher of Scottish Rite Masonry,
who was indicted for treason for his activities during the Civil War."(17)
Albert Pike's Luciferian Doctrine
Albert Pike was one of the most physically and morally repulsive individuals
in American history. Weighing well over 300 pounds, his sexual proclivity was
to sit naked astride a phallic throne in the woods, accompanied by a gang of
prostitutes. To these orgies he would bring one or more wagon-loads of food
and liquor, most of which he would consume over a period of two days, until
he passed into a stupor. In his adopted state of Arkansas, Pike was well
known as a practitioner of Satanism.(18) Although he wrote that he did not
believe in the reality of Satan, portraits made of Pike in his later years
picture him wearing the Baphomet, a symbol of Satan, around his neck. (See
Appendix 2, Fig. 30.)
Pike was an evil genius of the first magnitude, using his many talents to
destructive ends. A gifted polyglot, he was able to both read and write in
sixteen ancient languages.(19) In his study of ancient religions, Pike
discovered that Lucifer was the god of pagans and that there was no adversary
known as Satan except in the Bible. Lucifer, son of the morning, was known to
pagans as the friend of mankind who gave them fire, taught them all the
crafts, and showed them the rich ore and precious stones buried in the earth.
For these countless benefactions conferred on humanity, jealous Adonay, who
claimed to be the true God, united His angels against the brightest angel and
unjustly cast him out of heaven.(20)
Pike reasoned that Adonay, the God of the Bible, was evil for robbing man of
his scientific achievements -- first by Flood, then by the destruction of the
Tower of Babel. Lucifer, according to Pike, was the good god, who returned to
man his scientific freedom. And Satan? He was only a fabrication of
Christians.
Would the God of Freemasonary Please Stand?
Albert Pike continued the work of Adam Weishaupt, introducing Lucifer to the
Supreme Council as the Masonic god. In 1843, while Pike was developing his
Luciferian Doctrine, two other Masons, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882) and Moses Holbrook (d.1844), Sovereign Grand Commander of the
Supreme Council at Charleston, were attempting to penetrate the inner shrines
of the Fraternity with the doctrine of Satanism. Both had studied thoroughly
the occult sciences and enjoyed discussing the mysteries of the Cabala with
Pike, but were unable to convert the general to Satanism.(21) When Holbrook
died a year later, Longfellow turned to the Independent Order of Oddfellows,
hoping they would receive his Satanic doctrine.
The Oddfellows had been founded by Masons at London in 1788 and brought to
the United States in 1819 by Freemason Thomas Wildey. At first Longfellow was
refused by Wildey, but later obtained secret authorization to use the Order
for the introduction of Satanism into the second degree. This rite was to be
absolutely secret. Miller informs us that "[t]he adepts of the second
[degree] Oddfellows practising Satanism...took the name of
Re-Theurgist-Optimates.... Longfellow became the Grand Priest of the New
Evocative Magic."(22)
Albert Pike was opposed to a Satanic Rite in Freemasonry because he refused
to believe Lucifer and Satan were the same personality. In his book, Morals
and Dogma, published in 1871, he describes the Cabalistic(23) meaning of
Satan:
The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh [sic] reversed;
for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. The Devil is the
personification of Atheism or Idolatry.
For the Initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but
which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will. They
represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the
mythologic and horned form of the God Pan; thence came the he-goat of the
Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of
which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the Legend.(24)
Pike accused poets of falsifying the nature and role of Lucifer. For example,
Longfellow believed Satan was once Lucifer, and John Milton made the Fallen
Angel the hero of the tale in Paradise Lost In contrast, Pike believed
Lucifer never fell, that the Rebel Angel is the light of the world today,
equal in power to Almighty God, yet less transcendent at the present time. In
Morals and Dogma Pike sarcastically refers to the book of Revelation which
denies Lucifer's equality with God: "The Apocalypse is...the Apotheosis of
that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and
works of Lucifer...."
Pike's ridicule is directed toward those who have faith only in the God of
the Apocalypse without giving Lucifer due respect. Pike continues his
encomium to Lucifer: "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 notl"(25)
With one stroke of the pen, this 33rd degree Mason, whom all Masons
revere,(26) denied the finished work of Jesus Christ, the true Light of the
world, about which Light St. John wrote his entire book.
Luciferian Rite for the 33rd Degree
Throughout a period of about fifty years Pike developed and then gradually
introduced his Luciferian Rite to a select few within the 33rd Degree Supreme
Council at Charleston. He also converted the Masonic hierarchy in London,
Berlin, and Rome. During the latter part of that development, French atheists
began to attack spiritism and symbolism within French Lodges, finally
declaring in 1877 that there was no god but humanity. Grand Orient Freemason
Karl Marx was one of the main movers behind the atheistic stand taken by the
French Lodges. English Freemasonry, which demands a belief in deity,
immediately broke fellowship with the French Grand Orient.(27)
Albert Pike, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry at the time,
attempted to mend the English and French division by writing a letter to the
hierarchy declaring that Lucifer was the god of Freemasonry. This letter was
read on July 14, 1889, at the annual congress of the existing twenty-three
[23] Grand Lodge Supreme Councils of the world gathered at Paris, France. The
letter was recorded by A.C. De La Rive in La Femme et l'Enfant dans la
Franc-Maconnerie Universelle. The Freemason, an English Masonic periodical,
noted the reading of the letter in its January 19, 1935 issue. Count de
Poncins quotes portions of the letter in Freemasonry and the Vatican. The
most comprehensive quote, however, comes to us from Edith Miller in Occult
Theocrasy. Here is what Albert Pike wrote to that Masonic Congress, as quoted
by Miller:
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, [of the 33rd degree] 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 purity of the Luciferian doctrine.
If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay [The God of the Bible] 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 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.(28)
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. . ., he refused to accept that the conflict was within Satan himself.(43)
Therefore, Pike wrote that Satan was not a person, but the negation of God, a
force that could be used for good or evil. Accordingly Pike cast Satan as
Lucifer, who he thought was light, the god of good, struggling with Adonay,
the god of evil.
The Luciferian Doctrine, therefore, must be distinguished from Satanism.
Luciferianism is the belief that Lucifer is totally good, that he never fell.
Only because of his benevolence to man, claims the Luciferian mystics, was
Lucifer forced out of heaven by a jealous god, who did not want man to
advance in knowledge. - Pike calls this jealous god, Adonay, the God of the
Bible.(44)
One of Pike's first Luciferian converts was 33rd degree Freemason Giuseppe
Mazzini (1805-1872), leader, as we have seen, of the Italian Revolution and
founder of the Mafia. Originally Mazzini was an ardent atheist. Later in life
-- almost three decades prior to Albert Pike's 1889 speech in Paris --
Mazzini accepted Pike's Luciferian doctrine. Miller comments on Mazzini's
"conversion":
When Pike sent him a copy of his Luciferian rituals, Mazzini was full of an
enthusiastic praise for his colleague's work which he expressed in his
articles in La Roma del Popolo. The public however failed to understand the
sentiment that inspired him to proclaim the existence of a divinity and
denounce materialism and atheism. One was puzzled to find this man a
mystic.(45)
Palladianism: The Super Luciferian Rite
Thirty-third degree English Mason, Lord Palmerston, was also converted to
Pike's Luciferian doctrine. From time to time Mazzini controlled the Italian
revolution from London, soliciting the assistance of Palmerston, who helped
finance Mazzini through British military intelligence.(46) Both men agreed
with Pike to unite the hierarchies of French, American, and English
Freemasonry in a Super Luciferian Rite. The Rite would be called the New and
Reformed Palladian Rite, originally founded in Paris in 1737. One of the
meanings that Webster's Dictionary gives palladian is safeguard. As the
definition suggests, Pike's Palladian Rite was to "safeguard" the ancient
doctrine of mystery religions that proclaimed Lucifer god.(47)
It is near impossible to discover who are the members of the Palladian Rite
today. It takes from thirty to fifty years for such information to emerge.
The Reformed Palladian Rite, however, was comprised of Pike, Palmerston,
Bismarck, Mazzini, Lemmi (a confidant of Mazzini), and other select few.(48)
The purpose of the Palladian Rite was not only to combine the two opposing
bodies of Freemasonry in the hierarchy of the Supreme Council, but to unite
all secret societies under the religion of Lucifer -- including non-Masonic
orders. Miller confirms this in Occult Theocrasy
A 33rd [degree Mason] would be well received everywhere, in any country, in
any rite the existence of which is acknowledged. Thus it was particularly the
initiates of the thirty-third degree Scottish Rites, who, owing to their
extensive international ramifications, were privileged to recruit adepts for
Palladism...the lowliest of its initiates being brothers long tested in
ordinary masonry [sic].(49)
The existence of this rite would be kept strictly secret and no mention of it
would ever be made in the assemblies of the lodges and Inner Shrines of other
rites. Albert Pike was given dogmatic authority and the title of Sovereign
Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry with headquarters at Charleston, South
Carolina. Mazzini, operating from Rome, held the executive authority with the
title of Sovereign Chief of Political Action. Miller reports:
The two secret chiefs, Pike and Mazzini, finally completed the organization
of high masonry [sic] establishing four Grand Central Directories for the
world, functioning thenceforth to gather information for the benefit of their
political policy and dogmatic propaganda.(50)
These four Sovereign Administrative Directories became known as Propaganda
Lodges (P-1). During the 1860s they were presided over by the four most
powerful 33rd degree Masons in the world at that time: Berlin was directed by
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898); London by Palmerston; Washington by Pike
(after his pardon); and Rome by Mazzini. In imitation of the original P-1
lodges, in 1968 the Italian Propaganda Due (P-2) Masonic Lodge was certified
by Italian Grand Orient Masonry. Unlike the original P- 1 Lodges, which were
controlled by the Palladian at Washington, D.C., P-2 fell under the control
of English Masonry.(51)
Membership in Mazzini's four Sovereign Administrative Directories -- the P-1
Lodges -- came strictly from the Supreme Council. To keep exposure of secrets
to a minimum, membership was on an ingeniously contrived system of three
month rotation. Given only 120 days notice of their appointments in order for
them to plan what would appear in our day as politicians going on "fact
finding trips," these high Masons were in truth going on business trips for
their particular Masonic Directories. Miller explains the relationship of the
Palladian Rite to the four P-1 lodges, and to the 33rd degree Supreme Council:
The Palladian Rite has no share in the functioning of the [P-1] Sovereign
Administrative Directory. This should again prove that Palladism is
superposed to all the other rites. It is the Luciferian religion and only
need concern itself with the triangles which have a separate budget. Being
the real hidden power, known only to the perfect initiates, it need not
unveil itself even to this permanent committee which constitutes the highest
expression of the administrative power of the great international
association.(52)
Here Miller reveals that there are three secret societies superimposed on the
29-degree Scottish Rite and the three-degree Blue Lodge. The first, is the
general body of the 33rd degree Supreme Council. Above that the four P- 1
lodges are superimposed on the Supreme Council. And finally, the Luciferian
Palladian is superimposed over all.
To better understand what position the Luciferian Palladian Rite held in
Freemasonry, look at the Illuminati pyramid on the back of the American one
dollar bill. The All-Seeing Eye of Lucifer in the center of the Capstone
represents the Palladian, while the Capstone itself is the 33rd degree
Supreme Council. Therefore, not all within the 33rd degree Supreme Council
are Luciferian -- only the Palladian "hidden power." The original power
brokers in the Palladian were Pike, Palmerston, Bismarck and Mazzini. In a
future chapter we will reveal the modern Luciferians.
The relationship of the Palladian to the Supreme Council is strikingly
similar to that of Weishaupt and the Illuminati. In the latter, the
All-Seeing Eye was Weishaupt and the Capstone was the Illuminati. Apparently
(or so it has appeared to conspiracy researchers), the Palladian Rite
replaced the Illuminati, suggesting to investigators that Weishaupt appointed
Mazzini, who continued the conspiracy under the new name.
True, the conspiracy dropped the Illuminati title. The new conspiracy,
however, was not a continuation of the old. The Palladian was comprised of
Templar Scottish Rite Masons, whereas the Illuminati was a
Sionist-Rosicrucian organization. However, a more plausible explanation of
the shift in the conspiracy has already been suggested -- the Templars seized
control of Sion's Illuminati conspiracy shortly before the French Revolution.
Templar control was maintained by Pike and Mazzini.
Satan cares little which conspiracy is in power. Both are under his command.
Division is his method and madness. Pitting one order against the other is
his method of control. If one rebels, or becomes weakened, he reinforces the
other. As we have seen, after the French Revolution, the Templar Order was
active and flourishing once again. Sion's Illuminati had been suppressed.
When the conspiracy changed hands the leadership was up for grabs. After the
Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte had his chance, but he was too visible. Mazzini
was the next opportunist, some say appointed by Weishaupt. Yet, there is no
real evidence to support this claim. Obviously, Satan dangled the carrot in
front of Mazzini and he followed it to his death.
Mazzini was one of the three most powerful Masons in Europe. When he was near
death, he designated 33rd degree Adriano Lemmi his successor. Lemmi, under
Mazzini's direction since 1851 had played an important role as a political
assassin during the Italian Revolution. When Mazzini died on March 11, 1872,
Albert Pike acceded to Mazzini's wish that Lemmi be his successor.(53) Lemmi
immediately began to strengthen the Mafia, organizing it into the universal
crime network we see today. So significant was the information about Lemmi
and his Masonic-Mafla empire that Miller devoted 43 pages of her book to
organized crime.(54)
Lemmi's rapid success was due to the fact that the Mafia controlled the
heroin trade for English Freemasonry. Great Britain concluded her Opium Wars
with China in 1860. With Hong Kong as a prize, the Masonic-owned British East
India Company. which had previously transported opium to the West, dissolved
in 1873. Its wealthy stockholders -- all English Masons -- went into
off-shore, that is unregulated, banking to launder the Mafia's drug money.(55)
During this time Albert Pike was in constant contact with the Mafia,
assisting in its entry into the United States through New Orleans.(56)
Luciferianism: The Universal Doctrine of Freemasonry
Among the many converts to Luciferianism was Gallatin Mackey, a confidant of
Albert Pike. It was Mackey who then nominated Pike for the post of Grand
Master of the Supreme Council of Charleston. His candidacy unopposed, Pike
was duly elected on January 6. 1859. Gallatin Mackey is widely read in
Freemasonry. His books consist of The Lexicon of Freemasonry The History of
Freemasonry in South Carolina, The Manual of the Lodge, The Masonic
Ritualist, The Symbolism of Freemasonry, and The Encyclopedia of Freemasonry,
the authorship of which is generally now attributed to Albert George
Mackey.(57)
Many other 33rd degree Masons then and later acknowledged Lucifer as god,
including a 20th century figure, Albert Lantoine. De Poncins describes him as
a historian and a thinker of great merit. He was a sincere Freemason, of
charming personal character, and he kept apart from all contact with
politics. He concealed nothing, and openly declared that he was an atheist.
He was severely critical of certain aspects of the Catholic Church but he did
not spare Masonry either. He had obviously lost the faith he originally held
in democracy and rationalism.(58)
Lantoine wrote a pamphlet in 1937 entitled Lettre au Souverain Pontife. It
was an open epistle to the Pope to declare a truce between the Catholic
Church and Freemasonry. De Poncins quotes an excerpt which illustrates
Lantoine's Luciferian belief that the universe is divided into a necessary
duality of good and evil:
...should we remain at odds with one another?
Perhaps.
Perhaps we should...in the very depths of our souls. For your God cannot
pardon the Rebellious Angel, and that Angel will never submit or renounce his
dominion.
But should we remain enemies?
No!
There is a higher sphere where knowledge and Faith, though they cannot meet,
can at least tolerate one another. To those seeking the one, to those who
possess the other, they give the same delights and the same anguish. There is
as much purity and grandeur in the words of the philosophers as in the Word
of the Redeemer.
So much the better, I say. Possessing critical and inquisitive minds, we are
the servants of Satan. You, the guardians of truth, are the servants of God.
These two complement one another. Each needs the other.(59)
Lantoine here articulates the so-called "scientifically" required dualism of
Albert Pike that "Each needs the other." During a conversation with Lantoine,
de Poncins questioned him whether Masons were the "servants of Satan."
Lantoine replied, "I was
wrong, I didn't use quite the correct term. I should have said servants of
Lucifer."(60)
Luciferian Masonary Today
Earlier, we met 33rd degree Mason Oswald Wirth, who was affiliated with the
French Grand Lodge. He, too, was a Luciferian. In his statement below, he
characterizes the "work" of Freemasonry as a scientific activity, in other
words a demonic activity, directed by a non-Christian transcendent force:
Now the strength of Freemasonry lies in the collective will of its members.
When they meet it is only to work, and since no energy is wasted, every lodge
is a seed-bed of moral and social change.
But do not ask the vast majority of Freemasons to give reasons for what they
do. They act by instinct, following shadowy traditions which for centuries
have exercised their suggestive influence.
Nevertheless there does exist a Masonic Doctrine, even if nowhere explicitly
formulated in words, which is to Freemasonry what Christianity is to the
Christian Churches; we may call it the science of Masonry....
Now the Great Architect, no doubt because he is less transcendant [sic] than
the God of the theologians, refers to an entity which does undeniably exist,
for the constructive work of Freemasonry has, as its origin and inspiration,
an ideal which gives birth to an immense energy. A force superior to
themselves impels Masons and co-ordinates their efforts with an intelligence
far exceeding that possessed by any one individual among them. Such is the
hard fact which emerges and before which we bow our heads. Let every man
interpret it as he pleases.(61)
Oswald Wirth here admits that the Masonic Great Architect of the Universe is
not the God of Christianity. Lantoine and Wirth were friends. Both lived a
half century following Albert Pike's death. Both understood Lucifer was the
god of Freemasonry. although "less transcendant''[sic] than the God of
Christians. Like Pike, they were cognizant of the spiritual activity in
Freemasonry, calling it "scientific.""
We have discovered that the "work" of Masonry, even if not known or
understood by the majority of initiates, is controlled through a few men --
men under the direct influence of Satan - Lucifer to them -- and his demonic
forces of darkness. This was true back then, and remains true today. We will
cite two current examples.
The first is from 33rd degree Freemason Manly P. Hall, a philosophical source
for the contemporary New Age Movement in America. Hall founded the
Philosophical Research Society of Los Angeles, which continues to carry on
his teachings. Four of his books of particular interest to Masons are
Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians; Dionysian Artficers: An Encyclopedic
Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Quabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical
Philosophy: and Lost Keys of Freemasonry.
Lost Keys of Freemasonry was originally published in 1923. In 1976 it was
reprinted by The Philosophical Research Society. So important is this book to
Blue Lodge Masons that it is distributed to all Masonic libraries by the
Masonic publishing house of Richmond, Virginia. Not only does Lost Keys
confirm that the hierarchy in Freemasonry remains true to the Luciferian
doctrine today, but most significantly reveals that the Supreme Council is
now willing to inform the Blue Lodge Masons of the Luciferian orientation and
direction of Freemasonry. We quote from Hall's lecture on the Fellow Craft
degree (2nd degree):
The day has come when Fellow Craftsmen must know and apply their knowledge.
The lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion, which places the
energy of the universe at their disposal. Man can only expect to be entrusted
with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and
selflessly. 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 Ithisl energy.(62)
The second example which corroborates that the hierarchy in Freemasonry is
still under the direct influence of Satan is revealed in the Satanic symbol
worn by every Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council at Charleston.
It is the symbol of the Baphomet. The traditional drawing of the Baphomet
shows a winged demon with female breasts and a horned goat head. Allegedly
this was the god Baal.(63)
There are several symbols that represent the Baphomet. One is the upside-down
five-pointed star with the horned goat head of Mendez pictured inside the
star. This rendition symbolizes the "god of lust." The upside-down star is
universally recognized in witchcraft as a symbol of Satan. It is also the
symbol of the Eastern Star, the female auxiliary of American Freemasonry.
Freemason Eliphas Levi, having studied for forty years the Templar documents
confiscated from the Vatican, sketched the Baphomet. It, too, is a demon with
a horned, goat head. In addition, it has a serpent's tongue, a long, barbed
tail and cloven hind's feet -- all traditional symbols of Satan.(64) Mackey's
Encyclopedia of Freemasonry admits that a symbol of Baphomet was indeed worn
by the Knights Templar, but denies that it represented Satan.(65)
This Baphomet is also concealed in a geometric symbol in the form of the
Templar splayed cross with two additional crossbars. This rendition was worn
by Satanist and Freemason Aleister Crowley and, according to The Curse of
Baphomet, is listed as a symbol of Baphomet in the Masonic O.T.O. publication
Equinox, Vol. 3, No. 1, page 243.66 This same symbol is worn by every
Sovereign Grand Commander of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, Southern
Jurisdiction. Appendix 2, Fig. 30 shows it around the neck of Albert Pike and
embroidered in the Fez of the Past Sovereign Grand Commander of the 33rd
degree, Henry C. Clausen. It is also on the letterhead of the current Grand
Commander, C. Fred Kleinknecht. (See front pages of this book).
Templar Control Was Short-Lived
Pike, Mazzini, Palmerston, and Bismarck succeeded in uniting the Masonic
hierarchy in the Luciferian religion, but failed in their endeavor to unite
the world politically. Instead, the world was plunged into World War I.
Meanwhile, English Freemasonry was not to be outdone by the Templar Palladian
Rite. English Masonry had plans of her own to unite all Masonry in the
darkest depths of occultism. Her banner today is the "New Age Movement." She
intends to annihilate the Church through syncretism with this doctrine.
Tomorrow she plans to impose on mankind a one-world totalitarian government
controlled by her global Babylonian religion.
Although the hierarchy in Masonry believe Lucifer is good and that in him is
light, we are about to record the incredible evil that lurks in the dark
minds of the more depraved personalities who have taken up the standard of
Albert Pike and are plunging Masonry into perdition.
pps 386-393
--cont--
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Kris
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