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On July 16, 1782, the year after the British surrendered to the Americans, representatives of the world's
secret societies convened the Congress of Wilhelmsbad in Europe and formally joined Masonry and
the Illuminati. In the next four years the Order was able to secretly establish several lodges in
America. In 1785, for example, the Columbian Lodge of the Order of the Illuminati was established in
New York City. Its members included Governor DeWitt Clinton, Clinton Roosevelt, and Horace
Greeley.
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<strong>Freemasonry</strong> On Trial – Part One
American Masonry
The radical philosophies, which found such fertile ground in France and Germany, did not easily take
root in America. While the French Masons sought to destroy the monarchy and every scrap of its
government, in America the essence of the British constitution was preserved and improved upon.
Many American Masons honestly believed their craft to be essentially Christian, and they strove to
keep it that way.
The concern over the influence of secret societies in the United States grew steadily until an anti-
Masonic explosion erupted in 1826, after the murder of one Captain William Morgan, of Batavia, New
York. Morgan was killed by Masons shortly after obtaining a copyright for an exposé on Masonry.
Morgan's crime was that he was the first to publish the complete rituals, including the oaths and secret
passwords of the first three degrees of Masonry, known as the Blue Lodge.
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Masonry never works in the full light of day. Every one knows of its existence, its
meeting places and of many of its adepts; but one is ignorant of its real aims, its real
means, its real leaders. The immense majority of masons themselves are in that
position. They are only the blind machinery of the sect which they serve.… Many
honest masons are so blind that they would be stupefied if they knew for what they are
being used.
He went on to explain that very few Freemasons know what the ultimate goals of the Order are. The
work of Masonry is subdivided and compartmentalized. Each group "does the work assigned to them
[but] remain ignorant of the place [it] occupies in the general scheme."
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Masonic lore is filled with references to this "widow's son." The origin is obscure, dating back to
Egyptian occultism. The widow is the Egyptian goddess, Isis, after the death of her husband, Osiris.
The penal sign for the third degree is made by putting the right hand to the left side of the bowels, the
hand open, with the thumb next to the belly, and drawing it across the belly, and letting it fall. This is
done very quickly. This alludes to the penalty of the obligation: Having one's body severed in twain.
Then the pass-grip is given by pressing the thumb between the joints of the second and third fingers
where they join the hand, "the word, or name is Tubal Cain. It is the pass word to the Master's degree."
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