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Page 92<br />
On July 16, 1782, the year after the British surrendered to the Americans, representatives of the world's<br />
secret societies c<strong>on</strong>vened the C<strong>on</strong>gress of Wilhelmsbad in Europe and formally joined Mas<strong>on</strong>ry and<br />
the Illuminati. In the next four years the Order was able to secretly establish several lodges in<br />
America. In 1785, for example, the Columbian Lodge of the Order of the Illuminati was established in<br />
New York City. Its members included Governor DeWitt Clint<strong>on</strong>, Clint<strong>on</strong> Roosevelt, and Horace<br />
Greeley.<br />
Page 98<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Freemas<strong>on</strong>ry</str<strong>on</strong>g> On <strong>Trial</strong> – Part One<br />
American Mas<strong>on</strong>ry<br />
The radical philosophies, which found such fertile ground in France and Germany, did not easily take<br />
root in America. While the French Mas<strong>on</strong>s sought to destroy the m<strong>on</strong>archy and every scrap of its<br />
government, in America the essence of the British c<strong>on</strong>stituti<strong>on</strong> was preserved and improved up<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Many American Mas<strong>on</strong>s h<strong>on</strong>estly believed their craft to be essentially Christian, and they strove to<br />
keep it that way.<br />
The c<strong>on</strong>cern over the influence of secret societies in the United States grew steadily until an anti-<br />
Mas<strong>on</strong>ic explosi<strong>on</strong> erupted in 1826, after the murder of <strong>on</strong>e Captain William Morgan, of Batavia, New<br />
York. Morgan was killed by Mas<strong>on</strong>s shortly after obtaining a copyright for an exposé <strong>on</strong> Mas<strong>on</strong>ry.<br />
Morgan's crime was that he was the first to publish the complete rituals, including the oaths and secret<br />
passwords of the first three degrees of Mas<strong>on</strong>ry, known as the Blue Lodge.<br />
Page 99<br />
Mas<strong>on</strong>ry never works in the full light of day. Every <strong>on</strong>e knows of its existence, its<br />
meeting places and of many of its adepts; but <strong>on</strong>e is ignorant of its real aims, its real<br />
means, its real leaders. The immense majority of mas<strong>on</strong>s themselves are in that<br />
positi<strong>on</strong>. They are <strong>on</strong>ly the blind machinery of the sect which they serve.… Many<br />
h<strong>on</strong>est mas<strong>on</strong>s are so blind that they would be stupefied if they knew for what they are<br />
being used.<br />
He went <strong>on</strong> to explain that very few Freemas<strong>on</strong>s know what the ultimate goals of the Order are. The<br />
work of Mas<strong>on</strong>ry is subdivided and compartmentalized. Each group "does the work assigned to them<br />
[but] remain ignorant of the place [it] occupies in the general scheme."<br />
Pages 106-107<br />
Mas<strong>on</strong>ic lore is filled with references to this "widow's s<strong>on</strong>." The origin is obscure, dating back to<br />
Egyptian occultism. The widow is the Egyptian goddess, Isis, after the death of her husband, Osiris.<br />
The penal sign for the third degree is made by putting the right hand to the left side of the bowels, the<br />
hand open, with the thumb next to the belly, and drawing it across the belly, and letting it fall. This is<br />
d<strong>on</strong>e very quickly. This alludes to the penalty of the obligati<strong>on</strong>: Having <strong>on</strong>e's body severed in twain.<br />
Then the pass-grip is given by pressing the thumb between the joints of the sec<strong>on</strong>d and third fingers<br />
where they join the hand, "the word, or name is Tubal Cain. It is the pass word to the Master's degree."<br />
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