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Pages 65-66<br />
Further, the candidate is told that the political power of the land ("the king") is subordinate to the<br />
Mas<strong>on</strong>ic High Priest:<br />
The instituti<strong>on</strong>s of political society teach us to c<strong>on</strong>sider the King as the chief of created<br />
beings, and that the first duty of his subjects is to obey his mandates; but the instituti<strong>on</strong>s<br />
of our sublime degrees, by placing the King in a situati<strong>on</strong> subordinate to the High-<br />
Priest, teaches us that our duty to God [i.e. Mas<strong>on</strong>ry] is paramount to all other duties,<br />
and should ever claim the priority of our obedience to man.<br />
Perhaps this is why President Ulysses S. Grant <strong>on</strong>ce observed, "All secret, oathbound, political parties<br />
are dangerous to any nati<strong>on</strong>." President John Quincy Adams was more severe. After an impartial<br />
investigati<strong>on</strong> of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Freemas<strong>on</strong>ry</str<strong>on</strong>g>, he c<strong>on</strong>cluded in his "Address to the People of Massachusetts,"<br />
Page 78<br />
I saw a code of Mas<strong>on</strong>ic legislati<strong>on</strong> adapted to prostrate every principle of equal justice<br />
and to corrupt every sentiment of virtuous feeling in the soul of him who bound his<br />
allegiance to it. I saw the practice of comm<strong>on</strong> h<strong>on</strong>esty, the kindness of Christian<br />
benevolence, even the abstinence of atrocious crimes, limited exclusively by lawless<br />
oaths and barbarous penalties, to the social relati<strong>on</strong>s between the Brotherhood and the<br />
Craft. I saw slander organize into a secret, widespread and affiliated agency.… I saw<br />
self-invoked imprecati<strong>on</strong>s of throats cut from ear to ear, of hearts and vitals torn out and<br />
cast off and hung <strong>on</strong> spires. I saw wine drunk from a human skull with solemn<br />
invocati<strong>on</strong> of all the sins of its owner up<strong>on</strong> the head of him who drank it.<br />
Did you know that the Mas<strong>on</strong>ic Lodge teaches a way to heaven that is not taught in the Bible?<br />
Mas<strong>on</strong>ry teaches exactly what God c<strong>on</strong>demns as a false gospel, namely, that a man will be saved and<br />
go to heaven as a result of his good works and pers<strong>on</strong>al self-improvement. The Bible places such a<br />
teaching under God's curse: "But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a<br />
gospel c<strong>on</strong>trary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before,<br />
so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel c<strong>on</strong>trary to that which you received, let him<br />
be accursed". (Galatians 1:8-9)<br />
Pages 108-109<br />
In the Third Degree of the Blue Lodge (Master Mas<strong>on</strong>), while kneeling "<strong>on</strong> his naked knees, both<br />
hands resting <strong>on</strong> the Holy Bible," the Mas<strong>on</strong>ic initiate is promised that "nothing in [Mas<strong>on</strong>ry] will<br />
interfere with the duty you owe to your God." (This is a totally false promise, as will be seen later.) In<br />
additi<strong>on</strong>, the initiate "most solemnly and sincerely promises and swears" to the truth of all these things:<br />
"so help me God, and keep me steadfast in due performance of the same." He then kisses the Bible to<br />
seal his vow. Later, the Mas<strong>on</strong> is again reminded that God "will reward us according to our works,"<br />
and "if we are found worthy," He will permit us entrance into His heaven.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Freemas<strong>on</strong>ry</str<strong>on</strong>g> On <strong>Trial</strong> – Part One<br />
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