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