Curse of Cannan - The New Ensign

devoted the rest of his life to promoting Freemasonry. He is credited with having brought the
Scottish Rite into prominence in the United States. Significantly, the Scottish Rite dates all of
its official communications with the year of the Hebrew calendar. Pike maintained worldwide
ties with such noted Masonic revolutionaries as Garibaldi and Mazzini. They cooperated in
establishing four Grand Central Directories for Freemasonry; the North American branch was
headquartered at Washington, D.C.; the South American branch was headquartered at
Montevideo; the European branch at Naples; and the Asia and Oceania branch at Calcutta. He
and Mazzini were succeeded as heads of world Freemasonry by Adriano Lemmi. Pike and Lemmi
had an extended disagreement over the name of the God of Masons which they were to use in
their rites; Pike was determined to call him Lucifer, while Lemmi held out for Satan; they finally
settled on Lucifer. Pike subsequently used the term, Sublime Pontiff of Lucifer, to describe
himself.
Although he came from modest origins, Pike, during his years in Arkansas, seemed to possess
unlimited funds, for which no source has ever been established. A gross, obese creature of the
most perverted tastes, he frequently organized expeditions of as many as three wagonloads of
friends and prostitutes. They rolled out into the countryside, laden with casks of brandy, every
available delicacy, and other refreshments. They then would gorge themselves for days on end,
indulging in wild orgies, and blind to the world.
After rising to control of American Freemasonry, Pike forbade the mention of the name of Jesus
Christ in a prayer in a Masonic Lodge. He organized the Adonaicide Mass for the top officials
of tÈe New Palladian Rite. It was based on the initiation rite of the 25th degree, in which the
serpent is portrayed as the true friend of man, and Christ, or Adonais as the real enemy of
mankind. Actually, it was a somewhat conventional Black Mass, to which Pike added some
original touches of his own; the highlight of the initiation of a nude prostitute, called Eve, into
the rites of intercourse. A fowl or animal was then immolated as a bloody sacrifice to Lucifer,
to celebrate the victory of the Synagogue of Satan over Christ; followed by the ritual defiling of
the Host. The blood was passed around to the celebrants to be drunk, after which the flesh was
ritually eaten. All those present then abandoned themselves to a drunken orgy.
Despite his frequent dissipations, Pike was a tireless organizer. He managed to produce the
massive textbook, "Morals and Dogma," which is the Bible of American Freemasonry to this
day. First published in Charleston (the Mother Lodge) in 1871, the book indicates from its very
first page the tyrannical intent of Freemasonry. "The blind Force of the People is Force that must
be economized, and also managed-- It must be regulated by Intellect. ... The Force of the People
.... cannot maintain and continue in action and existence a Free Government once created."
This is the bald resolve that Freemasonry cannot tolerate the existence of a free government.
Therefore, the American Republic and the Constitution of the United States, written by and for
the people of Shem, must be eliminated. Pike's book, by and large, is simply a formulation of
the program which the Canaanites had already been pursuing for three thousand years. It gave
a precise set of instructions by which the American people could be brought under control and
bent to the ends of Freemasonry.
Pike positively identifies the demonic origins of Freemasonry on page 22: "Masonry, successor
of the Mysteries, still follows the ancient manner of teaching. Masonry is identical with the
ancient Mysteries." This also explains Freemasonry's close cooperation with the leaders of secular
humanism, which also stems directly from the Mystery cults.
Another meaningful statement is found on page 152: "Masonry is activism." These three words
explain the furious involvement of Freemasons in every type of activist movement in the United
States, whether it is feminism, humanism, racial integrations, or Communism. Pike had laid
down the law --Masons must be activists, and they have obeyed his dictum. As a result, much
of the drive, as well as the financing, for all types of activist agitation in the United States comes
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