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The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

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Through English emigrants the Order was transferred to America,<br />

from where it returned in a partly different form to Europe. Among<br />

the first records <strong>of</strong> the order in America is that <strong>of</strong> five brothers <strong>of</strong> the<br />

English Order who met in New York City in 1806, and formed<br />

Shakespeare Lodge No. 1. <strong>The</strong> founders were three boat builders, a<br />

comedian and a vocalist - a group befitting the name Odd Fellows.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Order <strong>of</strong> Odd Fellows was formally founded by the freemason<br />

Thomas Wildey and four other members <strong>of</strong> the English Order in Balti-<br />

more, Maryland, on 26 April 1819 (Washington Lodge No. 1). In 1821,<br />

the Grand Lodge <strong>of</strong> Maryland and <strong>of</strong> the United States <strong>of</strong> America was<br />

founded. Thomas Wildey also served as the first grand sire (grand<br />

master) <strong>of</strong> the first grand lodge (earlier the leader was called noble<br />

grand).<br />

<strong>The</strong> Independent Order <strong>of</strong> Odd Fellows in North America (the Uni-<br />

ted States and Canada) became independent from the Order in Eng-<br />

land in 1834.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are only seven degrees. According to its propaganda, it<br />

teaches friendship, love, and truth. Several lodges together form a<br />

camp. <strong>The</strong> first degree in a camp is about faith, the second about<br />

hope, and the third is about mercy. It sounds just like the commu-<br />

nists.<br />

<strong>The</strong> symbols include a skull, an eye, and a hand holding a heart.<br />

Some Odd Fellows lodges in the United States have unfortunately<br />

taken over certain particularly perverse ceremonies from American<br />

<strong>freemasonry</strong>. James Madison, a member <strong>of</strong> the Knickerbockers Lodge<br />

in New York, told <strong>of</strong> his initiation into Odd Fellows in his book "Ex-<br />

position <strong>of</strong> the Awful and Terrifying Ceremonies <strong>of</strong> the Odd Fellows"<br />

(New York, 1847).<br />

When he entered the lodge chamber, a sack was pulled over his<br />

head. He was then hoisted up to the ceiling with a metal hook in his<br />

trouser leg, rotated around until he got dizzy, and thrown onto the<br />

floor. <strong>The</strong>reafter he was brought to a room that looked very dis-<br />

torted. When he had sworn the oath, six dancing "skeletons"<br />

appeared. One <strong>of</strong> them cried out: "I fell on a dagger, when I swore<br />

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