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Rhodes, after describing the 18° ritual, calls the theology represented in the ceremony
“fundamentally un-Christian and even anti-Christian”. But he goes further:
It is a little disconcerting to find that the preposterous Bataille was right, if for all the
wrong and most discreditable reasons, when he approximated the Freemason’s god to
Lucifer.
Dr Bataille, in Rhode’s view in an earlier chapter, had sensationally represented the
freemasonic Knights of the Rose Croix of Heredom trampling over the crucifix on
their way to the Satanic Holy of Holies. Rhodes ends his chapter on the 18° in no
uncertain terms:
On this evidence, Freemasonry has the curious distinction of having kept alive, until the
present day, the traditions of the ‘Mass of Vain Observance’. It is hoped that this can be
said without offence to some 4,000,000 of our fellow-countrymen who, in spite of this,
do not seem to be committed to a greater extent than the rest of us to a ‘Satanic’ way of
life.
One of the most interesting aspects of the ritual from my own perspective, and one not
mentioned by Rhodes though arguably it might support his case even more, is where
the candidate, standing in the darkness of the corridor from the Black Room and
Chamber of Death, knocks to be admitted to the Red Room, which is brilliantly lit
with red furnishings. Thirty-three red candles in candlesticks, arranged in the shape of
three inverted triangles on an eight-step white altar, burn like a hearth surrounding the
white Cubic Stone on the fourth step, and 18 red roses are displayed between them.
(The “Cubic Stone” is said to represent the Christian cross, because a cube when opened
out into two-dimensional space becomes a cross. In the 18° rite the Cubic Stone “poured
forth blood and water”. This same inspiration is behind the name of “The Order of the
Cubic Stone”, an occult order practising Enochian magick that was founded in
Wolverhampton, England, in the 1960s by Robert Turner and others.)
In the basement of the Supreme Council for the 33° at 10 Duke Street, St James’s,
London—where the most impressive manifestation of “the Black Room, the Chamber
of Death, and the Red Room” may be found—the door knocker of the Red Room is a
horned and cloven-hoofed demon with one leg crossed over the other, based on the
“Lincoln Imp” in Lincoln Cathedral. The password to enter the Red Room is “Abaddon”.
Abaddon is mentioned once in the King James version of the Bible, in Revelation 9:11.
The following is Rev. 9:7–11:
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