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(And that's without even getting into the point that the Bavarian Illuminati was anti-Jesuit…)
You obviously don't know anything about the goals of the Bavarian Illuminati that Weishaupt started. They weren't out to take over the world... they just wanted to take down the tyrants and popes. They were anti-monarchy. They were enlightenment-era anarchists who thought that man should rule his own destiny.
Originally posted by JohhnyBGood
You think that some proffessor of Cannon law at the Jesuit university of Inglestadd - can just arrange a meeting with a few friends......................and roll out a credible plan to take over the entire world, without having the money power resources and connections of a very very very powerful organisation behind him.
Originally posted by partycrasher
Like the brake to the locomotive.
"I have known throughout my studies that the ascent to the high degrees requires, above all, the payment of the price of the inscription, a price that varies according to the degree, but it also requires activity, zeal and services on behalf of the principles of the Association and the realization of its purposes. I discharged the duties within my reach to make a false show of my activities and I saved, at the same time, what was necessary to pay the respective inscriptions."
"I solicited the ascent, paying the dues for the 11 degrees, from the 19th to the 29th inclusive. My petition was accepted with pleasure. Being one of the holders of the 29th degree, I knew the secrets, vestments, terms, movements and signs corresponding to all those degrees. All the rituals are of no interest, for they are similar to those of the earlier degrees in their falsity and ridiculousness."
"I saved the amount necessary to attain the 30th degree. I solicited it and attained it. I did not delay much in attaining Degrees 31, 32 and 33 in the same way. Here my age become infinite; I remembered then what was recorded by the ancestors of my mother, Esther, who tried by that definition ‘to mock the Resurrection of Jesus, His Ascension and His eternal life."
"Thus I completed my ascent to the maximum degree of “elevation,” reaching the “gates of Heaven.” Thus I come to be considered among the ranks of the chiefs of “liberty!”
"Despite the superiority of my high degree, I did not know from whence come the superior orders. The president himself of our lodge did not know their origin. I saw that all the presidents of the lodges were subject to those orders that came mysteriously."
For example: “Carry out the exalted order as we have carried out ours, executing the following.... “
Another example: “By a superior order we must make every effort to do such-and-such a thing; comply with it and begin... “
Another example: “By orders, the knowledge of whose origin is prohibited by Law, you must initiate a subscription to collect (such-and-such a sum of) money that will be destined to expand the capacity of the Association and its interests.... “
All the orders were of this nature.
"Then I remembered the cunning of our ancestor founders and their successors and noted that the nine successors improved considerably in the art of fallacy and cunning."
"I deplored the word “free,” which should be omitted from the dictionaries of languages with that meaning, to use rather the meaning, “those who claim to be free and are nothing but slaves ordered by their masters to do good or evil.”
"Nevertheless, the slave knows his master, but we, on the other hand, do not know who orders us, and we obey blindly."
SOURCE: Dissipation of Darkness - History of the Origins of Freemasonry
Originally posted by Getsmart
reply to post by KSigMason
Well, regarding the "historical fiction" regarded as fact here is a History of the Origins of Freemasonry which bought the author Jonas James Lawrence's early demise, which of course proves nothing at all we can be sure. I shall quote from Chapter 37.
GS
I discharged the duties within my reach to make a false show of my activities and I saved, at the same time, what was necessary to pay the respective inscriptions.
All the rituals are of no interest, for they are similar to those of the earlier degrees in their falsity and ridiculousness.
I did not delay much in attaining Degrees 31, 32 and 33 in the same way.
The president himself of our lodge did not know their origin. I saw that all the presidents of the lodges were subject to those orders that came mysteriously.
And we've told you, time and again, that there is no overarching body over all of Freemasonry. There are hundreds of independent grand lodges around the world, each running their own territory. Nobody controls them all, because each democratically elects its own leaders on a regular basis.
Originally posted by Getsmart
reply to post by KSigMason
So you will either correct the truth for the record or be responsible for us relying on what you call "fictional history" given that your official sources keep their own truths veiled in secrecy. I cannot give your sect the benefit of the doubt until I can find confirmation that you know who exactly is above you, AT THE TOP of your very hierarchical pyramidal structure. Who is in the Capstone above the truncated pyramid, and why is it not connected directly? Are your Supreme Masters even HUMAN?
Originally posted by Getsmart
reply to post by KSigMason
So you will either correct the truth for the record or be responsible for us relying on what you call "fictional history" given that your official sources keep their own truths veiled in secrecy. I cannot give your sect the benefit of the doubt until I can find confirmation that you know who exactly is above you, AT THE TOP of your very hierarchical pyramidal structure. Who is in the Capstone above the truncated pyramid, and why is it not connected directly? Are your Supreme Masters even HUMAN?
GS
Who is in the Capstone above the truncated pyramid, and why is it not connected directly? Are your Supreme Masters even HUMAN?
When you find conclusive proof showing otherwise, I'll change my mind. Until then…
Originally posted by sweetnlow
reply to post by JoshNorton
Just keep telling yourself that, and you'll be ok
So by continuing to parrot CT edits of that speech on YouTube, you do nothing more than expose how truly ignorant you are.
I am asking the members of the newspaper profession and the industry in this country to reexamine their own responsibilities, to consider the degree and the nature of the present danger, and to heed the duty of self-restraint which that danger imposes upon us all.
Every newspaper now asks itself, with respect to every story: "Is it news?" All I suggest is that you add the question: "Is it in the interest of the national security?" And I hope that every group in America--unions and businessmen and public officials at every level-- will ask the same question of their endeavors, and subject their actions to the same exacting tests.
Originally posted by JoshNorton
... you do nothing more than expose how truly ignorant you are.