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Originally posted by King Seesar
reply to post by network dude
My own theory on all the proof from both sides is to say that if anything it was a different era, the book that Lucifer777 uses is old and there might of been a lodge of european orgin from a while back that did some extreme and (to say the least) eunique hazing rituals but i don't think it's commen place in most of todays United States lodges, if so we would of heard more on it trust me....
edit on 3-5-2011 by King Seesar because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Lucifer777
they refer to their Masonic Lodges as Masonic Lodges, such as: "Oasis Shriner's Masonic Lodge ( events.charlotteobserver.com... ) for example.
The first meeting was held at what was called Shrine Hall in downtown Charlotte on January 18, 1895. The next day, with the assistance of Acca Temple repersentatives, 18 new nobles were initiated into the newly-formed Oasis Temple.
I think that there is more than adequate evidence in this thread to etablish that the claim that such rituals do not happen in Masonic Lodges is clearly a fraudulent claim.
Originally posted by whenandwhere
. There is absolutely NO hazing in my Freemasonry .
In my opinion, of those four, the only one I would agree with is the Shriners. I've seen no evidence whatsoever concerning the initiation rituals of the Jesters, nor evidence of hazing ritual in the York Rite. (I don't recall seeing specific proof of hazing in Prince Hall either, but I tend to ignore the bulk of your useless posts anyway.)
Originally posted by Lucifer777
I think that it is safe to say that it can be proven beyond all reasonable doubt that "hazing rituals" occur in 1: The Shriners, 2: The Jesters, 3: Prince Hall Freemasonry and 4: York Rite Masonry; all of which are Masonic organisations.
Originally posted by JoshNorton
In my opinion, of those four, the only one I would agree with is the Shriners. I've seen no evidence whatsoever concerning the initiation rituals of the Jesters, nor evidence of hazing ritual in the York Rite. (I don't recall seeing specific proof of hazing in Prince Hall either, but I tend to ignore the bulk of your useless posts anyway.)
Originally posted by Lucifer777
I think that it is safe to say that it can be proven beyond all reasonable doubt that "hazing rituals" occur in 1: The Shriners, 2: The Jesters, 3: Prince Hall Freemasonry and 4: York Rite Masonry; all of which are Masonic organisations.
Originally posted by Lucifer777
Although this thread is about the financial corruption of two Masonic side degrees, the Shriners and Jesters, it has also become an opportunity for Masons to express their cult denialism that hazing rituals occur in Masonry.
The following story appears to indicate that holy and sacred "paddling" rituals are also part of the "Prince Hall" Masonry
Mannheim soldier’s death has element of Masonic mystery
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GI found dead hours after scheduled secretive rite
European edition, Sunday, February 12, 2006
Questions loom involving the details of Spc. Donald Anthony’s death. An autopsy was inconclusive.
Masonic history 101
The Masons are a secret society that dubs itself the world’s oldest and largest fraternity. Masons rise in rank by performing degree-work.
Prince Hall Masons, made up primarily of black men, began in Massachusetts about 200 years ago as an offshoot of the early Masonic lodges in America. The African Lodge was organized on July 3, 1776, with Prince Hall as the worshipful master.
The African Lodge grew and prospered to such a degree that Prince Hall was appointed a provincial grand master in 1791. Out of this grew the first Black Provincial Grand Lodge.
In 1847, out of respect for their founding father and first grand master, Prince Hall, the three existing African lodges changed their name to the Prince Hall Grand Lodge, the name it carries today.
Today, some 5,000 lodges and 47 grand lodges exist that trace their lineage to the Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Jurisdiction of Massachusetts.
The Prince Hall lodge to which Spc. Donald Anthony Wilder belonged in Mannheim, Germany, falls under the purview of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Washington and Jurisdiction. Prince Hall lodges under the state of Washington grand lodge can be found in Germany, Iceland, Japan, Okinawa, South Korea, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The office of the Prince Hall in Kuwait is listed at Camp Arifjan.
The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Maryland has jurisdiction over several lodges in Germany that have their meetings on military installations. Installation commanders determine if private groups — such as the Masons — can meet on military facilities, said Air Force Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke, a Department of Defense spokeswoman.
Most scholars believe Masonry arose from the guilds of stonemasons who built castles and cathedrals of the middle ages. In 1717, Masonry created a formal organization when four lodges in London joined to form England’s first Grand Lodge.
The Masons perform charitable services as well. The Shrine Masons (Shriners) operate the largest network of hospitals for burned and orthopedically impaired children in the country, and there is never a fee for treatment. The Scottish Rite Masons maintain a nationwide network of more than 150 Childhood Language Disorder Clinics, Centers, and Programs.
— Steve Mraz
Sources: www.princehall.org, Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Washington Web site, Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Maryland Web site, Grand Lodge of Virginia Web site.
MANNHEIM, Germany — Weeks before Spc. Donald Anthony Wilder was found dead in a barracks shower, his parents say, he told them he knew he was going to be beaten.
On Jan. 7, Wilder, 21, was set to become a third-degree Mason with the Prince Hall Masons in Mannheim. A radio communication security controller repairman with the 512th Maintenance Company, Wilder had become active with the Prince Hall Masons in the fall of 2005.
The Prince Hall Masons are a predominantly black, secretive brotherhood. Similar to other branches of Masons, the group offers networking opportunities and performs community service. Several U.S. troops in Europe and around the world belong to the Prince Hall Masons.
In order to become a third-degree Mason, Wilder knew he would have to endure being beaten on his buttocks with a paddle by fellow Masons.
His plan was to get so drunk for the Jan. 7 ceremony that he wouldn’t feel the pain of the beatings, according to a friend, Spc. Tony d’Ercole. His mother, Diane Wilder, said her son told her that if he got so drunk that he passed out, his fellow Masons would take his blows.
On Jan. 8, just hours after the evening ceremony that took place inside Mannheim American High School at Benjamin Franklin Village, Wilder was found dead in a friend’s shower in the barracks at Spinelli Barracks in Mannheim.
An autopsy performed last month at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center was inconclusive, pending further studies, which are due back next week. Marie Shaw, a Landstuhl spokeswoman, said preliminary findings show Wilder experienced a “sudden, unexpected death.”
Wilder’s actions during the days leading to his death have been outlined by a friend, d’Ercole and his mother.
The Prince Hall grand lodge that has jurisdiction of the lodge with which Wilder was active issued an edict against hazing just 10 days after Wilder died.
“Be it hereby known and acknowledged that there will be no hazing or un-Masonic conduct of any sort tolerated during degree work within the Jurisdiction of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Washington and Jurisdiction,” the Jan. 18 letter stated. “Any such behavior that is determined to be inappropriate will be dealt with swiftly and unequivocally per our code on un-Masonic conduct.”
The letter was signed by Wendell O. Hutchings, the lodge’s grand master.
In a telephone interview, Hutchings said his group is investigating what happened at the initiation ceremony. He said paddling is forbidden.
He called what happened Jan. 7 an isolated incident and said it was not reflective of the Prince Hall Masons as a whole.
“Those individuals responsible are certainly going to be dealt with swiftly,” he said. “We are going to make a decision on those individuals who participated in that initiation.”
Last days
Donald Wilder’s parents say their son told them quite a bit about the Masons, except for the group’s secrets. He talked about the good work he did with the Masons. The group raised money for Hurricane Katrina victims and for the college funds of children of U.S. troops killed in action. He told them about the roughly $1,000 in dues he paid since September to be a Mason.
Also, he told them about the paddlings he took when he became a first- and second-degree mason last fall: how he would lie in his bed at Spinelli Barracks in Mannheim, icing his body after the paddlings, his mother said.
“He talked about the beatings a lot … and he was very afraid of them,” Diane Wilder said from her home in Seal Rock, Ore. “Prior to the … ceremony, he was throwing up because he was so nervous, that’s what we were told.”
He said the beatings were to show the other Masons just how badly you want to be a member.
“ ‘If you can’t put up with a little discomfort for a little while in order to do some good for people, you don’t want it that much,’ he told us,” she said.
On Christmas, Diane Wilder talked to her son twice. During those conversations, she says, Donald Wilder expressed concern about the paddlings he knew awaited him.
“His plan was to get so drunk that he wouldn’t have to take all the beatings,” Diane Wilder said.
His parents told him not to go through with it. They would pay for him to join the Masons in Texas where he was set to be reassigned by the Army.
“There was something about it, obviously, we didn’t like,” Diane Wilder said. “It made us nervous. It just didn’t seem right.”
The week before his death, the Wilders talked to their son every other day. On Jan. 5 — three days before he died — Wilder promised his mother he would not go through with the third-degree ceremony, she said.
Donald Wilder would not stay true to his word.
“I think he just decided not to tell us because we disapproved,” Diane Wilder said.
Also on Jan. 5, Wilder went to Murphy’s Law Irish Pub in Mannheim. He met friends that evening, including Maria Testai, a German acquaintance, and d’Ercole, a soldier in Wilder’s unit who served with him in Iraq.
The two soldiers talked for about an hour at the bar, d’Ercole said, and Wilder seemed relaxed. Testai said Wilder told her that he would like to go to a movie with her during the coming weekend.
On Jan. 6, Wilder ate dinner with a friend and the friend’s wife. It was there that he told the couple his plan about getting drunk for the following evening’s ceremony, d’Ercole said.
On Jan. 7 — the night Wilder was set to become a third-degree Mason — he called Testai around 8 p.m. and told her he was going to the “party,” she said.
“I have another friend married to an American,” Testai said. “She told me about the Masons. She told me that they would beat up the people and drink a lot when they have parties. I didn’t like it so I didn’t ask for more.
“He sounded, I don’t know, not really nervous,” Testai said. “He talked a lot. I don’t know if excited is the right word.”
The initiation ceremony took place inside Mannheim American High School. The group initially requested to use the facility on Jan. 6. Because of school rehearsals, the high school was not available, said Dennis Bohannon, public affairs officer for Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Europe.
A key to the school was checked out to the Masons on Jan. 5. The group used the key to enter the facility without authorization on Jan. 7, Bohannon said.
When asked how school officials knew that the Masons were in the facility on Jan. 7, Bohannon said, “someone in the school has personal knowledge.”
After the ceremony, Donald Wilder went out clubbing, his mother said.
Sometime during the morning of Jan. 8, Wilder was found lying unconscious and unresponsive in the shower of a friend’s room at Spinelli Barracks, said Diane Wilder. Medical professionals, military police and the German police were called to the scene.
Shortly after noon, Spc. Donald Anthony Wilder, a 21-year-old veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, was pronounced dead.
Officially speaking
To date, no charges have been preferred against anyone in relation to Wilder’s death. Until further autopsy studies are complete, it is unknown whether Wilder died of alcohol poisoning or something else.
Officially, the command that Wilder’s unit comes under is working with the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command, known as CID, to find out what happened.
“We have multiple, ongoing investigations to ensure that the facts are known and everything that can be done to prevent this from happening to other soldiers,” said Maj. Allen Hing, 21st Theater Support Command public affairs officer.
To protect the integrity of its investigation, CID is not releasing details of the investigation at this time, said Christopher Grey, CID spokesman.
Soldiers are not prohibited from joining such groups as the Masons. D’Ercole estimated about six or seven soldiers in his roughly 250-man unit are Masons.
Guillotines and Guns
A Ritual Gone Fatally WrongPuts Light on Masonic Secrecy
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
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PATCHOGUE, N.Y., March 9 � The initiation rituals at the Masonic lodge here had been bathed in secrecy over the years. The climax of Monday night's ceremony was to be a simple prank. A new member of the Fellow Craft Club, a select group within the lodge, would sit in a chair while an older member stood 20 feet away and fired a handgun loaded with blanks.
That ritual went terribly wrong inside Southside Masonic Lodge No. 493, in a basement littered with rat traps, tin cans, a 9-foot-tall guillotine, and a setup designed to mimic walking a plank.
The shooter, a 76-year-old Mason, Albert Eid, was carrying two guns, a .22-caliber handgun with blanks in his left pocket, and a .32-caliber gun with live rounds in his right pocket.
He reached into his right pants pocket, pulled out the wrong gun and shot William James, a 47-year-old fellow Mason, in the face, killing him, the authorities said.
Mr. Eid, a World War II veteran who had a license to carry his own pistol and often did, pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon to a charge of second-degree manslaughter and was released on $2,500 bail. He was wearing his blue Masonic jacket during his arraignment in Central Islip.
Suffolk County Police called the shooting an accident, the consequence of one man's confusion. The fatality exposes this secret society, centuries old, to a rare degree of public scrutiny.
Late Monday night, police carried evidence and ritual objects out of the Masons' one-story lodge in Patchogue. All day Tuesday, television reporters and curious neighbors examined the club's bricked-over windows and peered into the front door to glimpse a bulletin board announcing the order's recent charity efforts.
Masonic leaders statewide were quick to disavow the ritual and shooting, saying it was not Masonic custom to shoot guns at other members. Ron Steiner, a spokesman for the New York State Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, which oversees all Masonic lodges in the state, said the social club was not officially tied to the Masonic organization.
"This is so far beyond the concept of reality it's mind-boggling," Mr. Steiner said. "I've never heard of anything like this."
Mystery and suspicion are woven into the history of the Freemasons, who trace their roots to the stone workers' guilds that built medieval Gothic cathedrals. The guilds evolved into secret clubs over the years with secret handshakes and rituals, and symbols like an all-seeing eye, pyramid and compass.
Over the years, the Southside Masonic Lodge members developed their own initiation rituals for the social club in the lodge that set them apart from most other Masonic organizations, members said. No members of the lodge could remember pistols being used in the rituals (they are not allowed in inside Masonic clubhouses), but some described initiations that were part prank, part exercise in trust.
One member, Michael Paquette, said that when he was initiated into the group five years ago, two mouse traps were placed before him, and he was told that one worked, and one was broken, he said. Another member tested the broken trap, then told Mr. Paquette to touch the live one. He did, and discovered that it, too, was a dud.
"It was really harmless things," Mr. Paquette said. "It was just for you to be there and realize you were in good hands, and you didn't have to fear anything."
On Monday night, Mr. James and Mr. Eid were among 10 men who set to performing the club's initiation.
Mr. James, the first to be initiated, sat down in a chair, and two tin cans were placed on a shelf by his head. The idea was for Mr. Eid to fire two blank rounds, and a man standing behind Mr. James would knock the cans down with a stick. And then it happened.
"This is a tragedy," said Mr. Eid's lawyer, James O'Rourke. "He is absolutely beyond grief-stricken. This is a mistake, not a criminal act."
The Southside Masons are mostly middle-aged or retired men who come from middle-class backgrounds. The group once included about 500 members, but membership here and at other Masonic lodges has fallen over the years, and the group now has about 150 members, said Peter Berg, a member. There are about 67,000 Masons across New York State, and their numbers rose slightly last year, for the first time in a decade, Mr. Steiner said.
Orders like the Southside Masons seem more concerned today with Christmas parties and raising money for blood drives and children's charities than ritual.
While Mr. James had only joined the Southside Masons in December, Mr. Eid had been a member for more than 30 years, other members said.
"He's always there," Mr. Paquette said of Mr. Eid. "He put most of his free time into the lodge."
Fewer Masons knew Mr. James, but officials with the Town of Brookhaven, where he worked for the Planning Department, described him as a friendly man who seemed deeply devoted to his family. Mr. James's wife, Susan, said she had no idea what was happening at the Masons' lodge the night he was shot.
"This is so very sudden, and I'm just very upset," she said outside the couple's home in Medford. "To me, it was just a social thing."
Originally posted by Lucifer777
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
reply to post by no1smootha
DeMoulins Bros side degree paraphernalia
Whats that?
www.phoenixmasonry.org...
Many side degrees will thrust an application form your way at the slightest hint of any interest so be prepared for that!
www.thefreemason.com...
Sicne the thread is on the "Shriners and Jesters," the Shriners and Jesters are "side degrees;" they are organisations that one cannot join unless one first joins a "regular" Masonic lodge; it has been said that many men join Masonry simply in order to join such "side degrees," such as the Shriners and Jesters where they can enjoy functions with strippers and prostitutes which are paid for with charity funds.
In Masonry there seems to be cults within cults within cults, for men who have masochistic tendencies and who like to by humiliated, degraded, abused and made submissive by other men.
Lux
ROJ Wives Club says:
August 18, 2010 at 12:11 pm
After 30 years of marriage to a Shriner I finally realized what a life I wasted with someone who lies, cheats and deceives me. My husband joined the Freemasons after we had been married about 5 years and being the narcissist that he is things quickly got out of hand –he is currently a member of 15+ organizations. It doesn’t stop with the Shrine there are spin off organizations they join such as the Royal Order of Jesters, Order of the Q, Billiken Clubs, Jesters on Wheels, etc. that keep them gone on weekends and will drain your bank accounts. These organizations promote immoral activities that are published as STAG events that include prostitution. Over the years while doing the wash I found call girl cards, phone numbers, Viagra, and other memorabilia in my husband’s pockets after he returned from the “Books”. These Books are nothing more than excuses to leave your wife and family and do whatever you want – your marriage vows are checked at the door. What goes on behind the secret Shrine/ROJ curtain stays behind the curtain. They will lie to your face and in court to protect each other. One protection they can’t offer is from HIV – Jester Girls should be tested more often. I recommend to other wives that you have your husband HIV tested regularly if he joins any of these organizations or your life will be in danger and not just from his threats. The Sam Houston email regarding the Royal Order of Jesters is not isolated to Texas and New York this behavior exists in every state under the fraternal cloak of darkness. They are brainwashed to acknowledge Hiram Abiff as their savior and to believe in a supreme being that is not Jesus Christ. Like they say SO LET IT BE
HEATHER J. says:
September 24, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I am divorced after 30 yrs of marriage to a ROJ member. He was a respected educator esteemed by the community where we lived, worked, farmed and raised our children. We were not wealthy but he was accepted as a member of the ROJ on the recommendation of his very wealthy brother and on the condition that he do the “secretarial” work for his court. He did not like this job since he felt it was demeaning. When I once asked him why he agreed to do it, his response was “because I would not be able to be a Jester any other way.” He is a Mason and rose to respected leadership and honour in that order. He subsequently joined the Shrine. I had always been a supportive partner in all of his extracurricular activities related, inter alia, to Masonry and Shrinedom. Our marriage had been one that was based on love, hard work, trust and mutual respect. But then my husband joined the ROJ. He was away many weekends, out of the country and at Books of the Play in our country. These diversions strained our budget in a huge way. Over time, our relationship, and my husband’s relationship with our aware and intelligent teenagers began deteriorating. He was aloof, often in a bad mood, uncommunicative and unsupportive of anything to do with mutual or family activities. He acted like he did not like any of us anymore. (It was himself he didn’t like anymore!) He did, however, always tell me upon returning from a ROJ event, of all the activities that went on there – much of which has been written about on various related websites recently. I could not condone this behaviour of the many men I knew who were Jesters, but at that point, I still believed my husband when he said he did not engage in any of these activities. I often directly challenged him on how he could purport to adhere to the morals and principles espoused by Masonry and still turn a blind eye to the behaviour of his “Masonic” friends and family members who had become members of the ROJ. One day he informed me that he did not want to be married anymore. I could not understand why, initially. It was when we were well into the legal separation stage that my son, of all people, told me what his father had been up to all this time. My husband had earlier in the year taken our son into his confidence and subsequently to one of the out of country weekends to educate him as to what went on at these events – I guess as a means of educating our son in the ways of manhood and manly activities. At that point, my husband was having an affair with a woman in the US and also having affairs when in home country ROJ territory. Some educator! Some education! I was appalled, angry, disgusted, betrayed and completely ambushed and damaged by this information. The rest is very painful history and now belongs in my past – not my present. My children are now married with children of their own. Their father is part of their lives once again, but that is due to their initiative and courage to engage with him in recent years. He is still a very active Jester and travels to the BOP’s many time a year. He and I still must connect politely at family gatherings. He still seems in need of my friendship from time to time and I remain detached and cool, but I keep the peace. I have paid a very painful price for this peace. No, I do not have anything good to say about Jesters or this organization of primarily very wealthy (but incredibly selfish and narcissistic hedonists), influential men from around the world. I know too much. And many of the Jesters I know, know I know too much. The behaviour of adult, seemingly successful and intelligent men at the various venues of the ROJ does nothing but bring sadness to my soul. I thought, rather naively I suppose, that overall male intelligence and moral decency had risen considerably above the level of the “the other head” in recent generations. How wrong I feel about that now. I do not understand why a group of men must have a “secret” and exclusive club to engage in deviant sexual (as morally and legally defined) behaviour and other non-mainstream activities such as cock and dog fights. There are surely enough other venues, opportunities and freedom of choice these days for any adult man or woman to have their non-mainstraim needs met. Why the need for disguising as “phun” and secretly condoning such behavior in a group comprised mainly of so-called “elitists”? Sick, sicker and sickest. There is, IMHO, absolutely no merit to this Masonic/Shrine offshoot organization whatsoever. Thanks for the opportunity to rant.
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But sources close to the investigation and former Jesters from other parts of the country tell a different story, one of bizarre activities — including routinely hiring prostitutes for gatherings, sex competitions and degrading initiation rites for new members — at many Jesters outings, with off-duty police hired to keep nonmembers away......
Last August Martin (the Jester's president) sent a directive to all 191 local chapters, forbidding the following conduct during initiation ceremonies:
• “Any type of physical brutality, such as whipping, beating, striking, branding, electronic shocking [or] placing of a harmful substance on the body.”
• Sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement to small spaces, or other activity that subjects Jesters to “an unreasonable risk of harm.”
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Masonic leaders statewide were quick to disavow the ritual and shooting, saying it was not Masonic custom to shoot guns at other members. Ron Steiner, a spokesman for the New York State Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, which oversees all Masonic lodges in the state, said the social club was not officially tied to the Masonic organization.
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by Lucifer777
Maybe I missed the post, but I don't remember you talking about hazing in the York Rite? You don't have to repost, just tell me page or give me the link.
Actually that shooting took place outside the power of the Lodge and the Order. It was not a recognized club. It was a local little club where a prank went horribly wrong. Guns or shooting has nothing to do with any Masonic ritual.
reply to post by Lucifer777
Well, I'm just going to speak on the York Rite here. Where do I begin? For one, the York Rite uses such terms as Chapter, Council, and Commandery, not Lodge. If you are talking about Lodge you're usually talking about the Blue Lodge (or Craft Masonry and sometimes referred to as a Symbolic Lodge). As a Past High Priest of the Royal Arch and an elected officer of the Council and Commandery, I will say we do not use a guillotine
Masonic leaders statewide were quick to disavow the ritual and shooting, saying it was not Masonic custom to shoot guns at other members. Ron Steiner, a spokesman for the New York State Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, which oversees all Masonic lodges in the state, said the social club was not officially tied to the Masonic organization.
Like I said above, this was a club made up by the locals. This was very much a localized problem, not a mainstream club.
This story though has nothing to do with the York Rite. So, please I'll wait for you to show me where we haze someone in the York Rite.
Carl Fitje, grand master of the New York State Freemasons (search), issued a statement Tuesday denying that guns play a role in any officially sanctioned lodge ceremonies.
"We don't use pistols," Steve Mayo, who described himself as a senior deacon of the lodge, told reporters Tuesday. "This is not a Masonic ceremony where we bring pistols."
However, (detective) Fitzpatrick said members told police the rite involving a gun goes back at least 70 years.
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New York Mason failed initiation - shot dead
A Freemason was killed during an initiation ceremony at a Masonic Lodge in New York earlier this month.
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Eid, a World War II veteran who had a license to carry his own pistol and often did, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of manslaughter. He was wearing his blue Masonic jacket during his arraignment. The Suffolk County police called the shooting an accident, the consequence of one man's confusion during a decades-old ritual.
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One member, Michael Paquette, said that when he was initiated into the group five years ago, two mouse traps were placed before him, and he was told that one worked and one was broken. Another member tested the broken trap and then told Paquette to touch the live one. He did and discovered that it, too, was a dud. He also had to cross an elevated plank without looking down and was told that if he fell he would tumble into "a bed of fire."
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There are many different jurisdictions of governance of Freemasonry, each sovereign and independent of the others, and usually defined according to a geographic territory.
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Lodge buildings have for many years been known as Temples. In many countries this term has now been replaced by Masonic Centre. (Shriners and their Temples.)
In North America, Masonic Lodges are typically known as "Blue Lodges", and are the foundation of a collection of further "appended" Masonic groups or bodies: York Rite, Scottish Rite and The Shrine. To be a member of these other bodies, a man must pay dues to a Blue Lodge. The Blue Lodge and its ceremonies establish the fundamental bond which makes all Masons "brothers", and is the cement which binds all other appendant Masonic bodies together.
Some specific specialist lodges exist within many Masonic jurisdictions.
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Mondays ceremony (when the shooting ocurred) was an initiation into the Fellow Craft, which is the second degree within the Masonic system. Masonic officials described Fellow Craft as a social organization within the club, involving active members who participate in fund-raising and other charitable activities.
www.masonicpaedia.org...
Mayo said the Monday night ceremony was an initiation into the Fellow Craft (search), which is the second degree within the multilevel Masonic system.
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Originally posted by CholmondleyWarner
Lucifer, please, just for me, reveal to us all what your true incentive is on these threads because the more you inult and throw insults at the masons the more I can't help but think that you aren't telling us the full story. You have had a bad experience with these guys, I think. Why not tell us the truth behind what powers these attacks?
I would really be interested to hear that story...
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by King Seesar
none of that is true. It comes from Bill Schnoebelen. who if you study his llife's accomplishments, it would be very hard for anyone who wasn't a complete and utter MORON to believe his stories.
Here is a timeline of Bill's work from his own site.
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/0d1a5dd7abdc.jpg[/atsimg]
Is he a truth searcher, or is he looking for money in telling stories? You decide for yourself.
Originally posted by Lucifer777
A Scottish Rite "Chaplain's" Testimony of the "Holy and Sacred Rubber Penis" Shriner Initiation.
I was Chaplain in the Scottish rite and a degree master. In the blue Lodge I was senior deacon and preparing to be the junior warden, only two chairs away from the office of worshipful master. I was very busy with all this responsibility.
The following fall however, after the reunion, I decided it was time to enter the Shrine.
Mike had come into the Scottish rite at spring Reunion and now was eligible also.
We went into the Shrine together. I knew that the Shrine initiations got really rambunctious and wondered what might happen when they laid hands roughly on Mike. The initiation was performed in the Coliseum
before a very large crowd of Shriners who came to see the fun.
......
We began the initiation about noon that Saturday. After the medical screening came the hazing, which was very childish. Some of it was not only childish, but downright vulgar. At one point we were placed in a large, mesh cage, and one of the Shriners climbed up on top of it. He exposed a very convincing rubber penis which was connected to a water bag concealed in his clothing and hosed down all of us in the cage to the delighted howls of the spectators.
After the hazing it was time for the serious part, the ritual, and then time to take the oath. We took the obligation, again with terrible bloody consequences if we revealed any of the "secrets" (one form of mayhem we promised to accept was to have our "eyeballs pieced to the center with a sharp, three-edged blade"). And, with the Koran on the altar, we sealed our solemn oath in the name of "Allah, the god of Arab, Moslem and Mohammedan, the god of our fathers." I had taken so many bloody oaths already (one for each degree) that I paid little attention to this one, except to notice that it, like the rest of the ritual, featured desert settings, Arabs and Allah, the Mohammedan god.
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edit on 25-2-2011 by Lucifer777 because: Added: "A Scottish Rite "Chaplain's" Testimony of Holy and Sacred "Rubber Penis" Shriner Initiation."
Originally posted by Mason mike
it should be noted that anyone with a higher IQ than a grape and can read, could in fact go toDuncans ritual and find out everything that goes on in the fellowcraft degree.
In a court of law, a lawsuit would be filed and Lucifer777 would be found guilty of slander by a unanimous vote.game, set, match.
always remember, just because 1 guy said it, doesn't make it true, even if it's what you want to hear.
Originally posted by Lucifer777
Clearly the "Grand Master" of New York Freemasonry also had a spate of denialism, and yet cult members of the particular lodge are reported to have told police that the rite involving a "gun" goes back at least 70 years...
Originally posted by Lucifer777
Originally posted by Mason mike
it should be noted that anyone with a higher IQ than a grape and can read, could in fact go toDuncans ritual and find out everything that goes on in the fellowcraft degree.
the group above has nothing at all to do with the first three degrees of masonry, or as we who know better like to call it "craft masonry"
But keep posting the pictures, over, and over, and over, and over again. eventually somebody that matters is going to get tired of your crap.
I don't dispute that the sacred and holy "rubber penis" initiation or "simulated oral sex" initiation or the "dog urination initiation" or the holy and sacred application of "whipped cream and strawberries" to the genitals, or the application of holy and sacred electric shocks to the feet, posterior and genitals do not appear in the printed rituals which appear on Internet sites; however this does not mean that such holy and sacred rituals do not occur; similarly a responsible investigative journalist should not just accept US military propaganda that the US military does not engage in terrorism, torture, assassinations, black miltiary operations and narcotics trafficking, if there is evidence to the contrary; similarly the anti-cult movement would cease to exist and become redundant if they just accepted the propaganda of religious cultists themselves.
Might I suggest that you yourself may not yet be deeemed worthy to be intiated into the sacred and holy "rubber penis" initiation or "simulated oral sex" initiation or the "dog urination initiation" or the holy and sacred application of "whipped cream and strawberries" to the genitals, or the application of holy and sacred electric shocks to the feet, posterior and genitals; however you should not assume, merely because of your own unworthiness to have such sacred and holy rituals revealed to you that they are not revealed to the very elect.
Further I find your statements to be entirely heretical, diabolical and blasphemous; your denilaism would appear to demean the holiness and sacredness of the sacred and holy "rubber penis" initiation, the "simulated oral sex" initiation, the "dog urination initiation" the holy and sacred application of "whipped cream and strawberries" to the genitals, the application of holy and sacred electric shocks to the feet, posterior and genitals and the holy and sacred sex parties with strippers and prostitutes. I consider your attitude to be thoroughly profane and that of the unwashed rabble who are unworthy to enter the Holy Temple and to have revealed to them the sacred and holy "rubber penis" initiation, the "simulated oral sex" initiation, the "dog urination initiation" the holy and sacred application of "whipped cream and strawberries" to the genitals, the application of holy and sacred electric shocks to the feet, posterior and genitals and the holy and sacred sex parties with strippers and prostitutes.
please, be gay in your mind, in your house, in your closet, bot don't openly exercise your homosexuality on this site. Your rite to be gay, ends with my right to not have to witness it.
In a court of law, a lawsuit would be filed and Lucifer777 would be found guilty of slander by a unanimous vote.game, set, match.
This is simply the kind of simple abuse and contradiction without argument or evidence that is commonplace among drunks, football hooligans and children in a playground. An "argument" would show where I have made false accusations and offer evidence of that.
always remember, just because 1 guy said it, doesn't make it true, even if it's what you want to hear.
Originally posted by Mason mike
it should be noted that anyone with a higher IQ than a grape and can read, could in fact go toDuncans ritual and find out everything that goes on in the fellowcraft degree.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by Lucifer777
Clearly the "Grand Master" of New York Freemasonry also had a spate of denialism, and yet cult members of the particular lodge are reported to have told police that the rite involving a "gun" goes back at least 70 years...
I personally know someone who was in that lodge (they have since lost their charter). The initiation that they were performing was for a social group called The Fellowcraft Club. In my lodge we have a group called the Craftsmen Club which also, from conversation with my friend, do some similar events; fundraising, charity events, etc. which was the purpose of the club in New York.
The use of a gun is rather foolish and should have been prohibited. I can attest that there is no initiation for our club, there is onyl a $7 a year dues requirement and that the person be a Mason in good standing.
Originally posted by Mason mike
Originally posted by Lucifer777
I don't dispute that the sacred and holy "rubber penis" initiation or "simulated oral sex" initiation or the "dog urination initiation" or the holy and sacred application of "whipped cream and strawberries" to the genitals, or the application of holy and sacred electric shocks to the feet, posterior and genitals do not appear in the printed rituals which appear on Internet sites; however this does not mean that such holy and sacred rituals do not occur; similarly a responsible investigative journalist should not just accept US military propaganda that the US military does not engage in terrorism, torture, assassinations, black miltiary operations and narcotics trafficking, if there is evidence to the contrary; similarly the anti-cult movement would cease to exist and become redundant if they just accepted the propaganda of religious cultists themselves.
Might I suggest that you yourself may not yet be deeemed worthy to be intiated into the sacred and holy "rubber penis" initiation or "simulated oral sex" initiation or the "dog urination initiation" or the holy and sacred application of "whipped cream and strawberries" to the genitals, or the application of holy and sacred electric shocks to the feet, posterior and genitals; however you should not assume, merely because of your own unworthiness to have such sacred and holy rituals revealed to you that they are not revealed to the very elect.
Further I find your statements to be entirely heretical, diabolical and blasphemous; your denilaism would appear to demean the holiness and sacredness of the sacred and holy "rubber penis" initiation, the "simulated oral sex" initiation, the "dog urination initiation" the holy and sacred application of "whipped cream and strawberries" to the genitals, the application of holy and sacred electric shocks to the feet, posterior and genitals and the holy and sacred sex parties with strippers and prostitutes. I consider your attitude to be thoroughly profane and that of the unwashed rabble who are unworthy to enter the Holy Temple and to have revealed to them the sacred and holy "rubber penis" initiation, the "simulated oral sex" initiation, the "dog urination initiation" the holy and sacred application of "whipped cream and strawberries" to the genitals, the application of holy and sacred electric shocks to the feet, posterior and genitals and the holy and sacred sex parties with strippers and prostitutes.
please, be gay in your mind, in your house, in your closet, bot don't openly exercise your homosexuality on this site. Your rite to be gay, ends with my right to not have to witness it.
You have every opportunity to prove that I am incorrect in my assertation that you are a complete liar and a fraud when making claims that craft masonry uses firearms in the ritual. As has been stated, a side club made up of members of 1 lodge did something stupid. It's only relationship with masonry is that it happened in a lodge. It was not part of the ritual as you claimed.
Originally posted by Lucifer777
I have always been openly bisexual and my current girlfriend could assure you that I am not a homosexual;