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Originally posted by Masonic Light
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
I hope you were kidding. The Mafia existed in some form long before the Italian revolution.
Indeed. And Mazzini, not being Sicilian, would not have qualified for membership in the mafia.
In 1860, Giuseppe Mazzini had formed an organization called the ‘Oblonica,’ a name derived from the Latin ‘obelus’, which means: “I beckon with a spit (dagger).” Within this group, he established an inner circle called the Mafia.
Giuseppe Mazzini was born in Genoa, then part of the Ligurian Republic, under the rule of the French Empire. His father, Giacomo, was a university professor who had adhered to Jacobin ideology; his mother, Maria Drago, was renowned for her beauty and religious fervour.
"Giuseppe Mazzini, a Thirty-Third Degree Mason, founded a group of revolutionaries called Young Italy. Their goal was to free Italy from the control of monarchy and the Pope. They succeeded, and Mazzini is honored as a patriot in Italy. However, in the process, the Mafia was born. The Young Italy revolutionaries needed money, and they:
"...supported themselves by robbing banks, looting or burning businesses if protection money was not paid, and kidnapping for ransom. Throughout Italy the word spread that "Mazzini autorizza furti, incendi e attentati," meaning, 'Mazzini authorizes theft, arson, and kidnapping.' This phrase was shortened to the acronym, M.A.F.I.A. Organized crime was born." (John Daniel, "Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. I., pages 330-331)
Originally posted by xuenchen
Am I seeing conflicting info from several "sources" ?
It intially meant 'perfection or excellence'. It is not a word that is easily translated into English but it was in no way an acronym for anything initially. It was frequently spelled 'maffia', with two 'f's and had masculine and feminine forms. 'Una bella mafiosa', 'What a pretty/cool looking girl'.
It also came to mean someone who was bold or a braggart and this is most likely the development of the word into its modern day conotation of a gangster/hood.
Originally posted by Masonic Light
Originally posted by xuenchen
Am I seeing conflicting info from several "sources" ?
Yes. For example, the quote given that "mafia" is an acronym is false. The mafia existed in Sicily long before Mazzini was around, so obviouly the "M" in mafia couldn't stand for Mazzini!
There is no serious academic historian who has linked Mazzini with the mafia.
Also there is no evidence that he was a Mason. He was a member of a Carbonari Lodge, and so some have confused his Carbonari membership with Masonic membership.
Because Mazzini was so important to Italy, he's mentioned a lot on the GOI website in various historical essays, but not, as far as I can tell, as a Mason.
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by JoshNorton
For Mazzini and Garibaldi I used Freemasonry BCY. One of the Lodges in Florence is named after Garibaldi. In the Florence Masonic Temple there are pictures of Garibaldi, along with a few others. I thought I saw a picture of Mazzini, but I'm not sure. I'll have to ask one of the Brothers tonight at the celebrations.
Maybe the author of the Mazzini piece used the confused material.
Who is the mindless drone here? Was revolution against monarchies and tyrannies a bad thing? Especially when they brought about a free, unified country? I love how in one breath you say we are nothing but aristocrats and tyrants, but then call us revolutionaries who bring about the downfall of aristocrats and tyrants? Seems like a contradiction to me.
The SC of Italy, that today is denominated “the Supreme Council SS.GG.II.GG. of the 3 rd and Last Level of the Free Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Italian Jurisdiction - Grand Orient of Italy - Palazzo Giustiniani” as shown in a manuscript handed down as the Verbal of the Foundation, also called the “Seal of Foundation” which was founded and installed ritually in Milan on March16th 1805 by the Count Alexandre Francois Auguste De Grasse Tilly S.G.C. of the SC of France (1804), duly assisted by the French and Italian Brothers, with Licenses conferred by the SC Mother of the World of Charleston. The SC of Italy was a direct emanation of this Ritual Body.
SOURCE
There are several theories about the origin of the term "Mafia" (sometimes spelled "Maffia" in early texts). The Sicilian adjective mafiusu (in Italian: mafioso) may derive from the slang Arabic mahyas (مهياص), meaning "aggressive boasting, bragging", or marfud (مرفوض) meaning "rejected". Roughly translated, it means "swagger," but can also be translated as "boldness, bravado". In reference to a man, mafiusu in 19th century Sicily was ambiguous, signifying a bully, arrogant but also fearless, enterprising, and proud, according to scholar Diego Gambetta.[4] In reference to a woman, however, the feminine-form adjective "mafiusa" means beautiful and attractive.
You were only able to show us a few actual Masons while the rest were not.
Originally posted by vinay86
reply to post by KSigMason
Once again you didn't mentioned anything about, Why Freemasonry is involved in Colonialism, Wars, and Revolutions. Where does, all that adds up in teaching of moral values and charity. Quit, twisting and manipulating the facts.
edit on 17/3/11 by vinay86 because: Content.
Your issues were addressed but you ignore any response. Any further, as like the last responses, are met with nonsense. There is no dialog here. Baiting and trolling. This forum loves it. Good work !
Originally posted by vinay86
I have shown you freemasonry was brought to India, Africa and America by those Freemason colonists by the use of violence and force.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by vinay86
I have shown you freemasonry was brought to India, Africa and America by those Freemason colonists by the use of violence and force.
And I showed you that the Dutch colonized America and India first and that there were no Masonic lodges until the Brisitsh came because it was part of their culture.
I like how you ignore everything that runs counter to your hysterical agenda. Just like someone suffering from a certain mental psychosis that we discussed earlier.
Colonialism predates Masonry by millenia. Get used to to facts, they can be your friend.
Source.
Aboriginal activist Clarrie Isaacs, who is a former member of the WA
Freemasons, says he is surprised and disappointed to discover Aboriginal
bones had been used in masonic secret rituals.
A skull and crossbones belonging to the Newman Masonic Lodge was identified
as Aboriginal, prompting Freemasons to surrender up to 60 such skulls to
police for forensic testing.
"I wouldn't like to see the use of human bones in any ritual," he said. "I
don't think it is a Christian sort of thing to have bones hanging around."
Mr. Isaacs, who is a Muslim, said he was a member of the Concorde Lodge in
Stirling Highway for about three years, but left in 1988. "I somehow felt
it didn't really fit my style," he said. "It was a lot of big businessmen
and tons of police."
“...a skull and cross thigh bones are still used in the Masonic living resurrection ceremony. A quick calculation leads us to believe that Freemasonry around the world probably possesses a total of some fifty thousand skulls!”. Source.
The 3rd degree is a ritual raising from the dead following the candidate’s re-enactment of the first Mason - Hiram Abiff’s death at the hands of the traitors Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum(8), the three Juwees.
Already noted is the strange attire worn during the ceremony, which is exactly as a condemned heretic was brought to the gallows in the Middle Ages(9). The Skull and Crossbones themselves are placed on the death shroud from which the brother is raised. Source.
The skull and cross bones is used in the third degree 'rebirth' initiation of freemasons - in a mockery of being 'born again' into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Source.
Originally posted by KSigMason
By the term God I am referring to the Creator.
God, quit cramming your humanist and communist crap down our throat.
We get it, you hate economic and religious freedom.
We are not loan sharks or scammers.
Military Lodges are for those who travel with the military and still want to attend Lodge. Military business is something not discussed in the Lodge nor is the Master of the Lodge to instruct others to do something in their military capacity. Military orders to combat terrorists is not a Masonic dealing. Freemasonry does not deal with military matters.
And how can you assure that Masonic Lodge instruct people to kill? Have you sat in the Lodge when this happened?
You wouldn't write anything you thought was untrue? So you don't know for sure if it is or not? Your hatred blinds you about a great many things.
You're a strange individual as you attack Christian, Islamic, and Vedic faiths, but don't critic the Jewish faith? How can you critic Christianity, but not Judaism?
The Communist Party of Israel celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. The party is one of the three organizations that trace their lineage to the Palestine Communist Party since the late 1940s, the other two being the Palestinian People’s Party and the Jordanian Communist Party.
The CPI has a three-deputy parliamentary fraction in the Knesset (Israeli parliament) and several mayors, including the mayor of the “Arab capital” of Israel, the city of Nazareth, where the CPI has governed for the last 32 years. It also has a significant presence among students and trade unionists.
In the last municipal elections in November, Communist MK Dov Khenin obtained 36 percent of the votes in the city of Tel Aviv, against the Labor mayor who received 51 percent. The CPI, Marxist-Leninist, is the only party in Israel in which Jews and Arabs are equally important members.
www.cpa.org.au...
One's testimony doesn't negate our rebuttals just because you want to believe them. I highly doubt you can actually show us proof that these hazing rituals exist. A catalog is not proof. Our rituals are out there on the net and yet you have not been able to prove what degree hazes the candidate. You are a liar.
Originally posted by vinay86
I bet their are more, and most of such skulls and bones must have been procured by Freemason colonists from africa, India etc during colonialism.