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Originally posted by JoshNorton
But some people have mentors who teach them the work, so it's quite possible he never saw any degrees but his own.
Lodge in limbo as ceremony ends in death
New York
March 16, 2004
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Leaders of New York State's masonic organisation have suspended the Long Island lodge after a man was shot dead during an initiation ceremony.
William James, a new member of the lodge, died last week as he was being initiated into a social club connected to the masons.
A 76-year-old member of the social club, the Fellow Craft Club, was supposed to fire a gun loaded with blanks, but reached into the wrong pocket, drew a loaded handgun and shot James, 47, in the face.
Though masonic initiations are often darkly theatrical, Grand Master Carl Fitje and other masonic experts have said that pulling a gun on someone has never been part of any sanctioned ritual.
The Grand Lodge sets strict prescriptions for all masonic rituals and ceremonies, and "they're not allowed to deviate", Mr Fitje said.
Source: www.theage.com.au...
It's important to realize that the article you quoted is about a shooting that happened during the initiation into a club that met at a Masonic hall, not a Masonic initiation. Fine point, I know, but critical in this regard. The Masonic ritual is one thing. Individuals could make clubs that required a prerequisite of first having been a Mason, and such clubs could, in fact, rent the Masonic hall for their own meetings, but ultimately that's no different than a York Rite or Scottish Rite or Shrine body meeting at a Blue Lodge.
Originally posted by DRAZIW
So it is not impossible that Anders Breivik was introduced to some unmasonic ritual, and was told that it was part of masonic initiation, or masonic teaching, etc..and his mentor would be to blame.
Do we know who his mentors were?
Master masons can and do err, from time to time. But since all their activity is in secret, they are not accountable to anyone. Only when something disastrous happens that can't be hidden, do we even find out about misdeeds. In Anders case, something went seriously wrong.
Originally posted by DRAZIW
It also helps to listen to what I did say, and not imagine I was saying something else.
Originally posted by JoshNorton
It's important to realize that the article you quoted is about a shooting that happened during the initiation into a club that met at a Masonic hall, not a Masonic initiation. Fine point, I know, but critical in this regard. The Masonic ritual is one thing. Individuals could make clubs that required a prerequisite of first having been a Mason, and such clubs could, in fact, rent the Masonic hall for their own meetings, but ultimately that's no different than a York Rite or Scottish Rite or Shrine body meeting at a Blue Lodge.
But back to your other point, if his mentors taught him about Masonry in 2009 and haven't seen him since, how are they to blame for his actions which had nothing to do with Masonry?
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reports today police sources have confirmed that hours before Anders Behring Breivik launched his deadly attack at a political summer camp on Utøya island on July 22, police had conducted a drill for a “practically identical scenario.”
“Sources within the top level management of the police in Oslo have confirmed to Aftenposten that the drill finished at 15:00 that same Friday,” the newspaper reports. “All of the officers from the anti-terror unit that later took part at the bombsite at the government buildings and went out to Utøya to apprehend Anders Behring Breivik had been training on the exact same scenario earlier the same day and in the days preceding,” writes Andreas Bakke Foss.
The bomb attributed to Breivik went off only 26 minutes after the anti-terror drill finished, according to officials.
Norwegian police characterize the “very similar” drill and its chronological proximity to the “practically identical scenario” as a coincidence.
Source: www.prisonplanet.com...
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by DRAZIW
This organization was a local side club in which the stupid prank went horribly wrong. This has no bearing on Anders Breivik and him only attending 4-meetings. This was not a sanctioned organization and the members knew this. Don't derail the thread.
Just because he was a bad apple it doesn't necessarily mean he was a bad apple because of his mentors. Remember, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make them drink. Sometimes bad apples slip through the cracks and when they display their behavior we do have a penal system within Freemasonry, defined by each jurisdiction. There is accountability within the ranks. It is not anarchy like you try to allude.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by DRAZIW
It also helps to listen to what I did say, and not imagine I was saying something else.
You did not say anything. You quoted material, misinterpreted it, and then refused to acknowledge contradictory evidence to what you asserted.
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by DRAZIW
you are agenda driven. You will manufacture most anything to use as a verification of your twisted thoughts. Anyone who believes in your version of "what a mason is" deserves to be misled and misdirected. It's sad that you claim to have any clue whatsoever about the craft.
Learn first, talk later.
Originally posted by DRAZIW
The problem here is each mason pretending to know what all other masons are about. Disregarding the truth even when shown the evidence to the contrary. It's ok to defend yourself and your lodge, but to defend all who simply bear the name "Freemason" in far and distant lands, just because it's a name you use, makes it seem very suspicious."
Originally posted by Saurus
I know more about most of the Masons on this site and their personal lives than I do of my Colleagues at work, even though we are continents apart. As a non-Mason, you couldn't understand.
Originally posted by DRAZIW
And you know I couldn't understand how exactly?
Could God understand? Or would he too be clueless?
Originally posted by DRAZIW
There are other scenarios possible too, like Anders getting a mentor from a foreign land, which is where investigators are currently looking. Now with that handshake, he could probably enter many a clandestine lodge and further his career. The mentor doesn't have to be a Norwegian Freemason, it could be a Freemason from Malta, where a Knights Templar order is said to exist etc..
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
You ignorance regarding Masonry is showing again. If a candidate is assigned a mentor (and only candidates get mentors) it is for one purpose; to assist the candidate in learing the ritual needed to progress to the next degree and review lodge room protocol. The mentor, if assigned, is typically an officer in the lodge, an aspiring officer, someone on the ritual committee or a friend who is already a Mason.
He could not travel to a 'foreign land' land to get a different mentor as he is not yet a Mater Mason and is unable to travel to other lodges. Additionally, the ritual will vary from jurisdiction to jurisidiction as will the method of imparting it, e.g. mouth to ear, ritual cipher, etc.
Originally posted by DRAZIW
But, there are 33 degrees. So presumably there are mentors on every level of the ladder, to teach the higher up degree, and until the 32dn is reached, presumably one still needs mentors and instruction.
As far as I can tell, the 33rd degree is the only degree that one can't work towards. Since it's granted to a select few. But for all the lower degrees, there's work to be done towards it, things to learn, mentors to teach one the working of the degree.
I don't know what is meant by "could not".
I'd think that it is possible for Anders to get more than one mentor to teach him, though the two mentors may not be aware of each other.
Anders did get his 3rd, so was MM by at least 2009. Since then, I see no reason why he couldn't be mentoring for a higher degree, like Knights Templar.
The only confusion I see, is that you keep presuming that you know what Anders did or couldn't be doing with his time regarding masonry.
Anders must have had an external director leading him around. That is his mentor. Maybe he had several.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Wrong again. You do not need to be proficient in ritual to receive the 4th-33rd degrees. As a matter of fact you can get up to the 32nd in one weekend or even one day. The Scottish Rite degrees are allegorical plays. Additionally, your fixation on this side order and its degree numbering system only further underscores your lack of knowledge regarding Masonry.
To travel to another lodge you need a up to date dues card and need to be vouched for by another Mason or your lodge Secretary. To travel to a foreign lodge requires even more leg work on the Secretary's part. He would not have been able to be 'mentored' by anyone but people in his home jurisdiction, with the likelihood of it being anyone from other than his home lodge zero to highly unlikely.
And you are supremely confused because you continue to presume to know anything about Masonry and keep making assinine claims as to what a person you do not know was doing in an orginization that you do not know. See the irony?
Yup, makes total sense, while they were reviewing his Entered Apprentice oath they had the Anarchist's Cookbook open next to them.
Originally posted by DRAZIW
The things I know are the necessary things. The things that are not necessary, I don't bother knowing.
And yet, I know of travelers who traveled without any of these things.
The first 4 words are sufficient, I recognize that part of the statement, it got me about right; but, the rest of your comment makes no sense at all.
Do you know that Anders' first interview at the lodge took only about 5 minutes?
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Let me help you. You keep making claims about a person you do not know (Breivik) regarding an orginization that you do not know (Maosnry). Clear now?
Albert Pike’s 3 World Wars: Oslo Attack Connection?
Source:
www.oldthinkernews.com...
Because by not knowing that the Pike/Mazzini Three World Wars Letter is a Hoax, it makes you look like an idiot for blindly repeating it.
Originally posted by DRAZIW
Yet, way back in 1871 Albert Pike wrote to the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini, and told him of the 3 world wars that were to come. Pike describes the three wars accurately, and Breivik is part of the start of the final 3rd world war. You can read it for yourself at the link above.
Why do I need to know anything? It's all out there being reported by others, I just edit, select, and report here.
An amazing 700-year-old picture that looks just like Mickey Mouse has been found in an Austrian church.