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Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by protocolsoflove
Blavatsky was not a Mason and her quotes are irrelevant to Masonry. Masonic Light has already touched up on the MPH quote. Memory serves me right, you quoted something from the Taxil Hoax, not a legitimate Pike quote and the one legitimate one was taken out of context as you should really post the sentences before to get a much better understanding. I could care less what Heindel said. Cayce is irrelevant. You pulled a fabricated quote about George Washington that has long been documented as a lie made up years after George's death. I didn't see any Franklin quote nor a Tesla quote that would be relevant to anything in this thread or other threads we've been in.
I'm not a liar so I need not to work on them. You're the one using deceitful tactics.
5. Didn't George Washington renounce Freemasonry?
No.
George Washington remained a member of the Craft from his initiation into the Lodge at Fredericksburg, Virginia No. 4 on November 4, 1752 until the day he died on December 14, 1799, when he then, at his widow’s request, received a masonic funeral. George Washington’s papers are available online at memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
This hoax got its start in 1837 with the publication of a tract by Joseph Ritner, Governor of Pennsylvania. Although easily debunked, it was reprinted by E. A. Cook & Co., Chicago, in 1877, shortly after Prof. Charles Albert Blanchard (1848-1925), a founder and first lecturer of the National Christian Association published a rewriting of the same story entitled Was Washington a Freemason?
1. Vindication of General Washington from the stigma of adherence to secret societies, Joseph Ritner (1780-1869). Communicated by request of the House of representatives, to that body, on the 8th of March, 1837, with the proceedings which took place on its reception. Harrisburg, Printed by T. Fenn, 1837. 26 p. 21 cm. LCCN: 09026879
2. Was Washington a Freemason? Charles A. Blanchard. n.p.: n.d. Typed Copy. SC-29
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by protocolsoflove
You have nothing fear from masons....
I dare say that you should only beat such a dead horse out of fun.. and not with a purpose in mind. It is a veritible last stand position for the educated religious... any educated religious person will ineivitbly find themself among their number.
The pure belief in an unknowable god that put the universe in motion will be the last high ground in the rising flood of knowledge... and in the end atheism will remain... and all those who refuse to accept it will wither and rot from the inside out. Express your anger if you must.. as i sometimes do with the pittifull ignorance of the weak minded, but remember many of these people will sufffer a great deal as they watch their loved ones on the hills of the judeochristian religions drown.