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Originally posted by Shadow Herder
... take their knowledge and embed a new one.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
... take their knowledge and embed a new one.
What knowledge are we supposedly taking and what knowledge are we supposedly embedding?
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Most of their histories and knowledge has almost all been destroyed by the Spanish Inquisition and the catholic inquisition which removed one belief and replaced it with another.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
Telekinesis, telepathy, transferral of energy, controlling the elements, communing with the dead, and astral projection, to name a few.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Most of their histories and knowledge has almost all been destroyed by the Spanish Inquisition and the catholic inquisition which removed one belief and replaced it with another.
Sorry, but Masonry, since the early 18th Century, has been vehemently opposed by the Catholic Church. If you have a problem with the Inquisition then you happen to be on the side of Masonry.
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
To be popular one should distance themselves from the group or topic that may discredit them whether they are for it or not.
The inquisition was one version of this knowledge gathering and spreading.
Before that there were templars and such. If you were to research quite deeply you will see that the templars and the masons have had their hand in many religious groups and societies throughout time.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
Have you ever wondered about the elements? About alchemy? About all of the symbolism and rituals that are connected with the spirit and with mysticism?
In fact, many Masonic symbols are pagan in origin, and guess what pagans practiced? Crystals, herbs, meditation and the like.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
The whole point of Freemasonry was to keep it ALIVE, despite the Church's attempts to quash it. Well, maybe not the whole point, but part of the whole point, certainly.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Before that there were templars and such. If you were to research quite deeply you will see that the templars and the masons have had their hand in many religious groups and societies throughout time.
Masonry predates the Templars but I would like to see specific cited examples of how Masonry has its 'hands in many religions'.
Masonry undermines all religion. Numerous Popes have spoken and written about the great evils of this secretive and infiltrative organization. In this article, we present our third exposé on Masonry and Freemasonry in an effort to alert the Faithful to a sobering fact: Masonry has entered the Church; or as Pope Paul VI himself said: "The smoke of Satan has entered the Church." We make no claim to be the authors of the information below. Rather, we have collected it from books and other reliable sources, all of which we give credit to accordingly. The reader is free to draw his own conclusions.
We begin with an excerpt from Humanum Genus, Pope Leo XIII's Encyclical on Freemasonry:
"If other proofs are wanting, this fact would be sufficiently disclosed by the testimony of men well informed, of whom some at other times, and others again recently, have declared it to be true of the Freemasons that they especially desire to assail the Church with irreconcilable hostility and that they will never rest until they have destroyed whatever the Supreme Pontiffs have established for the sake of religion.
"If those who are admitted as members are not commanded to abjure by any form of words the Catholic doctrines, this omission, so far from adverse to the designs of the Freemasons, is more useful for their purposes. First, in this way they easily deceive the simple-minded and the heedless, and can induce a far greater number to become members. Again, as all who offer themselves are received whatever may be their form of religion, they thereby teach the great error of this age -- that a regard for religion should be held as an indifferent matter, and that all religions are alike. This manner of reasoning is calculated to bring about the ruin of all forms of religion, and especially of the Catholic religion, which, as it is the only one that is true, cannot, without great injustice, be regarded as merely equal to other religions."
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
There is no denying the fact that masonry has had their hand in religion for sometime
Masonry undermines all religion. Numerous Popes have spoken and written about the great evils of this secretive and infiltrative organization...
Freemasons can clearly be shown to have evolved from esoteric sects emanating from within and even before the Catholic Church and as a direct result of Templar influence in Scotland. So the Masons could be traced back to the Catholic Church.