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Chapter 9 - Masonic and Anti-Masonic Literature
sign that Freemasons are always innocent, no matter what deeds they have
committed, which is certainly false. In Masonry, they denote that a brother
should always have clean hands, and this is to be understood as an
admonishment. However, it is no legitimacy for acting wrongly and then putting
on white gloves in order to appear spotless, and to have a clean slate: "[S]ie
bezeugen, daß die Hände von getaner freimaurerischer Arbeit nie beschmutzt
oder befleckt werden können. Sei es auch was für Arbeit der Orden verlangt,
immer ist der Freimaurer 'unschuldig'." 1850 It is true that a Mason offers a pair of
white gloves to the woman of his heart. This has been explained in Masonic
encyclopedias as an act of friendship towards the women who are excluded from
the fraternity, but it is most certainly not a sign of making them accomplices,
what Ludendorff asserts. He even goes so far as to claim that dead Masons are
clothed with white gloves before they are buried, in order to prove their
innocence in the after-life: "Ein besonderes Paar erhält der Maurer für seine
Beerdigung, um auch im Jenseits diese Reinheit bezeugen zu können." 1851
Another unjustifiable assertion is that the cabletow, which is put around the
candidate's neck and body in the initiation ceremonies of Masonry, is intended to
prevent the neophyte from running away: "[N]ach altenglischem Ritual bekommt
der Aspirant einen Strick, 'das Zeichen der eigenen Gerichtsbarkeit der Loge,' um
den Hals, 'damit er sich in der Gewalt der Loge befindet, wenn er entfliehen
will'." 1852 The Masonic definition of the cabletow is given in Section 4.3.2.
Further, Ludendorff interprets the sign of immortality, the acacia, as an emblem
of the domination over the world by the Jews, and as the sceptre of their
priesthood's power: "Der grünende Akazienzweig ist nicht nur das 'uralte
Zeichen' des 'Sieges' und des 'Erblohns' [...], sondern es ist unumschrieben das
Zeichen der jüdischen Weltherrschaft, das Zepter der priesterlichen
Königsgewalt im messianisch-jüdischen Weltreich!" 1853
With regard to the symbol of the tears on the Master's carpet, Ludendorff
makes the irrational statment that they resemble the rueful tears of Jehovah with
regard to the destruction of his temple, which will only be compensated by a
world domination of the Jews: "Wer denkt da nicht an die Reuetränen, die
Jehowah über die Zerstörung des salomonischen Tempels allnächtlich vergießen
muß, bis dieses Unrecht durch die Aufrichtung der Judenherrschaft
wiedergutgemacht ist." 1854 The Masonic symbol of "Jacob's Ladder," explained
to the candidate in the Entered Apprentice Degree (cf. Section 4.6.2) also
receives a special interpretation by Ludendorff. He has found another
significance of its "seven steps." According to the General, the "siebenstufige
Jakobsleiter" denotes the "7 sabbatischen Jahre, von denen das 7. Die
tausendjährige Judenherrschaft ist," as well as "die 7 goldenen Leuchter des
Tempels." 1855 Contrary to Freemasonry, where Jacob's Ladder rests on the Bible
1850 Ibid.
1851 Ludendorff, Vernichtung der Freimaurerei durch Enthüllung ihrer Geheimnisse, p. 55.
1852 Ibid, p. 65.
1853 Ibid, p. 61.
1854 Ibid, p. 61.
1855 Ibid, p. 60.