The Universal Language of Freemasonry - ArchiMeD - Johannes ...

Chapter 9 - Masonic and Anti-Masonic Literature 801
In the following, the contents of this tract are reprinted from the Chick
Publications home page and analyzed with reference to the alleged "Satanist"
symbols employed and the flaws in their provenance, history, and interpretation.
The story is about the conversion of a Mr. and a Mrs. Scott who renounce
Masonry and thus save the life of their suicidal son Tommy. Mr. Scott is a lodge
member and a Shriner, and Mrs. Scott is in the Eastern Star. On a stormy night a
police officer rings at their door bell to tell them that their son has tried to shoot
himself, and that he is now in hospital in a critical state. The parents at first do
not understand how their "pet," for whom they have done everything, could do
such a thing. But then, the good Christian Ed comes for a visit and is totally
shocked about their Masonic background, telling the Scotts that they are "into
witchcraft." 1968 The Scotts are offended because they have always believed that
Masonry makes them better Christians. Their arguments are that at Eastern Star
meetings, Christian hymns are sung, and it is talked about Jesus; and that the
Bible is always open at the lodge, and that the Masons pray to God. However, Ed
tells them that he once was a Mason, too, before he found out about Baphomet.
Then follows a ridiculous description of the "Great Architect of the Universe"
who in reality is "ugly, frightening and completely satanic," being Baphomet in
person. Since the Scotts have never heard this name, Ed goes to his car where he
accidentally keeps a picture of Baphomet, and comes back with a drawing by the
occultist Eliphas Levi 1969 of a goat-headed devil. According to Ed, only the
Masons of the higher degrees get to know this true identity of God. Ed further
"proves" that the symbol of the Eastern Star is an upside down star, thus being a
satanic symbol, referring to the goat of Mendez (cf. Section 10.2, "Riding the
Goat"). He makes a fact out of a coincidence.
Then, Ed cites an anti-Masonic source which claims that Albert Pike, a
famous Masonic authority and degree founder of the 19 th century, said that
Lucifer is God. Even if he had said so it would not mean that this is the general
1968 At this point, a footnote is added to the comic that refers to a paranoid and anti-Masonic book by
Schnoebelen (Chick Publications!), from which we have already cited in Section 8.2.6 on youth
orders.
1969 This image from Levi's Transcendental Magic can be found in many Masonic books that deal
with magic and occultism, e.g. in Hall, p. CI. Of course this does not mean that Baphomet is the
God of Masonry. Levi is the pen name of Louis Alphonse Constance, a French occultist (1810-
1875). He was a prolific but unreliable writer on magism, occultism, and Freemasonry. He was
called the last of the Magi. Cf. CME, p. 378.