TRAPPED IN A MASONIC WORLD

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The 33rd Degree Initiation: As we know Freemasonry goes well beyond the normal Master
Mason‘s 3rd degree, it goes to Grand Inspector General of the 33rd Degree – whom 98% of its members
know they‘ll never be able to reach, - as those who do, are kings, princes, presidents and prime ministers,
international clergy and businessmen, with the odd celebrity etc. thrown in the mix, - who would have
dressed in black trousers, barefooted, bareheaded and draped in a long black robe. They would have had a
black cable tow around their neck, but this time not hoodwinked. During the initiation they‘d be led
around the stage, conducted by two men with swords, as the degree was performed for them. Instructions
and signs would have been given, and upon the altar would be four ―holy books‖, the Bible, the Koran, the
Book of the Law and the Hindu Scriptures. [4]
The Book of the Law, [5] - as it is often called, and not to be confused with Aleister Crowley‘s book of
the same title, - or is it? -―Was kept in the Ark of the Covenant, and was held far too ‗sacred‘ to go into the
hands of strangers‖. However, ―when the Septuagint translation was made, the ‗Book of the Law‘ was
kept back and..., lost to the Jewish nation in the time that they were subject to foreign powers‖. Thus, ―the
various books in the Pentateuch, containing abstracts of some of the laws, have been read instead of it,
until even the existence of the book has come to be a matter of doubt‖.
At one point the ―candidate‖ is told to kiss the book ―of their religion‖. When it‘s time for the final
obligation they repeat the oath with the representative candidate, administered by the Sovereign Grand
Inspector General. He then swears true allegiance to the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree, above all
other allegiances, and swears never to recognise any other brother as being a member of the Scottish Rite
of Freemasonry unless he also recognises the Supreme authority of ―this Supreme Council‖. The
―candidate‖ is then handed a human skull, upside down, with wine in it. ―May this wine I now drink
become a deadly poison to me, as the Hemlock juice drunk by Socrates, should I ever knowingly or wilfully
violate the same‖, [the oath].
He then drinks the wine, and a skeleton, then steps out of the shadows and throws his arms around the
―candidate‖. He then continues the sealing of the obligation by saying: ―And may these cold arms forever
encircle me should I ever knowingly or wilfully violate the same‖. The Sovereign Grand Commander then
closes the meeting of the Supreme Council ―with the Mystic Number‖, striking with his sword five, three,
one and then two times. After the closing prayer, they all say ―amen, amen, amen‖, and it‘s over. [4][6]
This is a big to-do, and on par to when the Queen performs Knighthoods, so when the 33rd Degree is
carried out, there are normally quite a few others taking it all at the same time, and would be done so
directly in a chamber of the UGLE or similar Grand Lodge. It‘s a process that is carried out over three
days, with the final day culminating with a banquet.
So, as I‘m trying to explain, when the majority of the order will always remain on the lower degrees,
this therefore obviously leaves a huge gap of understanding and beliefs within the Order, many a time the
right hand doesn‘t know what the left hand is doing, and I believe it‘s possible that those Freemasons who
believed the Taxil story to have been an hoax, was deliberately caused so as to create misinformation and
disinformation with a wide-scale rebuke that what Taxil had written was fiction and therefore a hoax, so
that whatever derogatory or anti-Freemasonry comments and speculation was being put about in regards to
the fraternity could now easily be dismissed by the millions of its members, thus putting in the mind and
psyche of the public in general that any of these Taxil kind of stories are false, - and it worked, and still
does so to this very day, as we constantly hear, see and read many rebuffs and denials about the fraternity,
yet the writing on the wall has long been proved and many of the facts and details about Freemasonry to be
true.
Then the other infamous anti-Freemasonry case, was the already mentioned ―Morgan kidnapping‖,
which seems to have been proved it was carried out by some group of Freemasons, perhaps believing it‘s
what they were meant to do, and that by doing so would send out a warning to any other mutinous
members of the fraternity, whom too may have had big ideas in regards to exposing the goings on within
the brotherhood, - and like that of God‘s banker Roberto Calvi, again springs to mind. It‘s so easy to claim
something was a hoax after it has been created, and it all depends in whose interest it really is that
distinguishes whether it was originally a truthful matter, as opposed to being a hoax. Many a time hoax‘s,
like that of conspiracy theories, can be accredited to something and in fact they‘re more likely to be
truthful and had occurred, than to not have happened at all.
Take the case of Jack the Ripper, there have been a many a theory and speculation as to who was the
killer. Some have thought the killer/s was an educated upper-class man, possibly a doctor, who ventured