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others which reflects credit upon the Order." 10
If a Mason chooses to advance in the York Rite, he may receive
a total of ten additional degrees, structured as follows: Degrees of the
Chapter include 4) Mark Master, 5) Past Master, 6) Most Excellent
Master, and 7) Royal Arch; Degrees of the Council include 8} Royal
Master, 9) Select Master, and 10} Super-Excellent Master; and Degrees
of the Commandery include 11) Knight of the Red Cross, 12) Knight
of Malta, and 13) Knight Templar.
Those Masons who have reached at least the thirty-second degree
in the Scottish Rite or the degree of Knight Templar in the York
Rite have the option of joining the Shrine, officially known as The
Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 11
Other Masonic affiliates include the Grotto (formally, the Mystic
Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm) and the Tall
Cedars of Lebanon. 12 Women's groups include the Order of the East·
ern Star, the Order of the Amaranth, and the Order of the True Kin·
dred.u Boys may Join the Order of DeMolay and the Order of Build·
ers. Girls may join the Order of job's Daughters and the Order of
Rainbow.•• I also found that many, perhaps most, of the world's secret
societies view Freemasonry as their mother organization from
which their ceremonies, rituals, and beliefs emanate. World Book Encyclopedia
supports this conclusion stating that Mmore than a hundred
fraternal organizations have a relationship with Masonry .... " 15
The former Masons, whom I had interviewed, recommended
that I read certain Masonic books such as Morals and Dogma and
Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. These books, they said,
would give me a glimpse of what Freemasonry was all about In spite
of efforts to do so, I was unable to locate these books at the time.
However, a friend called my attention to a Masonic work entitled
Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods, which was most revealing.
Here are some excerpts from this book first published in 1921.
Freemasonry, to me, is the most wonderful thing in the
world. In It there is a spiritual vitality which has enabled
It to survive its worst enemies .. .. Despite ignorance,
despite deliberate attempts to destroy some of her most
glorious treasures, she yet survives, and, waxing in wisdom,
strength, and beauty, spreads her branches over
the whole earth.
The plain man, who never studied the ancient wisdom,
and laughs at the message of the stars, can see the writ·
log on the wall; but those who are grounded in the
ancient wisdom and the cosmic lore~Un~eU that
this is the age of Mars, the Destroyer. In dayw\ old the
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Christ came when the point of the vernal equinox was
in the new sign Pisces, and that sign ushered in the new
dispensation and our modem world.
Today Pisces is fallen from his high estate, and a new
sign draws nigh. It is Aquarius, the sign of the perfected
man. Under his rule we may look to see a great awak·
ening of the spiritual In man, an uplifting of man towards
the Godhead in place of the descent of the
Godhead Into man. This means a new dispensation, a
new type of religious outlook .... We are moving towards
a better, a more spiritual world, but before us lie
darkness, difficulties, and danger, it may even be the
Valley of the Shadow of Death, for Mars still has his work
to do ere the moon shines forth and proclaims the time
of change and is succeeded by the sun in all his glory,
and the reign of the new era Is established.
One thing I know will survive, as It has previously sur·
vlved the wreck, not merely of mighty empires, but of
civilisations themselves-Freemasonry.
In the new age which is passing through the long-drawn
travail of its birth, Freemasonry will be there, as of old,
to Jay the broad foundations on which the new religion
will be built 16
(The author of this book, J.S.M. Ward, was a very prominent
Mason. Eight full lines in the title page are devoted to listing the im·
portant positions he held within Freemasonry.)
It seemed as if I was reading straight out of a new age manual.
In addition to the obvious references to the coming on~world reU.
gion of the Antichrist toward which Freemasonry is working, these
statements and other similar elaborations existing in other Masonic
writings indicated that Freemasonry deified man (exalted tpan to the
position of God) and was deeply involved in astrology, a form of oc·
cult divination strictly forbidden in the Bible. I renewed my efforts
to dig deeper into the history of Freemasonry.
Masonic Origins
After months of getting nowhere, a door finally opened. One
Sunday evening in 1986 while sharing at a church in northern Indi·
ana I met an elderly lady who introduced herself to me at the close
of the service. She inquired whether I knew anything about Freema·
sonry and its influence on the New Age. I told her I was aware of its
involvement but that I still did not understand exactly what role the
Masonic Order played in the overall scheme of things.
She went on to share that she had been researching the Ma·