THE ARCANE SCHOOLS - Fort Myers Beach Masonic Lodge No. 362

name of God, that this name was written with the Hebrew vowels attached, and
that its true pronunciation is YOWHO, as Masonry teaches? Now you have
believed these, and other outrageous falsehoods taught in Masonry, or you have
not. If you have believed them, you have been greatly imposed upon, you have
been grossly deceived. Will you allow yourselves to still give countenance to an
institution that teaches such falsehoods as these? Had I space I could fill scores of
pages with the palpable falsehoods which Masonry teaches its membership. How
can you adhere to an institution so basely false and hypocritical as this? The
secrets are all out. Both you and the world are now made aware of the base
falsehoods that are palmed off upon its members by Freemasonry. Professed
Christian Freemason, how can you hold up your head either in the church or
before the world, if you still adhere to this most hypocritical institution? Just think
of the Worshipful Masters, the Grand High Priests, in their mitres and priestly
robes, the great and pompous dignitaries of Masonry arrayed in their sacerdotal
robes, solemnly teaching their members such vile falsehoods as these, claiming
that to Freemasons the church owes the preservation of the law of God, and that
the true name of God is known only to Freemasons! Shame! But I said you have
either been made to believe these things or you have not. If you have never
believed them, pray, let me ask you how it is that you have ever given any
countenance to this institution when you did not at all believe its teaching? How is
it that you have not long since renounced and denounced an institution whose
teaching is replete with falsehoods taught under the most solemn circumstances?
These falsehoods are taught as Masonic secrets, under the sanction of the most
awful and solemn oaths. What shall we say of an institution that binds its
members by such oaths, to keep and preserve as truth and secrets, such a tissue of
profane falsehood? You see nothing in it inconsistent with Christianity! Why, my
dear brother, how amazing it is that you can be so blinded! Are you not afraid that
you shall be given over to believe a lie, that you may be damned, because you
believe not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness
CHAPTER XII.
MASONRY SUSCEPTIBLE OF
CHANGE ONLY BY
ADDITIONS.
In proof of this, I first appeal to the testimony of Masons themselves. Hear the
testimony, given under oath, of Benjamin Russell, once Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. His and other depositions were given in Boston,
before a justice of the peace, by request of Masons themselves. Observe, he was
an ex-Grand Master of one of the most important lodges in the world. This surely
is conclusive Masonic authority. He says: "The Masonic institution has been, and
now is, the same in every place. No deviation has been made, or can be made at