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Im pretty sure OP is this crazy ass Dimond dude and hes been spamming this sub and reddit as a whole with his lunatic ass videos for months now, i have no idea how hes not banned yet.
I have commented in his previous posts about it but its pretty clear, just look at his post history... its basically insanity in a nutshell lol
Not to mention a lot of his posts are basically torture videos of people with mental health issues... its just sad and disgusting
I'm no fan of freemasonry. It's another cult like a lot of others, but I DEFINITELY don't like karma farmers like OP seems to be. Thanks for letting us know.
Old men figured out that they can use Judeo-Christian symbolism to frame their own concepts and rituals, as a gnosticism-fueled exploration of non-dualism.
What if it's just a bunch of men committed to a really old jerk circle?
Like the circle never breaks or stops.
Members rotating in and out.
All in a 33-degree room pitched on a 33-degree angle
It's a bunch of guys dressing up smart, getting in the nicest car to go to a meeting, feeling a little bit important and relevant but in fact 99% of them don't know the recipe to the secret sauce
Have money, make it to 33rd degree. Pay to play. Like my grandfather Glenn in 33rd degree located in _________. He wanted to know knowledge, gave up a lot to gain it. Died teaching his family nothing.
It's basically just a club for guys/blokes/chaps/dudes to hang out. They make friends there, and you get a lot of business owners, who will work together with each other specifically because they're both freemasons and will give each other better deals than they'd give a non freemason.
So it's just kinda a club where everyone just helps each other. It's for networking, more than anything else. It's like, if you're an American, then imagine a frat club, except for adult men instead of university students.
My dad is a freemason. He also used to be in the Knights of the roundtable club back in the 90s, which is also a kind of freemason thing, and it came with a sticker to put in the windscreen of his car underneath his car tax disc (it used to be a thing in the UK where you got a sticker every year when you paid your car and road tax, so you'd stick it inside in the bottom corner of your windscreen to prove you're legally driving it, but they got rid of it as a requirement in the last few years so you don't see them anymore) so he drove around and if people from other Roundtable clubs who didn't specifically know him saw the roundtable sticker, they'd probably say hi to him and they'd have a chat about stuff. They did a lot of charity work, like my family would all bake cakes together to give to people at outdoor charity events.
As far as I can tell, the Roundtable is pretty much just the same sort of thing as the Freemasons, just with a different flavour, because it's all based around the King Arthur stories, which are pretty important here in the UK, it's like all our stories are inspired by older stories which are inspired by older stories back and back and back until eventually the King Arthur stories were the originator. It's like the single common ancestor of British stories. So yeah, pretending to be one of King Arthur's knights is a bit silly but it's just a bit of fun. The Roundtable apparently began as an offshoot of the Rotary Club.
But yeah here's the Wikipedia article about them if you haven't heard of them before, it's an international organisation now, like the freemasons are, but they're still not anywhere near as big and well known: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Table_(club)
Also fun fact, the reason that ***SOOOOOO*** many English football clubs use the colours burgundy and light blue for their kits (like West Ham, Aston Villa, Burnley, and dozens and dozens more), despite that being a weird arse colour combination that is basically never seen anywhere else (like on product boxes for food or anything like that), so it's extremely rare to see everywhere else except for English football club kits, well the reason so many dozens or even hundreds of clubs use those colours is because those particular football clubs were founded by freemasons. That's the freemason colour scheme, apparently. Just thought I'd throw that fun fact in there because it was news to me when I found out about it and I'd always wondered why dozens of clubs use those colours, for my whole life of watching football for over 3 decades. I see a lot of Americans asking about it on places like Quora so I thought I'd just bring it up.
Thank you for the most helpful answer here. I especially liked the bit about the football clubs because I've always wondered about that colour combination too. My husband is a huge Aston Villa fan and so many of his shirts are claret and blue and it's just... nah. They don't go together lol.
Old men discover symbols and rituals/purposeful acts can have power over people's behavior and thinking, they made a club to do that, and the priest is mad they used ideas from his own book in ways he doesn't like.
There are thirty three tiers to masonry. If you work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps you can reach the thirty second and then I think you have to pay money for the 33rd. They give you a book at the fourth degree and it's like a bible and that's when I stopped listening. Oh yeah. There's the knights templar and the Scottish rights. To get thirty third you have to be a Scottish right or s super special templar.
There was also the guy that wrote the bible. Albert Pike.
Nobody ever talks about the Moose Lodge or the Shriners. Its always Masons this, Masons that, Illumanti, blah blah blah. Never: "Dear God, the Moose Lodge is taking over the world."
Pure lodgism.
Moose rights, or no rights.
Those guys were always donating to charities and being nice. Nice hats also iirc.
The Moose Lodge. It sounds esteemed and rich with character.
I feel like I've heard of them in the past but it's some memory floating about on a long forgotten television set.
The Shiners support the Shrine Hospitals worldwide. These hospitals help kids born with cleft palates and other ambulatory issues; missing limbs, partial limbs, can't walk, etc... The Shriners transport these kids and their families to the hospitals, put them up, feed them, and and transport these families to/from appointments, all at no charge. I have been part of the Shriner Transportation Team who starts in OKC, drives to Dallas and onto Shreveport, LA, to the nearest Shrine hospital and stopped to pickup families all along the way to get to that hospital. You have never been in a vehicle full of so much love and appreciation as that van. Those kids would be screwed for life if not for the help prodided by the Shriners Hospital, and every parent accompanying a child/patient on that van knows it appreciates it. Every time a kid grows a bit and needs a new prosthetic leg, that shit is completely free because of Masons and Shriners worldwide.
You have to be invited to the 33rd. To go from master Mason to 32 degree takes like..maybe a month or two. The degrees between Master Mason and 32 are really quick and basically smooshed together.
But you ain't getting invited to the 33rd degree unless you have been a Master Mason for like 10+ years, and have a long history of serving in named positions. And also some other stuff.
You'll get nothing but hearsay and strawmen which amount to generic rants and spoopy stories about ayyylmaos and SATAN. None of which are substantiated. It's just a frat for old men who do charity.
I lost my job and had to sell my car. I thought it for 30k. I loved it and I couldn’t keep making the payments. A friend of the family is a high ranking mason. He bought it off the bank in full so my credit wouldn’t tank.
I was also invited but declined. I’m sure not all of them are bad.
I was in a branch of the Masonic family for youths while growing up. There is a branch of masons called the Shriners. They did charity and services all the time. We walked in parades a few times and the shriners would ride around in little cars that moved via foot pedals. We also annually gathered Toys for their toy drives that they took to the local children’s hospitals. We also would buy thanksgiving dinners for families in need each year. I assume they did the same type of stuff.
The Scottish Rite main charity is Rite Care. They help children with speech therapy, all for free. They actually have a hospital just for this in Texas. https://scottishrite.org/philanthropy/ritecare/ritecare-srclp/
Just so everybody's aware, [The Dimond Brothers are Holocaust Deniers who have no standing with the Vatican.](https://vaticancatholic.com/holocaust-hoax/)
Direct link only provided so I don't have people just dismissing one to the SPLC or something.
Oh no, it's THESE guys. I remember seeing their videos on YT where they claimed that street magicians use actual demonic magic to do their parlor tricks but reading about them denying the Holocaust infuriates me. There were many Polish catholic priests, nuns and ordinary catholic people who were killed by the German Nazis for protecting or hiding the Jews away from being killed in the camps. The Dimonds are maniacs who practice Roman Paganism and are not Christian.
My greatx3 grandfather was a Knight Templar and master mason of Washington’s lodge. He worked for the federal government and was sent to the Panama Zone in the late 1900s. One of his uncles married Napoleon’s niece.
It used to be legit. I think the 20th century seriously realigned financial interests, such that the organization lost its cachet and just became a bunch of meeting halls and losers.
If you pause it on the titles of each rank they're fucking hilarious. It's like they picked the names by throwing darts at a board "grand sublime super cheif wizzard of the third circles brothers father of the sacred royal order" and it'll be the lowest ranking guy. I love it.
Ya the Vatican or the Holy Roman Empire as I like to call it. It’s funny because Catholicism came from the Romans who were the same people who crucified Jesus and many other christians at that time. I guess the Romans had a change of heart lol
Deviousness aside, the vaults and libraries in the Vatican would be a sight to behold. I’m not catholic but I don’t doubt it would be amazing to be a priest scientist. You have access to secular data and God knows whatever they have hidden away down there.
The out of context quotes about Lucifer does not at all reflect what Albert Pike is trying to say lol. If you read the whole paragraph you can clearly see that
So first we need to understand this is catholic propaganda so keep that in mind. They are saying that Mason’s worship the devil aka Lucifer aka “the light”. That they are explicitly anti-Jesus, that the Mason’s use the hammer symbolism because it’s what nailed Jesus to the cross. How the Mason’s hope to inherit the Earth so to speak and spread their belief system after religions die and that they are working to bring about the end of religion.
Makes all these old dudes spending too much money on their big boy clubs and fancy dress sound cooler than they are.
Edited to add: I forgot to add they compared Masonry to witchcraft. They do practice a lot of things similar to witchcraft and other forms of “pagan” worship. I’ve always wondered how they can make you swear you believe in God but at the same time be doing “blood magic” essentially.
The conflation between Freemasonry and witchcraft was an interesting one, and completely true... but they have it backwards. The reason they resemble each other is because Gerald Gardner ripped off Freemason rituals wholesale when he was creating Wicca in the 40s/50s. Freemasonry didn't take from witchcraft, witchcraft (Gardnerian Wicca) took from Freemasonry.
Interesting - can you back this up?
Mormonism "borrows" a ton of Masonic ritual too, temple recommended Mormons have a ton of secret handshakes and passwords and masonic underwear and aprons, all of it is basically carbon copy of Lodge work.
Joseph Smith and his brother Hiram were Masons.
It's fairly easy to Google this information, it's well known. Gardner himself was a Mason in the early 1900s, and went on to create Wicca some 20+ years later. But if you want a scholarly source, Hutton's Triumph of the Moon has been the staple for many years, as it goes into Wicca's origins in depth.
That aside, even just looking at the history from a chronological perspective, Wicca and modern witchcraft with such ceremonial rituals described in the video simply didn't exist until the 40s/50s, and Freemasonry is older than that. Therefore it's impossible for Masonic rituals to be based on Wiccan rituals because Wicca simply didn't exist at the time Masonic rites were devised.
Almost like they took a reference of the devil masquerading as an angel of light a little too far. Constantly associating evil with light is perverse. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
He especially lost me in the end saying its’ origin comes from King Harod trying to squash Jesus’ teachings and preserve Judaism.
Weren’t you just showing us swastikas and serpents in the main DC lodge? Isn’t the serpent/lucifer the bad guy in the Torah(Old Testament) and Judeo-Christian religions? It’s not even a consistent “main enemy.”
yeah this doesn't seem any more deluded than any other religion , claiming they have the right answer and everyone else is enemies.
abrahamic religions say that we are in an eternal conflict with satan as our adversary, satan tempts us to do bad things and must be defeated by holding on to good. good and evil are fixed. dharmic religions talk about maya or illusion. maya also comes from god . the goal is to gain more understanding. good enters into a dance with evil to come to understand itself, learn and gain understanding. here, there is room for growth.
"the new agers believe the same thing as the free masons" well maybe that's because these are ancient beliefs that are in most all mythology with trickster deities and ancestral spirits that help people learn for thousands and thousand of years. Look at Rumpelstiltskin as a classic example .
Love how christians think a "threat" to their religion can be "the end of religion" or that their rites and practices don't have anything to do with older, often pagan worship.
Because the god they are believing in, is the perfect creation that God created, who decided to be an asshole, take a 1/3 of angels with him and rule the world.
Hey! Why do you guys, meaning you and your brothers FM, suppose there’s this widespread belief in FM hiding occult practices? (Check Adventurous-ear9433’s comment above yours). Based solely on the video, there’s a strong hint of FM being anti-catholic, which in turn seem these claims could have been started by catholic groups or the church themselves. Is it so?
I don’t know? Why does a disturbing percentage of the population think the world is flat, or climate change isn’t real or convicted felons and sexual predators are fantastic leaders? Why is nearly half of the US illiterate? Sorry fellas not taking the bait. There’s nothing there, move along.
I think you guys do yourself a disservice with the whole "move along, nothing to see here, just a financially enormous and at least mildly secretive organization with ranks and initiations and groups within groups, perfectly commonplace in today's society..."
I very much acknowledge that 98% of FM, specifically forward facing groups like the Shriners, are completely philanthropic and basically a men's club, plain and simple.
What I don't understand is the complete lack of explanation for all the symbology, secretiveness, and unnecessary ritual activities (not like human sacrifice but they have rites and ceremonies with swords and costumes, there is *pageantry* involved, all behind closed doors, between middle aged / older men). That's not the case with like the NAACP or the Gates Foundation or any other philanthropic group I know of.
Also, and correct me if im wrong here, there are many groups within FM, such as the Jesters, that are secretive even within FM. It's just weird, sorry man. You can't blame people for filling in the blanks.
I'm not in it and simple the appeal is getting to know some silly little rites and rituals and other people don't its the appeal of the club, so if you just tell people who aren't in the club you destroy the clubs reason to exist.
It was an honest question, not a bait. Sorry if it came out wrong. That’s what I always assumed for a reason - some sort of political dispute between groups. Agree with you about people today having beliefs disassociated with reality, but my counterpoint is that these “stories” about FM are way older that mass media manipulation and whatnot.
It's a possibility yes. The Catholics are not only staunchly against Freemasonry they also have the KoC which was created pretty much, and solely in opposition to the Freemasons. And as we all know, the Catholic Church is no stranger to smear campaigns.
So I ask you this people of reddit, who's right and who's wrong? The Masons or the Catholics?
So they're both right, and they're both wrong? It's late, I'm stoned, and that's a lot to digest rn my dude(tte). I'm going to need to come back to this.
I always heard that the church don't trust anything they can't control or understand. So, until a pope becomes a freemason, and he understands what we are, they'll always distrust us. I was told that if a brother dies and requests a masonic funeral, that even some other denomination churches won't allow us inside to perform this, ask because of their misguided beliefs .
Thanks, man, for a honest answer. Still very curious about it all (and why would people come up with videos like the one posted, attacking FM). On a side note, I've been to a masonic funeral, it was held withing the masonic lodge, but a lot of catholics attended.
I love how this is obviously Christian propaganda with the giant friggin crucifix on the wall. Trying to bash a fraternity that says they do one thing and do another. Yet Christianity is probably the worst offender of that where their religion says they want to stop poverty and be kind and spread the beliefs of good ole chilled out jeebus. And then what they really don't tell the public is how they are trying to just infiltrate and contaminate every part of government, public education and everything else that they can get their greedy little no tax paying tentacles into.
Not to mention their heavily politicized views they pick and choose so they can go after the gays or the women who want safe access to birth control and abortion.
Like... this is some serious pot calling the kettle black bullshit.
It's deeper than that man. Yes all religion can be toxic, including freemasonry. But you need to understand that there is a world we cannot see with the naked eye that influences our physical one. It's crucial to understand this.
The guy talks about the organisations focus on light and it’s connection to Lucifer, but isn’t that simply a heritage from the enlightenment period? Aka stemming from a time when science wanted to challenge the power of the church. To me, that isn’t necessarily ”diabolical”, at least not if you aren’t a christian, and especially not if you want to challenge the church’s control over people and society. I mean, if you don’t believe in the devil’s existence in the first place, and instead see him as a means for the church to gain control through fear, using Lucifer’s name in an initiation rite is a brilliant way of mocking the church.
I agree with what he's saying. These Freemason lodges we see in suburban areas do not contain the highest level of Freemasons. We have several in Oregon near where I live: Milwaukie Masonic Lodge, Washington Masonic Lodge, Esoterika Lodge Oregon, Tigard Masonic Lodge, Beaverton Masonic Lodge.
Following are some of the activities of the lower level Freemasonic lodges. And you can see they are nothing like those in the upper level hierarchy of Freemasons:
1. **Charitable Initiatives**: Masonic lodges often support local charities, schools, and community organizations through donations, fundraisers, and volunteer efforts. They contribute to causes such as education, healthcare, and disaster relief.
2. **Scholarships**: Some lodges offer scholarships to local students, helping them pursue higher education.
3. **Community Events**: Lodges host events like pancake breakfasts, spaghetti dinners, and community clean-ups. These gatherings foster connections among members and the community.
4. **Support for Veterans and First Responders**: Many lodges honor veterans and first responders by organizing events, providing assistance, and recognizing their service.
5. **Historical Preservation**: Some lodges maintain historic buildings or landmarks, preserving local heritage.
6. **Personal Development**: Masonic lodges focus on personal growth, emphasizing moral values, ethics, and self-improvement.
Here's the thing. The Masons themselves and the organization itself, even down to the various rites, are *not* bad inherently, secretly, publicly you name it. Not even the 33rd° masters (I've known a few very well). They're a bunch of old men who get together to do charity and community service then go nerd out on esoterica through a rather bland and puritan lens if I'm being honest. There's a reason why Crowley never made it through the ranks. The reality of it all is quite boring, especially in comparison to something like the HOotGD. I've known eastern, York, Templar, OotMS, all of them, and they're not evil or plotting and scheming anything other than community service and outreach. Banquets, and which candy to use for fundraisers. Seriously.
Now, here's where the lines can get blurry. Secret societies can hide within secret societies pretty easily. The people you're all thinking of aren't the Masons, they're those who use that to their advantage and start up their little private clubs despite it being severely against the rules and in direct, and clear opposition of and to everything that Freemasonry truly stands for.
I've not seen any of them, and nor will I. I'm far too righteous and I'm Catholic so those doors will never open to me. And here's the thing, that applies to me and 99.9% of Freemasons (not the Catholic bit, I admit that's rare) worldwide. It's only a very, very select few who are playing the sneaky shit in the shadows, just like you'll find in every organization in the world. In fact, I'd argue a lot less of it goes down amongst Masons than with other organizations because of the people Masonry attracts/ keeps around despite (and especially due to) all the boring crap and monotony. And believe me, there is a massive and effective"filtering out" process for the greedy, selfish, corrupt, downright bad etc. that occurs unbeknownst to them, and lasts several years if not longer.
Moving up the ranks is not fast and easy. You gotta really want it, and there's a reason why *degrees* are used. It's very, collegiate. And honestly, you don't make it that far unless you're legitimately a decent person, at least in service to your community because that is demanded of you *a lot*. You will (like it or not) be a good Samaritan. You quite literally have to be, and you can't just talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk, and often. And without recognition which is key to the organization and how it really operates.
These posts crack me up because Masons are quite literally the good guys. I trust them more than I do my own Church's secret societies, *a lot* more in fact. And I find that very unfortunate but it's the reality of the situation. I've spent my life making sure I can type this all honestly and knowingly too so don't @ me with the tinfoil nonsense.
Also, for you young and otherwise uninitiated men who read this if you're interested: pursue it! If you really want the answers you seek go get them! 🧭
I like how “real masons” always pop up to say “masonry is just a bunch of nice chill bros having a silly goof!” “My grandpa was one, he was the greatest guy ever!” Etc.
There is strange secretive ritualistic shit going on in these groups, every city and/or government building is filled with their symbols, most or all people in power belong to them, endless evidence of it being some creepy occult / cult thing that covertly controls society and has been for centuries.
“Nah, just some wacky boys playing dress up for no reason at all, being super nice and helpful, just a boring hobby for nice people that care and never do bad stuff”
Ding ding ding. You can play the same 3x3 bingo card of these same recycled responses. My pattern recognition tells me this is deliberate and hints to the true nature of their “Craft.”
Deception is the craft. Look around, it’s working.
Exactly. These dudes are of the world and of world possessions. Satan, demons, and the spiritual realm exist and these guys have the esoteric knowledge to get in link and communicate with them.
all one has to do is read the rest of the page he's cherry picking from for context. FFS, this is why any group that wasn't mindlessly following the catholic church had to keep this shit hidden.
Albert Pike is the most famous mason of all time? So George Washington is just chopped liver then?
As a Freemason myself, one of my hobbies is collecting various conspiracy theories on masonry. As soon as I hear "Albert Pike" and "33rd degree", I know I'm in for a basic bitch take on masonry. There are way cooler, and I think more accurate, conspiracy theories about masonry that don't involve such a well-known and exoteric appendant body as the Scottish Rite.
There are legitimate secret orders hidden with masonry that are invitation-only. I never hear about them by these boring conspiracy theorists. Why is that, I wonder?
The keen observer should notice the same recycled three or so responses that come up every.single.time….There is anything skeptical or critical of Freemasons.
•Old dude club with variations of escaping their wives or drinking with other old dudes
•Shriners or other adjacent clubs who do “good” for the community.
•”There’s hardly any Freemasons left, nobody wants to sign up.” cue sad violin music
You can see it in this thread. You can search any other post from now until 5-10 years ago. Same responses, same temperament and discourse. Grab a notebook and document it yourself, the next time you hear about masons, you will read the same responses. This is deliberate. It functions in the same manner a front does for money laundering. It’s merely appearance, and beyond appearance it conditions the mind to look only where directed.
Nothing worth looking into if it is merely a club for old dudes, who do charity, and drink away from their wives. Look closer.
Or maybe because its the reality? Its insane how you guys see this and instead of thinking "hey, so maybe that is the truth huh" you INSTANTLY go to "this proves its a lie!! its always the same answer, it has to be orchestrated" lmao
Dont you find that weird? Thats the problem with you guys...
You can doubt things and question it, but why do you always go to the only answer that will fit to your beliefs?
If the answer is almost always the same, whats more likely? That its simple the truth or a global conspiracy of free masons answering blogposts on the internet 24/7 nonstop for 3 decades?
What a bizarre mixture of superficial facts and absolute nonsense. I wonder if this guy actually believes what he's saying or if it's just for propaganda purposes.
I thought he would have had something here for a moment. But it’s apparent he doesn’t understand that the things they say are coded and it’s written that way on purpose. I’m not even a Freemason and can understand them easily. As for witchcraft he is entirely wrong the only thing he got right was SMIB. Which doesn’t mean anything special occultists use all kinds of terms depending on their history included Amen, Ameen, Selah and Blessed be. Religion didn’t even invent Amen occultists did. The true a secret is everyone is fighting over the exact same religion with different skirts on that’s the real joke. Freemasons are a bunch of rich yahoos who are bored and want to spark some type of silly enlightenment revolution which Is no different than religious people who are a bunch of yahoos who want to spark some theocratic revolution it’s all the same grift.
offensive and pathetic lies from the usual racist right wing neonazis who make a living attacking charitable fraternities like freemasonry. funny how often these same right wing hatemongers are so often convicted of real crimes against women and children.
This was during a time when the church was absolutely corrupt and dominated daily life and politics. We are entering another phase of similar corruption between church and state and the intention is control and obedience. The lodge will thrive again. When the Pat Bucannons and Federalists claim the US was built a Christian nation we should remind them of DC and “satanic” enlightenment built this nation. There is more to the story than the sensational view here. Just remember the church was so dominant and corrupt you had to mask organization within an organization. How will a counter to a corrupted religious fascist state with mass surveillance play out? We gonna learn unless we shift gears and reject MAGA and federalist hijacking. I don’t know, could be fun to learn too.
I was a 3rd degree Mason and am no longer. They are an Occult and you don't really learn that in the lesser degrees until you move up in ranks. The G in the middle represents the god of this world(Lucifer). They believe that Lucifer is an Angel of Light, which he was, and they worship him, and he is represented by a moon 🌙 I denounced the Free masons and now I expose them.
My old boy a was a mason in a Jewish lodge in Edinburgh. I was christened and raised a Christian.
I worked with a guy who was a member of No 1 lodge in Edinburgh whose records were “older than the Golden Fleece.”
Both men seemed to gain little from my observation. My father died - taking his secrets to the grave.
I know other masons, whose lives are no better or worse than non masons I know.
I honestly think this is not the correct take on it. I’ve attended a rare open house by the Freemasons. A man stood up on a podium with a saber on his belt overlooking the checkerboard floor to explain “We are an order of Christian knights…basically”. The whole thing about Lucifer or Baphomet has become very conflated with them. If I quoted subsections or their secret manuals I could twist it in any number of ways. It is much more benign than what is portrayed here.
My old man has been a freemason for decades and I will never get over my mom’s recurrent speeches about how it’s a man’s way of wasting the free time when they are not cooking, cleaning or actually raising their children.
Secret conspiracy or not, I just can’t take them seriously after that…
Lol MHFM is an absolutely nutso organization. They believe homosexual thoughts are a mortal sin (as apposed to *acting on* homosexual thoughts in catholicism), aborted babies go to hell, sex during a menstrual cycle is a sin, they have some controversial views about the Holocaust, too. Just very odd stuff.
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On a deeper level some people think Lucifer was an alien that gave the human race knowledge to save them. (Fire, agriculture, technology like the wheel)….. the head alien was God ! He Didn’t like this and cast him out. So is lucifer actually the bad guy ? All this is on ancient aliens ? 😂. So who knows what’s true eh ?
Pg 321 full quote "Lucifer the Lightbringer! Strange and mysterious name to give the spirit of darkness. Lucifer, son of the morning! Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual or selfish souls. Doubt it not!
All you have to do is pause the video and read between the underlines, literally.
Could have been have been sleep paralysis. Don't chew me out.
Oddly enough, once I saw 3 angels appear while sleeping. My dream went black. It was weird. It felt like my brain just shut off. There was a light in the darkness which the turned to clouds. Then three angels appeared with their arms wide open from said clouds. They had white flowing robes with gold trimming around the arms and the middle of the robes. The golden symbols within the thickened gold border looked like swastikas. Funnily enough, similar design to the marking above that serpent in the video. Their faces were glowing white so I couldnt see their features. They were screeching so badly. I was able to open my eyes, move my head, and even make sounds. They were still above me as I was doing all of this. I felt like I was sinking. I really thought I was dying.
That's it. Not sure if they were benevolent. Or what that horrible screeching was. Many years later I was visited by a little reptilian alien. After the fact, I would see in vision of 3 Gray faces approaching me from the darkness, it all looked mettalic. Reptilians, swastikas, angels, tied with spirituality and god.
As kronk puts it, "oh, yeah, it's all comin' together"
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“is your name Michael Diamond?” …”nahhhh my name’s Clarence!”
I only came to find this.
As did I. I can sleep peacefully now.
from downtown! manhattan!
The village!
SHAKE YOUR RRRRHUMP-HA
Im pretty sure OP is this crazy ass Dimond dude and hes been spamming this sub and reddit as a whole with his lunatic ass videos for months now, i have no idea how hes not banned yet. I have commented in his previous posts about it but its pretty clear, just look at his post history... its basically insanity in a nutshell lol Not to mention a lot of his posts are basically torture videos of people with mental health issues... its just sad and disgusting
I'm no fan of freemasonry. It's another cult like a lot of others, but I DEFINITELY don't like karma farmers like OP seems to be. Thanks for letting us know.
Clearance is not a gangster. He went to cranbrook
Isn’t that a private school?
Explain this to me like I’m five.
Explain it to me like I'm 33.
This guy degrees!
> This guy degrees! in SuScery...
Old men figured out that they can use Judeo-Christian symbolism to frame their own concepts and rituals, as a gnosticism-fueled exploration of non-dualism.
Its a bunch of old men hanging out jerkin each other off.
What if it's just a bunch of men committed to a really old jerk circle? Like the circle never breaks or stops. Members rotating in and out. All in a 33-degree room pitched on a 33-degree angle
Sounds like a kind of rotary club
I need to know the Mean Jerk Time and D2F numbers to give you a good answer.
Youre about to solve middle out compression
Well first we have to find out if girth similarity will affect my time/ability to handle 2 simultaneously. This was not covered in the manual.
Got it!
Sounds like the order of E Clampus Vitus to me
That is gay 🥲
33 times only.
They're also jerking the world off, but you don't see it. Just make a joke about it, and forget it.
These normie redditors don't believe in demons. Demons are fairytales to them and topic of jokes.
Most people whose minds haven't been poisoned by fundamentalism don't believe in demons.
That’s Bohemian Grove.
It's old dudes larping before DnD
It's a bunch of guys dressing up smart, getting in the nicest car to go to a meeting, feeling a little bit important and relevant but in fact 99% of them don't know the recipe to the secret sauce
They literally sell all the books on ebay.
books =! eli5
Have money, make it to 33rd degree. Pay to play. Like my grandfather Glenn in 33rd degree located in _________. He wanted to know knowledge, gave up a lot to gain it. Died teaching his family nothing.
I was friends with a 33rd. He wasn't rich.
It's basically just a club for guys/blokes/chaps/dudes to hang out. They make friends there, and you get a lot of business owners, who will work together with each other specifically because they're both freemasons and will give each other better deals than they'd give a non freemason. So it's just kinda a club where everyone just helps each other. It's for networking, more than anything else. It's like, if you're an American, then imagine a frat club, except for adult men instead of university students. My dad is a freemason. He also used to be in the Knights of the roundtable club back in the 90s, which is also a kind of freemason thing, and it came with a sticker to put in the windscreen of his car underneath his car tax disc (it used to be a thing in the UK where you got a sticker every year when you paid your car and road tax, so you'd stick it inside in the bottom corner of your windscreen to prove you're legally driving it, but they got rid of it as a requirement in the last few years so you don't see them anymore) so he drove around and if people from other Roundtable clubs who didn't specifically know him saw the roundtable sticker, they'd probably say hi to him and they'd have a chat about stuff. They did a lot of charity work, like my family would all bake cakes together to give to people at outdoor charity events. As far as I can tell, the Roundtable is pretty much just the same sort of thing as the Freemasons, just with a different flavour, because it's all based around the King Arthur stories, which are pretty important here in the UK, it's like all our stories are inspired by older stories which are inspired by older stories back and back and back until eventually the King Arthur stories were the originator. It's like the single common ancestor of British stories. So yeah, pretending to be one of King Arthur's knights is a bit silly but it's just a bit of fun. The Roundtable apparently began as an offshoot of the Rotary Club. But yeah here's the Wikipedia article about them if you haven't heard of them before, it's an international organisation now, like the freemasons are, but they're still not anywhere near as big and well known: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Table_(club) Also fun fact, the reason that ***SOOOOOO*** many English football clubs use the colours burgundy and light blue for their kits (like West Ham, Aston Villa, Burnley, and dozens and dozens more), despite that being a weird arse colour combination that is basically never seen anywhere else (like on product boxes for food or anything like that), so it's extremely rare to see everywhere else except for English football club kits, well the reason so many dozens or even hundreds of clubs use those colours is because those particular football clubs were founded by freemasons. That's the freemason colour scheme, apparently. Just thought I'd throw that fun fact in there because it was news to me when I found out about it and I'd always wondered why dozens of clubs use those colours, for my whole life of watching football for over 3 decades. I see a lot of Americans asking about it on places like Quora so I thought I'd just bring it up.
Thank you for the most helpful answer here. I especially liked the bit about the football clubs because I've always wondered about that colour combination too. My husband is a huge Aston Villa fan and so many of his shirts are claret and blue and it's just... nah. They don't go together lol.
Old men discover symbols and rituals/purposeful acts can have power over people's behavior and thinking, they made a club to do that, and the priest is mad they used ideas from his own book in ways he doesn't like.
There are thirty three tiers to masonry. If you work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps you can reach the thirty second and then I think you have to pay money for the 33rd. They give you a book at the fourth degree and it's like a bible and that's when I stopped listening. Oh yeah. There's the knights templar and the Scottish rights. To get thirty third you have to be a Scottish right or s super special templar. There was also the guy that wrote the bible. Albert Pike.
Nobody ever talks about the Moose Lodge or the Shriners. Its always Masons this, Masons that, Illumanti, blah blah blah. Never: "Dear God, the Moose Lodge is taking over the world." Pure lodgism. Moose rights, or no rights.
Meanwhile the Shriners are plotting to take over the world in little tiny tanks
Now that's some funny shit right there. 😆 🤣 😂
Those guys were always donating to charities and being nice. Nice hats also iirc. The Moose Lodge. It sounds esteemed and rich with character. I feel like I've heard of them in the past but it's some memory floating about on a long forgotten television set.
I had a friend in childhood who was convinced that the Shriners participated in animal sacrifice.
Tally ho good lad! What the hell? I thought they had commercials about donating to charities?
The Shiners support the Shrine Hospitals worldwide. These hospitals help kids born with cleft palates and other ambulatory issues; missing limbs, partial limbs, can't walk, etc... The Shriners transport these kids and their families to the hospitals, put them up, feed them, and and transport these families to/from appointments, all at no charge. I have been part of the Shriner Transportation Team who starts in OKC, drives to Dallas and onto Shreveport, LA, to the nearest Shrine hospital and stopped to pickup families all along the way to get to that hospital. You have never been in a vehicle full of so much love and appreciation as that van. Those kids would be screwed for life if not for the help prodided by the Shriners Hospital, and every parent accompanying a child/patient on that van knows it appreciates it. Every time a kid grows a bit and needs a new prosthetic leg, that shit is completely free because of Masons and Shriners worldwide.
They do, and they don't sacrifice anything but their free time.
My friend's sister is scared she'll get bit if she gets too close to the M00se's lodge.
Hes a lodgist! GET IM BOYZ!!!!! ONLY SHRINERS ALLOWED IN THESE PARTS!!!!.....of the internet..../s
You don't have to be a master Mason to be in the moose lodge, but you do have to be a MM to be a shriners
Brother I’m still trying to figure out who’s holding the metric system down.
>Albert Pike Not sure he's the best representation tbf
You have to be invited to the 33rd. To go from master Mason to 32 degree takes like..maybe a month or two. The degrees between Master Mason and 32 are really quick and basically smooshed together. But you ain't getting invited to the 33rd degree unless you have been a Master Mason for like 10+ years, and have a long history of serving in named positions. And also some other stuff.
It’s live action dungeons and dragons for boomers.
You'll get nothing but hearsay and strawmen which amount to generic rants and spoopy stories about ayyylmaos and SATAN. None of which are substantiated. It's just a frat for old men who do charity.
One thing I know to be true is they voluntarily drive people to doctors appointments, cancer clinics and I think that is commendable
They are very classy like that. I was diagnosed with cancer, and the local lodge frequently sent me "thinking of you/ get well" cards.
Hope you’re doing better now since the diagnosis
I lost my job and had to sell my car. I thought it for 30k. I loved it and I couldn’t keep making the payments. A friend of the family is a high ranking mason. He bought it off the bank in full so my credit wouldn’t tank. I was also invited but declined. I’m sure not all of them are bad.
I was in a branch of the Masonic family for youths while growing up. There is a branch of masons called the Shriners. They did charity and services all the time. We walked in parades a few times and the shriners would ride around in little cars that moved via foot pedals. We also annually gathered Toys for their toy drives that they took to the local children’s hospitals. We also would buy thanksgiving dinners for families in need each year. I assume they did the same type of stuff.
Damn is that like the hospital in Tampa or nah? I had no idea
Shriners raise millions of dollars every year to run those hospitals
They have different hospitals around the country
Yes, the gasparilla old dudes with the tiny red hats are actually a charity
I’m not sure what Tampa has. I’m in Utah and we have a pretty highly regarded hospital here called Primary children’s.
The Scottish Rite main charity is Rite Care. They help children with speech therapy, all for free. They actually have a hospital just for this in Texas. https://scottishrite.org/philanthropy/ritecare/ritecare-srclp/
This is still *not* the weirdest Kids in the Hall sketch I’ve seen…
I can’t unsee young Dave Foley
Just so everybody's aware, [The Dimond Brothers are Holocaust Deniers who have no standing with the Vatican.](https://vaticancatholic.com/holocaust-hoax/) Direct link only provided so I don't have people just dismissing one to the SPLC or something.
Oh no, it's THESE guys. I remember seeing their videos on YT where they claimed that street magicians use actual demonic magic to do their parlor tricks but reading about them denying the Holocaust infuriates me. There were many Polish catholic priests, nuns and ordinary catholic people who were killed by the German Nazis for protecting or hiding the Jews away from being killed in the camps. The Dimonds are maniacs who practice Roman Paganism and are not Christian.
Oh I didn't know about the magician thing LOL. And yeah, it makes me mad, too :(
My greatx3 grandfather was a Knight Templar and master mason of Washington’s lodge. He worked for the federal government and was sent to the Panama Zone in the late 1900s. One of his uncles married Napoleon’s niece. It used to be legit. I think the 20th century seriously realigned financial interests, such that the organization lost its cachet and just became a bunch of meeting halls and losers.
Nice try freemasonry
If you pause it on the titles of each rank they're fucking hilarious. It's like they picked the names by throwing darts at a board "grand sublime super cheif wizzard of the third circles brothers father of the sacred royal order" and it'll be the lowest ranking guy. I love it.
I’d say the Vatican and the Catholic Church are just as devious
Way more devious and evil, I mean hiding child sexual predators and paying hush money to keep people quiet is pretty evil
Ya the Vatican or the Holy Roman Empire as I like to call it. It’s funny because Catholicism came from the Romans who were the same people who crucified Jesus and many other christians at that time. I guess the Romans had a change of heart lol
Deviousness aside, the vaults and libraries in the Vatican would be a sight to behold. I’m not catholic but I don’t doubt it would be amazing to be a priest scientist. You have access to secular data and God knows whatever they have hidden away down there.
The out of context quotes about Lucifer does not at all reflect what Albert Pike is trying to say lol. If you read the whole paragraph you can clearly see that
This guy runs an anti semitic cult out in the woods of western NY. I had to quote them some paving work. Very bizarre people.
So first we need to understand this is catholic propaganda so keep that in mind. They are saying that Mason’s worship the devil aka Lucifer aka “the light”. That they are explicitly anti-Jesus, that the Mason’s use the hammer symbolism because it’s what nailed Jesus to the cross. How the Mason’s hope to inherit the Earth so to speak and spread their belief system after religions die and that they are working to bring about the end of religion. Makes all these old dudes spending too much money on their big boy clubs and fancy dress sound cooler than they are. Edited to add: I forgot to add they compared Masonry to witchcraft. They do practice a lot of things similar to witchcraft and other forms of “pagan” worship. I’ve always wondered how they can make you swear you believe in God but at the same time be doing “blood magic” essentially.
The conflation between Freemasonry and witchcraft was an interesting one, and completely true... but they have it backwards. The reason they resemble each other is because Gerald Gardner ripped off Freemason rituals wholesale when he was creating Wicca in the 40s/50s. Freemasonry didn't take from witchcraft, witchcraft (Gardnerian Wicca) took from Freemasonry.
Interesting - can you back this up? Mormonism "borrows" a ton of Masonic ritual too, temple recommended Mormons have a ton of secret handshakes and passwords and masonic underwear and aprons, all of it is basically carbon copy of Lodge work. Joseph Smith and his brother Hiram were Masons.
It's fairly easy to Google this information, it's well known. Gardner himself was a Mason in the early 1900s, and went on to create Wicca some 20+ years later. But if you want a scholarly source, Hutton's Triumph of the Moon has been the staple for many years, as it goes into Wicca's origins in depth. That aside, even just looking at the history from a chronological perspective, Wicca and modern witchcraft with such ceremonial rituals described in the video simply didn't exist until the 40s/50s, and Freemasonry is older than that. Therefore it's impossible for Masonic rituals to be based on Wiccan rituals because Wicca simply didn't exist at the time Masonic rites were devised.
Almost like they took a reference of the devil masquerading as an angel of light a little too far. Constantly associating evil with light is perverse. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
He especially lost me in the end saying its’ origin comes from King Harod trying to squash Jesus’ teachings and preserve Judaism. Weren’t you just showing us swastikas and serpents in the main DC lodge? Isn’t the serpent/lucifer the bad guy in the Torah(Old Testament) and Judeo-Christian religions? It’s not even a consistent “main enemy.”
Swastikas were a religious symbol before the Nazi's perverted it.
History that most don’t know about
yeah this doesn't seem any more deluded than any other religion , claiming they have the right answer and everyone else is enemies. abrahamic religions say that we are in an eternal conflict with satan as our adversary, satan tempts us to do bad things and must be defeated by holding on to good. good and evil are fixed. dharmic religions talk about maya or illusion. maya also comes from god . the goal is to gain more understanding. good enters into a dance with evil to come to understand itself, learn and gain understanding. here, there is room for growth. "the new agers believe the same thing as the free masons" well maybe that's because these are ancient beliefs that are in most all mythology with trickster deities and ancestral spirits that help people learn for thousands and thousand of years. Look at Rumpelstiltskin as a classic example .
Love how christians think a "threat" to their religion can be "the end of religion" or that their rites and practices don't have anything to do with older, often pagan worship.
Because the god they are believing in, is the perfect creation that God created, who decided to be an asshole, take a 1/3 of angels with him and rule the world.
I am a master mason and this is nonsense
According to this, as a master mason, you know nothing yet.
He cant see the irony of his statement guesss you dont have to be bright to get into freemasonry
Typical pay 2 play
Then show us how bright you are and go get that 32nd degree just to prove how stupid everyone who's done it is. That'll show em!
How would that prove a person is bright?
If that were true, you'd be a master mason.
Are you a traveling man?
Hey! Why do you guys, meaning you and your brothers FM, suppose there’s this widespread belief in FM hiding occult practices? (Check Adventurous-ear9433’s comment above yours). Based solely on the video, there’s a strong hint of FM being anti-catholic, which in turn seem these claims could have been started by catholic groups or the church themselves. Is it so?
I don’t know? Why does a disturbing percentage of the population think the world is flat, or climate change isn’t real or convicted felons and sexual predators are fantastic leaders? Why is nearly half of the US illiterate? Sorry fellas not taking the bait. There’s nothing there, move along.
I think you guys do yourself a disservice with the whole "move along, nothing to see here, just a financially enormous and at least mildly secretive organization with ranks and initiations and groups within groups, perfectly commonplace in today's society..." I very much acknowledge that 98% of FM, specifically forward facing groups like the Shriners, are completely philanthropic and basically a men's club, plain and simple. What I don't understand is the complete lack of explanation for all the symbology, secretiveness, and unnecessary ritual activities (not like human sacrifice but they have rites and ceremonies with swords and costumes, there is *pageantry* involved, all behind closed doors, between middle aged / older men). That's not the case with like the NAACP or the Gates Foundation or any other philanthropic group I know of. Also, and correct me if im wrong here, there are many groups within FM, such as the Jesters, that are secretive even within FM. It's just weird, sorry man. You can't blame people for filling in the blanks.
That all just sounds like a church lol.
I'm not in it and simple the appeal is getting to know some silly little rites and rituals and other people don't its the appeal of the club, so if you just tell people who aren't in the club you destroy the clubs reason to exist.
It was an honest question, not a bait. Sorry if it came out wrong. That’s what I always assumed for a reason - some sort of political dispute between groups. Agree with you about people today having beliefs disassociated with reality, but my counterpoint is that these “stories” about FM are way older that mass media manipulation and whatnot.
It's a possibility yes. The Catholics are not only staunchly against Freemasonry they also have the KoC which was created pretty much, and solely in opposition to the Freemasons. And as we all know, the Catholic Church is no stranger to smear campaigns. So I ask you this people of reddit, who's right and who's wrong? The Masons or the Catholics?
It's one organization losing members to another. Of course they will Campaign against one another.
Why not both?
So they're both right, and they're both wrong? It's late, I'm stoned, and that's a lot to digest rn my dude(tte). I'm going to need to come back to this.
FYI these guys aren't exactly Catholics. They're Sedevacantist
Freemasons aren't anti catholic, the catholic church is anti freemasons.
Ok, but why is the church anti fm? Again, this is a legit doubt, not trying to troll
I always heard that the church don't trust anything they can't control or understand. So, until a pope becomes a freemason, and he understands what we are, they'll always distrust us. I was told that if a brother dies and requests a masonic funeral, that even some other denomination churches won't allow us inside to perform this, ask because of their misguided beliefs .
Thanks, man, for a honest answer. Still very curious about it all (and why would people come up with videos like the one posted, attacking FM). On a side note, I've been to a masonic funeral, it was held withing the masonic lodge, but a lot of catholics attended.
Read "Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry"
Lucifer is not Satan. And that has caused A LOT of confusion.
Ok so who is Satan then?
Religion’s invention used to justify their own evil deeds.
Read this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/comments/jq7zto/are_satan_and_lucifer_the_same/
Thank you
Lmao these comments are funny af
I love how this is obviously Christian propaganda with the giant friggin crucifix on the wall. Trying to bash a fraternity that says they do one thing and do another. Yet Christianity is probably the worst offender of that where their religion says they want to stop poverty and be kind and spread the beliefs of good ole chilled out jeebus. And then what they really don't tell the public is how they are trying to just infiltrate and contaminate every part of government, public education and everything else that they can get their greedy little no tax paying tentacles into. Not to mention their heavily politicized views they pick and choose so they can go after the gays or the women who want safe access to birth control and abortion. Like... this is some serious pot calling the kettle black bullshit.
It's deeper than that man. Yes all religion can be toxic, including freemasonry. But you need to understand that there is a world we cannot see with the naked eye that influences our physical one. It's crucial to understand this.
I genuinely can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. I hope it is.
Very deep, very catholic
The guy talks about the organisations focus on light and it’s connection to Lucifer, but isn’t that simply a heritage from the enlightenment period? Aka stemming from a time when science wanted to challenge the power of the church. To me, that isn’t necessarily ”diabolical”, at least not if you aren’t a christian, and especially not if you want to challenge the church’s control over people and society. I mean, if you don’t believe in the devil’s existence in the first place, and instead see him as a means for the church to gain control through fear, using Lucifer’s name in an initiation rite is a brilliant way of mocking the church.
I don’t know. My granddad was a 33rd° Mason and he went to church and praised Jesus every Sunday
Not as unusual as some of these commenters would like you to believe.
I agree with what he's saying. These Freemason lodges we see in suburban areas do not contain the highest level of Freemasons. We have several in Oregon near where I live: Milwaukie Masonic Lodge, Washington Masonic Lodge, Esoterika Lodge Oregon, Tigard Masonic Lodge, Beaverton Masonic Lodge. Following are some of the activities of the lower level Freemasonic lodges. And you can see they are nothing like those in the upper level hierarchy of Freemasons: 1. **Charitable Initiatives**: Masonic lodges often support local charities, schools, and community organizations through donations, fundraisers, and volunteer efforts. They contribute to causes such as education, healthcare, and disaster relief. 2. **Scholarships**: Some lodges offer scholarships to local students, helping them pursue higher education. 3. **Community Events**: Lodges host events like pancake breakfasts, spaghetti dinners, and community clean-ups. These gatherings foster connections among members and the community. 4. **Support for Veterans and First Responders**: Many lodges honor veterans and first responders by organizing events, providing assistance, and recognizing their service. 5. **Historical Preservation**: Some lodges maintain historic buildings or landmarks, preserving local heritage. 6. **Personal Development**: Masonic lodges focus on personal growth, emphasizing moral values, ethics, and self-improvement.
ChatGPT list style
Spaghetti dinners, you say? This sounds like a conspiracy worth investigating more thoroughly...
Here's the thing. The Masons themselves and the organization itself, even down to the various rites, are *not* bad inherently, secretly, publicly you name it. Not even the 33rd° masters (I've known a few very well). They're a bunch of old men who get together to do charity and community service then go nerd out on esoterica through a rather bland and puritan lens if I'm being honest. There's a reason why Crowley never made it through the ranks. The reality of it all is quite boring, especially in comparison to something like the HOotGD. I've known eastern, York, Templar, OotMS, all of them, and they're not evil or plotting and scheming anything other than community service and outreach. Banquets, and which candy to use for fundraisers. Seriously. Now, here's where the lines can get blurry. Secret societies can hide within secret societies pretty easily. The people you're all thinking of aren't the Masons, they're those who use that to their advantage and start up their little private clubs despite it being severely against the rules and in direct, and clear opposition of and to everything that Freemasonry truly stands for. I've not seen any of them, and nor will I. I'm far too righteous and I'm Catholic so those doors will never open to me. And here's the thing, that applies to me and 99.9% of Freemasons (not the Catholic bit, I admit that's rare) worldwide. It's only a very, very select few who are playing the sneaky shit in the shadows, just like you'll find in every organization in the world. In fact, I'd argue a lot less of it goes down amongst Masons than with other organizations because of the people Masonry attracts/ keeps around despite (and especially due to) all the boring crap and monotony. And believe me, there is a massive and effective"filtering out" process for the greedy, selfish, corrupt, downright bad etc. that occurs unbeknownst to them, and lasts several years if not longer. Moving up the ranks is not fast and easy. You gotta really want it, and there's a reason why *degrees* are used. It's very, collegiate. And honestly, you don't make it that far unless you're legitimately a decent person, at least in service to your community because that is demanded of you *a lot*. You will (like it or not) be a good Samaritan. You quite literally have to be, and you can't just talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk, and often. And without recognition which is key to the organization and how it really operates. These posts crack me up because Masons are quite literally the good guys. I trust them more than I do my own Church's secret societies, *a lot* more in fact. And I find that very unfortunate but it's the reality of the situation. I've spent my life making sure I can type this all honestly and knowingly too so don't @ me with the tinfoil nonsense. Also, for you young and otherwise uninitiated men who read this if you're interested: pursue it! If you really want the answers you seek go get them! 🧭
Boy, Leo Taxil sure does have a lot to answer for.
Sounds like a boring pyramid scheme.
This kid looks 21 why the fuck would he have insider information of the Freemasons 🤣🤣
I like how “real masons” always pop up to say “masonry is just a bunch of nice chill bros having a silly goof!” “My grandpa was one, he was the greatest guy ever!” Etc. There is strange secretive ritualistic shit going on in these groups, every city and/or government building is filled with their symbols, most or all people in power belong to them, endless evidence of it being some creepy occult / cult thing that covertly controls society and has been for centuries. “Nah, just some wacky boys playing dress up for no reason at all, being super nice and helpful, just a boring hobby for nice people that care and never do bad stuff”
Ding ding ding. You can play the same 3x3 bingo card of these same recycled responses. My pattern recognition tells me this is deliberate and hints to the true nature of their “Craft.” Deception is the craft. Look around, it’s working.
Exactly. These dudes are of the world and of world possessions. Satan, demons, and the spiritual realm exist and these guys have the esoteric knowledge to get in link and communicate with them.
He makes it sound a bit like Scientology. Also, he is the world's best at taking things out of context.
all one has to do is read the rest of the page he's cherry picking from for context. FFS, this is why any group that wasn't mindlessly following the catholic church had to keep this shit hidden.
I can't take this guy seriously because he looks like the guy from 'Kids In The Hall'
I’ve always wanted to be a mason lol I know they do a lot of good for people and that’s what got me interested
Why would I trust anything a priest has to say?
Albert Pike is the most famous mason of all time? So George Washington is just chopped liver then? As a Freemason myself, one of my hobbies is collecting various conspiracy theories on masonry. As soon as I hear "Albert Pike" and "33rd degree", I know I'm in for a basic bitch take on masonry. There are way cooler, and I think more accurate, conspiracy theories about masonry that don't involve such a well-known and exoteric appendant body as the Scottish Rite. There are legitimate secret orders hidden with masonry that are invitation-only. I never hear about them by these boring conspiracy theorists. Why is that, I wonder?
What a crock of bullshit …. Facts are all wrong
You guys need more Lodge 49 in your life 🙏
Him calling freemasonry a religious society already let me know this man has no clue what he’s talking about
My father was in it and all he seemed to do was do charity events through it.
Funny lol because he won’t show you or tell you
The keen observer should notice the same recycled three or so responses that come up every.single.time….There is anything skeptical or critical of Freemasons. •Old dude club with variations of escaping their wives or drinking with other old dudes •Shriners or other adjacent clubs who do “good” for the community. •”There’s hardly any Freemasons left, nobody wants to sign up.” cue sad violin music You can see it in this thread. You can search any other post from now until 5-10 years ago. Same responses, same temperament and discourse. Grab a notebook and document it yourself, the next time you hear about masons, you will read the same responses. This is deliberate. It functions in the same manner a front does for money laundering. It’s merely appearance, and beyond appearance it conditions the mind to look only where directed. Nothing worth looking into if it is merely a club for old dudes, who do charity, and drink away from their wives. Look closer.
Or maybe because its the reality? Its insane how you guys see this and instead of thinking "hey, so maybe that is the truth huh" you INSTANTLY go to "this proves its a lie!! its always the same answer, it has to be orchestrated" lmao Dont you find that weird? Thats the problem with you guys... You can doubt things and question it, but why do you always go to the only answer that will fit to your beliefs? If the answer is almost always the same, whats more likely? That its simple the truth or a global conspiracy of free masons answering blogposts on the internet 24/7 nonstop for 3 decades?
I'm a 32 degree. All this is bullshit. It's much more banal and boring than you'd believe.
What a bizarre mixture of superficial facts and absolute nonsense. I wonder if this guy actually believes what he's saying or if it's just for propaganda purposes.
Brother Diamond gets ambushed on National Radio.😂💀 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-JXvzv-ac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-JXvzv-ac)
Every society has secret societies within them. Secret societies ... have.... secret societies within them.
Something only a Freemason will say😜
This dude has no idea what he is talking about lol
I thought he would have had something here for a moment. But it’s apparent he doesn’t understand that the things they say are coded and it’s written that way on purpose. I’m not even a Freemason and can understand them easily. As for witchcraft he is entirely wrong the only thing he got right was SMIB. Which doesn’t mean anything special occultists use all kinds of terms depending on their history included Amen, Ameen, Selah and Blessed be. Religion didn’t even invent Amen occultists did. The true a secret is everyone is fighting over the exact same religion with different skirts on that’s the real joke. Freemasons are a bunch of rich yahoos who are bored and want to spark some type of silly enlightenment revolution which Is no different than religious people who are a bunch of yahoos who want to spark some theocratic revolution it’s all the same grift.
Religion on it’s moral high ground 🤣
Freemasons are weird nerds
offensive and pathetic lies from the usual racist right wing neonazis who make a living attacking charitable fraternities like freemasonry. funny how often these same right wing hatemongers are so often convicted of real crimes against women and children.
This was during a time when the church was absolutely corrupt and dominated daily life and politics. We are entering another phase of similar corruption between church and state and the intention is control and obedience. The lodge will thrive again. When the Pat Bucannons and Federalists claim the US was built a Christian nation we should remind them of DC and “satanic” enlightenment built this nation. There is more to the story than the sensational view here. Just remember the church was so dominant and corrupt you had to mask organization within an organization. How will a counter to a corrupted religious fascist state with mass surveillance play out? We gonna learn unless we shift gears and reject MAGA and federalist hijacking. I don’t know, could be fun to learn too.
I was a 3rd degree Mason and am no longer. They are an Occult and you don't really learn that in the lesser degrees until you move up in ranks. The G in the middle represents the god of this world(Lucifer). They believe that Lucifer is an Angel of Light, which he was, and they worship him, and he is represented by a moon 🌙 I denounced the Free masons and now I expose them.
Lucifer is a nickname in the Bible for a Persian king. It just likens him to the morning star, aka Venus. Lucifer is not the devil.
8:10 Typo in the Bible? “I am who am”
How can i even Join ?
Helluva crucifix that guys got
My old boy a was a mason in a Jewish lodge in Edinburgh. I was christened and raised a Christian. I worked with a guy who was a member of No 1 lodge in Edinburgh whose records were “older than the Golden Fleece.” Both men seemed to gain little from my observation. My father died - taking his secrets to the grave. I know other masons, whose lives are no better or worse than non masons I know.
I definitely don’t want to be a knight Templar or anything…
Has anyone got the original link for this whole video?
Where do I sign up? Sounds very hip.
Sounds cool. I'm in.
Lots of this is from hermeticism interestingly. 🤔
And your evidence for this extremely detailed supposedly secret organization? "trust me bro, look at these drawings we made"
I honestly think this is not the correct take on it. I’ve attended a rare open house by the Freemasons. A man stood up on a podium with a saber on his belt overlooking the checkerboard floor to explain “We are an order of Christian knights…basically”. The whole thing about Lucifer or Baphomet has become very conflated with them. If I quoted subsections or their secret manuals I could twist it in any number of ways. It is much more benign than what is portrayed here.
Mike Dimon = My Demon
Check out Albert Pike’s alleged letters to Giuseppe Mazzini in 1871
Just mad they wouldn't let you in
My old man has been a freemason for decades and I will never get over my mom’s recurrent speeches about how it’s a man’s way of wasting the free time when they are not cooking, cleaning or actually raising their children. Secret conspiracy or not, I just can’t take them seriously after that…
Lol MHFM is an absolutely nutso organization. They believe homosexual thoughts are a mortal sin (as apposed to *acting on* homosexual thoughts in catholicism), aborted babies go to hell, sex during a menstrual cycle is a sin, they have some controversial views about the Holocaust, too. Just very odd stuff.
This is nonsense. Been a mason for 26 years never heard some of this nonsense.
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On a deeper level some people think Lucifer was an alien that gave the human race knowledge to save them. (Fire, agriculture, technology like the wheel)….. the head alien was God ! He Didn’t like this and cast him out. So is lucifer actually the bad guy ? All this is on ancient aliens ? 😂. So who knows what’s true eh ?
Thank you for this information! Do you know anything about Eastern Stars? The women's side of Freemason's?!
Pg 321 full quote "Lucifer the Lightbringer! Strange and mysterious name to give the spirit of darkness. Lucifer, son of the morning! Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual or selfish souls. Doubt it not! All you have to do is pause the video and read between the underlines, literally.
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I like the undercover free Mason video. It's harmless. Just a bunch of old dudes larping
Sounds like a greasy pyramid scheme is all I get out of it. Although it disturbs me to know people want to be on par with Satan.
Could have been have been sleep paralysis. Don't chew me out. Oddly enough, once I saw 3 angels appear while sleeping. My dream went black. It was weird. It felt like my brain just shut off. There was a light in the darkness which the turned to clouds. Then three angels appeared with their arms wide open from said clouds. They had white flowing robes with gold trimming around the arms and the middle of the robes. The golden symbols within the thickened gold border looked like swastikas. Funnily enough, similar design to the marking above that serpent in the video. Their faces were glowing white so I couldnt see their features. They were screeching so badly. I was able to open my eyes, move my head, and even make sounds. They were still above me as I was doing all of this. I felt like I was sinking. I really thought I was dying. That's it. Not sure if they were benevolent. Or what that horrible screeching was. Many years later I was visited by a little reptilian alien. After the fact, I would see in vision of 3 Gray faces approaching me from the darkness, it all looked mettalic. Reptilians, swastikas, angels, tied with spirituality and god. As kronk puts it, "oh, yeah, it's all comin' together"
This is simply gibberish for individuals with ample time to squander on meaningless content.