Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Occult Literature #252: The Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry" video.

  1. The hatred of regular Freemasonry by Catholics is due to Protestantism. Fraternal Freemasonry is based upon the reformist movement, even though the original Masonic Constitution states it is of the Catholic religion, which was written by a Presbyterian minister. It's due to the Anglican church, which still considered itself Catholic in its rites, except the monarch of the UK is the head and not the pope. Thus, it is considered by Rome to be Protestant. Henry VIII brought that about. The fraternity was formed in 1717 by four London Lodges that were out of work, and they now had several elderly masons needing financial help. They formed what later became the United Grand Lodge of England, the Mother, and Premiere Lodge, and the fraternity was set up as a pension and as a charity to help poor and distressed Masons, their widows, and orphans. Operative Masons work from the Guild Hall in the City. The fraternity is not connected to the guild. The Grand Lodge is also built outside the wall. The basis, or work, of the fraternity, is to "make good men better." It teaches that man is a temple for which God dwells within, via his soul, and that he should always be a just and upright person. The symbology and allegory lead one to the Pilgrims Path, and by studying the symbology, you will find the truth about all religions. That is why Freemasonry has groups that study comparative religion. Most do not make this long journey. If you journey close to the end, as I did, you will never see religion, nor the three estates, in the same light again. You will know the truth. This is what the Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and many other religions wish to keep hidden. As far as the Scottish Rite, it is an appendant Rite, and it is a separate organization or legal corporation, just as is the York Rite. To join them, though, one must be a Master Mason. You are not required to join either. Both rites are nothing but extra lessons, or degrees, which reveal more by allegory and symbology. Starting with the 15th, which is the start of the Knights, it is most definitely Christian oriented. At the top, which are the 32nd and 33rd degrees in regular Freemasonry, the secret is that all men are both good and bad, are of a dual nature, and that there must be a balance, just as in nature. In either direction, from the middle, chaos lies due to zealotry and radical ideology. The Pilgrim takes the center path where the scales are balanced.
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  2.  Pat Ashley  It doesn't make the pope a Freemason, but he would know the truth, just as do the Cardinals. So do the High Priests in Judaism and the Imams in Islam. The Vatican's archives have it all, and many study comparative religion in the hierarchy. Not everything was destroyed in Alexandria, some of it was confiscated, and brought back to Rome. All religions have their roots in the most ancient religion that started with civilization on the Eurasian Steppe. Both religion and government originate there, and both are intimately entwined. That is the ancient three estates. To know the truth opens up the biggest can of worms one can open. It is the proverbial Pandora's Box that exposes it all. The best hint that I could give anyone, is to look into the true definition of the word, Baal. The Jewish Encyclopedia has it within. It means "Landlord." The Baal are the landed gentry, or nobles, from which the high priests, and later, pope, picked the monarchs. The myths of the many gods of old revolve around the tales of the lives of the ancient elite rulers or kings, especially Polyphemus. There is a reason that a monarch carries an orb.
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  3.  @kahwigulum  Are you a Freemason?
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  4.  Pat Ashley  Polyphemus, which is the Greek name for an ancient person, it is thought, leads back to the start of the Aryans (Caucasians) who were the hunter-gatherers that moved to the Eurasian Steppe, and started civilization. They started herding cattle and invented farming. Those early tribes created the first governments, and it was tied to their religious beliefs. That spread from the Eurasian Steppe, both east and west, as well as to the north and south. They are the origins of the H1B Haplogroup, which spread west, bringing civilization with them into Europe. Polyphemus' children were supposed to be: "Celtus, Illyrius, and Galas, from whom descend the Celts, the Illyrians, and the Gauls respectively." The one-eyed man living in the mountains, or atop a mountain. The hunter-gatherers lived in mountain caves stretching from Anatolia to the Caucasus, and in the Urals. In those caves, there are paintings of the early humans hunting the Auroch, an early type of cattle. It went from hunting to herding, and also, farming, growing wheat. Description
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  5. After reviewing Vail's book, he speaks of the same myth about Templars in Scotland. In actuality, the two Rites start with a side-degree that started in London, around 1730, called the Scots Master degree, or the fourth degree. That spread to France. It was renamed the Royal Arch degree as England and Scotland were at war, again. The French added the other twenty-one degrees, making up twenty-five. That came to the US, and the Rite was taken over by Freemasons in South Carolina by 1800. There, the other eight degrees were added, and the others edited. In France, the esoteric knowledge of the two Rites was added, and it came from the Teutonic Knights in Germany, not the Templars, though they probably knew of it. The Masonic Authentic School, known as the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, has the correct history of Freemasonry and they have debunked many of these old authors, including Albert Pike, who believed the French account. A French Freemason, by the name of Andrew Michael Ramsay, spun a huge tale about the Templars, in order to coax the French nobility into joining this new order. In reality, the esoteric teaching came from Germany and the Teutonic Knights. Eastern Europe was a hotbed for Gnosticism and Mysticism, and Bohemia was a hub for it. Roman masonry and design came to Scotland by the late 10th century, before the Templars were founded. Later, some Templars fled to Scotland after the order was disbanded in 1312, but that was under Robert Bruce, who reigned from 1306 - 1329, and thirty-plus years before the life of Henry Sinclair (St. Claire), 1345  –  1400, and his myth. Roman Masonry, in Britain, is almost four hundred years older than this, thus, the Templar founding myth is hogwash. Templars bult nothing; they had several of the twenty-five colleges or guilds to do it. The craft and operative Masonry spread from the Scottish Lodges to Guilds in England and Wales. It is thought to have come to Scotland via traveling Freemasons (Masons allowed to travel freely by a pass from the pope or king) from Lombardy around Lake Como. That is where Constantine's twenty-five colleges or guilds settled as a headquarters while building the cathedrals and government buildings. That Roman knowledge was spread by the builders, which came to Scotland by around 950 CE at the earliest. As a lesson, don't believe everything you read, especially about this knowledge. https://books.google.com/books?id=Jt5xHnMUCtcC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=Scots+Master+degree&source=bl&ots=khKc_1LWgg&sig=ACfU3U3Ki8JXZ49aVSQp7kziI6t-hVaapw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjertjAqfnlAhX5KDQIHdOXA1IQ6AEwEXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Scots%20Master%20degree&f=false
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  6. From the Templar Code for Dummies, page 197: "France was a very sympathetic Catholic country, and there was a certain adolescent glee over playing host to the enemies of England. Annoying the English was a longstanding French pastime. The supporters of James became known as Jacobites, and there was a sizeable number of them. It is believed that modern Freemasonry came to France from Scotland with the Jacobites, and that it was these disaffected Scots and English who began to develop many of the appendant degrees. In spite of its name, the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry actually began in France. "Chevalier Ramsay briefly was employed as a tutor to the exiled King James II’s two sons, and his many travels were turned into popular books. But he is most important to Freemasons for one document, known as Ramsay’s Oration. Whether Ramsay actually gave it as a speech in public is unknown, but his 1737 paper told a story about how Freemasonry began in the Holy Land and how its secrets were actually brought back to Europe by the crusading knights. He never said that the knights were the Templars — in fact, he actually credited the Knights of St. John. And he never suggested creating new degrees or introducing chivalric orders into the fraternity, but it didn’t matter. Creative Freemasons, mostly in France, took Ramsay’s ideas and ran with them. You can see the scale to which the new degrees can be attributed to these expatriate Scots in the term the French used to describe them — they were called the Ecossais degrees, French for 'Scottish.'” [sic] ==== "Our ancestors, the Crusaders, gathered together from all parts of Christendom in the Holy Land, desired thus to reunite into one sole Fraternity the individuals of all nations."__Ramsay's Oration. The Teutonic Knights were called The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem. The Templars were called the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. The Hospitallers were called the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem. They all intermixed and were all associated with the Crusades. However, the Templars' organization was absorbed by the Hospitallers or the Order of St. John at the end. After the fall, they were the same thing, though a group of the Templars was protected in Portugal, which survived as the Military Order of Christ and the Supreme Order of Christ, today. However, the Gnostic esoteric knowledge was prevalent in Eastern Europe and the German Lodges promoted what came to France.
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