Know Thyself
I’ve heard it said that self-knowledge promotes moral behavior. I've also heard it said that Freemasonry teaches a man about himself. Do men with self-knowledge seek out a secret society to learn about themselves? Or is he accepted into this society because he doesn’t know himself?
Without good construction of one’s own constitution, and given our numerous shady sources of information these days, can our search for knowledge lead us away from the way, the truth, and the life, and into the occult?
Has man's search for meaning really led him here?
I ran upon this undercover video of a 3rd degree Master Mason initiation ritual. I wish I could say that it was enlightening, or at the very least entertaining, but it was basically a few boys playing murder mystery games, in a secret clubhouse, with a bunch of old codgers in costumes. For 2 and a half hours!
I'm left with more questions than answers. What do you get out of this?
Is it a man’s ego that makes him susceptible to joining the secret blood-oath murder mystery club? What kind of man can be swayed into this gang-style club, where he has to be initiated and accepted amongst other lost men, like himself?
How often does one have to sit through this silly experience? Who is watching their children grow up while they are here? Do their wives know their husbands are at the secret clubhouse, playing dress-up, and marching around in circles, singing and chanting? Do they know their husbands have taken blood oaths and offered up their own tongue, bowels, and heart as collateral for the secrets kept? And what even is the big secret? And what next silly thing do you have to do, to learn the next silly secret?
Does his life have meaning because he has the secret password to the clubhouse? Does his heart flutter when he feels the special secret handshake of another brother? Does he learn that he can be bought? Bribed? Blackmailed? Hoodwinked? Bound by cables and ropes? Disrobed?
Will he keep the secrets that harm another man, woman, or child?
How do you get out of this contract? Can you just stop going to meetings? Is the membership attached to one’s income? Are there just too many secrets that could be used against them? Or just one, a regrettable one …that’s on video?
I suppose our cities, medical facilities, schools, churches, and society, are all a reflection of the caliber of the men and women they’re comprised of. And those who enforce them, and those who tolerate them, are yet another reflection.
Freemasonry, it appears, does teach a man about himself. He learns his limitations. He learns what he is willing to give to get.
And he learns who his Master is.
The skilled stonemasons from back in the day, who built perfectly symmetrical, magnificent cathedrals from brick and mortar, would surely be mortified at what has been done in the name of their noble profession.
And today’s men, who are calling themselves Freemasons, surely feel like frauds, as they are not free, nor are they masons.
The Light Behind Freemasonry, a lecture from an ex-mason:
https://rumble.com/v29c7ji-freemasonry-the-light-behind-masonry-bill-schnoebelen.html
Milliken Middle School…
Good research and comments. The scriptures warn people from secret associations, oaths and obligations. Too many people wander into these occult groups for benefits that require obedience to obligations. that jeopardize their very souls.