Monday, 28 September 2009

Freemasonry

Freemasonry... is it evil or not evil?

Short answer: Freemasonry wants to believe that they are the enlightened, but in reality, they are darkness.

Long answer:

In the public media, freemasonry is being glamorized. Freemasons are showing off their membership lists, twisting power and freemasonry together to form the idea that you have to be masonic to be powerful.

On the internet, there are countless theories about them. Most people do not want to believe that they are dangerous. Most people do not know enough about them to make any judgment.

There are many degrees of freemasonry. A mason will move up the degrees. The higher you are, the more you know.
But you never get to know everything. You only know enough. It is secret to the outside world, there are secret orders within freemasonry, many secret causes.

But they all use the same symbols that are metaphorical of their beliefs.

Even if they were not evil in the beginning, the power they have will corrupt them.

The solution:

Fight organized crime so that they cannot exist outside the law.
Protect the rights of those who wish to break their oaths of secrecy.

And do that all fairly so that the witch-hunts are not repeated.

3 comments:

Eugene said...

The thing about freemasonry is that it is all about the symbols.

The symbols are the means to communicating ideals, ideas and allows the organization to be public, and secret at the same time.

Suppose freemasonry is good. There is definitely going to be some evil in it, sometime in history and the present.
The system is too powerful and power favors the evil and negative.

The end of freemasonry is held in masonry.

Ok, these people could be wise in trying to empower themselves in turbulent times. But they are just being only a natural force that has a natural end.

I see a real need for conspiracy theories, because it is the most direct and brutish way to attack a hidden issue. It is easy and powerful as a weapon against secrecy.
But it is too easy to over-speculate.

But if you dismiss everything as coincidence,then you would miss the most likely.

The answer is to keep

Eugene said...

accountability.

Eugene said...

There are two purposes why people keep secrets.

- if people find out, they will hurt you.
- because if people find out, they get angry.

I believe freemasonry went from no. 1, and transitioned to no. 2 when they got powerful.

In the beginning, most would agree that free-masonic ideals were not favored by the church.
But now that they got the power, they would use their ideas, connections, pooling of power, secrecy and their retention of esoteric principles to gain more power.

Now, exactly what do their symbols mean?
Very good question. I don't know, and not even the creator of the symbol knows. Most masons do not know either.
You join through faith and possibly for good intentions. Can you prove beyond doubt a symbol means something someone claims? No, not scientifically. It is but a human idea. You could discount it and throw it away. Or you could identify with it.
What matters is not whether you identify with it or not, but that the people in power do.

People are never going to be completely scientific and all-knowing. It is not us. Science is but an idea, however big it is. Human beings are ideas and more.