MASONRY

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MASONRY A False Religion
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MASONRY
Secrets Can Be Known
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• all the known secrets an oddly
  contradictory description are available to our
  Brethren and non-members alike through many
  publications of Masonry.
• What some have considered to be secrets
  really are not.Statement by Orie S. Ware, Sr.
  Past Grand Master in the U.S., in Louisville
  newspaper, Oct. 13, 1974

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• The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or
  portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are
  displayed there to the Initiate, but he is
  intentionally misled by false interpretations. It
  is not intended that he shall understand them
  but it is intended that he shall imagine he
  understands themMorals and Dogma p. 819

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MASONRY
Is A Religious Institution
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• Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion and
  its teachings are instruction in
  religion.Morals and Dogma p. 213
• Freemasonry is a religious institution.Ency.
  of Freemasonry Vol. 2, p. 792

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• This is because Masonry is a religious
  institution, and we thereby show our dependence
  upon and our trust in God.Kentucky Monitor p.
  28

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• Freemasonry, then is indeed a religious
  institution and on this ground mainly, if not
  alone, should the religious Freemason defend
  it.Ency. of Freemasonry Vol. 2, p. 848

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• the life of Masonry. It is a symbol of the
  agonies of the first death and of the throes of a
  new birth. There you stood without our
  portals, on the threshold of this new Masonic
  life, in darkness, helplessness, and ignorance.
  . you came inquiringly to our doors, seeking the
  new birth . For initiation is, as it were, a
  death to the world and a resurrection to a new
  life.Kentucky Monitor p. 26

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MASONRY
Teaches Hiram Is Mediator
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• All believed in a future life, and in a
  Mediator or Redeemer, by whom the Evil Principle
  was to be overcome and the Supreme Deity
  reconciled to His creatures. The belief was
  general that He was to be born of a virgin and
  suffer a painful death. The Hindus called him
  Krishna the Chinese, Kioun-tse the Persians,
  Sosiosch the Chaldeans, Dhouvanai the
  Egyptians, Horus Plato, Love the Scandinavians,
  Balder Christians, Jesus Masons,
  Hiram.Kentucky Monitor p. xv

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MASONRY
Condones False Religions
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• When is a man a Mason? When he finds good in
  every faith that helps any man lay hold of divine
  things and sees majestic meanings in life,
  whatever the name of that faith may be.Kentucky
  Monitor pp. ix, x

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• It makes no profession of Christianity, and wars
  not against sectarian creeds or doctrines, but
  looks forward to the time when the labor of our
  ancient brethren shall be symbolized by the
  erection of a spiritual temple whose moral
  grandeur shall be commensurate with
  civilizationKentucky Monitor p. 95

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• A temple in which there shall be but one altar
  and but one worship one common altar of Masonry,
  on which the Veda, Shastras, Sade, Zend-Avesta,
  Koran, and Holy Bible shall lie untouched by
  sacrilegious hands, and at whose shrine the
  Hindoo, the Persian, the Assyrian, the Chaldean,
  the Egyptian, the Chinese, the Mohammedan, the
  Jew, and the Christian may kneel and with one
  united voice celebrate the praises of the Supreme
  Architect of the Universe.Kentucky Monitor p.
  95

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• If Freemasonry were simply a Christian
  institution, the Jew and the Moslem, the Brahman
  and the Buddhist, could not conscientiously
  partake of its illumination but its universality
  is its boast. In its language, citizens of every
  nation may converse at its altar men of all
  religions may kneel to its creed, disciples of
  every faith may subscribe.Ency. of
  Freemasonry Vol. 1, p. 579

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• Masonry, around whose altars the Christian, the
  Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin, the followers of
  Confucius and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren
  and unite in prayer to the one God who is above
  all the Baalim, must needs leave it to each of
  its Initiates to look for the foundation of his
  faith and hope to the written scriptures of his
  own religion.Morals and Dogma p. 226

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MASONRY
Denies One True God
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• The qualities of God are admitted, and affirmed
  to be real and it is a mere change of name to
  call the possessor of those qualities, Nature,
  and not God. The real question is, whether such
  Qualities exist, as we call God and not, by what
  particular name we shall designate the Qualities.
  One man may call the sum total of these
  Qualities, Nature another, Heaven a third,
  Universe, a fourth, Matter a fifth, Spirit a
  sixth, God, Theos, Zeus, Alfadir, Allah, or what
  he pleases. The name is of the smallest
  consequence.Morals and Dogma p. 644

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• Real Atheism is the denial of the existence on
  any God, of the actuality of all possible ideas
  of God.Morals and Dogma p. 644

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MASONRY
Denies Bible As The Inspired Word of God
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• but that you consider it as a symbol of that
  eternal Book of the Will of God, . It is the
  Great Light of Masonry which unfolds the beauties
  of Gods Eternal Truth. On it rests our mystic
  ladder which rises from earth to Heaven, teaching
  us that by faith in the Great Architect of the
  Universe we may confidently hope to become
  partakers of the promises therein
  recorded.Kentucky Monitor p. 11

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• Man, according to ancient traditions, was
  originally one of the inhabitants of the Kingdom
  of Light, and the home story of our first
  parents, notwith-standing the later Garden of
  Eden story, was among the stars.Kentucky
  Monitor p. xvii

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• The Bible is used among Freemasons as a symbol
  of the will of God, however it may be expressed.
  Therefore, whatever to any people expresses that
  will may be used as a substitute for the Bible in
  a Masonic Lodge. Thus, in a Lodge consisting
  entirely of Jews, the Old Testament alone may be
  placed upon the altar, and Turkish Freemasons
  make use of the Koran. Whether it be the Gospels
  to the Christians, the Pentateuch to the
  Israelite, the Koran to the Mussulman, or the
  Vedas to the Brahman, it everywhere Masonically
  conveys the same idea that of the symbolism of
  the Divine Will revealed to man.Ency. of
  Freemasonry Vol. 1, p. 133

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MASONRY
Teaches That ONLY Masons Will Be Saved
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• Let him who toils complain not, nor feel
  humiliated! Let him look up, and see his
  fellow-workmen there, in Gods Eternity they
  alone surviving there. Even in the weak human
  memory they long survive, as Saints, as Heroes,
  and as Gods they alone survive, and people the
  unmeasured solitudes of Time.Morals and Dogma
  p. 343

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• In speaking of the Spirit of Masonry, Carl H.
  Claudy said, I am a way of common men to
  God.Kentucky Monitor p. xxi
• Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the
  life no man cometh unto the Father, but by
  me.John 146

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What Must I Do To Be Saved?

• Hear the gospel (Rom. 1017)
• Believe Jesus is Christ (Acts 837)
• Repent of your sins (Luke 133)
• Confess your faith in Christ (Mt. 1032)
• Baptized for remission of sins (Acts 238)
• Walk by faith in newness of life (Rom. 64)