What the Bible Says about Secret

Societies
The Occult Nature of Secret
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Societies
Biblical Encounters with
Occult Secret Societies in the Bible
Occult Secret Societies
How God Overcomes & Redeems Secret Societies: A Curse
from Occult Secret Societies
Today’s Encounters with Occult Spirits Operating with Occult
Secret Societies Secret Societies
Off site links:
 Prayer of Release for Freemasons and their Descendants
(by Selwyn Stevens)
 David Julian, a Christian Mason critiques Selwyn Stevens
(see above)
 Freemasonry in early Mexico
 Ron Campbell, Free from Freemasonry
 Charles Finney, Why I left Freemasonry
 Jack Harris, Freemasonry
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The purpose of this page is to help people who want to better
understand the occult nature of secret societies, especially freemasonry, and
how to receive spiritual healing in the name of Jesus Christ either for
themselves or their loved ones.  We love Masons. We do not hate Masons. We
are trying to help people help themselves and their families out of curses
associated with this form of idolatry.

This is one of the most accessed pages on this website, so there seems to be
interest in this subject, and people are looking here for various reasons. If you
are a Mason and want to straighten me out, we probably will not change each
others' minds, so consider that before you write a lengthy diatribe or ugly email. 
If you would like to help me correct a statement on the page, please kindly let
me know.

I am also aware that there are many anti-mason websites run by "Christians"
which are unkind, rude, and offensive to Masons. Those who call themselves
Christians should remember Whom we represent.  I am not trying to "straighten
out" or stir up Masons. I am presenting what I have found in my own search in
the Bible re: secret societies. I realize my own fallibility and present a witness as
best I can to my conviction of the truth. This information is for people who want
more information in this area.

Unfortunately, as a kind Mason wrote recently, there seems to be more real

fellowship at a lodge meeting than in many church meetings. While that may be
true, it shouldn't be that way. Look over the information below with an open
mind as Masons frequently mention they have.  If you are not a believer in
Christ, the following does not really apply to you. This information is for
Christians who desire the Lordship of Christ in their lives. Look at it yourself.
Check out the Scriptures. Make up your own mind.

DISCLAIMER

  I am not an expert on freemasonry and occult secret societies.

  We love masons.
  I am not here to teach you witchcraft.
o Romans 16:19-20:  “Be excellent at what is good; be innocent of
evil.” 
o And Ephesians 5:11-14: “For it is shameful even to mention what
the disobedient do in secret.”
  I am not re-inventing the wheel.  Other ministries do an excellent job of
exposing this topic.  Our job is to see what the Bible says.

Freemasonry: General Information on the Curse

I watched two lengthy videos on Freemasonry because I wanted to see the

symbols and watch the ritual being done. I found a video that did just that. The
first video gave an overview of freemasonry and linked it with ancient paganism.
The second video was the John Ankerberg Show where they let Masons debate
with anti-Masons and show the ritual. A former Worshipful Master named Jack
Harris explained all the symbolism. Here is what I learned.

Freemasonry's Levels

Freemasonry is a hidden fraternal order, and defined as a system of morality.

The first three steps are the Blue Lodge. The first degree is called Entered
Apprentice. The second degree is called Fellow Craft. The Third degree is
called Master Mason. Most men only go to the third degree, but if one chooses,
he may advance either through the York Rite or the Scottish Rite. The Scottish
Rite has thirty-two degrees. In each degree, the mason pledges himself to a
different Egyptian deity. There is a thirty-third degree that is largely honorary,
but the thirty-two degrees give you access to becoming a Shriner.

Origin of freemasonry

Masons as an organization originated in 1717 when the Craft Masons (plain old
brick & mortar masons) were infiltrated by Speculative Masons who were
interested in academics and ideals. They wanted to overthrow the kings of
Europe, and establish new world order. There are an estimated 5 million
freemasons in North America today and 1 million Shriners. The spiritual roots of
freemasonry, though, go back through the ages of witchcraft through France's
Enlightenment, through Rome and Greece, through Egypt, through the Jewish
Kabbala, to the Tower of Babel.
Entered Apprentice

At the Entered Apprentice degree, the new man is initiated into the Egyptian
trinity. The apprentice is bare chested with a noose around his neck, knocks on
the door to the lodge, comes before the altar and the Worshipful Master, kneels
blindfolded. The Worshipful Master touches his left breast with a sword and
forces the initiate to take a blood oath that if he tells any of the secrets of
freemasonry he will have his throat cut from ear to ear.

True Power

Albert Mackey, one of the foremost authorities on freemasonry from the

nineteenth century, in Lost Keys to Freemasonry (p. 48), states that the God of
freemasonry is Lucifer the God of Light, and Adonai is a God of Darkness.
When one learns how to use the power of Lucifer's energy, according to Pike,
the freemason has received true power.

Link with Paganism

The initiation ceremony for paganism and for freemasonry is nearly identical. An
initiate has to be recommended, must be blindfolded, naked, with a noose
around his neck. The Worshipful Master or High Priest is in the east end of the
building, the place of authority in paganism, where the sun rises from. Both put
a sword to the chest and make you swear a blood oath not to tell the secrets.
Then the blindfold comes off to bring the initiate from darkness into light. All
prayers are ended with "So Mote it Be," the same phrase and ceremony used in
initiation rites to join a coven in witchcraft.

Lodge Furniture

Lodge furniture is set up in imitation of pagan ways. The Worshipful Master's

seat is on the east wall. It is the place of authority because it is where the sun
rises. On either side of him sits the senior deacon who is in charge of the
initiation process for all new initiates and the chaplain who is usually an
ordained minister. In the center of the room is a table with a Bible or Veda or
Qu'ran or Torah depending on the religion of the lodge members with a square
and compass on top, the square representing the male and the compass the
female, both together the sex act of generation, or in Egyptian thought, the
resurrection through offspring.

The Curse

At the first initiation, the initiate knocks on the door to petition to come from the
darkness into the light. The Worshipful Master lays hands on the initiate,
dedicates him to the god of the lodge and asks that the secrets of the lodge be
used and "by the secrets of our art he may gain eternal life."

The Letter G
The Letter G is the symbol for geometry or Grand architect or sacred deity “god”
or the Generating force, i.e., the male creative force or male organ. Before this
symbol the initiate must humbly bow. This letter is on the lambskin apron that
every freemason must wear. The letter G covers the spot of the Generating
Principle on the male body as a cover for the deity.

The Great Lights

There are three Great Lights: the Holy Bible (or whatever holy scripture), the
Square that squares one's thoughts with what should be, and the compass that
circumscribes one's desires. There are three lesser lights represented by
Candles: the Sun, the Moon, and the Worshipful Master. These are in the
center of the lodge.

Hiram Abiff

The legend of Hiram Abiff is used in moving into the third degree. A Hiram is
mentioned in 1 Kings 7 as the master mason of Solomon's Temple. The initiate
is prayed over and receives the spirit of Hiram Abiff, and he walks around the
central table blindfolded several times with the Senior Deacon. In the skit, three
ruffians attack him to see if he will share the secrets of freemasonry. The
exoteric meaning of this ceremony is to test the loyalty of the initiate to keep the
secrets of freemasonry. The esoteric meaning is a false death, burial, and
resurrection.

The first ruffian attacks the blindfolded man and says, "Hiram Abiff! Tell me the
secrets of freemasonry!" The senior deacon answers for him: "I will not tell you
the secrets of freemasonry!" The ruffian answers, "Tell me or you die!" The
deacon answers again for the initiate, "I will die first!" The ruffian answers,
"Then die!" That is the first curse of death.

Then a second ruffian does the same thing. Two curses of death. Then a third
ruffian does it again. Three curses of death. With three curses of death, the
initiate is hit over the head with a mock club and killed.

Then the ruffians are fearful because they have killed their master mason,
Hiram Abiff, and the decide to bury him on the west side (sunset side) of the
table. After they bury him, they run away. Then the Senior Deacon and the
Worshipful Master appear over the body of the initiate. The Worshipful Master
commands the Senior Deacon to pull the body out of the grave by a special
hand grip which does not work. The Senior Deacon says the flesh is tearing
away from the bone, meaning the body is decomposing.

Then the Worshipful Master, the incarnation of Osiris the God of the dead,
orders the Senior Deacon, an incarnation of the demon of death assigned to the
initiate, to try another grip. Again, the flesh tears from the bone. Then the
Worshipful Master orders the Senior Deacon to try the lion paw grip (a roaring
lion, perhaps?), with five points at the fingers. The initiate is accordingly raised
to new life to become an immortal Master Mason, pleasing to God (which
God?). When this process is complete, the initiate is a full member and has
cursed his family, himself, and his church.

This cursing process may explain the reason Francis MacNutt has to command
the demons three times to come out of a demonized person involved in the
occult. Also a spirit of death is quite easily seen through all these sequences,
and can easily account for the existence of a spirit of death associated with
freemasonry.

Principalities?

One former 32nd degree Mason on the video said something that was intriguing
and scary and may lead to understanding of why freemasonry demons are so
powerful, especially for higher degree freemasons. This fellow said that when
one goes up a degree, he dedicates himself to another Egyptian deity. These
deities would be principalities and therefore very high ranking and if given a
foothold, very powerful. Could it be that when we deal with freemasonry, we are
really dealing with some of Egypt's ancient principalities like Osiris, Ra, and
Isis?

Missionary, Power-Demonstrating God

At the new moon festival, the Egyptians were forced to sacrifice a pig and
smear the blood on the doorpost so that the avenger Osiris, the Egyptian god of
the dead, would not bring an untimely death on that home. What a missionary
God we have. He contextualized the good news of redemption for enslaved
Hebrews steeped in over four centuries of Egyptian paganism, and He did it
with a clean animal, a lamb. YHWH demonstrated his power over the enemy,
the angel of death Osiris, in the spectacle of the Passover. What a powerful and
loving missionary God we have in Christ Jesus the lover of our souls.

The Occult Nature of Freemasonry

It is intriguing to me that those involved in various forms of paganism and

witchcraft seem agreed that secret societies are kith and kin with their religions.
As an anecdote, let me tell you about a witch I talked with in lower South
Carolina once. The man with me asked her if her Wiccan religion had any
similarity with freemasonry. She laughed, “Oh, they all act like they are so much
better than us, but their rituals are exactly the same as ours.” The quotation
below from a book on esoteric (secret) religions offers further intrigue.

“The highly ritualized and secretive practices of freemasonry are based on

degrees of initiation, involving the individual’s “death” and “rebirth,” in which
increasing amounts of esoteric knowledge are imparted.  The symbols and
rituals imployed by alchemists, Rosicrucians, and Freemasons, as well as their
ultimate purpose, are, to an extent, interlinked, and many have been absorbed
into the vocabulary of the “mainstream” of the occult.  Certainly most modern
occultists sympathize with their common quest for spiritual knowledge and
perfection.” 
                                                                                    --- Drury and
Tillett, The Occult: A Sourcebook of Esoteric Wisdom, 1997, p. 57.
 

Occult Nature of Freemasonry

 Strange statement by revered Masonic scholar, Albert Pike

 “The Master Mason, if he be truly a Master, is in communication with the

unseen powers . . . He is the spokesman for the spiritual hierarchies of his Craft
. . . a priest-King after the Order of Melchizedek, who is above the law.  He
wears the triple crown of the ancient Magus [Magi] . . . he seeks to be worthy to
pass behind that veil and join that band [of spirits].  It is then and then only, that
a true Mason is born.  Only behind this veil does the mystic student come into
his own.”     – Albert Pike’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, 1:449.

 Laying the Cornerstone of the US Capitol

 “On 18 September 1793, the cornerstone of the Capitol was officially laid.  The
Grand Lodge of Maryland presided over the ceremony, and Washington was
asked to serve as Master.  There was a great procession, which included a
company of artillery.  Then came a band, followed by Washington himself,
attended by all officers and members of the lodges in full regalia.

 “When he reached the trench in which the south-east cornerstone was laid,
Washington was presented with a silver plate commemorating the event and
inscribed with the designations of the lodges in attendance.  The artillery fired a
volley.  Washington then descended into the trench and placed the plate on the
stone.  Around it, he placed containers of corn, wine and oil – standard symbolic
accoutrements of Freemasonic ritual.   All present joined in prayer and masonic
chanting, and the artillery fired another volley.

“Washington and his entourage then moved to the east of the cornerstone,
where the president, standing on a traditionally masonic three-stepped rostrum,
delivered an oration.  More masonic chanting followed, and a final volley from
the artillery.”  – Baigent and Leigh, The Temple and the Lodge, 1989, p. 261.

Occult secret societies in the Bible

 
FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:
 “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above
or on earth beneath or in the waters below.  You shall not bow down to them or
worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the
children for the sin of their fathers to the third and fourth generation of those
who hate me, but showing love to thousands who love me and keep my
commandments.” — Exodus 20:4-6 NIV
 Occult secret societies in the Bible
 The Bible is rife with denunciation for this activity

  Searching for Light: 2 Samuel 22:29; Isaiah 50:10-11; Matthew 6:22-

24; Luke 8:16-18; 11:35; John 3:19-21; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 11:14;
Ephesians 5:8-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:5-6; 1 John 1:5-7
  Secret Societies: Ezekiel 8; Isaiah 65:2-7; Luke 11:44; 12:1-4;2
Corinthians 4:2-6; 6:17-18: Ephesians 5:11-14
  Secret Knowledge: Deuteronomy 29:29; Psalm 90:8; Matthew 10:26-
27; Luke 11:52; 1 Corinthians 2:6-8
  Secret Words, Eye, Foot & Hand Signals: Proverbs 6:12-15
  The fruit of this activity affects your grandchildren – Ex 20:5
  Corn, Wine, and Oil: Hosea 2:8; 4:6, 12, 14; 5:4; Joel 1:10; 2:14, 19,
24
  Swearing Oaths: Leviticus 5:4-6,10; Nehemiah 10:29; Ezra 10:11;
Psalm 37:28; Luke 12:2-4
  Cornerstone: Isaiah 28:14-18; Psalm 118:22
  Square & Compass: (Pike: Symbols of Isis/Osiris, kneel & kiss) 1 Kings
19:18
  Apis Bull: (Second degree initiation) Exodus 32
  False Death, Burial, Resurrection: Luke 11:29-30; Romans 5:5-6;
Colossians 2:12; 1 Peter 3:21
  Phallic Obelisks: Jeremiah 43:13; Deuteronomy 7:5; 12:3; 16:22;
Leviticus 26:1; Ezekiel 8:5; Exodus 23:24; 34:13; Hosea 3:4; 10:1-2; 1
Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 3:2; 10:26-27; 17:10; 18:4; 23:14; 2 Chronicles
14:3; 31:1; Micah 5:12-15
 Symbols and Regalia: Isaiah 57:3-13
  Baphomet: (Pike’s Hermaphroditic Goat which is a spirit of lust)
Leviticus 17:7; 2 Chronicles 11:15
  Rough/Smooth Ashlar: Exodus 20:25
  Isis/Ashtoreth/Astarte: Jeremiah 7; 44
  Myth of Osiris, Nile, Crocodile, Astrology: Ezekiel 32:1-10
  Facing East: Ezekiel 8:16; cf.  Ezekiel 43:17 (facing west)
  Sun, Moon, and Stars (Astrology): Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:2-5;
Jeremiah 8:1-2; Zephaniah 1:4-6

 
 
 Biblical Encounters with Occult secret societies

  Jeroboam: 1 Kings 12:28-33; 2 Chronicles 13:8

  Manasseh: 2 Kings 21:2-7
  Josiah: 2 Kings 23:5-15; 2 Chronicles 34:33
  Zerubbabel: Zechariah 4:6-10 (cf.  Plumbline: Amos 7:7-8)
  Jesus & the Pharisees: Jeremiah 7:9-11; Matthew 6:22-24; 23:25-26;
Luke 8:16-18; 11:29-36
  Paul & the Pharisees: Acts 23:12, 16, 23-24
   Yoked with Unbelievers: 2 Corinthians 6:14-17

The Fraternity of the Pharisees

 “To realize the state of religious society at the time of our Lord, the fact that the
Pharisees were a regular “order,” and that there were many such “fraternities,”
in great measure the outcome of the original Pharisees, must always be kept in
view.

 The Pharisees were avowedly a “Chabura” — that is, a fraternity or “guild” —

[In Acts 23:12,] we need not wonder that the rage of the whole “order” against
Paul should have gone to an extreme . . . A grosser outrage on every principle
and vow . . . of being of the whole “Chabura” could scarcely be conceived than
the conduct of St. Paul and the views which he avowed.”  
 – Alfred Edersheim Sketches of Jewish Social Life, 1876, pp.  208-218

Today’s Encounters with occult secret societies

 
Freemasonry distorts the truth: Acts 20:28-31; 1 Timothy 4:7; 5:21; 2 Peter 2:1-
3

 “Let us take a look at the number of great Bible classes for men which have
been organized by the Church.  Many of these classes are being led by
enlightened Masons . . . these laymen are bringing into the interpretation of the
Bible many of Masonry’s great revelations.”  
 – Leaves from Georgia Masonry (Educational and Historical Commission of
the Grand Lodge of Georgia, 1947), p. 74.
 
How God Overcomes & Redeems from occult secret societies

  Passover: Exodus 12
  Baptism: Romans 6:3-11
  Secret Knowledge: Mark 4:11-12
  Light: 1 John 1:5-7
  Destroy regalia: Deuteronomy 7:25-26
o  Two stories about masonic rings
  Three commands to leave (because of three oaths in the third degree
initiation)

 Spirits Operating with occult secret societies

  The curse of the Luciferian doctrine

  A spirit or spirits of Anti-Christ (1 John 4:1-3)
  A spirit of Idolatry
   Spirits of witchcraft and occultism (in severe cases, poltergeist may be
troublesome)
  Spirits of mockery
  The “all seeing third eye” in the forehead (an Illuminati symbol may
manifest if there has been heavy family involvement)
  Mental confusion
  Spiritual apathy
  Emotional hardness
  Spirits Operating with Occult Freemasonry
  Doubt, skepticism, and unbelief
  Comprehension difficulties
  Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
  Mental illness
  Infirmities and bodily weakness
  Sicknesses and chronic illness
  Allergies (a most frequent manifestation)
  Financial disaster
  Untimely death
  Debilitating terminal illness

 Breaking Wicked Dedications Over Our Generations

 Because a third degree initiate receives a curse of death three times in the
ceremony of Hiram Abiff, these generational seals must be broken three times. 
Francis MacNutt says that seals of dedication can be contracted in blood, in
words, or by desire. 

 “To break free from any contract the person has made, he needs to renew his
baptismal promises or their equivalent three times [including renouncing
Satan’s works and turning toward the goodness of Christ.] After renewing his
promises the person needs to break and take back the contract.  He should do
it as specifically as it was made.  Have him renounce it three times.  With the
authority of Jesus Christ the exorcist breaks the seal, then proceeds with the
deliverance.”     – Francis MacNutt, Deliverance from Evil Spirits, 1995, pp.
220-221.

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