Freemasonry Invisible Cult
Freemasonry is an invisible cult that has a long history in many countries.
JAH-BUL-ON
Jahbulon, identified by the Masonic Ritual, combines 3 deities! It is a mix of "Jehovah" with 2 Pagan deities!Here is an actual scanned copy from the "Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor or guide to the three symbolic degrees of the Ancient York Rite and to the degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and the Royal Arch" by Malcolm C. Duncan, David McKay Company, Inc. New York
the secret society can only reveal these secrets or the true meaning of the symbols once the initiate reaches the next or highest degree.
Albert Pike writes: "The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Some 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 them. (Pike, p 819)
WHO IS THE LIGHT?
A candidate is blindfolded, a rope is put around his neck and led to the door of the lodge he knocks. A voice responds: "Who comes here?" The guide responds to Mr. (initiator's name), who has long been in darkness and seeks to be brought to light.Albert Pike has already claimed:"...the true and pure philosophical religion is the BELIEF IN LUCIFER, THE EQUAL OF ADONAY but Lucifer, God of Light and God of GOOD..."
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If the candidate is a Christian, he has just insulted Jesus, who said in John 8:12 “I AM THE LIGHT of the world He who follows ME shall NOT walk in DARKNESS, but have the LIGHT OF LIFE"
The initiate continues to be deceived as he progresses in the Lodge and begins to partake in rituals that glorify a man named Hiram Abiff, a biblically disguised name for Lucifer!
HIRAM ABIFF who is he?
The initiate continues to be deceived as he progresses in the Lodge and begins to partake in rituals that glorify a man named Hiram Abiff, a biblically disguised name for Lucifer!
HIRAM ABIFF who is he?
Hiram Abiff is the Masonic "Christ Figure"! He is the "hero" idolized by every Mason, as you will learn in the Hiram legend I will discuss next! In the scriptures, He is the King of Tyre (2 Chron 2:3,11), and in Ezekiel 28:12-19 we find that the King of Tyre is revealed as Lucifer himself.
Hiram Abiff, a Biblically disguised name for Lucifer, in the "Duncan's Ritual and Monitor," is glorified as the "greatest man in the world" (page 88), and on page 114, he is defined as "your Worshipful Grand Master." On pages 112-115, Master Mason, or a degree candidate, places a curse upon himself by an oath as guilty for the death of Hiram.
Every Christian, by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, is the destruction of Lucifer! Every Christian who goes through this ritual is ritualistically REPENTING for destroying or having anything to do with the destruction of Lucifer and spiritually places themselves in agreement with Lucifer! You cannot serve TWO masters!
(Rom 16:20 KJV) And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
(Ezek 28:7-9 KJV)
Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers (Christians) upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords (the Word of God) against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them slain amid the seas. Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
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The Mason, who now becomes possessed by this "Spirit of Hiram" through this ritual and oath, which I will quote below, but not knowing it, begins to quench the power and presence of the Holy Spirit in their church. Pastors can feel the oppression when a Mason sits in the pew as he preaches, and they feel the hindrance of their spirit as though they are challenged by that spirit to proclaim the truth of the gospel or even to rebuke the sins of the Masonic Lodge. There is a FEAR to confront Masons by a demon spirit that has taken them captive. Ask any Pastor who loves the Lord Jesus and has tried to confront the sins of the Masons in his church. You should try to engage a Mason, and you will learn exactly what I am speaking about!
I trust and believe that is why the presence and power of the Holy Spirit are forbidden in denominations that freely accept Masons into their congregations and allow them into their pulpits as Elders, Deacons, and Pastors! The Masonic devil infiltrating the churches, although they appear to be Christian outwardly, is actually working with the powers of darkness to drive the power and presence of the Holy Spirit out of God's churches, turning these churches into dead sepultures! These lifeless churches claim to know God, but they freely excuse sin and deny God's power to deliver one from sin. They refuse to believe in the power of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that these gifts can operate in the church today, and they buy the excuse that the powers of these gifts passed away with the apostles. This antichrist spirit drives the spirit of Christ out!
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Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God, but in works, they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
2 Tim. 3:4-5
In the last days.....Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Every Christian who Takes the following oath puts himself under a curse when he proclaims:
"Oh! That my throat had been cut across, my tongue torn out by its roots, and buried in the rough sands of the sea ... ere I had been accessory to the death of so good a man as our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff." (Duncan's Ritual and Monitor page 112).
Then the Mason exercises a ritual of Raising Hiram Abiff FROM THE DEAD!
"K. S. -- You twelve Fellow Crafts will now go and assist in RAISING THE BODY." (page 116)
The ritual is SATANIC! Wherewith Jesus, the ONLY one to ever rise from the dead, has in this ritual been replaced by the Lodge member with Lucifer through the name of Hiram Abiff!
Needless to say, Hiram is not, nor was, "a good man"! He was, like all men, a sinful man. Jesus declared that there is "none good but God" and that "ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Matt. 19:17; Rom. 3:10,12, 23)
There is no evidence in scripture that Hiram ever believed in the God of Israel (which has always been a requirement for salvation) and may be in the very heart of Hell today as a sinful man who never repented of his wicked deeds and a worshipper of pagan gods (idols)! ALL we know from scripture is that he was hired to build the Temple in Jerusalem.
The fabricated stories of the Lodge to glorify such a man were skillfully designed to entice the Lodge members to exalt Lucifer through a name that they could not recognize as the very enemy of our souls himself! To blatantly use the name of Lucifer would have run away many Lodge members in their earlier degrees long before they could ever be indoctrinated to accept that Lucifer is the "Light-bearer," as Albert Pike declares!
For the scanned copies of the above pages in the Masonic Manual showing this accursed ritual and the scriptures of the Curse of Hiram, click Curse of Hiram Ritual.
MASONIC MYTH ON THE DEATH OF HIRAM
In the Masonic ritual, the initiates are taught that Hiram was killed before he could finish building King Solomon's Temple. They claim that Hiram possessed secrets by which they could "earn a Masters wage". Knowing that the Temple was near completion, 15 Fellow Crafts entered a conspiracy to gain these secrets or take his life. In refusing to give this "Master Word," three "ruffians" named "Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum" killed Hiram. They claim Hiram is eventually buried near the "Holy of Holies" of the Temple. In Master Mason (3rd degree) ritual, the Masonic initiate partakes in a ritual of raising Hiram from the dead using the secret grip of Master Mason and the 5 points of fellowship while speaking a "substitute" word for the "lost Master Word," which I will abbreviate M__ H__ B__. (Duncans Ritual pages 119-123)While many Masons believe this story accurate, I would like to end this myth with scripture! The scriptures declare that, 13 years after the Temple was completed, King Solomon gave Hiram 20 cities (it appears these cities were for payment or a bonus to Hiram for his work. Yet Hiram despised them and was not pleased with this gift or payment)!
1 Kings 9:1
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
1 Kings 9:10-12
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king's house, [11] (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. [12] And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.
(For those who wish to dig into this more, King Solomon began the building of the Temple in his 4th year of reign (1 King 6:1), and it was completed in the 11th year, which was 7 years in the building of it (1 Kings 6:14, 37-38). At the end of 20 years (1 Kings 9:10), which is 13 years after the completion of the Temple, Solomon gives Hiram the cities)
Although the Temple was completed in 7 years, it then took another 13 years for Solomon to build his own house (1 King 7:1) 1 Kings chapter 8 gives the detailed dedication ceremony for the Temple and in chapter 9 Solomon gives Hiram the cities as payment.
Then, 13 years after the temple was completed, Solomon gave Hiram 20 cities!
Sorry Hiram, I guess you didn't get your "Masters wage" you desired from Solomon!
(1 Kings 9:27 again mentions Hiram sending Navy servants to Solomon long after the Temple was completed).
In the Masonic Ritual, the Lodge members play out the role of killing Hiram (played by one of their members). They then proceed in the ritual of raising him from the dead as the Hiram actor plays dead, then raised from the dead!
CAN YOU EVENGELIZE YOUR PERISHING MASON "BROTHERS"?
Let me ask you, CAN YOU PREACH the gospel of JESUS CHRIST AT YOUR MEETINGS? Can you tell your Muslim or Hindu "brother" that he MUST be born again by faith in Jesus Christ to enter heaven? (John 3:3)
Of course NOT, it's forbidden! Yet the scripture says:
(2 Tim 4:5 KJV)
"... do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry."
"Masonry, around whose alters the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucious and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim." (Morals and Dogma, pg 226, Albert Pike)
"Masonry, around whose alters the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucious and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim." (Morals and Dogma, pg 226, Albert Pike)
2 Cor. 6:14-17
Condemns this theology by Albert Pike! Pike's doctrine is similar to the cult called "Unitarianism", which teaches that ALL religions have the truth needed to be saved by doing good works! But God declares that these false religions are temples of devils and that we should separate ourselves from them!
2 Cor. 6:14-17
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? [15] And what concord hath Christ with Belial (Baal)? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? [16] And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk-in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [17] Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
THE "POINT WITHIN THE CIRCLE"
What does it mean? Albert Mackay, 33° explains its deeper meaning:
“The point within the circle is an...important symbol in Freemasonry, but it has been debased in the lectures (given in lodges) that the sooner that the interpretation is forgotten by the Masonic
Student, the better it will be. The symbol is a beautiful but somewhat abstruse allusion to the OLD SUN-WORSHIP and introduces us for the first time to the modification of it, known among the ANCIENTS AS THE WORSHIP OF THE PHALLUS. (Albert Mackey, The Manual of the Lodge, Clark Maynard Co., New York, 1870, p. 156)
Webster's Dictionary defines "Phallus" - “A representation or image of the penis as the reproductive organ, worshipped as a symbol of generative power, as in the Dionysiac festivals of ancient Greece.
The Washington Monument, built by the masons, in truth, is an obscenity and idol of pagan worship! You will find this obscenity over many graves of deceased masons, who, although they claimed to be Christian, forsook the cross and traded it in for an obelisk!
The Obelisk in the Bible is called “Asherah” in Hebrew, and the KJV uses the word “groves”!
For a deeper study with photos and Biblical history of the symbol, click Obelisk.
OSIRIS AND ISIS
The initiation rites and rituals of the Masonic Lodge come from the ancient Egyptian pagan gods Osiris and Isis. Osiris and Isis is a Romeo and Juliet-type legend in which Osiris is cut into pieces, and his lover Isis searches and finds all of his pieces except his genital organ. Without this part, she could not restore him to life. The story is symbolized in the “Hiramic Legend.”
Albert Pike mentions Osiris and Isis on p.476 (Morals and Dogmas). Therefore, in the 24th degree (Masonic Ritual), we have recited the principal incidents in the legend of Osiris and Isis …
On page 22 he writes: “Masonry, the successor of the Mysteries, STILL FOLLOWS the ancient manner of teaching. Her ceremonies are like the ANCIENT MYSTIC SHOWS.”
Then Albert Mackey writes: “.. the secret worship of the pagan gods. Each of the pagan gods had, besides the public and open, A SECRET WORSHIP paid to him, to which none were admitted but those who had been selected by PREPARATORY CEREMONIES CALLED INITIATION.” (Albert Mackey, Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, p.497)
Admittedly, the very initiation into the Masonic lodge, according to Albert Mackey 33°, and its symbols touch the ceremonies of ancient pagan worship.
Below is the pentagram of the Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.), and the same pentagram of Satanism (the Baphomet, also known as the Goat of Mendes)! Notice any similarities?
Order of the Eastern Star! Baphomet of Satanism and Witchcraft!
Another symbol is the Sun (Osiris). In the Temple, the Lodge members face east to worship the Sun God "On" identified in the square and compass with a capital "G." Higher degree masons (or Past Worshipful Masters) get the emblem with the Sun God (Osiris) instead of the "G," showing Osiris himself.
These symbols shown, the latter two on the car of a Mason, replace the Sun God "Osiris" in the place of the "G", identifying the God of freemasonry! Albert Pike reveals what they are: "Osiris and Isis were the Sun and Moon … and is the All-Seeing Eye in our Lodges … Osiris was invoked as the God that resides in the Sun" (Morals and Dogma, pg 476-477)
The scriptures reveal that these men in the Lodge, who face to the East in their Lodges (Temples), are acting out the same abominations as the men of Judah who were committing idolatry in God's house in Old Testament times!
Ezekiel 8:16-17
And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the SUN toward the east.
[17] Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here?
The All-Seeing Eye of Osiris in the Lodge!
Another symbol is the white apron, which covers the Lodge member's private parts, even as Adam and Eve covered themselves with leaves to cover their shame and nakedness. It is symbolic of MAN'S attempt to hide his sins by his OWN good works rather than trusting Jesus! It is, according to the scriptures, the blood of Jesus Christ that removes our shame, not an apron with pagan symbols of foreign God's sown on!
THE BLUE DEGREE MASON HAS BEEN WILLFULLY DECEIVED BY ITS HIGHER RANKING MEMBERS!
The Bible nev
er calls God "the Great Architect of the Universe,” He is the CREATOR, and His name is JESUS!
Albert Pike writes: "The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Some 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 them. (Pike, p 819)
Albert Pike writes: "The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Some 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 them. (Pike, p 819)
How do you like being intentionally LIED to! Do you REALLY know what the symbols you wear and stick on your car or lapel mean? For example, Tubal-Cain (the putter with two golf balls) is a joke on you. It's a “2-ball cane” with a strong sexual connotation.
1 Corinthians 10:21 "You cannot partake of the Lord's table and the table of demons.”
What does this symbol mean on the back of your Dollar Bill? It shows how high the Masonic Lodge goes past the 32 degrees!
THE MASONIC LURE!
The Masonic Lodge can make you rich as they purpose to favor each other and do business with one another! The "Fraternal" brothers are obligated by oath to help one another in every way! It has a "Form of Godliness" and an appearance of "Good Works." Leave the Masonic Lodge, and these "Good men" will threaten, slander, and bankrupt the former member and destroy his reputation! They don't have the mind of Christ, but the evil wisdom of the world (James 3:14:18)
Here is a recent threat that was sent to me from a Mason! I suppose he thinks he is a "Good Man" while making godless threats to create a devilish fear, revealing the spirit of the Lodge, the spirit of fear! When I tried to write him the same day, he, being cowardice, had used a phony email address, and my message was returned as "undeliverable":
"Shut this site down or suffer the consequences!"
I questioned him about what consequences he proposed! Bodily harm? Murder? And yet they claim to be "Good men"?
In conclusion:
The Masonic initiate cannot mention the name of Jesus to his Muslim fraternal brother! But be warned:
THE MASON MAY AQUIRE RICHES, BUT HE WILL LOSE HIS OWN SOUL!
Mark 8:34-38 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
THE MASON MAY APPEAR GODLY, BUT HE IS A TRAITOR!
(2 Tim 3:2 -5 KJV) For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
THE MASON APPEARS BEAUTIFUL OUTWARDLY, BUT INWARDLY HE IS UNCLEAN!
(Mat 23:27-28 KJV) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Don't be deceived by the "outward appearance" of the Shriner with the crippled boy photos and the Shriner hospitals, which are only a coverup to their wicked deeds done behind closed doors!
THE MASON CLAIMS FELLOWSHIP WITH THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE DEVIL!
2 Cor. 6:14-17 Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial (Baal)? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel (unbeliever)?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
"Masonry, around whose alters the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucious and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim." (Morals and Dogma, pg 226, Albert Pike)
The Muslim worships the Meccan moon god idol, "Allah!" The Hindus worship 300,000,000 million idol gods! Yet the Christian Mason, forbidden by oath to evangelize his fellow Mason, disregards the scripture by fellowshipping with "Unbelievers, unrighteousness, darkness, Belial or Baal, idols!" The scripture says you MUST come out from among them and be separate! Your allegiance should be to Jesus Christ and your Christian Church ... NOT the Masonic Lodge!
IF YOU WISH TO SUPPORT A HOSPITAL, BUILD OR SUPPORT A CHRISTIAN ONE!
In June 1986, a daily newspaper in Florida, the Orlando Sentinel, published a report on the Shrine Hospital program. 98% of the money the Shriners raised in these circuses wasn't going to the hospitals. It went to the Shriners for their parties. Ninety-eight percent of the money they raise at these hospital gatherings went toward the parties for which they are so well known. Ninety-eight percent went to their little cars, boats, temples, hats, and stuff. Two percent went to the hospitals.
If you would like to know where your "Shriner" money is going, look at their "Shrines" (Temples), Harley-Davidsons, go-carts, jewelry, and the cars they drive! Are they any different than the covetous prosperity preachers who use an honorable and charitable cause to fatten their pocketbooks?
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FREEMASONRY IS A SATANIC CULT! REPENT AND GET OUT NOW!
What in the world are you doing in the Masonic Lodge?
Have you really researched to find out what you are involved with? IGNORANCE is No excuse when you stand before the throne of God. According to Albert Pike and Albert Mackey, you are training to be Lucifer's disciple. Even Aleister Crowley, a master SATANIST and antichrist, was a Mason (Masonry Beyond the Light, page 204).
William Schnoebelen (former 32° Mason now Christian), as a former witch, was encouraged to become a Mason to perfect his witchcraft! http://www.withoneaccord.org/
The only way to break the curse of your oath is to REPENT! Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive you, and get OUT! Stop paying your dues, and destroy your Mason symbols and literature!
By oath, the fellow Mason can murder (see footnote at bottom) another Mason who leaves the Lodge. Yet, Jesus said, "Do not fear them!"
Mat 10:26-28 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear that preach ye upon the housetops.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which can destroy both soul and body in hell.
The Masonic Lodge is indeed and knowingly deceiving you. You must research to find out what you are part of!
"For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink IN MY NAME, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward." (Mark 9:41)
Don't let Freemasonry receive the glory for your good deeds! In heaven, there are no rewards for your good deeds in Freemasonry's name. Jesus gets ALL the GLORY! Period
Hosea 4:6
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
Every Mason who takes the blood oath has placed his family under a curse! If you repent, Jesus will break the curse by HIS blood!
I have met many Masons through the years who have testified of tragic and horrible deaths in their immediate family!
Please don't stop here! Dig deeper at this website for more detailed knowledge about FREEMASONRY.
For more information, read:
"Masonry Beyond the Light” by William Schnoebelen (former 32° Mason), 1991, Chick Publications P.O. Box 662, Chino, CA 91708-0662. Tel. (909) 987-0771; Fax. (909)941-8128 or visit his website at: http://www.withoneaccord.org/
“ Facts on The Masonic Lodge" by John Ankerberg & John Weldon, 1989, Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, Oregon 97402
"Freemasonry" by Jack Harris (former Worshipful Master), 1983, Whitaker House, 30 Hunt Valley Circle, New Kensington, PA 15068
Footnote on Masonic murders: A detailed description of the kidnapping and execution of Captain William Morgan was recorded by Rev. Charles Finney in the book The Character, Claims and Practical Workings of Freemasonry, written in 1879, copyrighted, sold, and transferred to the Ezra A. Cook and Co. in Chicago, Illinois, March 14,1879. The book is available in the Library of Congress in Wash. D.C. (Also found in "Freemasonry" by Jack Harris pg 116-128)
After Morgans's murder, 45,000 Masons quit the Lodge.
President John Quincy Adams, President of the U.S from 1825-1829 also referenced the Murder of Morgan in a speech where he spoke out against the Masonic Lodge! President Adams's speech gives the complete details of the conspiracy of 6 Lodges and 69 Masons, some in high-ranking governmental positions in State and Military offices, working together for the planned execution of one of their own members who revealed the secrets of the Lodge.
"A more perfect agent for the devising and executing conspiracies against church or state could scarcely have been conceived."
"Freemasons, so far from thinking themselves to be violating, were following the injunction they felt to be laid upon them in their oaths. The law of Masonry was to them more than that of civil government or the Deity, even when it was known directly to conflict with them." "The men who actually participated in the murder have gradually dropped off (disappeared by the help of foreign Masons) until it may be said that not a single individual remains within the United States. But they lived and died secure from every danger of legal punishment. The oath of Masonry conflicted with the duty to society and God and succeeded in setting it aside."
( Above quotes from President John Quincy Adams's speech)
Rev. D. L. Moody boldly spoke out against Freemasonry!
Masons are still willing to kill today to guard their dark secrets.
Masons are running Pastors out of the pulpit when they speak out against Freemasonry!
Here is an excellent Sermon preached by a Pastor to his congregation when he resigned from the Lodge!
Masons are still willing to kill today to guard their dark secrets.
Masons are running Pastors out of the pulpit when they speak out against Freemasonry!
Here is an excellent Sermon preached by a Pastor to his congregation when he resigned from the Lodge!
The Masonic Lodge boasts in Pastors who would prefer to leave the Christian church than resign from the lodge! On this Masonic web page, they give testimony to such a man, a Methodist Pastor Moses F. Shinn, who left the ministry to embrace the Masonic Lodge!
Freemasonry and Southern Baptists.
Freemasonry and the Occult
Satanist Aleister Crowley was a Mason
I have recently come in contact with the book “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority… Esoteric Book, For Scottish Rite use Only; to be returned upon death withdrawal or death of Recipient Copyright 1950. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by Albert Pike, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington".
I believe that every Christian who wishes to determine whether or not the Masonic Lodge is the occult should take a look at this book.
First, I would like to define Esoteric since Albert Pike deems this book to be “Esoteric,” this is the sum and conclusion of all of Freemasonry!
“esoteric” means that it is intended for or understood by only a few chosen people as an inner group of disciples or initiates.
In the Book, Albert Pike gives the significance of every degree from the 1° to the 32° of the Masonic Lodge. It is the most occultic book I have ever laid hands on.
The Kabbalah is often quoted by Albert Pike and used to explain hidden secrets. It is filled with Gnosticism. Gnosticism, in the early days of the Christian church, was a cultic doctrine that arose which taught that salvation was obtained by knowledge.
The 18° of the Masonic Lodge is called “Knight Rose Croix,” recognized by the well-known cult called “Rosicrucian,” which I define below. The Rosicrucians are also tied with another magical cult called the Order of the Golden Dawn. Any web search will reveal the occultic nature of these two Orders. In this chapter, Albert Pike has no trouble comparing Jesus Christ with Osiris, Chrishna, Kioun-tse, Sosiosch, Dhouvanai, Har-Oeri, Love (Plato), and Balder, and the list continues. He goes into a lengthy illustration to show how all these Gods are identical. They were all redeemers of mankind against the powers of darkness.
Every Christian can see the error of this doctrine!
I will finish this page with the definition of Gnosticism and Kabbalah, which the Masonic Lodge seeks. These secrets are so secret that Masons take a death penalty oath to protect them from getting into the wrong hands. In Morals and Dogma, Albert Pike reveals the secrets of the symbols and meanings of the Lodge. There is much detail and comparisons between writings of Christianity, Zoroastrian, Gnostic, Egyptian, Jewish, Philo, Aristotle, and many others as a form of the Unitarian church, where ALL religions have hidden secrets that when applied together by the initiate who has received the illumination of the whole picture, can receive secret hidden power, and in effect, become their own Gods!
The Masonic initiate passes from one degree to the next as high-level Masons determine if they can receive such profound and mystical knowledge. If they are faithful, they can proceed to the next level. Ultimately, the initiate could become empowered by magical powers and the saviors of their own soul by their secret knowledge.
Freemasonry Leads the initiate to Lucifer!
The Mason initiate can rise to 32° simply by paying their fees and going through the Rituals. But to go on to the 33° and higher, they must be personally selected to go on by high-ranking Masons. (A result of their “esoteric” secret or hidden revelations, which can only be given to the particular group of people who can receive it as defined in Kabbalah below.)
I have heard the 33° Mason swear his oath to Lucifer as God! By this time in the Lodge, their minds have been disciplined to grasp the idea that Lucifer means "Light-bearer," which is what every Mason is seeking, and they have rejected the notion that he is Satan!
WM (Worshipful Master) - Why leave the West and travel to the East?
SD (Candidate replies) - In search of Light
(Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry pg 32 Entered Apprentice or 1°)
When they find the light, they find Lucifer! Strongs Concordance defines Lucifer as follows
heylel, hay-lale'; from Hebrew 1984 (halal) (in the sense of brightness); the morning star:- lucifer.
Here is a quote from my email debate with a 32° Mason. This man, who claimed to be a Christian, is now ready to make his sworn oath to Lucifer as God, thinking that it is another name for Jesus:
Did you know that the ancient Christians also called Jesus Lucifer? Bet you didn't. :-) I'll give you a hint. Consult the Latin translation of 2 Peter 1:19. You will see there that Peter speaks of Lucifer arising in our hearts.
D. C. P., 32°, K.T.
On page 102, Albert Pike defines Satan as “the negation of God … For the initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil … They represent this Force … the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend.”
Albert Pike says that the Bible lied when it identified Lucifer as Satan and that Satan is NOT a person, but a Force, by which the Bible's testimony of Lucifer as Satan was a false legend! Thus, he lays the foundation for the exaltation of Lucifer as god!
“LUCIFER, the Light-Bearer! Strange and mysterious name given to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the light … doubt it not!” (Morals and Dogma pg 321)
"The MASONIC RELIGION should be, by all of us of the high degree, maintained in the purity of the LUCIFERIAN doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (sic), whose deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy, and hatred of man, barbarism, and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him?
Yes, LUCIFER IS GOD, and unfortunately, Adonay is also god...
Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy, and the true and pure philosophical religion is the BELIEF IN LUCIFER, THE EQUAL OF ADONAY. Still, Lucifer, God of Light and God of GOOD is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the GOD OF DARKNESS AND EVIL.” (de Larive, A.C., La Femme et l'enfant dans la Franc, Maconnerei Universelle, Paris, 1889, p. 588)
But, in truth, he is FALLEN and has no brightness today.
Ezekiel 28:7-9
Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom and defile thy brightness. [8] They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain amid the seas. [9] Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? But thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
Isaiah 14:12-20
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! [13] For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: [14] I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the highest. [15] Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. [16] They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; [17] That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? [18] All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own home. [19] But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that goes down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet. [20] Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial because thou hast destroyed thy land and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
Gnosticism
Pronunciation: [nostisizm]
History: (Gr gnosis, 'knowledge')
A system of belief that became prominent within 2nd-c Christianity but may have had earlier, non-Christian roots. Gnostics believed that they were an elect group, saved through acquiring secret revealed knowledge about cosmic origins and the true destiny of the spirit within people; in later forms, this knowledge was imparted by a heavenly redeemer figure. Gnosticism was considered a heresy by the early Church Fathers, particularly for its appeal to secret traditions, its deprecatory view of the Creator God, and its docetic view of Christ.
Taken From: Webster's World Encyclopedia 2002. Published by Webster Publishing, 2000. Copyright Webster Publishing and/or contributors.
The Kabala was Kabbalah, and the Supernatural
There has always been a religion for the masses, for the ordinary, average person satisfied with general rules and regulations. So long as he could safely follow a pattern that more or less gave sense to his life and answered what (for lack of a better term) were his spiritual needs, he found fulfillment in his faith and happiness.But there were others to whom this type of faith needed improvement and satisfaction. It needed depth and true meaning. Nevertheless, they also knew that the profound knowledge they craved was beyond man's limited intelligence. Only by mystical vision and ecstatic experience could they approach and, in some exceptional cases, actually attain and preserve this state.
They were conscious that most people could not follow and understand them and that their pursuit and preoccupation carried tremendous mental and spiritual dangers.
Such "esoteric" groups, with their carefully guarded secrets, existed in various ancient cultures.
All esoteric knowledge, of course, was far beyond the grasp of the uninitiated. Its daring speculations would be totally misunderstood by them and, at worst, cause confusion in their minds. From the very beginning, therefore, the exceptional men who steeped themselves in this type of search and mystical contemplation did not reveal it to outsiders. Their refusal was not prompted by false intellectual and spiritual pride or the wish to create an exclusive, power-wielding circle of initiates.
Naturally, those who had acquired the rare and precious insight did not want to see it wasted. To keep it for themselves, therefore, would have defeated the very purpose of their dangerous pioneering mission. So sharing the revelation they had received with those able to absorb it, became to them a sacred duty. Hence the mystic scholars, with great care and caution, selected those they regarded as worthy and ready to have the message revealed to them, thereby becoming a link in that chain transmitting the heritage of esoteric tradition.
To "receive" in Hebrew is called Kabal. The volume of mystical knowledge handed from one generation to another became thus known as Kabbalah, a term which could be rendered as "receiving" and "tradition." But its specific meaning referred exclusively to the carefully transmitted profound mystical insight. The Kabbalah taught that the Bible, apart from the literal meaning of its text, had a deep occult sense in each of its words and letters. To interpret Scripture "in (mystical) depth" was the hallowed task of the Kabbalist!
To begin with, the speculations of the Kabbalah had been taught orally because of their very nature and the danger of their falling into the wrong hands. But they were eventually recorded, through fear of their getting lost. They became the contents of some significant works. These included The Book of Creation, The Alphabet of Rabbi Akiba, and The Book of Splendor or the Zohar, which, in fact, has been called "the Bible of Mysticism." Other manuscripts of a similar kind were discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The knowledge of the Kabbalah and sure of its most treasured details, however, remained the exclusive property of some few individuals who claimed the unique gift of mystical intuition. They further developed the occult message they had received and became experts in supernatural art and practice. Greatly revered, they were at times looked upon as "wonder-workers." But as was only to be expected under the circumstances, the secret lore also presented a fruitful field for abuse. Unscrupulous men exploited it and exploited it for their enrichment and power.
The Kabbalah was assiduously studied by many mystics and searchers after supernatural wisdom, regardless of faith. It helped them in their exploration and possible application of the profound secrets of existence. The Kabbalah has proved an advantageous source for devoted study and left a deep imprint on the art and teaching of the occult.
The Kabbalah was assiduously studied by many mystics and searchers after supernatural wisdom, regardless of faith. It helped them in their exploration and possible application of the profound secrets of existence. The Kabbalah has proved an advantageous source for devoted study and left a deep imprint on the art and teaching of the occult.
See Also: Kabbalah paranormal.
"All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it: everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the Illuminati… is borrowed from the Kabalah; all the Masonic associations owe to it their Secrets and their Symbols". (Morals and Dogma, pg 744, Albert Pike)
Rosicrucians,
international fraternal order devoted to the pursuit of esoteric wisdom. (mysterious means that it is intended for or understood by only a few chosen people as an inner group of disciples or initiates) Two orders in the United States are the Rosicrucian Fraternity and the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, usually abbreviated AMORC. The former group has a headquarters in Quakertown, Pennsylvania; the latter group has an international headquarters in San Jose, California.
Both groups hold that the order began in remote antiquity in Egypt and continued through periods of deliberate secrecy. Rosicrucian teachings combine elements of Egyptian Hermetism (Magic, alchemic which is the power to change one thing into another by magic), Gnosticism (an occult salvation system, stressing knowledge as essential for salvation. A combination of mythology, ancient Greek philosophy, ancient religions and Christianity) , Jewish Cabalism (an occult philosophy of certain Jewish Rabbis, esp. in the Middle ages, based on a mystical interpretation of the Scriptures),
and other occult beliefs and practices.
and other occult beliefs and practices.
Many scholars believe that the order actually developed in Germany after the publication of the Fama Fraternitatis and the Confessio Rosae Crucis (1614, 1615; The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross; trans. 1652). These pamphlets record a journey to the Orient made by a pseudonymous Christian, Rosenkreuz, who was said to have lived at least a century earlier; they claim that the movement was founded by Rosenkreuz to impart the secret wisdom he had gained. The symbol of Rosicrucianism is a combination of the rose and the cross, from which the order takes its name.
From "Rosicrucians," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Definition of "Gnosticism" and "Cabalism" from Webster's New World College Dictionary.
Masons:
In many other groups, loosely attached in some way to the York Rite, members are usually selected but sometimes are elected. They are interested in unique aspects of Masonry, including Masonic research. They are offshoots of the main stem. Among them are the Royal Order of Scotland, the Allied Masonic Degrees, the Red Cross of Constantine, the Masonic Rosicrucian Society (SRICF), the Rite of Strict Observance (CBCS), the Grand College of Rites, Knight Masons, Order of Corks, the York Cross of Honour, the Blue Friars, and the Holy Royal Arch Knights Templar Priests. There are also what might be called “fun degrees,” such as the Shrine, the Grotto, and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, many of which are of considerable size. In addition, some tiny groups cater to students of unique aspects of the Craft.
From "Freemasonry," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Some statements in Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
Masonry, like all religions, all Mysteries, Hermeticism, and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve to be misled to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for those who are unworthy, unable to receive it, or would pervert it. So God Himself incapacitated many men, by color-blindness, to distinguish colors and led the masses away from the highest Truth, giving them the power to attain only so much of it as it is profitable to them to know. Every age has had a religion suited to its capacity.
The Teachers, even of Christianity, are generally the most ignorant of the true meaning of what they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible. It is as incomprehensible as the Sohar*to most who read it.
So Masonry jealously conceals its secrets and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray. (Morals and DogmaPages 104-105)
* Sohar is defined by Albert Pike on page 321 as “the completest embodiments of Occultism.”
All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it: everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the Illuminati… is borrowed from the Kabalah; all the Masonic associations owe to it their Secrets and their Symbols. (Morals and Dogma, pg 744, Albert Pike)
Masonry, around whose alters the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucious and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim (Morals and Dogma, pg 226)
The first Masonic Legislator whose memory is preserved to us by history was Buddah (pg 277)
Every Masonic Lodge is a Temple of religion, and its teachings are instructions in faith (pg 213)
Therefore, in the 24th degree (Masonic Ritual), we have recited the principal incidents in the legend of Osiris and Isis … Everything good in Nature comes from Osiris… Osiris was the image of generative power. This was expressed by his symbolic statues … Osiris and Isis were the Sun and Moon … and is the All-Seeing Eye in our Lodges … Osiris was invoked as the God that resides in the Sun (pp. 474-477)
"The Supreme being of the Egyptians was Amun, a secret and concealed God, the Unknown Father of the Gnostics, the Source of Divine Life, and of all force, the Plenitude of all, comprehending all things in Himself, the original Light. He creates nothing, but everything emanates from Him, and all other Gods are but his manifestations. From Him, by the utterance of a Word, Neith, the Divine Mother of all things, the Primitive THOUGHT, the FORCE, that puts everything in movement, the SPIRIT everywhere extended, the Deity of Light and Mother of the Sun.
Of the Supreme beings, Osiris was the image, Source of all Good in the Moral and Physical World, and a constant foe of Typhoon, the Genius of Evil, the Satan of Gnosticism, brute matter, deemed to be always at feud with the spirit that flowed from the Deity; and over whom Har-Oeri, the Redeemer, Son of Isis and Osiris, is finally to prevail." (pg 281)
Freemasonry is simply a conglomerate of combining all religions of the World and comparing them to be one and the same god, manifested to different civilizations by different names. So a Mason must believe in “a god” to join the Lodge!
According to Albert Pike, Freemasonry is THE religion of ALL religions. The embodiment of revelation to the “Elect” of the hidden secrets of ALL faiths, wherein they can find eternal life!
Thus, every Mason is, in effect, forsaking what the Bible says:
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
2 Cor. 6:14-17
Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial (Baal)? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel (unbeliever)?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
http://members.tripod.com/crossbearer-brian/id158.htm
Exposing the Masons
Here is an excerpt from my journal notes on the work the Lord had given to me to expose this cult. In Jonesboro, LA, I placed an envelope on every church door in the county with information about this cult. NO Pastor has ANY excuse for not informing their church of the dangers of the curse of the oath, the worship of another god (idolatry), and replacing Jesus by calling a man their Worshipful Master in the Masonic Lodge.
If you are a Christian, and you wish to expose this cult in your town, please write, and I will give you some help on how to do so!
Jonesboro, Louisiana
4-13-2001Friday
Walked the cross in Jonesboro. During the day, many people stopped by to give me their approval, many of whom are Christian. I did have a long talk with an unsaved man who would not convert to Jesus, but I asked him to come to church on Sunday, and I think he was seriously considering it.
A woman stopped to give me some water. She loved the Lord and said she was in tears when she saw me. They had been talking about me at her church last night. She had done much study about the Masonic Lodge in the past and rejoiced that I was speaking out against it. She asked me to attend their church service tonight, which started at 7PM. I told her I had made a commitment, but I would try to be there if things changed. I wanted to see Dr. James Kennedy's movie “Who is this Jesus” tonight.
So in the evening, I went to Charles and Ileene's home to have dinner and see the movie. They could not get it, so they called a friend who would tape it for us to see on another day. I decided I would go to the church service. I got to my van, and the van wouldn't start. After 15 minutes, I put my head on the steering wheel and said, “Well, Lord, I guess I wasn't supposed to go to the church tonight.” Charles came out to help, and finally, I put it in neutral, and it started. The park was not engaged completely. I later learned that the woman who invited me to the church was very ill and knew that I would be there tonight, so she came to church anyway, asking some friends to pray for her.
When I arrived at the Brown Grove Baptist Church (see the picture below), they all seemed to know who I was, and I took a seat. There were several churches gathered together here, and the place was packed. The guest preacher had just begun his sermon. I listened to him preach a message of walking in holiness after you are saved. When he was finished, my host sat next to me, and she said, “Do you want to speak?” I didn't, but I said, “Well, sure.” She instructed, “When the woman up front asks for the guests to stand up, just say whatever you want!” But the woman never gave the invitation, which was very abnormal. So my host stood up and said, “Maybe all of you have seen this man who carries the cross around town. He has been to Spain, France, and many other places. I would like to introduce you to Brian O'Connell.” So she told me to go up front. I later learned that over 40 ministers in the front were all Masons. As I walked forward, I asked where I should speak from. They pointed to the podium on the lower floor.
So I walked up to the microphone, introduced myself, and gave my testimony. I shared how I came to this city and the heavy darkness over this area. Several said, “Amen!” I said, “Some of you may not like me for saying this, but if you are in the Masonic Lodge, you have put a curse on you and your home, and the only thing that can break the curse is the blood of Jesus.
If you will repent, he will set you free!” One or two who knew about the Lodge said, “Amen!” Every minister dropped his head in shame. Some looked at me in anger. I said, “The best alter call we could have tonight is that every Mason and every woman in the Eastern Star will come forward and break the curse by repenting. And I assure you, the Lord will pour His Spirit upon this place!”
No one moved!
No one moved!
The Pastor looked around at his superiors for someone to silence me. None did! The angels of the Lord held them at bay! Then he stood at the upper podium, hoping to find an opportunity to interrupt. But it was too late. The truth had been spoken. A surprisingly small group applauded me for the testimony and rebuke against the Masons.
As I went to my seat, a woman hugged me. She, too, knew about the lodge and its secrets and was against it. The Pastor NEVER said a word about me or my rebuke. He simply went on with the service as if I never existed. That's OK! I'm not looking for his approval but the approval of my heavenly Master, Jesus Christ.
After the service, of the 40 ministers, only one came to greet me. He said he was not Mason and wanted to know more about it since he had spoken against it to a fellow deacon who got mad and walked out on him. Other church members and guests who had either left the Lodge or had learned about the errors of the Lodge came over to greet me. My host wanted me to meet some other people, and as we were walking out, I noticed a Deacon of this church with a Shriner's pin on his lapel.
I gave him my Mason tract. He began to question me. I asked him, “What is the name of your Worshipful Master?” He looked at me, confused. “What are you talking about?” he said. So I repeated myself, and he became confused. It was clear that he didn't know whether I was asking him for the name of his Lodge Worshipful Master or the Lord Jesus Christ. He finally blurted out, “Jesus Christ!” as he caught on.
When I asked him about JAH BUL ON, he denied any knowledge of this word and said he had never heard that word before. This is interesting since two weeks ago, another Mason helped correct me on its proper pronunciation, helping me say it correctly. I told the Shriner, “God's word says that all liars will have their part in the lake of fire. Whether you're telling me the truth is between you and God!”
Mason's cornerstone is shown on this church wall.
The man then told me that I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the Shriners. I looked back at him and said, “I'm still here because of Jesus Christ, NOT the Masons!” He then began to argue, so I started to pray to the Lord for conviction upon this man. As I was praying, he kept grabbing my arm, wanting to defend his satanic cult. I then dropped to my knees as I continued to pray. The man stepped back about 15 feet. He was obviously NOT a man of prayer as he was offended at my pleading with the Lord for this man's soul. I got up to walk out, and he pointed at me from his distance and said, “WHO ARE YOU!” I replied, “My name is Brian O'Connell, and I am a born-again Christian in love with Jesus Christ the Lord!”
I then walked out with my host and several other women who could not believe what they had witnessed that night. They all rejoiced with me and prayed for the Lord's protection over me. They knew that tonight, all hell was breaking loose in this church. I pray that all hell would flee and heaven gates will be opened upon this place.
Closeup of the Masonic Cornerstone with the Mason Idol engraved built into the wall of a Baptist church (as well as other denominations) in Jonesboro, Louisiana.
This blasphemous Masonic cornerstone attempts to replace Jesus Christ! It appears in most Baptist churches in South Louisiana.
Ephes. 2:19-22
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; [20] And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone; [21] In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: [22] In whom ye also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Pastor prayer meeting!
1/10/2002 Thursday
When I arrived home to Crystal River in October, my prayer was, “Lord, in the name of your son Jesus Christ, I ask that you would expose the Masonic Lodge to this community and that many men would repent of it and turn away from it!”
I was invited to attend a “Ministerial Pastor's prayer meeting,” and afterward, we had lunch. During the meal, I met a Pastor who shared with me that he had been a former Mason. He was in the “Knights Templars” of the Masonic Lodge and shared that he had drunk wine from a Human Skull. The Pastor also said that the 63rd degree was called “The Luciferian Degree.”
After the meal, the Pastors discussed various things. At one point, a brother introduced me and asked me to share what happened at the Inverness Christmas parade. I shared my testimony and then spoke boldly against the Masonic Lodge, pleading with the Pastors to speak out against it. Afterward, 2 other Pastors spoke to me favorably, both of whom were former 32nd-degree Masons.
One said that his church was entirely of Masons and that he had been trying to expose it to these men. Many Pastors took my literature to read, including a letter by Charles Finney, a noted 1800 evangelist who spoke boldly against the Masonic Lodge and my Mason tract. Several had received my letter, which I sent to 77 churches county-wide, exposing the Lodge!
I rejoice that the Lord has heard my prayer.
I also prayed to the Lord that if he should want me to return next year to walk the cross in the parade, He would have to do something with the Chief of Police in Inverness.
The Chief of Police arrested Richard last year while walking the cross in the parade after Richard told a Mason he needed to repent. The Chief of Police this year ordered his men to stop me from walking the cross in the parade and passing out my tracts, exposing the Masons. Since then, the Chief of Police has been on national news for an incident with a local restaurant owner who failed to produce hamburgers the officer had ordered. During a dispute over the burgers, the restaurant owner touched the plain-clothed officer's arm and asked him to leave the premises.
The Police Chief had the owner arrested for battery. The county is in an uproar over this action and wants the officer removed from his position. I pray this man will repent and surrender his life to Jesus Christ. My God is greater than the Masonic Lodge! While his fraternal brothers are daily writing articles in the newspaper, trying to appease the public, they simply do NOT have the power and strength of my Lord and God Jesus Christ, whom this man has offended! (2-4-2002 update: I learned recently that the Inverness Chief of Police has been removed from his office)
Pray for his salvation!
Masons Proselytizing Pastors
12/30 Sunday
After the evening service, I went to the gas station for fuel. A Pastor whom I had known for several years asked me if I had some information on Masons. He said he had a friend who had recently become a Mason and that this friend was soliciting him to join the Masons, also. He knew it was a demonic cult and was looking for further information about the Lodge. I gave him my tract and website information. He said that while working as assistant pastor at a local church, 3 men invited him and the Senior Pastor out to lunch.
They propositioned them to become Masons with a promise of building them a church, filling it with 500 hundred people, and assuring them of $500 a week. They even told this man they would make him Pastor of his church with the same benefits right outside of Dunnellon. Shortly after this offer, this man had some differences with the Senior Pastor and left. Since then, this man tells me, the Masons gave the Senior Pastor a Cadillac.
I've held this sign at street corners throughout Citrus County to bring conviction on these men
who have forsaken their faith in Jesus Christ!
I have heard about these schemes by the Masons, but this is the first time I have been given a personal testimony from a Pastor who had been approached by Masons attempting to “buy the church”! Once the Masonic Lodge “builds” the church by buying out the Pastor, the Pastor becomes a servant of the Masonic Lodge and a “worshipful master” who is Not Jesus Christ!
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Last year, after sending out an e-mail with the details of the Parade in Inverness and our assault on the Masonic Lodge cult, a Pastor of a local church asked me to remove him from my mailing list. I suspect he, too, had been bought out by this cult.
Although the Masonic Lodge claims they do NOT solicit members, and the only way “to become one you must ask one,” it is very evident that there is an active evangelism program targeting specific individuals!
The Masonic Lodge is Satan's most strategic plan to corrupt the church and destroy it from within. They make disciples of those within the church, leading them away from Christ.
Acts 20:29-30
For I know this, grievous wolves shall enter in among you after my departing, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?
Psalm 127:1
Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
PLEASE HELP EXPOSE THIS CULT!
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12/8/2001 Inverness, Florida Christmas Parade
Article in last years (Dec. 2000) Citrus Chronicle.
Last year, Richard and I walked the Inverness Parade with the crosses. Near the end of the Parade, as Richard passed out tracts, a man threatened him with physical violence. The man was a Mason, and Richard replied that the man needed to repent. The man angrily stormed away and returned with a police officer, who arrested Richard.
I was unaware that Richard was under arrest and crossed the street, thinking that Richard was witnessing to the officer as Richard himself is a former sheriff and often witnesses to police. Several men watching the parade came over to confront the officer that Richard had done nothing wrong. The officer then threatened these men with arrest if they did not leave, so they did. I asked this officer if I could speak to the chief of police, to which he then said he was the chief of police. The man released Richard with the order that we speak to NO one. As we walked up the street, a man asked us what that was all about. As we spoke to the man, the officer threatened us with an order Not to speak to anyone!
After the parade, I was informed that this man was a Mason himself! I have not searched to prove this statement, but in my spirit, I was cautious that this year, they would try to stop me from walking the cross in this parade.
The end of my gospel tracts includes a link to my website, which exposes the Masons and Shriners, with the words “for more information on cults such as Masons/Shriners….”
Last week, I walked the Crystal River Parade with no hindrances whatsoever! But my suspicion of the Masonic influence on the chief of Police was confirmed at the Inverness Parade when two officers immediately asked me aside and said that I could NOT walk the cross in the parade and could not solicit the people with my tracts. I told the officers I had the same right to walk along the curb as these people do, and I pointed to many other spectators walking past along the curb as I was when stopped. I continued to inform them that these were gospel tracts and that soliciting was asking people for things or selling, so I was NOT soliciting! Nothing is for sale or asked for. I continued, “as I walk and people reach out for a tract, then I give them one.”
I then left the officers to continue to walk the cross and hand out tracts. The officers followed me and asked me to stop again, repeating that I could not walk the cross down the street and hand out my tracts. One officer said that if I didn't stop walking with the cross and passing out the tracts, I would have to speak to the judge on Monday, which was a threat of arrest. I replied, “Then I will talk to the judge on Monday,” as I was determined to walk the cross even if it meant imprisonment. I told the one officer, “The reason your chief of police doesn't want me walking this parade is that he is offended that I am speaking against Masonry!” Surprised, he said, “I don't know what you're talking about!” After the parade, someone told me he was also a Mason. I cannot confirm this to be true! But I do suspicion there are many Masons on this police force.
I turned to continue, and they followed me again, stepping in front of me, not allowing me to pass. With a cruiser and motorcycle officer now present, I consented that I would stay on the sidewalk instead of walking along the curb. They let me go! But at specific points, the crowd was thick all the way between the street and the wall of a building, so I stepped out to the street to get around the crowd, and as I did so, the motorcycle officer who was following me parked his motorcycle quickly and said: “THAT'S IT!” He was about to arrest me, and I said, “Officer, I could NOT get around the people who were obstructing my passage! There is NO room on the sidewalk,” I continued, looking for a place to get back onto the sidewalk.
After this, I could stay on the sidewalk behind the crowd and finish the parade route. Officers at each intersection warned me, “They don't want you handing out your literature.” I kindly replied, “Thank you!” and continued handing out the tracts. I believe that, with the help of about 10-15 precious saints who came to help me pass out the tracts, we placed about 4-5,000 tracts in the hands of the spectators and placed about an equivalent amount into the hands of those who attended the Crystal River Parade last week.
I praise the Lord our God, who gave me the ability to continue to walk the cross when my knees were shaking and I felt great fear as I knew that I was pressing on into the resistance of Satan, who does not want me to expose the Masonic Lodge in this community. I suspect that unless Christians rise up to fight this injustice, one day we will find ourselves in the darkness when no man can work.
John 9:4
I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work.
This scripture sure came true today, as I have walked the cross in the parade for about 7 years. Now, the night is coming, UNLESS the saints rise up and do something about it, we will no longer have the freedom to speak and lift up the name of Jesus Christ without imprisonment or death! We will no longer be able to speak against cults and lies! We will no longer be able to say “REPENT!”
You can visit my website on Freemasonry at http://members.tripod.com/crossbearer-brian/id26.htm
In Christ Jesus our Lord, Brian
For more on my travels in 2001, go to the Year 2001 in Review.
January 2002 Letter sent to Pastors
Dear Pastor,
My name is Brian O’Connell. I carry a cross as a form of street evangelism, leading souls to Christ Jesus as Lord! I have traveled to several other countries as a Missionary!
There is an antichrist spirit growing WITHIN the Christian church which I would like to expose. There is a strong chance that it might even be within YOUR church! It is called Freemasonry!
Ephes. 5:11-12
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. [12] For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
I have included some information for your research on this topic and a website on the Masonic tract for more profound research. I am also including a letter with the words of the noted evangelist of the 1800’s, Charles Finney. Their secret is out!
As a Pastor of the church of Jesus Christ, you are accountable to bring your sheep out of bondage and expose the truth! If you are a “hireling,” you can run and let the wolf devour the sheep for which Christ died to save! You stand accountable.
Some of you reading this letter are in this “fraternity” yourselves. Masons have bought many Pastors with money, a church building, cars, and increased congregations. I pray you will repent and receive the Lord’s forgiveness. Please note what God’s word says about this:
Psalm 127:1
Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
If Freemasonry is building your church… it is all in vain!
Every Mason who has taken the blood oath has placed a curse upon their families. I have met many Masons in my travels who have had tragic deaths in their families. Only the blood of Jesus Christ can break the curse of the oath. They offend God by calling a man in their lodge “Worshipful Master,” and they have changed the name of God from Jesus Christ to JAH-BAL-ON, a blasphemous name combining Jehovah, Baal, and On (Osiris). On is the city of the worship of the Egyptian sun god.
The Shriner makes a confession to “Allah” as God. Allah is a demon God (idol) worshipped by Muslims. The 33rd-degree Mason (of which many masons don’t even know about) confesses Satan as God in their initiation! Reinterpreting the scriptures, each degree up to the 33rd degree prepares the initiate for his complete denial of Jesus Christ.
The presence of this antichrist spirit within the church puts out the fire of the Holy Spirit. Any Pastor who attempts to expose Freemasonry in his church will come into significant opposition from his “antichrist” Masonic members. I believe that if all the Pastors of our community work together to expose Freemasonry, the Masons will NOT be able to slander and run our Pastors out of the pulpit! I pray it will backfire upon the Masonic secret darkness!
Luke 8:17
For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
Please take the time to research this “brotherhood” and expose it to your members and community! I am sending this letter to some 100 church Pastors. So rest assured, this attack on the church has been exposed!
http://members.tripod.com/crossbearer-brian/id187.htm
Curse of Hiram Abiff
Here is an actual scanned copy from the "Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor or guide to the three symbolic degrees of the Ancient York Rite and to the degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and the Royal Arch" by Malcolm C. Duncan, David McKay Company, Inc. New York. Pages noted in the copy below!At the bottom of the page, I shall include the scriptures that link Hiram with Lucifer!
Hiram ........ a Biblically disguised name for Lucifer, Is the most exalted man of the Masonic Lodge!!!
2 Chron. 2:3
And Solomon sent to Hiram, the king of Tyre, ...
Ezekiel 28:12-19
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. [13] Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. [14] Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth, and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down amid the stones of fire. [15] Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. [16] By the multitude of thy merchandise, they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. [17] Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom because of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. [18] Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. [19] All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Ezekiel 28:2-10
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, amid the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: [3] Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: [4] With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: [5] By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: [6] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; [7] Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. [8] They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. [9] Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. [10] Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
Isaiah 14:12-15
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! [13] For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: [14] I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. [15] Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Interesting to note that in Isaiah 14, it goes on to say that Lucifer will be "Like a corpse trodden underfoot."
Isaiah 14:19
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
No wonder Lucifer wants a ceremony that glorifies him and resurrects him from the grave!
Have YOU, participated in this RITUAL?
REPENTANCE CAN BREAK THE CURSE! Please pray:
"Lord Jesus, forgive me for partaking in this ritual. I ask you to break the curse on my life and my family and wash it clean with your precious blood! It is YOUR death, Lord Jesus, that I am guilty of, and it is YOU that was raised from the dead and lives forevermore! I renounce my actions I have partaken in as I was deceived by Freemasonry! I will serve nonother but you Lord Jesus! Amen!"
For a deeper Biblical study on Hiram Abiff, go to http://www.ephesians5-11.org/hiram.htm
http://members.tripod.com/crossbearer-brian/id34.htm
Obelisk
Luxor Temple
The Temple of Luxor is located in southern Thebes along the east bank of the Nile River. The Temple was built by Amenhotep III and dedicated to Amon-Re, king of the gods, his consort Mut, and their son Khons. The Temple was later added to by Tutankhamun, Horemheb, and Ramses II. Thebes was the capital of the ancient Egyptian empire during its peak.
Karnak Temple
The obelisk from the Great Temple at Karnak is located in Northern Thebes. Originally, obelisks were erected in pairs at the entrances to ancient Egyptian temples. They were cut from a single stone, usually red granite. One pair of obelisks at Karnak, erected by Thutmose I is 80 feet high and weighs 143 tons.
The above photo (this one in Jonesboro, LA) is typical of a Masonic grave site. The Obelisk
l(asherah) is used as the headstone of the deceased Masonic Lodge member!
Asherah
The Obelisk in the Bible is called “Asherah” in Hebrew, and the KJV uses the word “groves”!
The Strongs Concordance defines it as:
'asherah, ash-ay-raw'; or 'asheyrah, ash-ay-raw'; Strongs 842, from Hebrew 833 ('ashar); happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same :- grove. Compare Hebrew 6253 (`Ashtoreth).
“Asherah” is from the root `Ashar, ' meaning to be straight, erect, or upright.
Asherah (KJV - groves) is found in the scriptures 40 times, constantly referring to idol worship.
The Companion Bible, appendix 42, defines "Asherah" as follows:
It was an upright pillar connected with Baal worship and is associated with the goddess Ashtoreth, representing the productive principle of life, and Baal, the generative principal. The image, which represents the Phoenician Ashtoreth of Paphos as the sole object of worship in her temple, was an upright block of stone, anointed with oil and covered with an embroidered cloth.
The above Masonic gravestone has the "embroidered cloth" carved in stone, ponu the obelisk!
Some Masonic gravestones have embroidered cloth in stone, covering the Asherah image. The Companion Bible defines this stone idol as the image of the “Phallus” or “images of men” as seen in Ezekiel 16:17.
Such stones are to be found all over the Semitic world, the Companion Bible continues; even the Mahommedan sacred stone (Kaaba) at Mecca remains an object of reverence.
Asherah - the obelisk, is an abomination unto the Lord!
2 Chron. 34:3-4
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he (Josiah) was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David, his father, and in the twelfth year, he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves (Asherah), and the carved images, and the molten images. [4] And they break down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on a high above them, he cut down; and the groves (Asherah), and the carved images, and the molten images, he brakes in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
2 Chron. 34:7
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves (Asherah), beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 17:9-11
And the children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fenced city. [10] And they set them up images and groves (asherah) in every high hill, and under every green tree: [11] And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger:
1 Kings 18:19 Now therefore send and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves ['asherah] four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.”
I don't believe that any True Christian would want this object placed over their grave site, replacing the cross of Jesus Christ, by which our sins were nailed to give us victory over death, hell, and the grave!
Below are some study resources for a deeper study!
'Asherah
(From Dakes Annotated Bible)
Hebrew: 'Asherah (HSN-842), a pillar or image of wood. It was set up with the image of Baal and worshiped as the wife of Baal by lewd rites and sensual practices.
'Asherah (HSN-842) is always rendered grove in the KJV but retained as a proper name in the English Revised Version (1885). The word comes from the root Yashar (HSN-3474), "to be straight, upright, erect." The pillar was set upright in the ground like a totem pole. It was either a living tree with the top cut off and the trunk fashioned into a particular shape (Deut. 16:21) or a log fashioned into an idol and set erect in the ground (1 Kings 14:15; 1 Kings 16:33; Isaiah 17:8). Though usually made of wood (Judges 6:26), it was perhaps in some cases made of stone. Such poles could be cut down (Exodus 34:13), plucked up (Micah 5:14), burnt (Deut. 12:3), and broken into pieces (2 Chron. 34:4).
That they were not groves of trees is clear from 2 Kings 17:10, where they are forbidden to be set up under any green tree. Worshiped as a symbol of the tree of life, the idol came to be associated with procreation. As such, 'Asherah (HSN-842) became an object of impure, perverse worship by crowds of devotees involved in demonized, obscene orgies. The worship centered in the Canaanite nations and then spread into other nations. Relics of it are found among all heathen peoples.
The first mention of the idol in the Bible stamps it as a special object of God's hatred; it was at this idol that God revealed His name as Jealous (Exodus 34:13-14; cp. 1 Kings 14:15; 1 Kings 15:13; 1 Kings 16:32-33; 2 Chron. 36:14). It led to the destruction of all Canaanite nations and, with other things, caused Israel to be banished among other nations. The true nature of this form of idolatry is made clear in Jeremiah 5:7; Jeremiah 7:30-31; Jeremiah 19:4-5; Jeremiah 32:34-35; Hosea 4:12-14; Amos 2:7-9, and in other passages where grove is found (Exodus 34:13; Deut. 7:5; Deut. 12:3; Deut. 16:21; Judges 3:7; Judges 6:25-30; 1 Kings 14:15,23; 1 Kings 15:13; 1 Kings 16:33; 1 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 13:6; 2 Kings 17:10,16; 2 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 21:3,7; 2 Kings 23:4-15; 2 Chron. 14:3; 2 Chron. 15:16; 2 Chron. 17:6; 2 Chron. 19:3; 2 Chron. 24:18; 2 Chron. 31:1; 2 Chron. 33:3,19; 2 Chron. 34:3-7; Isaiah 17:8; Isaiah 27:9; Jeremiah 17:2; Micah 5:14).
(From Dakes Annotated Bible)
'ASHERAH
(From Vine’s complete expository dictionary)
'Asherah (842), “Asherah, Asherim (pl.).” This noun, which has a Ugaritic cognate, first appears in the Bible in passages anticipating the settlement in Palestine. However, the word’s most frequent appearances are usually in historical literature. Of its 40 appearances, 4 are in Israel’s law code, 4 are in Judges, 4 are in prophetic books, and the rest are in 1 King and 2 Chronicles.
'Asherah refers to a cultic object representing the presence of the Canaanite goddess Asherah. When the people of Israel entered Palestine, they were to have nothing to do with the idolatrous religions of its inhabitants. Rather, God said, “But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves ['asherim] …” (Exod. 34:13). This cult object was manufactured from wood (Judg. 6:26; 1 Kings 14:15) and it could be burned (Deut. 12:3). Some scholars conclude that it was a sacred pole set up near an altar to Baal. Since there was only one goddess with this name, the plural ('asherim) probably represents her several “poles.”
'Asherah signifies the name of the goddess herself: “Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves ['asherah] four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table” (1 Kings 18:19). The Canaanites believed that 'Asherah ruled the sea, was the mother of all the gods including Baal, and sometimes was his deadly enemy. Apparently, the mythology of Canaan maintained that 'Asherah was the consort of Baal, who had displaced El as their highest god. Thus, her sacred objects (poles) were immediately beside the altars of Baal, and she was worshiped along with him.
(From W.E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger and William White, Vine’s complete expository dictionary of Old and New Testament words [computer file], electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1996.)
The above definition of “Asherah” as an object of idol worship is also confirmed in Smith’s Bible Dictionary, New Naves Topical Bible, and Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
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