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MASONIC VALUES BREAKDOWN AND THE PANDEMIC CRISIS

The international Masonic Institutions have been harmed as never before during the last two years of Sars2 restrictions. The Brotherhood gets its nourishment from face-to-face debate both in and outside its lodges. But for far too long, the rules put in place have limited our freedoms and have prevented this intellectual confrontation taking place.

But that is only the tip of the iceberg.

During these times of semi-incarceration, Masonic authorities of all Obedience have encouraged their members to roll up their sleeves and volunteer to help inject these supposed “miracle serums” that have failed to safeguard us time and time again.

They’ve also imposed on us to wear a mask, which master masons, knowledgeable in symbolism, should recognise means surrender, subordination, resignation, and destroys our identity.

“Freemasons want to assist the National Health System and uphold the Masonic essential values of friendship, integrity, charity, and respect at all times.” These were the words of the Chief Executive Officer of the United Grand Lodge of England, an odd title that suggests there may be little of spiritual in what the institution represents.

In history, dictators always fought their conflicts by exposing themselves in person, and that when they lost, they paid the price with their own life.

Today, the world’s aspiring tyrants fight instead in a covert and cowardly manner. They use lies to sway people’s opinions. and sow the seeds of evil by repeating those lies until they bear fruit.

Who are the modern days tyrants?

THE FABIAN SOCIETY

The Fabian is a private elitist Society that has been working in the shadow in England since it was formed in 1844. Its members aspire to form a Socialist World Government that would wipe out human rights, lead to the appropriation by the State of all private property, give parity of rights to individuals who practise aberrations like homosexuality, one sex marriages, one sex parenting, trans-genderism and so forth. Such Global Government, would be formed with leaders chosen because of their superior intelligence.

The Fabian Society had a renaissance during Tony Blair’s term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, but even his successor Gordon Brown, the present Labour leader, Keith Starmer, and his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, are members.

In 2020, London re-elected Sadiq Khan as Ciy Mayor. The son of immigrants, Khan succeeded the Tory liberal Boris Johnson in 2016 and is considered a “moderate Muslim” . He was from 2008 to 2010 the President of the elitist Fabian Society.

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, England

The coat of arms of the Fabian Society depicts a wolf in sheep’s clothes, pointing to the Society’s policy of deception! The Society wishes to run the world and is as sinister as the Illuminati and as treacherous as The Rotary Club, a Society that hides behind Charity donations but whose members’ true intention is to find business opportunities and maximize their profits.

In the photo below, Tony Blair is shown in 2006 unveiling a restored window at the London School of Economics in London, which was commissioned by George Bernard Shaw . Shaw was a famous playwright and co-founded, with Stanley James Webb, the Fabian Society. He was also a socialist and a keen supporter of the Eugenics, a science described as” the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable“. Shaw described his frightening vision of a future society with these words:

“(…) Under Socialism, people would not be allowed to be poor. They would be force-fed , be clothed and provided with accommodation, would be educated and provided with a job, whether they like it or not. If it turns out that they do not have enough an industriousness to deserve all of this, they will probably be gently eliminated; but if they were allowed to live they should live well (…)”

IN DEFENSE OF THE BROTHERHOOD

I am a Freemason. I am also a Baby Boomer. In my generation that would make me a bit of an anomaly because most men in America born after WWII have not been joiners until very recently.

But my father was a Freemason; as was his brother. They owned and operated adjoining farms on the great wheat and cattle producing plains of Oklahoma. For as long as I can remember, my dad would come in from his work every Wednesday afternoon, take a shower, and put on his Sunday suit My uncle would come by and pick him up and they would go to the Mason’s Hall together. They did this for 50 years. I can’t remember a time when I was not going to be a Freemason.

I also knew the men in my community. It was a small place of only about 2,500 people. It was where we celebrated the festivals of our lives, went to church, and participated in social conversations outside our home. I knew the most respected men in my town. I can’t remember when I did not know them.

I entered the fraternity of Freemasonry during the summer of my 21st year. When I arrived at the lodge for my first degree, or stage of joining, all these men I had known and respected in my childhood were there. They were my father’s friends. I can remember to this day standing in the ante-room of the lodge, duly prepared in a garment provided me for the occasion, waiting for someone to return my knocks on the door, and thinking to myself: Tonight, I am going to be initiated into Manhood.

Although at the time I didn’t realize it, through my initiation into the world’s oldest secret society for men, I was participating in one of the most ancient traditions of manhood. In every culture the world has ever known, men have yearned to be initiated into manhood. It is fundamental to man’s understanding of his own process of growth. And we have always known it even if we have not defined it for ourselves.

THE DREAM OF A MASONIC EUROPE

The Euro Lodge 2021 is a project that Tetraktys is pleased to support. The aim is to set up a Craft Lodge with Brethren from the European Union and with a EU nationality who live and work in the United Kingdom. Without doubt, the conflicts and divisions that Brexit has created in our society are the reasons behind this idea. Citizens from EU-member States who had been allowed to settle in the UK ,without constraints, for the previous fifty years, have been turned into aliens in the name of a dubious 52/48% vote on a poor turnout. A vote often described by right-wing Tory politicians as an “overwhelming” verdict to leave the Community and as a justification to cast away from this island millions of of Europeans. A tragedy for those who had to leave and those who have remained.

This EU Lodge Project reminds me of the contents of an article, titled “Masonic Europeanism”, that the online magazine Corrispondenza Romana published not long ago. I’ve extrapolated and translated some of its passages to show you that the idea of a united Europe is Masonic goes back a long time.

According to the French academic Yves Hivert-Messeca, the Freemasons were dreaming of a trans-national society or fraternity and conspiring for a new Europe as early as the eighteenth century.

Prof Gianmario Cazzaniga, a scholar that the Grand Orient of Italy highly esteems, shares this opinion. He also believes that the concept of a Universal Republic first arose in the circles of literati, aristocrats, antique merchants, and scientists and later received the support of Huguenots , bankers and Freemasons.

The realization of a European Republic that would reflect Masonic principles, implies the project of a socio-cultural metamorphosis achievable only through a revolution–the French one of 1789 and the New World Order more recently –that would crush the power of the Papal State, the political and military Catholic monarchies (such as the Habsburg in the past), or the Republics now.

A MASONIC SEASON OF DISCONTENT

A new masonic year is about to begin and with the resumption of the activities the same old question will resurface : how many dreadful functions or Masonic degree ceremonies must we attend ,month after month, to feel that our Fraternity is still relevant and vital in our lives? How can we claim to be taking good men and making them better in an environment where members don’t feel any different on the inside than they do on the outside?

There is also the question of mediocrity. Accepting it in our Lodge activities is like accepting mediocrity in our personal lives. When nothing instructional, clever, intellectual, or spiritual transpires in our private and holy settings,we become just another average, run-of-the-mill organization, no matter how glowingly a Secretary may describe his lodge‘s previous evening event. This is known as self-appreciation, it is a vain and egotistical behavior that has nothing to do with love and brotherhood.

It is tough to see how this style of Masonry might improve. Are we going to be role models for young men, or are we just another group of ordinary guys? We must be conscious of our mission, of what we know, and how we practice it in order to be exemplary men in an exemplary institution.

Year after year, however, we fail to teach our Brethren about “Freemasonry and we continue to accept applicants who have objectives other than a desire to improve themselves and to grow spiritually. We encourage them to apply even if they are unsuitable so that we may get to perform a ceremony or two thanks to their stupidity.

Our ritual is learnt by mechanical or habitual repetition, but it is often misunderstood and badly performed. Candidates should be taught for several months and prove their worthiness before they receive the next degree, instead we only send them on their way to memorize the answers for their next ceremony.

BERTRAND RUSSELL – A FREEMASON’S VIEW OF LIFE

The British philosopher, essayist, social critic and Freemason Bertrand Russell, who is best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy wrote in “the Scientific Outlook” in 1931:

On those rare occasions, when a boy or girl who has passed the age at which it is usual to determine social status shows such marked ability as to seem the intellectual equal of the rulers, a difficult situation will arise, requiring serious consideration. If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw [himself] whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted. But if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt.

Rudolf Steiner – a century old prophecy

More than a hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner wrote:

In future, medicine will eliminate the Soul

Under the pretext of a ‘scientific discovery’, there will be a vaccine that will treat the human from birth to not fully understand that he is made of :

Body
Soul
Spirit

The task of removing the Soul from the human race, will be entrusted to greedy, materialistic doctors.

Just as today people are vaccinated against this or that disease, so in future our children will be vaccinated with a substance that will make them immune from the “madness” of spiritual life. Man would then be extremely intelligent, but he would not develop a conscience, and that is the true aim of some materialistic Societies.

Through such vaccine, the Etheric Body will detach from the Physical Body and once the Etheric Body will have left, the relationship between Universe and Etheric Body will become extremely unstable, and man would turn into an automaton. [1]

The vaccine, therefore, will be the Manichean[2] force that separates the Physical from the Etheric Body and Man will no longer be able to free itself of materialistic feelings. He will no longer be able to rise to a spiritual plane.

WHO WAS RUDOLF STEINER ?

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was an Austrian philosopher and educational reformer. He remains perhaps best known for the educational methods he pioneered in his Waldorf schools, which have spread slowly but steadily around the world since his death. A trained philosopher and at the same time a mystic, Steiner believed that spiritual insights could be gained through systematic thought. He founded the spiritual belief system called Anthroposophy, an offshoot of Theosophy, and disseminated his ideas through an energetic campaign that included years of lectures and a group of writings that ran to some 350 volumes when collected. (SOURCE: https://www.encyclopedia.com)

[1] _{Because on Earth Man can divest himself from materialistic instincts only though the work of the Spirit.}

[2] _{the philosophy of Manichaeism, which is an old religion that breaks everything down into good or evil. It also means “duality,” so if your thinking is Manichean, you see things in black and white.}

The French Revolution and Freemasonry – A different view

The anniversary of the French Revolution on July 14th has not been commemorated as a major event for quite some time, whether in presence or absence of a world pandemic. Today’s researchers are not reticent about criticizing the work of Robespierre and his contemporaries and yet France continues to celebrate the event with typical triumphalist narratives and oppressive rhetoric.

The scent of victory for the democracy that historians have ever since enjoyed filling the air with is not so much to cover the stink of death that emanates from the Revolution’s massacres – a “collateral damage “of which democracy has never been ashamed – but to cover the stench of lies. The Revolution was ever a lie, that is why an enthusiastic cult of 1789 has been retained ever since.

The Revolution lied from the very beginning when it proclaimed it was the reaction of a population suffocated by absolutism. In reality, history reveals that Louis XVI’s tenure was the antithesis of tyranny, beginning with the King’s kindness as a man.

Louis Capet abolished torture in the criminal system and was planning to abolish feudal privileges as well. Historians believe that when Louis XVI was guillotined, he had no faults except that he was a symbol of a world that the Revolution wanted to destroy: his execution had to be, and was, a rite of passage.

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
“The Patriotic De-Fattening Machine,” a cartoon from the French Revolution, circa 1790.

The second institutional lie after “tyranny” was the assertion that the Revolution had been both spontaneous and popular when in fact it had been an intellectual project theorized and brought into operation by “others”.

Of course, a part of the French people did take up arms against the monarchy. But it is also true that the Fathers of the Enlightenment – the “others” – had flooded prerevolutionary France with anti-monarchical and anti-Christian propaganda for half a century.

THE ASSEMBLY OF THE REVOLUTION

The power that hammering media information has to inculcate “strange thoughts” into the collective consciousness is clear to everybody to see during the present declared pandemic. Just imagine how valuable this type of communication had been in the eighteenth century public opinion!

Pius XII noted in the radio message of Christmas 1944:

FILM OF A MASONIC CEREMONY IN THE SWEDISH CONSTITUTION

WEIFERT GEORGE – A PILLAR OF SERBIAN FREEMASONRY

George Weifert – Djordje Vaifert (1850-1937) – is arguably the most distinguished promoter of Serbian Freemasonry. His Masonic career, spanning some forty-seven years (1890-1937), is the story of the beginnings of Serbian and Yugoslavian Freemasonry, of its growth and of the turbulent times in which it existed.

Weifert was the ﬁrst Master of one of the original Lodges in Serbia[1], Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Serbia[2], Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians-Yugoslavia (Velika Loza Srba, Hrvata/Slovenaca-Jugoslavija)[3], from its founding in 1919 till 1933, and a Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Yugoslavia Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite from 1919 till 1937[4].

During Weifert’s time, the Balkan Peninsula was a hotbed of religious, ethnic, and political conﬂict, as indeed it still is today, and in which everybody seemed to be involved. Many members of the Craft held eminent positions in political, economical and cultural life. Many of them often failed to distinguish between their professional obligations, patriotic duty and Masonic activity. This made Freemasonry in Serbia an easy target for anti-Masonic propaganda. George Weifert recognized this problem early on. As a leader in Serbian Freemasonry, he always insisted on keeping religion and politics separate from the Craft and out of the lodge, despite the fact that this was to prove an almost impossible task.

Let us but examine Weifert’s history and we will see that he was a true builder, a man of vision, an example of a freemason who lived what he taught, and a true ‘pillar’ of Freemasonry.

HIS EARLY YEARS

Weifert was born in Pancevo on 15 June 1850. His father and mother – Ignjat and Ana Weifert – were both German, Catholic and citizens of Hungary, which was at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire[5]. Pancevo was a small Hungarian border town on the banks of the river Danube, populated with a mix of German, Hungarian and Serbian merchants and artisans. On the opposite bank of the Danube stood Belgrade the commercial centre and capital of the newly emerging kingdom of Serbia, at that time still formally a part of the dying Ottoman Empire[6].

Weifert’s grandfather moved to Pancevo in the beginning of the 19th century, trying his luck ﬁrst as a wheat merchant and then as a brewer of beer. In order to improve his business he sent his son Ignjat to Munich, where he spent time working and studying beer production in the famous Spatenbrau Brewery. Upon his return home, Ignjat Weifert and his father built the largest brewery in Pancevo, still in existence today[7]. In 1865 they rented an existing brewery [8] in Belgrade, and started production there in order to avoid the cost of transporting the beer from Pancevo to Belgrade.

Young Weifert attended the German Elementary School and the Hungarian High School in Pancevo, after which his father sent him to Budapest, where in 1869 he graduated from the Merchants Academy. In accordance with the family business needs, he then attended the Agricultural School in Weihenstofen, near Munich, where he concentrated his studies on beer production technology. After graduation in 1872 he returned to Belgrade, in order to help with his father’s rapidly growing business.