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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.

THE FREEMASON WHO WROTE DRACULA – BRAM STOKER

The second half of the 19^th and early part of the 20^th century was a period characterized by the coming into this world of many brilliant individuals who shone in the liberal arts. Bram Stoker was a writer and a Freemason who earned his stand by leaving us the immortal legacy of the successful gothic novel Count Dracula.

Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847 and attended Trinity College, where he received a bachelor’s degree in science in 1870 and a Master in mathematics later. He confessed that until he was seven years of age he could not properly stand up and yet he recovered and turned into a strong, hearty, athletic man, with an immense appetite for work and a remarkable appearance.

Stoker begun his career in the Irish civil service , working as a clerk in the Registrar Office of Petty Sessions in Dublin Castle. But his passionate interest in the dramatic art lead him to do unpaid work as a theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail.

In Dec 1876, following a performance of the Hamlet that he attended and brilliantly reviewed, Stoker was invited to meet the lead actor. The event marked the beginning of a 28 years association of Stoker with the most dominant, in every sense of the word, personality of his life, the legendary English actor John Henry Broadribb , better known with the stage name of Henry Irving.

Irving - friend of the author of Dracula — John Henry Broadribb alas John Irving

When in 1879 Irving invited Stoker to manage both his performing career and the running of the Lyceum Theatre in Covent Garden, London, Stoker dropped everything in Dublin and run to assist – literally and in everything – the man he worshipped and who in turn exploited the situation to his advantage.

One obituary reads:

SOLSTICIO DE INVIERNO Y SU SIMBOLISMO MASONICO

Solsticio , se deriva del latín sol (‘Sol’) y sístere (‘permanecer quieto’).

El solsticio de invierno , de acuerdo con su definición astronómica corresponde al instante en que la posición del Sol en el cielo se encuentra a la mayor distancia angular negativa del Ecuador celeste. Dependiendo de la correspondencia con el calendario, el evento del solsticio de invierno tiene lugar entre el 20 y el 23 de diciembre todos los años en el hemisferio norte, y entre el 20 y el 23 de junio en el hemisferio sur; y en términos más simples, corresponde al día de menor duración del año, y por ende a la noche más larga, lo que marca el inicio del Invierno.

Durante el Solsticio de invierno el Sol se mantiene en la mínima posición en el cielo del mediodía, esto es, alcanza su menor declinación en el Cenit, durante tres días, para luego comenzar su ascenso gradual en el Cenit de mediodía hasta lograr su máxima expresión en el Solsticio de Verano.

Astrológicamente, el solsticio se define como la época temporal en la que el sol se encuentra en uno de los dos trópicos, en Cáncer o en Capricornio, lo cual sucede respectivamente, del 20 al 23 de Junio, conocido como Solsticio de Invierno, y del 20 al 23 de diciembre, conocido como Solsticio de Verano, respecto del Hemisferio Sur.

Los Solsticios han representado desde tiempos inmemoriales un misterio y, Continue reading SOLSTICIO DE INVIERNO Y SU SIMBOLISMO MASONICO

The Masonic Plumb

Build up your life like the temple of old,
With stones that are polished and true. 

Cement it with love, and adorn it with gold,
As all Master builders should do.

Upon a foundation, well chosen and strong,
Build now for the ages to come.

Make use of the good, while rejecting the wrong,
And test all your work with the Plumb.

By Bro. Neal A. McCauley (From The Builder, Anamosa, Iowa, August, 1915)

ARISE FREEMASONS, END YOUR SILENCE AND DEFEND FREEDOM !

Arise Freemasons ! Following the recent political decisions attributed to an infection but more alarmingly , ensuing the approval of an unethical scientific program that risks the health and independence of our children and of the human race, I am re- submitting for your attention the considerations of Nicola Brizzi. In a letter of last year, our Brother of the Order denounced the deafening silence of the Masonic Grand Lodges around the world and attempted to awaken the soul of the acquiescent Freemasons because…

Freedom, once relinquished, is seldom peacefully regained !

Somewhere in Italy, November 25, 2020

“As we reach the end of a year that has witnessed the supreme ideals of Freedom–to which every Freemason aspires – being challenged, a period during which the shadowy forces have triumphed over the Light, I call upon all the Freemasons on earth who still retain their sanity and intellectual integrity.

And I hope that these words of mine can become a source of inspiration and stimulation for all the true Initiates of the Art and be a serious admonition to all those false Freemasons who have betrayed their mission. There are far too many of those, and history will shortly pass its judgement on them.

Stand up, end your silence and defend our Freedom!

It is a general opinion that the Brothers and Sisters who grace the columns of a Lodge , have attained a minimal level of awareness, certainly one that is higher of that of the multitudes in the “profane” world.

It is a general opinion that besides knowing themselves better, those Brothers and Sisters are conscious of the reality that surrounds them, by which I mean they know there are individuals who pull the strings of politics, finance, culture and information.

It is a general opinion that our Brethren know how to recognise falsehoods or realise, even if only a little, who is behind particular situations or political decisions.

It is also a general opinion that the Brethren know the significance of symbols, that they can accurately interpret a political leader’s speech or a tabloid story (and notice the falsehood present in it). Otherwise why join Freemasonry instead of a cooking class, a gymn, or go fishing, hunting, bowling or indeed join a singer’s fan club ?

Nobody ordered them to become Freemasons, and most surely their doctor did not prescribe it! No one forced them to become an Initiate and thereby embark on a journey of inner search, masonically speaking.

The struggle against oneself , against one’s own limitations, against one’s own fears and vulnerability is aimed at turning oneself from a rough stone into an ashlar, and thus help in the construction of the True Temple.

Unfortunately, this is not so for many of our Brethren.

The great man and Freemason, Benjamin Franklin, said these enlightened words: «Whoever is ready to give away their basic freedoms to buy crumbs of momentary security, deserves neither freedom nor security». How can we not agree?

I recognize that there are many Brothers and Sisters in the world who are struggling to preserve the statutory rights of the people and save Democracy, but they are doing so all alone. Most of the Masonic National Grand Lodges, whether in Europe or in other regions of the world, have lost a unique opportunity to shine their light. By keeping silent they are losing integrity and credibility.

If those Masonic Orders truly wish to secure their future and reclaim their credibility, they must make a stand and condemn this global Golpe and denounce this design for a social and economic global reset. Or else they would better shut down their Temple forever.

In Freemasonry , Freedom is a fundamental value and its defence is imperative, it is a moral duty.

Thousands of Brethren have in the past sacrificed their own life to defend Freedom and the auto-determination of people. It is therefore highly disconcerting to see today a Freemason being attacked and criticised by other Brothers of the Order, solely for desiring to defend those values. Can’t you see how absurd this situation is?

Arise, end your silence and defend Freedom.

Those of you who will not, will be complicit in the enslavement and persecution of the human race. “

Nicola Brizzi – November 25, 2020

Source: www.Databaseitalia.it of Davide Donateo