WOW. There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there. It's a fraternity. One of the oldest social fraternities, and probably the largest.
They are all over the place. Mason's lodges are in most areas that I've ever lived (which is all over) and they frequently are used as banquet halls. Take a gander in your white pages.
Yes they used to be pretty big in the UK, My Grandad and Uncle are Freemasons and I have friends who a members of their school lodge. I was asked to join but it's never been anything that interested me.
you guys have seen the simpsons episode about free masons right? Well there you go, secret highways, good chairs and shit like that
I need to have a garage built, but I have no money. I need to hire some free masons to work on that for me. I'll supply the bricks, you supply the labor. Thanks
Here it goes.... Free Masons started in the OOOLD times around King Solomons Time. They were known as the building Masons, they built King Solomons temple, I forget the step where they turn into free Masons, but i do know that someone stole the "Holy Grail" then the knights Templar found it. After the knights templar got good with the catholic pope, and was the guardians, They started to become saitinists and started worshiping the devil. That is the day that the Holy Grail was never seen again. and alot of the other artificacts from king solomons temple. There were battles for years, trying to find those artifacts and the Holy Grail, Some believe that the among those artifacts had scriptures on how to talk to God directly as Moses, Abraham and King Solomon did. What then happened by theory, is after the pope sent people to kill the Knights Templar they hid and mixed with the Free Masons, and no disappeared, so a free mason could very well be a knights templar mixed in with them. No one knows where the holy grails is except for maybe the free masons, no one really knows. There is a huge deal that shows free masons if you look at washigton Dc on some special date, the stars align and make a free mason symbol there is something on the back of american dollar bills, that if you skip every other letter it spels free mason or mason. Free Masons, are a huge part of American history, but NO one can prove it. This is just a huge conspiracy. The Holy Grail is believed ot have been moved in one of the wars to Russia, or somewhere in Great Britian. its one or the other, or it may very well be in america NO one knows except for Maybe the Free Masons. Well im done lol.
The free masons probably hold quite a bit of power, a gentlemens club of that age and with the resorces available must have their colective fingers in a lot of cookie jars. I have heard that free masons must have faith that there is creator type entity that started life so I would guess that it is not just christians that are involved but members of all semetic religions (christian, muslim, jew, et...), if this is true than they may very well be attacked to the Templar order. The Templars encorporated ideals from all religions both semetic and dravadic and this as well as emence wealth has been key to the charges of haresy. Chatholosisme has strong links to greed and punishment and before the ideals of political corectness manifested itself they were extreamy ardent in there anilation of any presept that didn't coinside with their power. I have a feeling that free masons have a trueth to tell that would greatly anger the christian comunity. There is no doubt that the masons have great knowledge and great power, but the question I think people should ask is do they use it for good of have they been corupted as so many other societys have been before.
I believe that they are related (the masons & the templars) they seem to have the same multi-dimentional outlook to spirituality, filtering throught the consiquential and inconsiquential ideals of all religions. I know that they have knowledge of the kabal, fupark, eliptographs, astrology, arcaic christianity, muslim, jewdic, shambalan, dravadic shamanistic, and I asume that they probably also include ideals of shinto, meso-american, mesopotaimian, and shivian religions. With the influence they impart they have the potential to be dangerouse. There are probably many sub-societies within the order, probably because of the many possible combinations of beliefs. To insist that all houses/chapters are bad or good is ludicris. I propose that these people and there verying orders are desendant from an order much older than the templars, possibly back to the point of the semetic clensing of the dravadic peoples. I would dearly love to examine their texts!
It's a social club. Really. The only reason it garners interest is the secrecy thing. There's no religious demand or structure, though there is a basis of religion in it's foundation. It's not a keg-on-the-porch sort of thing, but it's not far. Where people get the idea that they have such influence is beyond me. If you want in on a secret society that actually does have influence, there or others out there. If you don't know what they are, you weren't born into the right family, and you don't have any friends that were either (or maybe they just don't like you very much )
Plausible deniability! There are many underground and secret organizations out their. The greatest achievement of any secret society is to make outsiders believe there isn't anything going on. The masons do have hidden knowledge, but that doesn't mean that they are doing anything harmful with it. There wouldn't be so many groups that are anti-mason if there wasn't anything that wasn't kosher going on. There are so many groups that have tried to cover-up the shadows that fall behind them and that we still don't know very much of the things that have gone on. For example "the roman catholic church", they have repeatedly partisipated every sin they preach against and I am positive even with the mountains of proof of their atrosities we still probably know maybe 5%. If the catholics have massive secrets why would anyone think the masons don't.
My fraternity has many secrets - none of which you would be interested in. We have former presidents as members, and many current and past major political figures. There are plenty of anti-fraternity groups out there. Heck, we've even done some bad things on occasion, as you would expect any time you get more than 10 guys together between 18 and 25. You don't know what we've done, but I can safely and honestly assure you that there are no crimes against humanity being implemented, and there never were.
I am very interested in the energy of life, the abilities that are gifted directly from the creator and that come from the life of the earth. The power of the human mind and the potential that is inherant to most people (if they can shed their ignorance, vanity, and selfishness). If there is a brotherhood that has these ideals and interests, and I believe the masons do, than I would be pleased to be affiliated with them. I have a few secrets that may illuminate some mysteries.
"Does this thread rank for something related to Free Masons now?" (Blogmaster) I guess so! anything to do with secrets and spiritualisme/occult is interesting!!