Templar debunking of masonic links

debunking of freemasonry links to Knight Templars
firstly..... freemasons are not the historical Knight Templars and can never be....as per the numerous still active Papal bulls....

They all state that Freemasonry is incompatible with Christianity...just a plain simple truth...ecumenical or not. Besides they didn’t exist as anything but a guild until the mid 1700’s when Napoleon gave the stonemasons’ guild a boost because he was afraid of losing power and his head if the looming revolution took hold.

The Masons have trademarked the term though in the USA... and are Knight Templars of Masonry...nothing to do with the Christian historical links. Secondly, this is further proven by the writing of (the then Freemason head of Scotland) Albert Mackey in chapter x and xxix of his published history of Scottish masonry in Scotland ....he admits it’s a false claim...and uses the information he has found on real Templars to invent the freemasons Yorke rite ...loosely based upon this found information.....in about 1870 he published his book admitting all this. Thirdly the Masons are not bad or evil people just because they are masons...


Freemasons just do not have, and can never have, true Templar links. They are very generous in charity and worthy of praise for these deeds though and unfortunately have used a name they erroneously thought to be defunct in order to start a new group within their ranks.

see here for a start ; www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/masonic-legends.html

or

Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia also adds,
"This theory of Templar origin which, mythical as it is and wholly unsubstantiated by the authority of history, has exercised a vast influence in the fabrication of advanced Degrees and the invention of Continental Rites."

Since Freemasonry became more than a guild in the 1700’s the Catholic Church has set to separate itself from these very misguided souls,

Some Documents of the past and the present Pope(s) on Masonry:

CLEMNE XII In Eminenti, const. 24 Apr. 1738
BENEDICT XIV Providas, const. 18 May 1751
PIUS VII Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo, const. 13 Sept.
1821LEO XII Quo Graviora, const. 13 Mar. 1825
PIUS VIII Traditi Humilitati, ency. 24 May 1829
GREGORY XVI Mirari Vos, encyc. 15 Aug. 1832
PIUS IX Qui Pluribus, encyc. 9 Nov. 1846
LEO XIII Humanum Genus, encyc. 20 Apr. 1884
LEO XIII Dall' Alto Dell' Opostolico, Seggio, encyc.
LEO XIII Inimica Vos, encyc. 8 Dec. 1892,.
LEO XIII Custodi Di Quella Fede, encyc. 8 Dec. 1892

If you have no starting bias it is easy and logical to see this is a fact and not for debate.

Cardinal Ratzinger from the latest Vatican document. 1983 AD... Ps. He is the present Pope.

Here are some of his words:

"The Declaration of the Sacred Congregation; affirms that membership in Masonic Associations remain forbidden by the Church and the Faithful who enrol in them are in a state of grave sin, and may not receive Holy Communion or the Sacraments. It confirms to the faithful that membership in a Masonic Lodge is unlawful. It warns them such membership is incompatible with the Catholic Faith."

As do other churches, such as the Southern Baptist Church, here they outline position on freemasonry, and state they do not recognise freemasons

http://www.sbc.net/aboutus/faqs.asp#19
or
http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=328

Quakers and even the Amish reject it publicly as shown here.

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fNQmTsgp_ucC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=amish+AND+FREEMASONRY&source=bl&ots=ab-cF5lKwi&sig=nJWJP0wsxkeTyQSLOj4pDRIe05Q&hl=en&ei=MUmPSuu9IYmmtAON6f3bDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=&f=falsehttp://www.2be1ask1.com/library/enemies.html

The Anglican Church and Synod also has the same opinion of Freemasons.

here is a link that shows the Anglican/COE stance;
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Elite-trainer-gets-11year-state.4053633.jphttp://centurean2.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/update-common-purpose-exposed-bbc-taking-our-cash-for-cp-training/http://www.ukcolumn.org/2008/02/01/common-purpose-a-criminal-organisation/

It is just another frocked up freemason group and also under continual investigation calling themselves Common Purpose

Let us face facts , no real Christian Church does accept it.
But some people always want more, so feast on these tidbits;

CHAPTER XXIX of THE STORY OF THE SCOTTISH TEMPLARS (from The History of Freemasonry, Albert G. Mackey) ends this chapter with these wise words...not that our Canadian Senior Masonic story writer or Masonic leader of OSMTH USA would like you to know...

“On the contrary, it is supposed to have been the fabrication of Michael Ramsay in the 18th Century. On this subject the remarks of Bro. Lyon, who has made the Masonry of Scotland his especial study, are well worth citation. "The ritual of the Royal Order of Scotland embraces," he says, "what may be termed a spiritualization of the supposed symbols and ceremonies of the Christian architects and builders of primitive times, and so closely associates the sword with the trowel as to lead to the second degree being denominated an order of Masonic knighthood, which its recipients are asked to believe was first conferred on the field of Bannockburn, as a reward for the valour that had been displayed by a body of Templars who aided Bruce in that memorable victory; and that afterward a Grand Lodge of the Order was established by the King at Kilwinning, with the reservation of the office of Grand Master to him and his successors on the Scottish throne. It is further asserted that the Royal Order and the Masonic Fraternity of Kilwinning were governed by the same head. As regards the claims to antiquity, and a royal origin that are advanced in favour of this rite, it is proper to say that modern inquiries have shown these to be purely fabulous. The credence that is given to that part of the legend which associates the Order with the ancient Lodge of Kilwinning is based on the assumed certainty that Lodge possessed in former times a knowledge of other degrees of Masonry than those of St. John. But such is not the case. The fraternity of Kilwinning never at any period practiced or acknowledged other than the Craft degrees; neither does there exist any tradition worthy of the name, local or national, nor has any authentic document yet been discovered that can in the remotest degree be held to identify Robert Bruce with the holding of Masonic Courts, or the institution of a secret society at Kilwinning."
1 "History of the Lodge of Edinburgh," by David Murray Lyon, chap. xxxii., P. 307.


Freemasons would now ask you to believe that the Soldiers of Christ were armed with trowels and rejected Christ,... although the mason’s themselves couldn’t find any links..... For these historical Templars to have indeed become Masons, they must have been demoted from the highest of their society to the lowest of freemen and manual labourers...and yet our modern OSMTH2 USA masons want you to believe the Templar remnants willingly transformed themselves into Stonemasons and hired labourers .... a fairy tale too absurd to for even the most simple of folk surely, but not to strange evidently for these deceptive self serving freemasons.

Freemason’s have simply and deceptively invented new stories " dressed up" as traditions in order to invent a link between Freemasonry and Templarism, or to establish any close connection between the two Institutions.

They have however failed in their object. Freemasons have attempted to write an absurd history and they continue to do so through their imaginative authors such as a very talented canadian writer of fiction.

It must be said that Freemasonry does some great things throughout the world and whilst I personally would not care to join them; they do have an affluent base to collect the huge tithes and they even sponsor priests to do pilgrimages to the holy land.

The freemasons however are not honest in their dealings with most things and are working towards expansion of their club’s influence and not the Churches.
As I have stated and shown; you do not have to be Christian to be a Masonic styled templar, you could actually be a Rosicrucian, ending up being a devil worshipper of Baphomet. Heaven forbid if your skin was not white... or worse you were a Catholic!

http://www.mastermason.com/bridgeportlodge181/evolu29.HTM

http://www.capecodmasons.org/ANCHOR%20ARTICLE.htm

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0161.html

To be a Freemason, one must:

1. be a man who comes of his own free will
2. believe in a Supreme Being, or, in some jurisdictions, a Creative Principle (unless joining a jurisdiction with no religious requirement, as in the Continental tradition),
3. be at least the minimum age (18 - 25 years depending on the jurisdiction, but commonly 21),
4. be of sound mind, body and of good morals, and
5. be free (or "born free", i.e. not born a slave or bondsman),
6. have one or two references from current Masons (depending on jurisdiction).

Note:
Point 2... You do not have to be Christian to be Templar with them?...incredible!
Point 5...they support slavery even today and refuse ex-slaves.

http://infao5501.ag5.mpi-sb.mpg.de:8080/topx/archive?link=Wikipedia-Lip6-2/11227.xml&style

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/grandlodge/landmarks.html

Here is where the Pike the founder of the Scottish Yorke rite of freemasonry Templarism demeans God and states he is no better than an ideal or the devil. He also states Gatou is supreme above the Christian God.

Albert Pike (1809-91),
“The god of Freemasonry and the God of the Bible are not one and the same. There is a great difference between the two concepts of God. The Masonic god, "The Great Architect of the Universe" (G.A.O.T.U), is believed to be above all other gods. '
According to Albert Pike, all people,
'regardless of their spiritual orientation, can unite under the "Grand Artificer of the Universe." The Masonic god is all-inclusive and all-embracing. All potential Masons must acknowledge a "God" in order to gain membership in the Lodge, but there is no definite criterion regarding which "God" is implied or what "God" is acceptable.” it could be a paper bag or the devil himself or a pile of dog excrement as long as you claim to worship it.

Albert Pike (1809-91),
called the papacy a "deadly, treacherous enemy," and in his letter dated Dec. 28, 1886, to the Italian Grand Commander Timoteo Riboli, he wrote, "The Papacy has been for a thousand years the torturer and curse of Humanity, the most shameless imposture, in its pretense to spiritual power of all ages."

Pike states that Masonry is the unifier of all religions and that "the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucius and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim." he is speaking of the freemasons’ own deity GATOU.
In other words, the biblical God is reduced to the level of all the other gods and at the same time rendered as equal with the gods of those religions. Therefore, Christianity is stripped of its uniqueness as the one true religion that offers humanity the only hope for salvation and diminishes the co-equal and co-eternal status of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

The Masonic god is clearly given a greater position among all other "gods."

Albert Pike spoke of
"God as being One; Unapproachable, Single, Eternal and Unchanging. . . . There is but one God, infinite and incomprehensible, to whom no human attribute can be properly assigned, even when imagined to be infinite." When speaking of GAOTU.

Albert Pike (1809-91),
"To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees - The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine."

(Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World, Albert Pike, Grand Commander, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, July 14, 1889. Recorded by A.C. De La Rive, La Femme et l'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle, page 588)
or

Albert Pike (1809-91), 33° Mason...
"That which we must say to a crowd is - We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees - The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay whose deeds prove his cruelty, perdify 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. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods: darkness being necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil. "
Or for fun look here

www.pakistanchristianpost.com/letterdetails.php?letterid=177

Strangely the author was at the time a high level SKT OCMTH knight who has now defected against his own advice on loyalty and fealty and sadly become a practicing low level mason and regular low level member of the OSMTH USA, he was oused because he stood against his groups persecution of women and Protestants conducted by the OCMTH current USA leader, he also now heads his own USA OSMTH style neoclub est.2007.
Here are some more quotes from the founder of the freemasonry scottish rite.

Albert Pike 33° Mason...
"That which we must say to a crowd is - We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees - The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay whose deeds prove his cruelty, perdify 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. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods: darkness being necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil. "
or this classic.

Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World, July 14, 1889. Recorded by A.C. De La Rive in La Femme et l'Enfant dans la FrancMaconnerie Universelle on page 588'
"Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the son of the morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with it's splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not" Morals and Dogma page 321

Next blog we explore a few of the more popular neo groups calling themselves Templars and their real and very dodgy histories.