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From: schwepp@schweep.com
In article , nunyo@biz.ca says...
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>"TC" wrote
>> Mason initiates must swear an oath under penalty of death that they never
>> reveal what they have learned within the lodge. Right off the bat, we can
>> see clearly this is not a friendly & wholesome organization.
>>
>> When you join a pool or softball league, do you take a penalty of death
>> oath?
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>
>How do you know this? Can you prove this?
>Or is it just something you've heard from a friend of a friend...
It's something he read on the internet. Masons are required to swear on the
'holiest book he knows' not to reveal the secrets of the lodge to non-
masons.
I have no idea if anyone was ever put to death for revealing any of it, or
more
likely being suspected of it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has
happened in
the 19th century when duels for any sort of disagreement were somewhat
legal.
It does have plenty of kooky rituals and symbols, as fraternal organizations
tend to, and not all lodges are recognized by each other anyway, so any
group
of freaks could call themselves freemasons and do whatever they want.
Officially the group does little more than mainstream charity work, but
considering the bizarre rumors surrounding the lodge since shortly after its
inception, it seems likely that freaky people would be drawn to it, much
like
the Bohemian Grove, but as for being part of any worldwide banking
conspiracies, as with the Bohemiam Grove attendees, there's nothing remotely
substantial to that. I think anyone who has payed close attention to the
machinations of the stock markets would be able to attest to that. If
economies were managed in any significantly non-chaotic way not already
accounted for, computers would be able to track the patterns and turn out
stock-market millionaires every day at the flick of the switch, bringing
said
economies to a grinding halt.
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