My grandparents were Freemasons!

by LovesDubs 6 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  LovesDubs

  I was looking up something about the symbols on Russels grave and came across a web site Freemasons « Cemeteries and Cemetery Symbols that talks about those things and amongst them was the Order of the Eastern Star! I realized in doing my geneaology that my moms mom was a member of the Eastern Star and that in order to be so you have to be RELATED to a Freemason! And that the Eastern Star while not a religious sect in itself, is based on religious ideology and has members apparently of deeply religious convictions. I asked my mother who it was she was related to who was a Mason and thinking it may have been grandmas uncle or something, was surprised when my mother said her FATHER was a Mason! How the hell I went for 50+ years of life not knowing this is beyond me. But take a look at this web site that talks about becoming a Freemason. BECOME A FREEMASON briefly anyway... the bottom paragraph caught my attention....

  " What happens when an initiate wants to leave freemasonry ?

  It is sufficient that he makes his decision known and his Lodge can put him to sleep, which means that his dropped from membership. According to some rumors it is not possible to leave the Order without running the risk of undergoing a terrible punishment. That is, of course, out of the question. What association would, indeed, be so stupid as to force people to remain members of an Order to which they do not belong with their full conviction ?"
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  Hortensia

  my grandmother was a member of Eastern Star, so I suppose that means my grandfather was a Mason. i have to say I have never understood why people are so suspicious of Masons. Conspiracy theories? I don't know. The only masons I have known were old guys playing dress up.
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  Hortensia

  my grandmother was a member of Eastern Star, so I suppose that means my grandfather was a Mason. i have to say I have never understood why people are so suspicious of Masons. Conspiracy theories? I don't know. The only masons I have known were old guys playing dress up. Great quote, by the way.
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  asimpleservant

  The Masonic order are just one of many in a large network of "Secret Societies" It's just fills that 'mystic' niche some people need. Almost the same was the Organization filled that special sense of secret belonging.
  
  The ties between Masonic teaching and the Watchtower are HIGHLY intriguing. It's a little more interesting when you take in account some of the ties with Satanism and Masonry and then compare them against the features that tie the Organization with Masonry. It comes a bit full circle and is really quite alarming.
  
  I will offer a bit of warning once you do so you are unable to sleep and are left a bit uneasy.. A good starting place is the origins of the NWT bible. And do some real research, you'll find good preliminaries on some standard anti JW sites. I would research a man by the last name of Greuber a catholic turned spiritist Masonic member who's teachings and theories on the bible are almost word for word the Watchtower's doctrine. His New Testatment rendering he wrote himself also bears STRIKING resemblance to the NWT.
  Again be warned you may be up until 3:30 am just like I am now!
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  SPAZnik

  I had family that was also. Shhhh. :o)
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  Big Tex

  My father was a Mason. When I was doing geneology too, I talked with his lodge in Wheaton, Missouri and they told me he had never made any attempt to resign.

  He is still a ministerial servant by the way.