Coming soon: Governing Body Update #4 (page 6)

FragrantAddendum

I was on holidays a few years ago and found a book on Masons in the holiday house, the owner admitted to being a mason.
I read most of the book but wasn't much enlightened to be honest, it certainly didn't explain any connections with Satan, just a whole lot of boring in depth stuff about the paraphernalia they use, and a bit of their history. All very innocuous sounding.

when non-jw's read "the proclaimers book"

or something written by massimo introvigne on "bitter winter" about watchtower

or one of those pid fliers

are they getting the real deal info?

nope

when you read publications by masons or mason allies it's just like reading wt stuff

you have to take it with a grain of salt

Any recommendations on books that do shed light on masons?

here are some links cut-and-pasted from my notes - sorry if there are any repeated...

compilation mason books

ritual egyptian 96 degrees freemasonry

https://archive.org/details/cihm_03246

Dr Cathy Burns, Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated.

https://archive.org/details/masonic-occult-symbols-illustrate/page/n1/mode/1up

https://archive.org/details/MackeyAGTheSymbolismOfFreemasonry1882/mode/2up

http://hedgemason.blogspot.com/2015/06/sekhem-heka-egyptian-spiritual-energies_7.html

https://www.worldhistory.org/Heka/

https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/heka/

Mason Egypt

https://archive.org/details/cihm_03246/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater

freemasonry satanism link

http://members.tranquility.net/~rwinkel/stuff/Gunderson/The%20Egyptian-Masonic-Satanic%20Connection.pdf

three distinct knocks

https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-three-distinct-knock_v-n-w-o-_1785/page/n15/mode/2up

mcclenchan pictures of mason lodge, names of masons

https://archive.org/details/bookofancientacc00mcclrich/page/n6/mode/1up?q=priestcraft&view=theater

masonry trestle tracing boards

https://scottishritenmj.org/blog/masonic-trestle-tracing-boards

another egypt mason book 1878

https://archive.org/details/cu31924030318806/page/n348/mode/1up

paul grundy freemason wt

https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/davinci-freemason.php

duncan's ritual

https://archive.org/details/Duncans_Masonic_Ritual_And_Monitor_-_M_C_Duncan

scotch rite

https://archive.org/details/scotishrite1920/page/n336/mode/1up?q=satan

https://archive.org/details/scotchritemasonr02blan/page/552/mode/2up

the one that says satan is god of masons

https://ia802700.us.archive.org/6/items/scotchritemasonr02blan/scotchritemasonr02blan.pdf

pike morals dogmas freemasonry

https://archive.org/details/albert-pike-morals-and-dogma-of-the-ancient-and-accepted-scottish-rite-of-freemasonry/page/376/mode/2up?q=isis

rose croix ceremony

https://www.christian-restoration.com/fmasonry/18th.htm

rope around waist

https://www.alamy.com/christian-cynosure-at-there-is-a-des-tism-of-some-sort-al-the-bottom-of-althis-dark-iantc-rn-work-and-that-free-nry-with-its-political-reliknusmilitary-orders-is-getting-everyfling-ready-to-spring-the-plot-when-ngood-chance-comes-as-for-instance-nforeign-or-civil-war-fntniilsonry-is-savage-enough-irgive-ub-a-first-class-despotism-and-itsleaders-and-not-a-few-of-lhe-rank-andile-are-brutal-enough-to-inflict-all-theilasonic-penalties-upon-all-who-standn-the-way-brutality-is-a-fundamentalgtrincip!e-of-masonry-ku-klnximii-isnothing-but-masonic-cut-throat-princi-urried-into-practic-image336921075.html

world masonic register

https://ia801305.us.archive.org/6/items/cu31924015970811/cu31924015970811.pdf

1911 ibsa

https://www.calameo.com/read/000721847af3e4d216fd1

crazy northgate freemasons in new york egyptian

https://aprmm.info/archives/3440

more mason books list

https://omdhs.masonicdigitaltrust.org/category/uncategorized/

additional egyptian secret rites masonry

https://archive.org/stream/Secret_High_Degree_Rituals_Masonic_Rite_Memphis_-_J_Yarker/Secret_High_Degree_Rituals_Masonic_Rite_Memphis_-_J_Yarker_djvu.txt

https://archive.org/details/Secret_High_Degree_Rituals_Masonic_Rite_Memphis_-_J_Yarker/mode/2up

Russell 1913 Souvenier Notes Convention

"The Temple of God" talk

http://wtarchive.svhelden.info/archive/en/souvenirreport/1913_souvenir.pdf

photo

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Convention_IBSA,_Springfield_MASS,_1913.png

same

https://garystockbridge617.getarchive.net/amp/media/convention-ibsa-springfield-mass-1913-7460a3

1913 itinerary

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjLjKj9rvCEAxW0M1kFHY88CcMQFnoECBsQAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fda-ip.getmyip.com%2FPDF%2FPublications%2FOld%2520Publications%2F1900-1919%2F1913%2520-%2520IBSA%2520Transcontinental%2520Itinerary.pdf&usg=AOvVaw00QkbB2e9EuhyyTzXj5Ka5&opi=89978449

another 1913 souvenier link "most holy faith" site

http://mostholyfaith.com/Beta/bible/CRS/1913.asp

same, 1913 watchtowerwayback

http://www.watchtowerwayback.org/jw-wb/English/Conventions/Reports/1913%20Souvenir%20Notes%20Bible%20Students%20Conventions.pdf

jwarkive.uk https://jwarchive.org.uk/pdfs/watchtower

page 283

watchtower ibsa convention report souvenir 1913 pdf

http://da-ip.getmyip.com/PDF/Publications/Old%20Publications/1900-1919/1913%20-%20Convention%20Souvenir%20Report%20-%20text.pdf

http://wtarchive.svhelden.info/archive/en/souvenirreport/1913_souvenir.pdf

pg 283-300

video of russell's pyramid https://youtu.be/UO2Mg_NBL5Y

jwn thread with lots of links/pics https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/98890/heres-proof-that-charles-taze-russell-pennsylvania-freemason?page=4

pictures of "riding the goat" cartoon https://forthright.space/2020/08/09/whats-with-the-goat/

theguardian article about orangemen https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/24/northernireland.theobserver1#:~:text=Riding%20the%20goat%20%2D%20a%20ritual,and%20even%20goat%2Dlike%20bleatings.

animal abuse at church https://www.foxnews.com/story/cops-probe-child-animal-sex-abuse-at-la-satanic-church

freemasonry ritual info pdf https://thebridgelifeinthemix.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Adam-Parfrey-Ritual-America-Secret-Brotherhoods-and-Their-Influence-on-American-Society-pdf-roflcopter2110.pdf

quora answer, kathryn maynard https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-ride-the-goat-in-Freemasonry

the lodge goat book https://forgottenbooks.com/it/download/TheLodgeGoat_10806305.pdf

goats in rites of mystery religions https://brewminate.com/the-rites-in-the-mysteries-of-dionysus-the-birth-of-the-drama/

copy of WT charter in "Light after darkness" 1917 https://wt-archive.netlify.app/Books/1917/Light%20After%20Darkness/1917_lid_E.pdf

video of russell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTtJBd4ckdc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3Z0HS-7D0

cia book online on mystery religions

https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/E4/E4AAFF6DAF6863F459A8B4E52DFB9FF4_Manly.P.Hall_The.Secret.Teachings.of.All.Ages.pdf#page331

rosicrusian rites

https://archive.org/details/rosicruciansthei00jenn/page/158/mode/1up

ted gunderson, retired fbi on masons/satanism

https://youtu.be/zxk420AFP2s

https://youtu.be/RlobS6t39Ew

https://youtu.be/utrz2ZuGZeM

massimo introvigne on esoteric egyptian freemasonry and religion and satanism

https://youtu.be/3Ybd2LLwWmA

https://youtu.be/loHPkWDKUbQ

"cremation of care"

https://youtu.be/r5dHhvpHIjM

qabbalism book

https://archive.org/details/bookofsacredmagi00abra/page/n275/mode/2up?q=jehovah

egyptian freemason satanism link

http://members.tranquility.net/~rwinkel/stuff/Gunderson/The%20Egyptian-Masonic-Satanic%20Connection.pdf

freemasonry medals book philadelphia boston 1880

https://ia803108.us.archive.org/23/items/cu31924030295103/cu31924030295103.pdf

freemasonry by hall egyptian

https://archive.org/details/FreemasonryOfTheAncientEgyptiansManlyPHall

Links to Egyptian freemasonry info:

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/60552569.pdf

https://archive.org/details/cihm_03246/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/23/items/magicalritualofs00lvie/magicalritualofs00lvie.pdf

Overview of some masonry group stuff:

https://www.ghlilley.com.au/blogs/news/masonic-degrees-and-constitutions

https://freemasonrymatters.co.uk/index.php/the-orders-and-degrees-of-the-masonic-family/

https://archive.org/details/MackeyAGTheSymbolismOfFreemasonry1882/mode/2up

freemasonry egyptian links

https://misraimmemphis.com/index.php/links

rite of initiation egyptian book of dead

https://www.thesquaremagazine.com/mag/article/202301the-egyptian-rite-of-memphis-the-initiation/

https://www.reddit.com/r/freemasonry/comments/m29ief/question_about_rite_of_memphismisraim/

https://sites.google.com/site/aprmmaustralia/the-degrees

Scottish Rite

https://ia902700.us.archive.org/6/items/scotchritemasonr02blan/scotchritemasonr02blan.pdf

Minutes history book meeting of Egyptian freemasons

https://archive.org/details/BurtCCEgyptianMasonicHistoryOfTheOriginalAndUnabridgedAncientAndNinetySix96DegreeRiteOfMemphis1879/page/n302/mode/1up?q=jehovah

summary of freemason/egypt

https://www.thesquaremagazine.com/mag/article/202102freemasonry-and-egyptomania/

Halcon

their masonic/satanic goals are more along the lines of...

(1) getting people to corrupt their own worship by following twisted doctrines

(2) stumbling people into rejected God after seeing hypocrisy/lies in religion

You may be confusing two different things. As others here have pointed out, JW may be a lot of things but satanists is hugely improbable.

If you are a person of Christian faith, you will see how in ancient Egyptian and Greek religion there was zero place for God YHWH and certainly no place for anything remotely reflecting the concept of Christ. These religions had their own gods and til this day they want nothing to do with Christ.

On the other side, the Christian, there is no place for Isis, Osiris, Ra , Zeus , or Hermes for example. Logic would tell you it would be easier to worship these entities than flat out satan, but JW doesn't.

In fact, one could argue that JW are less polluted than Catholics or any other Christian religion that incorporates some blatantly pagan practices like easter egg hunting and gift giving at Christmas or trick or treating.

But corrupting and stumbling people is not really the final aim of the snake. Survival is. satan is not an all powerful being that can give life onto himself. He needs help. And since he is a spiritual being, help is attempted to be given to him intentionally thru spiritual mechanisms.

JW is pretty consistent about warning against practicing spiritism, sorcery, demonology, going so far as discouraging even just watching a movie like Harry Potter. Once I was told by an elder that even Frankenstein was demonic hehe.

Jesus himself very logically pointed out that satan cannot stand against himself. The Masons as you pointed out are overt in their practices when you see them from the spiritual perspective. They don't hide anything at all.

And personally, I suspect authentic Satanists wouldn’t want ‘em.

No they don't.

Vidiot

Jeezus, Fragrant, do you seriously expect anyone to wade through all that?

FragrantAddendum

@vidiot - lol, I only shared it because they asked for it ("any recommendations for books that shed light on masons?")

i've waded through it and it's clear wt leaders are masons/satanists

they use the same exact playbook

@halcon - you're full of 💩

But corrupting and stumbling people is not really the final aim of the snake. Survival is. satan is not an all powerful being that can give life onto himself. He needs help. And since he is a spiritual being, help is attempted to be given to him intentionally thru spiritual mechanisms."

either you don't know anything about spiritism, @halcon, or you are a really bad liar.

watch out, @halcon, you'll expose yourself if you say too much