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Alerting those referred to by Secret Societies as "Profanes" to the subversion of these institutions since 2006!
http://sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md24.htm#page_359
"THE UNINITIATED WERE DEEMED PROFANE, unworthy of public employment or private confidence, sometimes proscribed as atheists, and certain of everlasting punishment beyond the grave... ALL persons were initiated into the lesser Mysteries; but few attained the greater, in which the TRUE spirit of the Mysteries, and most of their SECRET doctrines were hidden. The veil of secrecy was impenetrable, sealed by oaths and PENALTIES the most tremendous and APPALLING." ~Albert Pike the 'Pope' and 'Plato' of Freemasonry, also the only Confederate General to have his own monument in Washington DC, from his book Morals & Dogma [of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry]
http://sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md24.htm#page_352
"Among most of the ancient nations there was, in addition to their public religion, a private one called the Mysteries; to which those only were admitted who had been prepared by certain ceremonies called initiations." ~Pike, M&D again
http://sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md03.htm#page_22
"Masonry, SUCCESSOR OF THE MYSTERIES, still follows the ancient manner of teaching. Her ceremonies are like the ancient mystic shows, not the reading of an essay, but the opening of a problem, requiring research, and constituting philosophy the arch-expounder. Her symbols are the instruction she gives. The lectures are endeavors, OFTEN PARTIAL AND ONE-SIDED, to interpret these symbols." ~Pike, M&D again
http://sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md04.htm#page_104
"Masonry, like all the Religions, ALL the MYSTERIES, Hermeticism and Alchemy, CONCEALS its secrets FROM ALL EXCEPT the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, AND USES FALSE EXPLANATIONS AND MISINTERPRETATIONS of its symbols TO MISLEAD THOSE WHO DESERVE ONLY TO BE MISLEAD; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it." ~Pike, M&D again
http://sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md33.htm#page_840
"It was the remembrance of this scientific and religious absolute, of this doctrine that is summed up in a word... that was transmitted to the elect of ALL ancient initiations: It was this same remembrance, preserved, or perhaps profaned in the celebrated order of the TEMPLARS, that became for ALL the secret associations, of the ROSE-CROSS, of the ILLUMINATI, and of the HERMETIC FREEMASONS, the REASON OF their strange rites, of their signs more or less conventional, and, above all, of their mutual devotedness AND OF THEIR POWER." ~Pike, M&D again
http://sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md24.htm#page_365
"They bore with them their sciences, which they continued to teach enigmatically, that is to say, ever enveloped in the obscurities of fables and hieroglyphics; to the end that the vulgar herd, seeing, might SEE NOTHING, and hearing, might COMPREHEND NOTHING." ~Pike, M&D again
"Unto YOU it is given to know the MYSTERIES of the kingdom of God: BUT TO OTHERS in parables; that seeing they might NOT see, and hearing they might NOT understand." ~Jesus 'Christ', the Gospel of St. Luke 8:10 KJV
"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright AND MORNING STAR." ~Revelation 22:16 KJV
"When the will of the gods is made an excuse for CRIMINAL acts, there comes into mind the fear that in punishing human misconduct we may be doing violence to something of divine sanction that is mixed up with the offenses." ~Spurius Postumius Alburius, Consul to the Roman Senate in 466 B.C., discussing the Mysteries of Dionysos as quoted by Livy in his History of Rome
"There were initiations which at first were imparted to only a few; but they soon began to be widespread among both men and women. The pleasures of drinking and feasting were added to the religious rites to attract a larger number of followers. When wine had inflamed their feelings, and night and the mingling of sexes had extinguished all power of moral judgment, all sorts of corruption began to be practiced, since each person had ready to hand the chance of gratifying the particular desire to which he was naturally inclined. The corruption was not confined to one type of evil [not specifically] the promiscuous violation of free men and women; the cult was also a source of supply of FALSE WITNESSES, FORGED DOCUMENTS and WILLS, and PERJURED EVIDENCE." ~Livy, History of Rome
"And when they have emptied and swept clean the soul of him who is now in their power, AND WHO IS BEING INITIATED BY THEM IN GREAT MYSTERIES, the next thing is to bring back to their house insolence, anarchy, waste, and impudence in bright array, having garlands upon their heads and a great company with them." ~Plato's Republic
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Alerting those referred to by Secret Societies as "Profanes" to the subversion of these institutions since 2006!
http://sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md24.htm#page_359
"THE UNINITIATED WERE DEEMED PROFANE, unworthy of public employm...