operation
of the Divine nature in man, as discerned by human reason and experience. The Mason is not taught the Scriptural truth, that the "heart
Jewan is desperately wicked and deceitful above all things"
(Jer. 17:12); instead they are taught that through the "innate goodness" of man, he can become like God. The moral aspects of the "jaw of nature" cannot be found in Scripture, but in the "lectures, obligatory oaths, and geometrical figures and terms of Freemasonry" These moral obligations are veiled to the lower ranks of the Lodge, under symbolism known only to the higher initiates. The Ten Commandments,
as explained by Jesus Christ, are rejected and repudiated by Freemasonry, though their retention of what they call "moral law" The law given to
Page 161Israel on Mt. Sinai, is considered to be "too narrow" for the higher intelligentsia of the Lodge to accept. So they substitute the GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE, for GOD ALMIGHTY, while they substitute their "natural law" for the "immutable (unchangeable) law of God" In
MACKEY'S JURISPRUDENCE, p, Mackey states The Ten Commandments are not obligatory
upon a Mason as a Mason, because the institution is tolerant and cosmopolite (a citizen of the world, and cannot require its members to give their adhesion to any religious dogmas or precepts, excepting those which express belief in God and the immortality of the soul" Masonic law, had its roots in "Deism" It was "deism" which transformed the Masonic guilds in Europe from an operative into a speculative fraternity. The Masonic Lodges, under the influence of the Jewish
Humanist-Intelligentsia
Movement, adopted "natural law" as its moral law. It is a law which appeals to the carnal nature of man, because there is no Superior Being to whom one is responsible. In reality, in Freemasonry, as in Judaism, man becomes his own god.
Findel, a high ranking Mason said
The decisive agent in accomplishing the transformation of Masonry was that intellectual movement under the name of 'deism' which boldly rejected all
revelation and religious dogma, under the banner of 'Reason' and 'Higher
Criticism!'"
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Early Masonic leaders such Lord Herbert Hobbes, Lord Bolingbroke, Dr.
Tindal, David Hume and others, taught that the indulgence of lust and anger, self-love,
ambition, lust for power, could all be gratified. In other words, it was to become man's chief duty to gratify all. his appetites and inclinations. The end result can be seen in the moral debacle which has overtaken the world and i thee plaintive
Notes:-1. Frost,
Secret Societies of the European Revolution, Vol.
1, pi Page 162
cry of American youth
"We are only trying to do our own thing!" Of course, it does not take a brilliant mind to see that this teaching is diametrically
opposed to Scripture, which teaches us to
"Flee fornication
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