the timboucher experience

Of Ancient Lineages & the New World Order

Masons seem to take a lot of assaults from various groups. Especially from fundamentalist Christians, but also from conspiracy theorists. After seeing one too many of such attacks, I decided to sit down and actually look at the information that’s out there and what people are saying. I’m starting with the detractors and plan to move inward from there.

Here’s a website called Exposing Satanism, which has a Masonic page calling them “Lucifer’s Little Helpers” which is kind of funny. They have a bunch of different things on this page which seem worth talking about. A little bit on the history of the organization, according to this somewhat hysterical site:

Masons claim there is an ancient connection way back to Adam and Eve. They claim that the fig leaves were symbolic to the aprons that are worn in their initiation ceremonies. Also they claim that freemasons built Solomon’s Temple and the tower of Babel. [...]

In 1717, Anderson along with George Payne and Theopholips Desaguliers, came together to form the first Grand Lodge. It is said that the lodge was birthed in a Tavern! Good place to start a Godly organization isn’t it?

Personally, I think a tavern really is a good place to start a “Godly organization”. Shit, even from a Christian perspective, don’t they realize that the sacramental wine is an intoxicant? Of course they don’t. The other interesting thing here is this whole idea of Masons having a mythical lineage going back through time and various societies. I’m certainly in no position to verify or deny such claims, but they aren’t the only occult or religious group to claim such a thing. How literally do most groups mean this when they claim such things? Some certainly seem to be trying to establish a kind of historical legitimacy by saying such and such people were members of the organization in secret. But a lot of it seems simply to rest on trying to capture the spirit of the organization, and projecting it backwards through history to show it’s foundations.

This website also has a lot of claims like the following:

Masons are also part of the New World Order. They serve as a recruitment tool to hide the goings on of satanic leaders.

And later on, they proclaim:

That’s right, Masons are cowards hiding behind secrecy, but the lesser minions have no idea what the true agenda is!

Things like this seem to have flimsy factual foundations, at best - and that’s me being generous. I hear this argument again and again among conspiracy buffs that secret societies and lodges have criminal or evil goings-on which only the higher-ups know about. If that’s the case, then how do people not even in the organization know about it? Why is their knowledge more accurate than people who are actually in the organization, have first-hand experience in it, and who say no such nefarious activities take place? It’s a bit of a quandary, isn’t it? Philosophically, the question seems to boil down to: who has a more accurate perception of events, the participant or the observer? I don’t know if there’s really a right answer; both have their positives and negatives.

• Time for Masonry!
• Myths of Masonry, Part 6
• Myths of Masonry, Part 1
• Personal Myths
• Myths of Masonry, Part 3