Mysteries and Secrets of Freemasonry: Part VI
More Radical Conspiracies
In the late 1600s in England, the Freemasons were accused of being the Antichrist incarnate, whose task was to lead Christians away from God. Furthermore, the claim insisted that when its members came together in secrecy, practicing sacred rituals, this meant it was trying to hide sinister motives, implying its ways were evil. Other sources claimed that a secret inner circle existed within the Fraternity, unbeknownst to the main body of Freemasons, which held diabolical motives, particularly to overthrow the ruling governments of various nations.
Other wild theories associated Freemasons with other obscure cults who were behind several thousand incidents of child rape and ritual murders. This kind of accusation is usually directed at Satanists, but many yarn-spinners couldn't help throwing Freemasons into the mix. Adding to this, such claims were made that the god Freemasons worshiped was Lucifer.
The hoax of the Palladian Order shocked many in France and beyond, and it almost rivaled the hoax of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Mainly because even after this mysterious order was revealed as a blatant hoax, like the Protocols, many people still believed its validity nonetheless, at least to some degree.
The tale explains that in the late 1800s, the presiding Pope of the Catholic Church published an encyclical and blatantly attacked the Fraternity of Freemasons. Leo Taxil, a French Freemason, supposedly denounced his membership to the Fraternity and joined the Catholic Church. Then he profusely wrote literature describing Freemasons had a Satanic inner circle called the Palladian Order. Supposedly this inner group held allegiance to Satan, performed heinous acts of blasphemy, even orgy rituals between male and female members. French Catholics naively believed every word of these insane conspiracies, because such stories only verified what they already suspected.
However, about ten years after Taxil first staged the whole uproar, he publicly announced that the whole matter was a perpetrated hoax, with the aim to demonstrate exactly how gullible people can be, especially Catholics. If they believed total balderdash like he promulgated, they would blindly believe anything.
Unfortunately, the after-effect of his hoax was unexpectedly overbearing, for countless gullible people continue to believe his erroneous allegations that he himself denied. People continued to believe or suspect that the Satanic Palladian Order and its diabolical plots were real. People still quoted from Taxil's publications as if they were factual statistics, especially Fundamentalist Christians and anti-Masonic critics. There were even individuals attempting to seek out an actual Palladian Order to join its ranks, even other Freemasons, but they could not find its headquarters anywhere.
It's regrettable if not tragic that Leo Taxil's hoax backfired and further discredited the august Fraternity of Freemasons, especially in the eyes of already suspicious Catholics or others who believed such conspiracy tales.
Once again, no matter how small or large the professed conspiracy yarn is, it will inevitably exacerbate and grow out of proportion, and take on a life of its own.
It just goes to show that if you want to find dirt on a large organization, you can always find it, or fabricate it if you have to. In most cases, such accusations are based on lies and deceit to make such a group appear far worse than it really is.
To conclude, I am still perplexed and disgruntled as to why the leaders of Freemasonry continue to allow many of their phony origin stories, though most are pretty much antiquated by now. However, a few Freemasons have become whistleblowers who declare these histories are false if not simply questionable, like the author John Michael Greer, who blatantly states that these stories were fabricated from whole cloth; and also Tim Wallace-Murphy and even Manly P. Hall who both say they believe Freemasonry at least must have sprung from the Medieval craft guilds, the most plausible explanation. Many Freemason historians at least admit they aren't absolutely certain as to their ancient origins, considering there are too many gaps, so they theorized various circumstances and events throughout history that seemed to point to the existence of early Freemasons or at least schools and guilds that eventually became the Fraternity of Freemasons.
Perhaps Freemasons are slowly making way for a full disclosure, if enough Freemasons admit honestly that their Fraternity is at least three hundred or more years old, that its official origin date to the public was 1717 AD, although the circumstances and development that lead up to this are still rather hazy. However, the teachings and symbolism they hold indeed do date back to ancient times, for they most likely borrowed from earlier esoteric sources.
On a personal note, I have known and talked with many Freemasons, some of which were actually friends, and each and every one of them were wholesome, upstanding, spiritual individuals with high moral standards, and were very service-oriented, and they truly believed in and worshiped God. From many years ago, I remember an old adage: "I strive to serve God by serving mankind." These particular Freemasons that I knew, and possibly most of them, seem to demonstrate this particular adage. To say that these types of individuals are behind a diabolical overthrow of religions and governments, to initiate a New World Order, or that they worship the Devil, is absolutely and totally absurd.
They also reflect another saying, from the Bible, "By their fruits you shall know them."
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