Freemasonry is the oldest and largest world wide fraternity dedicated to the Brotherhood of Man under the sponsorship of a Supreme Being, although of a religious nature Freemasonry is not a religion it urges its members however to be faithful and devoted to their own religious beliefs. Masons.com .

Thus is a seeker introduced to Freemasonry .. masons have been employed since the construction of the pyramids and before, they are the skilled tradesmen who travel from worksite to worksite, in the old days they were journeyman carpenters and stonemasons.

Add welders, riggers, mechanical engineers and architects and substitute power stations for cathedrals and power lines for aqueducts and know that the tradition is underway still, these peoples trade skills enable the transformation of drawings on paper into real time three dimensional structures of steel and stone.

They were paid in Cheops time and still are, the edifice complex that drives the ego’s of Kings, Despots and Popes fuels the journeyman worker’s lifestyle, they pay to keep skilled foreign tradesmen while indigenous populations become envious then hostile that their country’s wealth is being squandered.

The foreign oil workers employed in today’s Niger Delta regarded that way no less than King Mausolus of Caria ’s stonemasons, for those reasons the skilled imported workforce kept to itself remaining similarly defensive of its own situation.

Entry into the guilds and trades that made up mason infrastructure was highly selective and involved lengthy apprenticeships and training schedules, reflected in the orders various degrees and levels of attainment in the Freemasons Lodges of today.

Their comeback to criticism is that they are working for wages, if the Pope the King or the oil companies want the job done and if the money is right they are up to the task, all involved the Masons, the King and their clients know that the local workforce lacks the skills.

The journeyman lifestyle brought them into lands with differing theological values for that reason and so that they could remain aloof from local religious politics and squabbles, the Masons developed a charter of universal acceptance under the aegis of a divine creator who demanded good and who punished misdeeds.

They were on a good wicket paid well and living in comfortable well found accommodation, the job was going ahead while strict guild rules saw to it that accidental death and injury was rare, and that food and accommodation was up to scratch and that payment was received for money earned, else by guild rules they would stop work or go on strike as it is called today.

Trade unions have Masonic origins, the Freemasons Lodge evolved as people from outside the traditional mason infrastructure sought to emulate their success, so they adopted the camaraderie, the strictures and the mores that they had observed established thru the morale and character building work ethic of the traveling workmen.

No gain without pain though, the populace where the cathedral, palace or mausoleum gets built get the rough end of the pineapple most of the time, the workman reasons that local politics are not his affair, and the job goes on provided guild requirements are met.

Lingering resentment is still felt throughout some places re this state of affairs, reflected in the hate directed at Freemasons on internet forums for instance.

Some Freemasons lodges appear to have been infiltrated by antisocial elements who have conducted subversive activities, using the traditional reticence of Masonry as a cover for their illegal agenda, these people are regarded as private citizens as far as their curricular activities outside of Freemasonry is concerned.

Thus criminals are regarded as criminals no matter what, the Masonic response to a fellow Mason who is a criminal or who has been charged, must be that the matter should proceed under the law with truth as punctually as is practicable.

FOudned by Albert Pike.. more like Albert Kike, amirite? Kekekekeke...

But srsly, that would be an excellent example of (yet another) false flag. Becoming the victim, then leveraging that power for (1) immunity and (2) attacks against whomever you said attacked you.

I've worked with people with Borderline Personality Disorder. I've seen it many, many times. Unfortunately, it works well and most people don't see it. Sociopaths do this a lot as well.

Go back and study the history. The Klan arose among southern planters and former confederates who were disenfranchised by the North during Reconstruction. General McClellan's autobiography tells us that Lincoln was pushed into war by radical Republicans who had a dream of freeing the slaves, disenfranchising southern whites, and setting up a permanent, loyal Republican majority in the defeated South. The Cabal, which was operative among the Northern elites at the time, wanted to get rid of slavery and create a free-labor economy in the South--wage slaves. The Northern elites wanted power over their Southern counterparts.

The North sent agents into the South to set up the Union Leagues or Loyal Leagues, which were a quasi-Masonic secret society with ritual initiations. The Leagues conducted political indoctrination of the blacks and formed them into militias that terrorized whites.

The Klan arose as a response to the Leagues. It was initially under the operational control of southern elites and it ran a counter-insurgency that targeted Union League members. When copycats began to emerge, around 1867 or so, the Klan leadership gave the order to stand down and to stop wearing the hoods and robes. Thereafter, any hoods-and-robes groups that operated were the copycats, not the Klan. By 1870, "official" Klan was pretty much done. The KKK that became active in the 1920s was not the same organization. It assumed the symbolism, but it had no connections to the original Klan.

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it's national HQ is in Vidor, TX, wiped out by hurricane RITA. Good riddance... Nice shooting, God!

Joining the Freemasons, is like signing a contract, and then reading it afterwards. The whole concept is ridiculous!

Free Masonry was not Jewish from the beginning.

Free Masonry kept the Jewish bankers from taking over the USA for a long time.

Don't forget that Free Masons that founded the USA were against allowing Jews to gain citizenship or buy assets in the USA.