I went through an interesting time in college. While searching for the true Faith I was also preparing to become an apprentice in the Pittsburgh Freemason Lodge. I was wrestling on going through with it and after the Lord guided me to the right path, I had cancelled my initiation 1 day before it was supposed to happen. Forever thankful that the Lord protected me and put Orthodoxy in my life at the same time Satan was attempting to steal me. Glory to God ☦️
It's a good thing you did If you weren't sure about your faith than Freemasonry would not be a thing for you. People want to associate Freemasonry with a Religion it's not and should never take the place of it
@@cressmason I take it you're under Scottish Rite? MM is the highest rank under York Rite, with HRA being a completion of the MM degree. Everything else is considered an appendant body.
I was a Master Mason and a Royal Arch mason, involved in Rosicrucianism and such. I discovered Orthodoxy because of Freemasonry. We had a painting in the lodge I found fascinating "The ladder of Divine Scent". I researched about the painting at home, and that's how I found Orthodoxy. I resigned and I was baptised 2 years ago. Freemasonry looks like a charity for the average Freemason, but if you spend countless of unpaid hours working for the craft and show interest in spirituality, is when they start to invite you to other Lodges that are invite only and very isolated. There is where you find more weird stuff and even Crowley followers, especially if you are invited in Rosicrucian circles.
@mop330 I can send you my freemason certificate if you'd like, and my letter of resignation and emails of resignation. I live in England though, and I am aware that Freemasonry in the US can be quite different, so I get why you think I might be lying. A good former friend of mine relocated to the US and his lodge there were a bunch of old protestant dudes, for instance.
I noticed my dad's ring with a red stone in it when I was a kid & he said it was a Mason ring. I said what's a Mason? He said "I can't tell you." I said why can't you tell me?" He said "I'm not supposed to tell anyone." 30+ years later a Mason I worked with said I should join the Masons. I asked "Why?" He said "I can't tell you." I said then I can't join.
It's nice to know theres good people out there. Theres alot of freemasons especially at the fucking gym. it's easy to spot them they wear purple orange and green almost every day. That's the colors they wear.
good. they're occultists and do unfathomable amounts of evil which is why it is a secret. something that's good is always in the light. even nature teaches us hiding things usually are always bad
Saint Luke 12:2-3 There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the housetops.
I was sadly a Freemason for a period of time and thank God I left them. I only stayed in until I was a Master Mason (3°), but I encountered a lot of weirdos that were way into the occult and other demonic practices. There were quite a few brothers in my lodge that openly stated to me that Masonry was their religion. Once I began inquiring into Orthodoxy I got out ASAP. It's definitely a form of a cult that masquerades as a social club.
Occultism is a vague word that covers a lot of areas. Occultism is more attractive when it's presented under the banner of "Sacred Teachings" -- which of course is heavily detailed through symbolism. So the attraction is ancient teachings and symbols, along with gematria, which also reveals hidden codes behind everything. So using ciphers and learning to write in code is another part of the attraction. All new age kind of practices make people believe they are "gods" and this leads to thinking that you are Wise and Initiated, while all the people going to church are merely children in kindergarten, not understanding the symbols and codes behind everything. It's demonic and it makes you think anyone without your sacred teachings is beneath you. Masonry doesn't get into practices as much as Rosicrucianism does, so it's very common for Past Master Masons to become Rosicrucians to practice the occult arts. Not to say that Masons can't be practicing alchemists, but that's a rare thing in today's world.
@@enigma-yu4jo They aren't! At first they get treated like at a club then gradually they get sucked in. Eventually they get into the windowless room to drink the goat's blood.
I became gnostic for a bit. I fell into this "cult" thinking "enlightenment" or "gnosis" was going to be my salvation. I was spiritually raped and had opened demons to my house. I am so glad that I left. Jesus Christ is my true savior🙏.
I am currently 23 and was heavily active in the Lodge immediately after my 18th birthday. I made my way through the chairs fairly rapidly and advanced through the degrees headstrong - not fully knowing what I was getting into. It wasn’t until last year and discovering Christ and His Church that I was saved from that wretchedness. It is an easy trap for a young man to fall into, and while appearing harmless, is absolutely detrimental to your soul. The Devil masquerades an an angel of “Light,” and what is it that Masons seek again? I pray for all of the men - who through ignorance know no better - that are active in the Lodge that Christ might rescue them as He did me. Lord have mercy! ☦️
Mystery Babylon Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
@@KizaWittaker freemasonry was made by the jesuits to infiltrate the protestant. When Luther pointed the Pope as the continuation of the roman Emperor and so the pontifex maximus of Babylon , Luther translated the Bible and did make it available to everyone and so breaking the power of the saturnian culte with their indulgence. Indulgence is the commerce of sin ! In place that you work on yourself with the teaching of Yeshua a priest would pardon you for money it does not get more blasphemouse than that
It is imagine pretending you are a decent honorable man when you are in actuality a servant of lucifer. I mean the symbols alone are quite disturbing also masons are great liars.
Freemasonry is pervasive in any western democracy, specifically because Freemasonry was a major leader in the creation of western democracies. Basically all those attributes of the modern world that we regard as more humane than what came before are indebted, in large part, to Masonry. Ironically, most religious denominations are hopelessly dependent for their very survival on the liberal principles promoted by Masonry. Christianity, having splintered into a thousand feuding factions needed to appeal to the secularists for protection against other denominations. Each of them, having started a nasty fight for leadership, became unable to finish what they started and unwilling to accept the consequences of their behavior. It's hilarious to watch them now complain as though they didn't do it to themselves.
Father please give me an advice, how to pray or what to do for a person who is a member of freemasonry. Please Father answer my question when you will be able. Thank you. ❤
@@mariami2670 No prayers are necessary for Freemasons. We are a fraternity, dedicated to moral uprightness, integrity and charotable works. We have absolutely no quarrel with any faith anmd indeed, encourage men in our fraternity to be active in whatever faith they choose, whether that be Christianity, Judaism, Islam etc. The guy in this film really has absolutely no clue whjat he is talking about...he is simply repeating the same tired old rumours that have been around for so long...usually started by men who have either been thrown out of Freemasonry, or who have applied and been rejected. If you REALLY want to know about Freemasonry, ask me, or any man who is a MAson....don't listen to tittle tattle and gossip.
For years now i've been trying to inform people of the one and only heresy - gnosticism, and how it pervades within the cults, namely Masonry. It is a very tricky thing, almost nobody will believe. Looking forward to listening to this tomorrow.
Most of them don't want to believe because their egos are involved and they also have so much demonic resistance against the coming to the realization of the truth. They also want it to really be about brotherly love, service, duty, ect as it claims to be and looks to be from the outside.
You really couldn't be further from the truth. This speaker has hunted and pecked his lines carefully. He is lying. But he is wrong on almost every aspect. I am Christian, I accept no other God and I stand by this.
@lauragraves4342 it has nothing to do with egos....not at all... It has to do with lies that are being told.... Started with Pope Clement V and has never let up. I am Christian. There are Godly men, deacons, ministers, all over the world, including Catholicism that are freemasins.
@justamason6869 They would eventually turn from freemasonry if they really cared what God has to say about it because there's no way He would let them continue in it without exposing the truth about it to them if they were adequately seeking Him. Period. And if they then refuse to abandon that demonic organization, it is in fact their egos being somewhat involved as well as outright disobedience. The fact that true Christians can be deceived about it and still be true Christians, which they absolutely can, doesn't mean they would continue in it if they were where they really needed to be with God because if they were, God would be showing them the whole problem with it. Let's not exacerbate the problem by pretending God doesn't bring what's evil to the limelight here. Or act shocked when He has and people speak up about what God has personally shown them in their prayer life.
“There is no religion higher than the Truth.” This is on the sign outside the Theosophical headquarters in the USA. It seems to be the Gnostic creed whereby they subordinate the revelation of Jesus Christ as “the Way, the Truth and the Life” (John14:6) to their Gnostic understanding of “Truth.”😢
Last two words were incessant. Gnosis is what leads you to salvation. The more educated you are in both the good and the evil, the closer you are to God.
It amazes me that someone who claims to be a Christian and also a Freemason cannot see the direct conflict or natural polarity between the two. There is no fellowship, no compromise, no coexistence even possible in the Body of Christ. As the Scriptures say " ... come out from among them and be separate says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."
@Foxo Masonry doesn’t promote itself to be a Master. It clearly promotes that God and Family come before Masonry. It’s just another fractal pattern of Gods glory of communion. We have communion within ourselves (prayer), our family, our community (Freemasonry), and the world (church), all through God.
@@jbeauty4150 Not true at all. “Do not cast pearls before swine” - Jesus Pearls are “hidden” knowledge that should not be cast before swine who will then subvert and reject it.
The only freemasonry I ever saw before I converted was an interesting interaction between a couple of people in the third position I used to listen to. One was a very naturalistic stoic and the other was a Mason. I was on my way to being a Christian and it was confusing to me how these 2 third position people hated Christianity so much when it seemed to be a perfect fit for uniting people under one banner. Later I learned that the pagans and masons hated Christianity and discovered that their ideas would just lead to the same atrocities I was attempting to avoid.
@@KizaWittaker pagans and freemasonry are extensions of what the devil teaches himself. Just another deception. You will ALWAYS be deceived if you don't accept Jesus as the son of God as our true savior in an otherwise fallen world.
@@diogeneslantern18no it's not. If you're not with us, you're against us. Masons worship Lucifer and therefore they're an enemy. We can love you but we don't have to trust you.
I was involved in the AODA (ancient order of druids in America) which is a masonic druid organization, thanks to John Michael Greer. I was under the impression that it was all good up until I was virtually dismissed in my assessments of the world because of my status, and ultimately sensed that I was not welcome in the least bit, popping bubbles like a devils advocate I was, talking about the bible and economics, and then watching their reactions. I was a punk at heart and I did not fall in line with their demands or beliefs, they were warned. I see the world crumbling and see what's going wrong but we were not at all on the same page. Thank God I had that experience before I explored Orthodoxy and thank you for sharing this, this helps explain that hostility I felt.
That's not an accepted body of masons. So to say it is a masonic organization is false. The creators may have taken some ideas from the masons, such as the mormons did, but they're not masonic.
Though clandestine in terms of what the “regular masons” will say. It likely means that your group held very similar philosophical views and held an initiation that is very similar to the Freemasonic traditions. It makes sense because most occult organizations use the same degree systems with the challenges at the lodge doors and the back and forth discussions as a way to teach their lesson for new initiates. It’s an experiential initiation that leaves a lasting impression on most people.
Their veneration of the villains makes so much sense for some research into a very remote rural community in the north east I've been working on. The Church in the mining settlement in the wildnerness was named for Tubal-Cain, and I found it absolutely mind boggling. It's been at the back of my mind for awhile now, and here it is. It would make sense, these successful British businessmen would be Freemasons. It was a lodge.
Saint Matthew 10:28 And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
@@alexiabowen4035 look at those who have the mark of the beast in book of Revelation 13 onwards. Very sad and painful everlasting burning with worms eat their bodies
My father became involved with it when we were young children. They even have a Masonic Bible that's a King James version. Must wait 20 lb. Anyway, He excelled quickly but it's because it was social more family oriented and Christian oriented in that particular chapter and that particular era. On the surface. It was also very family-orient ed. Then they ask him to commit and immoral act. 😡 I remember my father being sort of pale and he was tanned at the time for a couple of days or three or four. I found it later years but he went to his pastor and repented of the involvement and they prayed and he left the Masonic lodge and we moved quickly. Out of South Florida to North Florida. That huge family Bible went missing 😅
Yes, everyone gets one, in the US it’s mostly a Bible. Around the world, you will get a different “Holy Book” a Koran for the Muslim, the Hindus get their sacred text and so on.
Thank you, father. I have a sort of question related to this; it’s about a friend who recently found Holy Orthodoxy, him and his family were catechumens for about a year in a small mission parish belonging to a canonical jurisdiction, and were then baptized during this year’s great lent. Since his first visit to the parish, he told me about where the mission is located and that sort of information, which is at the home of one of the founders who contacted the diocesan cathedral to solicitate the foundation of an Orthodox mission in his city and who remains until this day as a member of the Church alongside his family. All of this seemed great to me until he informed me more about the members of the parish, particularly about said founding member and ahis friend, both openly masons, even distinguished members of the local lodge, with all sorts of distinctively masonic symbols alongside figures/idols of different far-eastern religions, this same house has an improvised chapel at the top floor to celebrate the monthly divine liturgy. Now, inside the chapel proper there are no weird symbols or idols (except for a “host-holder” like the ones in the RCC), but he's still creeped out by the fact that there are elements of such different worlds under the same roof and fears that the mason has bad intentions (which I wouldn’t doubt). So, trying to help, I advised him to speak directly to his priest, and after that he told me that the father said before anything else that masonry has nothing to do with the Church, and that it’s something this guy (the mason) keeps to himself, that even the father’s objective is for him to renounce masonry through the life of the Church. My friend’s a little comforted by the plans the priest has shared with all the parishioners, which is to build an official chapel at a different location in the same city due to the mission’s growth. Nonetheless, by the passing of time this situation has taken its toll on him, he no longer knows what to do, especially because going to another parish isn’t an option since he lives in a Latin American country with very little Orthodox presence and doesn’t want his family and him to stop receiving the holy mysteries. Finally, I too don’t know what else to do to help him, and I can especially understand his struggle because it was also very hard for me to find a Church when coming into Orthodoxy. Nor do I know if suggesting a talk with his bishop would be beneficial, after all, the bishop must have known about this situation for years now and doesn’t seem to have bothered him. ¿What would you advise, father?
Tolerance for the gnostics in our midst will never call down the blessings of our Lord upon our works. Jezebel and her fornications with idols was severely rejected by our Lord in the Revelation. SO: one cannot remain “at peace” with this. He must pray fervently, ask God for discernment and take steps - with care - to root it out. The bishop is responsible ultimately and if he can speak to him and do his due diligence in this way, this will be, for him, a great defense at the Judgement Seat.
@@OrthodoxEthos Father, bless! While all of this is true, and Manuel definitely must try to get the bishop's attention on all of this, what should he do in the event that the neither the rector nor that bishop will do anything? Should he not perhaps pray about the possibility of asking for another bishop's blessing to found another mission or begin doing reader's services? Perhaps the Lord's great mercy in the West is the jurisdictional chaos amongst the canonical Orthodox, since this permits the discerning faithful not to stay under lax clergy.
1 Corinthians 3:18-23 Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool so as to become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God, for it is written: “He catches the wise in their own ruses,” and again: “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.” So let no one boast about human beings, for everything belongs to you, Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or the present or the future: all belong to you, and you to Christ, and Christ to God.
The American Scottish rite was founded in 1801 in Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of 11 men, 5 of whom were sephardic jews. These men were prominent in the slave trade and would later found the Southern secessionist movement in the same city decades later. South Carolina would be the first state to secede upon the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in 1860, kicking off the civil war. Sephardic jews were prominent in the Confederate intelligentsia and government, with Judah P Benjamin (Confederate secretary of war, secretary of finance, and attorney general) being the first jew to hold a cabinet position in North America. Charles Moise, a self-described “southerner of jewish persuasion” assisted Confederate politician, William Porcher Miles, in designing the Confederate battle flag. Moise specifically suggested that Miles make the flag look “less Christian” compared to his earliest designs. Near the war’s end, Lincoln would be assassinated by famous actor and freemason, John Wilkes Booth, while his Presidency would be handed over to another freemason by the name of Andrew Johnson. Scottish rite freemasonry would see continued representation in American political office, particularly in the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Council,_Scottish_Rite_(Southern_Jurisdiction,_USA)
"Satan's hand begins the end and frees the world forever. Gomorrah's dream to live in sin has reached its critical mass. Man himself has become God and laughs at his destruction. In which we trust a secret government is now in total collapse" SLAYER
"Papal Protestants" I love it! 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks to Fr. Maxim Prikhodko of the ROC I am no longer a "Papal Protestant". Please pray for our Roman Catholic brothers that they also may find the true path. Слава Богу. ☦️🇷🇺❤️
Hi i want to become Orthodox Christian. I have a question though which disturbs me. If i am to find an Orthodox Church near me and get baptised would the baptism be valid if one of the clergy or priests baptising me was a freemason and i didnt know? Also once i become a Orthodox Christian what do you do when Ecumenism keeps trying to change the faith? I hope this make sense. And i know your a busy man but please if possible get back to me. I have no other way of asking a God fearing Orthodox Christian like yourself. Thank you for your videos and your time.
God bless your journey dear friend. Have you seen the Orthodox Ethos weekly series The Athonite Catechism? Father Peter answers questions at the end of each episode. Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a sinner 💖🙏🇦🇺
In 'Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self', C. G. Jung writes "According to Irenaeus, the Gnostics held that Sophia represents the world of the Ogdoad, which is a double quaternity. In the form of a dove, she descended into the water and begot Saturn, who is identical with Yahweh." This is the same entity know as the Demiurge. In the Secret Book of John, aka, the Apocryphon of John, the Savior gives the best description of God the Father, as distinct from the Demiurge who masquerades as god in the Old Testament and who constantly demands sacrifice; in particular, child sacrifice.
JEHOVAH is the God of this World.. “Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.” - Deu 4:39 (NKJV)
Since Jesus in the Gospels clearly commands lifestyle choices like sharing, forgiveness, honoring parents, generosity, the question is who does it all best. Remember the last things Mary, His mother, says in the Bible is: "Do whatever He tells you to do."
@@chriskourliourod1651 You do realize that everyone has a different outlook and view on christ and his teachings? I am gnostic so I find it laughable at the way christian portray christ. You guys legit worship a evil petty god.
Growing up as an Orthodox Christian, I remember seeing and hearing a lot about many Greek Orthodox Christians being Freemasons. Would it be wrong to think that what’s happening in the GOA is something to do with that?
It's a world wide phenomenon... It all stems from ecumenism and the infiltration of the Church, we as Orthodox needs to keep our eyes open to heretics posing as "Orthodox Christians". God gave us discernment and will help accordingly, that's what our Lord always does...
Traditional Catholics are basically anti-Papal Papists... Sticking to Vatican 1 thinking that is the true faith and usually thinking current Pope is in apostasy (despite the fact Papism literally stand in contradiction with that statement)
Leo Taxil was a hoax. Some of what he said may have been true but the legitimacy of his argument can easily be torn apart by the people who subscribe to these beliefs. As a former Mason, I agree with Fr Heers analysis, but would heavily caution using Taxil as a source
Another checkmark on why I know Christianity is real. This is the exact opposite of what we want but they are still obsessed with men from the Bible and baphomet. This cult created by Satan just reaffirms my belief in Jesus Christ. I can see Jesus even in this, I know he is real based on the fact something evil like this exists. Following him is the true path to salvation.
My grandfather, who I never met, was a Mason (I believe 33 degree). He passed away about 10 years before I was born. My mother only knows because they were at his wake. It’s odd, because he was a Roman Catholic, and I know membership is a no-no in Catholicism (I’ve since learned more about Masonic involvement with high ranking Vatican officials who were Masons, which may have a lot to do with thing such as the modern mass and papal infallibility). My family left the Catholic Church when I was 15, joining a local Protestant church (an offshoot of the Plymouth Brethren). I left the church in my early 20s, spent almost a decade as an atheist, then agnostic, and for a minute a gnostic. I finally got back on track in my 30s. Over the last few years, I’ve considered joining a lodge; I love esoteric symbolism and even ritual, something that is lacking, imho, in most Protestant churches (along with the moving away from the foundations of Christianity in those churches, again imho). Over the last year or so, I’ve felt more and more pulled towards Orthodoxy; the more I learn, the more I become interested, and excited, something that hasn’t happened to me through a Christian church since I was a teenager. I have put aside the notion of joining a lodge and am pursuing joining a church; I just have to find the one that feels right for me. With all of that said- what is it, specifically in doctrine, that makes becoming a Mason incompatible with Christianity, and in particular Orthodoxy?
They don't believe in the Trinity or the Divinity of Christ. That right there kills any combability immediately. That doesn't even get into the 500 other offenses like idol worship of people and things.
I’m a brother in great standing with my lodge and I attend church with my wife every Sunday, go to Bible study, pray before meals and throughout the day, volunteer my time serving alongside others for the church! Here’s the thing with masonry is that you make it what you want to make it! Its just a way of living to become a better person. It’s not a religion but we do pray to god before and after lodge meetings. If masonry was satanic I would have no involvement in it! I believe in 1 God and one God only and that his sun Jesus died for us on the cross.
Christianity makes it abundantly clear that secret societies serve satan. So youre a deceiver like your father the devil to be telling others youre a christian.
If you are a Christian, you know that going to church and praying before meals is not what makes a Christian. What makes a Christian ? It’s the belief that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation which is the only path to heaven. All other beliefs lead to hell. This is the standard minimum test of Christianity. As you have already said, the lodge accepts all faiths, just a belief in any deity is required. French Freemasonry allows atheists as well. As you have also said, the Lodge opens and closes in prayer. In your example the lodge prays to The Great Architect of the Universe AkA anyone you like. Now try to go to lodge opening and closing lodge with a prayer in the name of Jesus. You will find this is a violation of you lodge charter. So if the Bible says that those who pray to god and do not acknowledge Jesus, are praying to demons, what does that say about freemasonry?
@@ryanatthejobsiteomit8027 I know what makes a Christian and I walk the walk and talk the talk. I do everything the lord ask me to do. I serve the lord and spread the gospel like every Christian should do. Not sure where you’re getting your false info from but at our lodge! We pray to God and we read from the holy bible.
@@kerrybaker371 can you close your lodge in the name of Jesus? Did you break the command given to you from Jesus Christ to swear not at all? He added, that more than yes being yes and no being no comes from the evil one. Do you think you can make covenants with the evil one, stay with it, defend it and maintain a relationship with Christ? Please explain how this is right?
@@ryanatthejobsiteomit8027 I’m not here to explain everything to you. I’m here to tell you I’m a man of faith and that we pray to God the father of jesus before and after lodge. We have a holy bible that our hands were placed on when we took our oath. All that I’m saying is that there’s nothing satanic at our lodge! All good men who love Jesus and love helping out the community.
It’s mysterious ritual are what draws members. There are lessons being taught in the ritual but there are no longer any secrets to be found in the lodge that can’t be found with a google search of initiation rites in freemasonry.
Passing along the history and morality which was learned from our forefathers. They based all there assumptions on biblical virtues. You do the rituals to confirm that which you have learned.
Gnosticism is similar to protestantism in that it has no means of settling doctrinal disputes, it's not coherent, therefore it splits up into sect after sect after sect and never stops.
@@rosewhite--- I very strongly believe that sola scriptura only propagates division and endless private interpretation. I very strongly encourage you to study church history from before the schism and especially before the reformation. I highly encourage you to read the "didache" and "the apostolic fathers". Not one Christian before the reformation taught sola scriptura and the direct disciples of the apostles such as St. Polycarp, St. Dionysius the Areopagite and St. Ignatius of Antioch were clearly not protestants. I was a protestant all my life before becoming Orthodox. Protestants can have good intentions but zeal without knowledge is a very dangerous thing.
@@Ioannikios174 I have a KJV Study Bible which is sufficient to know the truth. s you say your zeal without knowledge is a dangerous thing so I suggest you get a KJV Study Bible and start learning.
As a mason I can honestly say this is bs. This man has knowledge of it and is guessing and presenting as fact. Masons stand for truth, honour, charity. Most of our meetings are spent talking and planning charity projects… this is utter bs. Our rituals aren’t satanic, they teach good men to be better men. Nonsense.
This is how it is in masonry. There are different levels of initiation. Different levels of knowledge. We’re not talking about the lowest level, the common man, the one who does not ascend to the various heights of delusion and satanic initiation.
That is an ignorant and played out critique. You don't know anything about Freemasonry except the Scottish Rite, which is NOT some kind of higher rank, it's just a side-study of all ancient religions and Freemasons are under no obligation to listen to or follow any of that stuff. York Rite Freemasonry is almost entirely Christian in nature and Freasonry actually led me to Orthodoxy more than any other Church I ever attended.@@OrthodoxEthos
I was initiated as an Entered Apprentice last month. I renounced it to my Father a week ago. I was not a Mason very long. I studied long and hard about Masonry before I joined. We would pray to Christ before meals. I prayed to Christ before my initiation. You can find all of their literature online. Masonry has two bodies. The Blue Lodge and the Red Lodge. The Blue Lodge is meant to be a representation of the Temple of Solomon. There are 3 degrees in the Blue Lodge Temple of Solomon, and it is entirely based on Old Testament scripture. This is why Masonry seems to tolerate all religions. Once you reach the 3rd degree, Master Mason, you are offered the opportunity to proceed into what they call the Appendant Bodies of Masonry. These are Red Lodge bodies. It seems to me that you are reading philosophy from the Scottish Rite, which is blatantly anti Christian and extremely Gnostic. The Scottish Rite here in America is the brainchild of Albert Pike, who was a Confederate general. You are not obligated to participate in the rituals of the Scottish Rite. There are other rites that a Master Mason can explore. One of these being the York Rite, which is exclusively Christian, and the final degree in that rite requires an oath to uphold and protect the Christian faith to the death. It is important to remember that Masonry is inherently Western. The West is not familiar with the concepts of Theosis within Christianity. A lot of Masonry, especially in America, was seen historically as an answer to the lack of divination in American Protestantism. Masonry itself is fractured just like any other faith on the Earth. There are brothers in Masonry who do not like the anti-Christian rhetoric in some appendant bodies. There are some who do not like Christians. They typically don’t associate with each other, and likewise their resources are segregated. Whatever money the gnostic bodies have is their own. Whatever money the Christian bodies have is their own. I hope this is somewhat informative. I ultimately left because I wish to be baptized and participate in the eucharist.
My uncle is a Freemason and attempted to use my father’s death to manipulate me into joining his lodge. Freemasons do not have the same love and appreciation of family as you or I do. Please pray for my uncle Ken
This is some pretty clear and valuable advertising to help recruit people. I am firmly convinced to keep looking into masonry after your illuminating explanation. Thank you for teaching people the truth. It's not easy to find this information in such a clear and concise form. Will be sharing so everyone can find their way. Thank you.
I think you’re somewhat misunderstanding the Freemasons and Gnostics. They are both occultists, but they are in opposition to each other. The Freemasons believe in the “Supreme Architect of the Universe” while the Gnostics believe this being and God are the same, evil, being called the “Demiurge”.
Orthodox Church they actually worship the same God as the Freemasons. And only a Freemason and orthodox that has been or is both would know that. And most Orthodox priests know this so just in the Same Song & Dance is everybody else
@@Austin-lp4he💯% you got it: go to any video online about freemasonry and you'll find this idiot. There's also another guy called "the realist", who's also a 👢-licker. Really: if masonry was so great for them they would be using their time engaged in masonic activities, such as learning degree-work etc, instead of searching RUclips to be offended like a blue-haired leftist.
Saint Matthew 19:23-30 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Then Peter said to him in reply, “We have given up everything and followed you. What will there be for us?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you that you who have followed me, in the new age, when the Son of Man is seated on his throne of glory, will yourselves sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
gnosis (-g·no·sis): From Greek γνῶσις. Knowledge. The higher meaning of Gnosis is knowledge from experience, especially experience of divinity or that which is beyond the five senses. The word Gnosis does not refer to knowledge that we are told or believe in. Gnosis is conscious, experiential knowledge, not merely intellectual or conceptual knowledge, belief, or theory. This term is synonymous with the Hebrew דעת "da'ath," the Arabic ma'rifah, the Tibetan rigpa (knowing), and the Sanskrit "jna." Gnosis can also refer to the tradition that embodies the core wisdom or knowledge of humanity, although in the physical world it has not been known by that name, but instead has adopted varying appearances according to culture, time, and place. The Greek word Gnosis (γνῶσις) implies a type of knowledge that is derived from experience, and encompasses the whole of a person. That is, it is genuine knowledge of the truth. Reality, truth, does not fit neatly into a concept, dogma, or theory, thus genuine Gnosis must also be something that one must experience. Personal experience is not transmissible in conceptual terms; a concept is merely an idea, and experience is far more than an idea. In other words, real Gnosis is an experience that defies conceptualization, belief, or any attempt to convey it. To understand it, one must experience it. This is why real spirituality is based on one's own effort to experience the truth, and the method to reach that experience is primarily practical. Nonetheless, in order to understand what we experience, we must study the experiences of others. For this, we prefer to rely on those who have proven the qualities we wish to embody ourselves: profound love for all beings, brilliant intelligence, and radiant joy. As such, we rely on the greatest human beings and their legacies, in every field of understanding: philosophy, science, art, and religion. The Greek word Gnosis refers to the knowledge acquired through the experience of the awakened consciousness, as opposed to knowledge that we are told or might believe. Genuine Gnosis is the knowledge universal to all humanity that frees the consciousness from suffering. Gnosis - by whatever name in history or culture - is conscious, experiential knowledge, not merely intellectual or conceptual knowledge, belief or theory. The Gnostic student seeks to acquire their own direct experience of the light (the Truth) by means of awakening the consciousness and eliminating obscurations to perception. The method to accomplish this task has been called: Gnosis (Greek) knowledge Jnana (Sanskrit): knowledge Daath (Hebrew): knowledge Dharma (Sanskrit): righteousness, law, truth, teaching Torah (Hebrew): teaching, instruction, law ...and many other names. By comparing all of these ancient teachings, we can see that all religious forms have in their heart a science of Gnosis: a method to arrive at personal knowledge of the Truth. Whenever the Law declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. I am born in every age to protect the good, to destroy evil, and to re-establish the Law. -Hinduism. Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita 4.7-8 Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. -Christianity. Jesus in the Bible, Matthew 5.17-18 Lo! We inspired you [O Muhammad] as We inspired Noah and the prophets after him, as We inspired Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and Jesus and Job and Jonah and Aaron and Solomon, and as we imparted unto David the Psalms; and messengers We have mentioned to you before and messengers We have not mentioned to you... messengers of good cheer and of warning, in order that mankind might have no argument against God after the messengers. God was ever Mighty, Wise. -Islam. Qur'an 4.163-65 Naught is said unto you [Muhammad] save what was said unto the messengers before you. -Islam. Qur'an 41.43 I have seen an ancient Path, an ancient road traversed by the rightly enlightened ones of former times. -Buddhism. Samyutta Nikaya ii.106 The Master said, "I have transmitted what was taught to me without making up anything of my own. I have been faithful to and loved the Ancients." -Confucianism. Analects 7.1 "All religions have the same principles. Under the sun, every religion is born, grows, develops, multiplies into many sects, and dies. This is how it has always been and will always be. Religious principles never die. The religious forms can die, but the religious principles, in other words, the eternal values, can never die. They continue; they are re-dressed with new forms." - Samael Aun Weor
I just had a question for the chat who claim to be ex-freemasons. Doesn't the lodge also accept Jesus Christ as a diety and the abrahamic god?. I never understood why I here so many claims to be satanic in practice yet they incorporated all regions both good and evil I don't get it.
Read Albert Pikes book he explains that in 33rd degree they worship Lucifer. He acts like Lucifer isnt a demon like hes a positive force. Helena Blavatsky for theosophy has the same ideias. Also Alice Bailey who created an offshoot also had Lucifer Press, later renamed Lucis. It is not a conspiracy it is spiritually dangerous. Dont believe me. Research and read. God is Lord.
It’s the “incorporated all religions” part. The Orthodox elders have spoken on Freemasonry and ecumenism deriving from it. Ecumenism is the most dangerous heresy
@@alicemeliksetian7981 Saint John 5:19-30 Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also. For the Father loves his Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes. Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment* to his Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life. Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to his Son the possession of life in himself. And he gave him power to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voices and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation. “I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
You guys are so afraid of the apocryphon of John. And you should be. That text is the single most threatening document to orthodox Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It makes Jesus the ultimate hero, and it frees our mind from the power of Yahweh the demiurge. OK for some reason it won’t let me reply to the guy that talked about Ireneus and against heresies. But anyway, I just wanted him to know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM mark 14:51-52. If that happened today, he would be on the government offenders list instead of getting crucified ha ha this is the beauty of being gnostic. You can always outsmart somebody. And you can even use Jesus to do so, and they can’t do a single thing.
@@josephwong-x4k no I’m not afraid of Ireneus. Because I know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM. Mark 14:51-52. You do know that instead of him getting crucified, he would be on a government watchlist for the rest of his life if that happened today ha ha ha ha ha ha
@@josephwong-x4k no l'm not afraid of Ireneus. Because I know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM. Mark 14:51-52. You do know that instead of him getting crucified, he would be on a government watchlist for the rest of his life if that happened today ha ha ha ha ha ha
@@josephwong-x4k no l'm not afraid of Ireneus. Because I know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM. Mark 14:51-52. You do know that instead of him getting crucified, he would be on a government watchlist for the rest of his life if that happened today ha ha ha ha ha ha
@@josephwong-x4kno l'm not afraid of Ireneus. Because I know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM. Mark 14:51-52. You do know that instead of him getting crucified, he would be on a government watchlist for the rest of his life if that happened today ha ha ha ha ha ha
I reject the term "Papal-Prodestants", Latin-Rite Christians, Roman Catholics, even Heterodox sounds better, but this was a good video, thank you for shining light on this!
This is basically the way that the church has seen the pope for 1000 years: as one protesting and refusing to listen to the Church. He was the model which protestants followed. In his image they were fashioned.
@@OrthodoxEthos But wasn't the original Doctrine of The Roman Patriarch to be first among equals? The Western Perspective is a group of Bishops are the ones who protested and schism'd from the Authority of The Church, both sides stood with pride when excommunicating eachother, but in the end it's The East who rebelled against the God-Given Authority of the Messianic State's Pontiff. The East denied Romans 13:1, in just the same way Luther did, by Protesting The Church's Holy Patriarch... I believe it's not without good reason, however I still believe Catholics & Orthodox must one day be joined together again in the ancient ethos and reunified as The One Holy Orthodox Catholic Church, The One Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ, one day.
@@Thomas_Roland No, the Roman church protested and tried to grab power that was not its to have. It was excommunicated validly first. So it is Papal Protestantism.
@@LadyMaria I would argue it was the Greek bishops whom protested rejecting the original Primacy doctrine layed out in "first among equals" relating to the Patriarchates. They were declared schismatic from the one true Messianic State established in Rome by Jesus Christ though Peter & Paul .
Peter was never bishop of Rome. If he were, why did Paul need to write an epistle to the Romans? Likewise, the "papal supremacy" heresy in invalidated when you consider that at the Council of Jerusalem, as is told in the Book of Acts, was led by James and not Peter. @@Thomas_Roland When you see the countless heresies and scandals that have from the Roman Catholics over the centuries, it's clear that the gates of hell have prevailed against it. Thus, it cannot be Christ's Church.
They are builders who rejected (or are free from) the cornerstone. Funny thing is that they are about as far from being free that one could possibly be, spiritually and in the flesh.
I'd like to add that the Gnostics also venerate Judas because they claim he was in on the crucifixion plan from behind the scenes. In the Gnostic gospels it says Judas hated the plan so much and then that's why he killed himself afterward. He hated that he killed the Lord. Not saying I'm a Gnostic I just do a lot of reading.
It is mind boggling that such misinformation about Freemasonry is still sprouted - and in this instance by a fellow member of the clergy . Have his church removed the texts of not spreading false witness that I find in my own - and every other bible ? I am a member of the clergy myself and I stand ashamed at this misrepresentation. Every candidate to Freemasonry is clearly, and expressly instructed to "follow the dictates of your own religion, for therein will you find the obligations that you owe to God, your neighbour and yourself" The initiation manuals with this text are freely available on the internet, in any of the more than 40 masonic museums spread over the world, or in rituals commonly available (Amazon at $8) In my own lodge we have Anglicans, Dutch Reformed, Catholic, Liberal Catholics, a Hindu pharmacist, a Russian orthodox attorney - as a typical example. Does this sound like a satanist gnostic group ? - and by the way - "Satanist-Gnostic" is a macabre contradiction of terms - like dry water, or forward reversing - what in logic's name does it mean ? Freemasonry is not a religion, does not aim to be an alternative or a substitute for a religion, it has no saviour, profess no religious dogma except for sound morals derived from the Bible itself, (and to be found in the Holy Scriptures of all other religions), it has no liturgy, do not allow religion to be discussed at its meetings but is a pure philosophy aimed at moral, ethical and personal growth, It is a philosophy veiled in Allegory (or parable _ and clothed in symbol. In the New Testament it is said of Jesus, : " He taught in parables, and without parables taught he nothing" It is so sad that those not properly educated in Hermeneutics , i.e. the interpretation of documents, ancient and world history and philosophy , ignorance lead to such misrepresentation. American and Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry's slogan is "to make good men better" and that of the Continental variety of the various Masonic Grand councils, "For the Improvement of humanity: or "To build a temple for humanity" That is achieved by the individual Mason homing himself as a perfect building block for the temple, or society The Satanic hoax, perpetrated by Leo Taxil - an expelled Freemason, has been made public, by Taxil's own admission more than 140 years ago ( Google "The Taxil hoax" for yourself ) - yet the uninformed, the unscrupulous fundamentalist, and especially those of authoritarian ilk, keep perpetuating the story 7 Comments Burt James
This was the comment I was looking for. Laid out perfectly. I can second that everything you said in this comment is 100 percent true. Dresden lodge #103 S.M.I.B.
Comments from Freemasons. . . No one is surprised. . . Do you have the wisdom and discernment to engage in self-analysis and have self-knowledge - being estranged from the experience of the Holy Spirit and the Mind of the Fathers? No. Here is a Freemason who was freed from the delusion and enlightened by Christ: www.amazon.com/Masons-Their-Lies-Every-Christian/dp/1986325474 On The Masons And Their Lies: What Every Christian Needs To Know (Spiritual Warfare) Shatter your preconceptions and brace yourself for the shocking truth behind one of the world's most mysterious institutions. Written by a leading expert in the field, this gripping and insightful book delves into the history and mysteries of the Masonic fraternity - pulling back the veil and revealing the secrets that have been kept from the public for centuries. As an ex-Freemason himself, the author of On The Masons And Their Lies exposes the Lodge's deceptions and hidden agendas from an Orthodox Christian perspective. By the time you're done reading this book, you'll know far more about Freemasonry than most of its own members do...and if you're a Christian buying this for someone you love, it just might be exactly what he needs to be saved from grave sin and error.
@@OrthodoxEthos Has it occured to you, that people write this tripe TO MAKE A PROFIT? They prey on our official treatment of such nonsense...a dignified silence. NONE of the accusations levied against us bear any close scrutiny. If such things were true, we would be prosecuted time and again. We have not. Often, these things are written by those who have applied to join Freemasonry, but have been rejected for any number of reasons. Others who write such nonsense, have been Freemasons, having joined for the wrong reasons....to make a profit, or to gain favour with the police or other sich bodies...only to be disappointed that such things are a fallacy. They are eventually expelled from our order and this is how they hit back. But you, of course, do not have the wit to grasp this most obvious of occurences. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
@@OrthodoxEthos I'm a Freemason. I own this book, yet nothing in it leads me to believe that Freemasonry is incompatible with Christianity. I've interacted with the author on Roosh V's forum. Whilst he is entitled to his opinion, he comes across as someone who holds a personal vendetta against Masonry. All the Anti-Masonic texts I've read, read the same.
@The Orthodox Ethos How do you know you have the wisdom and discernment to engage in self analysis? Even if you are, in fact led by the Spirit of God, you are fallible like he is. All we have to go on is the fallible judgment of both of you.
I'm actually a Freemason and I'm actually Eastern Orthodox Cruise made in the Orthodox Church and I'm doing talk-to-text and I don't give a f*** about stupid little spelling errors I know more about masonry in Orthodox in most of these judgmental people. It's all the same God everybody's worshiping the God of the Bible. But there right. Jews Catholics Orthodox are in a power struggle with Masons and Protestants.
Exactly. I was once told Freemasonry was anti-christian by a Priest who has several other obsessive hobbies and clubs. Like... We say a prayer and the pledge of allegiance in Rotary Clubs (another civic organization). Does that mean Rotary is the religion of Lucifer???
Our Orthodox priest was invited with his wife to a freemason meeting and both got ordination . He says it's not a big deal,just a costume show. Does he have a right to continue as a priest and serve liturgies? He is a very cold and indifferent person and many left his parish ,but some stayed and the new parishioners are not aware of it
I went through an interesting time in college. While searching for the true Faith I was also preparing to become an apprentice in the Pittsburgh Freemason Lodge. I was wrestling on going through with it and after the Lord guided me to the right path, I had cancelled my initiation 1 day before it was supposed to happen. Forever thankful that the Lord protected me and put Orthodoxy in my life at the same time Satan was attempting to steal me. Glory to God ☦️
Amazing 🙏🏼☦️❤️☦️☦️☦️☦️
It's a good thing you did If you weren't sure about your faith than Freemasonry would not be a thing for you. People want to associate Freemasonry with a Religion it's not and should never take the place of it
@@cressmasonwhat degree are you
@@787310 Im just a MM
at the moment
@@cressmason I take it you're under Scottish Rite? MM is the highest rank under York Rite, with HRA being a completion of the MM degree. Everything else is considered an appendant body.
Knowledge as god rather than knowing God. Of course.
God have mercy.
Well said
satan's first lie...
"You do not hear my words because you are not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice." Jesus Christ
@@johndaugherty4127 AMEN AHMEN AHMEIN @kjv MATTHEW 1 21 +15 24 @LUKE 1:71[BIBLICAL]!!!
"Have no part with the unfruitful works of darkness,"
Jesus told us to be snakes.
@pixelnazgul he told us to be clever like snakes and innocent like doves. Don't lie by omission
I was a Master Mason and a Royal Arch mason, involved in Rosicrucianism and such. I discovered Orthodoxy because of Freemasonry. We had a painting in the lodge I found fascinating "The ladder of Divine Scent". I researched about the painting at home, and that's how I found Orthodoxy. I resigned and I was baptised 2 years ago. Freemasonry looks like a charity for the average Freemason, but if you spend countless of unpaid hours working for the craft and show interest in spirituality, is when they start to invite you to other Lodges that are invite only and very isolated. There is where you find more weird stuff and even Crowley followers, especially if you are invited in Rosicrucian circles.
Thank you very much for your testimony. Glory to God that you found the Church.
Not all rosicrucians are like that though. Some of those Crowley people are just lost though
you are just lying
@mop330 I can send you my freemason certificate if you'd like, and my letter of resignation and emails of resignation. I live in England though, and I am aware that Freemasonry in the US can be quite different, so I get why you think I might be lying. A good former friend of mine relocated to the US and his lodge there were a bunch of old protestant dudes, for instance.
@@mop330how is he lying?
I noticed my dad's ring with a red stone in it when I was a kid & he said it was a Mason ring. I said what's a Mason? He said "I can't tell you." I said why can't you tell me?" He said "I'm not supposed to tell anyone." 30+ years later a Mason I worked with said I should join the Masons. I asked "Why?" He said "I can't tell you." I said then I can't join.
It's nice to know theres good people out there. Theres alot of freemasons especially at the fucking gym. it's easy to spot them they wear purple orange and green almost every day. That's the colors they wear.
You dodged a bullet.
Yep. They told me they couldn't tell me or they would have to kill me
My dad was in. Massive artillery dodged my friend. @@hellooutsiders6865
good. they're occultists and do unfathomable amounts of evil which is why it is a secret. something that's good is always in the light. even nature teaches us hiding things usually are always bad
Saint Luke 12:2-3
There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known.
Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the housetops.
Thank you. This video seems to have found me at just the right time. The timing is quite unbelievable actually. God is good. 🙏🏻
Thank you for your work ☦
You should make a video talking about it.
Love your channel. A video about Masonry, Gnosticism, Albert Pike, etc would be extremely based.
Just read Irenaeus's "Against Heresies" @@ThatBK
kyle when r u gonna do a video about freemasonry?
I was sadly a Freemason for a period of time and thank God I left them. I only stayed in until I was a Master Mason (3°), but I encountered a lot of weirdos that were way into the occult and other demonic practices. There were quite a few brothers in my lodge that openly stated to me that Masonry was their religion. Once I began inquiring into Orthodoxy I got out ASAP. It's definitely a form of a cult that masquerades as a social club.
Wow. Why are Freemasons attracted to the occult?
Thank you for your testimony. I hope that you will help others get out. God bless you!
Occultism is a vague word that covers a lot of areas. Occultism is more attractive when it's presented under the banner of "Sacred Teachings" -- which of course is heavily detailed through symbolism.
So the attraction is ancient teachings and symbols, along with gematria, which also reveals hidden codes behind everything. So using ciphers and learning to write in code is another part of the attraction.
All new age kind of practices make people believe they are "gods" and this leads to thinking that you are Wise and Initiated, while all the people going to church are merely children in kindergarten, not understanding the symbols and codes behind everything. It's demonic and it makes you think anyone without your sacred teachings is beneath you.
Masonry doesn't get into practices as much as Rosicrucianism does, so it's very common for Past Master Masons to become Rosicrucians to practice the occult arts. Not to say that Masons can't be practicing alchemists, but that's a rare thing in today's world.
@@enigma-yu4jo They aren't!
At first they get treated like at a club then gradually they get sucked in.
Eventually they get into the windowless room to drink the goat's blood.
@@rosewhite--- goats blood? what the fuck..? are you serious? proof?
I became gnostic for a bit. I fell into this "cult" thinking "enlightenment" or "gnosis" was going to be my salvation. I was spiritually raped and had opened demons to my house. I am so glad that I left. Jesus Christ is my true savior🙏.
I’m glad you see it now. God left a way for you to escape. I understand and agree with your assessment.
you sound like a freemason jesus means son of Zeus funny how everyone in this comment section is a lie.
Your experience just means you’re weak.
Explain in detail plz
@@twilightzone3008Jesus is son of Adonai, not Zeus
I’m so going to fit in in this church. I had no idea the church was on top of this stuff. I love Christ.
Pope Leo wrote about this too
I am currently 23 and was heavily active in the Lodge immediately after my 18th birthday. I made my way through the chairs fairly rapidly and advanced through the degrees headstrong - not fully knowing what I was getting into. It wasn’t until last year and discovering Christ and His Church that I was saved from that wretchedness. It is an easy trap for a young man to fall into, and while appearing harmless, is absolutely detrimental to your soul. The Devil masquerades an an angel of “Light,” and what is it that Masons seek again? I pray for all of the men - who through ignorance know no better - that are active in the Lodge that Christ might rescue them as He did me. Lord have mercy! ☦️
I'm curious to know if you went to university and joined a fraternity.
@@Troy-Moses
No, I did not.
They seek more "light," or more Satan! Good point!
@@permanenceaesthetic6545 Glory be to God you left that garbage and came to the true faith of Christ! ☦️
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Mystery Babylon
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Freemasonry is pervasive. So many get involved with it without understanding what it is and what it stands for.
What does it stand for?
Sacrificial rites and worshiping Lucifer. I would love to know how they cope. It’s so cursed. 4 generations. Someone cursed me
@@KizaWittaker freemasonry was made by the jesuits to infiltrate the protestant. When Luther pointed the Pope as the continuation of the roman Emperor and so the pontifex maximus of Babylon , Luther translated the Bible and did make it available to everyone and so breaking the power of the saturnian culte with their indulgence. Indulgence is the commerce of sin ! In place that you work on yourself with the teaching of Yeshua a priest would pardon you for money it does not get more blasphemouse than that
It is imagine pretending you are a decent honorable man when you are in actuality a servant of lucifer. I mean the symbols alone are quite disturbing also masons are great liars.
Freemasonry is pervasive in any western democracy, specifically because Freemasonry was a major leader in the creation of western democracies. Basically all those attributes of the modern world that we regard as more humane than what came before are indebted, in large part, to Masonry.
Ironically, most religious denominations are hopelessly dependent for their very survival on the liberal principles promoted by Masonry. Christianity, having splintered into a thousand feuding factions needed to appeal to the secularists for protection against other denominations. Each of them, having started a nasty fight for leadership, became unable to finish what they started and unwilling to accept the consequences of their behavior. It's hilarious to watch them now complain as though they didn't do it to themselves.
Thank you Fr.Heers for this teaching. ☦
Sorry for the poor connection (and thus blurriness!)...
It wasn't too bad Father Peter.
Father please give me an advice, how to pray or what to do for a person who is a member of freemasonry. Please Father answer my question when you will be able. Thank you. ❤
The message is clear. Thank you.
@@mariami2670 No prayers are necessary for Freemasons. We are a fraternity, dedicated to moral uprightness, integrity and charotable works. We have absolutely no quarrel with any faith anmd indeed, encourage men in our fraternity to be active in whatever faith they choose, whether that be Christianity, Judaism, Islam etc.
The guy in this film really has absolutely no clue whjat he is talking about...he is simply repeating the same tired old rumours that have been around for so long...usually started by men who have either been thrown out of Freemasonry, or who have applied and been rejected.
If you REALLY want to know about Freemasonry, ask me, or any man who is a MAson....don't listen to tittle tattle and gossip.
Great message. The Synagogue of Satan.
Wow.. this confirms it go's back to Egypt and that its bad..thanks , Love our Lord and savior Jesus Christ 🙏
For years now i've been trying to inform people of the one and only heresy - gnosticism, and how it pervades within the cults, namely Masonry. It is a very tricky thing, almost nobody will believe. Looking forward to listening to this tomorrow.
Most of them don't want to believe because their egos are involved and they also have so much demonic resistance against the coming to the realization of the truth. They also want it to really be about brotherly love, service, duty, ect as it claims to be and looks to be from the outside.
You really couldn't be further from the truth.
This speaker has hunted and pecked his lines carefully. He is lying.
But he is wrong on almost every aspect.
I am Christian, I accept no other God and I stand by this.
@lauragraves4342 it has nothing to do with egos....not at all...
It has to do with lies that are being told....
Started with Pope Clement V and has never let up.
I am Christian. There are Godly men, deacons, ministers, all over the world, including Catholicism that are freemasins.
@justamason6869 They would eventually turn from freemasonry if they really cared what God has to say about it because there's no way He would let them continue in it without exposing the truth about it to them if they were adequately seeking Him. Period. And if they then refuse to abandon that demonic organization, it is in fact their egos being somewhat involved as well as outright disobedience. The fact that true Christians can be deceived about it and still be true Christians, which they absolutely can, doesn't mean they would continue in it if they were where they really needed to be with God because if they were, God would be showing them the whole problem with it. Let's not exacerbate the problem by pretending God doesn't bring what's evil to the limelight here. Or act shocked when He has and people speak up about what God has personally shown them in their prayer life.
@@justamason6869 Catholic freemasons lol what a contradicting life
Truth is above every religion. God is Truth. They're so close but so far.
“There is no religion higher than the Truth.” This is on the sign outside the Theosophical headquarters in the USA. It seems to be the Gnostic creed whereby they subordinate the revelation of Jesus Christ as “the Way, the Truth and the Life” (John14:6) to their Gnostic understanding of “Truth.”😢
@@lornadoone8887 Interesting, yeah. It's sad.
Last two words were incessant. Gnosis is what leads you to salvation. The more educated you are in both the good and the evil, the closer you are to God.
@@alicemeliksetian7981 that does seem to put forward the gnostic viewpoint.
@@alicemeliksetian7981 Education in the good and the evil had left to Adam's and Eva's fall from Grace.
It amazes me that someone who claims to be a Christian and also a Freemason cannot see the direct conflict or natural polarity between the two. There is no fellowship, no compromise, no coexistence even possible in the Body of Christ. As the Scriptures say " ... come out from among them and be separate says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."
@Foxo Masonry doesn’t promote itself to be a Master. It clearly promotes that God and Family come before Masonry. It’s just another fractal pattern of Gods glory of communion. We have communion within ourselves (prayer), our family, our community (Freemasonry), and the world (church), all through God.
@@KizaWittakeridolatry is sinful.
@@ML-bw4yt There is no idolatry
Call no man Father for one is your father.
"Worshipful Master" -Slavemasons
@@jbeauty4150 Not true at all.
“Do not cast pearls before swine” - Jesus
Pearls are “hidden” knowledge that should not be cast before swine who will then subvert and reject it.
Awesome Fr.Peter....simple...concise...very informative...clear....and deep
Jesus said 'Call no one father.'
Great warning and timely!!!
The only freemasonry I ever saw before I converted was an interesting interaction between a couple of people in the third position I used to listen to. One was a very naturalistic stoic and the other was a Mason. I was on my way to being a Christian and it was confusing to me how these 2 third position people hated Christianity so much when it seemed to be a perfect fit for uniting people under one banner.
Later I learned that the pagans and masons hated Christianity and discovered that their ideas would just lead to the same atrocities I was attempting to avoid.
Sorry, but that’s just not true.
Masonic ritual is Christian through and through. All the symbolism is Christian.
@@KizaWittaker pagans and freemasonry are extensions of what the devil teaches himself. Just another deception. You will ALWAYS be deceived if you don't accept Jesus as the son of God as our true savior in an otherwise fallen world.
Glory be to God for all things+++
@@KizaWittakerwhat
May the Lord Jesus Christ continue to strengthen and guide you father. Glory to God ✝️
PLEASE brothers and sisters. Never trust a mason or believe them in any cases.
That's such an irrational and emotional statement
@@diogeneslantern18no it's not. If you're not with us, you're against us.
Masons worship Lucifer and therefore they're an enemy. We can love you but we don't have to trust you.
They lie like their father satan NEVER trust one😮
they are the actual evil leading the world in war. they be riding the redhorse
@@diogeneslantern18Lord have mercy, i’ll be praying for you. ☦️
I was involved in the AODA (ancient order of druids in America) which is a masonic druid organization, thanks to John Michael Greer. I was under the impression that it was all good up until I was virtually dismissed in my assessments of the world because of my status, and ultimately sensed that I was not welcome in the least bit, popping bubbles like a devils advocate I was, talking about the bible and economics, and then watching their reactions. I was a punk at heart and I did not fall in line with their demands or beliefs, they were warned. I see the world crumbling and see what's going wrong but we were not at all on the same page. Thank God I had that experience before I explored Orthodoxy and thank you for sharing this, this helps explain that hostility I felt.
That's not an accepted body of masons. So to say it is a masonic organization is false. The creators may have taken some ideas from the masons, such as the mormons did, but they're not masonic.
@@shea4743 How do you know?
Though clandestine in terms of what the “regular masons” will say. It likely means that your group held very similar philosophical views and held an initiation that is very similar to the Freemasonic traditions. It makes sense because most occult organizations use the same degree systems with the challenges at the lodge doors and the back and forth discussions as a way to teach their lesson for new initiates. It’s an experiential initiation that leaves a lasting impression on most people.
funny how the freemasons control orthodoxy too. You arent a straight shooter. Theres no religion higher than truth.
Why are you all pushing orthodoxy in this thread? Something is not right with that.
Thank you so much for this video !We agree totally with you father .
One of the most important topics out there. Wish this was longer. But if you dig too deep you might upset the governments of our world haha
Was literally just talking about this on the orthodox discord. I was declared a contrarian 🤷🏼♂️
You should agree with everything then. Problem solved.
@@banhammer3904 Ha yeah I remember being puzzled as to why they chose that name. Sounds like discourse but IS discord/disharmony.
What Orthodox Discord?
@@johnnada1917 orthodoxchristian
@@conspiracychan2484 Thanks Chan.
Their veneration of the villains makes so much sense for some research into a very remote rural community in the north east I've been working on. The Church in the mining settlement in the wildnerness was named for Tubal-Cain, and I found it absolutely mind boggling. It's been at the back of my mind for awhile now, and here it is. It would make sense, these successful British businessmen would be Freemasons. It was a lodge.
Strange name for a church!! Indeed.... sounds masonic
Tubal Cain is in the bible.
@@skaus2184 Yeah, he's in the bible and we know what he's accredited for
@@wtcode Being the first Artificer in metals?
Thank you, Father.
Saint Matthew 10:28
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Thank you!
Freemasonry is playing a very important role in the eventual establishment of a one world government to be centred in Jerusalem. ✔️
Freemasonry is an extension of judiasm they use jewish practices and use it to do rituals
They only wish they could. They still don't stand a chance
@@HongLee225 it's biblical prophecy that will happen. will they be punished? very greatly
@@alexiabowen4035 look at those who have the mark of the beast in book of Revelation 13 onwards. Very sad and painful everlasting burning with worms eat their bodies
Masonic Lodges battle to organise a fish fry.
Thank you for this! Absolutely truth!
My father became involved with it when we were young children. They even have a Masonic Bible that's a King James version. Must wait 20 lb. Anyway, He excelled quickly but it's because it was social more family oriented and Christian oriented in that particular chapter and that particular era. On the surface. It was also very family-orient ed. Then they ask him to commit and immoral act. 😡 I remember my father being sort of pale and he was tanned at the time for a couple of days or three or four. I found it later years but he went to his pastor and repented of the involvement and they prayed and he left the Masonic lodge and we moved quickly. Out of South Florida to North Florida. That huge family Bible went missing 😅
Thank God
What act? 🤔
name the act or no one believes you @@tzunammi
Yes, everyone gets one, in the US it’s mostly a Bible. Around the world, you will get a different “Holy Book” a Koran for the Muslim, the Hindus get their sacred text and so on.
"Then they ask him to commit and immoral act"
What did they ask him to do?
🔥☦️🙏 Thank you Father
Thank you, father. I have a sort of question related to this; it’s about a friend who recently found Holy Orthodoxy, him and his family were catechumens for about a year in a small mission parish belonging to a canonical jurisdiction, and were then baptized during this year’s great lent. Since his first visit to the parish, he told me about where the mission is located and that sort of information, which is at the home of one of the founders who contacted the diocesan cathedral to solicitate the foundation of an Orthodox mission in his city and who remains until this day as a member of the Church alongside his family. All of this seemed great to me until he informed me more about the members of the parish, particularly about said founding member and ahis friend, both openly masons, even distinguished members of the local lodge, with all sorts of distinctively masonic symbols alongside figures/idols of different far-eastern religions, this same house has an improvised chapel at the top floor to celebrate the monthly divine liturgy. Now, inside the chapel proper there are no weird symbols or idols (except for a “host-holder” like the ones in the RCC), but he's still creeped out by the fact that there are elements of such different worlds under the same roof and fears that the mason has bad intentions (which I wouldn’t doubt).
So, trying to help, I advised him to speak directly to his priest, and after that he told me that the father said before anything else that masonry has nothing to do with the Church, and that it’s something this guy (the mason) keeps to himself, that even the father’s objective is for him to renounce masonry through the life of the Church.
My friend’s a little comforted by the plans the priest has shared with all the parishioners, which is to build an official chapel at a different location in the same city due to the mission’s growth. Nonetheless, by the passing of time this situation has taken its toll on him, he no longer knows what to do, especially because going to another parish isn’t an option since he lives in a Latin American country with very little Orthodox presence and doesn’t want his family and him to stop receiving the holy mysteries.
Finally, I too don’t know what else to do to help him, and I can especially understand his struggle because it was also very hard for me to find a Church when coming into Orthodoxy. Nor do I know if suggesting a talk with his bishop would be beneficial, after all, the bishop must have known about this situation for years now and doesn’t seem to have bothered him. ¿What would you advise, father?
Tolerance for the gnostics in our midst will never call down the blessings of our Lord upon our works.
Jezebel and her fornications with idols was severely rejected by our Lord in the Revelation.
SO: one cannot remain “at peace” with this. He must pray fervently, ask God for discernment and take steps - with care - to root it out.
The bishop is responsible ultimately and if he can speak to him and do his due diligence in this way, this will be, for him, a great defense at the Judgement Seat.
@@OrthodoxEthos Thank you for the promptly response, God bless!
@@OrthodoxEthos Father, bless! While all of this is true, and Manuel definitely must try to get the bishop's attention on all of this, what should he do in the event that the neither the rector nor that bishop will do anything? Should he not perhaps pray about the possibility of asking for another bishop's blessing to found another mission or begin doing reader's services?
Perhaps the Lord's great mercy in the West is the jurisdictional chaos amongst the canonical Orthodox, since this permits the discerning faithful not to stay under lax clergy.
Give him a King James Study Bible so he can quickly look for the truth.
1 Corinthians 3:18-23
Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool so as to become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God, for it is written:
“He catches the wise in their own ruses,”
and again:
“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.”
So let no one boast about human beings, for everything belongs to you,
Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or the present or the future: all belong to you,
and you to Christ, and Christ to God.
Mankind doesn't need these buddy clubs.
"Mankind in his insatiable search for Divine Knowledge has discarded all biblical teachings."
Slayer
Catholics and all Orthodox Churches need to put our differences aside so that we can once again deal with the gnostics
United in truth and not heresy of papism
@@hautecouture2228 then jesus is a heretic
ruclips.net/video/Z4bIcU2JO4Y/видео.html
The Vatican are gnostics, Pachamama is just another personification of their goddess Sophia.
You mean with deal with the true, ancient, spiritual church??
@@alicemeliksetian7981 what?
Amen.
The American Scottish rite was founded in 1801 in Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of 11 men, 5 of whom were sephardic jews. These men were prominent in the slave trade and would later found the Southern secessionist movement in the same city decades later. South Carolina would be the first state to secede upon the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in 1860, kicking off the civil war. Sephardic jews were prominent in the Confederate intelligentsia and government, with Judah P Benjamin (Confederate secretary of war, secretary of finance, and attorney general) being the first jew to hold a cabinet position in North America. Charles Moise, a self-described “southerner of jewish persuasion” assisted Confederate politician, William Porcher Miles, in designing the Confederate battle flag. Moise specifically suggested that Miles make the flag look “less Christian” compared to his earliest designs. Near the war’s end, Lincoln would be assassinated by famous actor and freemason, John Wilkes Booth, while his Presidency would be handed over to another freemason by the name of Andrew Johnson. Scottish rite freemasonry would see continued representation in American political office, particularly in the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Council,_Scottish_Rite_(Southern_Jurisdiction,_USA)
Antisemitic rubbish using freemasonry. Jesus alone is the way the truth and the life not idolatrous so called 'orthodoxy'.
"Satan's hand begins the end and frees the world forever.
Gomorrah's dream to live in sin has reached its critical mass.
Man himself has become God and laughs at his destruction.
In which we trust a secret government is now in total collapse"
SLAYER
"Papal Protestants" I love it! 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks to Fr. Maxim Prikhodko of the ROC I am no longer a "Papal Protestant". Please pray for our Roman Catholic brothers that they also may find the true path. Слава Богу. ☦️🇷🇺❤️
Thanks for the true explanation
Hi i want to become Orthodox Christian. I have a question though which disturbs me.
If i am to find an Orthodox Church near me and get baptised would the baptism be valid if one of the clergy or priests baptising me was a freemason and i didnt know? Also once i become a Orthodox Christian what do you do when Ecumenism keeps trying to change the faith? I hope this make sense. And i know your a busy man but please if possible get back to me. I have no other way of asking a God fearing Orthodox Christian like yourself.
Thank you for your videos and your time.
God bless your journey dear friend. Have you seen the Orthodox Ethos weekly series The Athonite Catechism? Father Peter answers questions at the end of each episode. Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a sinner 💖🙏🇦🇺
In 'Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self', C. G. Jung writes "According to Irenaeus, the Gnostics held that Sophia represents the world of the Ogdoad, which is a double quaternity. In the form of a dove, she descended into the water and begot Saturn, who is identical with Yahweh." This is the same entity know as the Demiurge. In the Secret Book of John, aka, the Apocryphon of John, the Savior gives the best description of God the Father, as distinct from the Demiurge who masquerades as god in the Old Testament and who constantly demands sacrifice; in particular, child sacrifice.
JEHOVAH is the God of this World..
“Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.”
- Deu 4:39 (NKJV)
Precisely. Jesus Christ. The incarnate logos.
My grandfather was a mason never realized what the picture was.
It brings generational curses upon the descendants so you’ll want to pray to break those covenants
Thank you for the video.
Please add Czech subtitles.
Thank you very much and God bless you 😉☦
We need a Czech speaker… Interested?
@@OrthodoxEthos
You don't need.
Automatic translation is enough. Unfortunately, I don't speak English.
That's why I need the Czech subtitles.
Since Jesus in the Gospels clearly commands lifestyle choices like sharing, forgiveness, honoring parents, generosity, the question is who does it all best. Remember the last things Mary, His mother, says in the Bible is: "Do whatever He tells you to do."
masons need to come to the true faith
aaah right, and what would that be? I for my part, not freemason, like to stay Gnostic.
The the writing is more than just on the wall today. Open your eyes and ears to the fact that Christ is the only Way, Truth, and Life.
@@chriskourliourod1651 You do realize that everyone has a different outlook and view on christ and his teachings? I am gnostic so I find it laughable at the way christian portray christ. You guys legit worship a evil petty god.
What is the true faith?
@@TLDCHWTTOS Probably Christianity in his mind, in mine its Gnosticism because this does not force me to be subservient to a petty god
'The Great Controversy,' is the one to read in connection with this topic
Growing up as an Orthodox Christian, I remember seeing and hearing a lot about many Greek Orthodox Christians being Freemasons. Would it be wrong to think that what’s happening in the GOA is something to do with that?
It's a world wide phenomenon... It all stems from ecumenism and the infiltration of the Church, we as Orthodox needs to keep our eyes open to heretics posing as "Orthodox Christians". God gave us discernment and will help accordingly, that's what our Lord always does...
No
Whats GOA?
@@andys3035 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
@@user-zl4it4hi1m thank you
How can i get into the Orthodox church? I am in Kilifi, Kenya. Any contacts? Any links? Please help me.
There are many churches in Kenya.
200,000 Orthodox in Kenya
Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral of Sts. Cosmas and Damian- Orthodox Church Of Nairobi
+254 728 491832
@@OrthodoxEthos Glory be to Jesus! Thank you so much. Let me reach out.
What does trad mean? I understand it carries the Roman Catholic belief system but wondered what it actually means. Thanks in advance.
Roman Catholics who reject Novus Ordo & Vatican II and want the church to return to its pre-Vatican II state.
Traditional Catholic
Traditional Catholics are basically anti-Papal Papists... Sticking to Vatican 1 thinking that is the true faith and usually thinking current Pope is in apostasy (despite the fact Papism literally stand in contradiction with that statement)
Leo Taxil was a hoax. Some of what he said may have been true but the legitimacy of his argument can easily be torn apart by the people who subscribe to these beliefs. As a former Mason, I agree with Fr Heers analysis, but would heavily caution using Taxil as a source
Indeed. Taxil wanted to hit back at those who hurt him... he set up a quite elaborate hoax....still working to this day.
I hear you but a quick glance at the obligation on the internet is enough to make most Christian’s see it incompatibility.
Another checkmark on why I know Christianity is real. This is the exact opposite of what we want but they are still obsessed with men from the Bible and baphomet. This cult created by Satan just reaffirms my belief in Jesus Christ. I can see Jesus even in this, I know he is real based on the fact something evil like this exists. Following him is the true path to salvation.
My father is a mason, please pray for me and my family 🙏 this video showcases truth.
My grandfather, who I never met, was a Mason (I believe 33 degree). He passed away about 10 years before I was born. My mother only knows because they were at his wake. It’s odd, because he was a Roman Catholic, and I know membership is a no-no in Catholicism (I’ve since learned more about Masonic involvement with high ranking Vatican officials who were Masons, which may have a lot to do with thing such as the modern mass and papal infallibility). My family left the Catholic Church when I was 15, joining a local Protestant church (an offshoot of the Plymouth Brethren). I left the church in my early 20s, spent almost a decade as an atheist, then agnostic, and for a minute a gnostic. I finally got back on track in my 30s. Over the last few years, I’ve considered joining a lodge; I love esoteric symbolism and even ritual, something that is lacking, imho, in most Protestant churches (along with the moving away from the foundations of Christianity in those churches, again imho). Over the last year or so, I’ve felt more and more pulled towards Orthodoxy; the more I learn, the more I become interested, and excited, something that hasn’t happened to me through a Christian church since I was a teenager. I have put aside the notion of joining a lodge and am pursuing joining a church; I just have to find the one that feels right for me. With all of that said- what is it, specifically in doctrine, that makes becoming a Mason incompatible with Christianity, and in particular Orthodoxy?
They don't believe in the Trinity or the Divinity of Christ. That right there kills any combability immediately. That doesn't even get into the 500 other offenses like idol worship of people and things.
I’m a brother in great standing with my lodge and I attend church with my wife every Sunday, go to Bible study, pray before meals and throughout the day, volunteer my time serving alongside others for the church! Here’s the thing with masonry is that you make it what you want to make it! Its just a way of living to become a better person. It’s not a religion but we do pray to god before and after lodge meetings. If masonry was satanic I would have no involvement in it! I believe in 1 God and one God only and that his sun Jesus died for us on the cross.
Christianity makes it abundantly clear that secret societies serve satan. So youre a deceiver like your father the devil to be telling others youre a christian.
If you are a Christian, you know that going to church and praying before meals is not what makes a Christian. What makes a Christian ? It’s the belief that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation which is the only path to heaven. All other beliefs lead to hell. This is the standard minimum test of Christianity.
As you have already said, the lodge accepts all faiths, just a belief in any deity is required. French Freemasonry allows atheists as well.
As you have also said, the
Lodge opens and closes in prayer. In your example the lodge prays to The Great Architect of the Universe AkA anyone you like.
Now try to go to lodge opening and closing lodge with a prayer in the name of Jesus.
You will find this is a violation of you lodge charter.
So if the Bible says that those who pray to god and do not acknowledge Jesus, are praying to demons, what does that say about freemasonry?
@@ryanatthejobsiteomit8027 I know what makes a Christian and I walk the walk and talk the talk. I do everything the lord ask me to do. I serve the lord and spread the gospel like every Christian should do. Not sure where you’re getting your false info from but at our lodge! We pray to God and we read from the holy bible.
@@kerrybaker371 can you close your lodge in the name of Jesus? Did you break the command given to you from Jesus Christ to swear not at all? He added, that more than yes being yes and no being no comes from the evil one.
Do you think you can make covenants with the evil one, stay with it, defend it and maintain a relationship with Christ? Please explain how this is right?
@@ryanatthejobsiteomit8027 I’m not here to explain everything to you. I’m here to tell you I’m a man of faith and that we pray to God the father of jesus before and after lodge. We have a holy bible that our hands were placed on when we took our oath.
All that I’m saying is that there’s nothing satanic at our lodge! All good men who love Jesus and love helping out the community.
Any and all beliefs that diminish Christ’s sacrifice or the need for Christ to save us is evil.
Sincere question. Any one know what the point of the rituals are?
Usually to initiate members to higher degrees
It’s mysterious ritual are what draws members. There are lessons being taught in the ritual but there are no longer any secrets to be found in the lodge that can’t be found with a google search of initiation rites in freemasonry.
To impress upon the candidate various moral lessons. Duty to God, Duty to neighbours, and Duty to self. For example...
Passing along the history and morality which was learned from our forefathers. They based all there assumptions on biblical virtues. You do the rituals to confirm that which you have learned.
Beautiful
I'm a cradle Catholic and will always remain a Catholic. But God bless you Orthodox brothers.
Evil can't create life.Jesus Christ is the light and the life.Didn't know they are lucipherianists.
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Earth. Is. Not. A. Spinning. Ball.
Gnosticism is similar to protestantism in that it has no means of settling doctrinal disputes, it's not coherent, therefore it splits up into sect after sect after sect and never stops.
Protestants like me have the Bible to settle disputes.
You must be a Catholic.
@@rosewhite--- I very strongly believe that sola scriptura only propagates division and endless private interpretation. I very strongly encourage you to study church history from before the schism and especially before the reformation. I highly encourage you to read the "didache" and "the apostolic fathers".
Not one Christian before the reformation taught sola scriptura and the direct disciples of the apostles such as St. Polycarp, St. Dionysius the Areopagite and St. Ignatius of Antioch were clearly not protestants. I was a protestant all my life before becoming Orthodox. Protestants can have good intentions but zeal without knowledge is a very dangerous thing.
@@rosewhite--- Also, we are Orthodox. Not "Roman Catholic", or as Fr. Peter refers to them, "Papal Protestants".
@@Ioannikios174 Peter is a fool.
@@Ioannikios174 I have a KJV Study Bible which is sufficient to know the truth.
s you say your zeal without knowledge is a dangerous thing so I suggest you get a KJV Study Bible and start learning.
Thanks, Father. After reading some of the comments, its amazing what some people believe, and try to justify, without even basic logic.
As a mason I can honestly say this is bs. This man has knowledge of it and is guessing and presenting as fact. Masons stand for truth, honour, charity. Most of our meetings are spent talking and planning charity projects… this is utter bs. Our rituals aren’t satanic, they teach good men to be better men. Nonsense.
This is how it is in masonry. There are different levels of initiation. Different levels of knowledge. We’re not talking about the lowest level, the common man, the one who does not ascend to the various heights of delusion and satanic initiation.
@@OrthodoxEthosThank you!
That is an ignorant and played out critique. You don't know anything about Freemasonry except the Scottish Rite, which is NOT some kind of higher rank, it's just a side-study of all ancient religions and Freemasons are under no obligation to listen to or follow any of that stuff. York Rite Freemasonry is almost entirely Christian in nature and Freasonry actually led me to Orthodoxy more than any other Church I ever attended.@@OrthodoxEthos
@@OrthodoxEthosfalse
There is a lot of research on this in Spain as well. Stat Crux channel has some good videos on the topic.
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I was initiated as an Entered Apprentice last month. I renounced it to my Father a week ago. I was not a Mason very long. I studied long and hard about Masonry before I joined. We would pray to Christ before meals. I prayed to Christ before my initiation. You can find all of their literature online. Masonry has two bodies. The Blue Lodge and the Red Lodge. The Blue Lodge is meant to be a representation of the Temple of Solomon. There are 3 degrees in the Blue Lodge Temple of Solomon, and it is entirely based on Old Testament scripture. This is why Masonry seems to tolerate all religions. Once you reach the 3rd degree, Master Mason, you are offered the opportunity to proceed into what they call the Appendant Bodies of Masonry. These are Red Lodge bodies. It seems to me that you are reading philosophy from the Scottish Rite, which is blatantly anti Christian and extremely Gnostic. The Scottish Rite here in America is the brainchild of Albert Pike, who was a Confederate general. You are not obligated to participate in the rituals of the Scottish Rite. There are other rites that a Master Mason can explore. One of these being the York Rite, which is exclusively Christian, and the final degree in that rite requires an oath to uphold and protect the Christian faith to the death. It is important to remember that Masonry is inherently Western. The West is not familiar with the concepts of Theosis within Christianity. A lot of Masonry, especially in America, was seen historically as an answer to the lack of divination in American Protestantism. Masonry itself is fractured just like any other faith on the Earth. There are brothers in Masonry who do not like the anti-Christian rhetoric in some appendant bodies. There are some who do not like Christians. They typically don’t associate with each other, and likewise their resources are segregated. Whatever money the gnostic bodies have is their own. Whatever money the Christian bodies have is their own. I hope this is somewhat informative. I ultimately left because I wish to be baptized and participate in the eucharist.
My uncle is a Freemason and attempted to use my father’s death to manipulate me into joining his lodge. Freemasons do not have the same love and appreciation of family as you or I do. Please pray for my uncle Ken
Family and work comes before mason work. They are a fraternity that support you as a community. Not a family.
They’re not supposed to recruit so I find that odd
This is some pretty clear and valuable advertising to help recruit people. I am firmly convinced to keep looking into masonry after your illuminating explanation. Thank you for teaching people the truth. It's not easy to find this information in such a clear and concise form. Will be sharing so everyone can find their way. Thank you.
Just google it, no need to join, you can read the secrets online and see how valuable they are.
May the Lord have mercy on you
Its Jewish kabbalah, not gnostic
why can I not find the subscribe button? Thought it was right below video?
I think you’re somewhat misunderstanding the Freemasons and Gnostics. They are both occultists, but they are in opposition to each other.
The Freemasons believe in the “Supreme Architect of the Universe” while the Gnostics believe this being and God are the same, evil, being called the “Demiurge”.
And who is the supreme architect of the universe for them? Satan.
It's the Grand architect of the universe yes that could be called Satan or Lucifer. Satan and Lucifer are different though
Orthodox Church they actually worship the same God as the Freemasons. And only a Freemason and orthodox that has been or is both would know that. And most Orthodox priests know this so just in the Same Song & Dance is everybody else
@@OrthodoxEthosso, Satan created universe?! 😅
@@OrthodoxEthos you might have a bias against Masonry, but please don't lie. Your Heavenly Father is watching you bear false witness.
What are your sources, do you have any first hand experience?
@No He doesn't. He's like all the rest... regurgitating the same tired old claptrap he's heard others spout.
@@teecee1567found the masonic bootlicker
@@Gigi-xe8ibWhat an utter and complete load of old nonsense. I can't believed I wasted 5 seconds of my life reading that drivel.
@@Austin-lp4he💯% you got it: go to any video online about freemasonry and you'll find this idiot. There's also another guy called "the realist", who's also a 👢-licker. Really: if masonry was so great for them they would be using their time engaged in masonic activities, such as learning degree-work etc, instead of searching RUclips to be offended like a blue-haired leftist.
@@teecee1567yet you have no problem wasting your time sifting through all vids on masonry. 😂
But if God created matter why will he reject it?
He does not reject it, He levels it to spurituall matter, He takes humman body(matter) inside the holly trinity, now jesus is human - God
Freemasonry is class
The light of the lodge is Lucifer
Which is darkness
Saint Matthew 19:23-30
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?”
Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.”
Then Peter said to him in reply, “We have given up everything and followed you. What will there be for us?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you that you who have followed me, in the new age, when the Son of Man is seated on his throne of glory, will yourselves sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life.
But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
gnosis (-g·no·sis): From Greek γνῶσις. Knowledge.
The higher meaning of Gnosis is knowledge from experience, especially experience of divinity or that which is beyond the five senses. The word Gnosis does not refer to knowledge that we are told or believe in. Gnosis is conscious, experiential knowledge, not merely intellectual or conceptual knowledge, belief, or theory. This term is synonymous with the Hebrew דעת "da'ath," the Arabic ma'rifah, the Tibetan rigpa (knowing), and the Sanskrit "jna."
Gnosis can also refer to the tradition that embodies the core wisdom or knowledge of humanity, although in the physical world it has not been known by that name, but instead has adopted varying appearances according to culture, time, and place.
The Greek word Gnosis (γνῶσις) implies a type of knowledge that is derived from experience, and encompasses the whole of a person. That is, it is genuine knowledge of the truth. Reality, truth, does not fit neatly into a concept, dogma, or theory, thus genuine Gnosis must also be something that one must experience. Personal experience is not transmissible in conceptual terms; a concept is merely an idea, and experience is far more than an idea. In other words, real Gnosis is an experience that defies conceptualization, belief, or any attempt to convey it. To understand it, one must experience it. This is why real spirituality is based on one's own effort to experience the truth, and the method to reach that experience is primarily practical.
Nonetheless, in order to understand what we experience, we must study the experiences of others. For this, we prefer to rely on those who have proven the qualities we wish to embody ourselves: profound love for all beings, brilliant intelligence, and radiant joy. As such, we rely on the greatest human beings and their legacies, in every field of understanding: philosophy, science, art, and religion.
The Greek word Gnosis refers to the knowledge acquired through the experience of the awakened consciousness, as opposed to knowledge that we are told or might believe. Genuine Gnosis is the knowledge universal to all humanity that frees the consciousness from suffering. Gnosis - by whatever name in history or culture - is conscious, experiential knowledge, not merely intellectual or conceptual knowledge, belief or theory. The Gnostic student seeks to acquire their own direct experience of the light (the Truth) by means of awakening the consciousness and eliminating obscurations to perception. The method to accomplish this task has been called:
Gnosis (Greek) knowledge
Jnana (Sanskrit): knowledge
Daath (Hebrew): knowledge
Dharma (Sanskrit): righteousness, law, truth, teaching
Torah (Hebrew): teaching, instruction, law
...and many other names. By comparing all of these ancient teachings, we can see that all religious forms have in their heart a science of Gnosis: a method to arrive at personal knowledge of the Truth.
Whenever the Law declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. I am born in every age to protect the good, to destroy evil, and to re-establish the Law. -Hinduism. Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita 4.7-8
Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. -Christianity. Jesus in the Bible, Matthew 5.17-18
Lo! We inspired you [O Muhammad] as We inspired Noah and the prophets after him, as We inspired Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and Jesus and Job and Jonah and Aaron and Solomon, and as we imparted unto David the Psalms; and messengers We have mentioned to you before and messengers We have not mentioned to you... messengers of good cheer and of warning, in order that mankind might have no argument against God after the messengers. God was ever Mighty, Wise. -Islam. Qur'an 4.163-65
Naught is said unto you [Muhammad] save what was said unto the messengers before you. -Islam. Qur'an 41.43
I have seen an ancient Path, an ancient road traversed by the rightly enlightened ones of former times. -Buddhism. Samyutta Nikaya ii.106
The Master said, "I have transmitted what was taught to me without making up anything of my own. I have been faithful to and loved the Ancients." -Confucianism. Analects 7.1
"All religions have the same principles. Under the sun, every religion is born, grows, develops, multiplies into many sects, and dies. This is how it has always been and will always be. Religious principles never die. The religious forms can die, but the religious principles, in other words, the eternal values, can never die. They continue; they are re-dressed with new forms." - Samael Aun Weor
I just had a question for the chat who claim to be ex-freemasons. Doesn't the lodge also accept Jesus Christ as a diety and the abrahamic god?. I never understood why I here so many claims to be satanic in practice yet they incorporated all regions both good and evil I don't get it.
It’s honestly just stupid conspiracies.
Read Albert Pikes book he explains that in 33rd degree they worship Lucifer. He acts like Lucifer isnt a demon like hes a positive force. Helena Blavatsky for theosophy has the same ideias. Also Alice Bailey who created an offshoot also had Lucifer Press, later renamed Lucis. It is not a conspiracy it is spiritually dangerous. Dont believe me. Research and read. God is Lord.
@@etcwhatever No he doesn’t 😂
It’s the “incorporated all religions” part. The Orthodox elders have spoken on Freemasonry and ecumenism deriving from it. Ecumenism is the most dangerous heresy
Not a conspiracy they are evil and curse themselves
Saint John 6:63
It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Hence what Gnostics emphasized, why they worshiped Christ and not the evil “God”.
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Saint John 5:19-30
Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also.
For the Father loves his Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.
Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment* to his Son,
so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to his Son the possession of life in himself.
And he gave him power to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voices
and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation.
“I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
You guys are so afraid of the apocryphon of John. And you should be. That text is the single most threatening document to orthodox Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It makes Jesus the ultimate hero, and it frees our mind from the power of Yahweh the demiurge. OK for some reason it won’t let me reply to the guy that talked about Ireneus and against heresies. But anyway, I just wanted him to know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM mark 14:51-52. If that happened today, he would be on the government offenders list instead of getting crucified ha ha this is the beauty of being gnostic. You can always outsmart somebody. And you can even use Jesus to do so, and they can’t do a single thing.
You fear Adversus Haereses
@@josephwong-x4k no I’m not afraid of Ireneus. Because I know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM. Mark 14:51-52. You do know that instead of him getting crucified, he would be on a government watchlist for the rest of his life if that happened today ha ha ha ha ha ha
@@josephwong-x4k no l'm not afraid of Ireneus.
Because I know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM. Mark
14:51-52. You do know that instead of him getting crucified, he would be on a government watchlist for the rest of his life if that happened today ha ha ha ha ha ha
@@josephwong-x4k no l'm not afraid of Ireneus.
Because I know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM. Mark
14:51-52. You do know that instead of him getting crucified, he would be on a government watchlist for the rest of his life if that happened today ha ha ha ha ha ha
@@josephwong-x4kno l'm not afraid of Ireneus.
Because I know that Jesus was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 AM. Mark
14:51-52. You do know that instead of him getting crucified, he would be on a government watchlist for the rest of his life if that happened today ha ha ha ha ha ha
I reject the term "Papal-Prodestants", Latin-Rite Christians, Roman Catholics, even Heterodox sounds better, but this was a good video, thank you for shining light on this!
This is basically the way that the church has seen the pope for 1000 years: as one protesting and refusing to listen to the Church. He was the model which protestants followed. In his image they were fashioned.
@@OrthodoxEthos But wasn't the original Doctrine of The Roman Patriarch to be first among equals? The Western Perspective is a group of Bishops are the ones who protested and schism'd from the Authority of The Church, both sides stood with pride when excommunicating eachother, but in the end it's The East who rebelled against the God-Given Authority of the Messianic State's Pontiff. The East denied Romans 13:1, in just the same way Luther did, by Protesting The Church's Holy Patriarch... I believe it's not without good reason, however I still believe Catholics & Orthodox must one day be joined together again in the ancient ethos and reunified as The One Holy Orthodox Catholic Church, The One Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ, one day.
@@Thomas_Roland No, the Roman church protested and tried to grab power that was not its to have. It was excommunicated validly first. So it is Papal Protestantism.
@@LadyMaria I would argue it was the Greek bishops whom protested rejecting the original Primacy doctrine layed out in "first among equals" relating to the Patriarchates. They were declared schismatic from the one true Messianic State established in Rome by Jesus Christ though Peter & Paul .
Peter was never bishop of Rome. If he were, why did Paul need to write an epistle to the Romans? Likewise, the "papal supremacy" heresy in invalidated when you consider that at the Council of Jerusalem, as is told in the Book of Acts, was led by James and not Peter. @@Thomas_Roland
When you see the countless heresies and scandals that have from the Roman Catholics over the centuries, it's clear that the gates of hell have prevailed against it. Thus, it cannot be Christ's Church.
They are builders who rejected (or are free from) the cornerstone. Funny thing is that they are about as far from being free that one could possibly be, spiritually and in the flesh.
Seek Jesus and the church that Jesus built
May the Lord resurrect us from the death ,that the sins put us in. 🙏
This video is full of lies 🤦🏽♂️
I'd like to add that the Gnostics also venerate Judas because they claim he was in on the crucifixion plan from behind the scenes. In the Gnostic gospels it says Judas hated the plan so much and then that's why he killed himself afterward. He hated that he killed the Lord.
Not saying I'm a Gnostic I just do a lot of reading.
It is mind boggling that such misinformation about Freemasonry is still sprouted - and in this instance by a fellow member of the clergy . Have his church removed the texts of not spreading false witness that I find in my own - and every other bible ? I am a member of the clergy myself and I stand ashamed at this misrepresentation.
Every candidate to Freemasonry is clearly, and expressly instructed to "follow the dictates of your own religion, for therein will you find the obligations that you owe to God, your neighbour and yourself" The initiation manuals with this text are freely available on the internet, in any of the more than 40 masonic museums spread over the world, or in rituals commonly available (Amazon at $8)
In my own lodge we have Anglicans, Dutch Reformed, Catholic, Liberal Catholics, a Hindu pharmacist, a Russian orthodox attorney - as a typical example. Does this sound like a satanist gnostic group ? - and by the way - "Satanist-Gnostic" is a macabre contradiction of terms - like dry water, or forward reversing - what in logic's name does it mean ?
Freemasonry is not a religion, does not aim to be an alternative or a substitute for a religion, it has no saviour, profess no religious dogma except for sound morals derived from the Bible itself, (and to be found in the Holy Scriptures of all other religions), it has no liturgy, do not allow religion to be discussed at its meetings but is a pure philosophy aimed at moral, ethical and personal growth, It is a philosophy veiled in Allegory (or parable _ and clothed in symbol. In the New Testament it is said of Jesus, : " He taught in parables, and without parables taught he nothing"
It is so sad that those not properly educated in Hermeneutics , i.e. the interpretation of documents, ancient and world history and philosophy , ignorance lead to such misrepresentation.
American and Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry's slogan is "to make good men better" and that of the Continental variety of the various Masonic Grand councils, "For the Improvement of humanity: or "To build a temple for humanity" That is achieved by the individual Mason homing himself as a perfect building block for the temple, or society
The Satanic hoax, perpetrated by Leo Taxil - an expelled Freemason, has been made public, by Taxil's own admission more than 140 years ago ( Google "The Taxil hoax" for yourself ) - yet the uninformed, the unscrupulous fundamentalist, and especially those of authoritarian ilk, keep perpetuating the story
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Burt James
This was the comment I was looking for. Laid out perfectly. I can second that everything you said in this comment is 100 percent true. Dresden lodge #103 S.M.I.B.
Comments from Freemasons. . . No one is surprised. . .
Do you have the wisdom and discernment to engage in self-analysis and have self-knowledge - being estranged from the experience of the Holy Spirit and the Mind of the Fathers? No.
Here is a Freemason who was freed from the delusion and enlightened by Christ:
www.amazon.com/Masons-Their-Lies-Every-Christian/dp/1986325474
On The Masons And Their Lies: What Every Christian Needs To Know (Spiritual Warfare)
Shatter your preconceptions and brace yourself for the shocking truth behind one of the world's most mysterious institutions.
Written by a leading expert in the field, this gripping and insightful book delves into the history and mysteries of the Masonic fraternity - pulling back the veil and revealing the secrets that have been kept from the public for centuries. As an ex-Freemason himself, the author of On The Masons And Their Lies exposes the Lodge's deceptions and hidden agendas from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
By the time you're done reading this book, you'll know far more about Freemasonry than most of its own members do...and if you're a Christian buying this for someone you love, it just might be exactly what he needs to be saved from grave sin and error.
@@OrthodoxEthos Has it occured to you, that people write this tripe TO MAKE A PROFIT? They prey on our official treatment of such nonsense...a dignified silence.
NONE of the accusations levied against us bear any close scrutiny. If such things were true, we would be prosecuted time and again. We have not.
Often, these things are written by those who have applied to join Freemasonry, but have been rejected for any number of reasons. Others who write such nonsense, have been Freemasons, having joined for the wrong reasons....to make a profit, or to gain favour with the police or other sich bodies...only to be disappointed that such things are a fallacy. They are eventually expelled from our order and this is how they hit back.
But you, of course, do not have the wit to grasp this most obvious of occurences.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
@@OrthodoxEthos I'm a Freemason. I own this book, yet nothing in it leads me to believe that Freemasonry is incompatible with Christianity. I've interacted with the author on Roosh V's forum. Whilst he is entitled to his opinion, he comes across as someone who holds a personal vendetta against Masonry. All the Anti-Masonic texts I've read, read the same.
@The Orthodox Ethos How do you know you have the wisdom and discernment to engage in self analysis?
Even if you are, in fact led by the Spirit of God, you are fallible like he is.
All we have to go on is the fallible judgment of both of you.
I'm actually a Freemason and I'm actually Eastern Orthodox Cruise made in the Orthodox Church and I'm doing talk-to-text and I don't give a f*** about stupid little spelling errors I know more about masonry in Orthodox in most of these judgmental people. It's all the same God everybody's worshiping the God of the Bible. But there right. Jews Catholics Orthodox are in a power struggle with Masons and Protestants.
Jews and Protestants are in a struggle with Catholics and Orthodox. A power struggle.
But they all have a common enemy. That's the truth.
Freemasonry is not a religion as some have confused it with. It is simply a fraternity. Are you against all frats?
Exactly. I was once told Freemasonry was anti-christian by a Priest who has several other obsessive hobbies and clubs. Like... We say a prayer and the pledge of allegiance in Rotary Clubs (another civic organization). Does that mean Rotary is the religion of Lucifer???
Our Orthodox priest was invited with his wife to a freemason meeting and both got ordination . He says it's not a big deal,just a costume show. Does he have a right to continue as a priest and serve liturgies? He is a very cold and indifferent person and many left his parish ,but some stayed and the new parishioners are not aware of it
What a load of crap