In three earlier articles, entitled ‘Turkey, Kurds, France and Freemasonic Messianism’, ‘Turkey, Kurds, Anglo-French Freemasonry, Islam, and Orientalism’, and ‘Turkey and ‘Kurdistan’: How to Outfox the Anglo-French Freemasonic Plot’, we emphasized that Turkey’s Kurdish issue consists in just a facet of a far more crucial problem, namely a long lasting Anti-Ottoman and Anti-Turkish conspiracy geared for the eschatological needs of an Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that controls the colonial establishments of France and England.
We identified the reasons of the Kurdish problem as both, internal and external, and we proposed, as remedy for the internal reasons, the transformation of Turkey into a new, multicultural state; we asserted that a similar development would deprive the interfering colonial powers from significant internal support that has been mobilized in Turkey by the agents of France and England, who portray themselves as advocators of an otherwise non-existent Kurdish nation.
We then placed the Kurdish problem within a far wider context, namely the surface of the Ottoman Empire, and finally we contextualized everything within the circumference of the Orient, a created concept that comprises parts of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. We suggested that Turkey should prepare for a long perspective battle of primarily academic, cultural, educational, intellectual and socio-behavioural character, targeting first to refute the fake division Orient vs. Occident, and second to reject the Western system of Humanities as misrepresentation of the History of the Mankind.
All this as a vast academic – intellectual project may require thousands of specialists involved in each of many cooperating countries in Asia and Africa. If the effort of eliminating the Colonial, Anglo-French, Freemasonic pseudo-History of the Mankind is not undertaken, the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge will be left with a great privilege that they will never cease to use at the prejudice of Turkey and all the rest. In this regard, we asserted that when a country has been the century-long target of adversary establishments, it is disastrous of this country’s rulers to imagine that they would thwart the plot by means of a short term policy.
We then enumerated the proper targets for Turkey’s global strategy that should be directed against the Anglo-French establishment and generate great obstacles for the plans of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge. Presenting suggestions per geopolitical area, we described what the targets of a Turkish policy should be as regards Europe, Germany, Russia and America. In the present article, we will complete the presentation by focusing on Turkey’s policy in Asia and Africa.
It would be essential to mention at this point that Turkey should view its relations with Russia, India and China holistically; we mentioned briefly Turkey’s proper policy toward Russia, as it also hinges on Turkey’s relations with Europe. However, it would be necessary for these four countries to enter into an alliance of Peace and Concord in Asia, and to expand their cooperation in Africa, working together the US, against the colonial structures set and still defended by France and England.
Turkey – Russia – India – China
Turkey’s top interests impose a new geopolitical vision for the greater Asiatic landmass. There are many issues on which the four countries’ interests are parallel; issues pertaining to Energy, Global Power and Strategic Stability, Environment, Development and National Identity and Culture bring these four countries into a logical mutual agreement and defense treaty. It would be wrong to see in this an Anti-American attitude. Turkey and India are two countries with traditionally good relations with America.
America should even favor the rise of an Asiatic Alliance that would help outmaneuver the Anti-American tendency of the European Union. Contrarily to what many believe, the Anti-American nucleus of the EU is not the ostensible and superficial axis Paris – Berlin, but the secretive and profound bond Paris – London.
This means that that the same Anglo-French colonial establishment, which is known for its Anti-Ottoman and Anti-Turkish empathy, pursued policies against:
1. America – they never accepted the existence of America as a reality, and their anti-American policies comprised all methods that could possibly either destroy America or make the US depart from the Principles and Values of the Founding Fathers, either use the States in their favor (WW I, WW II, Cold War) or manage to engage the US administration to wars of attrition (Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq). Creating a false problem in order to push America to solve it, and damage the US in the process is all the Anglo-French genius in its splendid inhumanity.
2. India – they perceived Indians, Hindus or Muslims, Sigh or Parsi, in culturally and racially discriminatory terms.
3. Russia – they intended, for centuries, to prevent Russia from having free access to harbours in the Southern Seas (Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean), fueling internal strives in Asia (Ottoman Empire vs. Russia, Russia vs. Safevid Iran, Ottoman Empire vs. Iran, Iran vs. Mogul India, Japan vs. Russia, etc)
4. China – this was the top target of the pre-WW I colonial powers; in 1910 – 14, Russia, Japan, Germany, Austria – Hungary, America, England, France were all present there, and were desperately trying to figure out balanced ways to divide China into many zones of influence. Finally, Japan got maximum benefit of the propinquity, and of the severe exhaustion of resources that WW I caused to all warring parts (except America), and progressively invaded the entire coastal part of China.
America must understand that in order to prevail in North and South America (where England mobilizes all sorts of combinations of forces to oppose the US) and expand its sphere of influence in Africa and Australia, a cooperation with all the major Asiatic forces is needed; as a matter of fact, peace and stability in Asia is key to America’s global success.
Asia must therefore rise as the central landmass of the global economy, and the interconnection of its parts must advance in parallel with the cooperation of the four greater land forces. Japan, despite its financial strength, and Indonesia, despite its population, are peripheral to Asia. This does not mean that they have to be ignored by the four central powers of the Asiatic Alliance; on the contrary, they must be integrated in the process by means of numerous projects.
Everything however hinges on the corridors of energy that are to be shaped in the coming few years, and on the highways and the railways that have to bring China and East Siberia closer to Moscow, Istanbul, Yemen, and the Indian South.
With Turkey mounting a Union of Turkic Countries, Russia and China will not be threatened; on the contrary, Russia will get closer to the South and China will be closer to the West.
With Turkey expanding in, and reshaping, the Middle East and the Iranian Plateau, a new, secular and multicultural version of Islam will be diffused, not only in the area of the Turkic speaking Central Asiatic countries, the Iranian Plateau, and the Middle East, but also among the Muslims of Russia and China, and the hundreds of millions of Muslims of the Subcontinent (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh are home to more than 450 million of Muslims).
The cooperation among all the members of the Asiatic Alliance should cover all levels, culture, economy, science, politics, religion, communication, education, defense, space, etc. All the members of the Asiatic landmass should converge through extensive academic programs, governmental and social cooperation, mutual investment plans, energy resources’ rational partition, and vast cultural exchanges that would minimize any non-Asiatic influence and impact on any part of Asia.
Eliminating any regime that would function as local agent of European colonial powers would be key to the final success.
Pulling Germany into the great Asiatic landmass reunification will be the foremost factor of ultimate success; not only the Dream Berlin – Baghdad should be revivified, but Germany should be conceptualized as the Epitome of the Orient where the real markets for the German exports are to be located.
An Asiatic Union should rise at the end to guarantee peace, stability, progress and development, solidarity and fraternity among the regrettably dissociated members of the vast landmass that have long been the undeserved victims of colonial exploitation and the unfortunate targets of inhuman hatred. Parts of Eastern Europe should also be accepted to minimize as much as possible the scope of the victims of the Anglo-French plot.
A Turkish Policy for Africa
Before the rise of the Anglo-French colonialism in Africa, the Ottoman territories on the Black Continent constituted the largest African empire throughout six millennia of African History. Of course, contrarily to the alien Anglo-French colonials, the Ottoman Empire was the authentic and representative political institution for all the African Muslims from Algeria to Egypt and thence to Somalia and Tanzania.
For more than 300 years, the Ottoman Empire was in Africa far more successful and much better embedded than the Roman Empire, and the Christian Eastern Roman Empire.
Among all Islamic political institutions that controlled parts of the Black Continent, the Ottoman Empire lasted longer, and was far closer to the average people, who were very enthusiastic in their support of, and contribution to, the academic, intellectual, military, and political activities of the vast Caliphate.
Egyptians excelled in the Observatory of Istanbul, Algerians led the naval battles against the Spaniards, and the Somalis developed great political institutions in the name of the Sultan. All this reality has been kept secret because of the perverse educational systems set up by the alien French and British, who tried to diffuse through the selected local agents – traitors that the Ottomans had been foreign to, and disregarded, Africa.
By definition Turkey, as Ottoman derivative political institution, is better placed than India, Russia or China to conceptualize and share with its Asiatic partners an Anti-Colonial, ‘Oriental’ Vision of colonial-free, Liberated and Democratic Africa where all will have their place, and the colonial falsehood and perversion will be erased. It is in Africa where Turkey, with the help of America, Russia, India and China, will take a definite revenge over France and England, helping local peoples to achieve Independence and Nation-Building, Democracy and Development.
It will be essential for Turkey to explain to America and the three Asiatic giants that, as in Europe and in Asia, wider unions can only be achieved in Africa after the liberation of oppressed peoples and a thorough Nation-building effort. Afro-Asiatic interconnectedness will be essential in this regard and the African Americans will have to play a major role in re-writing the erratic White History of the Mankind that equally threatens:
1. the formation of the African Identity
2. the Ideals of the American Founding Fathers
3. the Weltanschauung of German Humanism
4. the Values of the Italian Renaissance Universalism
5. the Doctrines of Oriental Christianity and Islam
6. the Ottoman and Islamic Heritage
7. the Moral Order of Hinduism
8. the Buddhist Ethics
9. the Moral Prescriptions of Confucianism, and
10. the Need of the Mankind to explore the African Kushitic Originality
Thus, Turkey coming back to Africa 500 years after the arrival of Sultan Selim I, will bring Peace at Home and Peace in the World, by giving to our Global world the Universal Values of the Ottoman Empire, the world’s most tolerant major state before the rise of America.
‘Turkey, Kurds, France and Freemasonic Messianism’, ‘Turkey, Kurds, Anglo-French Freemasonry, Islam, and Orientalism’, and ‘Turkey and ‘Kurdistan’: How to Outfox the Anglo-French Freemasonic Plot’
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GE Commercial Insurance launches cover for Masonic Associations
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GE Commercial Insurance is offering an insurance program created for Masonic Ma·son·ic
adj.Of or relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry.
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Masonic
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Thompkins & Co., an independent agency, will underwrite To insure; to sell an issue of stocks and bonds or to guarantee the purchase of unsold stocks and bonds after a public issue.
The word underwrite has two meanings. the coverage for property, inland marine, crime, general liability, automobile and excess liability.
Thompkins & Co. established its program for Masonic lodges in 1950. The Alameda Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. , Calif.-based agency is licensed in all 50 states and has producer agreements with one or more agents and brokers in all 50 states.
GE and Thompkins' combined services include loss prevention, safety engineering, rate analysis and claims.
GE Commercial is a division of Employers ReinsuranceThe contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract.
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adj.Of or relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry.
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Masonic
Adjective
of Freemasons or Freemasonry
Adj. 1. Associations.
Thompkins & Co., an independent agency, will underwrite To insure; to sell an issue of stocks and bonds or to guarantee the purchase of unsold stocks and bonds after a public issue.
The word underwrite has two meanings. the coverage for property, inland marine, crime, general liability, automobile and excess liability.
Thompkins & Co. established its program for Masonic lodges in 1950. The Alameda Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. , Calif.-based agency is licensed in all 50 states and has producer agreements with one or more agents and brokers in all 50 states.
GE and Thompkins' combined services include loss prevention, safety engineering, rate analysis and claims.
GE Commercial is a division of Employers ReinsuranceThe contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract.
..... Click the link for more information. Corp
Masonic Dollar Bill
on Friday, October 2, 2009
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"Historian/author Ralph Epperson has spent many years researching the history of the Great Seal, and has discovered that those who designed the two circles committed America to what has been called "A Secret Destiny." This future "destiny" is so unpleasant that those who wanted the changes it entails had to conceal that truth in symbols."
SOURCE: The New World Order, back cover, by Ralph A. Epperson; 1990; ISBN: 0-9614135-1-4; publisher: PUBLIUS PRESS, Tucson, Arizona.
First of all I will interpret the Latin words on the seal. 'Annuit Coeptis' means 'Announcing The Birth Of' and 'Novus Ordo Seclorum' means 'New World Order'. So therefore it says 'Announcing the birth of the New World Order'. The date in roman numerals is 1776, the year the modern Illuminati was formed and also the year of American independence. The Latin 'E Pluribus Unum' means 'One out of many' which is the foundation of the New World Order's plan to unify the world's governments, religions and money systems into one so the world can be controlled.
The capstone has not come down on the Pyramid. This means that the plan is not complete. Only when the New World Order is established upon all nations and the world leader is enthroned the plan will be complete. On the obverse is an eagle whose dexter wing has thirty- two feathers, the number of ordinary degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. The sinister wing has thirty-three feathers, the additional feather corresponding to the Thirty-Third Degree of the Scottish Rite conferred for outstanding Masonic service. The tail feathers number nine, the number of degrees in the Chapter, Council, and Commandery of the York Rite of Freemasonry. Notice the stars above the eagle's head forms a hexagram the most evil of all witchcraft symbols.
Let us now go to Manly Palmer Hall, member of the Illuminati and 33rd Degree Freemason, called "the 20th century's greatest Masonic scholar and philosopher" by the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry's official monthly publication, the Scottish Rite Journal in the obituary section of August 1990.
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
This book is called Manly P. Hall's Magnum Opus
An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
Manly also instructs the reader to bring a human sacrifice to Lucifer each year. This is pure Satanism.
See Do Freemasons Worship Lucifer/Satan for this quote.
Manly P. Hall states:
"European mysticism was not dead at the time the United States of America was founded. The hand of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government for the signature of the mysteries may still be seen on the Great Seal of the United states of America. Careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and Masonic symbols chief among them, the so-called American Eagle. ... the American eagle upon the Great Seal is but a conventionalized phoenix..."
"Not only were many of the founders of the United States government Masons, but they received aid from a secret and august body existing in Europe which helped them to establish this country for A PECULIAR AND PARTICULAR PURPOSE known only to the initiated few." (Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, pp. XC and XCI)
The European group he is talking about is the Illuminati. They claimed America to establish the New World Order. This is the peculiar and particular purpose known only to certain high ranking freemasons.
MASONIC LIES
There is a cry in Freemasonry today that the eye in the pyramid is not a Masonic symbol and it never was. At Masonicinfo there is a page which states "the eye in the pyramid is not now nor has it ever been a Masonic symbol." The author says that he has looked for 3 years for use of this symbol in Freemasonry and has only found 2 examples. I have been inside about 4 Masonic Lodges and 2 of them including the first I went to used the eye in the pyramid, the first one very prominently. So I know this to be Masonic lies. On another Masonic page entitled 'The Eye In The Pyramid' we read "The Great Seal of the United States is not a Masonic emblem, nor does it contain hidden Masonic symbols." Remember the quote above by one of Freemasonry's highly esteemed men stating it "discloses a mass of occult and Masonic symbols..." Who are we to believe, Freemasonry's GREATEST scholar and philosopher or some other man in Freemasonry with no such credentials. Let me once and for all establish the eye in the pyramid is Masonic. The image below is taken from 'The New Age' magazine which was the official publication of the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry, the most powerful Masonic organization in the America if not the world. It is now called the 'Scottish Rite Journal'. It is from April 1960 and it clearly states that the $1 note is covered in Masonic symbols and it also states "Pyramid with the Masonic All Seeing Eye"
This is the Great Seal of the United States of America. It was designed by the Freemasons and contains a mass of symbolism that the profane (non masons) are not to understand. This article will once and for all prove that the Seal is a Masonic design. Have you ever asked the question 'Why is there a Pyramid on our $1 note"? The religion of Freemasonry and some of it's mysteries have descended from ancient Egypt whose mysteries descended from ancient Babylon. The Pyramid has of old been a fascination of Freemasons. It is a pagan temple of Satan worship. Aleister Crowley, Freemason and chief Satanist of the 20th Century performed a satanic ritual in the Kings Chamber. The Masonic founded and controlled cults of the Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons have also adored the Great Pyramid.
First of all I will interpret the Latin words on the seal. 'Annuit Coeptis' means 'Announcing The Birth Of' and 'Novus Ordo Seclorum' means 'New World Order'. So therefore it says 'Announcing the birth of the New World Order'. The date in roman numerals is 1776, the year the modern Illuminati was formed and also the year of American independence. The Latin 'E Pluribus Unum' means 'One out of many' which is the foundation of the New World Order's plan to unify the world's governments, religions and money systems into one so the world can be controlled.
The capstone has not come down on the Pyramid. This means that the plan is not complete. Only when the New World Order is established upon all nations and the world leader is enthroned the plan will be complete. On the obverse is an eagle whose dexter wing has thirty- two feathers, the number of ordinary degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. The sinister wing has thirty-three feathers, the additional feather corresponding to the Thirty-Third Degree of the Scottish Rite conferred for outstanding Masonic service. The tail feathers number nine, the number of degrees in the Chapter, Council, and Commandery of the York Rite of Freemasonry. Notice the stars above the eagle's head forms a hexagram the most evil of all witchcraft symbols.
Let us now go to Manly Palmer Hall, member of the Illuminati and 33rd Degree Freemason, called "the 20th century's greatest Masonic scholar and philosopher" by the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry's official monthly publication, the Scottish Rite Journal in the obituary section of August 1990.
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
This book is called Manly P. Hall's Magnum Opus
An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
Manly also instructs the reader to bring a human sacrifice to Lucifer each year. This is pure Satanism.
See Do Freemasons Worship Lucifer/Satan for this quote.
Manly P. Hall states:
"European mysticism was not dead at the time the United States of America was founded. The hand of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government for the signature of the mysteries may still be seen on the Great Seal of the United states of America. Careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and Masonic symbols chief among them, the so-called American Eagle. ... the American eagle upon the Great Seal is but a conventionalized phoenix..."
"Not only were many of the founders of the United States government Masons, but they received aid from a secret and august body existing in Europe which helped them to establish this country for A PECULIAR AND PARTICULAR PURPOSE known only to the initiated few." (Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, pp. XC and XCI)
The European group he is talking about is the Illuminati. They claimed America to establish the New World Order. This is the peculiar and particular purpose known only to certain high ranking freemasons.
MASONIC LIES
There is a cry in Freemasonry today that the eye in the pyramid is not a Masonic symbol and it never was. At Masonicinfo there is a page which states "the eye in the pyramid is not now nor has it ever been a Masonic symbol." The author says that he has looked for 3 years for use of this symbol in Freemasonry and has only found 2 examples. I have been inside about 4 Masonic Lodges and 2 of them including the first I went to used the eye in the pyramid, the first one very prominently. So I know this to be Masonic lies. On another Masonic page entitled 'The Eye In The Pyramid' we read "The Great Seal of the United States is not a Masonic emblem, nor does it contain hidden Masonic symbols." Remember the quote above by one of Freemasonry's highly esteemed men stating it "discloses a mass of occult and Masonic symbols..." Who are we to believe, Freemasonry's GREATEST scholar and philosopher or some other man in Freemasonry with no such credentials. Let me once and for all establish the eye in the pyramid is Masonic. The image below is taken from 'The New Age' magazine which was the official publication of the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry, the most powerful Masonic organization in the America if not the world. It is now called the 'Scottish Rite Journal'. It is from April 1960 and it clearly states that the $1 note is covered in Masonic symbols and it also states "Pyramid with the Masonic All Seeing Eye"
Masonic Lodge No. 97
on Saturday, September 26, 2009
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The Masons Marks within Seaton Collegiate Church
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Seton Collegiate Church is situated in a small secluded walled park off the A198 a few miles east of Edinburgh. It is a real pleasure to find such ‘hidden gems’ which, in their own way can rival Rosslyn Chapel (more correctly ‘Church’) for their history, interest and mystery. They are not so ‘in your face’ as is Rosslyn and, therefore, these ‘gems’ take a little more work to appreciate. Such work can lead to a deeper understanding of Scottish history and culture and in so doing one can put Rosslyn Chapel, and other collegiate churches, into historical perspective.
Collegiate Churches were established for a number of reasons, for instance:
As centres of learning (especially law)
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Freemasonry's History of Racism
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Klan and Black Legion meetings were usually held inside Masonic Temples and Halls in the Midwest during the 1930's. The Klan recruited almost exclusively from within Masonic ranks and often the membership of both organizations was indistinguishable. All of the Leadership of the old and new Klan were high degree Freemasons. The Ku Klux Klan was in fact a Masonic movement.
An organization dedicated to brotherhood, Masonry ironically remains a bulwark of racial segregation in the United States. By 1987, decades after most American institutions had accepted racial integration, only four of the forty-nine Grand Lodges could count even one black member in their jurisdictions. As the author of a recent scholarly study of black Freemasonry observes, "The legitimation of social intermingling between black and white Masons has remained anathema in mainstream Freemasonry."' (Handbook of Secret Organizations by Whalen)
A lodge within the British military forces initiated Prince Hall with fourteen free black men in 1775 after the men had been rebuffed in their attempt to join St. John's lodge in Boston. Eventually the black Masons received a charter from the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England for African Lodge No. 459 (1784). Regular Masonry has continued to deny recognition to Prince Hall lodges, and individual lodges have barred black candidates by the simple method of the black cube.
Except for one curious exception, Alpha Lodge No. 1 16 in New Jersey, and a handful of blacks reported to be initiated by lodges in New York and Massachusetts, regular Freemasonry remains ninety-nine and forty-four hundredths percent white. A Prince Hall Mason may not visit a white lodge, nor a white Mason visit a Prince Hall lodge, without risking Masonic punishment. Albert Pike, no friend of blacks, admitted in 1875 "Prince Hall lodge was as regular a lodge as any lodge created by competent authority. It had a perfect right to establish other lodges and make itself a Mother Lodge."
When the Grand Lodge of New Jersey accepted several blacks into membership, other Grand Lodges decried the action and some severed fraternal relations with New Jersey. Mississippi was one. The Grand Master of that state wrote in 1908 "Masonry never contemplated that her privileges should be extended to a race, totally, morally and intellectually incapacitated to discharge the obligations which they assume or have conferred upon them in a Masonic lodge. It is no answer that there are exceptions to this general character of the race. We legislate for the race and not for the exceptions. We hold that affiliation with negroes is contrary to the teachings of Masonry, and is dangerous to the interest of the Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons."
The Prince Hall lodges include a number of distinguished gentlemen on their rosters such as Supreme Court Justice Marshall, Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, Dr. Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP, Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta, and Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit. Of course, none of these black Masons would be allowed to visit a white Masonic lodge.
Whether Masonry influenced Southern mores or was simply influenced itself is hard to determine. Even during the civil-rights battles of the 1960s, knowledgeable blacks discovered that many of the leaders of the segregationist movement, such as Governors George Wallace of Alabama, Orval Faubus of Arkansas, and Ross Barnett of Mississippi, were also active Masons.
The Brotherhood and Racism
The book "Christianity and American Freemasonry" by William J. Whalen (Our Sunday Visitor:1987, pgs 23-25) discusses the racism of Freemasonry at some length;
An organization dedicated to brotherhood, Masonry ironically remains a bulwark of racial segregation in the United States. By 1987, decades after most American institutions had accepted racial integration, only four of the forty-nine Grand Lodges could count even one black member in their jurisdictions. As the author of a recent scholarly study of black Freemasonry observes, "The legitimation of social intermingling between black and white Masons has remained anathema in mainstream Freemasonry."' (Handbook of Secret Organizations by Whalen)
A lodge within the British military forces initiated Prince Hall with fourteen free black men in 1775 after the men had been rebuffed in their attempt to join St. John's lodge in Boston. Eventually the black Masons received a charter from the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England for African Lodge No. 459 (1784). Regular Masonry has continued to deny recognition to Prince Hall lodges, and individual lodges have barred black candidates by the simple method of the black cube.
Except for one curious exception, Alpha Lodge No. 1 16 in New Jersey, and a handful of blacks reported to be initiated by lodges in New York and Massachusetts, regular Freemasonry remains ninety-nine and forty-four hundredths percent white. A Prince Hall Mason may not visit a white lodge, nor a white Mason visit a Prince Hall lodge, without risking Masonic punishment. Albert Pike, no friend of blacks, admitted in 1875 "Prince Hall lodge was as regular a lodge as any lodge created by competent authority. It had a perfect right to establish other lodges and make itself a Mother Lodge."
When the Grand Lodge of New Jersey accepted several blacks into membership, other Grand Lodges decried the action and some severed fraternal relations with New Jersey. Mississippi was one. The Grand Master of that state wrote in 1908 "Masonry never contemplated that her privileges should be extended to a race, totally, morally and intellectually incapacitated to discharge the obligations which they assume or have conferred upon them in a Masonic lodge. It is no answer that there are exceptions to this general character of the race. We legislate for the race and not for the exceptions. We hold that affiliation with negroes is contrary to the teachings of Masonry, and is dangerous to the interest of the Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons."
The Prince Hall lodges include a number of distinguished gentlemen on their rosters such as Supreme Court Justice Marshall, Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, Dr. Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP, Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta, and Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit. Of course, none of these black Masons would be allowed to visit a white Masonic lodge.
Whether Masonry influenced Southern mores or was simply influenced itself is hard to determine. Even during the civil-rights battles of the 1960s, knowledgeable blacks discovered that many of the leaders of the segregationist movement, such as Governors George Wallace of Alabama, Orval Faubus of Arkansas, and Ross Barnett of Mississippi, were also active Masons.