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The Importance of Freemasonry In Texas
Bernard Pyron

I lived in Wisconsin for 22 years and never heard anything good or bad
about Masons there. Here in Missouri, I am aware of one Masonic lodge
in the town only a mile and a half from me. But no one here
seems
to be much interested in Freemasonry as far as I can tell.

But Freemasoney appears to be more important in Texas. I know that
historians affirm that Sam Houston and some of his officers in the
Texas Army were Masons, as were some of the leaders of the men who
fought in the Alamo, such as Davy Crockett. Mexican General Santa Anna,
who was captured at San Jacinto by the Texas army, was also a Mason. Yet
I have heard the claim that most of the men who died in the Alamo were
Masons. I have been away from Texas for many years, but I am reminded
from time to time of the significance of Freemasonry in that state.

Only since about 1995 when I became interested in so-called patriot
short wave broadcasting did I hear about the Masons and other secret
societies which tend to be, at their higher levels, organizations of
the ruling elite and also the much larger ruling class of lawyers,
CEOs, doctors, government bureaucrats, elected officials, etc.

In addition, Remnant Christianity, represented by Christian Media network,
was also found on short wave
in the mid-nineties and now on Internet radio. Remant Christianity
teaches that
Freemasonry
is occultic and not Christian at all.

After learning what Freemasonry is, I remembered that many of the
businessmen in the town in South Bexar county, Texas where I grew up
were Masons,
including my father. When I was younger and still there, I did not
know
of the importance of being a Mason in Texas, nor did my father talk
about his being one.

Here is what the Online Handbook of Texas says on Texas Masons:

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/FF/vnf1.html

"Between 1838 and 1845 the Texas Grand Lodge issued charters to
twenty-one more lodges, and membership increased from seventy-three
to 357. In addition, there were probably some 1,100 Masons from other
jurisdictions living in Texas at this time. Although constituting
only 1½ percent of the population, Masons filled some 80 percent of
the republic's higher offices. All of the presidents, vice
presidents, and secretaries of state were Masons. After annexationqv
Masons continued to be equally prominent in the state government, and
between 1846 and 1861 five of the six governors were members of the
fraternity. Masonry continued to prosper; by 1860 Texas had 226
active lodges and 9,000 members."

On http://www.godonthe.net/cme/links/masons.htm they list about 22
Christian denominations that oppose Masonry.

The Southern Baptist Convention is not in this list. But one site
on the Internet claiming to be Southern Baptist does oppose
Freemasonry.
http://freemasonrywatch.org/holly.html

"This is the document that was mailed to 5,000 Southern Baptist
Ministers and Church Leaders that resulted in the ground breaking
passage of an Official SBC Doctrinal Statement in 1993 that
Freemasonry was incompatable with Christianity and Southern Baptist
Doctrine."

The Southern Baptist Convention and Freemasonry,
By James L. Holly, M.D.

Holly says "Many fear addressing the issue of the Lodge, and without
the power of the Blood and of the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ well
they ought to fear "taking on" the allies of the Devil. The problem
of Freemasonry will not be solved by a vote of the Southern Baptist
Convention, this year or any year. Yet, without the Convention voting
to declare Freemasonry an evil which must be removed from the church,
the problem will not be solved. The vote is not the solution; it is
only the begining of the solution."

Going on, Holly says that
"The first Masonic book to be examined is *Lightfoot's Manual of the
Lodge -- Texas. The edition which is quoted is copyrighted by the
Grand Lodge of Texas Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 1934. The
memorial to this book concludes with the statement:

"This is to certify that Lightfoot's Manual of the Lodge was approved
and adopted as the official manual or monitor of the Grand Lodge of
Texas, A.F.& A.M. and its subordinate Lodges, by a resolution adopted

December 5,1934." The preface to this edition further states:

"A section has been added, entitled 'Commentaries' which is designed
to present in condensed form, additional light on our ancient rites,
forms, symbols and ceremonies. The commentaries are largely compiled
from the standard works of the best Masonic scholars, including
Mackey, Pike, Bromwell, Oliver, Preston, Webb, Tannehill, Higgens and
others.."

Every Mason in Texas has this book in his home. The most recent
edition of the Monitor* which was adopted in the late 1980's
eliminated the commentaries section because it revealed too much
about the truth of Freemasonry. This book establishes Albert Mackey
and Albert Pike as "the best Masonic scholars."

Albert Pike's book, Morals and Dogma is online. Apparently the
entire book
can be found at:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/index.htm

If you want to know about Freemasons, this is one major source on
them.

In Morals and Dogma, Albert Pike stated:

"All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kaballa and return
to it; everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all
the illuminati, Jacob Boeheme, Swedenborg, Saint Martin, and others,
is borrowed from the Kaballa; ALL MASONIC ASSOCIATIONS OWE TO IT
THEIR SECRETS AND SYMBOLS." (p.744 of Pike's Morals and Dogma) "

http://www.cuttingedge.org/free002.html

to Albert Pike, page 102, "Morals and Dogma",

"The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh
reversed; for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. The
Devil is personification of Atheism and Idolatry. For the initiates,
this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may
serve for evil." Pike again refers to the "Infinite God" as "the
mighty cosmic force" on Page 707.

Albert Pike says on Page 321 of Morals and Dogma that "Lucifer, the
Light Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of
Darkness. Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the
light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, selfish
Souls? Doubt it not!" I don't think that Pike would have agreed
that Lucifer and Satan were one and the same.

In Morals and Dogma Pike wrote that, "...there is no rebellious demon
of Evil, or Principle of Darkness coexistent and in eternal
controversy with God, or the Principle of Light... (page 324)."

Then Pike explains in Morals and Dogma that ""…Satan is not a black
god, but the negation of God. For the initiates, this is not a
Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil.
It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will. (page 102)."

On one of the websites of James Lloyd he quotes Daniel 11: 27-39 and
commnts on it:

http://www.christianmediaresearch.com/cmc-65.html

"Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of
women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
But in his estate shall he honor the god of forces: and a god whom
his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with
precious stones, and pleasant things. Thus shall he do in the most
strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and
increase with glory…. (Daniel 11:37-39)"

"This passage has mystified scholars for many centuries as they
sought to understand the particulars of this veiled passage. As
Daniel was told "shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the
time of the end" (Daniel 12:4)."

Daniel 11: 37-39 is talking about an impersonal force,. similar to
the "god" of
the Masons. But unlike the God of the Bible, the Masonic "god" of
Albert Pike is not a person.

There are other verses in the Bible that deal with pagan religions
derived from
ancient Babylon, Babylonian Mystery Religions and the secret
societies coming down through history based upon all this. Ezekiel 8:
7-17 is a very interesting
presentation of occult practices and some have found hints of secret
societies
and even Freemasonry in these verses. Ezekiel is told by God to dig
through a wall.
The building he was to enter apparently was not normally accessible
by doors.
Ezekiel was shown idols and pagan rituals which are called
abominations
in the text. In Ezekiel 8: 24 "...he brought me to the gate of the
Lord's house
which was toward the north; and behold, there sat women weeping for
Tammuz."

Tammuz was a Babylonian god and the symbol of death and rebirth in
nature. He was the husband or consort of Ishtar. Ishtar leads her
followers in lamentation and weeping for Tammuz.. She then descends
to the nether world, and after many trials succeeds in bringing him
back to life. Tammuz was Osiris in Egyptian
myth. The Babylonian pair were Ishtar and Tammuz, and in Egypt they
were Isis and Osiris. In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was identified
with the sun-god. Ezekiel 8:
16 says about 25 men were seen with their back to the temple of the
Lord, with their faces to the east "...and they worshipped the sun to
the east." Here is
a connection to the secret societies, including Freemasonry, that
come out
of ancient pagan sun worship.

Psalm 118: 22 says "The stone which the builders refused is become
the head stone
of the corner." Matthew 21: 42 shows that Psalm 118: 22 was a
prophecy that
was fulfilled in Christ. "The stone which the builders rejected, the
same is become
the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is
marvellous in our eyes."
The word "builders" is used in the Old Testament in other places, but
there it refers
to actual builders of buildings. In Psalm 118: 22 builders is
metaphoric.

Peter in Acts 4: 11 calls the Pharisees "you builders." He
says "This is the
stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the
head of
the corner." Now why would Peter call the Pharisees "you builders?"
He is
using "builders" in a metaphoric sense, not referring to them as
actual stone
masons. He is referring to some kind of pagan religious influence
upon the
Pharisees in calling them "builders," and the choice of this word
does seem to
point back to Solomon and Hiram (see I Kings 5: 18, for example,
which talks
about the builders of Solomon and Hiram). Solomon and Hiram are
important
in Freemasonry.

Freemasonry is not just a fraternity of the good ol boys. Its a
pagan religion
and is clearly not Christian, and if one is a Christian he or she
should have
nothing to do with the Masons. At its higher levels, the 32nd and
33rd degrees,
Freemasonry is much like the elite Skull and Bones Society of Yale.

One member of the Skull and Bones Society went to West Texas as a
sort of
carpetbagger of the early fifties.

See http://www.tarpley.net/bush8.htm

Online : George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G.
Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, especially their "Chapter -VIII- The
Permian Basin Gang, 1948-59

"During the years following the Second World War, the patrician
families of the Eastern Anglophile Liberal Establishment sent numbers
of their offspring to colonize those geographic regions of the United
States which, the families estimated, were likely to prosper in the
postwar period."

Tarpley reveals how Daddy Bush deceived West Texas land
owners with
oil leases to make money. And so the Northeastern ruling
elite - and there
were others besides Daddy Bush who came to Texas - helped
to corrupt
the Texas culture. If my great grandfather,
Gideon Blake Blackburn, who was
in Texas during the days of the Republic, were
brought back to Texas in 2007 by a time machine
he might realize that a big part of
the heritage of Texas is now only history. Gideon's brother,
John L. D. Blackburn, my grandmother's uncle, was
in the Texas Army and in the
Mier Expedition, the "invasion" of Mexico..