“Freemasonry is deceptive and fraudulent…Its promise is light—its performance is darkness”
- – John Quincy Adams
How should a restored America prevent members of secret societies (subversives) from becoming officials, or employees of any government position?
It has been attempted before in the United States and had a limited degree of success, but after a generation or so -they were back, infesting the offices of governments they have sworn an oath to support (elected officials.) However, in reality, their secret society oath has the highest priority — hence we have an intractable and unsustainable contradiction resulting in a conflict of interest that cannot be tolerated that can and does corrupt any honorable institution.
President John Quincy Adams provided the framework and attempted to create law as President and several states, at the same time enacted law, against taking secret oaths while serving in state governments.
“Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong – essentially wrong – a seed of evil which can never produce any good.” -John Q. Adams.”
Adams singled out 5 points which summarize the problems with secret society members function in ANY fiduciary position as a public servant.
“John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was an experienced statesman with a passion for this fledgling democracy. His personal study of the public sector led him to the conclusion that the secret oaths of Freemasonry would easily undermine an impartial judicial process. Police, lawyers, statesmen, and judges holding secret allegiances beyond the constitution could undermine the due process of law. He further believed that the oaths and obligations were horrific, and did not reflect wisdom in a more civilized age. He saw them as a reversion to the more barbaric tendencies within humanity.”
1. They were extra judicial oaths and were in violation of the laws of the land.
Adams believed that the oaths of the Entered Apprentice degree were, in short, illegal. They pledged the brother to illegal secrecy in violation of the clear judicial laws of the United States and all civilized countries. Adams stated, “The oaths introduce him to a “secret and exclusive favor, assistance and fidelity to the brotherhood and brothers of the craft.”3 Adams affirmed that a witness in a court of law is sworn to tell the whole truth, not to be selective, as per prior Masonic obligations. Adams objected to the fact that Masons swore not to reveal anything related to the brotherhood if given under a Masonic sign, except in matters of murder or treason. Adams states:
“The Entered Apprentice promises never to reveal to any person under the canopy of heaven, that which the laws of his country may, the next day after he makes the promise, make it his duty to reveal to any court of justice before which he may be summoned to appear, or to any committee of the legislature of the state in which he resides, or of the Union.” 4
Furthermore, “…the Master Mason promises to keep the secrets of a brother Master Mason, as secure and inviolable as if they were in his own breast, murder and treason excepted.” Adams went on to say, “ The naming of them emphatically (murder and treason) leaves all other crimes included in the promise and excluded from the exception.” In his fourth letter, Adams showed that every other crime communicated by a brother Master Mason, and “communicated to him as a Masonic secret”, was to be held in confidence. However, according to Adams, it is the duty of a citizen to reveal any crimes of which he is aware.
2. They were in violation of the precepts of Jesus to not make vows.
Although most of the concerns of Adams rest securely in the secular argument, he was well enough aware of the spiritual implications of the Lodge to register this comment:
“If, as in this age but too often happens, he enters the Lodge a skeptic, the use of the Bible there, if it have any effect on him, will turn him out to be a confirmed infidel.”5
Furthermore, Adams warned that the Lodge’s use of the Bible should, to a trained Christian, raise red flags.
“If the candidate has been educated to a sincere and heart-felt reverence for religion and the Bible, and if he exercises his reason, he knows that all the tales of Jachin and Boaz, of (((Solomon)))’s Temple, of Hiram Abiff and Jubela, Jubelo and Jubeluem, are impostures–poisons poured into the perennial fountain of truth–traditions exactly resembling those reprobated by Jesus Christ, as making the word of God on none effect.” 6
3. The swearing of secrecy came before the secrets were ever revealed to the candidate.
Adams called into question the integrity of the organization, challenging them on this issue of secrecy. Before a candidate was made aware of the secrets of the craft, he was sworn to keep them secret, upon penalty of self-mutilation. The candidate, when he took the oath, was kept in total ignorance of what was contained in the secrets of the craft. Therefore, he did not know the content or extent of the oaths he took. “He is sworn to keep secret what he does not know.”7 Adams believed that it was unfair, and inappropriate. “It promises light–its performance is darkness.” 8 Initiates, according to Adams, must be shocked with the incongruence of taking upon themselves personal mutilation to keep secrets, which seemed relatively mundane.
4. They included vicious penalties, leading to death.
The oath in question was as follows:
“All this, I promise and swear–binding myself under no less penalty than that of having my throat cut across from ear to ear, my tongue torn out by its roots, and my body buried in the rough sand of the sea, at low water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours.”
Adams also pointed out the Master Mason’s oath, which stated:
“The Master Mason’s penalty is to have his body severed in two in the midst, and divided to the north and south, his bowels burnt to ashes in the center, and the ashes scattered before the four winds of heaven, that there might not the least track or trace of remembrance remain among men or Masons of so vile and perjured a wretch, as I should be.” 9
If the descriptions of the penalties were somewhat figurative, Adams asked why they were still continued: “Are the words so charming in themselves”, that they cannot be replaced by more civilized, less violent terms?” 10
5. The horrific ideas brought to the mind by these penalties
Western Civilization’s collapse can be explained in the light of the infiltration of secret societies working an anti-Human anti-Western civilization using dupes and fools as sacrificial pawns committing treason in service to the darkness that now rules the day. It will be for the reformers to learn how to keep traitors and destroyers from secretly occupying all critical positions of power in any hierarchy of civilization.