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Freemasonry

Many people within our country, including ministers, have been involved in one or another of the various societies of freemasonry. Often individuals who come for prayer to be set free of freemasonry have either been directly involved in it or have had Masonic influences within their ancestry. Simply stated, freemasonry is a fraternal (or brotherly) organization that has certain secret rituals.

Freemasonry had its beginning in the 1600s in Scotland and Great Britain, and their societies havenow spread worldwide. There currently may be as many as 3.5 million members in the U.S. alone. While the Masons have regarded themselves as a secret society, their beliefs and practices have been well-documented by previous members and by Christian researchers. Scholarly books have been written on the history of the Masonic rites. This section discloses a brief account of why people need to be set free from the harmful effects of Masonry.

Individuals enter a “lodge” for businessand societal reasons,and to join an association of friends upon whom they can rely. Many of the past presidents of the United States(including George Washington) were Masons, and the back of our dollar bill is filled with Masonic symbols (such asthe all-seeing eye of the Grand Architect of the Universe).

The early history of the practices of the Masons set them in opposition to organized churches, Catholicism in particular, and the Masons were responsible for various religious persecutions (in the 18th Century, for example, in several countries, the Jesuits were suppressed by them). The opposition was so strong that Catholics were forbidden to join the Masons.

Christians have traditionally been against Masonry because the church has stood against societies that require taking oaths of secrecy, with dire threats of evil (and death) incurred for violating the “curse” (breaking the secrecy). If you have read any of the initiation rites at the various levels (all the way up to the 33rd Degree), you recognize that they elicit fear at a very deep level (at one level, for instance, a noose is placed around the neck).

A second reason churches have been against Masonry organizations involves the physical and emotional ailments whichensue, to members andto the sons and daughters (to the fourth generation,Ex. 34:7) of those who are Masons. Consider the following examples as personally experienced and noted byBarbara Cassada, in her book Unto Death. Only first names are given in her examples below, to provide anonymity.

  • Kristi—Conditions: manic-depressive, Satanic ritual abuse, multiple personality disorder. Connection: her step-father was a Mason.
  • George—Conditions: heart by-pass surgery, manic-depressive; father died of heart problems. Connection: his father was a Mason.
  • Allen—Conditions: Multiple Personality Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, suicide tendencies, migraine headaches, bleeding ulcers, homosexuality, clinical depression: Mother’s conditions: breast cancer, mental instability, migraineheadaches, heart disease. Connection: paternal Great Grandfather and Grandmother involved with DeMolay;paternal uncle wasa Mason.
  • Karen—Condition: lupus. Connection: a family member was a Mason; she was involved with Triangle Girls.
  • Don—Conditions: himself, infertility;his sister,pancreatic cancer and Marfan’s Syndrome, resulting in open-heart surgery. Connection: Masons in both father’s and mother’s family lines.

Cassada goes on to list four full-pages of similar accounts from her ministry, I could prepare a similar list.

Masons and their family members seem to have an over-abundance of the following health problems: continuous miscarriages, colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, heart problems, organ malfunctions, Crone’s disease, brain tumors, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and premature death of either children or other relatives.

The most alarming factorwith regard to this society, however, is that false gods (replacing our Lord Jesus Christ) are involved. For example, Egyptian gods (Horus, Set, and Isis) are involved at the 31st Degree. With each escalating degree, the confusion and idolatry increase, until Lucifer himself becomes part of the initiation. The sin involved in Masonry is ultimately idolatry and involves the rejection of Jesus Christ as our only Savior.

The idolatry curses associated with this membership are derived from the following examplesfrom their beliefs and practices:

  1. The name of Jesus has been omitted from prayers.
  2. Blood-curdling oaths (to maintain secrecy) became part of initiation rites.
  3. The name of their deity is “secret.” The central deity is neither Jesus Christ nor God, and therefore, members are being deceived into committing idolatry.
  4. Use of the “all seeing eye of spiritual light” in the form of a pyramid.
  5. Members are promised acceptance (after death) into “the Grand Lodge in the sky.”
  6. Even though the Bible is acknowledgedas a sacred writing, only a few selected passages are used in their worship and beliefs.
  7. Every freemason is open to interpret the sacred writings for themselves.
  8. Some orders (during initiation) participate in mock hangings, beheadings,and the drinking of blood.
  9. Masons take an oath to be loyal to and to protect one another no matter what the cost. This loyalty cansupersede family members or church membership.
  10. Oaths and testimonies are signed with their own blood (a common practice within witchcraft circles).
  11. Oaths include penalties of death or dismemberment for violating the rules or for breaking their secrecy.
  12. Oaths are given “blindly”—one line at a time—so initiates do not know in advance to what they will be (and are) swearing.
  13. Initiations are performed in darkness. Clothing is opened. A rope noose (called a cable-tow) is placed around the neck and the initiate is blindfolded with a “hoodwink.”
  14. At some levels of masonry, initiates are anointed with oil and proclaimed to be “Priests forever after the Order of Melchizedek,” (a reference taken—but misapplied—from scripture).

Members of the organizations listed below are the subject of demonic curses that not only affect them but that also affect members of their families (and all those who follow through the ancestral line for generations thereafter), all this attributed to their gross and blasphemous idolatry.

  • Order of the Eastern Star
  • Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem
  • Order of Amaranth
  • Order of DeMolay
  • Daughters of the Easter Star
  • Daughters of the Nile
  • International Order of Job’s Daughters
  • International Order of Rainbow Girls
  • Odd fellows
  • Shriners
  • Elks

An appropriate summary of the dogma of freemasonry is stated by Rev. Lymon Ellis in Blinded by the Lie:

“Not one of the thirty three degrees of Freemasonry contains any spiritual truth worth all the secrecy and curses. The secrecy and curses only serve to hide, deceive and confuse those who would exam Masonry more closely. Masonry takes selected bits of Christianity, but sets them on top of a very anti-Christian foundation.”

Membership in one Freemason society(or their related organizations)opens a spiritual gate that is seldom recognizable. For more details about these beliefs and practices, seekers are encouraged to obtain one or more of the following resources, giving much greater detail about the curses of freemasonry and the stories of those who have been freed from their influence.

Resources

  1. Noel and Phyl Gibson, Evicting Demonic Intruders (New Wine Press, available through Wagner Publications, 1993): 121-32. ISBN 1-874367-09-4.
  2. Selwyn Stevens, Unmasking Freemasonry (Jubilee Resources Pub., 1999, reprinted 2004): 64. ISBN 1-877203-48-3. (
  3. Barbara Cassada, Unto Death (Tome Publishing, 1998): 65. ISBN 1-928672-01-9. (
  4. Ed Decker, The Dark Side of Freemasonry (Huntington House, 1994). ISBN 1563840618.
  5. John Ankerberg and John Weldon, The Secret Teachings of the Masonic Lodge—A Christian Perspective,” (Moody Press, 1990). ISBN 0802476953.
  6. Martin Short, Inside the Brotherhood (Harper Collins, 1995). ISBN 0586070656.
  7. Jim Shaw and Tom McKenney, The Deadly Deception (Hungington House, 1988). ISBN 0910311544.
  8. John Daniel, Scarlet and the Beast,Vol. I, II and III (JKI Publishing, 1994). ISBN 1890913995.

Seekers that have freemasonry in their current or ancestral line are encouraged to read the following prayer aloud in the presence of intercessors.

Prayer for Freedom from Freemasonry

(This prayer model has been taken [and adapted]fromUnmasking Freemasonry by S. Stevens; it is used with permission.) Have the seeker read the following prayer aloud. While this prayer is lengthy, the extra time is of little consequence to the benefit of assuring that all open gates are closed.

Father God, Creator of heaven and earth, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son. I come as a sinner seeking forgiveness and cleansing from all sins committed against you and others made in your image. I honor my earthly father and mother and all of my flesh and blood ancestors, and also those of the spirit by adoption and godparents, but Iutterly turn away from and renounce all their sins.

I forgive allmy relatives and ancestors for passing on the effects of their sins to me and my children. I confess and renounce all of my own sins in this area as well. I renounce and rebuke Satan and every spiritual power of his which affects me and all members of my family, in the worthy name of Jesus.

I renounce and forsake all involvement in freemasonry or anyother lodge or craft by my ancestors, my relatives,and by myself. I renounce witchcraft, the principal spirit behind freemasonry,and I renounce Baphomet—the Spirit of Antichrist and the curse of the Luciferian doctrine. I renounce the idolatry, blasphemy, secrecy, and deception of Masonry at everylevel. I specifically renounce the insecurity, the love of position and power, the love of money, avarice and greed, and the pride which led my ancestors into Masonry. I renounce all the fears which held them in Masonry, especially the fear of death, the fear of men, and the fear of trusting, in the precious name of Jesus Christ.

I renounce every position held in the lodge by myself and any of my ancestors, including “Tyler,” “Master,” “Worshipful Master” or any other. I renounce the calling of any man “Master,” for Jesus Christ is my only master and Lord, and He forbids anyone else being called by that title. I renounce the entrapping of others into Masonry and observing the helplessness of others during the rituals. I renounce the effects of Masonry passed on to me through any female ancestor who felt distrusted and rejected by her husband as he entered and attended any lodge and refused to tell her of his secret activities. I pray for all these favors in the blessed name of Jesus Christ, my Savior.

lst Degree

I renounce the oaths taken and the curses involved in the 1st(or entered Apprentice)Degree, especially their effects on the throat and tongue. I renounce the hoodwink(the blindfold) and its effects on the emotions and eyes, including all confusion, fear of the dark, fear of the light, and fear of sudden noises. I renounce the secret word, BOAZ, and all it means. I renounce the mixing and mingling of truth and error, and the blasphemy of this degree of Masonry. I renounce the noose around the neck, the fear of choking, and also every spirit causing asthma, hay fever, emphysema, or any other breathing difficulty. I renounce the compass point, sword, or spear held against the breast, the fear of death by stabbing pain, and the fear of heart attack instilled from this degree.

I now pray for healing of the throat, vocal cords, nasal passages, sinuses, bronchial tubes, etc., for healing of the speech area, and the release of the Word of God to me and through me and all members of my family, in the name of Jesus Christ.

2nd Degree

I renounce the oaths taken and the curses involved in the 2nd(or Fellow Craft) Degree of Masonry, especially the curses on the heart and chest. I renounce the secret words JACHIN and SHIBBOLETH and all that these mean. I cut off the emotional hardness, apathy, indifference, unbelief, and deep anger,felt and experienced by me and all members of my family. I pray for the healing of my chest, lungs, and heart areas, and also for the healing of my emotions, and I ask that I be made sensitive to the Holy Spirit of God, in the name of Jesus Christ.

3rd Degree

I renounce the oaths taken and the curses involved in the 3rd(or Master Mason) Degree, especially the curses on the stomach and womb area. I renounce the secret words MAHA BONE, MACHABEN, MACHBINNA, and TUBAL CAIN, and all that they mean. I renounce the spirit of death from the blows to the head enacted as ritual murder, the fear of death and false martyrdom, the fear of violent gang attack, assault or rape, and the helplessness of this degree. I renounce the falling into the coffin (or stretcher) involved in the ritual of murder. I renounce the false resurrection of this degree, because only Jesus Christ is the Resurrection and the Life! I also renounce the blasphemous kissing of the Bible on a witchcraft oath. I cut off all spirits of death, witchcraft, and deception, and in the name of Jesus Christ, I pray for the healing of (naming those that apply) my stomach, gall bladder, womb, liver, and any other organs of my body affected by masonry, and I ask for a release of compassion, understanding, and forgiveness for me and my family. I pray for all these favors in the blessed name of Jesus Christ.

Holy Royal Arch Degree

I renounce and forsake the oaths taken and the cursesand iniquities involved in the Holy Royal Arch Degree of Masonry,especially the oath regarding the removal of the head from the body and the exposing of thebrains to the hot sun.I renounce the Mark Lodge and the mark in the form of squares and angles which marks the person for life. I also reject the jewel, or talisman, which may have been made from this mark sign and worn at lodge meetings.

I renounce the false secret name of God, JAHBULON, and declare total rejection of all worship of false pagan gods, namely Bul or Baal and On or Osiris. I also renounce the password,AMMIRUHAMAH, and its occult meaning. I renounce the false communion or eucharist taken in this degree, and all the mockery, skepticism, and unbelief about the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary. I repent of and cut off all these curses and their effects upon me and my family, and Icommand healing of the brain and the mind, in the name of Jesus Christ.

18th Degree

I renounce the oaths taken and the curses involved in the 18th Degree of Masonry, the Most Wise Sovereign Knight of the Pelican and the Eagle and Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of Heredom. I renounce and reject the Pelican witchcraft spirit, as well as the occult influence of the Rosicrucians and the Kabbala in this degree. I renounce the claim that the death of Jesus Christ was a “dire calamity” and the deliberate mockery and twisting of the Christian doctrine of the Atonement. I renounce the blasphemy and rejection of the deity of Jesus Christ and the secret words IGNE NATURA RENOVATURINTEGRA and its burning. I renounce the mockery of the communion taken in this degree, including a biscuit, salt, and white wine, in the name of Jesus.

30th Degree

I renounce the oaths takenand the curses involved in the 30th Degree of Masonry, the grand Knight Kadosh and Knight of the Black and White Eagle. I renounce the password, STIBIUMALKABAR, and all it means, in the blessed name of Jesus.

31st Degree

I renounce the oaths taken and the curses involved in the 31st Degree of Masonry, the Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander. I renounce all the gods and goddesses of Egypt which are honored in this degree, including Anubis with the ram’s head, Osiris the sun god, Isis the sister and wife of Osiris, and also the moon goddess. I renounce the Soul of Cheres, the false symbol of immorality, the Chamber of the Dead and the false teaching of reincarnation, in the name of Jesus.

32nd Degree

I renounce the oaths taken and the curses involved in the 32nd Degree of Masonry, the Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret. I renounce masonry’s false trinitarian deity, AUM, and its parts: Brahma (the creator), Vishnu(the preserver) and Shiva(the destroyer). I renounce the deity of AHURA-MAZDA, the claimed spirit or source of all light, and the worship with fire(which is an abomination to God), and drinking from a human skull, as donein somesocietal rites, in the name of Jesus Christ.

York Rite

I renounce the oaths taken and the curses involved in the York Rite of freemasonry, including Mark Master, Past Master, Most ExcellentMaster, Royal Master, Select Master, Super Excellent Master, the Orders of the Red Cross, the Knights of Malta, and the Knights Templar degrees. Irenounce the secret words of JOPPA, KEBRAIOTH, and MAHER-SHALAL-HASHBAZ. I renounce the vows taken on a human skull, the crossed swords, and the curse and death wish of Judas, of having the head cut off and placed on top of a church spire. I renounce the unholy communion and especially drinking from a human skull, as done in some societal rites, in the blessed name of Jesus Christ.