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Brethren, it is my pleasure to introduce to you, wishful brother Andrew Farley.

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Andrew has been at in free-messery since 1995.

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He is a past master of the Temple of a theme-launched number 9541, the research lodge of middle-sex,

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and currently holds the office of provincial brand or rates of a middle-sex.

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He manages a theme of over 30 Masonic speakers, which give lectures to the lodges in both middle-sex and London.

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Andrew is currently a senior visiting officer in the Metropolitan Grand Lodge of London,

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and an adjunct to a Metropolitan Grand Inspector in the Royal Arch.

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Free-messery is an important part of his life, and he really enjoys researching and presenting, popular and non-hybrid lectures.

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Some of his lectures include Witchcraft, The Occult and Free-messery, the hidden secrets of the Royal Arch tracing board,

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how to learn ritual can an all-dog learn new tricks and many more.

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Andrew is married and a six children, a numerous grandchildren, and runs as successful manufacturing company in Bedfordshire.

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Andrew is also trusty of a charity affiliated to the R&BI Care Home,

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his Association of Friends of Prince Michael of Ken Kall, based in Wattford, Hardfordshire.

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Worship for Brother Andrew, the Virtual Florizios.

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Thank you very much. Good evening, everyone.

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Masonic conspiracy theories, more than a brain of truth.

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Now, since the late 18th century, there have been hundreds of conspiracy theories described about three-messets.

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Now, generally, these 10 to 4-mint three main categories,

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political, usually alleging control or manipulation of government, religious, alleging anti-Christian or satanic practices,

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and cultural alleging involvement in the fabric of ordinary daily life and society.

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Now, often, three-messenary has been connected with worship of the devil based on missing interpretations of Masonic doctrines.

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Now, in researching this paper, I sought to find out the true breadth of these conspiracy theories,

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and whether they could have been only solid reason why these theories should have been promulgated.

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Now, one of the most interesting features of the research was that the main conspiracy theories that circulate today are centered around American Masonic.

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There is little information about conspiracy theories closer to home, wherever that home may be.

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Now, obviously, I wrote this paper, fairing in mind that I was going to deliver most of this to UK Mason,

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and therefore I focused on the United Kingdom in particular.

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Now, the best known example of conspiracy theory is the one about the new world order.

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Permanent statement, such as Woodrow Wilson in the United States, and Winston Churchill in Great Britain, both used the term New World Order,

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referring to a brief period in history, which involve dramatic changes in world political thought, particularly after the first or second world war.

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Now, these periods were seen by these leaders as opportunities to implement significant ideological changes in global governments, moving outside individual nation states,

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a concept of government, to an idea of a world government.

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Now, of course, these ideas spawn NATO, the GAT treaty, that's the general agreement of tariffs and trade, the United Nations, all of which were designed to ensure world peace and maintain the balance of power in favor of the United States, as well as promoting world cooperation.

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Now, between the years 1947 and 57, the Canadian conspiracy theorist William Guy Car began to influence thinking on an international communist conspiracy, mainly in the United States, and spread unfounded fears that the free-masons, the Illuminati, and the Jews were behind such a conspiracy.

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The theories suggested that these groups were trying to form a godless communism world and spawned many of the human species, mainly centering around the concept of the communist one-world government.

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Now, free-masonry being one of the world's all-dececular fraternal organizations has been a natural target for conspiracy theorists.

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It said that free-masons have had hidden political agendas and are conspiring to bring about a new world order, a world government, organized to Masonic principles and run only by free-masons.

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Now, the protocols of the elders of Zion was published in 1903 in action, alleging a Judea Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination.

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The text reported to be secret minutes of a cabal of Jewish masterminds who were also free-masons, and were plotting to rule the world because they believe themselves to be the chosen people of God.

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Now, these protocols have since been proven to be a complete hoax and a clear case of plagiarism with prominent Irish journalist Philip Graves in 1921 article in the Times and a British academic Norman Cohen in his 1967 book, Warrant for genocide, both proving the falsehood of the work.

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Now, the original allegation of a conspiracy theory within free-masonry to subvert religions and governments in order to take over the world can be traced back to a man called John Robeson, whose reactionary conspiracy theories influenced outbreaks of Protestant anti-Masonry in the United States during the 19th century.

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Now, Leo Taxol, someone you may have heard of, he's a pseudonym for a married, Joe Gampage, who was a French writer who wrote a series of pamphlets and books in the 1890s, demonizing free-masonry, charging free-masons with worshiping, worshipping Lucifer as a supreme-bearing.

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Even though Taxol later admitted that his claims were all hoax, they were and still are believed by numerous conspiracy theorists today, having a great impact on subsequent anti-Masonry claims about free-masonry.

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The hoax material is actually still published today by chick publications, a Christian, Evangelical Publishing House, called The Curse of Bathamet, and a book called Cult and Rich Will Abuse, which is about satanic ritual abuse written by Randy Noblett, and that also still sites the Taxol hoax.

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Now, it's common knowledge that the two of the founding fathers of the United States, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were both free-masons, and there were speculation that the sacred geometric designs belonging to free-masonry, somehow interwoven into the very fabric of the American society, such as the great seal of the United States in imprint on the $1.

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Bill in architecture and the layouts of the streets and highways of Washington, D.C., as some part of a master plan.

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Now, accordingly, colonial American free-masons were portrayed as using power of the occult to bind their planning of a government in conformity with the plan of a Masonic god, because their belief in the great architect of the universe,

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suggested that they plan to establish the kingdom of God on a Masonic world government with new Jerusalem as its capital city, and the third temple at its most holy site, and this utopian new world order, presided over by an Islamic Messiah.

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Now, of course, all these claims are vigorously rebatted by free-masonry. It was pointed out that in free-masonry the drawing of symbols, however large, has absolutely no part of our principles, and certainly not to try and consolidate or establish any controlling power.

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Now, there's no absolutely no published information that the final designers of the great seal shown here, were ever free-masons, and that the words, novice, or the seclorum, which appeared on the back of the great seal, that's the one on the right, in 1782, and on the back of the $1 bill, since 1935, literally translates as the new order of the world.

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And the ludes to the beginning of an era, where the United States became an independent nation state. Now, unfortunately, this translated, this is mistranslated by conspiracy theorists as new world-holder, nice and convenient, and has been redirected towards free-masonry.

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But at least 14, probably more US presidents who were free-masons, or are free-masons, serves to make people both curious and suspicious of the brotherhood.

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Now, you'll also note the inclusion of the pyramid and the all-seeing eye simply serves to perpetuate the myth of Masonic aspirations. Now, with reference to King Solomon's Temple.

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The suggestion that three-masons wanted to establish or wish to establish a third-temple in Jerusalem, Mason's argued that they've got no interest whatsoever rebuilding the Temple, as it's situation on the Temple Mount would interfere with the delicate situation relating to those who also stake a claim on that site.

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And it would likely be the ignition point for the mother of all religious wars. So, I mentioned the three areas conspiracy, the first being political.

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Now, with the exception of the clandestine, Masonic organisations such as the Grand Orient of France, free-masonry does not usually condone or allow political discussion within its precepts.

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And if it's hard to believe that any part of free-masonry would or could try to influence government's politically.

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But Trevor McKinne, a Masonic researcher, argued that it is implausible that free-mason would want to establish a Masonic government as one certain Masonic landmarks are agreed between the various sovereign grand lodges.

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The whole organisations do not agree on many other points of belief and practice, and that many famous free-masons held and hold totally independent beliefs that span the spectrum of politics.

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Masonic government has no meaning at all, since individual free-masons have a wide variation and difference of opinion amongst themselves as what constitutes good government conspiracy theorists suggest that the free-masons have somehow infiltrated government agencies and are taking over by stuff.

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Now, once it cannot be denied that there are many free-masons who are engaged in government agencies and departments worldwide, or even a heart of government, it begers belief that anyone could seriously contemplate that free-masons have the desire to control the world.

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We can't even control where we are, let alone control in the world.

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Now, there's been world speculation in the judiciary worldwide that it is heavily infiltrated by Mason.

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We give their fellow Mason's the benefit of the doubt in court, subverting the legal system.

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Now, more worrying are claims of institutionalized sexual abuse and violence practiced by modern day Mason's who remain above the law thanks to their connections in high places.

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Even recently, as 2012, there are websites supporting a suggested link between, say, the officers of the North Wales police force in England who tried to hide their involvement in Masonry and the expose of child abuse.

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Evident supporting these claims are, of course, as usual non-existent.

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Now, it's common knowledge that many police forces, certainly in the United Kingdom, had their own Masonic lodges and that many policemen and women participate in free-masonry.

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In the year 2000, Jack Straw, who was the British home secretary, was embroiled in a row about free-masons in the police and judiciary being forced to disclose their membership of the fraternity.

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Now, as a result of unspecified fears that free-masonry had undermined the legal system, there were calls from paranoid members of parliament to force the disclosure of such information in the interest of satisfying public suspicion over the influence of free-masonry in the criminal justice system.

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And nearly two thirds of officers in the police refused to cooperate with the voluntary register and the idea of a compulsory register was eventually dropped because of potential conflicts with the European Convention of Human Rights.

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It was only the perception of such and you influence the punted the whole funeral.

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Now, my research also turned on information regarding instructions given by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense to all serving military personnel in 2001, advising the belonging to an organisation of the secretive nature such as the free-masons characterisc of establishing disparate loyalties, which may have a destabilising effect on the chain of command,

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not least by the perception of preferential treatment and arm-due preference.

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Under you influence, the instruction went on to advise that serving personnel should not encourage or promote membership amongst their colleagues,

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and meetings must not take place on Ministry of Defense premises, and use should not be made of any Ministry of Defense property.

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Now, I'm not quite sure whether this advice to public servants is still valid, but it goes to demonstrate that even governments believe the conspiratorial theories that are bound, however, unproven, run ridiculous in concept.

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Paranoia and conspiracy theories are bound when it comes to free-masons in public office.

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There's a whole website devoted to this topic at www.fallingmasonry.info.

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I found that not only did this site publish a list of public servants who were possibly masonry, but detailed their connection or known record of activity.

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In particular, there were quite a lot of entries citing Builderburg participant.

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Now, I can hear your minds wearing away. Some of you will know what Builderburg participant is.

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What's a building bird, builderburg participant you ask?

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Well, let me explain.

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The Builderburg group is a conference or club. It's an annual private conference for between 120 and 140 invited guests from North America and Europe.

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Most people of influence.

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About 30% of government or politics and 70% are from the world of finance, industry, education and communication.

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It's named arrives from the original venue of the first meeting held at the Hotel de Builderburg in Newstabique, Netherlands in May 1954.

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It was created to establish a forum for people concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe, with the purpose of promoting Atlantisism, a better understanding between the cultures of the United States and Western Europe.

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And to foster cooperation on political, economic and defence issues.

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Now, of course, there were three months into attended these conferences.

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We had many members of rank and opulence.

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Unfortunately, there are those who believe in a Masonic conspiracy to take over the world.

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So it's not really surprising to find that there is a conspiratorial link that has been suggested between three months and builderburg.

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In 2013, the annual Builderburg conference for those of you here in the UK was held at the Grote Hotel de Wattford Partnership.

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Now, past attendees have included Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Sorris, King Clark, George Osborne, David Cameron and many more.

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Now, there's a theory that three-mates know somehow overlap with the illuminati, especially at very high levels within the organisation.

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The claim is that the illuminati, three-mates, and secretly control many major aspects of society and government and are working to establish a new world order.

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Included in the conspiracy are the night's Templar and the Jews as part of their plan for universal control of society.

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Now, this particular conspiracy theory was described as early as 1792 by multiple authors, both in France and Scotland.

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Now, recent books by the author Dan Brown served to stoke up old and very, very discredited links between three-mates and the illuminati, and reignite the conspiracy theory is about the secret activities of three-mates.

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For interest, the illuminati was the secret society founded by Adam Wieskoup in a Jesuit, among in 1776, and up at the very Germani.

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Now, the meaning of the word illuminati is actually bearer of light.

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Now, this movement consisted of advocates of free thought, secularism, liberalism, republicanism, and gender equality.

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Many of those are Masonic principles.

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The group's ideology appears to have been based on a random mix of rose accretionism, cabalistic mysticism, nostism, jazz-u-it-organisation, even masonry,

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which appears to have elements of Egyptian mysticism and Babylonian cosmology.

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Now, recruitment actually took place in German masonic lodges, who sought to teach rationalism through mystery schools.

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Now, the main aim of the illuminati was to make people happy, and people were supposed to become happy by becoming good.

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Now, this was supposed to be a theory by enlightening them and getting them to reject the domination of superstition and prejudice.

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It is said that the part of enlightening process was the elimination of Christianity, and by placing members at the heart of governments and institutions.

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Now, in 1785, the order was infiltrated, broken up and suppressed by government agents using preemptive tactics to neutralise the perceived threat of the brotherhood, ever contemplating the overthrow of the Bavarian monarchy and its Roman Catholic state religion.

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Now, another political conspiracy theory claim is that the three masones secretly plotted to create a society based on the revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, fraternity, separation of the church and state, and in Nazi Germany, a Jewish plot for religious tolerance.

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Now, the three masones are also being accused of being involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Diana, Princess of Wales, even John Lennon, and that somehow three masonry is a Jewish or Zionist front for world domination, or is at least controlled by Jews or Zionists at this goal.

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This is illustrated by, of course, the notorious and fraudulent writings of the protocols of the elders of Zion, which were told is the partial reason that Hitler outlawed three masonry.

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Now, this claim is also believed or not revisited by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, whose covenant states, an in English, it says, three masonry is a secret society founded as part of a Zionist plot to control the world, that's article 22 of their charter.

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Now, finally, on the matter of political conspiracy, three masones have been included as being behind the invention of income taxes in the United States, which claims that the IRS, the in-and-revenue services or whatever it is, and federal income tax, a part of a deliberate plot perpetrated by three masones to control American people, and, of course, eventually the world.

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G7, great stuff. A further complete set of conspiracy theories exist with regards to religion and free masonry.

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For example, there are those who claim that free masones were shit lucifer based on the writings of a very famous American mason called Albert Pike, who in 1871 wrote a book called Morals and Dogma of the ancient and accepted Scottish writer, free masonry.

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And 861 page monster of the book in which he wrote these words, Lucifer, son of the morning, it is he who bears the light and with its splendor's intolerable blind feeble, sensual or selfish souls doubt it not.

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Now, anti-masones, often quote, these three sentences as proof that free masones were shit Satan. In fact, we have to actually look at the meaning of these words in the light of Albert Pike's background to understand what the author meant when he penned those phrases.

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Let's talk about Albert Pike a little bit. Now Albert was born in 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States, and he became a writer and poet amongst many other things.

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He's actually described as a pioneer, a crusader for justice for Native Americans, a practical joker or a reformer, a journalist, a philosopher, a prominent Washington lawyer, and a civil war general fighting for the confederate,

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a writer at southern states. The life and times about what Pike is probably the subject of a whole paper on its own. Now I've just chosen to dwell on just a few of the parts of his life that have relevance to this paper.

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Albert became, as I said, involved in free masonry and became very involved in the organization. He was elected, softened grand commander of the Scottish rights, southern jurisdiction in 1859.

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Now the Scottish right for those of you who don't know is a completely separate and totally distinct masonry organization, having no control over free masonry in general.

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It is an appended masonry organization, and at the time of writing this 20% no more than 20% of masonry in America had any affiliation with it.

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The many masonry conspiracy theorists conveniently leave this fact out of their claims and are happy to quote and misquote the words of Albert Pike.

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Now the book, morals and dogma, are now short in the name for the purposes of the paper, contain the ramblings and are clearly highly intelligent and knowledgeable man.

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Now Pike's passion was the all-man should seek knowledge or the light. He referred the light as education and this was often picked up by Christian fundamentalist as they believe that Jesus was the light.

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And therefore his writings must be antichristian even though the Christian Bible clearly contains positive references to the light as learning.

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In his book, morals and dogma, Pike attempted to pass on to the reader his tremendous knowledge of life.

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He was resulted in a rather rambling jumbled and tedious book which set out Pike's personal view and perceptions on free masonry.

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Many of us will agree with some of his statements and proclamations and beliefs. There are many others that he has that no free mason believes.

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Now the most interesting part of the book is in fact its practice which wasn't written by Pike but is an official statement by the Supreme Council that is governing body who published the work.

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In order to explain and reinforce that the work contained absolutely no religious dogma, they stated that the teachings of the readings are not sacramental so far as they go beyond the realm of morality into those other domains of thought and truth.

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The ancient and accepted Scottish rides used the word dogma in its true sense of doctrine of teaching and is not dogmatic in the odious sense of that.

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Unfortunately, anti-mason has picked up on the title of the book and automatically assumed that the book contained religious dogma bringing me back to Albert's statement.

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Lucifer, son of the morning, it is he who bears the light and with splendors and splendor of blinds, people, sensual or selfish souls, doubt it not.

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So what is this reference of Pike to Lucifer, son of the morning? Now it's interesting to note that the King James Bible, there were deliberate errors included in particular the biblical designation of Lucifer or Satan along with a story about a fallen angel.

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Now Lucifer made his first appearance not on Netflix but in the Bible, in the book of Isaiah 14 verse 12, and nowhere else reading, how are they are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how are they are cut down to the ground which did we can the nations.

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Now Lucifer is a Latin name. So how could this find its way into ancient Hebrew manuscript written before there was a Roman language? In reality, chapter 14 verse 12 is actually about a fallen Babylonian king who had persecuted the children of Israel during his lifetime.

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Now speculation is that the early Christian scribes writing in Christian Latin wanted the story to be about a fallen angel.

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A Christian not mentioned in the original ancient text and gave it the Latin name Lucifer. Why Lucifer? In Roman astrology, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star.

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Now we know this by another name Venus. Now the morning star appears in the sky just before the sunrise and derives its name, it's astronomical name, from the Latin term, Lucem Ferre translated of bringer or bearer of light.

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In Hebrew text, the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death was hell out and you can sit on the Hebrew writing on the right hand side, hell out Ben Shahir, which is hell out son of Shahir, which best translates as day star or shining star son of the dawn.

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So Lucifer is no more than a ancient Latin name for the morning star and the Hebrew metaphor day star son of the dawn was mis translated by the early Christian scribes as Lucifer.

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And over the centuries, Lucifer became the fallen angel or disobedient angel cast out of heaven to rule eternity in hell. In modern Christian tradition, Lucifer is probably now the same as Satan, the devil and ironically Prince of Darkness.

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So, when Albert Park used those words, Lucifer son of the morning, he is using a very unfortunate but scholarly term. He's historically correct, but knowing the Christians of his time believe that Lucifer was Satan or at least before his time, believe Lucifer was Satan, he should have kept his scholarly vocabulary in check.

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Now, this ties him very neatly with Leo Taxel, who I mentioned earlier in the paper, who used this unfortunate wording to claim that masons were worshippers of Lucifer and Satan and caused an immense amount of damage to the reputation of free-makes in the room.

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Moving on, other religious conspiracy theories include that free-masonry is its own religion, believing in its own Masonic god, the grand architect of the universe, or in some extreme cases, that free-masons worship bar and other idolic gods.

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They didn't help the early Masonic ritual referred to the God of all things, unfortunately that spells goat, and this was quickly changed to the great architect of the universe.

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Antimasonic sentiment can be traced back to Pope Clement, the twelfth, who became Pope in 1730, and immediately condemned free-masonry as being ungodly.

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Finally, we have the cultural conspiracy theories, which claims that free-masonry has intertwined symbols and numerology into modern culture, such as corporate logos and other imagery.

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Now, my mate Dan Brown, in his books of fiction, suggested that Rome plans lay out of certain cities, were designed as Masonic symbols on our grand scale, and is believed by many today to be true.

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Today, numerology is often associated with the paranormal alongside astrology and other similar divinity arts.

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We of course know these, maybe to be ridiculous or as a side issue, but there are those who do believe that free-masonry are dangerous, and we are a dark society bent on world domination by stealth.

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Now, other conspiracy theories, other conspiracy theories suggest that the Apollo moon landings were faked by the free-masonry, William Cooper wrote that Fred Kla-Nek, Kla-Nek, we was the head of NASA at the time at the Apollo space program, was now was the sovereign grand commander at the time of the Council of 33rd degree of the ancient and accepted Scottish writer,

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what was meant by anasonic secrecy technically the secrets that make sense are for

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vigilance to discuss with people outside the craft of the science tokens and words of the order

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which we use to identify one another or supposedly. Unfortunately, generations of make sense have taken their obligation of secrecy to mean that they couldn't discuss the fraternity

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outside our sonic temples this has led to the problem that with no information coming from

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asons it's all too easy for people to fill the gaps in their knowledge with incorrect information or just

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plain lies particularly if they have a book to sell or to gather subscriptions for their paranoid

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website however I should point out one particular exception in the period just before the World War II

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adult Hitler was openly persecuting the Jews amongst other races as well as free Mexes we know this

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now as I mentioned previously Hitler believed that Masonry undermined the state and therefore decided to

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destroy it now once there was a possibility that Nazi Germany might invade and occupy great Britain

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a new veil of secrecy descended on free maidsory but this time it was prompted by a purely strong survival

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instinct for many older maidsons today this veil has never ever been lifted now we sometimes joke

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with empties and an issue that we have a goat used for the during the ceremony of our

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initiations now everyone knows that since we had the foot mouth virus epidemic a number of years ago

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in Britain goats are extremely hard to come by believe it on what some people take this joke very

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seriously and they they use this opportunity to link the suggested use of a goat to Satanism

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and witchcraft crazy yes but it's also believed now there's also a misconception that our

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Masonic meetings are some called sort of bizarre secret worship service offering up a pagan

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to a pagan god goat or to Satan himself now this ridiculous notion stems from the time when

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the night's templar were placed on trial and were tortured to confess that they worshiped baffermet

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and this tenuous link with free maidsory has remained ever since now there are some other weird and

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wacky conspiracy theories around as diverse as the free maidsons were responsible for the

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sinking of the Titanic and for Leo de Caprio's acting during the film and that they were also

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responsible for the French American and Russian revolution it's also suggested that the free maidsons

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were responsible for the rise of the occult in the late 1800s and early 1900s now Terry Melenson wrote

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the occult revival of the 20th century can be directly attributed to free maidsory and it's peripheral

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ontourage of accolades for the also feed the new age movement Satanism, cabalistic black magic

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inokin magic, god nearing wicker, alexandre and wicker and sex magic now this particular theory

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may have a grain of truth in its assumption as many prominent free maidsons at that time

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had a more than healthy interest in the occult now I elaborate on that thing in another one of my

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lectures entitled witchcraft their cult and free maidson which clearly sets out a link between

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prominent maidsons of that time and their connection with their cult and in particular the work

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of Gerald Gardner shown in the front here basically who enjoyed an explosion of poppy and

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larity for god nearing wicker wishcraft from the mid-1950s with the abolish abolition in the

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United Kingdom on the laws practicing witchcraft believe it or not it wasn't until the mid-50s

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that witchcraft was no longer a crime there is another conspiracy theory about Hollywood film and

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music industry that have been infiltrating infiltrated by free maidsons now fear is sight,

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imagery found in many music videos these images are not the usual square of compasses but are

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claimed to be putting out a rather more subtle and even more subliminal message mega stars such

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as you jazzy reanna naz and kind west or often claim to have incorporated such messaging

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with clear references to the illuminati and the use of our brand and royal science shown here

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movies are no different and conspiracy theories claim that the movies especially science fiction

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movies are used by free maidsons to introduce the idea of a one-world government now the plot usually

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revolves around a global alien invasion that the entire world was musket together to defeat

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one-world government is not only palatable but a favorable suggestion now it's been it's been

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suggested that free maidsons have assassins now I'm sure there have been famous and infamous

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free maidsons who've committed murder just like there are doctors, policemen, judges, bankers and

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politicians that have all committed horrible crimes we all know that murder however is not part

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of free maidsons and people with criminal records or who get a criminal record are usually

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barred from ever becoming a free maidson or if they are convicted of such a crime they're excluded

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from the order all of these conspiracy theories that I have mentioned are just that theories

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no one who has suggested a particular conspiracy has any information of substance that can be verified

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there's no proof suggestion of any indication that there's any truth what's

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served at their claims which was probably founded mainly on ignorance selective choice of their written

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words attributed to maidsons and former maidsons fear and to decrease self-interest

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by therefore conclude that there is not one single grain of truth in any of these theories although

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they do make great fictional reading a curator of the library of the grand lodge of Scotland

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Robert Cooper once commented on the subject of conspiracies that surround free maidson are stated

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it was none of their business that's no longer sustainable but as you can see the problems it's caused

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because we didn't respond 100 years ago to these allegations there has been a hundred years of belief

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that we are hiding something no matter how open we are today how true

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brethren people watching today I hope you've enjoyed my presentation and

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I hope that you've understood and I'm sure you've got questions and as they mentioned a little earlier

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my details are available in various places here's a brief list of my various lectures

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as you can see and there's my email address if anyone quickly wants to write it down

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anyway enough of that I'm going to hand back to our hosts and thank you very very much for listening

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to me this evening thank you Andrew thank you so much for the intriguing and exciting call

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we will go straight to the questions first one is Gordon Andrew

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that's being one of the most interesting talks I've ever seen on this program or on a new

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there in the pre-mashing on town there's a question you've heard from one of the guys that you

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twice in your talk and well known to me within my lifetime is Hitler and

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as far as I'm aware it's probably a musonic symbol for for a two thousand years and it's a symbol

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that I have a ruler and another that uses that cross from the stand

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in the grave it's a musonic symbol and I'd like to know why he chose it and when he realized

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it was a musonic symbol he then had to repent all his millions of tanks and

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terribly and change it to that which again he was trying to remember so he went to his death using

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two musonic symbol and killed millions of guilt was that a question or was that an

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other question of why he used to musonic symbol that's I I can be very very honest with you

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after very much research I have no idea whatsoever however what I would say is that Hitler was

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driven to persecute the Jews and free masons he didn't separate them out deliberately he deliberately

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focused on free maids for several reasons firstly the Jews were very very strongly connected

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governance in Germany at that time and it was felt by Hitler and his associates that their strength

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was too great because what they had in mind so they too saw and they also didn't like the fact

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that free maids believe in freedom of thought I went through this in the conspiracy there is so that

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basically anyone who has the potential for free thought and free thinking was a potential danger

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to the organization of the Nazis and they that wasn't compatible with them and therefore they decided

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to get rid of it the fact that they used the discredited writings of Leia, Taxi and others

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he was awarded a very high honour by the Nazi government for his work towards their cause so

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it's it's very connected to a degree with anti-Semitism anti-Musonic sentiment

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thousands of years old but it was just appropriated by the Nazi party I don't know there was any

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real reason why they did it you know I just don't know here I'm in it in living in germinate

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the swastika was used by the German soldiers during the First World War as a symbol of good luck

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and we think that that's going to end you're coming on to the Nazis and then that's mostly you know

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well at the beginning in the Nazi regime a lot of those people were ex servicemen from the

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First World War I'm not an expert but that's story I was born however that isn't a I must say

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you know about the swastika but it's an interesting point thank you very much for mentioning it

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thank you Gordon we'll go to Gary Mandel

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hi excellent lecture just picking up on a few points swastika was used as a neutralization device

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by eastwest and south that all the points come together and kind of balance out and Hitler

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used to steal from other religions to kind of like create a world that would be safe from

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and incorporate a lot of different religions I saw in your lecture that you had

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gardenerian witchcraft yeah I saw next to him you had Alice to Crowley

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Crowley used a lot of the Masonic principles supposedly overcharged himself with them and that

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led to his insanity as to Masonic conspiracies you have

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p6 or p2 there was a book written about the Italian Mason's that somehow they overtook the government

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and a lot of them were ousted getting into Albert Pike Albert Pike in the United States also

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was at the beginning of the book looks plan and to his discredit with today's diversity he outlawed

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blacks and black maces and and that kind of thing and also the writings of Albert Pike

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and the rituals were brought into the the the the Costa Nostra the mafia

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uses a lot of it in their ritual of omate to to make a brother you know make a

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a a what he called a mafia brother. I'm not saying is there a question?

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No I'm just saying there's a lot of could there is conspiracy out there.

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Oh yeah yeah I just wanted if you had a question I mean this is an interesting stuff

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yeah well yeah well if that you were talking about there there aren't too many

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Masonic conspiracies but there are. Oh yeah I'm fortunate there is always going to be conspiracy

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there is about us so what can we do now ever open and transbound we are. Right and then you get the

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illuminati the Rosencran's was also Leonardo da Vinci that was his over soon on name.

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Well then you get into a home lover conspiracy theory. But excellent lecture I appreciate.

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Thank you very much thank you. Thank you Gary we'll go to satiris.

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Hi Andrew I was actually going to get a comment on a grain of of truth actually not as much truth

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per se. More I was going to ask if it's sort of a a twisting of the truth because okay yeah

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Albert Pike did mention that but let's also keep in mind that Scottish right free Masonry or as we say

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in the British Isles ancient accepted right where the Rosencran. It's mainly influenced by

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continental Masonry which in my humble opinion all contraired to Masonry practice in England

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Wales and Scotland that I'm familiar with is more of a left-hand path system meaning it it

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more focuses on the God within rather than the all-incumpacing God under whose fatherhood

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world brothers. So essentially what I'm asking here is that maybe could it be that

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this was actually a misinterpretation of a nostics slash misaffarian theory that

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may actually have been intended to be spelled out by Albert Pike this just you know just some

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thoughts that I've been having on trying to put it in line here. That's my question.

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I think I think things connected to Albert Pike was a unique person. He was very diverse in

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his abilities in fact it is definitely going to be a subject of a whole lecture on his own.

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He's as I said very clearly many of his beliefs are quite acceptable to us Masones

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but there are a lot of his a lot of his preachings a lot of his thoughts have absolutely no

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connection with any any of us exactly and they're full and sadly he's considered to be a

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Godfather Freemasoner. Well, there are people they know about it. He's not I don't know about that in my

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book he is just at that time at that window he was an influential Mason and his writings were noted

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by others who were not Freemasons. However I mean remember only he was the head of an

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organization where less than 20% of American Freemasons belong so it was a minority order and yet

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it's been sort of hit the importance that given to his writings is disproportionate to you know

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the actual influence and of course most people don't believe most of what he wrote.

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The 300% thank you thank you Andrew. Thank you Stairis brethren can we please keep to the

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questions as we don't have very much time left. Offman.

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Thank you all my chandro after the campaign in opposition of and what we hear right now

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and we are opening up and opening out our holes our Masonic holes and also all over the internet

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and YouTube and everything. I think division forward is much better than before and people

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thought understanding what we are doing. The problem that we have before and Lakhama Kavalli said

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if there is a wolf you tell them about the bigger wolf that this wolf need to protect you from

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so you always have the bigger enemy and because Mason couldn't defend themselves

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they end up being on the path of the bigger enemy. The problem that we have right now

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is I noticed the more and more or we are opening up the more of the mystery of being a

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Mason this appears I don't know what you think. Yes what can I say?

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You know this subject of conspiracies and everything that I connected

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is subject to it. There is no yes there's no right there's no wrong it is what it is.

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It is what it is and people will believe what they choose to believe according to what they're at

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where their motives are where they're heading you know it suits them. Most of these conspiracy

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theorists are not made of it well they're all most of them are not Mason's there are a few

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who have written my ex-masons who have written about the order but mainly in the service of

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selling and promoting their own written words and that's what I found. I looked into people who

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ex-masons who have written works and much of it is you can find on the internet. There is nothing

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in free Mason or you can't find on the internet everything there's no hidden secrets of anything

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so it's a bit of a nonsense to see that you know we keep secrets there are no secrets we know that.

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And I mean once we've got world domination it won't matter. I think enough is enough

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that can be in that we have started. I think the enough is basically to do not with conspiracies

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but it's to do with bias by organisations like the BBC and the News Media who ignore us.

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In the in the mayor of London's parade that was held where where Masonry and London had a

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float they were showing the the possession of the various floats and they cut from the float in

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front of free Mason's to the one behind it deliberately they made very little noise about the

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the air ambulances that were were were provided or the high rise fire trucks that were provided

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or all the other work we do they choose not to and this is why certainly a London they are having

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a massive push on promoting and putting the word out there enough is enough.

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Thank you Andrew. Thank you, Othman. We will go to Colin Jackson.

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I go and go. Loved it. One one thing I'd like you to address possibly.

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We've had roughly a hundred years of failure to answer the criticism that's being thrown

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as as free Mason's and that is what's led to people accepting conspiracy theories in the general

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public. To what extent do you think that it's therefore true that so many of the modern terrorists

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domestic ones especially in the American on the continent have ended up demonstrating a connection

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with free Mason either by being a van free Mason or joining them with everybody from the

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the domestic bombers in America to Andrew's horrific in Norway. Finding that the it's the very

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conspiracy theories that have not been addressed in the past that's attracted them to the

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organisation. Yeah to be honest I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's what they don't know

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they conveniently make it fit and often it's purely conjecture it's suggestion in your end

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very very fragmented pieces of information that people believe are connected to free Mason.

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There is no real connection and you just gotta say where is the real connection? Where is the

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proof? And often it doesn't exist it's just you know people's imagination especially those who

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don't know anything about free Mason. Thank you. Thank you very much Colin we will go to Mark.

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Thanks Andrew can you hear me okay? Yeah. It's a great lecture thank you. Just going back to Albert Pike.

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Listen, his morals and dogma it doesn't actually put any foundations on his

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his notion that there's a prevalent belief in satanic worship and then it gets repeated by Reverend George

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Oliver without any foundations and then Mackey repeats what George Oliver said and I've always wondered whether

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what Pike is actually referring to is the early trials of the Templars in or around 1307

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at the Beaheast of King of France Philip and the Ben Pope. So I was wondering whether it is a reference

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to those trials in the night's Templars and secondly if not one but all three of those Pike

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Oliver and Mackey had a compound effect in this belief that we mentioned that we know that

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there's no foundation so because it was never mentioned in the early French disclosures either.

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Albert Pike's writings were cobbled together from his extensive knowledge of life

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and it was a rambling and people took later after his book was written people took little parts

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to either repeat or to justify their viewpoint. That was all. I don't think that the actual book

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morals I don't know why he chose the title he did but it did as I've said in the lecture it did prompt

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the his organization in the preface to his book to disassociate themselves from it being a

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religious or onerous dogma and more a dogma in the literal sense of the word obviously it's

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been misinterpreted over the years and used by people maliciously it's a bit like what the

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the news media does today to stories they give it a twist in order to make it more interesting

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and that's no different to this. You're absolutely right and of course the the goaches of

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deity had to complete the opposite connotations it love our honor respect and those sorts of

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values versus the satanic drunkenness, lissciousness that it became fuel as a result of a 13th century

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document so I think we got sold down the river with that. I think that there's a

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for example do you put any blame on the early scribes who translated the English

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Fibles for example in rewriting part of the text to suit their requirement for a full and

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angel story. I mean think of that if they happened to have done that there wouldn't be anything to

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talk about in that. It's a creative license I think Andrew. Correct correct they had no idea

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what the knock on effect would be. Yeah thanks very much Andrew it's good. Thank you Mark we will go

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to a final question from Philip Rose.

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Robin. Robin there. Right sorry I was trying to get myself on mute.

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Firstly I'm sure I I feel with everyone that what a fascinating and actually it was.

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It occurs to me that the poor reputation that that is sometimes engendered on masonry is because

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yes we have certain things that we don't want to discuss and people will fill in the gaps and

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as mason's we're opening up and opening up but the other problem is there are other pseudo

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Masonic or even non-Masonic organizations who are equally if not more secretive and their gaps

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are being filled in and there is no reason why that the people who may think bad of masonry because

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they don't know the whole story will even think the same of these other organizations and

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associate us with this and I was just wondering what is it you think we could do to disassociate

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ourselves with these other organizations? Well already what's happening is it's felt that being

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open about our organization being more open is one way to dispeel match of the mysticism behind us

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match of what what we see today in conspiracy theories and our connection with other pseudo

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Masonic orders or otherwise is in fact because people don't know so by opening up our orders

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and being more open and transparent with the general public the idea is that the mysticism won't

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be there anymore it's like we won't be considered to be a secret society which is really

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where it is any mention of the secret society people assume naturally that we have you know we're

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up to no good just because we keep ourselves to ourselves so by being open we dispeel that particular

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argument and I just think that you know people will always associate us with other pseudo

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Masonic organizations I mean for example in my lecture about witchcraft three major the occult and

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three major I explain that many of the initiation rituals for gardenerian wicker witchcraft

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mirror our own initiation ceremonies well I mean you know there's a connection witchcraft

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three major and what I do in that lecture is is proof or disprove the connection

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I think another example of this is the infamous P2 launch which was it was founded by a person

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kicked out of three Masonry but the number of times that because that's in the public domain

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I've had to explain that to non-Masons is quite phenomenal oh yeah I mean but you know people who are

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Mason's you know they they laugh at it because I think it's it's crazy connection but non-Masons

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take it very seriously they do because they don't know any different they don't know any different

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and I thank you for your question thank you so much Philip brethren that is all for today

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as we have run out of time and I will quickly announce our winners Brian Randall and Tony Padley

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thank you thank you so much again for coming back and giving us this exciting talk and thank you

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brethren for all your questions so what will be very good evening and I look forward to you all

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joining us next Tuesday for our lecture on Burns Masonry and that picture by brother you and

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not men stay safe brethren thank you my pleasure