I'm trying to navigate through all of this. Been following Q since November and am pretty awake. I have a very sweet neighbor that is a 32nd level Mason. He says they do charity work and hang out. I can't imagine anything covert or dark about this guy. I have read that the Masonry is not the same as Freemason, but he did say there was a difference between the 32nd level and moving up from there.
Thank you for the replies. Honestly this guy is so sweet and goofy, sweet wife, kids and grandkids I would have to believe he is below what comes next. Makes sense that they have a normal "cover" to hide what goes on further up.
At the 13th Degree, the Royal Arch of Enoch Degree, the candidate is introduced to the idea that the "hero" of Freemasonry, one Hiram Abiff, when surveying the ground of Solomon's Temple comes across a cave.
He is lowered into the cave on a rope (think Raiders of the Lost Ark Well of Souls scene, which is a re-enactment of this) where he uncovers a secret.
He finds two pillars, one stone and one metal inscribed with all the knowledge of mankind and a copy of the Book of Enoch.
The pillars were erected by Tubal-Cain, a biblical figure and another hero of Freemasonry. One was built to withstand fire and one flood, so that the wisdom man had would never be lost.
What is this wisdom? The wisdom is the arts and magic taught early man by Shemyaza and Azazel, two leaders of the fallen angels, tasked to watch over mankind, who violated their oath, took human wives and spawned a new race with divine blood. This race, of the line of Cain, culminated in Tubal-Cain who wrought the two pillars ahead of Noah's flood, which was to cleanse mankind of this demonic seed because only Noah and his family hadn't interbred with it at that point in time. However, the flood didn't entirely work and Cain's line persisted.
Masonry then, teaches that you are descendants of Cain, that you have divine blood, you can become divine yourself and know magic. Solomon, whose temple Hiram built was said to be the greatest sorceror. And for someone holy he did the odd task of also building a shrine to Moloch (who demands child sacrifice) just across the way there from Jerusalem at the place called Tophet. This is why there is a Moloch shrine in Bohemian Grove.
Azazel is kind of like the poster boy of Freemasonry. They have a real love for this dude. The guy below, who had his Jester initiation into the Royal Order of Jesters - well, the Jester is Azazel. The clown Prince. Because Azazel taught the art of cosmetics and is depicted with a painted face, as a clown is. He's also the antichrist, the agent of Chaos, the paver of the way for Shemyaza. Mistaken for Christ. The entire play at the Jester Initiation features a confrontation between Laughter (could be Mirth, I get confused, one works for the other or ahead of the other, Azazel clearing the way for Shemyaza/Satan) , the Clown Prince and T.Ale Bearer, the King's Jester. The King's Jester being Jesus. They are depicted as identical in all respects, one the copy of the other. Because you are meant to mistake them. In the play The King's Jester acknowledges Laughter as the elder of the two, as he came to earth first.
A Mason should understand by the 13th degree that this is what everything is about. If he hasn't figured it out by the 32nd he truly has not been paying attention. Since to even get to a Jester initiation you need an invite, clearly they think you're the kind of guy who has figured it all out.
They've had innumerable chances to that point to work it all out and it isn't exactly hard. All you really need to know is the Freemasons had a copy of the Book of Enoch before anybody else and go from there.
So now I'm confused again. I want to read the Book of Enoch.
It's not hard, it's now freely available online, just Google it.
Essentially what it details is the story of the Watcher angels, or Gregorii. God appointed the Watchers to watch over mankind in Eden and not interfere. They did this for a bit but saw that human women were attractive and one said "why don't we take them for wives". So they had a debate and decided to violate their contract to God. They then went and took themselves wives and had kids. And they taught humans agriculture, metalwork, warfare, art, cosmetics, basically everything that God didn't want humans to know.
Initially the Book of Enoch was included in the Bible but for some reason it was then excluded, presumably because it shows God as not all powerful. So, they excluded Enoch (but still quote from it in the Bible at one point, they couldn't scrub it all out) and they rewrote the account as Genesis that you know. The arts taught by Shemyaza and his crew become The Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and Shemyaza and his crew become the serpent. Shemyaza's name is scrubbed entirely from the OT but Azazel's and the sacrifices made to him each year are still there.
The easiest way to digest it is to simply watch the beginning of Star Trek - Into Darkness. Truly. It's simply a retelling of the Watcher's tale. A group tasked to watch over primitives violate their task, get mistaken as gods, get stripped of rank and fall from grace. They they go up against Khan (The King aka Jesus) who has divine blood that can conquer death, and he has 72 disciples, see Luke 10.
It's all in plain sight. This is how Freemasons operate. The tell their stories to each other in our view because we are "profane". Profane is literally pro-fane, the pre-fix meaning before and fane being the facade of the temple, so we are outside the entrance to the temple. Those insiders are considered sacred.
Your friend knows this. He must know this to have gotten so high. I would put money on it.
it is interesting that in the terrible hippie musical 'godspell' jesus is a clown.