Freemasonry and Jehovah's Witnesses

by Hammer_Of_Thor 63 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Blondie: "

  Can't get more accurate info than Barbara did.

  Barbara Anderson called/wrote to the Freemason office in Pennsylvania and they checked their records and said their membership shows no evidence that Charles Taze Russell or his father were members."

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  Pardon me, Blondie, but I think Barbara is very inaccurate in her "research". Her wording is very slanted. Perhaps you did not see the last post on that thread. Here it is for you again.

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  Andersoninfo: "NO, CHARLES TAZE RUSSELL WAS NOT A PENNSYLVANIA FREEMASON!"

  Tricky bit of wording here, people. The operative word is PENNSYLVANIA! And while Russell may not have been a PENNSYLVANIA Freemason, he could very well have been a mason in another jurisdiction! Here's proof! (I hate sly wording.)

  Grand Lodges and Grand Orients are independent and sovereign bodies that govern Masonry in a given country, state, or geographical area (termed a jurisdiction). [12] There is no single overarching governing body that presides over worldwide Freemasonry; connections between different jurisdictions depend solely on mutual recognition. [13]

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry

  If you dig you will find that some Lodges are considered "Clandestine".
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  Hammer-of-Thor: "Thanks for all the input from contibutors. My original quest was to find a precedence set regarding disfellowshipping on grounds of Masonic affiliation. I am still looking for that precedence."

  When Masons want to exit the Lodge, as in discontinue their membership, they must pay a dimmit. And then, also they must ask permission to leave and be approved. In order to be approved, there are a few hoops they must jump through.

  When JWs want to discontinue their membership, they pay a blood sacrifice in being separated from their families and shunned forevermore.
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  twice shy

  The Principals of Masonic Law by Albert G. Mackey reads of a similar structureas th WTBT$

  It should, therefore, be the object of every Mason, to avoid the censure or reproach of his Brethren, by strictly confining himself as a point within that circle of duty which, at his first initiation, was presented to him as an object worthy of his consideration.

  There are a lot of similarities and coincidences.
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  Phizzy

  There are a lot of similarities and coincidences when comparing the WT to other Cults, and even a comparison with a Totalitarian regime like North Korea.

  That does not mean there is a connection.