-Caveat Lector- Hi ! Here's a book review with information on several groups. Sincerely, Neil Brick The following review is about the book, "The Deadly Deception," written by Jim Shaw and Tom McKenney. Ordering information follows the article. Warning: Several rituals are outlined in detail, please use caution while reading this article. Please note: All accusations are alleged. James D. Shaw was a 33rd degree, Knight Commander of the Court of Honor, Past Worshipful Master, Blue Lodge and Past Master of All Scottish Rite Bodies. In the beginning of the book, Jim Shaw discusses his early childhood, which included working after school, some alleged physical abuse, and leaving his home when he was 13. His uncle (Irvin) was a Mason, and his mother told him, "Try to be like your Uncle Irvin (her brother); he is a good man and a Mason... if you get to know him better maybe you can grow up to be a good man and a Mason like he is. " (Page 11). After his high school graduation he met his wife and started a business. Later he joined the "Loyal Order of the Moose." After this his mother died and he joined the ROTC. "As I went through the basic training I noticed that many of the officers there wore Masonic rings. Toward the end of my basic training, two men from my unit were to be selected for Officers Candidate School to be trained as officers and commissioned second lieutenants. I was not selected and the two who were selected were both Masons. I thought about my four years of ROTC, my age, my experience and wondered why I had not been selected. I didn't realize then that these men had (allegedly) been selected by Masons because they were Masons. In later years I would understand very well." (page 17) Then the war ended and Jim told his wife that he wanted to join the Masonic Lodge. "I had a need to belong, a need for acceptance in a group, for friends, for a family...I received a surprising revelation from Bonnie (his wife): she had been a member of the Order of the Eastern Star since age 18, and her father was a Mason." (page 19) >From my experiences (article author), often marriages are cult ordained, two cult members may be programmed into marrying, so that their progeny will also become cult members with no problems. This may or may not be the case here. Jim told a few friends in the Moose Lodge he was thinking of joining the Masons. "Three of my Moose brothers were also Masons. They were pleased I wanted to be one too." (page 20) A few days later, after asking to join the Masons, he prepared for the initiation. He was told to take off his clothes and put on pajama-like garments and one sandal on the right foot. "We were now prepared to receive the Entered Apprentice Degree, or the First Degree in Freemasonry....The Senior Deacon ...asked...."Why do you wish to become Freemasons; do you join because you believe it will help you in your business, or help you to gain influence in your community?"..the candidate is supposed to answer as if he had no selfish motivation. But it has been my experience that the vast majority of Masons enter for these very self-serving reasons." (page 21) Then he was blindfolded, and the blindfold is called a "hoodwink." He was unable to see a thing, his left arm was taken out of his shirt and the left leg of his "pajama" pants was rolled up high. "A blue rope (called a "cabletow") was tied around my neck...I began to experience real fear. I couldn't see, didn't know where I was , was half-naked among an unknown number of strangers, being held by a rope around my neck, and I certainly didn't know what would happen next..I could see nothing at all. This being in total darkness produced a deep-down feeling of helplessness, and gave rise to thoughts of terrible things that might be done...Since they all (other Masonic friends) had somehow survived this, I believed I would survive it too. But I was extremely uncomfortable. " (page 22) Then he went to the door of the lodge hall and answered the questions with the correct prearranged answers. Then he was led into the lodge hall. The Senior Deacon said to him, ""You are received into this lodge of Entered Apprentices upon the point of a sharp instrument piercing your naked left breast, which is to teach you as this is an instrument of torture to the flesh, so the rememberance of it be to your mind and conscience, should you ever presume to reveal any of the secrets of Freemasonry unlawfully." The "sharp instrument" was actually a compass with two sharp points brought together as one, and "sharp" it most certainly was. I really did fell pain as it was pressed into my flesh..This thing was becoming more and more serious and I was even more afraid....the Master prayed a formal, generalized prayer.. and ending with, "So mote it be."" (page 23 - 24) Book review author's note: "So mote it be" is often used by Satanists to end their prayers. And the ceremony could be considered to be a form of mind control, using fear and disorientation to insure silence about Masonic rituals. "There had been moments of fear when I wanted to leave, but felt trapped in what was taking place. And now, as I awkwardly stood there, blindfolded and disorientated, not knowing ...(who)...may be looking at me, I began to feel a strange kind of numbness. I felt somewhat like a victim still, but really didn't want to leave. I was beginning to feel as if I was being carried along, propelled by a force I neither knew nor understood." (page 25) "I heard myself saying that I was "binding myself under no less penalty than that of having my throat cut from ear to ear, my tongue torn out by its roots, and buried in the sands of the sea a cable's length from shore, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours, should I ever willingly, knowingly, or unlawfully violate this, my Entered Apprentice Oath.." (page 26) "Then the Worshipful Master showed me how to perform the due-guard...The sign was performed by drawing the open hand from the left ear, across the throat to the right ear, as if cutting the throat across. I was still kneeling at the altar." (page 27) "Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism and writer of the temple ritual, was a Mason. Much of the Mormon Temple ritual is the same as in Masonic ritual, having apparently been "borrowed" from it by Smith. " (page 29) When he moved to Florida, he had no trouble finishing all three of the Blue Degrees. "since I had already paid for all three of the Blue Degrees, it wouldn't cost me anything to take the degrees in Florida." (page 33) "All non-Masons are, according to Masonic law and tradition, "profane" persons. This includes the Mason's wife, children and parents, unless they, too, are Masons...a thing to be avoided for it would contaminate the holy and clean ones. If you are not a Mason, that is what you are to the Masonic world." (page 41) Book review author's note: In many cults, non-believers are considered unclean, fools, etc. Jim Shaw then describes the 3rd degree (Master Mason) initiation. After being asked several questions and participating in more ceremonies, the candidate recites the oath of obligation, which includes helping fellow Masons, etc. "To all of the which, I do most sincerely promise and swear with a firm and steadfast resolution to keep and perform the same, without the least equivocation , mental reservation or self-evasion whatever, binding myself under no less a penalty than that of having my body severed in twain, my bowels taken out and burned to ashes, the ashes scattered to the four winds of heaven that there should be no more remembrance among men and Masons forever of so vile a wretch as I should be" ... I had no idea of what I would be swearing to do until I was actually hearing and repeating each line. Had I been able to hear or read the oath in advance, I might not have been able to say it. " (page 46) Book review author's note: It is for common for cults to have a hidden agenda, only the "worthy" (or sufficiently indoctrinated) get to know the secrets of the group. After being given the apron of the Master Mason, the candidate is returned back to the Lodge room. The story of Hiram Abiff is acted out. In Appendix D of the book, comparisons are shown between the story of Osiris, the Egyptian king and god, and the story of Hiram Abiff. The blindfold is once again put on the candidates' eyes, so that the candidate cannot see at all. The candidate plays the role of Hiram Abiff. "He spoke to me as if I were actually Hiram Abiff, and grabbed me by the lapels.. and demanded that I give him the secret word then and there.. .as he spoke roughly to me, he was jerking me around and really roughing me up...Jubela then got even more violent ... jubela struck a blow across my throat with the 24-inch gauge. It hurt and startled me and I was immediately hurried a few steps further...this one really jerked me around... I therefore demand of you the secrets of a Master Mason! ...Jubelo, becoming still more violent, reminded me that there was no one there to help me and threatened to kill me..jubelo then struck a heavy blow across my chest with the square. It hurt.. .I was being jerked about, shoved, shouted at and hit by people I couldn't see.. .he (Jubelum) hit me right in the middle of my forehead with a setting maul.' I saw stars...' fell backward onto the canvas, unconscious..." (page 49 - 50) After this they pretend to bury the candidate. Jim worked his way all the way up to 32nd and 33rd degrees. At the 32nd degree, he was told, "Morals and Dogma" ...was the source book for Freemasonry. and its meaning" (page 62) (Albert Pike's book) "The order of the Eastern Star was conceived by a man, men organized it, men wrote the rituals, and no meeting can be held without at least three male officers present. Men, one might fairly say, control The Order of the Eastern Star, but only from the background. " (page 73) While joining the Shrine part of the initiation consisted of "we were placed in a large, mesh cage, and one of the Shriners climbed on top of it. He exposed a very convincing rubber penis...and hosed down all of us....We took the obligation, again with the terrible bloody consequences if we revealed any of the "secrets"...."eyeballs pierced to the center with a sharp, three edged blade.."" (page 75) In the 18th degree book it says "In all religions there is a basis of truth; in all there is pure morality"..."this endorsement of "all religions" included all cruel forms of paganism with mutilation and human sacrifices...and all forms of Satanism" (page 78) "The Order of Demolay, Masonic organization for boys too young to enter the Lodge, is named for Jacques DeMolay, regarded in Masonic tradition as a hero" ..."Jacques DeMolay, the medieval soldier crusader who was burned at the stake in France for betraying the faith and victimizing pilgrims in the Holy Land." (page 86 and 84) Readers should know that the book is Christian based. It is invaluable in its descriptions of certain Masonic rituals and the understanding of several of them. I highly recommend this book to those looking to find out more about the Masons and their rituals. The book can be ordered from Words for Living Ministries, Inc. P.O. 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