-Caveat Lector- 7/20/99 The following information is from : http://members.aol.com/SMARTNEWS/Sample-Issue-06.html Sincerely, Neil Brick The following article is compiled from information and quotes from the journal article "Deviant Scriptualism and Ritual Satanic Abuse Part Two: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan Influence," by professor Stephen A. Kent, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada). His article was originally published by Religion (1993) 23, 355-367, c 1993 Academic press Limited. At the end of this article, further information about the author and journal will follow this article. Warning: this article contains descriptions of rituals, please read with caution. "...This study compares portions of people's accounts (using interviews and diaries from several alleged survivors), with doctrinal precedents for satanic ritual abuse in deviant interpretations of Masonic, Mormon, Magick and Pagan traditions... Just as parts of the Bible may provide direct inspiration or justification for satanic worshipers, so too may some of these same parts provide additional sanctification of satanic worship through aberrant Freemasonry." (Page 355) ".... at least five survivors from allegedly three separate groups have indicated that male ritual abusers whom they remember were also Masons" ."One person specifically recalls a satanic catechism session that seemingly took place in a Masonic lodge." (Page 355) The article goes on to discuss the word "Jahbulon," which is used in the 13th and 17th degrees of the Scottish rite. Masons agree this word is compounded of the names of three deities, the middle word Ba'al, and the original Masons that devised the word in the 1830's knew the word Ba'al 'was the devil'. "...with this mythological interpretation now in place, one easily could see how deviant Freemasons could either sanctify practices involving child-sacrifice to Ba'al or Molech or perhaps could be inspired to engage in them." (Page 356) Freemasonry believes that King Solomon directed the Masons in the construction of their temple. In the Biblical passage 1 Kings 11: 4-8, King Solomon "turned to the worship of Ashtoreth and Molech when he reached old age." (Page 356) In the Bible, these gods are seen as evil. "If, however, Masonic deviants wanted to find an allusion to Satan in their rituals, then they would be able to do so in the reference made in the third degree ritual to 'that bright morning star' which, biblically, was "Lucifer, son of the morning.' (Isaiah 14:12) (page 356) "...Masons frequently are willing to rent their lodges to appropriate individuals or organizations, and few if any questions would he asked about a fellow 'brother' who used the facilities (along with a few associates') from time to time. Satanic rituals could occur in Masonic lodges (as at least some survivors suggest in their stories) without respectable members knowing anything about them." (Page 357) Article writer's note: I remember several (at least three or four rooms and one very large room, with hundreds of people) rooms in the basement of the Masonic lodge allegedly used for torture, terrifying, raping, brainwashing and murder. Most of these rooms could not be used for anything else. "The Masonic critic, Martin Short, observed that "(t)he works of Albert Pike... and Aleister Crowley show that men preoccupied with paganism, the devil, and the occult are attracted to Masonry, if only (as in Crowley's case) on the way to somewhere else." (Page 357) Kent's article provides support for charges that Crowley was a Satanist, including his misogyny, his belief in sexual magick, his use of vaginal fluids, "...he provided instructions about worshipping a god of War and Vengeance, Ra-Hoor-Khuit ... (King, 1977, p.135). He indicated that (t)he best blood (for use in worship) is of the noon, monthly; then the fresh blood of a child.... Crowley recorded that devotees were to "(s)acrifice cattle big and little; after a child' (Crowley, 1972 p. 311)" (page 357). An evil spirit named Mercury informed Crowley and his magickal partner, Victor Neuberg, "'that the supreme act of sexual magic involved the rape, ritual murder, and dissection into nine pieces of the body of a young girl. The resulting chunks of flesh were to be offered as sacrifices to the immortal gods'" (King, 1977, p. 85) (page 358) Louise (a pseudonym), whose father was a Mason, remembers at age 3, "being sexually assaulted by a man in a crimson robe that her father brought to her. She also recalls an incident where she was placed on top of a white set of three steps . . . and sexually assaulted by numerous men. She also recalls seeing a young girl sacrificed and dismembered next to her on a table. Furthermore, she spoke about another incident in which thirteen men each placed an object into her vagina and caught the resultant blood and additional discharges in a container (Louise, 1992)" (page 357) Kent claims that Crowley's rituals may provide an explanation for this. Kent's article also shows the possible connections between deviant Mormonism and Satanism. (note: Several Mormon rituals were "borrowed" from Masonic rituals.) "The strongest (but not definitive) evidence that satanic rituals are being conducted in the context of deviant Mormonism appears in an internal memo about 'ritualistic child abuse' written by a Mormon bishop.... Bishop Glenn L. Pace .... indicated that he had "met with sixty victims. That number could be twice or three times as many if I did not discipline myself to only one meeting per week... All sixty individuals are members of the church. Forty-five victims allege witnessing and/or participating in human sacrifice. The majority were abused by relatives, often their parents." (Pace, 1990 p. 1, reprinted in Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1991 p.3) . . . The alleged perpetrators were Mormons, often ones in prominent church positions." (Page 358) These included Young Women and Young Men leaders and members of the Tabernacle Choir. "Many sections of standard Mormon scriptures recount incidences of individuals or groups receiving and using esoteric teachings reportedly from Satan in order to further their worldly power and domain.... In . . . the 'Moses' section of "Pearl of Great Price," Cain receives secret, world-empowering teachings from Satan." (Page 359) Some of these 'teachings' involve murder as a way of achieving worldly gain. He discusses the 'secret combinations' which supposedly help users gain worldly power. He cites the Gadianton robbers in the "Book of Mormon" (Helaman 6:23) as an example. "Thus, standard Mormon scriptures describe a group of people who had secret teachings from Satan that included requirements of 'secret murder'. They believed that these secrets gave them worldly power, and they passed along this esoteric knowledge to their children. Although these passages do not describe child sacrifice, other passages in Mormon scriptures do." (Page 360) Examples cited are "Pearl of Great Price's" Abraham 1:7 and "Book of Mormon" 4:14, 4:15 and 2:3 (for greater powers). Deviant Mormons also might use as a source of alleged abuse the image of Satan teaching doctrines to Adam and Eve, while Satan claims he is 'God of this world' (Temple Ceremony in Sackett, 1982, p. 33) (page 360) "According to Mormon theology, spirits need bodies to inhabit in order to develop to perfection, so that the fall of Adam and Eve... was a 'good' development..." (page 361) He cites "Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 2: 22-25 as a source. "Easily deviant Mormons could attempt at face value Lucifer's claim that he is the 'God of this world" and devise an altered Temple Ceremony to venerate him (as the accounts that both Pace and I have heard suggested has happened)" (page 362) The article concludes with a section on Egyptian and Pagan influences, followed by a final section on the reality of the occurrence of ritual abuse and its possible connection to spiritual deviance. " "While I concede the point to skeptics that alleged victims might use the sane passages that I identified to fabricate or otherwise construct false memories, I remain unconvinced that many of the people with whom I have worked had sufficient scriptural exposure to have done so.... It is entirely possible that intergenerational Satanists do exist . . . we cannot know what (if any) relationship exist between actual perpetrators' satanic and the religious justifications that exist for them... (assuming, of course, that they are real)." (Page 364) Other articles available are "Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic Abuse - Part One: Possible Judeo Christian Influences and Diabolic Debates; A Reply to David Frankfurter and J.S. Lafontaine." The second article is a follow-up and answer to criticisms of his Deviant Scripturalism articles. Copies of these articles can be obtained from Stephen Kent at the University of Alberta, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, 5-21 HM Tory Building, Edmonton, Canada, T6G 2H4. (FAX 403-492-7196) The journal Religion can be obtained by writing Academic Press Limited, High Street, Foots Cray, DAl4 5BP England. Editor's note: I (definitely) and other survivors may have seen the "alleged" ritual abuse of children and people in Masonic lodges by lodge members. This was not a deviant group of outsiders, but possibly an "inner" group possibly using the "outer" group as a cover for their activities. 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