-Caveat Lector-
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Secret Societies and the State
JM Foster
The arena
The oaths of The Lodge are a menace to public rights.
Take the first three degrees of Masonry. The Entered Ap-prentice swears to
keep the Lodge secrets, on the Bible, in the name of God, on the penalty of
having his throat cut, his tongue torn out by the roots, and his body buried
in the rough sands of the sea at low-water mark. The Fellow-Craft oath,
besides secrecy, adds a promise to abide by all Lodge rules, obey signs and
summonses, assist poor Fellow-Crafts, etc., under penalty of having his
breast torn open and his heart plucked out and exposed, to be devoured by the
vultures of the air, etc. The 'Master Mason's oath adds the keeping of a
brother Master Mason's secrets, murder and treason excepted, and they left to
his own discretion, binding him under no less a penalty than that of having
his body severed in twain, his bowels taken out and burned to ashes, and the
ashes scattered on the rough sands of the sea, where the tide ebbs and flows
twice every twenty-four hours. The Royal Arch degree amends the above thus:
"Murder and treason not excepted." These oaths and imprecations increase in
blasphemy and barbarity through all the thirty-three degrees.
These oaths are taken either in jest or in earnest. If the former, they
should be prohibited, because they tend to break down the sacredness of the
oath. If sincerely, who is to inflict these horrid penalties? Does the Lodge
punish its guilty members thus? These oaths are dangerous and disloyal, �
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