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MASONIC BONE RITUAL SHOCKS ABORIGINES:
Freemasons give police human skulls for forensic testing

Aboriginal activist Clarrie Isaacs, who is a former member of the WA
Freemasons, says he is surprised and disappointed to discover Aboriginal
bones had been used in masonic secret rituals.

A skull and crossbones belonging to the Newman Masonic Lodge was identified
as Aboriginal, prompting Freemasons to surrender up to 60 such skulls to
police for forensic testing.

"I wouldn't like to see the use of human bones in any ritual," he said. "I
don't think it is a Christian sort of thing to  have bones hanging around."

Mr. Isaacs, who is a Muslim, said he was a member of the Concorde Lodge in
Stirling Highway for about three years, but left in 1988.  "I somehow felt
it didn't really fit my style," he said. "It was a lot of big businessmen
and tons of police."

"Some of them were doing good things -- not all of them were police.
I was just working for the Water Authority, I couldn't keep up with all
their donations. I don't think they objected to me, maybe it was a novelty
to say they had the only Aboriginal in the lodge."

Despite entering the third masonic degree and attaining the title of Master
Mason, Mr. Isaacs had never seen a set of bones used for any ceremonial
ritual. He said he may not have been eligible to see them.  "As you join
among men and want to be their equal, you would hope they don't have such
dastardly things going on," he said.

Mr. Isaacs said he became fed up with the amount of time masons spent
memorising things and reading them out. "I thought, 'How am I ever going to
apply this stuff'. It was a bit like nonsense," he said.

Yesterday, Coroner's Court manager Glenn Spivey said police had handed in a
few skulls for testing in recent weeks. Forensic tests normally took up to
10 days, but there could be a delay if lots came at once.

Other Aboriginal spokesmen have reacted strongly to the news. The Perth
Noongar Regional Council chairman, the Rev. Cedric Jacobs, said he was
devastated to think the bones of any human had been used in such a manner
and believed the Masons should be prosecuted. He said the matter would be
raised at a council meeting next month.

But Manguri Aboriginal Corporation director Dean Collard said he saw
practical difficulties with any move to prosecute.  "I don't think it can
be done," he said. "Just in a practical sense who do you prosecute?"  He
applauded the Masons' decision to hand other skulls in for forensic
examination. He said it showed respect for Aboriginal beliefs.

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FREEMASONS HAND OVER 60 SKULLS FOR POLICE TESTS
The West Australian (Perthy) July 22, 1999 page 1
by Anne Buggins

WA Freemasons could be forced to reveal details of their secret ceremonies
after a skull and crossbones belonging to the Newman Lodge were identified
as Aboriginal.  The discovery has prompted Freemasons to surrender up to 60
such skulls for forensic testing and to begin using photographic
transparencies instead of human remains in rituals.

Aboriginal elder Ken Colbung, who likened Freemason rituals to those of a
witches' coven, wants the masons to be prosecuted.  "It makes your blood
run cold really," he said yesterday. "I am not against them using skeletal
remains as long as they have got permission, but when they become grave
robbers we would tend to think they shouldn't be doing that."

But South Hedland DetSgt. Ron Clarke said prosecution was not an issue. The
masons had not contravened a section of the Criminal Code which dealt with
"misconduct with regard to a corpse."

Irene Stainton, assistant director of Aboriginal heritage and culture at
the Aboriginal Affairs Department, said it was "hugely significant" to all
Aboriginal people that human remains be returned to a person's country or
place of origin.  But pathologists could confirm only the remains were
those of an Aboriginal man, aged 30 to 35.
(continued on page 2)

BONES POINT TO MASONIC RITES  page 2
The West Australian (Perth) July 22, 1999

The masonic ritual came to light in February when three boys, aged six and
seven, took a box containing the bones from an unlocked storeroom of the
Newman Masonic Lodge. After ruling out any suspicious circumstances, South
Hedland detectives sent the bones to Perth for forensic testing.  They were
found to be Aboriginal, placed in the custody of the Aboriginal affairs
Department, and are now stored temporarily at the WA Museum.

Peter Bloor, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of WA Freemasons, yesterday
insisted the bones, covered with a cement-like substance and some yellow
paint and kept in a box equipped with an electric light, were nothing more
than a simple teaching aid.

"We use them as teaching aids in much the same way as a university uses a
human skull," he said. "The show the inevitability of death and the
fragility of life."  He said about 60 of the 180 masonic lodges across the
state had a similar set of remains. Some were made of ceramic or plaster,
but most were human and came from the Indian sub-continent, as did those
used in universities.  He said records did not show where the bones were
from, but it was possible they had been transferred from a lodge in Cue to
one in Newman earlier this century.  The remains were viewed by candidates
for the third and highest masonic "level of understanding" known as the
third degree.

Mr. Bloor acknowledged that the switch to using transparencies in rituals
could be seen as forcing the masons into the 20th century. He said the
bones were not touched or interfered with in any way. In a lodge such as
Newman, this type of ceremoney would occur about once a year.  He said the
masons had not known the remains were Aboriginal.  The decision to
surrender all skulls was made to ensure any other Aboriginal remains could
be dealt with properly.

Ms. Stainton said the Freemason's decision to surrender other remains was a
responsible attitude which showed they respected Aboriginal culture. She
said if the remains predated the 1972 Aboriginal Heritage Act a prosecution
would not be possible.

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