I don't feel so bright
I don't care to sit tight
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
--Deep Purple
--Deep Purple
People are initiated into the Mysteries by degrees. Those who possess the correct attributes continue to rise to the higher degrees. This method of progression through initiation ensures the complete indoctrination of the initiate into the philosophical teaching of the Mysteries. Who are these people? They are the members of all the various secret societies and fraternal organizations such as the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Knights of Malta, Knights Templar, the Vatican and many more. It should be stressed that the majority of the members of these secret societies are absolutely unaware of the true nature of their society, church or lodge. The higher initiates are known as the 'adepts' or 'keepers of the secrets of all ages.' The members may belong to any religion when they join the society, yet when they reach the higher echelons and become the adepts, I assure you they all practice the same religion.
The Illuminati has become synonymous with the one world conspiracy. The political organizations they have set up and their financiers have all come to be referred to as the Illuminati. What most people don't know is that the Luciferic order that was founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, a prominent Freemason. It was created as a special order within the order of Freemasonry. The order's name, meaning 'enlightened ones' signified that its members had been initiated into the secret teachings of Lucifer, the supposed 'light bearer' or source of enlightenment.
In essence, Freemasonry has preserved, through sixteen centuries, those spiritual techniques which were ignored by the organized churches as they departed from their true realm to become an impersonal state religion, and then a world temporal power and then by stages disintegrative, and then displaying only the husk of the heritage while the kernel was preserved elsewhere against centuries of cruelty, intellectual tyranny and the oppression of light. The Mason argues for the Path of Light (Via Lucis) as opposed to the Path of Crucifixion (Via Crucis).
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