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The Secret Handshake, Secret Word, Secret

High Sign, and the Secret Nature of
Freemasonry

Hoodwinking, Heresy, and Satanic Mockery

The Devil's Party Illuminated

The United Grand Lodge of England Official Coat of Arms
The 'Mother' Grand Lodge of World Freemasonry
Hooved Angels?
'A Unique Form of Morality, Veiled in Allegory, and Illustrated by Symbols...'
 'The Upper Room...'
"...to lull Christians into acceptance of Freemasonry's religious allusions as legitimate. They
are not legitimate references, but deceptive pretences designed to seduce the naive.

The latent meaning is that the order is the secret church of Jesus Christ. This is a lie, but
the naive are allowed to conclude this if they so wish..."

Agnes Dei
 Worshipped, Sanctified, Sacred
'The Lamb of God Who Takes Away the Sins of the World'

Masonic Lambskin Apron

Mocked, Blasphemed, Satanic
'Slaughtered, Skinned, and Crafted into a Covering for the Male Genitalia'

'The Two Sides of Masonry...'

"...That very eye appears on our American dollar as a part of the Great Seal. The Great Seal
was included on the one-dollar note in 1935 on suggestion of Vice President Henry A.
Wallace. Both Wallace and President Roosevelt were Free Masons. Later, Wallace
remembered,
Roosevelt, as he looked at the colored reproduction of the Seal, was first struck with the
representation of the all-seeing eye—a Masonic representation of the Great Architect of the
Universe. Next, he was impressed with the idea that the foundation for the new order of the
ages had been laid in 1776 but that it would be completed only under the eye of the Great
Architect. Roosevelt, like myself, was a 32nd Degree Mason. He suggested that the Seal be
put on the dollar bill.
Wallace was not only a Mason, but also particularly interested in Eastern Religions, and he
regularly consulted an Indian Guru. His connections with the Russian-Indian artist and yogi
Nicholas Roerich even threatened the presidential campaign in 1940..."
"...Freemasonic Initiation is deceptive and is especially and specifically intended to be Anti
Christian.

What is meant by this?

It will be shown beyond reasonable doubt that the initiations have been deliberately
constructed to include direct and subtle references to the devil. Not one or two coincidental
overlaps but so many obvious similarities, according to biblical text, that when viewed or
presented together the notion of random coincidence does not apply.

Why? What purpose would such a deceptive system of initiation serve?

Why not? The reasons for the construction of such a system of initiation are also biblical. It
is simply wicked, to lay snares for innocents without cause..."
'Worshipful Master'
 'Jubela, Jubelo, Jubelum'

First, Jubela O that my throat had been cut

across, my tongue torn out, and my body buried
in the rough sands of the sea, at low water mark,
where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-
four hours, ere I had been accessory to the death
of so good a man as our Grand Master, Hiram
Abiff!"

The second, Jubelo O that my left breast had

been torn open and my heart and vitals taken
from thence and thrown over my left shoulder,
carried into the valley of Jehosaphat, and there
to become a prey to the wild beasts of the field
and vultures of the air, ere I had conspired the
death of so good a man as our Grand Master,
Hiram Abiff!"

The third, Jubelum O that my

body had been severed in two
in the midst, and divided to the
north and south, my bowels
burnt to ashes in the center,
and the ashes scattered by the
four winds of heaven, that
there might not the least track
or remembrance remain
among men, or Masons, of so
vile and perjured a wretch as I
am; ah, Jubela and Jubelo, it
was I that struck him harder
than you both. It was I that
gave him the fatal blow; it was
I that killed him outright;"

'The Legend of the Three

Ruffians'

The 'Blood Oaths' for the 1st

2nd and 3rd Degrees..
You must conceal all crimes of your brother Masons...and should you be summoned as a
witness against a brother Mason be always sure to shield him...It may be perjury to do this, it
is true, but you're keeping your obligations.

Ronayne
Handbook of Masonry, page 183
Worshipful Master: * * *. (Strikes his gavel three
times.)

WM: Brother ______, if you are still willing to take

the Obligation, say "I", repeat your name in full,
and repeat after me.

Candidate: I, _____ ______, of my own free will

and accord, in the presence of Almighty God and
this Worshipful Lodge of Master Masons, erected to
Him and dedicated to the memory of the Holy
Saints John, do hereby and hereon solemnly and
sincerely promise and swear that I will keep and
conceal and never reveal any of the secrets
belonging to the Degree of Master Mason, which I
have received, am about to receive, or may be
hereafter instructed in, to any person unless it shall
be to a worthy Brother Master Mason, or within the
body of a just and duly constituted Lodge of such,
and not unto him or them until by due trial, strict
examination, or lawful Masonic information, I shall have found him or them
justly entitled to receive the same.

Question: Why does Freemasonry dedicate itself to John the Baptist and John
the Evangelist but not have any mention of Jesus Christ in its 'charges' or
rituals?

Answer: As an organization comprised of a plurality of religious faiths, it is not

to be expected that any one religion should be represented except to deceive
the naive and ignorant. The John's are allusions or references to alternative
forms of "christianity" in which Jesus Christ is man only, not God-man,
begotten not made from God. These alternatives are called "gnostic", heretical
syncretistic sects that mix Hellenistic pagan religions with Neo-Platonism.
Question: Why does Freemasonry forbid the use of Jesus Christ in place of the
'Great Architect of the Universe' in open lodge but contradistinctly emphasise
the 'Holy Saints John'?

Answer: See response supra.

Question: Does Freemasonry have any relation to the heretical Johannite

Sects of the Mid East known as the 'St. John Christians' who revere John the
Baptist but despise Jesus Christ who they term the 'Vomiter of Lies'?

Answer: Yes. The Johannite link is an allusion to a secret church of St John,

i.e. a gnostic sect of Nestorian/Gnostic Christians who deny the Divinity of
Jesus Christ. The use of the Johns is to lull Christians into acceptance of
Freemasonry's religious allusions as legitimate. They are not legitimate
references, but deceptive pretences designed to seduce the naive. The latent
meaning is that the order is the secret church of Jesus Christ. This is a lie, but
the naive are allowed to conclude this if they so wish. Masons actually who
seek light/understanding are lead into the darkness of moral corruption and
ego defence mechanisms. They are allowed to believe and speak nonsense
under the auspices of the order by men, their dominant masters who know
better but must conceal the Truth from their submissives.

Question: Was not the Knights Templar accused of ascribing to the same
Johannite Heresy, and does not Freemasonry promote itself in secret as being
the direct descendants of the Knights Templar?

Their Jesus is not the Christ but a man only. It is an

organization of blasphemy to normative Christians
which stands in agreement with the abuse of the
Christian Bible and St. John and denial of Jesus
Christ as true God and true man. It is a fraud
designed to deceive the public and masons into
thinking that they can be masons and Christians
too. That is not possible, save as a Christian heretic
or apostate which denies the divinity of Jesus
Christ. Note well that St. John omits the institution
of the Holy Eucharist during the seder meal on Holy
thursday, according to the Scriptural narrative. The other, Synoptic Gospels'
authors declare the divinity of Jesus Christ and that the sacraments through
His church are instituted by Him for the salvation of all believers. Freemasonry
is a counterfeit salvation into self-absorption and delusion that seduces
seekers from their faith, so they use as a pretence and facade, the most
gnostic of the Evangelists to hide the order's animus to the claims of religion,
any religion. The mason is gradually seduced away from normative morality
into a new age world of false morality in which the member withdraws from
his former life's attachments and substitutes them with Freemasonry's false
promises. the member becomes thusly increasingly dependent upon the order
as a parental surrogate and authority figure until the member is so completely
dependent upon the order that he will lie or commit criminal acts on its behalf,
for he has nothing else in this world or the next to sustain him and dare not
oppose the peer pressure of his fellow masons' retaliation.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will support the Constitution of

the Grand Lodge of the State of Nevada, also all the laws, rules, and edicts of
the same, or of any other Grand Lodge from whose jurisdiction I may
hereafter hail; together with the by-laws, rules, and regulations of this or any
other Lodge of which I may become a member, so far as the same shall come
to my knowledge.

Question: What about the laws of the STATE of Nevada?

Civil laws pursuant to the obligation may be circumvented at will. A noticeable

omission that subordinates obedience to civil laws at best and subverts them
at worst, by alienating the allegiance of the member from the family and state
and religion to the Order who becomes the members family and authority.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will answer and obey all due signs
and regular summons sent me from the body of a just and duly constituted
Lodge of Master Masons, or handed me by a worthy Brother of this degree, if
within the length of my cable-tow.

Question: But isn't Masonry Free?

Answer: There are initiation fees and annual dues

to be paid. The true cost is the de-individuation of
one's personality by submission to the mob mind of
the masonic cult. Instead of knowledge and liberty,
the mason grows ignorant and bondaged within a
guilded cage of degrees designed to dazzle the neurotic mind from realizing
the process of debasement into which it has willing succumbed.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will help, aid, and assist all poor
and distressed Master Masons, their widows and orphans, they applying to me
as such, I finding them worthy, and can do so without material to myself or
family.

Question: What about all poor and distressed NON Masons, their widows, and
orphans?

Answer: Masonry is a cult based upon mediocrity and mendacity. It is elitist,

racist and misogynist. Masons come firstly. The notion of masons advocating
democratic freedoms and rights is pure nonsense. It is a deceptive lie. Their
practical volume of the sacred law is the book for tyrants by Machiavelli called
The Prince, or the egotistic selfishness of the philosopher Ayn Rand (a
woman!), who advocated a might is right, laissez-faire capitalism with no
regard for social welfare for the disadvantaged.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will keep the secrets of a worthy
Brother Master Mason, when communicated to me as such, as secure and
inviolate in my breast as they were in his before communication.

Question: Then why does Masonry claim it is only the "Means of Recognition"
that are kept secret?

Answer: Masonic propaganda through the internet is a deliberate means of

deception, by evasion, deception and denial of the Truth. There is much that
they need to keep secret, and much fraud that they need to perpetrate to lure
in new members. It is not what they say, it what they conceal that the public
needs to know.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will not

give the Grand Hailing Sign of Distress of a Master
Mason, except for the benefit of the Craft while at work
or for the instruction of a Brother, unless I am in real
distress; and should I see the sign given, or hear the
word spoken, I will hasten to the relief of the person so
giving it.

Question: What about when a NON Mason gives a sign

of distress?

Answer: No obligation required. Typical of an elitist and

anti-social cult.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will not

give the substitute for the Master’s Word in any other
way or manner than that in which I receive it, which
will be on the Five points of Fellowship, and at low
breath.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will not

wrong, cheat, nor defraud a Master Masons Lodge, or a
worthy Brother of this degree to the value of anything, knowingly, nor suffer it
to be done by another, if in my power to prevent.

Question: What about wronging, cheating, or defrauding a NON Mason?

Answer: See previous response, supra.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will not knowingly strike a Brother
Master Mason, nor otherwise do him personal violence in anger, except in the
necessary of myself, family or property.

Question: What about striking or doing personal violence in anger to a NON

Mason?

Answer: See previous response, supra.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will not

have illicit carnal intercourse with a Master Mason’s
wife, widow, mother, sister or daughter, nor suffer
it to be done by another if in my power to prevent.

Question: What about not having illicit carnal

intercourse with a NON Mason's wife, widow,
mother, sister, or daughter?
Answer: See previous response, supra.

Question: What about not having illicit carnal intercourse with a Master
Masons SON?

Answer: See previous response, supra.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will not be present at the

initiating, passing, or raising of an old man in dotage, a young man under
age, an irreligious libertine, an atheist, a person of unsound mind, or a
woman, knowing them to be such.

Question: But doesn't Freemasonry claim to be responsible for the concepts of

Freedom of Conscience, Equality, Liberty, and Justice?

Answer: Any claim to liberty and justice made by the Craft are lies designed
to dupe the ignorant. It is an elitist cult infested with dominants who lure and
seduce morally weak individuals into dependence upon them as submissive
masons.

Comment: Another Masonism it seems. Up is down and down is up.

Furthermore: I do promise and swear that I will not be present at the

initiating, passing, or raising of a candidate clandestinely, nor hold Masonic
intercourse with a clandestine Mason, or with one who has been suspended or
expelled, knowing him to be such, until duly restored.

Question: You mean like how the Fascist P2 Lodge of Italy, Argentina, Chile,
Greece, France, Switzerland, Britain, and the U.S. was counted as 'regular' by
you because it was a 'regular' and 'duely constituted' lodge of the Grand
Orient of Italy who you had granted 'regular recognition' to, but how you
consider African-American Prince Hall Masonry 'irregular' and 'clandestine'
because they are not 'men free born and well recommended'?

Answer: Neurotic masons need to blind themselves to the facts of criminal

activities of masons to preserve their dependence upon the masters of the
order unperturbed by Truth. Denial and disavowal is their mantra.

To all of which I do solemnly and

sincerely promise and swear, without
any hesitation, mental reservation,
or secret evasion of mind in me
whatsoever; binding myself under no
less a penalty than that of having my
body severed in twain, my bowels
taken thence, and with my body
burned to ashes, and the ashes
thereof scattered to the four winds of
Heaven, that there might remain
neither track, trace nor
remembrance among man or Masons of so vile and perjured a wretch as I
should be, should I ever knowingly or willfully violate this, my solemn
Obligation of a Master Mason. So help me God and make me steadfast to keep
and perform the same.

Question: But Freemasonry isn't a cult right?

Answer: It is assuredly a behavioural programming cult comprised of

dominants and submissive in a symbiotic relationship of mutual exploitation.

WM: In token of your sincerity, kiss the Holy Bible on which your hands rest.

Comment: But remember Brother the oaths you took were only to other
FreeMasons...

WM: Senior Deacon, remove the cable-tow; we now

hold this Brother by a stronger tie.

WM: Brother ______, in your present situation,

what do you most desire?

Candidate: Further Light in Masonry (prompted).

Worshipful Master: Let the Brother be brought to Light.

Comment: The Light of Lucifer...

Comment: Obviously ....

Mike Restivo
Demitted Mason
Toronto, Canada
Merry Masonic X-Mas?
Not Masonic Likely...
"Then in 1910 Crowley was contacted by Theodore Reuss, the head of an
organization based in Germany called the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). This
group of high-ranking Freemasons claimed to have discovered the supreme secret
of practical magick, which was taught in its highest degrees. Apparently Crowley
agreed, becoming..."
Order of the Red Cross of Constantine

The Order of the Red Cross of Constantine is a concordant body of York Rite masonry.
Membership in this body is by invitation only. The order was established in England in 1865.

Grand Lodge of British Columbia & Yukon

www.freemasonry.bcy.ca
 An Official Masonic Portrait of Norman Vincent Peale
'Cutting' of two secret Masonic signal signs visible
Arms or Legs are crossed forming crossed bones
Head & Crossed Arms = 'Skull & Crossbones...'
Blue Tie/Handkerchief/Etc. for 'Blue Lodge'

The Blue Republican

Tie, Hankerchief, and Socks
'Taking Masonic Non-Involvement in Politics to the Next Level...'
The other Scottish Parliament
"The Scottish Rite makes application of the doctrines of Freemasonry to every
realm of human activity. The individual Mason is taught to put into practice the
lessons learned in the Blue Lodge in his personal life and thought..."

John Wilkes Booth

 Ataturk Photographed with the Young Turks Conspiracy Theory

Photograph of U.S. President George W. Bush prior to his Masonic initiation &
U.S. Secretary of Defense Freemason Donald Rumsfeld 'cutting' a sign.
Differences between Masonic and American pledge of allegiance:
Hand centered in middle of chest, not diagonal to shoulder
Wrist turned down in unnatural position forming an 'angle'
Bottom of hand thus 'Level' to the 'Perpendicular'
 'Getting a Grip' with gloves...

'Getting a Grip' without gloves...

Masonic secret signal handshake not a natural handshake

Look and feel is more similar to the way a man
would shake the hand of a woman, child, or
someone else who had small hands
'Shake hands with the Devil...'
'The Special Relationship'
Behind door Number 10: 'Click here to view', rotate and compare to typical lodge layout diagrams
including proportions and door locations at room ends. But Freemasonry doesn't involve itself in politics
right?
 6, 6, and 6
The Masonic Trinity
Green, Blue, and Red
G, Square, and Compass
Triangle, Square, and Circle
The Devil, Cain, and Mystery Babylon
Great Architect, Hiram Abiff, and The Widow

Beehive: Symbolic of the lodge itself as only the bees in the hive are aware of
the activities inside. Where under the guidance of the queen bee, the worker
bees cheerfully and industriously perform their duties.
The Three Steps of the Masters Carpet
The Grand Orient of Suddenly Departed Glorious Soviet Peoples
The Three Steps of the Masters Rectangle...
Ring Knocking
 Ring Knocking of a Higher Degree

Some Dublin Brethren inside the Grand Lodge of Eire

 A Lodge Room in South Africa

Examination of a
Visitor

The examiner, taking the

visiting brother by the hand,
as in ordinary hand-shaking,
the following dialogue takes
place, and must be literally
in accordance with the
prescribed formula, as this
is strictly and purely the
most essential part of
Freemasonry.

Examiner: (taking visitor by

the hand): "I hail."

Visitor: "I conceal."

Ex.: "What do you conceal?"

Vis.: "All the secrets of Masons in Masonry to which this (presses the top of his
thumb hard against the first knuckle near the hand) token alludes."

Ex.: "What is this?" (pressing with his thumb the first knuckle of visitor's hand).

Vis.: "The grip of an Entered Apprentice Mason."

Ex.: "Has it a name?"

Vis.: "It has."

Ex.: "Will you give it to me?"

Vis.: "I did not so receive it neither will I so impart it."

Ex.: "How will you dispose of it?"

Vis.: "I will letter and halve it with you."

Ex.: "Letter and begin."

Vis.: "You begin."

Ex.: "Nay, you must begin."

Vis.: "A,"

Vis.: "Az."

Ex.: "B."

Vis.: "0."

Ex.: "Bo."

Vis.: "Boaz."

Ex.: "What does it denote?"

Vis.: "Strength."

Ex.: "How is it represented?"

Vis.: "By the left-hand pillar at the entrance of the porch of King Solomon's
Temple."

Ex.: "Will you be off or from? ". (Still holding the other's hand.)

Vis.: "From."

Ex.: "From what to what?"

Vis.: "From the grip of an Entered Apprentice to the pass-grip of a Fellow Craft."

Ex.: "Pass."
The visitor moves his thumb from the first knuckle joint to the space between
the first and second knuckles; the examiner then moves his thumb the same
part of the visitor's hand.

Ex. (pressing his thumb): "What is this?"

Vis. (returning the pressure): "The pass-grip of a Fellow Craft."

Ex.: "Has it a name?"

Vis.: "it has."

Ex.: "Will you give it to me?"

Vis.: "I did not so receive it, neither will I so impart it."

Ex.: "How will you dispose of it?"

Vis.: "Syllable it with you"

Ex.: "Syllable it and begin."

Vis.: "No, you begin."

Ex.: "You must begin."

Vis.: "Bo."

Ex.: "Shib."

VIS.: "Leth."

Ex.: "Shibbo."

VIS.: "Shibboleth."

Ex.: "What does it denote?"

Vis.: "Plenty."

Ex.: "How is it presented?"

Vis.: "By a sheaf of wheat suspended near a waterfall."

Ex.: "Will you be off or from.?"

Vis.: "From."

Ex.: " From What to what?"

Vis.: "From the pass-grip of a Fellow Craft to the real grip of the same."

Ex.: "Pass."

The visitor now moves his thumb to the second knuckle, the examiner also
doing the same.

Ex.: "What is this (pressing hard on the knuckle)?"

Vis.: "The real grip of a Fellow Craft."

Ex.: "Has it a name?"

Vis. "it has."

Ex.: "Will you give it to be?"

Vis.: "I did not so receive it, neither will I so impart it."

Ex.: "How will you dispose of it?"

Vis.: "I will letter and syllable it with you."

Ex.: "Letter it and begin."

Vis.: "No, you begin."

Ex.: "You must begin."

Vis.: "A."

Ex. : "J."

Vis.: "C."

Ex.: "H."

Vis.: "I."

Ex.: "N."

Vis.: "Ja."
Ex.: "Chin."

Vis.: "Jachin."

Ex.: "What does it denote?"

Fis. : "Establishment."

Ex.: "How is it represented?"

Vis.: "By the right-hand pillar at the porch of King Solomon's temple."

Ex.: "Will you be off or from (still holding the hand) ?"

Vis.: "From."

Ex.: "From what to what ?"

Vis.: "From the real grip of a Fellow Craft to the pass-grip of a Master Mason."

Ex. "Pass."

The visitor now moves his thumb to the space between the second and third
knuckles, the examiner also moving his.

Ex. (Pressing his thumb as before): "What is this ?"

Vis.: "The pass-grip of a Master Mason."

Ex.: "Has this a name?"

Vis.: "It has."

Ex.: "Will you give it to me ?"

Vis.: "I did not so receive it, neither will I so impart it."

Ex.: "How will you dispose of it?"

Vis.: "I will syllable it with you."

Ex.: "Syllable it and begin."

Vis.: "No, you begin."

Ex.: "You must begin."

Vis.: "Bal."

Ex.:. "Tu."

Vis.: "Cain."

Ex.: "Tubal."

Vis.: "Tubal-Cain."

Ex.: "Will you be off or from?"

Vis.: "From."

Ex.: "From what to what?"

Vis.: "From the pass-grip of a Master Mason to the real grip of the same."

Ex.: "Pass."

The 'Examination of a Visitor' portion of this page was

posted in January of 2001 by someone in the usenet
newsgroup alt.freemasonry and received the following
veiled threat of bodily and deadly injury towards the
webmaster of this site in a post by the Freemason 'SSG
Russo'.

Of course in so doing so the fool confirmed the accuracy

of the ritual you are about to read.

Just another unbelievable example of the violent

temper, "zeal for the fraternity" - and mindlessness - of
"Active" Freemasonry.

The Google Cache is here.

From: SSG Russo (ssgrusso@aol.comnojunk)

Subject: Re: Freemasonry Examine for Visitor
Newsgroups: alt.freemasonry
View: Complete Thread (16 articles) | Original Format
Date: 2001-01-14 05:10:04 PST

The foolish and ignorant anti who produced this is in error. A

due examination includes more than grips and words. You
must walk the Tilers sword and pass HIS examination.

As you have so denoted, many of the secrets of Masonry have

been divulged, therefore the examinations are more stringent,
being necessary to weed out those unworthy professing to be
Masons.

May the GAOTU exact due retribution upon your soul for
divulging Masonic information in such a manner, and for the
The visitor here looses his grip sole purpose of being mean spirited.
of the examiner's knuckles and
again catching his right hand May you find yourself paying due penance in the afterlife, as
very firmly he presses the tops one unworthy to enter the gates of Heaven.

of his fingers hard against the
other's wrist where it joins the
hand, the thumbs of both being
interlocked and pressing tightly
against the hand, the fingers of
each also being somewhat
apart.
Ex.: "What is this (grasping the
May your inability to hold your tongue leave you without one,
where it shall be buried in the sands of the sea, between low
and high tides--an unholy place preventing future repentance
and entrance into heaven.
May your heart be eaten by buzzards, and other predatory
birds. May the remainder of your viscera be taken and burned
and scattered over vast distances.
Such is the holy and noble curse I may place upon you. May
your nightmares come true.

other's hand very strongly) ?" Jason C. Russo

Blandford #3
Vis.: "The strong grip of a A.F.&A.M.

Master Mason or Lion's Paw."

Ex.: "Has this a name?"

Vis.: "It has."

Ex.: "Will you give it to me?"

Vis.: "I will if you place yourself in a proper position."

Ex.: "What is that proper position?"

Vis.: "The five points of fellowship."

Ex.: "Which are the five points of fellowship?"

Vis.: "Foot to foot, knee to knee, breast to breast, hand to back, cheek to
cheek, or mouth to ear."

As the visitor mentions each 'point he places himself as indicated, his right foot
against the other's right foot, his right knee against his knee, his right breast
against his, the left hand of each on the other's back and the visitor's mouth to
the examiner's ear and in this position, still holding by the grip, the grand
omnific word is mutually whispered as follows, and is the only position in which
it can be given.

Vis.: "Mah."

Ex.: "Hah"

Vis.: "Bone"
This ends the examination.
The Secret Grip of a Master
Mason:

It's a regular handshake, except that you

press your thumb against the base joints
between the index finger and middle
finger of the man you are shaking hands
with. It looks pretty much like any other
handshake; only the men shaking hands
can feel the difference. The correct
response is to ask if this grip has name
and then "syllable it" with the shakee until
the password of a Master Mason is
arrived at.

The Secret Password of a Entered Apprentice

The password of the 1st degree, or the 'Entered Apprentice' degree is

'Boaz'.

The Secret Password of a FellowCraft

The password of the 'Second Degree', or 'Fellowcraft Degree' is

'Shibboleth'.

The Secret Password of a Master

Mason:

'Tubal Cain' is the password of a Master

Mason, which is the 'Third Degree'. Some
of the more obtuse and perverse masons
wear a tie stickpin or lapel pin called "Two
Balls and Cane" in the sicko shape of a
phallic cane with a "ball" on either side of
it. We don't imagine they let their wives in
on this one, apparently they are told to tell
them if they ask about it that it has
something to do with Golfing! "Brotherly
Love" don't you know. See the last
section below for who Tubal-Cain was,
and what that says about the nature of
Freemasonry .

The Substitute Word of a Master Mason

During the blood chilling initiation of "being given the third degree", the
candidate is told the "Master's Word" has been lost and instead a
"substitute word" is whispered into his ear, "Mah Ha Bone".

The Secret Word:

Not to be confused with the password. The Word (always capitalized) is so

secret that initiates are taught it one letter at a time. First they learn A, then
O, then M, and finally I. The Word is IAOM.

You never get a straight story as to what it

means. As best as anyone can figure, it is the
ineffable name of god, or some approximation
thereof. The Word (or Name) is a tongue-twister.
It takes some practice to get it right. The following
pronunciation guide is from Masonry and Its
Symbols in the Light of Thinking and Destiny by
Harold Waldwin Percival:

The Name is pronounced as follows: It is started by opening the lips with

an "ee" sound graduating into a broad "a" as the mouth opens wider with
lips forming an oval shape and then graduating the sound to "o" as the lips
form a circle, and again modulating to an "m" sound as the lips close to a
point. This point resolves itself to a point within the head. Expressed
phonetically the Name is "EE-Ah-Oh-Mmm" and is pronounced with one
continuous out-breathing with a slight nasal tone in the manner described
above. It can be correctly and properly expressed with its full power only
by one who has brought his physical body to a state of perfection... Note:
this "word" or letter sequences is very similar if not identical to the ones
contained in prayers of the Gnostics in the Nag Hamadi Library recovered
from the sands of Egypt in 1945 (not to be confused with the Dead Sea
Scrolls recovered from the sands of Judea in 1947).

The "High Sign" or Grand Masonic Hailing Sign of Distress

A phrase or gesture which is only to be used in
extreme circumstances is the Grand Masonic Hailing
Sign of Distress, or "High Sign". A Masonic
defendant in court or "caught in the pinch" might bury
his head in his hands and cry, "Oh Lord, my God, is
there no help for the widow's son?"

The gesture which can accompany this is for the

mason to raise his arms over his heads in a "hands
up" fashion and then lower them in three distinct
stages pivoting his arms at the elbows until they are
perpendicular to the ground keeping his palms down.

Any Mason seeing this gesture or hearing these

words is oath bound to do anything possible to save
the other Mason from danger, up to, but not
including, the loss of his own life.

'The Grand East'...

The FW Middle Chamber

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