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Freemasonry in Practice
In Freemasonry, freedom represented liberty and equality in all sectors of life,
inasmuch as it demanded the worship of a Supreme Being (whom Masons to this
day refer to as the Great Architect of the Universe) whose dictates the Free and
Accepted Mason swore to uphold and present himself according to (it is
interesting to note that the Freemasons might be considered early pioneers of
interfaith practices currently in fashion.) The Masonic candidate was considered
to be a seeker after light (see the last chapter to note the parallels between
Freemasonry and the Illuminati); and having found it metaphorically in the
institution of Freemasonry, was expected to act as a similar beacon both those in
his community as well as his fellow Masonic brethren.
But for the Illicit or Irregular Mason, this freedom represented liberty from an
altogether different sort; freedom from conventional religious structures, as well
as freedom from the burdens of moral dictates they enabled (again, eerily similar

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to the teachings established some seven hundred years earlier by Hassan i
Sabbah and the Order of Hashishins.) A pertinent example was how the 
movement spread into Russia in the mid 19th century. Both imperial Russia, its 
nobility and even its gentry at the time were plagued by violent attacks from 
radical anarchist and nihilist entities (of which, no better loosely fictionalized 
example could be given than in Dostoyevsky’s classic novel “The Possessed”)—
many of whom forged alliances and cells in the Masonic lodges, both regular 
and irregular, sweeping across Russia at the time. It is well known that the 
leading anarchist theorist Mikhail Bakunin (who once wrote that the 
revolutionary must seek 
“the unchaining of what is today called the evil
passions and the destruction of what is called public order. Let us put our trust
in the eternal spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the
unsearchable and eternally creative source of all life the passion for destruction
is wholly a creative passion”
) was a member of one such lodge, and also called 
for the abolition of marriage, property and the complete reversal of all social and 
religious institution; a charge most commonly associated with the Illuminati.
It is also well known that Bakunin enjoyed frequent meetings with
Communist Manifesto 
author Karl Marx and was a direct influence on February
revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune uprising of 1871, both of which
sought to replace the French republic with a more avowedly socialist design.
Could it be that the spectres of communism and socialism that haunted much of
the 20th century has its root in Masonic ideals?
In America, however, the noble ideals of equality and freedom supposedly 
germane to Freemasonry found its diametrical opposite in the Civil War and its 
twisted offspring, the Ku Klux Klan. Albert Pike, a Boston born turned officer 
in the Confederate army, was a top-ranking 33rd degree Freemason (the highest 
of degrees Regular and Accepted Freemasonry recognizes) and author of the 
esteemed work 
Morals and Dogma of Freemasonry
(a work which is replete 
with extensive references lauding the figure of Lucifer; again, redolent of an 
uncanny parallel to the Illuminati.)
Pike, who would early on in his career pen hymns to unnamed pagan gods, 
also had a role in establishing the Ku Klux Klan, along with Nathaniel Bedford 
Forrest (himself a fellow Freemason)—a secret society itself which swore to 
uphold the rights of white citizenry and landowners from what they viewed as 
the threat from newly freed slaves. This society, replete with elaborate code 

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words, costumes, and dreadful oaths of secrecy went on to initiate some of the 
most appalling and cowardly acts of widespread violence and murder, acts which 
they happily admit to continuing to this very day. Numerous other top ranking 
confederate soldiers also took part in the establishment of the Klan, including, 
including Gen. William Henry Wallace, Col. Henry Alexander Wise and even 
(so it is rumored) General Robert E. Lee. Which gives pause to wonder how
sincere was Freemasonry’s supposed avowal of freedom, equality and liberty if
some of its chief proponents were unabashed supporters of the most senselessly
barbaric and dehumanizing institutions in American history?
Perhaps more interestingly and tellingly were a series of letters Pike wrote in
1871 to a leading Masonic diplomat and politician named Giuseppe Mazzini, the
organizer of an Italian political party named