THE DARK PHILOSOPHY OF FREEMASONRY

Freemasons state "peace, fraternity and love among human beings" to be the tenets of their mission. However under these concepts, albeit seemingly positive at first sight, lies the Masonic philosophy's enmity to religion.

Masonry has been one of the major topics about which people have been curious and bewildered. That is because the organisation's activities are kept confidential and thus its real philosophy and objections are subject to much controversy. In their public disclosures, freemasons extensively refer to "human love, tolerance, universal fraternity, the way to science and wisdom...", concepts with an instant appeal to heart. Despite this however, freemasonry is a dark organisation for many, distinguished especially with its atheist and even anti-religious features.

The most interesting aspect is that the concepts referred by freemasons in their public disclosures and the accusations against them regarding being "irreligious" do not have much difference in essence. To put in another way, these concepts presented as the essence of freemasonry are essentially a covert expression of the organisation's anti-religious philosophy.

At this stage, one might raise the question "Why?" After all, none of these concepts seem adverse; love, tolerance and other similar "Humanist" concepts do not seem to be anti-religious at first sight. Even, many people think these concepts are among the moral teachings religions introduce.

However what truly matters is the content attributed to these concepts.

Marxism can be given as an example. Marxists present communism as a system which brings peace to society. According to them, Marxism removes all inequalities and exploitations, meets all sorts of needs of people and protects the poor. This definition ostensibly includes nothing wrong. However, an examination into its stance against religion reveals its actual purpose. That is because, this ideology sees religion as the main obstacle to the "classless society" defined above.

Equally deceptive are the concepts of Masonry.

What "Love For Human" means for Freemasonry

Freemasons often speak about fraternity, tolerance and universal peace. They resort to the rhetoric that men are responsible for others. These are actually words rendering consolidation among people and thus there is nothing wrong with them.

But what about a person's responsibilities towards Allah?

This question discloses the actual face of the Masonic philosophy. That is because, the "love for human", as referred by Masonic philosophy, is not the love sourced from the fact that human beings are the servants of Allah, as also approved by Yunus Emre in his words "to love the created because of the Creator." On the contrary, freemasons hold that all human beings came into existence as an end of an evolutionary process. The "cooperation among all human beings", as referred by the masonic philosophy, maintains that human beings have to provide support to one another to keep their generations since it is a specie that came into existence by coincidence. This is, however, an ultimate expression of denial of Allah.

In brief, the philosophy defined as "humanism", which is the backbone of freemasonry, solely forsees the love shown to people and not to Allah. This distorted philosophy is expressed in the official reports of Turkish Freemasonry lodges which was published in 1923:

" We no longer accept Allah as the purpose of our lives. We have created our own purpose. That purpose will serve humanity and no longer Allah."

"Underdeveloped societies are impotent. To cover their incapability, they mostly deify the forces and happenings which surround them. Masonry deifies humans. " (Selamet Mahfili- Third conference, page 51)

The definition of humanism, which lays the basis of freemasonry, indicates that this philosophy is of an anti-religious nature. Julian Huxley, the leader of the humanist movement in the 20th century founded a new religion, "Evolutionary Humanism" in the guidance of Darwin's evolution theory. He stated the meaning rendered by this new religion as follows:

" When I use the word "humanist", I mean that a human being is a natural creature such as a plant or an animal. In other words, the human body, mind and soul have not been created by a supernatural power but created as a result of the evolution. Therefore, the human being should not believe in the control nor the guide of a supernatural power but his sole existence and sole power." (American Humanist Association Brochure)

John Dewey, -J. Huxley's follower and an American philosopher- published a "Humanist Manifesto" in 1933. The manifesto underscored the idea that that it was high time to eliminate divine religions and replace them with a new age of scientific improvement and social cooperation.

The second Manifesto published in 1973 explained all the threats against human kind. In this Manifesto, an outline is given regarding how this philosophy denies the existence of Allah;

"There is no Deity who will save us. We should save ourselves." (American Humanist Association: Humanist Manifesto II. The Humanist 33 Sept/Oct 1973)

Masonic Ideology is also based on the same Humanistic principles. All the warming words used in the ideology are of a deceptive nature when one truly looks into their meanings. Once detached from the existence of Allah, words such as love, fraternity and peace will be meaningless. The sole existence of mankind is to worship Allah, as Allah states in the following verse: "I created the jinn and mankind only that they might worship Me." (Surat adh-Dhariyat: 56). If mankind will deny this duty and rebel against Allah, he will never attain salvation.

One could never truly love another unless he has faith in Allah. This is why the term "human love", which is frequently used in the Masonic Ideology is entirely divorced from reality; all ideologies based on denial will strengthen the wicked side in people and will therefore give rise to bloodshed and torture. During the 20th century, due to the existence of irreligious ideologies such as communism and fascism, hundreds of millions of people suffered from genocide while billions were subjected to torture and pressure. It is also important to remember that The French Revolution, a Freemason-supported movement, derived its strength from the motto "Freedom, Equality and Fraternity" but ended up with tens of thousands of dead executed under guillotine.

The Meaning of "The Scientific Path and Reason"

As with the case of the concepts of "human love" interpreted within the framework of Humanism, "science" and "rationalism" are also taken up in anti-religious contexts by Freemasons.

For a Muslim, science is the tool to observe the universe Allah created and to understand the secrets underlying the way it functions. Rational thinking, on the other hand, is a way of worship Allah commands in the Qur'an and a sign of faith. however, in the Masonic terminology, these concepts are used with totally different connotations. In the According to Masonic thinking, science is not a tool to analyse the beings created by Allah. On the contrary, having faith in science is being associated with being an atheist. Under the guise of science, hoaxes such as Darwinism are indoctrinated to societies. Masonic teaching wages a war against religion by means of the hoax of Darwinism, which is actually refuted by the science itself. In a journal published by Turkish Freemasons, the responsibility of Freemasons to make the propagation of non-religiousness under the mask of "science" is stated as follows:

Believing that this is the best and single way in terms of evolution, our main masonic duty is not to deviate from positive sciences and wisdom, to propagate this belief among people and to raise the public in the guidance of sciences.

The following words of Ernest Renan is significant: "The vain goals of religion will collapse by itself, only when the public is trained and enlightened by science and reason."

The following statements of Lessing also support the same argument: "Through the enlightenment of man by science and wisdom, man will no longer feel the need of religion one day." (Dr. Selami Işındağ. "Positive Science-Obstacles of Wisdom and Freemasonry." Freemason Publications, year 24, number 25-26 (December 76-March 77)

This is the Masonic approach to religion. The following words expressed by Masons "We do not welcome people of non-faith to our group. We all have faith in God" disclose the camouflage purported. Indeed, when we refer to the Masonic resources, we see the elimination of the belief in Allah within the organisation stage by stage.

A Masonic text states " Based on your reason, inclination of your soul, faith and level of understanding, you could name Allah after things such as destiny, nature, force and law." (Mimar Sinan Publication, 1982, Number. 45, p. 34)

However, Allah, the Creator of destiny, nature, force, law and even reason is the All-Mighty. The Masonic Ideology, totally unaware of this truth, strives to instruct the masses with its unwise teachings.

Masons without apron

Conclusively, we can state that Masonic Ideology aims people to deny the existence of Allah and strives to accomplish this goal by using efficient terms such as love, science and reason.

When this truth is recognised, it becomes all clear that Freemasonry is an efficient and widespread organisation. That is because this method of denial is fervently advocated by many people from different strata in our society. Each one of the people, who hide behind the terms of modernism and civilisation while defending the vanity of religion, who claim that science and religion conflicts and who think that they could find their way without the guide of Qur'an are Masons. Some of them are Masons with apron (officially registered Masons). Majority are "Masons without apron", the non-registered freemasons. These have adopted the Mason Ideology without even actually knowing the Masonry. One doesn't need to go far to find these people. You can encounter hundreds of them while reading the newspapers or changing the TV channels.

What is the mission of these Masons -with or without apron-?

The answer is simple: Their aim is to build a non-god-fearing world society and even to eliminate the religious people, if necessary. As stated in Qur'an, "You have plotted, night and day, bidding us disbelieve in Allah and set up equals with him." (Surah Saba: 33)

In a Masonic text it states that Masonry aims to build a new religion based on Humanism around the world:

"Today, albeit gradual, a unique and universal religion addressing to all senses of the conscious emerges... Parallel to this religion, a new morality based on the world's vision will be established... Such a religion will unify mankind with the universe. This is Freemasonry. This religion will be in the hearts of people. The temples of this religion will be the temples of humanity. All the hymns sang in these temples will be the most distinguished musical piece which can burst out of one's heart, Beethoven's 9th Symphony....

As in the Mithra Legend, instead of the Bull's flesh and blood, we are celebrating this establishment by eating bread and drinking red wine. We are creating a unification of beliefs here. I would like to end our divine celebration thus: as the missionary of this new religion, have another bite from the bread brothers. The ones who share your bread will be your holy friends. By eating fire, have another sip from your wine my brothers, to become blood brothers." (Mason Magazine, Year:29, Number 40-41, 1981, pg. 105-107)

As clearly stated, Freemason's mission includes elimination of all religions to create a new world based on the philosophy of Humanism, where no other religion can survive.

However, if they have such a plan, Allah has no doubt His own. Allah says in the Qur'an:

"They plotted, and Allah plotted. Allah is the supreme plotter." (Surah Al Imran: 54)