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Savile was a Freemason
Amazing images from Charlie Foulkes
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewto ... 207#168207
TonyGosling wrote:Twitter user Bruce Everiss has just tweeted these shocking images of freemasons at Jimmy Savile's funeral in Scarborough which took place on Thursday 10th November 2011
The day before on Wed 9th November 2011 Savile also had an enormous Requiem Mass ceremony in Leeds Cathedral - where most of leed's masons attended - many in masonic regalia
http://www.charliefoulkes.co.uk/truth/savile.html

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Couple of people have mentioned the Freemasons are on a bit of a national recruitment dive. This is one post on a local forum.


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Masonic Fraternal Police Department: Three Californians charged with establishing fake police force

Trio claimed the force was the oldest in the world
Justin Carissimo New York Friday 08 May 2015
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 37625.html

Three California residents have been charged with impersonating law enforcement officers after allegedly operating a fake police department.

The accused have claimed membership to the Masonic Fraternal Police Department, which was supposedly founded back in the days of the Knights Templar.

The group consists of David Henry, 46, who claimed he was the group’s police chief and “Honourable Grand Master,” Tonette Hayes, 59, and Brandon Kiel, 31, an aide to state Attorney General Kamala Harris, the Los Angeles Times reported.

David Beltran, a spokesman for the state Department of Justice, said Mr Kiel, the deputy director of community affairs at the California DOJ, was placed on paid leave since his arrest on April 30.

“The attorney general has been concerned about these serious allegations from the point she was first briefed on this investigation,” Mr Beltran said. “Our office has been cooperating with investigators from the beginning and will continue to do so.”

Los Angeles County sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida told the Associated Press that there was no convincing evidence that the group actually carried out law enforcement activities.

The group’s website claims to be the first police organisation in the world, with jurisdiction in 33 states as well as Mexico, with more than 500,000 US members.

“When asked what is the difference between the Masonic Fraternal Police Department and other Police Departments the answer is simple for us. We were here first!” the group’s website says.

“We are born into this Organisation, our bloodlines go deeper than an application. This is more than a job it is an obligation.”

The trio faces charges of impersonating an officer, unlawful use of identification and felony perjury. Police are currently investigating the group’s motive.
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Quotes from Occult Theocrasy by Lady Queensborough Posthumously published C1930…
“There is but little doubt now that the B’nai B’rith seems to be the supreme body, shaping and directing, for the attainment of its own ends, the policies, whatever they may be, of all Freemasonry beginning with the Grand Lodge of England, The Grand Orient and Scottish Rites, and ending in the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis), which is Illuminism under another name.”
Also of interest:
“About Mormonism and Masonry, Blanchard makes the following remark: ‘The two institutions are morally and legally the same.’ ”

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No Trades Unions ... but Intelligence services give masons a free pass


Paedophile Mason ran lodge set up for GCHQ

ONE OF Britain’s most influential paedophiles was the head of a Masonic lodge founded and frequented by GCHQ spies.

By JAMES FIELDING
PUBLISHED: 19:10, Sat, May 23, 2015 | UPDATED: 19:35, Sat, May 23, 2015

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/579523 ... lodge-GCHQ

Arrivals at the new GCHQ established the lodge
Keith Harding, former membership secretary of the Paedophile Information Exchange (Pie) was made Worshipful Master of the Mercurius Lodge in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in 2011.

The child molester, who died last summer, presided over ceremonies and rituals from an ornate throne.

Harding was convicted of an indecent assault against four children aged eight and nine in 1958 and classified a Schedule-1 offender, which meant the offence remained on his criminal record all his life.

His name was also on a list of about 400 Pie members seized by police in 1984, the year the organisation disbanded.

The Sunday Express revealed earlier this month how Harding met MPs Cyril Smith and Leon Brittan in the 1980s when he ran a north London antiques store.

Thirty-five years ago he appeared alongside paedophile television presenter Jimmy Savile in a Christmas special of Jim’ll Fix It.

The lodge boasts of its Government Communications Headquarters heritage on its website.

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A source close to Harding revealed: “The Mercurius Lodge is known as the Spies Lodge because it was set up by GCHQ and over the years many intelligence officers have become members.

“These are people trained to find out sensitive information and yet none of them had any idea of Keith’s background and past convictions.

“They even voted him the highest honour by making him Worshipful Master.

“Keith felt the Freemasons were somewhere he finally belonged, he called them his “brotherhood”.

“When he died last year, they arranged his funeral and made sure the ceremony started at midday because the time apparently has significance within Masonic ritual.”

Spies displaced from London and Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, where the German wartime Enigma code was cracked, set up the Mercurius Lodge in 1957.

It meets at the Grade IIlisted Cheltenham Masonic Hall, purpose-built in 1823.

Harding ran the Mechanical Music Museum 10 miles away in Northleach after moving from London in 1987.

In 2013, he organised a trip to the museum for Freemasons and their families.

A photograph shows Harding wearing a Masonic apron, collar and medals during a ceremony a couple of years ago.

The Mercurius Lodge last night declined to comment.

Detectives probing historical sexual abuse allegations revealed on Wednesday they are investigating 1,433 suspects, including 135 from the entertainment industry, 76 politicians, seven sportsmen and 43 from the music industry.
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Riveting facts here from a former newspaper editor!
THE WORDS, POEMS, STORIES AND THOUGHTS OF AWARD WINNING WRITER AND JOURNALIST NIC OUTTERSIDE
Suppression of the Truth – Part 3: The Hidden Power of the Freemasons
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I FIRST met Bill Hodgson in February 1991, just four months after taking up my initial newspaper editorship at the Argyllshire Advertiser on the west coast of Scotland.

Bill, a former farmer and wine importer, had been selected in September 1989, as the Conservative parliamentary candidate in the Tory/Lib Dem marginal seat of Argyll and Bute.

In 1979, he had achieved the largest Conservative swing in Scotland in the safe Labour seat of East Kilbride. Eight years later he came within 916 votes of ousting Labour in Carlisle, after what supporters called “the best political campaign the city has ever seen”.

Bill was now touted to do well in Argyll against the incumbent MP Rae Michie.

He had already moved his family to a spacious detached villa in Campbeltown – at the southern end of this vast rural constituency which took in Oban, Lochgilphead, Inveraray, Dunoon and Bute and the Inner Hebridian islands of Islay, Jura, Mull and Gigha.

Although I admit to being a Tory activist as a teenager, my personal politics at the time were well to the left of Bill and I had no natural affinity for a Thatcherite Conservative government which had ruined Britain over the previous 12 years.

But Bill, 54, and his politically astute wife Eelan, were gregarious, self-effacing and above all, seemingly honest – rare in any politician.

After an initial meeting, both the Hodgson’s were regular visitors to my newspaper office, usually sharing a newsworthy story or a tip-off over a cup of tea.

It soon became obvious that Bill was a bit of a maverick – a go-getting politician who was not afraid to speak his mind.

I quickly became aware of his track record.

Within two months of his selection, Bill became involved in a bitter row with one of Argyll’s biggest landowners, Douglas Campbell, who had flouted planning orders and felled a forest of trees in order to build 40 luxury holiday chalets.

In the Dunoon Observer, Bill was reported as saying the tree felling was the “misconduct of a barbaric Philistine”.

Mr Campbell was one of 13 applicants who had stood against Bill for the Conservative nomination for Argyll.

Douglas Campbell was also a prominent Freemason and close friend of Ian Campbell, the 12th Duke of Argyll, first cousin to the Queen and a Master Freemason in Scotland.

Bill’s words were ones which Douglas Campbell did not forget and would soon come back to haunt him.

Just before my own arrival in Argyll, Bill had also fallen out with the Conservative Party’s constituency secretary Noel Facenda.

Facenda had placed Christmas adverts in the local press (including my own paper) which were a clear breach of electoral law and potentially threaten Bill’s candidacy.

Bill was livid with what he regarded as incompetence.

Then soon after my first meeting with the Hodgsons, Bill attacked Argyll and Bute District Council – in which the Tories shared power – for overspending and called for the council to be replaced.

This ruffled the feathers of some prominent Tories and a shadowy campaign to “get Bill out” began.

On 25 May, the simmering row began to spill into open warfare with the resignation of constituency chairwoman – and close friend of Douglas Campbell – Margaret Forrest, who claimed she had been subjected to “verbal assaults” from Mr Hodgson.

It was at this point Bill became a confidante and began briefing me weekly about the shenanigans and moves to unseat him by some of his own party officials.

This was despite the fact that among party members in Argyll and voters at large, Bill was seen as being popular and positively electable… a Tory closer to the people than to the landowners who dominated the power plays in Argyll.

But then on 16 August 1991, Bill suffered a minor heart attack. He was quickly assured by his doctors that a simple heart-by-pass operation would ensure a return to perfect health.

But, while he awaited the operation, rumours about his status as a candidate began to circulate.

His Labour opponent Des Browne (later to become Secretary of State for Scotland) went on the record saying: “Bill Hodgson won’t last long, his own party are out to get him.”

At a small dinner party at his home, Bill told me he had taken enough and needed to fight back.

On 9 September, as the rumours of a coup against him began to harden, Bill told 40 supporters at a meeting in Campbeltown that there was a definite plot to oust him as candidate.

He said the perpetrators were using his health as a smokescreen. “There has been an energetic commitment to apathy, disloyalty and the worship of incompetence,” he said.

It was pouring oil onto the smouldering fire.

His statement was discussed at a constituency meeting called the very next day. Tempers were roused.

But Campbeltown councillor Archie McCallum, who had replaced Margaret Forrest as chairman, denied there was any plot to oust Bill as their candidate.

“We are only interested in his health,” said Mr McCallum, who along with Mr Facenda were also active Freemasons.

But on 23 September, three days after Bill’s heart by-pass operation in Glasgow, the local party executive held an emergency meeting to discuss his future.

The Duke of Argyll – prompted by Douglas Campbell – proposed a motion calling for Bill’s resignation. It was passed by 27 to 17, despite the fact that many members who were entitled to vote were given late notice of the meeting and had been unable to attend.

I rang Bill the next day, and from his hospital bed he issued a press statement in which he said: “What has really annoyed me has been the sneaky, chicken-livered way in which the plotters have behaved. Now they have been rumbled, no doubt they will try to blame someone else.”

The local party was now about to split sharply down the middle.

At the executive meeting, Michael MacRoberts, chairman of the Colintraive branch of the party, demanded that no-one should speak to the press about what had been discussed.

But within 24 hours, more than half a dozen of those present had breached the ruling.

The gloves were now off and the fight was about to escalate to the highest echelons of British politics.

Bill was rarely off the phone to me with updates or advice and it was here that for the first time in my career as a journalist that my telephone was bugged and my calls with Bill were intercepted.

I have never found by whom, but the machinations which I am now about to tell may give powerful clues.

The first to show his true colours was Archie McCallum.

In a private letter dated 1 November to a party member, McCallum detailed the case against Bill.

“The whole blame lies with Bill for sending out that press release,” he wrote.

At another executive meeting on 9 November, it was decided to try and take some heat out of the situation which was by now being reported by Scotland’s national press.

The decision of 23 September was rescinded and members decided to ask Bill to account for himself at the next meeting on 7 December.

But McCallum was quick to up the ante.

He claimed that at a private meeting in late November Lord Willie Whitelaw, former Conservative Party Chairman and Home Secretary, and leading Freemason, had recommended the constituency “ditch Bill Hodgson”, claiming he had run into problem in Carlisle in 1987.

McCallum was later coy about the meeting with Lord Whitelaw and refused to repeat the words used in the meeting.

Later it was established that the private meeting was at Inveraray Castle – home of the Duke of Argyll – with the duke and Douglas Campbell also present.

The Masonic plot against Bill Hodgson was almost complete with a cousin of the Queen and a former Tory Home Secretary at the hub.

(Ironically just last year it was revealed that detectives are now investigating claims of another Masonic conspiracy in which Lord Whitelaw ordered police to drop an investigation into a VIP paedophile ring.

Whitelaw told a senior Metropolitan Police boss to quash a year-long investigation into a gang accused of abusing 40 children, the youngest of whom was six.

The intervention came in 1980, after a newspaper revealed the country’s chief prosecutor was considering 350 offences against the gang, including allegations it ‘obtained young boys for politicians, prominent lawyers and film stars’.)

So with the power brokers stacked against him, Bill appeared before the constituency executive on 7 December 1991. He was voted down by 36 votes to 33 and his resignation demanded forthwith or they would pursue his deselection.

McCallum defended the move saying: ”Bill wanted everything done yesterday, and in an area where tomorrow is good enough, it was not good enough for him. I’m afraid that Bill has shot his bolt.”

But, Bill’s supporters claimed the meeting had been rigged to exclude delegates who supported him.

In a letter to Scottish Conservative Party Chairman Lord Sanderson, John Maclean, an executive member, claimed that branches likely to have backed Bill had been excluded from the vote.

Asking Sanderson to conduct a secret postal ballot, Maclean also alleged that other pro-Hodgson party members had been excluded on “various flimsy grounds”. Had those branches and individuals been allowed to attend, there would have been an eight vote majority for Bill.

Then during a meeting with Lord Sanderson – another leading Scottish Freemason – and Michael Hirst, President of the Scottish Conservative Association, Bill refused to resign.

He had public opinion with him and was backed by four branches and hundreds of members who threatened to leave the party if he was forced to resign.

Two weeks later 205 party members signed a petition demanding a general meeting to discuss Bill’s candidacy. It was clear that they would win the day.

But always expect the unexpected.

Less than 24 hours after the demand for the meeting was tabled with orders from Central Office, the Scottish Conservative Association stepped in and dissolved the entire constituency association in Argyll. Thus they deselected Bill as parliamentary candidate and excommunicated hundreds of Tory party members in one blow.

Michael Hirst said that the decision to disaffiliate the Argyll association was made with “considerable reluctance”.

“Not in living memory of those here has this ever happened before,” he added.

Donald Nicholson, chairman of the Ardchattan branch said: “What happened to Bill is a travesty. These things will never be forgotten as long as Argyll is a constituency.”

Argyll constituency vice chairwoman Sheena Dixon said: “Bill was a professional and worked incredibly hard in the two years he was here. It seemed he worked too hard for some and upset others whose power will not be upset.”

Another party executive member added: “Bill’s future was decided by a cabal of powerful people within our party. The one thing that unites them, other than being Conservatives, is they all belong to one secret society.”

The final words I will leave to Bill, who said: “I am saddened by the damage to the party. My abiding memory of the last four months is the callous and uncaring announcement of my dismissal while I was lying in hospital.

“I have a feeling of sickness for those who have campaigned so venomously for my deselection using lies, libels and vile innuendo as their weapons.”



Footnote 1: Bill’s successor as Conservative candidate for Argyll and Bute, John Corrie, failed to unseat Lib Dem MP Rae Michie in the 1992 General Election taking just 27% of the vote. By 2015, the Tory vote in the constituency had fallen to just 15%.



Footnote 2: Bill sadly died in October 2010. He left me with many happy memories of wine-fuelled chats by his fireside and his wonderful sense of humour.

He also left me a letter with the immortal words: “A man is known by his friends and not his enemies, I am grateful to count you as a friend.”

Lord Whitelaw died of natural causes at his home near Penrith, aged 81, in 1999,

Ian Campbell, the 12th Duke of Argyll died of heart failure during surgery at a London hospital in 2001, aged 63.

Douglas Campbell died in May 2015 aged 79. Ironically his obituary said he was: “One of the most innovative farmers of his generation, who diversified into tourism with holiday parks and leisure facilities.

“He and his family built up a considerable business from his base in Lochgoilhead, with hotels, shops and eight holiday parks.”



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Good info, W_B_M!

Very good introductions to Freemasonry are Stephen Knight's 'Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution' and 'The Brotherhood', and Martin Short's 'Inside the Brotherhood', a follow-up and continuation of Knight's book.
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Freemasons are trying to recruit Millennials
Jen Mills for Metro.co.uk
Sunday 7 Aug 2016 5:17 pm
http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/07/freemason ... s-6053397/

Freemasons have begun a drive to recruit younger members, worried that the lodges could die out if Millennials don’t start coming to meetings.

At the moment, only 2 per cent of British masons are under 30 years old, and almost 100 lodges are said to have closed each year since 2006.

The idea of freemasonry is still confusing to many people, with most thinking of strange rituals of people rolling up their trouser legs, pledging allegiance to the grand master.

That’s if they’re not imagining the stonecutters in the Simpsons:

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In a bid to show the other side – things like charity work and camaraderie – a lodge has invited TV cameras in for the first time.

The drive to recruit more young members is taking place across America as well as lodges in the UK.

Freemasonry Today, published by masons, published a long article examining how to make freemasonry more appealing to the young.

‘For me, I think Freemasonry offers a journey of personal discovery, something I can’t find in politics or religion alone,’ Richard, 33, told them.

‘I told my two closest friends and their responses were: 1) isn’t it a bit weird all that dressing up? And 2) I guess it will be good for your career as masonry is about men getting up the greasy pole. I then had to explain brotherhood, charity, etc.’

Men: would you join the freemasons?
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One commenter, cashman83, posting on Reddit described what he found valuable about the movement:

For the first time in my life I felt like I belonged and had a load of people that cared about me, my purpose, my goals, my future. Not just education, or learning a secret lost art. I was taught how to remember myself. Be a great man, a leader, someone people looked up to. But I guess this kind of power makes men great and do amazing things, it must be a conspiracy ? No its mostly an organization of loving guys that give a damn about you!

Another said: ‘I look forward to the fraternity and fellowship which will come with my participation. The ritual and costuming are icing on the cake.’



In a bid to try and spread membership, 55 university lodges have been set up since 2005 in the UK and membership fees have been reduced for members under 25.

It remains to be seen if this will halt the decline of the movement.


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Freemasonry and fraternalism in the Middle East

https://www.academia.edu/756549/Freemas ... iddle_East

For over 120 years, the Statue of liberty has been well known all over the world & it is especially impressive to those who approach New York by ship. To many thousands of immigrants who were landed at the neighbouring Ellis Island, she was a symbol of freedom & new opportunity.
But many don't realise its Masonic origin & connection. Indeed, its full & proper title is "The Statue of Liberty & Freemasonry."

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Freemasons in the police

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Published January 1997

Today the Guardian publishes for the first time what we believe is a unique photograph. It pierces the wall of secrecy which surrounds one of Britain’s most mysterious organisations by revealing a large gathering of London policemen wearing the white gloves, embroidered sashes and lambskin aprons of the worshipful order of freemasonry.

At the time that the picture was taken, these 60 men were members of Masonic Lodge number 9179, known as the Manor of St James, which was founded eleven years ago, on January 27 1986, for the exclusive use of Scotland Yard officers who had worked in the West End of London. The picture, which has been leaked to the Guardian by non-Masonic Metropolitan police officers, appears to have been taken at one of their inaugural meetings and includes men who then occupied some of the most powerful jobs in the force.

Since April 1985, when Sir Kenneth Newman was Commissioner, Scotland Yard have been advising their officers to stay away from the lodges. According to The Principles of Policing, which was produced under Sir Kenneth: “The discerning officer will probably consider it wise to forgo the prospect of pleasure and social advantage in freemasonry so as to enjoy the unreserved regard of all those around him. It follows from this that one who is already a freemason would also be wise to ponder from time to time whether he should continue as a freemason.”

And yet the Manor of St James is still active. On Monday of this week, a Guardian photographer caught dozens of former and serving police officers as they made their way through the crowded pavements of St James’s Street, off Picadilly. Wearing dinner jackets and carrying their Masonic regalia in flat black brief cases, they converged on number 86, an imposing sandstone building which looks like any of the gentleman’s clubs around the corner, in Pall Mall, but which is in fact the site of a Masonic temple.

Inside, they gathered to hold their annual ritual to install a London policeman as the new master of the lodge, to elect other police officers as their stewards, tylers and almoners, and to consider the names of prospective new members, all of them drawn from the past and present ranks of the Metropolitan Police, all of them willing to be blindfolded with a noose around their neck and a dagger to their heart while they are warned that if they break their vows of secrecy and loyalty, they will have their throats cut and their tongues torn out by the root. And then, until late into the night, they dined together.

The leaking of the photograph co-incides with new efforts by politicians and senior police officers to meet public concern about the role of freemasons in law-enforcement. Masons insist that they are misunderstood and that their organisation stands for service to “our God, our country and our laws”. Critics fear that the secrecy of the organisation and its stern oaths of “mutual defence and support” conflict with a police officer’s need to be seen to apply the law impartially.

The Police Complaints Authority, which says its own ranks are free of masons, is pressing for a new law to compel police masons to declare their membership on a register of interests. Last October, the Association of Chief Police Officers, ACPO, supported the move. And today (Jan 29), the House of Commons Select Committee on Home Affairs continues its own inquiry into the issue, taking evidence from ACPO as well as from the Police Federation, which represents lower ranks and which is fighting for the status quo. Until now, the issue has been as secretive as it has been controversial.

The evidence of the membership of the Manor of St James is that freemasonry reaches high into the command structure of the Metropolitan Police. Among the founder members of the lodge was Gilbert Kelland, who was in charge of all of London’s three thousand detectives when he was the Assistant Commissioner for Crime from 1977 to 1984. He is pictured here in his regalia, in the third row back, three from the right.

Among his worshipful brothers who joined the lodge, in spite of Sir Kenneth’s request, are two Deputy Assistant Commissioners, Peter Nievens and Edgar Maybanks; twelve commanders, including George Churchill-Coleman and Jim Neville, both of whom headed the Anti Terrorist Squad, and Malcolm Campbell, who was the head of Scotland Yard’s intelligence branch; John Cass, who was a Scotland Yard commander before becoming co-ordinator for the nation’s regional crime squads; at least two dozen chief superintendents; a dozen superintendents; and more than a score from the lower ranks.

One of the few officers in the lodge who did take Sir Kenneth’s advice is Tony Speed, who is now the Assistant Commissioner for Central London. He said last week that he had followed his father and grandfather into the Craft, joining his first lodge when he was 21. “There was no furore about it in those days and I have to say that in something like 20 years as a mason I never came across anything that made me feel ashamed or that I felt was wrong. But then about ten years ago, the public perception began to change and we were advised that we should reconsider our position and so, simply because of this problem of perception, I resigned.”

Most of his colleagues in the lodge did not see it that way. Malcolm Campbell is still serving as a commander and has not resigned from the lodge but says that he no longer attends its functions. Many of the others in the picture are now retired although sources who know the Manor of St James say they have been joined by a steady stream of serving officers.

Martin Short, author of the most detailed account of modern British freemasonry, Inside The Brotherhood, estimates that 20% of London officers belong to Masonic lodges. He says there is cause for concern about this and in December, he gave evidence to the Select Committee inquiry of a case he had researched recently in Lancashire which, he told them, “demonstrates just how badly the administration of justice can go wrong when police, Crown Prosecution solicitors and private citizens are all in the same Masonic lodge.”

This story began one night in 1988 when two Leicester businessmen were taking a late-night drink in a hotel in Blackburn. A group of burly strangers in dinner jackets ordered them out of the bar. The Leicester men declined to go. The strangers then announced that they were policemen and proceeded to beat them up. They then called other police who arrested the two Leicester men and charged them with assaulting police officers. When the Leicester men were released on bail the next morning, they found that the hotel manager had seized their belongings until they agreed to pay for damage caused by the fight and that someone had let all the air out of their car tyres and removed their hub caps.

The Blackburn police and Crown prosecutors pursued the case to court, where the two Leicester men faced substantial jail sentences for allegedly assaulting policemen. But the case fell apart. The jury rejected all of the police evidence and found that the Leicester businessmen were not guilty of any offence at all. The judge signalled his own view by taking the unusual step of ordering that the defendants’ costs should be paid out of the public purse. The two men then sued for assault, wrongful arrest, malicious prosecution, conspiracy to injure and libel. In an out-of-court settlement, they were awarded £170,000, most of which was paid on behalf of the policemen by the Lancashire force.

Martin Short told the Select Committee that freemasonry was at the heart of this case. The two Leicester men had stumbled into the tail-end of a Masonic event, a dinner organised by the Victory lodge of Blackburn. This lodge, said Short, is dominated by police officers: the policemen who were involved in the original fight, the officer who subsequently investigated the incident, a senior official in the Crown Prosecution office which handled the case, and the manager of the hotel where the dinner took place were all members of the Victory lodge.

No-one is suggesting that all Masonic officers are corrupt or even liable to become corrupt. However, in the past, there have been occasions when Masonic lodges have acted as nests of corruption, where detectives have rubbed shoulders with professional criminals in an atmosphere of friendship and loyalty with disastrous results. When Scotland Yard’s Obscene Publications Squad was destroyed by scandal in the late 1960s, twelve officers were jailed for taking bribes from pornographers. All of them were masons, including the head of the squad, Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Moody, who had even helped one of the pornographers he was supposed to be arresting to become a member of his own lodge.

On the other side of the argument, there have been high-profile examples of Masonic officers fighting corruption. During the Operation Countryman inquiry in the 1980s, it was a Masonic detective chief superintendent, John Simmons, who secretly tape-recorded his brother mason, Detective Chief Inspector Phil Cuthbert, boasting of his villainy and of the involvement of other senior officers in taking bribes and setting up armed robberies. However, Simmons was later ostracised by his lodge, while Cuthbert continued to be welcomed, even after he had been convicted and jailed for three years.

Some of the most angry critics of freemasonry are police officers who do not belong to the lodges. They fear that masons may promote brother officers and conceal each other’s wrong doing and that, on occasion, they might abuse their internal powers to discipline troublesome non-masonic officers. One serving Metropolitan Police detective said: “This is a secret society at the heart of Scotland Yard. I have no doubt that some masons use the lodges to get their way and this is not acceptable for the public or for the police service as a whole.” The Police Complaints Authority says that some officers have approached them privately to voice their concerns about some masonic colleagues.

One non-masonic officer says he reported to his commander that colleagues had invented a fictitious informer so that they could claim reward money for crimes which they solved and then share it among themselves. He claims that he was moved sideways while his colleagues were allowed to carry on and that he subsequently discovered that the corrupt officers and the commander were all “on the square”. Another claims to have heard a superintendent boasting that he was recruiting a new officer to his squad and that he was shortlisting only masons.

The Police Complaints Authority has run into problems with masonic officers. On one occasion a man complained that he had been charged as the result of a masonic conspiracy. He then discovered that the superintendent who was investigating his complaint was himself a mason. The superintendent resigned and was replaced by a second officer who also turned out to be a mason. On another occasion, a provincial Chief Constable simply refused to ask whether one of his officers, who was looking into allegations about masons, was himself a member of a lodge.

Masons played a prominent part in the demise of John Stalker, the former Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester who tried to unravel a cover-up of political shootings in Northern Ireland and in the case of the Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Brian Woolard, who found evidence that his career had been blighted by senior masons after he attempted to uncover the role of civilian masons in a fraud. Masonic officers argue that policemen who want to be corrupt can make bad friendships through golf clubs or Round Table dinners, and that the lodges have no special influence.

When Sir Kenneth Newman produced his advice in 1985, his office considered all of the available evidence. The booklet which he produced acknowledged that the lodges offered friendship, a chance to mix with “some of the most distinguished people in the land” and an invitation to self-improvement. It noted that many of the allegations that were made against them were unsupported or plain wrong. Yet it concluded that some of the allegations were reliable and that the exclusivity of the lodges, the oddness of their rituals and their collection of coded signals amounted to a significant problem. “They militate against the acceptance, by colleagues and citizens alike, of an officer who is a freemason as a man on whose fairness it is possibly to rely always and unquestionably… A freemason’s oath holds inevitably the implication that loyalty to fellow freemasons may supersede any other loyalty.” The worshipful brothers of the Manor of St James disagree.

The two sides of the story came face to face late last year when the current Metropolitan Commissioner, Sir Paul Condon, appeared in front of the Select Committee which is investigating freemasonry in law enforcement. The Commissioner had reassured the committee that all was well but, as he prepared to leave, he was confronted by Chris Mullin, the ebullient Labour MP for Sunderland South, who had acquired his own copy of our photograph. Mullin pulled out the picture and told the Commissioner: “I thought you might like to have a look at your alternative command structure.”
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How Gordon Anglesea went from respected police chief to disgraced paedophile
14:17, 21 OCT 2016 UPDATED 20:53, 21 OCT 2016
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http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w ... d-12054885
...The verdict marks the end of a long-running saga involving allegations of child abuse levelled against the former North Wales Police officer and Freemason stretching back decades.....
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Anglesea, a Rotary Club member, was arrested and bailed in January 2014 by officers from Operation Pallial , a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into claims of historic sexual abuse in the North Wales care home system....


Phone-hacking scandal: Jonathan Rees obtained information using dark arts
Freemason set up network of corrupt police, customs officials, taxmen and bank staff to gain valuable information
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Alastair Campbell is on of the public figures believed to have been targeted by Jonathan Rees. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
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Years ago, Jonathan Rees became a freemason. According to journalists and investigators who worked with him, he then exploited his link with the lodges to meet masonic police officers who illegally sold him information which he peddled to Fleet Street.

As one of Britain's most prolific merchants of secrets, Rees expanded his network of sources by recruiting as his business partner Sid Fillery, a detective sergeant from the Metropolitan Police. Fillery added more officers to their network. Rees also boasted of recruiting corrupt Customs officers, a corrupt VAT inspector and two corrupt bank employees.

Other police contacts are said to have been blackmailed into providing confidential information. One of Rees's former associates claims that Rees had compromising photographs of serving officers, including one who was caught in a drunken state with a couple of prostitutes and with a toilet seat around his neck.


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It is this network of corruption which lies at the heart of yesterday's claim in the House of Commons by Labour MP Tom Watson that Rees was targeting politicians, members of the royal family and even terrorist informers on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's News International. The Guardian's own inquiries suggest that Watson knows what he is talking about.

Much of what the police sources were able to sell to Rees was directly related to crime. But Rees also bought and sold confidential data on anybody who was of interest to his Fleet Street clients, to which the police often had special access. The Guardian has confirmed that Rees reinforced his official contacts with two specialist 'blaggers' who would telephone the Inland Revenue, the DVLA, banks and phone companies and trick them into handing over private data.

One of the blaggers who regularly worked for him, John Gunning, was responsible for obtaining details of bank accounts belonging to Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, which were then sold to the Sunday Mirror. Gunning was later convicted of illegally obtaining confidential data from British Telecom. Rees also obtained details of accounts at Coutts Bank belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Kent. The bank accounts of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, are also thought to have been compromised.

Confidential data

The Guardian has been told that Rees spoke openly about obtaining confidential data belonging to senior politicians and recorded their names in his paperwork. One source close to Rees claims that apart from Tony Blair, Jack Straw, Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell, he also targeted Gaynor Regan, who became the second wife of the former foreign secretary Robin Cook; the former shadow home secretary Sir Gerald Kaufman; and the former Tory cabinet minister David Mellor.

It is not yet known precisely what Rees was doing to obtain information on these political targets, although in the case of Mandelson it appears that Rees acquired confidential details of two bank accounts he held at Coutts, and his building society account at Britannia. Rees is also said to have targeted the bank accounts of members of Mandelson's family.

An investigator who worked for Rees claims he was also occasionally commissioning burglaries of public figures to steal material for newspapers. Southern Investigations has previously been implicated in handling paperwork that was stolen by a professional burglar from the safe of Paddy Ashdown's lawyer, when Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats. The paperwork, which was eventually obtained by the News of the World, recorded Ashdown discussing his fears that newspapers might expose an affair with his secretary.

Computer hacking

The successful hacking of a computer belonging to the former British intelligence officer Ian Hurst was achieved in July 2006 by sending Hurst an email containing a Trojan programme which copied Hurst's emails and relayed them back to the hacker. This included messages he had exchanged with at least two agents who informed on the Provisional IRA — Freddie Scappaticci, codenamed Stakeknife; and a second informant known as Kevin Fulton. Both men were regarded as high-risk targets for assassination. Hurst was one of the very few people who knew their whereabouts. The hacker cannot be named for legal reasons.

There would be further security concern if evidence finally confirms strong claims by those close to Rees that he claimed to have targeted the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John [now Lord] Stevens, who would have had regular access to highly sensitive intelligence. Sir John's successor, Sir Ian Blair, is believed to have been targeted by the News of the World's full-time investigator, Glenn Mulcaire. Assistant commissioner John Yates was targeted by Rees when Yates was running inquiries into police corruption in the late 1990s. It appears that Yates did not realise that he himself had been a target when he was responsible for the policing of the phone-hacking affair between July 2009 and January 2011.

Targeting the Bank of England, Rees is believed to have earned thousands of pounds by penetrating the past or present mortgage accounts of the then governor, Eddie George; his deputy, Mervyn King, who is now governor; and half-a-dozen other members of the Monetary Policy Committee.

Rees carried out his trade for years. His career as a pedlar of privacy stretches back into the 1990s, when he worked assiduously for the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the News of the World.

Rees and Fillery had three key media contacts, some of whose conversations with them were recorded by a police bug in their south London office: Doug Kempster from the Sunday Mirror, who was recorded suggesting that "Asians look better dead"; Gary Jones from the Daily Mirror, who was recorded as Rees told him that some of what he was doing for the Mirror was illegal; and Alex Marunchak, the executive editor of the News of the World.

This lucrative career was crudely interrupted in September 1999 when Rees was arrested and then jailed for plotting to plant cocaine on a woman so that her ex-husband would get custody of her children. Sid Fillery similarly ran into trouble with the long of the arm of the law which he was so keen to twist. He was arrested, convicted for possession of indecent images of children and retreated to Norfolk to run a pub. Rees, however, emerged from prison in May 2004 and proceeded to carry on trading, this time exclusively for the News of the World, then being edited by Andy Coulson, who went on to become David Cameron's media adviser.

The scale and seriousness of Rees's activities have worrying implications for Operation Weeting, the Scotland Yard inquiry which finally — unlike its two predecessors — is making a robust attempt to get to the truth of the scandal. Weeting has been told to focus on one private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire; on one illegal technique, phone-hacking; which he deployed for the one newspaper which paid him on a full-time contract, the News of the World. That alone is consuming the full-time efforts of 45 officers.

The truth is that Mulcaire was only one of a dozen different investigators, many of whom used other illegal techniques. And the News of the World, as journalists all over Fleet Street know, was not the only enthusiastic employer of these dark arts. Mulcaire and his phone-hacking became the single focus through the simple fluke that he was clumsy enough to get caught interfering with the voicemail of the royal household — the one target which would finally move the police into taking on a Fleet Street paper. The police famously failed to look beyond him, and it is only now that the rest of the truth is beginning to emerge.

With the new disclosures of Rees's operation there will be pressure on Weeting to expand its inquiry, which would involve recruiting still more officers. And, in the background, there is a small queue of other investigators waiting to have their names — along with their Fleet Street clients — added to Weeting's list of suspects. High among them will be a former Metropolitan police detective who was accused of corruption in the early 1980s and forced out of his job after a disciplinary hearing.

Senior Yard sources say this detective then came up with a novel form of revenge. He acquired a press card and proceeded to act as a link between Fleet Street crime correspondents and the network of corrupt detectives he knew so well.

Former crime reporters from several national newspapers have told the Guardian that they used this detective to carry cash bribes — thousands of pounds in brown envelopes — to serving officers. Scotland Yard for years has been aware of his activity and has attempted but failed to catch him and stop him.

The crime reporters say that one reason for the Yard's failure is that, when the Yard tried to stop the corruption, serving officers tipped them off so they could evade detection.

And there is more. The Guardian has identified a total of eleven specialist 'blaggers' who were paid by wealthy clients, including Fleet Street newspapers, to steal medical records, bank statements, itemised phone bills, tax files and anything else that was both confidential and newsworthy.




Sadiq Khan refuses to make London police declare if they are Freemasons after Hillsborough questions raised
London mayor says a compulsory register of Masons in the police would be illegal under human rights law

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London mayor Sadiq Khan has refused to force Metropolitan Police officers to declare membership of the Freemasons, saying such a move would be illegal.

The mayor’s statement comes despite the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) revealing that it is now investigating whether Freemasonry played a part in South Yorkshire Police’s handling of the Hillsborough stadium disaster and subsequent cover-up.

The refusal is also unlikely to calm decades of anxiety about the possibility of police corruption stretching back to at least to the 1960s when Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Moody, then head of the Obscene Publications Squad, reportedly helped a pornographer join his lodge.

Mr Khan ruled out a compulsory register of Freemasonry in the Met, the largest police force in the country, after Caroline Pidgeon, leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly, asked him to consider such a move in the light of the Hillsborough investigation, “to improve public confidence”.

In his written response, Mr Khan said: “The Met is bound by the legislation of the Police Regulations Act 2003 which states that no restrictions other than those designed to secure the proper exercise of the functions of a constable shall be imposed on the private life of members of a police force.”

Adding that an Italian case showed that a compulsory Metropolitan Police freemasonry register would breach human rights laws, he added: “In 2007, a European Court of Human Rights judgement was made in relation to an Italian lodge and a local authority which ruled that any requirement to declare [membership of Freemasonry] is in violation of Article 11 (the right of lawful association) taken in conjunction with Article 14 (the right not to be discriminated against) of the European Convention on Human Rights."

Criticising Mr Khan’s response, Ms Pidgeon told The Independent: “It is long overdue that police officers routinely declared that they were Freemasons. Public confidence could only be improved through routine publication of such information.”

Currently the 31,000 officers in the Met are only required to declare associations with people who have the potential to conflict with their duties as a police officer. They do not automatically have to declare membership of Freemasonry.

The Met does not collect information about how many officers are Masons and has never banned officers from joining the all-male fraternity, despite long-held fears that its ideals of mutual help could be twisted into collusion between police and criminals.

In 2014 Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said human rights law made a compulsory register difficult, but added: “For me as a police officer the secrecy of membership is a concern. I think police officers should be transparent: nothing to hide, then why not mention it? My view would be that you ought to be open about your associations.”

When the Labour Government tried a voluntary register of Masonic police officers in 32 English and Welsh forces in 1999, however, more than two-thirds of rank and file officers did not respond or refused to participate.


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Police face questions over the influence of the Freemasons after it emerged match commander and his boss were both members
Match commander David Duckenfield and former boss Brian Mole members of same lodge
Duckenfield was promoted despite not being 'best man for job'
South Yorkshire Police colleagues said to have been furious over decision
Year after disaster Duckenfield became a 'worshipful master' of local lodge
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PUBLISHED: 15:35, 26 April 2016 | UPDATED: 06:00, 27 April 2016
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Powerful force: Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield, pictured a month after the disaster, was a Freemason and promoted into a job he couldn't do properly, much to the anger of colleagues

South Yorkshire Police today face questions over whether powerful 'secret society' the Freemasons held sway over the force at the time of Hillsborough.

Families of victims say that officers who were Masons were promoted into powerful positions despite being ill-equipped, including match commander David Duckenfield.

Duckenfield told the fresh inquests he had been a Freemason since 1975 and became head of his local lodge - a worshipful master - the year after the 1989 disaster.

The match commander, 46 in 1989, was handed control of F Division, which included policing games at Hillsborough, just three weeks before the tragedy.

He was forced to admit at the inquests that he had no experience of policing football, did not know Hillsborough and 'wasn't the best man for the job'.

At the time there was fury among colleagues who believed it was his freemasons membership that was behind his promotion.

When asked during the inquest of was influenced by his membership of the so-called 'secret society', but added: 'I would hope not.'

His predecessor Brian Mole, now dead, had also been a member of the same lodge, jurors were told.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), as part of its overall investigation into alleged criminality and misconduct, has examined concerns from the Hillsborough families over Freemason membership.

The United Grand Lodge of England has provided information including historical attendance records of meetings.




How secret group Freemasons has kept grip on Britain for 200 years
17:59, 23 NOV 2015 UPDATED 18:25, 23 NOV 2015
BY RICHARD SMITH
The names of royalty, statesmen, judges, military top brass, bishops and police have been found in a secret archive
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ho ... pt-6886802


The huge influence Freemasons had in ruling British society for almost 200 years has finally been revealed.

The names of royalty, statesmen, judges, military top brass, bishops and police have been found in a secret archive which lists two million Freemasons.

The masonic records - from 1733 to 1923 - are set to be made available to the public for the first time.

They show Kings Edward VII, Edward VIII and George VI were all Freemasons.

Military leaders the Duke of Wellington and Lord Kitchener were also members of the clandestine group founded by a group of men in a London coffee house in 1717.

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Britain’s wartime Premier Sir Winston Churchill was also a Freemason along with literary greats Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Others include music legends Gilbert and Sullivan, explorers Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Scott, England cricket captain Douglas Jardine and scientist Sir Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin.
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Origin of Freemasonry
Freemasonry is a working front of the Knights Templar order of the Roman Catholic Church.

In fact, the entire papacy is under the control of the Jesuit black pope!

https://sites.google.com/site/freemason ... reemasonry


In 1836, Pope Gregory XVI issued a brief resigning the papacy to the control of the Society of Jesus.


The Knights Templar was a Vatican religious and military order for the protection of pilgrims to the Holy Land, founded as the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon in 1118.


Templars became powerful and wealthy, their arrogance toward rulers, together with their wealth and their rivalry with the Knights Hospitallers, led to their downfall; the order was violently suppressed in 1312 by the king of France and the Roman Catholic Church. Many of its possessions were given to their rival the Hospitallers.


To survive and to revenge, Knights Templars dived into secret stonemasons' lodges and other newly established orders, then into the Protestant Reformation, with Martin Luther being a Rosicrucian (part of Freemasonry)... that's why so many church ministers, elders in Protestant churches were Freemasons in the last 400 years. Even today, there are 1.3 million Freemasons in Southern Baptist Convention alone!!!

Scotland, the womb of the Masonic Abomination
Scotland is where the Templar Knights found refuge following their excommunication.
Scotland is where the Templar graves are found.
Scotland is where the Sinclairs built a shrine on the floor plan of Herod’s Temple.
Scotland is where the first images of New World flora such as corn and aloe are found.
Scotland is where the practices of “speculative” Masonry are first recorded.
Scotland is where the future King James I of Great Britain was made a Mason.
Scotland is where the Jacobites began to formulate what was to become the Scottish Rite.
Scotland is where the Poet Laureate of Masonry, Robert Burns, was born.


When Freemasonry became a formidable underwater international network in the 1730s, Jesuits introduced Roman Catholic ceremonies into Freemasonry. Freemasons was used as a Jesuit front, and to orchestrate the French Revolution, which caused 40,000 death and brought about the restoration of the suppressed Jesuit order. Jesuits excommunicated Freemasonry in 1870, but Freemasonry never reject Jesuits, and Jesuits continue to use Freemasonry and every group of the world, every king and prince to achieve their goals.

Freemasonry is an all-embracing abomination which absorbs the teachings of all cults and witchcraft. They claim their cult originated from different ancient origins: from Nimrod, Egypt, and even from King Solomon... a whole bunch of lies.


Some Masonic claims:
The Regius MS: Freemasons must love the Roman Catholic Church


Freemasons worship the Roman goddess Fides


Freemasons originated from Rome




The Regius MS: Freemasonry originated from Egypt


Nimrod was the first Mason

A Masonic text known as the Thistle manuscript, of 1756, says that Nimrod "created the Masons" and "gave them their signs and terms so that they could distinguish themselves from other people…it was the first time that the Masons were organised as a craft." (Source: Daniel Beresniak, Symbols of Freemasonry)

The Encyclopedia of Freemasonry identifies the character Nimrod with this legend of the Brotherhood as well, in the Old Constitutions, where it distinguishes him as a founder of Masonry:

"Thus in the York MS., No. 1, we read: ‘At ye making of ye toure of Babell there was a Masonrie first much esteemed of, and the King of Babilon yt called Nimrod was a Mason himself and loved well Masons.’"

Solomon was the first Masonic grand master




The Constitutions of the Free-Masons published in 1723 was written by an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland and the Presbyterian church, Rev. James Anderson (c. 1679/1680 – 1739) , who is also the Master of a Masonic lodge, and a Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster. (Wikipedia, June 12, 2015)
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The Hidden Power
Behind Freemasonry
Part 5 of 8
By Lt. Col. Gordon "Jack" Mohr,
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12 - A CLOSER LOOK AT FREEMASONRY

In the preface of his book FREEMASONRY - An Interpretation, Pastor Martin Wagner, Pastor of the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church in Dayton, Ohio (1912) says:

"Real Freemasonry is something beside and beneath the ritualistic forms and monitorial lectures. It is something which comparatively few Masons understand. Modern Masonry has never possessed the true key for the interpretation of the secret doctrines. This institution is esoteric. (Which means that its "secrets" are intended to be understood only by a few at the top). "Masonic authorities, as well as the Masonic ritual, declares that secret doctrine which constitutes the very essence of Freemasonry and which is veiled under terms and imagery of the builder's craft.
"The essence of Freemasonry is that it's peculiar religious ideas and doctrines, have survived from the periods of remotest antiquity, until the present time ... crushed in one form, it will rise in another. Outlawed, or exposed in one institution, it evades detection by taking refuge under a different name, ritual, or symbolism."

In its modern form and organization, Freemasonry has had a checkered career. So long as there is an unregenerate human nature on this earth, so long will organizations such as the Freemasons find fertile ground in which to take root. Exposure may check it for a while and induce its adherents to repudiate it for a time. This was the case in 1826, when William Morgan, a Master Mason, published his exposure of the Masonic Lodge. For this he was condemned by a Masonic enclave and sentenced to death. When his murder was exposed by police investigation, over 45,000 Masons in the United States left the Lodge, because they believed what Morgan had written, on the basis of what happened to him. But Morgan had only divulged the form, the clothing if you will, the cloak under

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which the real doctrine was concealed and veiled. Freemasonry on the European continent was scarcely effected by the Morgan affair.

Exposure means little, unless one understands the key to Freemasonry. Most exposures by seceding Masons, exhibit only the trappings, the veneer, under which the true essence of Freemasonry is concealed. Not one Mason in ten thousand ever suspects what lies under the cloak of secrecy in which his lodge operates, for the real secrets of the Lodge are not taught in the Lodge.

The majority of Masons see only the outward trappings of the Lodge and the less the Mason knows about them, the more he admires and believes. The same is true with the Judeo-Christian church, where the vast majority of its members seldom if ever study the Scriptures on their own, preferring to be guided instead, by a pastor who has been as "brainwashed" as they. The same is true with Freemasonry, for when broken down to its common denominator, it is a religion. Religion is its mystical tie! Religion has been from time immemorial, one of the most powerful factors in the activities of mankind. It has been the "motor" which has controlled vast armies and founded world empires. It has been the force behind bloody revolutions and despotic governments. It has established despotic "priestcrafts" and enforced obedience through fear generated by its teachings.

Many times you will hear "atheists" and "humanists" accuse Christianity of being responsible for the bloody deaths of millions of people. This is not the case! True Christianity has never murdered innocent men, women and children! Religion has -churchianity has -but not true Christianity. A good example is the present conflict which has been going on for years in Lebanon, where so-called Christian forces have been battling the Moslems. Yet these are Christian in name only and show none of the "fruits of

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the Spirit," which Scripture tells us are the mark of true Christians.

In the name of religion, men have been enslaved to build lavish, costly monuments to its power; call these churches or cathedrals. These are shrines for the gods of religion. Not to God Almighty! Religion has never changed any man or woman into a better human being. When the Communist leader Lenin stated that "Religion is the opiate of the people," he knew whereof he was speaking, for religion controls people and makes them slaves of the religious leaders.

On the other hand, true Christianity has been responsible for our finest art; our sweetest music. It has transformed human perverts from harden slave drivers to writers of Christian songs who could say: "Just as I am, without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me." It has turned human devils of lust, fury and crime, into saints fit for the Kingdom of God.

Christianity has given timid women and children the courage to face fear of being torn to bits by wild animals in a Roman arena. It has caused gentle women to withstand terrible torture for the sake of their beliefs. It has caused men to sing praises to God, as they were burned to death at the stake. (Read Fox's BOOK OF MARTYRS, and the 11th Chapter of Hebrews for an account of what Christianity has done for men and women).

Religion, on the other hand, has been the power behind political corruption; the power behind armies of evil kings and popes to destroy. Religion is the most powerful motor in mankind and religion is the driving engine in Freemasonry. We can see the modern application of the power of religion, in the upsurge of Moslem Fundamentalism, which could well sweep this world into World War III, as it comes up against the "secular religion" of the Zionists in Palestine.


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The vital and essential elements in the religion of Freemasonry are not the spiritual facts and the spiritual mysteries. They are carnal and physical, what some would call "the facts of life." These are the "mysteries" involved in "generation" and "reproduction," which Masons worship. The same "regenerative power" which has been worshipped for millennia by heathen people around the world. Because of heir "earthy" nature, they appeal to the lustful spirit of unregenerate men.

These "mysteries" relate to the dominate passion of man to "procreate." They excite his passion, awaken his emotions, take first place in his mind and energize his deepest thoughts.

It is difficult to conceive of anything more exquisitely fitted to appeal to the "natural," the "animalistic" man of the evolutionists, than the teachings of Freemasonry. It is a religion which makes the mystery of procreation, the hidden force on which it rests.

Masonry conceives of the divine nature as residing in man, and this nature is best expressed through sexual passion. The gratification of this passion, therefore, is pleasing to the Masonic god and becomes his duty. Although he may claim to be a Christian - and many of its members do -he has given his allegiance to "another false Christ" who repudiates the New Testament teachings regarding "unlawful lust" and "illicit passion."

Our Lord's admonition to men in Matthew 5:28 - "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart ...is looked on by the Mason as the height of utter stupidity!

Christians are further admonished in Galatians 5:16 - Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh." Again in James 1:14 - "But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of HIS OWN LUST, and


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enticed. Then when LUST has conceived, it bringeth forth sin (transgression of God's law, according to 1 John 3:4), and sin, when it is finished bringeth forth death." (Both physical and spiritual.) And finally in James 4:1 - From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?"

But the god of Freemasonry contradicts the Scriptural account and shouts: "NOT SO! It is your sacred duty to seek self-gratification! It is your moral and religious duty to fulfill the lusts of the flesh!" This is one of the reasons so many men want to become Masons, it is a religion which caters to the sensuality of men. It does to men, what the Woman's Liberation Movement has done to women, when they tell their adherents : "Don't listen to those narrow-minded Christians. You've come a long way baby! No one can tell you what you can do with your own body!"

Freemasonry appeals to the unregenerate heart of men, because the "generation" of human beings is the great work of Masons and is what they call: "Building a temple for the indwelling of the GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE," who is not the God of the Christian.

Today, as never before, a persistent war is being waged, either directly or indirectly against Christian principles which have been the strong foundation of our white, Christian civilization. These are the principles which have freed the slaves; have fed the hungry; have carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world, and which have built Christian Constitutions on the Word of God. It is what has brought prosperity, freedom, and relative happiness to more people, in a shorter period of time, than any other principle which has ever been practiced on this earth.

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followed this path. Many times governments refuse to see the indivisible, fundamental value of the Christian family and try and take over its prerogatives. This always leads to chaos, confusion and destruction to Christian values. Along with this attack, comes the attack on the right of the individual to own private property; the right of the individual to protect himself and his family; the right of freedom of speech, press, and religion. From time immemorial, our European ancestors have looked on these as the prime basis for their society.

Today, the natural organization of labor, which has been founded on the mutual need between capital and labor and which has been traditional in all periods of recorded history, has been upset. Now the worker is proclaimed to be equal in all respects with his employer, while he is exempted from the duties and responsibilities of the employer. The result has been a senseless "class struggle" which has all but destroyed American industry and which was designed to do just that.

According to both English and European Freemason leaders, Masonry was defined as; 'fa peculiar system of morality, revealed in allegory and illustrated by symbols." THE UNIVERSAL MANUAL OF FREEMASONRY, describes Masonry as:

"the activities of closely related men, who, employing symbolic forms borrowed principally from the builders art and from architecture, work for the welfare of mankind, striving morally to enable themselves and others to thereby bring about a universal league (One-World Government) of mankind..."
Freemasonry is in the forefront of the One-World Movement. In the Christian concept of society, morals as well as social rights and duties must be based on man's revelation of God and his duty to obey God's law. In Masonry, the idea of human virtue and morality, is independent of God, and Divine law is ignored if it conflicts with the issues promulgated by Masonry. Essentially,
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Masonry is "naturalism" in action and is a modern form of ''ancient paganism.

Because of the policy of deception practiced by Masonic leaders, it is difficult to analyze accurately the underlying essence of Freemasonry. Essentially, it is founded on Jewish "Pantheism," or the 'deification and worship of unregenerate man, rather than God." It reflects the words of the German Jewish philosopher of the Eighteenth Century, Ludwig Feubrach, when he said:

"Man will finally be truly free, when he realizes there is no god of man, but man himself."
This is the underlying belief of atheistic communism
Most of Masonic symbolism, in its original and proper meaning, refers to "phallic worship." This fact is openly testified to by such Masonic leaders as Albert Pike, Mackey, Thomas, Webb Smith, William Preston and Hutchins on.

Rogan, a Masonic author of some note states that the Masonic god is the god of the pyramids, thus identifying Masonry with the ancient Egyptian religions.

The first three degrees of the order - those of Apprentice, Fellow Craft (or Companion Mason), and Master Mason, are known as symbolic degrees. The candidate is admitted through a series of fantastic ceremonies ... the significance of which is not revealed to the initiate. He learns nothing but the symbols and sacred words. He is continually edified by allusions to God and the Bible, the hidden meanings of which are withheld from him until he reaches the higher degrees.

It is not until a member reaches the 33o in the ANCIENT SCOTTISH RITE, that of Sovereign Grand-Inspector, that the genuine mysteries of Freemasonry are explained.

In his first initiation stages he learns:
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1. - That the rite of initiation for Apprentice Masons represents in dramatic fashion the origin or birth of Nature's god - the GREAT ALL. It signifies the non-existence of a super-natural person God, such as that of Christianity. It signifies that the two principles of ''matter'' and "form" "male" and "female," are always eternally "generating," (reproducing). It looks on God as a hermaphrodite, and creation as the beginning of the "generation process."1

2. - The initiation rite into the Second Degree, represents the moral condition of nature's god, always in labor, always reproducing. Again it looks on God as hermaphroditic, and states that his name JEHOVAH, means "generation." Meaning to say, HE-SHE, the two sexes in one.2

The dual principle of "male" and "female" is represented by the "square and compass." The "compass" represents OSIRIS, the male god of the Egyptians, while the "square" is the symbol representing ISIS, the female goddess of Egypt - both are sexual symbols.3

3. - The initiation to the Third DEGREE OR MASTER MASON DEGREE, introduces the initiate to the story of Hiram Abiff, one of the architects of Solomon's Temple, as related in the TARGUM. (One of the several translations of Jewish scriptures, written in the vernacular (Aramaic) language of ancient Judea.)

Hiram is recorded as an allegorical being, symbolizing the GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE. (Mackey, pp. 13-99). In this rite, the process of "generation" is represented as being complete; God, and the name of God, which the candidates are supposed to be seeking, is
Notes:-
1. Taken from: Speculative Masonry, by Brother J. Yorke, Grand Master of the Ancient Rite, pp. 3, 54.
2 From: Yorke, p.14; also Mackey's Lexicon, pp.126-129.
3 Taken from: Ragon's Cours. Philosophique, p.102
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discovered. The name of this deity, not the LORD GOD of the Old Testament, is MOA-BON. This was the name given to the child born of Lot, after he had an incestuous affair with one of his daughters. The story is told in Genesis 19:37. This is explained as the man-child coming into being through the union of the SUN, with his daughter, the EARTH.4 This deity is also known as MAC-BENEC, "Offspring of putrefaction," since death and decomposition must precede the beginning of life; the seed must die before the plant can live.5

"This," says the Masonic expert Ragon, "is the important phenomenon, the ineffable mystery, the key to nature, which the ancient sages succeeded in discovering, and which they adopted as the basis of Masonic doctrine... It is the subject of Masonic legends. According to this interpretation, the revolting atrocities of SATURN, and the incestuous PHARAEDRA, (SATURN was the Roman god of agriculture, and PHARAEDRA was the Greek wife of Minos, who had an incestuous relationship with her own son) were considered interesting enigmas, which involve facts worth our notice." (See Ragon, pp. 218,219). Throughout his book on Freemasonry, Ragon dwells on the process of procreation, Isis, Egyptian gods and goddesses, etc.

I believe enough has been said to indicate the "earthy" nature of Freemasonry and their peculiar system of morality, which we will discuss later on. All this is in veiled allegory. The contrast between Scriptural morality and Masonic morality is that between "light" and darkness;" between the "spirit of the anti-Christ" and the "spirit of God." It was Jesus who said: "... men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil," (John 3:19). He went on in verse 20 to say: "EveryoneNotes:-

4. See: Ragon, Tyileur General Dc La Franc-Maconnerie, p.28.
5. This principle is taught in Mackey's Lexicon on Masonry.
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that doeth evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."

As fast as men are converted to Freemasonry, so do they repudiate the principles and claims of Christianity. They may call themselves Christian, but as Christ Himself said:

Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13.
"No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other; ye cannot serve God and MAMMON."
Mammon is the love of fleshly, material things. In other words, "materialism," which is the very essence of FREEMASONRY
It should be noted that when dealing with Masons, their arguments must be interpreted in the light of the allegories or symbolism they use. According to Albert Pike, in his MORALS AND DOGMA

"Almost every one of the ancient Masonic symbols had four distinct meanings, one, as it were within the other - the moral, the political, the philosophical, and the spiritual meaning."

Thus, according to Pike; Hiram Abiff, Christ and MOLAY, are regarded as symbols representing "humanity." Since they are all apostles of "liberty, equality and fraternity." (These, by the way, were the watchword of the atheistic French Revolution). The cross in Freemasonry is by no means looked on as a specific Christian symbol, but is closely connected with a peculiar cult. The I.N.R.I. on the cross, to a Mason, does not refer to the passion of our Lord, but is Masonically read as "Igne Natura Rebovatur Integra," or "All nature is renewed by Masonic fire."

The picture of Christ dying on the cross for the sins of mankind becomes for the Masons, the "greatest among the apostles of humanity, braving Roman despotism, and the fanaticism and bigotry of the priesthood."
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Reading from official Masonic documents, one can readily see that the vast majority of the Masonic Brotherhood, does not understand the trend or purpose of Masonic teachings and activity.

They are instructed by slow degrees and are only admitted into the more secret of the degrees, as they have become morally attuned to Masonic teachings and thus become capable of understanding the higher degrees.

Albert Pike, in MORALS AND DOGMA, p.819 says:

"Part of the symbols, are displayed ... to the initiated, but he is intentionally led astray by false interp">1... Masonry conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts (Highly skilled experts of Masonry), the Sages and the Elect; and uses false explanations for its symbols to mislead those deserving to be misled."
So you can see, from this top Masonic leader, that Masonry is a system of falsehood, which is used to fool even their own members.
The character of the inner workings of Freemasonry, is one of the reasons its secrets are hidden behind horrible oaths, which bind its votaries, especially in the higher degrees, through fear.

If the eminent Masonic authorities declare that few members understand the mysteries of Masonry, you should not consider it presumptuous if I say that very few Masons are ever brought to a true understanding of the organization they support. If they were decent men, and this is especially true of those who claim to be Christian, they would resign in disgust in spite of the horrible oaths they have taken.

Many Masons fail to see the truth because of the use of the Bible in their ceremonies. They see the garment of HIDDEN POWER - Masonry, but not what it conceals. They get little or no spiritual inspiration from the Lodge,
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but appear in its dress parades and feast at its banquets, thinking they are engaged in a harmless fraternity which is doing good in the community and is good for their business. But in most cases, in fact, in a large majority of cases, there is a vast difference between what Masonry teaches and what it believes.

Martin Wagner, in his book FREEMASONRY- An Interpretation. says on pg. 153:

"The peculiar theological and religious ideas that Freemasonry holds and aims to inculcate while positively non-Christian, are expressed in terms of Christian theology, not to express Christian ideas, or to show their harmony with Christian thought, but to give them a Christian coloring, the more effective to deceive, mislead and hoodwink the neophyte, the conscientious member, and the non-Mason into whose hands Masonic literature may come.

"Thus the Biblical and Christian appellations of God are employed to denote the Masonic deity, who is known as THE GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE. It employs the terms of regeneration; illumination; resurrection; justification and other Christian ideas, under which hide Masonic religious operations. These terms have a peculiar and specific meaning to Masons, and in studying this institution, we must not permit ourselves to be misled by their use of Christian theological terms. Many a Mason has been misled to believe that Freemasonry is a Christian institution."

I see no reason for us to go further into a study of Masonic symbolism, other than to say that its own leaders indicate it is heathen in origin and is used for the purpose of misleading its own members.


Much that appears Christian is in fact nothing but theological development of certain ancient esoteric doctrines, which were incorporated into Christianity and contributed much to its development, and which are also found in Talmudic works and in Talmudic Judaism.
- from: The Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. III, "CABALA," pg. 478 (1903)
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13 - THE BINDING FORCE IN FREEMASONRY - OATHS

The utter obedience and subservience of Masonic members is gained through the use of horrific oaths! The oath for the First Degree, for instance, contains the promise:

"to hide, conceal and never reveal any part or parts of the secrets of Masonry which are already known to the candidate, or may in any way be learned by him at a future time."
Later, after his initiation, he is required to swear:
"To obey all signs and summonses handed, sent, or thrown from a brother Master Mason, or from the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of Master Masons."
The absolute subservience of the member to the Lodge is seen in promises such as:
"to obey without hesitation, any order whatsoever it may be, of Masonic superiors ... to assist a Companion- Royal Arch Mason when he is engaged in any difficulty, and to espouse his cause, so far as to extricate him from the same, WHETHER HE IS RIGHT OR WRONG."
These and other promises are made under the following oath:
"To have his throat cut from ear to ear, his tongue torn out by the roots, and his body buried in the rough sand of the sea at the low-water mark, where the tide flows twice in the same twenty-four hours.
"To have his skull severed in two and divided to the North and

South, his bowels burned to ashes in the midst, and scattered to the four winds of the heavens."

"To have his skull broke off, and his brains exposed to the scorching rays of the meridian sun, etc."1

Notes:-
1. Taken from: Albert Pike's Inner Sanctuary (quoted here in part).
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14 - THE EFFECTS OF FREEMASONRY ON THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD AND THE CONTINENT
While many of those who read this book will understand the importance of politics and religion among the European members of the Israelite nations (the nations we now know as Christendom), most of them will want to focus their attention on the effects of Freemasonry on the English speaking world; the British Isles, Canada, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Most of our interests will be centered on Canada and the United States.

It may be difficult for the average Canadian or American to understand the tremendous influence exerted by Freemasonry on our respective countries. The vast majority of Masons in both countries are law abiding citizens; many of them are church members, active in the religious activities of their community; many are conspicuous in charitable efforts to help the unfortunate and are looked on as pillars of stability in the community. But we need to remember that most of these Masons have been "brainwashed," just as members of the Judeo-Christian churches have been. In the church, these Christians, both Masonic and Judeo-Christian, protect the very enemies which are seeking to destroy everything they say they believe in as Patriotic Christians.

Professor John Robinson, a high ranking English Mason, wrote a very revealing book - PROOFS OF A CONSPIRACY (1798). He stated on pg. 466:

"Not all secret societies are dangerous, but all societies whose object is mysterious. The whole history of man is proof of this position. In no age of our country, has there ever appeared a mysterious association, which did not in time become a public nuisance."

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Remember the quotation from Horace Mann to the effect that we should question the motives of any man or organization who seeks to hide their objectives from the public.

The Prime Minister of England, during the reign of Queen Victoria, when England was at the zenith of her power, was a converted Jew named Benjamin Disraeli. He stated that Jews were at the head of every important revolution which had taken place on the continent and in England, and that the Masonic lodges sought to carry out the aims of the Jewish revolutionaries.

Over and over again, one can find statements made by both Jewish and Masonic leaders, concerning their part in these revolutions. Marcus Eli Ravage, a well-known Jewish author, writing in CENTURY MAGAZINE, January 1928, stated:

"We Jews are at the bottom of nearly all your wars; not only of the Russian but of every other major revolution in your history. We did it solely with the irresistible might of our spirit, with ideas and propaganda."
The Jewish author, Oscar Levy, in the Preface to his book THE WORLD SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, said:
"There is scarcely an event in modern Europe that cannot be traced back to Jews. We Jews today are nothing else but the world's seducers; it's destroyers; it's incendiaries; it's executioners."
Yet foolish Christians continue to call these barbarians "God's Chosen people." How stupid can we become?
These were and are the men who have controlled and now control Freemasonry. Secret orders within England today, such as the Star of the East, and the Order of the Round Table, for all practical purposes control England. They are associated with continental Masons who claim to be under the direct influence of the Grand Masters, or the Great White Lodge, which is made up of Jewish cabalists.


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The same is true of the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States, the Skull and Bones Club, the Trilateral Commission and other organizations which are seeking to bring this country under the international bondage of a One-World Jewish controlled government. Many of these men are high ranking Masons.

One of the most powerful, but little known orders of Masonry is the ROSICRUCIANS who pose as an "high and holy order for spiritual development and service to mankind." They are actually a pseudo-religious order of occultists who study "high magic."

In most of the modern revolutions in Europe, which were communist or socialist in origin, we find Jewish Freemasons, who are in positions of highest power.

Scattered and rendered virtually powerless for almost 2,000 years, Jews have always been bitter revolutionists. Everywhere you go, you will find a profound and bitter antagonism between Jew and non-Jew, in both racial and spiritual realms. The Apostle Paul said of them; "...they have persecuted us (Christians), and please not God, and are contrary to all men " (1 Thess. 2:15). This contrariness rises from their completely different concept of life.

While few Jews were visible in the French Revolution of 1798, Freemasons did the job for them and were a cloak of secrecy shrouding Jewish involvement. Often, where Freemasonry is active, the Jews who manipulate them will remain in the background. This caused the Jewish Prime Minister of England, Benjamin Disraeli (1868-1880) to say:

"The world is governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes... That mighty revolution which is now preparing in Germany, and which will be in fact, a second and greater Reformation, and of which so little is yet known in England, is developing under the auspices of the Jews."
He was not warning Englishmen of this fact, but like the Jew he was, in spite of claiming to be a Christian, he could

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not resist boasting of the conquests of his people over the hated "goyim."

It is interesting to note, that down through the ages of history, the so-called Chosen Race of Judaism, has been willing to walk "hand in hand" with the scum of society, if it would further their control. In 1919, when Leon Trotsky, with $20-million donated by Jewish banker Jacob Schiff of New York, was on his way to Europe, he had with him 247 Jews who were the "dregs of society" from the alleys of New York City. The type of Jews, whom the Jews themselves refer to as "kikes." These were to become the top leaders in the Russian Revolution which killed Christians by the millions.

In Russia, where Freemasonry had been forbidden by law, the revolutionary effort was about 90% Jewish and many of these were Masons. The scum which followed them was eager for plunder. In Hungary, according to official Hungarian documents, the revolution was a Jewish-Masonic effort. When the Hungarian Soviet Republic was established on March 22, 1918, its top leaders were 100% Freemasons and Jews.

The Minister of Public Instruction, Brother Kunzi, was a Masonic Jew; the National Minister of Soviets, Brother Kaszi, the son of a Jewish millionaire from Budapest, who was also a Mason; and above all, we must never forget Brother Bela Kuhn, the Jewish-Masonic-Hungarian butcher of Christians, who was a criminal of the first order and who operated under the protection of his Masonic connections.

Of the Hungarian Commissariat, 26 in all, 18 were Masonic Jews, an unheard of proportion, considering the size of the Jewish community in Hungary. 76 men who had criminal indictments against them, a preponderance of whom were Masonic Jews, were placed in positions of leadership in this Christian country. Men with names such


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as Liebrenecht, Rosa Luxemborough, Kurt Einser, and others.

When the Imperial Government of Germany fell at the end of World War I, Jews and Masons dominated the new government. The eleven men who took power over Bavaria were Lowenberg, Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, Caspar Wallheim, Max Rothschild, Karl Arnold, Konrald, Rosenheh, Bierbaum, Reis, and Kaiser. These, along with Kurt Eisner von Israelovich, were the head of the Revolutionary Tribunal. All were Jews, and all were FREEMASONS, belonging to Lodge #11 in Munich.

A strange phenomenon exists in Judaism, in that enormous amounts of labor and money have been expended to minimize the part played by Jews in the Bolshevik Revolution, while at the same time, world renowned Jewish leaders brag about the power they exert.

A few years ago, in 1935, Rabbi Stephen Wise, the top Jewish authority in the United States at that time, was asked to comment on Communism. He was reported to have said: "Some call it communism; I call it Judaism. "1

Contrary to what we have been told in the Jewish owned and controlled press of Canada and the United States, an entirely new breed of millionaires have risen in Russia. They are all Jews. They live in the lush resort areas of Kiev and Odessa and own their own factories, something unheard of in Russia. Many of these are prominent Freemasons. In Russian cities where the population of Jews exceeds 25%, they are allowed to have their own Yiddish law, Yiddish courts, Yiddish codes and Yiddish is their official language.

This is in a communist country, where we have been led to believe, by media propaganda, that the poor Jews are persecuted. Yet as late as 1983, when Andropov was
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1. The American Bulletin, May 15, 1935.

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Premier of the USSR, out of 23 members of the controlling Politburo, 17 were Jews. Virtually all the high ranking military commanders of Russia today are Jews, as are the party functionaries such as the Generals of Police, the Director General of the K.G.B., the Director of Foreign Operations, the Economic Planning Chief and the State Finance Officer. It is impossible, and probably improper, in this book to go into detail concerning the brutality of these Jewish-Masons towards the "bourgeoisie," especially those who are Christian.

In the city of Khorkaff, for example, in recent years, official documents state that a Masonic Jew named Sanko specialized in scalping his helpless victim. He would take the skin off their hands, peeling it off as one would take off a glove. At Kiev, victims were placed in a large chest, along with decomposed corpses and were buried underground until they passed out. They then were uncovered, revived and went through this torture again and again. Do you wonder why many of these people went mad?

Vicomte Leon de Poccius, in his remarkable book THE SECRET POWER BEHIND REVOLUTION, says on p.161:

"Without us Aryans being conscious of it, the idealism pertaining to our race, that idealism which was all that is beautiful, throughout all ages, for all that was noble, for sincerity, became imperiled by the seductive concept of Jewry towards a cynical and unscrupulous materialism, which finds its political expression in the Judeo-Masonic universal atheist Republic."
The Jewish revolutionary influence has been felt in all the nations of Christendom, either directly, or indirectly through Freemasonry, or the Jewish nationals who have managed to insinuate themselves into positions of political influence. Probably one of the best examples of this in 1989, is the influence of the Jewish Democratic Senator from Ohio, Metzenbaum, who has been involved in almost every liberal effort against this country and is in the

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forefront of the drive to disarm patriotic Americans. Recently he made a public statement to the effect that we must fight to preserve America from the horrible fate of becoming a Christian nation.

I have previously mentioned THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION, which the Jews and their Christian stooges proclaim as counterfeit. But the indisputable fact remains, that from as early as 1789, this Machiavellian plan for world control has been used successfully around the world and Jews and Freemasons are following its plan like a "blueprint." One French Socialist leader stated:

"The nation is a great herd that only thinks of browsing, and with good sheep dogs (police) and shepherds (political and religious leaders), can lead as they please ... Money and hope of plunder is an all-powerful force with the people."

This force can be seen in operation in America and Canada today, for wherever you find the $ sign, no matter how evil the project may be, there you will find the vultures of International Jewry and Freemasonry. When we see what is happening in these two key countries, we can better understand what the Apostle Paul meant in 1 Timothy 6:10, when he stated: "The love Of MONEY) is the root of ALL evil."

Our discussion of Freemasonry has taken us back to its beginning and to the revolutionary period in Europe. But what about now? Has it mellowed? Has its designs changed? We will delve into this and more in the following chapters.

15- FREEMASONRY TODAY

One of the fundamental errors expressed by those who write about Freemasonry, I believe, is that they feel that all Masons hold a common belief and purpose. The truth is, that Freemasonry is in a generic (applied to a class or group),


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simply a system of binding men together for a given purpose.

The allegories (description of one thing under the image of another), used in Freemasonry, are capable of various interpretations. The re-building of Solomon's Temple for instance, may refer to progress in any Masonic undertaking. The same is true about its "sacred traditions." This system of degrees, of initiations, of binding members to secrecy by fearful oaths, can be employed for any purpose, social, political, philanthropic, or religious. It can promote "good," or disseminate "evil." It can be used to "defend a concept," or "overthrow" it; it can "protect" or "destroy."

But unfortunately, in Grand Orient Masonry, we find that it is not only political in its aims, it is also subversive. Instead of a peaceful trilogy of "brotherly love, relief and truth," it has added from its beginning, the war cry of revolution: "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity," which can never come to pass on this earth as long as it is controlled by human beings.

The aim of Grand Orient Masonry, from its inception, has been to bring about "universal equality." In the matter of "liberty," they preach: "no man shall have a master" and echo the thoughts of the German Jew Feurbach who stated that: "Man will finally be free, when he realizes there is no god of man, but man himself" To believe this falsehood, a man must first divorce himself from any concept of Christianity which teaches that Jesus is King!

The Grand Orient Lodge attacks all forms of religion. Its basis is "absolute liberty of conscience and the solidarity of all mankind." This kind of Freemasonry allows for "freedom of conscience" in the same sense that atheism does, since all its members must profess a belief in some form of higher power.


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16 - THE REAL JEWISH PERIL!

The religion of JUDAISM TALMUDISM PHARISAISM whatever you wish to call it, does not take its stand on the Bible, or the Laws of Moses, as most Christians seem to think. Our LORD clearly taught this in John 5:46, 47, when He told the Jewish leaders:

46 "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?"

Michael Rodkinsom, the Jewish author and translator of the TALMUD from Hebrew to English, in his preface to the translation says: "The modern Jew is a product of the Talmud."

Yet it is interesting to note that the Talmud relegates the TORAH (the teachings of Moses) to a second place in Jewish teaching. The TALMUD is not a "law of righteousness" for all mankind, as the Bible is, but is a strict code which applies only to Jews. You will not find admonitions in it, such as those found in Micah 6:8 -"He (God) hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."

In the TALMUD the ideas of Justice, equity and charity towards one's neighbor, depend on whether you are a Jew or not. In fact, the TALMUD expressly forbids a Jew to save a non-Jew from death, or to restore lost goods to him, or to have pity on him in any way. How can you deal justly with your neighbor, when your religion teaches you that he is a "goyim" (non-Jew animal)?

According to the TALMUD volume Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat (238): 'A Jew is permitted to rape, cheat and perjure himself; but he must take care that he is


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not found out, so that his people suffer." This teaching is almost identical to the teachings of FREEMASONRY According to volume Sulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamispat (348):

"All property of other nations belongs to the Jews, who are consequently entitled to seize upon it without scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general."

Volume Baba Mechia (108b) and the JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, both state: "Only Jews are men... Gentiles (non-Jews) are not classed as men but as barbarians or beasts."

In Volume Bab Khama IV, (3) we read: "if a Gentile sues a Jew the verdict is for the defendant; if the Jew is the plaintiff he obtains full damages." This is almost the same reaction we find when a Mason goes to court against a non-Mason.

In Volume Sanhedrin (954b) we learn that "Pederasty (sex relations between men and boys) with a child below the age of nine years is not deemed as pederasty with a child. If one commits sodomy with a child of lesser age, no guilt is incurred."

There are many more bestial and obscene comments, some of which cannot be placed in a book such as this. It is easy to see where the moral teachings of Freemasonry and Judaism come from. It is from this same devilish source.

In the CABALA, even more than in the TALMUD, the Jewish dream of world domination reoccurs over and over again. Although Christian apologists for the Jews, laugh and scorn at the idea of a Jewish conspiracy to control the world, yet Jewish leaders talk about it constantly and brag about the progress they have made towards this goal. It is a constant theme in Jewish religious books.

This message of world conquest is not the message taught by the Israel prophets, who were not Jews, by the way, but Israelites.


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The task of true Israelites is not to control the world, but. in the words of the Apostle Peter "to shew forth the praises of Him (Christ) who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." The task of "true Israel" is to be God's ambassadors, not some dictator, who like the Jew, desires to have 2,000 "goyim" slaves who wait on him hand and foot.

In the TALMUD Volume Baba Batra (74b) and in at least three other volumes, the story is told of what will happen when the Jewish Messiah comes back to rule the world. It is completely different from the much more plausible story told in the Bible, regarding Christ's return. According to the TALMUD version, the Jews will be entertained at a great banquet. They will be seated at golden tables and will be served wine from Adam's cellar. Their banquet meal will be made up of a roasted ox called BEHEMOTH which is so huge that it eats the grass off a thousand hills every day. There will also be a monster fish called LEVIATHAN which will be broiled and pickled. A gigantic fowl known as BAYUCHF will also be served. This bird is so large, that when one of its eggs fell out of a nest, it crushed 300 large cedar trees and the white from its broken shell, flooded sixty villages. (This sounds almost as fantastic as some of the stories Jews tell about the HOLOCAUST). The final course of this immense banquet will consist of dessert, including fruit from the 'tree of life,' and pomegranates from the Garden of Eden." (Again, this story sounds almost like some of the stories one hears in the Judeo-Christian churches regarding heaven.)

An 18th Century Jewish commentator named Stehlin states that, "foreigners (that's you and I, brother) will till the ground of the Jews in that day of their triumph; that we (foreigners) will build their houses and cities and plant their vineyards, all without pay, because it will be such an honor for us to work for them. The nations which survive the last 'holocaust' will offer the Jews all their wealth and Gentile princes and princesses will wait on Jews as their slaves, and


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be ready at the nod of a head, to do anything the Jew asks." That sounds like "LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND FRATERNITY!" now doesn't it?

The hope of world domination - "world conspiracy," if you will, is as strong now in the Jewish mind as it has been for 2,000 years, and is being aided and abetted by Masons of high rank. The real dream of Jewish world power can be seen most clearly in the Cabala.

About the only way the modern Jew relates to the Bible, is in his arrogant statements concerning the "Ten Commandments, which WE gave to mankind." It is this type of arrogance, which caused the translators of the New Testament to translate John 4:22, as having Jesus say: "salvation is of the Jews," when any clear thinking Christian knows that salvation does not come through any nation, or group of people, but only through God's Son, Jesus the Christ. It is this Jewish arrogance which caused them to change the original, which said: "For salvation cometh out of Judea." This makes sense, the KJV translation does not!

The fact that there were no people anywhere in the world known as Jews, when the Ten Commandments were given to Israel, means absolutely nothing to the Jews and their intellectually dishonest prostitutes in the Judeo-Christian churches of America. They deliberately choose to disregard what Jesus said about the Jewish Pharisees in John 10:26 - "But ye (Pharisees), believe not BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP..." (Emphasis mine). Instead of heeding what their Master said, they call His enemies, "God's Chosen people" and support the very ones who are attempting to destroy them. What fools men be!

The Jews have always bragged about their privileged status with God, knowing full well that they are the impostors who are spoken of in Malachi 1:2-4 and Revelation 2:9; 3:9. When people brag about their


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privileged status, they will always be met with resentment. That is one reason the Apostle Paul said they are "contrary to all men, " (1 Thess. 2:5).

To represent the Jewish people as a gentle, suffering people, the victims of gentile persecution, is to show an entire lack of both spiritual and historical understanding. In the ages past, Jews have over and over again showed their utter contempt for all mankind and that they are capable of the utmost cruelties towards those who disagree with them, especially if they are the hated Nazarites (Christians). Most of the cruelest persecutions in the Communist regimes, have been carried out under Jewish supervision. An estimated 140-million people have been murdered by these minions of Judeo-Masonry. Today, the cruelty of Jews towards the Palestinians, whose land they have wrongfully usurped, goes far beyond anything that Hitler ever dreamed.

The Jewish historian, Josephus, in his monumental work titled THE JEWISH WARS, describes the pogroms carried out by the Jews in Palestine during the First Century A.D. The "Sicarri," were a band of Jewish terrorists, who were working with the approval of the Jewish authorities, much as the MOSSAD works today. Many Christians do not know that the Jewish leaders Begin and Shamir, were leading terrorists in 1948. During the First Century, these terrorists wiped out a village called Engeddim, killing over 700 women and children. In 1948, Menachem Begin, another Jew terrorist, wiped out a Palestinian village of some 264 old men, women and children and bragged that he had killed Arab women with his own hands. Yet this terrorist became Prime Minister of Israeli.

It is intellectual dishonesty of the worst sort to state, as the prostitutes of Judaism do, from their pulpits, that the faults of the modern Jews are due to their persecution at the hands of Christians in the past. They have been persecuted, there is no doubt about that, but not because

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Old French Freemason Movie From 1943 Gnostic Warrior 34,810 views  SUBSCRIBE 35,171 168 20 Published on Feb 21, 2014Byhttp://www.GnosticWarrior.com - Here is an oldy, but a Masonic goody. A French Masonic movie called Occult Forces with English subtitles

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Presidential : the call of the Freemasons against the FN and against abstention
Sébastien Maillard, the 13/04/2017 to 17h35
http://www.la-croix.com/France/Politiqu ... 1200839432

With the approach of the presidential election, seven masonic obediences French sign a "call" republican " against the Front National, without giving other instructions than to take part in the election
The masons also invite the other parties to do "their own self-criticism" and, more broadly, to rethink the dominant economic model

Marine le Pen in The meeting. / Francois Nascimbeni/AFP
In a unique way before a presidential election, seven masonic obediences in france, made public, on 13 April, a " call " republican ". Worrying about a surge of " national selfishness and (to) the impulses of identity ", the re-emergence of " old prospects who have done so much wrong in the past " and opposing " racism, to the hatred of the other " their text is in the hollow of the national Front. The signatories were immediately recognized by presenting their appeal to the press in Paris, from the headquarters of the Fédération française du droit humain, a masonic obediences signatories which, in the aggregate, together with 160,000 members.

Against the FN, and beyond

"There is an urgency before the néoboulangisme (1) what is the FN, which has not cut with its roots,"commented the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France, Christophe Habas, the other signatory. The call occurs just after the controversy around the words of Marine Le Pen on the raid of Vel d'hiv, but the leaders of the masonic explain have prepared their text earlier, " for at least a month" in the face of a president of the FN, which remains in the lead in voting intentions.

READ : Marine Le Pen, an ambiguous relationship to the Story

"It is not intended that the FN ", added, however, one of the signatories, citing without naming them " the current downward movements for social rights and other movements, outside parties ". Their report regrets in particular that the " political word (is) is blurred by (..) reprehensible practices ", an allusion perhaps to the court cases involving French prime minister François Fillon.

"Voting is more than ever essential "

If they are unanimous to ask " not to vote for the FN ", as another signatory, has stated bluntly to the press, the masons do not give to much " any instructions to vote ", or they do not engage in an analysis of the programs.

They call to " do not give in to the temptation of forbearance, which is a part of the youth. " To exercise his civic duty by turning out to vote is more than ever essential,"they write, while the level of participation could be among the lowest for a presidential election, according to several polls.

TO READ : A young person declares to abstain in the first round of the presidential

Even if it was intended explicitly to the presidential election, the text of the freemasons also endeavours to register beyond this date, inviting them to " regenerate and revive the democratic space ". " We need to build and not to be afraid ", conclude the signatories are concerned about the rise of populism in outside also of the Hexagon.

Discredit politics and the economy deregulated

"Regardless of the outcome of the election, it is necessary to think of a new popular democracy ", says Christophe Habas, who committed " the traditional parties to make their own self-criticism " in front of " a drift to the discredit of politics ". " Our goal is to ask ourselves how we got there ", he explains to The Cross.

A request for introspection, which is not without reminding us of that own to the bishops of France, who has just over six months, issued a brief essay entitled Rediscovering the meaning of the policy.

TO READ : The bishops call to refound policy

The masons remind them of their commitment to corporate " anxious not to consider the human being as a variable of adjustment in an economy deregulated ". " You can't serve warm water, which strengthens the extremes ", said the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France, taking on " the single thought liberal dominant " and " the adoration of the divine market " : " it is necessary to take out the austerity policies that affament peoples ".

Asked if the persuasions supported Jean-Luc Mélenchon – who takes publicly be a freemason and defends a project fundamentally antilibéral –, Christophe Habas responded that the candidate of " the France insubordinate " was " standalone " and without " dependence, ideological " in regard to them, without criticizing his program on the merits.

TO READ : The main protestant Church of France goes up to the niche against the FN

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(1) Reference to the boulangisme, a political movement that brings together at the end of the XIXe century, under the name of general Boulanger, of the opponents of the IIIe Republic.
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'The SPECulative Society of Edinburgh (TheSSoE)':
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'A clandestine and secretive society that is seemingly malign, with noted association with some very dubious legal and banking practices and occurences. 'The Higher Up The Tree The Monkey Climbs The More You See Its Rs'

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Thursday, 1 January 2009
The Spec - Members 1947 - 2002

THE SPECULATIVE SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
LIST OF MEMBERS


WHO HAVE BEEN ADMITTED
TO EXTRAORDINARY PRIVILEGES

1947- 2002

N.B. Since the first publication of this list several years ago, absolutely no-one has attempted to deny membership or challenge their identification as false.

They describe themselves as a ‘Debating Society’ based in Edinburgh University.
Edinburgh University has never heard of them, and their own Debating Society has never debated with them, nor have the Debating Societies of the Universities of Dublin, Oxford, Cambridge or London. So why call yourself a Debating Society?
As a splinter group from the Operative Masonry of the Canongate Kilwinning Lodge No. 2 in 1764, they formed in the same year and in the same city as Speculative Masonry, but thought of themselves as highly elite, well-educated and enlightened, and thus early ‘Illuminati’.

A

Abbey, David Yool 1617 (BA. Oxford, LL.B.; Advocate; Sheriff-Substitute at Airdrie)
Adams, S. L.
Anderson, J. P. (B.A.)
Angus, R. J. (Q.C. Commissioner, Social Security & Child Support Agency)
Appleton, Edward Victor 1622 [Principal University of Edin. (Honorary Member)]
Arbuthnott, Hugh Sinclair 1644 (The Hon. Hugh of Cairnhill, Foreside, by Forfar. Resigned) Armstrong, Iain G. (Q.C. Advocate Depute, 2000-present; Clerk of Faculty 1995-1999)

B

Balfour, G. A. J. - See Taprain, Viscount
Barne, Jonathan Michael (Solicitor, Shepherd & Wedderburn, Saltire Court, Edinburgh)
Barnes, E.W.
Barr, Kenneth Glen 1757 (Resigned, Sheriff of South Strathclyde, Dumfries & Galloway)
Bell, John Robin Sinclair 1683 (MBE in 1999 for services to Scottish charities)
Bell, Stewart Edward 1599 (Resigned on departing to Malaya; Sheriff-Substitute at Glasgow) Berry, William 1758 (K.T, Ch.M.B.M. W.S; Dir. Scot. Life, Scot. Amer. Inv., Inchcape)
Bertram, Robert David Darney 1765 (Ptnr, Shep. & Wedd., Monopoly & Mergers Committee)
Bisset, Norman Shirsinger (Solicitor, C.M.S. Cameron McKenna, Aberdeen)
Black, Duncan Ian 1672 (Architect to the Scottish Development Dept.)
Black, Robert (Q.C., Professor of Law and Head of the Faculty, the University of Edinburgh)[LOCK]
Blackie, J. W. (B.A. LL.B., Prof of Law, University of Strathclyde)
Blackledge, P. V. P. (B.Mus.)
Blair, John Woodman 1733 (Snr. Ptnr. Anderson Strathearn; Dir. Edinburgh Fund Managers Group)
Blair, Robin Orr 1785 (M.A .St Andrews, LL.B. Edinburgh, W.S; Lord Lyon King of Arms)
Bogie, David W. (Sheriff d.)
Boisseau, C. D.
Borden, Frank Harris 1634 (M.A. University of Pennsylvania; A.B. Trinity College, Connecticut)
Bowie, Simon D. R. (Advocate, Edinburgh)
Boyd, Kenneth MacKenzie 1753 (M.A. Edin., Theologian, and Author)
Brand, David William Robert 1610 (Resigned, M.A. LL.B. Q.C.; Solicitor General 1970)
Brodie, Jonathan P. (Advocate, Standing Jr. Counsel to Dept. of Soc Sec. & The Bible Board)
Brown, Ewan (C.B.E., M.A., LL.B., C.A., FCIBS, Prof., Ch. H-Watt Univ., Dir. Noble Grossart, Lloyds TSB)
Bruce, Hon Adam R. (Solicitor/Lobbyist, Dir. McGrigor Donald Public Policy; Tory candidate) Bruce, Michael Stewart Rae 1732 (Lord Marnoch, Law Lord)[Skye Bridge]
Bruce-Gardyne, Charles Evan 1623 (LL.B., Royal Company of Archers; 14th Laird of Middleton)
Bruford, Alan James 1769 (Author of Gaelic Folk Tales, Archivist, School of Scottish Studies Edin. Univ.)
Buchanan, Nigel Walter 1715 (B.A. Oxford; LL.B. W.S.)
Buist, Robert Cochran 1666 (Investment Trust Manager)
Bullick, Peter Maurice 1759 (Resigned, LL.B. Edin., W.S. Solicitor)
de Burgh, H. W. (Prof. Media & Communications, Goldsmiths College, Uni. of London)
Burns, David S. (QC, Advocate Depute 1991-93, Deputy Com. of Soc. Sec., 1998-now, Lockerbie defence lawyer for Megrahi) [LOCK]
Burns, Richard R.J. (B.A. Oxon., LL.B., Dir. Scottish Life, Baillie Gifford & Co., Mid Wynd Inter. Inv. plc., etc)
Butler, L. (B.A. M.A. P.h.D.)
Butter, Peter Herbert 1615 (BA. Oxon; Prof., Lecturer at Edinburgh & Belfast Universities; Author)
Butters, John Anthony Howard 1735 (B.A. Camb; LL.B. Edin., Scot. Valtn. Advisory Council)
Byatt, Andrew Lorne Campbell (Solicitor with Morton Fraser, Edinburgh)

C

Callendar, Alexander Dougal 1614 (B.A. Oxford, LL.B. Edin, W.S.; Captain Q.O.C.H.)
Cameron, Ewan Kennedy 1674 (M.A., LL.B. Edin., W.S.)
Cameron, John Alastair 1776 (Lord Abernethy, Law Lord)
Cameron, J T 1689 (Lord Coulsfield, Law Lord) [LOCK][SBT]
Cameron, Kenneth John 1681 (of Lochbroom, Law Lord) Chaired and refused Inner House Appeal of Robbie the Pict’s (RtP) interdict of Miller Civil Engineering collecting tolls illegally.[SBT]
Cameron, N. M.
Campbell, Colin John 1764 (A.R.I.C.S., Q.A.L.A.S., Chartered Surveyor)
Campbell, Hugh H. (QC, F.C.I. Arbitrators, B.A. Oxon., LL.B. Edin.,)
Campbell, Niall Gordon 1756 (Civil Servant, Head of Justice Dept., Ex-Development Dept., Scot. Off. Charged with delivering UK’s first PFI model the Skye tolls.) [SBT]
Campbell, R. M. M.
Campbell, William David 1741 (Architect, A.R.I.B.A.;)
Campling, James Robert 1713 (Works Director)
Cavaye, David B. M. (Investment Mgr. Securities Trust Scotland/Martin Currie, Saltire Court)
Chapman Cambell, R. H.
Clarke, John Gwynne 1663 (Resigned, Lecturer in French)
Clarke, Matthew Gerald (Law Lord, Lord Clarke, as QC said Skye toll paperwork was flawless) [SBT]
Clyde, James John 1688 (Law Lord, Ex-Lord Advocate, son of 1403 & grandson of 1131)
Cohen, Laurence Jonathan 1603 (Lecturer & Fellow, Oxon, Edin., Dundee, St. Ands., Princeton & Harvard)
Considine, Hugh McKay 1601 (Resigned, Edinburgh Academy 1932-37; B.A. Camb. LL.B.)
Cosser, A. J. (LL.B.)
Cowan, Charles David Symington 1602 (Paper Trade; Manufacturing; Stockbroking)
Cowan, John Michael (LL.B., Solicitor, Condies, Perth)
Cowie, William Lorn Kerr 1631 (Law Lord, Lord Cowie) Sat with Lord Maclean (Spec) and Lord Sutherland (Mason) to refuse an RtP appeal claiming Skye tolling licence was not signed, dated, published, or financially true. [SBT]
Craddock, I D
Craig, Maxwell Davidson 1729 (Non-resident, Minister Ch of Scot; Asst. Prin. Min. of Labour)
Craig, T. M. (B.Sc., A.R.C.S.I., G.M.I., Mech.E.)
Crawford, George Douglas 1790 (Journalist, Editor of 'Scotland', Economist, Scot. Coun. Dev. & Ind.)
Crerar, James Drummond 1717 (Solicitor, Dickson McNiven & Dunn, W.S.)
Croker, Patrick Thomas Crofton 1719 (B.A.Oxford, Schoolmaster, Fettes College, 1959-65)
Crole, Robert Lake 1695 (Schoolmaster at Fettes and Geelong G.S.)
Crowther, A. V.
Cullen, William Douglas 1702 (Law Lord, Lord Justice General), refused any Petition to the Nobile Officium to re-examine Sutherland Opinion which avoided examination of the duff Skye tolling licence. Cf Lockerbie cover-up. Cf. Dunblane cover-up (Corrupted the Inquiry by hiding 26 shelf feet of evidence unlawfully for 100 years). Cf Piper Alpha cover-up. Cf Paddington cover-up. Safe pair of government hands.(seen by many as an utterly corrupt Government fixer!) [LOCK] [SBT] [DUN]
Currie, James David Peterkin 1738 (Ship-owner, J.P., Chairman of Jas. Currie & Co., son of 1468)
Curtis, R. S.
D

Davidson, Charles Kemp 1636 (Law Lord, Lord Davidson)
Davidson, D. (Advocate Donald Davidson?)
Davidson Kelly, C. N.
Dawson, W. A. C.
Derby, Peter Jared 1784 (B.Sc. Queens Univ., Belfast; Master of Worshipful Co. of Actuaries)
Dessain, S. J. F.
Dickson, A. W. M.
Dickson, Robert Hamish 1792 (Sheriff at Airdrie, son of 1483 Sheriff at Hamilton)
Dorman, N. R. V.
Douglas, Hugh Scott 1656 (B.A. Oxon. LL.B. W.S.)
Douglas-Hamilton, Lord James Alexander 1772 MSP (QC; Ex-Minister of State, Scot. Office. together with fellow-Speccers Noble, Grossart and Campbell conspired to create the Skye tolls scam, run with full government approval and netting a secret 100 million pounds over the official tolling total announced publicly. This was allowed to create the false model for PFI ideology in the UK). [SBT]
Douglas-Home, Rt. Hon. Sir Alec 1755 (Ex-P.M. of the U.K., Ex-Chair Bilderberg Group)
Draper, O. A. T.
Drummond Young, James Edward ( Law Lord, Lord Drummond Young)
Duff, Donald Campbell MacRae 1679 (Resigned 1958)
Duff, Ronald Roxburgh 1728 (B.A. Oxford, LL.B; W.S.)
Duncan, D. M. G. (LL.B.)
Duthie, C. E. (M.A., Spec. Soc. Librarian 2002/3, public apologist)
Dymock, Ian William 1772 (Physician, author of 'Clinical Pharmacology')

E


Elliot, J.C.
Elliot, Gerald Henry 1640 (Sir Gerald, Royal Co. Archers; Chmn. Christian Salvesen, Forth Ports, etc.)
Elliot, P. R.
Elliott, Walter Archibald 1613 (Q.C. Barrister; Staff Captain Scots Guards)
Elston, David Aitken (Solicitor, Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh)
Errington, Humphrey John 1780 (Shipping, then, Cheesemaker, Lanark Blue)
Erskine, Donald Seymour 1652 (Fellow of the Chartered Land Agents Society, estate agent.)
F




Ferguson, James G.D. (Ex-Chair. St. Ivory, Ch. Val. & Inc. Trust, Dir. Monks Inv. Trust, Comm. Fund Managers Assoc.)
Fitch, R. E. I. (M.A.)
Ford, P. J. (Dr. Lecturer and Professor at Edin. University)
Forfar, David O. (Sen. Lect. Dep. of Actuarial Maths & Stats. Heriot-Watt Uni., author)
Forman, P M
Foster, A. J. E.
Foulis, Alexander Douglas 1635 (Bookbinder)
Frain-Bell, William J. (Advocate, Tory cand., Mem.Young Int. Arb. Pract. Gp., Ed.Firm Magazine)
Francis, Derick R. Le B (Advocate, member of the English Bar; Registered Insurance Broker)
Fraser, I. A. (M.A., Dir. School of Celtic & Scottish Studies, Univ. of Edin.)
Fraser, Sir John 1590, Bart. (Honorary Member, Principal of the University of Edinburgh)
Fraser, Peter Lovat (Q.C., Sol. Gen. 1982, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Lord Advocate 1989) [LOCK]
Fyfe, Norman Alexander (Solicitor Miller Beckett & Jackson, Glasgow)

G
Galbraith, Norman Dunlop Galloway 1611 (Ship-owner, Sub-Lieutenant, Home Fleet)
Galbraith, William Campbell 1696 (Q.C.; Chair, Tribunal DHSS, 1997; Chair, Tribunal MAFF, 1994)
Gieben, Abraham Herman Cornelius Sinclair 1685 (non-resident Member, M.D. Amsterdam)
Gillies, William (M.A. Edin., B.A. Oxon., Prof. Hd. of Dept. Celtic Studies, Gov. H. & I. Ent.Trust, author)
Godfrey, A. M.
Gotelee, Jonathan (Architect)
Graham, J. A.G. (M.A., M.Phil.)
Grant, D M K
Grant, Douglas 1591 (F.R.S.E.; T.D. Publisher, Brother of 1538; Cousin of 1587)
Grant, Ian Robertson 1587 (B.A. Camb. Antiquarian Bookseller and Editor of the 1968 History)
Grant, Robert William 1740 (C.A. son of 1496 Lord Grant MP, Lord Advocate)
Grant Scott, W. (A Dr W. Grant Scott made submission to City of Edin. Council Dev. Sub- Comm. 23/8/00. Same man?)
Grieve, Christopher Murray 1762 (Hugh MacDairmid – Poet, Honorary Member)
Griffiths, John Robert (Solicitor, W.S., Partner Shep. & Wedd., Chair. Emp. Law Soc. of Scot.)
Grossart, Sir Angus McFarlane McLeod 1744 (Ch. Brit. Assts. Trust/ISIS, Noble Grossart, Royal Bank of Scot., Scot. Inv. Trust, Director of Trinity Mirror etc.) [SBT]
Grossart, Hamish McLeod (Hamish, Dir. Martin Currie, I&G, Royal Doulton, Cairn Energy, Indigo Vision, Scottish Radio Holdings, etc.)
Guest, Simon Edward Graham (Solicitor with Bell & Scott, Edinburgh)
Guild, Ivor Reginald 1588 (Ex-Snr. Prtnr. Shepherd & Wedderburn; Chair Dunedin WWI Trust; etc)

H
Halblander, C. J. M.
Haldane, James Martin 1754 (KT., Chair. Audit Comm. Univ. Stirling, Dir. Scot. Life, Inv.Cap. Trust/ISIS, C.A. Cheine & Tait)
Hamilton, Arthur Campbell 1793 (Law Lord, Lord Hamilton, now Lord Justice General and Lord President) [SBT] Sitting with Osborne (Spec) and Gill, killed off public interest appeal of Smith & Others at Nobile Officium level by refusing it any hearing as ‘incompetent’. Chaired second appeal by Mr Megrahi, meaning that at all times there was a Spec majority or a Spec chairman at all Lockerbie hearings. Cf. Skull and Bones Society [LOCK]
Hammond Chambers, R. A. (Alex, Chair Ivory & Sime, (now ISIS), Dir. Dobbies Gdn. Cntrs., etc.)
Hamnett, Thomas Galloway Ian 1668 (Advocate and lecturer at Edinburgh & Bristol Univs.)
Hardman, J. D.
Harris , P. A.
Harrison, Patrick Kennard 1694 (Principal, Scottish Development Dept.)
Hart, Thomas David Mure 1775 (C.A. in Brewing)
Hayes, James Almand 1768 (Extruded, Graduate of Georgia Military Acad; Theatre Director)
Heath, Peter Laughlan 1659 (B.A. Oxford; Prof. of Philosophy, Univ. of Edin. & Virginia, Author)
Heggie, C. A. (LL.B. Solicitor, Bell & Scott, Edinburgh)
Henderson, William Gebbie 1690 (M.A. Edin., Publisher)
Hennigan, Brian (Writer, Vice-Chair of Mediabase)
Henry, A. C. (Sheriff at Glasgow?)
Hepburn-Scott, Henry Alexander 1585 (Lord Polwarth, Resigned 1947; Governor BOS; Dir. various)
Hodge, Robin M. (Publisher of the List, events guide for Edinburgh & Glasgow)
Hogg, M. A. (Faculty of Law Univ. Edin, co-author Prof. Hector McQueen)
Hollis, Edward C.R. (Architect, Lecturer, Media Arts, Napier Univ., Spec. Soc. Secretary 2002/3)
Holmes, H. M. (of H. H. Holmes, Accountants, specialists in Tax planning, Edinburgh?)
Holroyd, Nicholas W. (Advocate, Ex-tutor Univ. Edin., ‘Delict & Civil Court Pt’)
Hook, William Thomson 1608 (M.A. LL.B. Edinburgh, Sheriff at Greenock)
Hope, George Archibald 1742 (C.A. apprentice)
Hope, James Arthur David 1750 (Lord Hope of Craighead, Ex-Lord Justice General, son of 1399) Hope, Hon. J. D. L. (Solicitor, son of Lord Hope of Craighead 1750, grandson of 1399)
Horden, M. J. W.
Huggins, Martin 1777 (Dir. Edinburgh School of English; Business Consultant)
Hunter Gordon, H. (B.Sc.; Governor Moray House Institute of Education)

I
Inglis, James Crawford Roger 1625 (Ptnr. Shep. & Wedd., Dir Royal B.of Scot, Chair. Brit. Ass. Trust; associate of George Bush Snr) [LOCK?]
Ingram, Paul Alexander 1616 (Chartered Surveyor; Captain Royal Artillery)
Ingram, Thomas Theodore Scott 1693 (Senior lecturer in Paediatric Neurology and Author)
Ireland, Ronald David 1632 (Q.C., Sheriff Principal, Hon. Prof. of Law Univ. of Aberdeen; Author)
Irvine, R G
Ivory, Brian G. (CBE, Non-Exec. Dir. Halifax/Bank of Scotland, Dir. Scot/Amer. Inv., ex-CEO Highland Distillers) . Possible channel to George Bush via Brewlands (holiday) Lodge in Perthshire where the Bush’s came on ‘vacation’. [LOCK?]
Ivory, J. (B. Comm., C.A., Trustee, Advocates for Animals)
J

Jauncey, Charles Eliot 1621 (Law Lord, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle.)
Jenkins, D.H.R. (M.B. Ch.B.)
Johnson, R. E. C. (B.Sc.)
Johnson, Robert Smith 1592 (B.A. Cambridge, LL.B. Glasgow; Advocate Depute)
Johnston, A B M
Johnston, Alan Charles Macpherson 1760 (Law Lord, Lord Johnston) Dismissed interdict appeal at Inner House with false legal justification. Refused Nob-Off + petition to HM QEII as per 1689 Claim [SBT]
Johnston, Alastair Graham 1654 (Resigned, M.A.)
Johnstone, John Raymond 1633 (C.A. in Investment Trusts)
K

Keith, The Hon Henry Shanks 1605 (Law Lord, Lord Keith of Kinkel, d. 2002)
Kelsall, John Ainsworth 1726 (B.A. Oxford, LL.B. Edin, Solicitor)
Kenyon-Slaney, Robert Ivan 1653 (Tobacconist & Snuff dealer, ceased to be a member, d.1984)
Kermack, Stuart Ogilvy (Sheriff at Tayside and Aberdeen)
Kerr, Andrew Mark 1771 (B.A. Camb., LL.B. Edin., W.S. Solicitor., Ctte. Memb., Clerk, W.S. Library)
Kerr, Bruce A. (Sheriff at Glasgow, member of Judicial Appointments Board)
Killick, David Henry Rothwell 1749 (Non-Resident, Barrister, Merchant)
Kincade, James 1687 (B.A. Trinity, M.A., B.Litt. Oxford, Teacher)
King Murray – See Murray R J K

L

Laird, David Logan 1772 (Solicitor with Thorntons W.S. Forfar; Board of Inver Dist. Salmon Fisheries)
Laird, Michael Donald 1636a (Resigned, Michael Laird Partnership, Architects, Edinburgh)
Laird Craig, Adrian J. (MD, TM Robertson Wine Cellars Edinburgh, Pres. Inst. Wine & Spirits Scot., Old Stoic)
Lall, Vikram (C.A., Dir. Malcolm Group, Ex-Grampian Holds, Noble Grossart, Dir. Brewin Dolphin, Mem. SIDAB)
Law, James 1628 (Q.C., Member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board 1994)
Law, Ralph Hamilton 1680 (Under-Secretary, Dept. of Fisheries, Scotland)
Lawson, K.
Learmonth, Alastair M. (Advocate, Tutor in Evidence, University of Edinburgh)
Learmonth, Ian Robertson 1783 (Stockbroker)
Leckie, P. Ross (Dir. Martin Currie, author of ‘Bluff your way in the Classics’, journalist ‘Scotland on Sunday’, Tory candidate, Spec apologist)
Leeming, D. B. B.
Leslie, R. K.
Leslie, William 1658 (B.A. Camb. LL.B. T.D. W.S.)
Liddell, Hamish George MacDuff 1604 (B.A. Oxon., LL.B. Edin; Ptnr. J&H Mitchell, Perth; cousin of 1594)
Liddell, Andrew Colin MacDuff (Solicitor, J & H Mitchell, Pitlochry)
Lindgren, David I. (Solicitor & Partner, Fyfe Ireland W.S.)
Lockhart, H.
Lorimer, D.
Lorimer, Robert Lewis Campbell 1638 (Author & Publisher, d.1996)
Lothian, Andrew (M A; Sheriff, Lothians & Borders, Edinburgh) Now resigned after various sex scandals, including a gang-bang of his wife Harriet using Rohypnol.[DUN]
Lowe, Ian Douglas 1761 (M.A. Camb., Dip Agric. Camb., M.B.A. Harvard; Company Director)

M

McAllister, Richard A. (Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh)
MacAskill, Jamie (Deputy News Editor, Sunday Mail, Scotland?)
McCall Smith, R. Alexander {Sandy} (Prof. of Medical Law University of Edinburgh)
MacColl, Gavin L. (Advocate, Edinburgh)
McCosh, W. G.
McCulloch, Andrew Jameson 1766 (of Ardwall, Solicitor, and author of ‘Galloway, a land apart’)
Macdonald, Alistair Archibald 1660 (Sheriff substitute at Caithness, Orkney, & Zetland)
McDougall, Douglas C.P. (Ex-Prtnr. Baillie/Gifford, Chair. IMRO, Dir. Scot. Inv. Trust, Monks Inv. Trust, etc.)
McEachran, Colin Neil 1789 (QC, Advocate Depute 1974-77; Pres. Pensions Appeal Trib. 1994-present)
McFadden, John Alexander Crawford 1751 (M.A. LL.B. Aberdeen, Solicitor)
MacFarlane, C. W. (Q.C. LL.B., Sheriff of Glasgow & Strathkelvin, at Glasgow)
Macfie, John W.S. (Solicitor, Hon. Sec. Scot. Tartan Soc., Edinburgh)
McGhie, James Marshall (Law Lord, Lord McGhie, Chair. Scottish Land Court, President Lands Tribunal for Scotland)
McInnes, John Colin 1731 (B.A.Ox, LL.B. Edin; Q.C., Sheriff, Mem.Invest. Powers Tribunal)
McIntyre, Robert Gordon 1691 (Executive with Morgan Crucible Co., (US-convicts), son of Lord Sorn)
McIver, Calum Alexander (Solicitor, D. L. A. Scotland, Edinburgh)
Mackay, James Peter Hymers 1676 (Lord Mackay of Clashfearn, Ex- UK Lord Chancellor.)
Mackay, Peter 1791 (Sen. Civil Servt. Retd., Dir. Scottish Council Foundation, Dir. several companies)
Mackenzie, J.G. (M.A., LL.B. Cantab., Advocate)
MacKenzie, L. D. M. (M.A. Edinburgh, Director DG XXIII, European Commission (Info Tech)
Mackie, C.A.
Mackie, E. J. (LL.B.)
Mackie, Thorold (Investment Analyst, ING Barings Charterhouse Securities)
Mackness, Robin Frederick Stewart 1743 (B.A. Camb., Importer & Manufacturer)
MacLaren, I F
Maclean of Dochgarroch, Alan
MacLean, Colin P. B. (Dir. British Assets Management Trust, ISIS, MD Scot. Val. Man. Trust, Scottish Provident etc.)
MacLean, Ranald Norman Munro 1736 (Law Lord, Lord MacLean was Senior Legal rep. of Judicial Appts. Board. Sat with Coulsfield and Sutherland to convict Mr Megrahi.) [LOCK]
McLean, Robert Younger 1657 (B.A. Camb., A.M.I.E.E. Electrical Engineer)
MacLehose, David (Board of Queen Victoria School in Dunblane for Children of Servicemen, scene of sex scandal involving pimping of pupils by Thomas Hamilton, the Dunblane primary School shooter, to senior legal and political figures.) [DUN]
McLeod, Hugh Roderick 1675 (B.A. Cambridge; Ship-owner)
McLeod, J. M. N.
McLeod, Norman Donald 1678 (Sheriff-Substitute at Glasgow)
McLure, P.L.H (B.A. Oxon. LL.B. W.S.)
MacNaught, R. H. A. (B.A. Oxon., LL.B. Edin., Solicitor)
MacNeill, Calum H S (Q.C., Advocate Depute1998-2001, Edin. Acted v. protesters) [SBT]
McNeill, James W. (Q.C. Advocates Library, Parliament House)
Macphail, Iain Duncan 1745 (Sher. Prin., Loth. & Bord, Law Lord, Lord Macphail as of 16 Dec. 2004)
MacPhee, N. W. M. R.
Macpherson, Robin Ian (Solicitor & Partner, Brodies W.S., Edinburgh)
McVicar, Euan Forbes (Solicitor, Associate, McGrigor Donald, advised Bank of Scot. on PFI)[SBT]
McVicar, Neil 1589 (M.A., Oxon., LL.B. Edin., Q.C., Chancellor to the Bishop of Edinburgh)
Mair, Hamish J. G. (Dir. Martin Currie Inv. Man. Ltd., Mgr. Martin Currie Return Trust)
Marquis Edward Graham 1607 (M.A. LL.B. Cambridge, practiced as English Solicitor)
Martin, R. M.
Maxtone Graham, Robert Mungo 1669 (Advocate, author of the Society’s literature)
Maxwell, Peter 1618 (Resigned, BA. Oxford, LL.B. Q.C.; grandson of 1027)
Menzies, Duncan Adam Young (Law Lord, Lord Menzies, as QC acted v. protesters) [SBT]
Mercer, Walter M.D. (Advocate, Visit. Lect., Univ. Aber., Mem. Privacy Law Comm., Law Soc.)
Mercer-Wood, S. Z. K.
Michael, P. A.
Millar, Angus George 1641 (Investment Trust Manager)
Milligan, James George QC (Law Lord) [SBT]
Mitchell, James Lachlan Martin 1643 (Sheriff)
Mitchell, Geoffery D. M. (Advocate, Edinburgh)
Moncreiffe of That Ilk, Sir David Gerald 1606 (Bart. & 23rd Laird of Moncreiffe; cousin of 1594)
Moncreiffe, Rupert Iain Kay 1594 (Sir Iain Moncreiffe, MA, LLB. PhD; Brit. Emb. Moscow 1946)
Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Walter William (of Buccleuch & Queensberry)
Moran, Joseph Michael 1612 (Resigned; Draftsman Lord Advocate’s Department)
Morison, Alastair Malcolm 1665 (Law Lord, Lord Morison; son of 1417 Sir Ronald Morison) [SBT]
Morrison, Stephen Andrew Simpson (American Solicitor, regd. w/Law Society of Scotland) Mowat, Ian Alastair McIvor (Solicitor, Haig-Scott, Edinburgh)
Muir, Andrew Gray 1692 (B.A. Oxford, LL.B. Edin., Solicitor; Son of 1442)
Murray, John 1718 (Q.C., F.C.I. Arb; & Professor, Formerly Lord Dervaird, resigned prior to ‘Magic Circle’, despite cover offered in Smith-Friel Report by fellow-Speccer Nimmo-Smith)
Murray, J. A. S.
Murray, Ronald James King 1670 (Q.C. MP; Law Lord, Lord Murray; Lord Advocate 1974)
Murray Threapland, A. (M.Sc.)

N

Nelson, Douglas 1661 (Resigned, M.A., LL.B.)
Nicolson, Harold Alexander 1645 (LL.B. W.S.)
Nimmo-Smith, William Austin (Law Lord, Lord Nimmo-Smith, Co-author Smith-Friel ‘magic circle’ report, covering up rent-boys for Judges and Fiscals scandal in Edinburgh. Hatchet-man against any Skye bridge appeals. Sat on Lockerbie appeal bench.) [SBT][LOCK]
Noble, Ian Andrew 1782 (Ex-Chair Skye Bridge Co; Ex-Chair Noble Group; Noble Grossart, etc . Born in Berlin but seeks to portray himself as desperately Gaelic. Bought the foreshore at Skye Crossing and had to be compensated handsomely with public money so that the arch could ‘pass over’ his foreshore.)[ SBT]
Noble, Iain William 1650 (M.A. LL.B. WS)

O

Oberlander, Jon R. (Dr., Reader in Cog. Science, Div. of Informatics, University of Edin.)
Oddy, Revel 1722 (Assistant Keeper, Royal Scottish Museum)
Ogilvy, F. G. A. (B.Sc.)
O'Neill, Francis 1737 (Life Insurance Manager, Electrical Engineer)
Osborne, Kenneth Hilton 1721 (Law Lord, Lord Osborne). Closed Skye public test case at Nobile Officium, claiming incompetency. First judge to be outed as a Speccer to his face by RtP in live Court proceedings. This caused the so-called Gill Inquiry into the Spec as a secret sodality and thus standing human Rights violation. Lord Gill covered for them, but as a Glasgow catholic was ill-rewarded for his loyalty. Lord Hamilton of the Spec was promoted over Gill’s head to Lord Justice General. [SBT][LOCK]

P

Packe, T. G. Packe (T.G.Packe, Chartered Surveyors, Linlithgow)
Paterson, John Veitch 1648 (Resigned, Sheriff at Selkirk)
Pearson, Francis Salmon Gillespie 1727 (Resigned, Advocate & Schoolmaster at Harrow)
Pearson, Nigel William 1779 (Solicitor, Rabobank International)
Peck, Julian Forbes Arbuthnott 1626 (Accountant & Co Director, Flemings Merchant Bank)
Penney, Michael Alexander Campbell 1646 (Son of 1394, Auditor to C of S; Nephew of 1454 Planter)
Perfect, Alan Peter George (Resigned)
Perring, C. J.
Peterson, John Murray 1647 (Sheriff)
Phemister, John Clark 1651 (Physician, Resigned)
Prince Philip, 1662 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, K.G. (Honorary Member). This gentleman’s presence gives a big clue to the political hue of the Spec, as does their ‘Toast to the Duke of Cumberland’.[DUN]
Pierrepont, John 1600 (Resigned, D.F.C; Merchant Taylor and Freeman of the City of London)
Picton-Philips, P. J. C. (M.A.)
Pinkerton, John Macpherson 1767 (B.A.Oxon. LL.B .Edin. Advocate; Auth. Minutebook of the Fac. of Ads)
Pollock, Alexander (Sheriff, Grampian H&I, Aberdeen) Tried to kill a civil action against Miller collecting tolls by elevating a Small Claim to Ordinary Cause and thus a deep-pocket contest. Outed publicly as Spec by RtP. [SBT]
von Poser und Gross Naedlitz, M.
Prenter, Patrick Robert 1752 (B.A., CBE, Hydr.Eng., Ch. Midl. Chamb. Com., P.P.Scot.Eng., Dir.LothH.A)
Prosser, William David (Law Lord, Lord Prosser, Ret’d) Only Judge to have the decency to recuse himself when listed to sit on a SBT appeal, knowing of course that four Spec Members had set up the racket at the outset.

R
Rackowe, Robin 1712 (B.A .Camb., Pres. International Marine Fisheries Company; Adviser Vietnam Govt.)
Ramsay, Alan Douglas Monro 1723 (of Bowland, B.A. Oxford)
Reid, Ainslie Macdonald (Solicitor Dundas & Wilson, CS, Saltire Court, 20 Castle Terrace, Edin.)
Reid, Richard R. (Advocate)
Rennie, Archibald Louden 1682 (Priv. Secy. to Secy. of State 1962-63; Ass. Secy. to S.H. & H. Dept.)
Rice, P A
Richardson, M. H.
Riddiough, Ralph Leigh (Solicitor, Fyfe Ireland W.S., Edinburgh)
Risk, M. J. R. (Could he be related to Sheriff Douglas Risk?)
de Roeck, R. S.
Robertson, I.M.
Robertson, R. B.
Robertson, William Brian (Solicitor, of Lindsays W.S., Edinburgh)
Robinson, D.B.
Rose, Morris James Alexander 1624 (Sheriff)
Ross, Donald MacArthur 1642 (Ex-Lord Justice Clerk, V-Pres. RSE; Resgd., Architect of Judicial Appointments Board)[SBT]
Ross, D.M.
Ross, Sinclair Alexander 1763 (Solicitor, Russell & Aitken, Falkirk)
Rowe, J.E.R. (B.L.)

S

Sadler, David Gerald 1746 (B.A. Oxford, W.S.)
Salveson, Andrew E. H. (Board of Grampian Enterprise, 1995-98)
Sambrook, Harold Keith 1673 (M.A. Camb. Publisher)
Scott, Malcolm C. N. (Q.C., Director, Mid Wynd Int. Inv. Trust/Baillie Gifford)
Scott Moncrieff, John Kenneth (Solicitor, Murray Beath Murray W.S. Edinburgh)
Shearer, I. G. (We think not to be confused with Sheriff Ian H Shearer, later Lord Avonside)
Shewan, A.
Simpson, David Macdonald 1794 (B.A. Oxon., F.F.I., Actuary, Memb. Disc. Comm. Fac. of Ads.)
Simpson, Philip J. D. (Advocate, ‘Chapters in a History of Private Law in Scotland’, etc.)
Simpson, Patrick William (C.A; D.Ch.ENTCT; son of 1285, brother of 1581, nephew of 1302 & 1381)
Smelt, J. C.
Smith, Alastair Melville John (Solicitor to the Advocate General)
Smith, G. T. E.
Smith, Ralph A. (QC. Advocate Depute 1994-95{ad-hoc}, Jun. Counsel to Lord Pres. 1998-99)
Smith, Ronald Elsworth 1786 (B.A. De Pavio, M.A. Edin., Dip. Ed., Philosopher)
Smith, Thomas Brown 1595 (Broun Smith, Prof. of Law at Aberdeen & Edin; author of law books)
Speirs, John Garret 1749 (Non-Resident, Oxford M.B.A., Industrial Engineer)
Spence, M. A.
Staniforth, John Broke Duncan 1781 (Marketing)
St Clair, D. M.
St Clair, J. B. (Advocate, Co-author ‘Law of Corporate Insolvency-Scotland’ w/Lord Drummond Young)
St John, Edmund Oliver 1649 (B.L. W.S.; Member of Rent Assessment Panel for Scotland 1994-95)
Steel, William Macpherson 1596 (B.L. Edin. W.S.)
Stein, Colin Norman Ralph (BA (Hons), LL.B., Sheriff of Tayside Central & Fife at Arbroath) Stevenson, P. D. (Director of British Energy)
Stevenson-Hamilton, A. J.
Stewart, David Logan (B.A. Cantab. LL.B. W.S. Solicitor Morton Fraser)
Stewart, Keith D. (Advocate, Edinburgh)
Stewart, Quintin Kennedy 1734 (B.L Edin. Solicitor; Secy., Scotch Whisky Association1997.)
Stewart, William Ian 1629 (Sir William, Pres. R.S.E.; Q.C., Solicitor General 1972)
Stirling, John Boyd (Solicitor with Bennet & Robertson, Edinburgh)
Strachan, Michael Francis 1586 (B.A.Camb. MBE. Ship-owner, Salmonier Shipping Company)
Strachan, Timothy Warren 1639 (Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates, 1958-67)
Strang Steel, Malcolm Graham (Solicitor with Turcan Connell W.S. Princes Exchange)
Stuart, Alexander John Mackenzie 1620 (BA. Camb. LL.B. Edin.Advocate; Captain Royal Engineers)
Stuart, Michael Albert (B.A. LL.B. Solicitor, Maclay Murray Spens)
Sutherland, Alister Macdonald 1716 (Solicitor, Burness W.S. & Sec. Leven Dist. Salm. Fish. Board)
Swan, G. N. I.
Swann, Michael 1778 (Professor, Principal University of Edinburgh. Honorary)

T

Taggart, C. A.
Tait, Ivan Ballantyne 1720 (Surgeon F.R.C.S.E., F.R.C.S. Eng.)
Tart, A. K.
Taylor, J. S.
Thin, Douglas Ainslie 1714 (Bookseller & Publisher)
Thompson, J. B. S. (LL.B.)
Thomson, B. J. P.
Thomson, Gordon Graham Turner (BA. Camb.; Printer, schoolmaster, & television producer)
Thomson, Nigel Earnest Drummond 1684 (Advocate & Author, Sheriff-Substitute at Hamilton)
Thomson, William Ronald Erskine 1770 (Ch. British Assets Trust, Charlotte Sq., Dir. ISIS Trust etc)
Tindall, B. H. Tindall (Lecturer in Architecture University of Edinburgh)
Tindley, P. J.
Todd, D. W. S.
Topping, Michael Robert 1739 (M.A., LL.B. lecturer in law Edinburgh University; Prof. Addis Ababa)
Traprain, Viscount 1724 (4th Earl of Balfour, Gerald Arthur James Balfour, JP {of Whittinghame}.)
Tyndall, Mark R.J. (Founder of Artemis Unit Trust Managers)
Tytherleigh-Strong, G. M. (Physician, granted non-residing privileges

U

Upton, Michael G. J. (Advocate) [SBT] – Took money for an interdict petition against ‘Miller Civil Engineering’ collecting Skye tolls without lawful paperwork, then seemed to take a dive. [SBT]


Urquhart, Ronald MacDuff 1664 (B.A. Oxford, LL.B. Edin., T.D. W.S)
Usher, Harry Graham 1730 (B.A.Camb., Merchant)

V
Vink, Peter Hendrik Johan de 1787 (Peter de Vink, Financier; Mem. S.I.A.B; M.D. of E.F.G.H; etc)
Voelcker, Richard Paul 1689 (Resigned, M.A. Agriculturist)
W
Wailes-Fairbairn, N W
Walker, Michael James 1725 (Ch. J.Walker Timber, Aberforth S L plc, Dir. Lothian Health board.)
Walker, Nigel David 1671 (M.A. Oxon, Ph.D. Edin., Ass. Sec. Scottish Home & Health Dept.; Author)
Walker, William MacLelland 1667 (Q.C., Social Security & Child Support Commissioner)
Ward, Max C.B. (Ex-Scottish Mortgage, Manager Baillie Gifford, Scot. Investment Trust, etc.)
Warner, Graeme C. (Sheriff, Grampian H&I, Aberdeen)
Waterlow, Simon Gordon 1747 (Non-Resident, B.A. Camb., Printer)
Watson, John Donald Mackenzie 1627 (C.A.)
Watt, Edward Bruce (Solicitor, Henderson Boyd Jackson W.S., Edinburgh)
Watt, B. T.
Watt, Robert James Gordon 1655 (B.A. Camb.LL.B. WS.)
Wedderburn, Thomas MacLaglan 1598 (B.A. Camb., C.A., W.S., brother of 1517)
Weir, David Bruce (Law Lord, Lord Weir)
Weir, Evan Hugh 1637 (B.A. Cambridge, LL.B, W.S.)
West, David Alexander 1686 (B.A. Camb., Lecturer in Humanity Edin., Author)
Wheatley, M. R. P. H. D.
Whiteman, R. D. (M.Phil., Minister of the Scottish Episcopalian Church)
Wilberforce, R. W.
Wilkins, R. M. (B.A., MSc)
Willey, G. J.
Wilson, Calum S. (Advocate, Advocates Library, Parliament House)
Wilson, Ian William Scott (Master Printer, President, Junior Chamber Scotland, 1952-53)
Wood, Malcolm James (Solicitor with Standard Life Assurance Co.)
Wood, Thomas Andrew Urquhart 1609 (B.A. Oxon. Advocate; Sheriff-Substitute at Glasgow)
Wright, J. G. L. (member, Friends of Dundee City Archives)
Wright, John N. (QC, Dep. Commnr., Soc. Sec. Child Supp; Mem. Lands Tribunal for Scot.)

Y

Young, Sir Stephen Stewart Templeton Bt. QC (Sheriff Principal, North Strathclyde, Trinity Coll., Ox.) Twice interfered with Skye tolls cases as Sheriff Principal of Highlands and Islands. [SBT]
Younger, Robert Edward Gilmour 1788 (The Hon. Sheriff of Tayside Central & Fife)





Dated List of Members who have been admitted to
'Honorary Privileges'.

12 October 1954 Duke of Edinburgh, HRH Prince Philip The * [DUN]

2 July 1975 Guild, Ivor [LOCK?]

2 July 1975 Watson, Professor Alan *

15 October 1980 Burnett, Sir John *^

16 December 1987 Smith, Sir David *^

23 June 1989 Mackay, The Rt Hon Lord of Clashfern [Privy Council]

9 February 1994 Barrow, Professor Geoffrey *

29 November 1995 Sutherland, Professor Sir Stewart *^

13 January 1999 Massie, Allan * - Right wing journalist - Scotsman

10 January 2001 Rt Hon Lord Hope of Craighead [Privy Council]

13 March 2002 MacMillan, The Very Rev Gilleasbuig *

* Not previously Members of the Society
^ Principals of Edinburgh University




[LOCK] – Lockerbie cover-up connections
[DUN] –Dunblane cover-up connections
[SBT] – Skye Bridge Tolls cover-up connections

This list now needs updating, being some 5 years old. Please help if you can. About 50-100 new Members may have been initiated in this time.

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Labels: Members; Spec Members; Speculative Society; Speculative Society of Edinburgh;
Friday, 4 April 2008
ST. ANDREW SQUARE, EDINBURGH EYECONNIC GARDENS
ST. ANDREW SQUARE,
EDINBURGH
EYECONNIC GARDENS

On April the 4th 2008, St. Andrew Square was opened to the public for the first time in generations.


The £2.6 million makeover project is a result of a partnership with The City of Edinburgh Council, Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian.

New features include two new entrance gates.
The curved footpaths around the eye shaped area links to the new entrances, a reflective tearduct pool in the south west corner, floodlit trees and a glass rotunda café pavillion offering coffee by Coffee Republic.


















& CARDIFF BAY TOO!
Posted by Speculative at 13:13 No comments:
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
THE MAGIC CIRCLE
The Magic Circle

The ‘Magic circle’ in Scotland is a description that some Scottish citizens (they) assert applies to a collective ring of purported establishment individuals who have engaged in sexual deviations, homosexual practices and paedophilia.

Twinned with this assertion, there is an overall contention by these same Scottish citizens that there was/is a conspiracy by these purported establishment figures that in order to foster and further their deprived ends they pervert the course of justice.

In Scotland the level of accusations rose to a fever pitch in the late eighties early nineties. Thus Lord Nimmo Smith was commissioned as a joint author of the Report on an Inquiry into an Allegation of a Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice in Scotland (1993).

A notable casualty of ‘Magic Circle’ accusations was Lord Dervaird, other suspected judges such as Lord Weir avoided public opprobrium.

Lord Nimmo Smith’s 1993 report was in part withheld from public scrutiny.

Many notables, such as Sir Angus Grossart (Deputy Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland); Lord Hardie (judge of the Court of Session, and former Lord Advocate); Mr Ivor Reginald Guild (Ex-Senior. Partner of solicitors Shepherd & Wedderburn and prominent resident of the Edinburgh’s New Club); and the late Very Reverend Andrew Herron (former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland) of the Scottish establishment were subjectively linked either directly or indirectly with Lord Nimmo Smith’s findings.

Intertwined with ‘Magic Circle’ accusations, numerous suspected establishment figures were also perceived to combine together and to be members of quasi secret societies and privileged organisations such as the Speculative Society; the Faculty of Advocates; Edinburgh’s New Club, and Edinburgh’s Merchant Company where such alleged depraved establishment figures conspire against the public interest. ‘Magic Circle’ influence accusations continue to re-surface; notable are

(i) the case of the 100 year secrecy embargo by Lord Cullen upon the Dunblane enquiry;

(ii) the Fettesgate cover-up at Lothian & Borders Police Headquarters; and

(iii) the Lockerbie Disaster.


The ‘Magic circle’ is an example of conspiracy thinking in that it denotes the following characteristics:

Absolute certainty (they) have the truth.
Scotland is controlled to a greater or lesser extent by a conspiratorial group. In fact, (they) believe this evil group is very powerful and controls most nations
Open hatred of opponents. Because these opponents (actually enemies) are seen as a part of or sympathisers with ‘The Conspiracy’, they deserve hatred or contempt
Little faith in the democratic or judicial process. Mainly because most believe ‘The Conspiracy’ has such influence in Scotland, and therefore extremists spurn compromise.
Willingness to deny basic civil liberties to certain fellow citizens, because enemies deserve no liberties.
Consistent indulgence in irresponsible accusations and character assassination.

I personally (see the Art of Spying) have not been able to detect in Scotland any planned or organised ‘Magic Circle’ conspiracy. I am aware of many strange and possible illegal or immoral goings on but there is no magnum opus.

Historically, as is witnessed in the 17th century Scottish witch hunts, the Scottish temperament has a predisposition to public hysteria. The stupidity for the festering of ‘Magic Circle’ concepts lies with the establishment, and in particular I now believe with Lord Cullen, the Lord President of the Court of Session.

To rid Scotland of such fallacious ‘Magic Circle’ allegations I believe it is essential that we immediately move to a more open society and such matters as Lord Nimmo Smith’s supplementary papers and the Dunblane papers are published now.

Without openness and publication has arisen a witch craze feedback loop. From chaos and complexity theory we find that many systems, including social systems like witch crazes, self organise through feedback loops, in which outputs are connected to inputs, producing change in response to both (like a public address system with feedback, or stock market booms and busts driven by flurries of buying and selling).

The underlying mechanism driving a witch craze is the cycling of information through a closed loop. Medieval witch crazes existed because the internal and external components of a feedback loop periodically occurred together, with deadly results. Internal components include the social control of one group of people by another, more powerful group, a prevalent feeling of loss of personal control and responsibility, and the need to place blame for misfortune elsewhere; external conditions include socioeconomic stresses, cultural and political crises, religious strife, and moral upheavals.

A conjuncture of such events and conditions can lead the system to self-organise, grow, reach a peak, and then collapse. A few claims of ritual are fed into the system through word of mouth or the mass media. Individuals or groups deny the accusations.

The denial serves as proof of guilt, as does silence or confession. Whether the defender is being tried by the water test of the seventeenth century (if you float you are guilty, if you drown you are innocent) or in the court of public opinion today, accusation equals guilt.

The system grows in complexity as gossip or the media increase the amount and flow of the information. Witch after witch is burnt until the system reaches critical mass and finally collapses under changing social conditions and pressures.

Quite simply, openness and publication will break the false information loops and restore public confidence in the Scottish establishment system though admittedly many of establishments’ figures will loose status. That said, unless such individuals are exposed many more good and excellent people will be tarred with a bad brush.


Here is the complete report
Magic Circle Affair

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I enclose below an article taken from the Sunday Mail which indicates the public’s continued interest in ‘Magic circle’ activities: it is deplorable that our judicial system mistakenly allows similar and worse stories to circulate about themselves.


UK'S MAGIC CIRCLE
Operation Ore detective's kid sex ring alert
Brendan Mcginty


THE American detective leading the worldwide hunt for internet paedophiles yesterday warned of high-level child sex rings in Britain.

Operation Ore, involving a wide range of agencies including the FBI, has revealed more professional people using the child porn sites in Britain than anywhere else in the world.

As fears of a British magic circle grow, Lieutenant Bill Walsh says he believes British detectives are on the verge of exposing sinister child porn gangs similar to those already busted in the US. He said officers had been shocked by the number of Britons identified as subscribers to child porn sites who held powers of power and influence.

Legendary rocker Pete Townshend, TV star is among the 7272 Britons whose names have been passed to police here for investigation. It is understood a second major rock star is on the list, along with two MPs, a peer a judge and at least 50 policemen. In Scotland, a priest, a social worker, an army cadet major and several police officers have been pulled in under Ore.

Walsh, head of a Texas internet child crimes task force, heads Operation Avalanche, the US branch of Operation Ore. His team uncovered the credit card details of 250,000 computer users worldwide who paid to access the websites, which feature sickening images of child abuse. The FBI are now planning to hand on hundreds more names to British police and several high-profile Britons are anxiously awaiting questioning.

Walsh, 50, said: "Really it has shocked me, the number of names in Britain compared to the size of the population. The fact that 50 of the names in Britain were police officers caused a stir. That was disturbing."

"It is a distinct possibility there are rings of people with the ability to protect each other. There are vast numbers of people on these lists who could be associated with each other. We hope that nobody will be spared by those carrying out the investigation."

The biggest porn ring discovered so far in the worldwide operation involved parents from several countries exchanging obscene pictures of their own kids.The investigation into the Danish-based ring, known as The Club, was called Operation Hamlet.

A 10- month investigation resulted in 45 children between two and 14 being taken from their parents. Arrests were made in the UK, the US, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and France.

Operation Avalanche was launched after video tapes of a four-year-old girl being abused were seized by US postal inspectors in 1999. They were traced back to a Texan firm called Landslide Productions, which raked in £1million a month. Users gave credit card details and for £21 a month were able to view 5700 sites.

But Walsh said their subscription werethe tip of the iceberg. He said: "What they will find from hundreds of subscribers are scores who have abused real children. Most people who look at sites didn't wake up yesterday and decide this was something they wanted to do. The reality is it doesn't stop there."

Officers expected most of the images on the websites to have been either very old or taken in poorer countries.

But many of the images are of children and young adults in the UK, US and Europe.

This article was:
Operation Ore chief puts the UK on magic circle paedophile alert.(News)
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) | January 19, 2003

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Thursday, 25 May 2006
A FULL LISTING (speculatively!) To check against primary list
NB. This list of members of the Speculative Society falls into three categories as follows

1/. Extraordinary members with, a sodality number, full name, qualifications, and occupation all taken from the 1968 History of the Speculative Society. This basic data has been updated with more recent information, which has been gleaned, mostly from the web.

2/. Ordinary members with a sodality number which has been allotted to the Speculators (as they appear in the 1971-72 Roll) in ascending order, starting with the last number in the 1968 History. These numbers have an asterisk to show their assumed status. The members in this category are taken from the Spec’s 1971-72 Roll of Officers of the Society and Ordinary members, which shows only initials for first names, Surname, and qualifications. It has been necessary to fill in the other details by informed conjecture.

3/. Ordinary, and extraordinary members, without a sodality number, and with first names initialled only. To which are added details attributed by informed conjecture. These names were provided by members of the Spec, and are assumed as being genuine but require official verification from the Speculative Society. The Secretary of the Speculative Society is unwilling to provide verifying information



THE SPECULATIVE SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
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Abbey, David Yool 1617 (BA. Oxford, LL.B.; Advocate; Sheriff-Substitute at Airdrie)
Adams, S. L.
Anderson, J. P. (B.A.)
Angus, R. J. (Q.C. Commissioner, Social Security & Child Support Agency)
Appleton, Edward Victor 1622 [Principal University of Edin. (Honorary Member)]
Arbuthnott, Hugh Sinclair 1644 (The Hon. Hugh of Cairnhill, Foreside, by Forfar. Resigned)
Armstrong, Iain G. (Q.C. Advocate Depute, 2000-present; Clerk of Faculty 1995-1999)





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Balfour, G. A. J. - See Taprain, Viscount
Barne, Jonathan Michael (Solicitor, Shepherd & Wedderburn, Saltire Court, Edinburgh)
Barnes, E.W.
Barr, Kenneth Glen 1757 (Resigned, Sheriff of South Strathclyde, Dumfries & Galloway)
Bell, John Robin Sinclair 1683 (MBE in 1999 for services to Scottish charities)
Bell, Stewart Edward 1599 (Resigned on departing to Malaya; Sheriff-Substitute at Glasgow)
Berry, William 1758 (K.T, Ch.M.B.M. W.S; Dir. Scot. Life, Scot. Amer. Inv., Inchcape)
Bertram, Robert David Darney 1765 (Ptnr, Shep. & Wedd., Monopoly & Mergers Committee)
Bisset, Norman Shirsinger (Solicitor, C.M.S. Cameron McKenna, Aberdeen)
Black, Duncan Ian 1672 (Architect to the Scottish Development Dept.)
Black, R.obert (Q.C., Professor of Law and Head of the Faculty, the University of Edinburgh)
Blackie, J. W. (B.A. LL.B., Prof of Law, University of Strathclyde)
Blackledge, P. V. P. (B.Mus.)
Blair, John Woodman 1733 (Snr. Ptnr. Anderson Strathearn; Dir. Edinburgh Fund Managers Group)
Blair, Robin Orr 1785 (M.A .St Andrews, LL.B. Edinburgh, W.S; Lord Lyon King of Arms)
Bogie, David W. (Sheriff d.)
Boisseau, C. D.
Borden, Frank Harris 1634 (M.A. University of Pennsylvania; A.B. Trinity College, Connecticut)
Bowie, Simon D. R. (Advocate, Edinburgh)
Boyd, Kenneth MacKenzie 1753 (M.A. Edin., Theologian, and Author)
Brand, David William Robert 1610 (Resigned, M.A. LL.B. Q.C.; Solicitor General 1970)
Brodie, Jonathan P. (Advocate, Standing Jr. Counsel to Dept. of Soc Sec. & The Bible Board)
Brown, Ewan (C.B.E., M.A., LL.B., C.A., FCIBS, Prof., Ch. H-Watt Univ., Dir. Noble Grossart, Lloyds TSB)
Bruce, Hon Adam R. (Solicitor/Lobbyist, Dir. McGrigor Donald Public Policy; Tory candidate)
Bruce, Michael Stewart Rae 1732 (Lord Marnoch, Law Lord)
Bruce-Gardyne, Charles Evan 1623 (LL.B., Royal Company of Archers; 14th Laird of Middleton)
Bruford, Alan James 1769 (Author of Gaelic Folk Tales, Archivist, School of Scottish Studies Edin. Univ.)
Buchanan, Nigel Walter 1715 (B.A. Oxford; LL.B. W.S.)
Buist, Robert Cochran 1666 (Investment Trust Manager)
Bullick, Peter Maurice 1759 (Resigned, LL.B. Edin., W.S. Solicitor)
de Burgh, H. W. (Prof. Media & Communications, Goldsmiths College, Uni. of London)
Burns, David S. (QC, Advocate Depute 1991-93, Deputy Com. of Soc. Sec., 1998-now, Lockerbie defence lawyer for Megrahi)
Burns, Richard R.J. (B.A. Oxon., LL.B., Dir. Scottish Life, Baillie Gifford & Co., Mid Wynd Inter. Inv. plc., etc)
Butler, L. (B.A. M.A. P.h.D.)
Butter, Peter Herbert 1615 (BA. Oxon; Prof., Lecturer at Edinburgh & Belfast Universities; Author)
Butters, John Anthony Howard 1735 (B.A. Camb; LL.B. Edin., Scot. Valtn. Advisory Council)
Byatt, Andrew Lorne Campbell (Solicitor with Morton Fraser, Edinburgh)



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Callendar, Alexander Dougal 1614 (B.A. Oxford, LL.B. Edin, W.S.; Captain Q.O.C.H.)
Cameron, Ewan Kennedy 1674 (M.A., LL.B. Edin., W.S.)
Cameron, John Alastair 1776 (Lord Abernethy, Law Lord)
Cameron, J T
Cameron, 1681 Kenneth John (of Lochbroom, Law Lord)
Cameron, N. M.
Campbell, Colin John 1764 (A.R.I.C.S., Q.A.L.A.S., Chartered Surveyor)
Campbell, Hugh H. (QC, F.C.I. Arbitrators, B.A. Oxon., LL.B. Edin.,)
Campbell, Niall Gordon 1756 (Civil Servant, Head of Justice Dept., Ex-Development Dept., Scot. Off.)
Campbell, R. M. M.
Campbell, William David 1741 (Architect, A.R.I.B.A.;)
Campling, James Robert 1713 (Works Director)
Cavaye, David B. M. (Investment Mgr. Securities Trust Scotland/Martin Currie, Saltire Court)
Chapman Cambell, R. H.
Clarke, John Gwynne 1663 (Resigned, Lecturer in French)
Clarke, Matthew Gerald (Law Lord, Lord Clarke, as QC said Skye toll paperwork was flawless)
Clyde, James John 1688 (Law Lord, Ex-Lord Advocate, son of 1403 & grandson of 1131)
Cohen, Laurence Jonathan 1603 (Lecturer & Fellow, Oxon, Edin., Dundee, St. Ands., Princeton & Harvard)
Considine, Hugh McKay 1601 (Resigned, Edinburgh Academy 1932-37; B.A. Camb. LL.B.)
Cosser, A. J. (LL.B.)
Cowan, Charles David Symington 1602 (Paper Trade; Manufacturing; Stockbroking)
Cowan, John Michael (LL.B., Solicitor, Condies, Perth)
Cowie, William Lorn Kerr 1631 (Law Lord, Lord Cowie)
Craddock, I D
Craig, Maxwell Davidson 1729 (Non-resident, Minister Ch of Scot; Asst. Prin. Min. of Labour)
Craig, T. M. (B.Sc., A.R.C.S.I., G.M.I., Mech.E.)
Crawford, George Douglas 1790 (Journalist, Editor of 'Scotland', Economist, Scot. Coun. Dev. & Ind.)
Crerar, James Drummond 1717 (Solicitor, Dickson McNiven & Dunn, W.S.)
Croker, Patrick Thomas Crofton 1719 (B.A.Oxford, Schoolmaster, Fettes College, 1959-65)
Crole, Robert Lake 1695 (Schoolmaster at Fettes and Geelong G.S.)
Crowther, A. V.
Cullen, W D
Currie, James David Peterkin 1738 (Ship-owner, J.P., Chairman of Jas. Currie & Co, son of 1468)
Curtis, R. S.



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Davidson, Charles Kemp 1636 (Law Lord, Lord Davidson)
Davidson, D. (Advocate Donald Davidson?)
Davidson Kelly, C. N.
Dawson, W. A. C.
Derby, Peter Jared 1784 (B.Sc. Queens Univ., Belfast; Master of Worshipful Co. of Actuaries)
Dessain, S. J. F.
Dickson, A. W. M.
Dickson, Robert Hamish 1792 (Sheriff at Airdrie, son of 1483 Sheriff at Hamilton)
Dorman, N. R. V.
Douglas, Hugh Scott 1656 (B.A. Oxon. LL.B. W.S.)
Douglas-Hamilton, Lord James Alexander 1772 MSP (QC; Ex-Minister of State, Scot. Office, {Skye Tolls})
Douglas-Home, Rt. Hon. Sir Alec 1755 (Ex-P.M. of the U.K., Ex-Chair Bilderberg Group)
Draper, O. A. T.
Drummond Young, James Edward ( Law Lord, Lord Drummond Young)
Duff, Donald Campbell MacRae 1679 (Resigned 1958)
Duff, Ronald Roxburgh 1728 (B.A. Oxford, LL.B; W.S.)
Duncan, D. M. G. (LL.B.)
Duthie, C. E. (M.A., Spec. Soc. Librarian 2002/3, public apologist)
Dymock, Ian William 1772 (Physician, author of 'Clinical Pharmacology')



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Elliot, J. C.
Elliot, Gerald Henry 1640 (Sir Gerald, Royal Co. Archers; Chmn. Christian Salvesen, Forth Ports, etc.)
Elliot, P. R.
Elliott, Walter Archibald 1613 (Q.C. Barrister; Staff Captain Scots Guards)
Elston, David Aitken (Solicitor, Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh)
Errington, Humphrey John 1780 (Shipping, then, Cheesemaker, Lanark Blue)
Erskine, Donald Seymour 1652 (Fellow of the Chartered Land Agents Society, estate agent.)



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Fairbairn, Sir Nicholas Hardwick 1677 (Solicitor General, 1979-1982)
Ferguson, James G.D. (Ex-Chair. St. Ivory, Ch. Val. & Inc. Trust, Dir. Monks Inv. Trust, Comm. Fund Managers Assoc.)
Fitch, R. E. I. (M.A.)
Ford, P. J. (Dr. Lecturer and Professor at Edin. University)
Forfar, David O. (Sen. Lect. Dep. of Actuarial Maths & Stats. Heriot-Watt Uni., author)
Forman, P M
Foster, A. J. E.
Foulis, Alexander Douglas 1635 (Bookbinder)
Frain-Bell, William J. (Advocate, Tory cand., Mem.Young Int. Arb. Pract. Gp., Ed.Firm Magazine)
Francis, Derick R. Le B (Advocate, member of the English Bar; Registered Insurance Broker)
Fraser, I. A. (M.A., Dir. School of Celtic & Scottish Studies, Univ. of Edin.)
Fraser, Sir John 1590, Bart. (Honorary Member, Principal of the University of Edinburgh)
Fraser, Peter Lovat (Q.C., Sol. Gen. 1982, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Lord Advocate 1989)
Fyfe, Norman Alexander (Solicitor Miller Beckett & Jackson, Glasgow)



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Galbraith, Norman Dunlop Galloway 1611 (Ship-owner, Sub-Lieutenant, Home Fleet)
Galbraith, William Campbell 1696 (Q.C.; Chair, Tribunal DHSS, 1997; Chair, Tribunal MAFF, 1994)
Gieben, Abraham Herman Cornelius Sinclair 1685 (non-resident Member, M.D. Amsterdam)
Gillies, William (M.A. Edin., B.A. Oxon., Prof. Hd. of Dept. Celtic Studies, Gov. H. & I. Ent.Trust, author)
Godfrey, A. M.
Gotelee, Jonathan (Architect)
Graham, J. A.G. (M.A., M.Phil.)
Grant, D M K
Grant, Douglas 1591 (F.R.S.E.; T.D. Publisher, Brother of 1538; Cousin of 1587)
Grant, Ian Robertson 1587 (B.A. Camb. Antiquarian Bookseller and Editor of the 1968 History)
Grant, Robert William 1740 (C.A. son of 1496 Lord Grant MP, Lord Advocate)
Grant Scott, W. (A Dr W. Grant Scott made submission to City of Edin. Council Dev. Sub- Comm. 23/8/00. Same man?)
Grieve, Christopher Murray 1762 (Hugh MacDairmid - Poet, Honorary Member)
Griffiths, John Robert (Solicitor, W.S., Partner Shep. & Wedd., Chair. Emp. Law Soc. of Scot.) Grossart, Angus McFarlane McLeod 1744 (Ch. Brit. Assts. Trust/ISIS, Noble Grossart, Royal Bank of Scot., Scot. Inv. Trust etc.)
Grossart, Hamish M. (Hamish, Dir. Martin Currie, I&G, Royal Doulton, Cairn Energy, Indigo Vision, Scottish Radio Holdings)
Guest, Simon Edward Graham (Solicitor with Bell & Scott, Edinburgh)
Guild, Ivor Reginald 1588 (Ex-Snr. Prtnr. Shepherd & Wedderburn; Chair Dunedin WWI Trust; etc)


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Halblander, C. J. M.
Haldane, James Martin 1754 (KT., Chair. Audit Comm. Univ. Stirling, Dir. Scot. Life, Inv.Cap. Trust/ISIS, C.A. Cheine & Tait)
Hamilton, Arthur Campbell 1793 (Law Lord, Lord Hamilton)
Hammond Chambers, R. A. (Alex, Chair Ivory & Sime, (now ISIS), Dir. Dobbies Gdn. Cntrs., etc.)
Hamnett, Thomas Galloway Ian 1668 (Advocate and lecturer at Edinburgh & Bristol Univs.)
Hardman, J. D.
Harris , P. A.
Harrison, Patrick Kennard 1694 (Principal, Scottish Development Dept.)
Hart, Thomas David Mure 1775 (C.A. in Brewing)
Hayes, James Almand 1768 (Extruded, Graduate of Georgia Military Acad; Theatre Director)
Heath, Peter Laughlan 1659 (B.A. Oxford; Prof. of Philosophy, Univ. of Edin. & Virginia, Author)
Heggie, C. A. (LL.B. Solicitor, Bell & Scott, Edinburgh)
Henderson, William Gebbie 1690 (M.A. Edin., Publisher)
Hennigan, Brian (Writer, Vice-Chair of Mediabase)
Henry, A. C. (Sheriff at Glasgow?)
Hepburn-Scott, Henry Alexander 1585 (Lord Polwarth, Resigned 1947; Governor BOS; Dir. various)
Hodge, Robin M. (Publisher of the List, events guide for Edinburgh & Glasgow)
Hogg, M. A. (Faculty of Law Univ. Edin, co-author Prof. Hector McQueen)
Hollis, Edward C.R. (Architect, Lecturer, Media Arts, Napier Univ., Spec. Soc. Secretary 2002/3)
Holmes, H. M. (of H. H. Holmes, Accountants, specialists in Tax planning, Edinburgh?)
Holroyd, Nicholas W. (Advocate, Ex-tutor Univ. Edin., 'Delict & Civil Court Pt')
Hook, William Thomson 1608 (M.A. LL.B. Edinburgh, Sheriff at Greenock)
Hope, George Archibald 1742 (C.A. apprentice)
Hope, James Arthur David 1750 (Lord Hope of Craighead, Law Lord, son of 1399)
Hope, Hon. J. D. L. (Solicitor, son of Lord Hope of Craighead 1750, grandson of 1399)
Horden, M. J. W.
Huggins, Martin 1777 (Dir. Edinburgh School of English; Business Consultant)
Hunter Gordon, H (B.Sc.; Governor Moray House Institute of Education)



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Inglis, James Crawford Roger 1625 (Ptnr. Shep. & Wedd., Dir Royal B.of Scot, Chair. Brit. Ass. Trust; associate of George Bush Snr)
Ingram, Paul Alexander 1616 (Chartered Surveyor; Captain Royal Artillery)
Ingram, Thomas Theodore Scott 1693 (Senior lecturer in Paediatric Neurology and Author)
Ireland, Ronald David 1632 (Q.C., Sheriff Principal, Hon. Prof. of Law Univ. of Aberdeen; Author)
Irvine, R G
Ivory, Brian G. (CBE, Non-Exec. Dir. Halifax/Bank of Scotland, Dir. Scot/Amer. Inv., ex-CEO Highland Distillers)
Ivory, J (B. Comm., C.A., Trustee, Advocates for Animals)



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Jauncey, Charles Eliot 1621 (Law Lord, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle.)
Jenkins, D.H.R. (M.B. Ch.B.)
Johnson, R. E. C. (B.Sc.)
Johnson, Robert Smith 1592 (B.A. Cambridge, LL.B. Glasgow; Advocate Depute)
Johnston, A B M
Johnston, Alan Charles Macpherson 1760 (Law Lord, Lord Johnston)
Johnston, Alastair Graham 1654 (Resigned, M.A.)
Johnstone, John Raymond 1633 (C.A. in Investment Trusts)



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Keith, The Hon Henry Shanks 1605 (Law Lord, Lord Keith of Kinkel, d. 2002)
Kelsall, John Ainsworth 1726 (B.A. Oxford, LL.B. Edin, Solicitor)
Kenyon-Slaney, Robert Ivan 1653 (Tobacconist & Snuff dealer, ceased to be a member, d.1984)
Kermack, S O
Kerr, Andrew Mark 1771 (B.A. Camb., LL.B. Edin., W.S. Solicitor., Ctte. Memb., Clerk, W.S. Library)
Kerr, Bruce A. (Sheriff at Glasgow, member of Judicial Appointments Board)
Killick, David Henry Rothwell 1749 (Non-Resident, Barrister, Merchant)
Kincade, James 1687 (B.A. Trinity, M.A., B.Litt. Oxford, Teacher)
King Murray - See Murray R J K



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Laird, David Logan 1772 (Solicitor with Thorntons W.S. Forfar; Board of Inver Dist. Salmon Fisheries)
Laird, Michael Donald 1636a (Resigned, Michael Laird Partnership, Architects, Edinburgh)
Laird Craig, Adrian J (MD, TM Robertson Wine Cellars Edinburgh, Pres. Inst. Wine & Spirits Scot., Old Stoic)
Lall, Vikram (C.A., Dir. Malcolm Group, Ex-Grampian Holdings, Noble Grossart, Dir. Brewin Dolphin, Member Scottish Industrial Development Advisory Board)
Law, James 1628 (Q.C., Member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board 1994)
Law, Ralph Hamilton 1680 (Under-Secretary, Dept. of Fisheries, Scotland)
Lawson, K.
Learmonth, Alastair M. (Advocate, Tutor in Evidence, University of Edinburgh)
Learmonth, Ian Robertson 1783 (Stockbroker)
Leckie, P. Ross (Dir. Martin Currie, author of 'Bluff your way in the Classics', journalist 'Scotland on Sunday', Tory candidate, Spec apologist)
Leeming, D. B. B.
Leslie, R. K.
Leslie, William 1658 (B.A. Camb. LL.B. T.D. W.S.)
Liddell, Hamish George MacDuff 1604 (B.A. Oxon., LL.B. Edin; Ptnr. J&H Mitchell, Perth; cousin of 1594)
Liddell, Andrew Colin MacDuff (Solicitor, J & H Mitchell, Pitlochry)
Lindgren, David I. (Solicitor & Partner, Fyfe Ireland W.S.)
Lockhart, H.
Lorimer, D.
Lorimer, Robert Lewis Campbell 1638 (Author & Publisher, d.1996)
Lothian, Andrew (M A; Sheriff, Lothians & Borders, Edinburgh)
Lowe, Ian Douglas 1761 (M.A. Camb., Dip Agric. Camb., M.B.A. Harvard; Company Director)



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McAllister, Richard A. (Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh)
MacAskill, Jamie (Deputy News Editor, Sunday Mail, Scotland)
McCall Smith, R. Alexander {Sandy} (Prof. of Medical Law University of Edinburgh)
MacColl, Gavin L. (Advocate, Edinburgh)
McCosh, W. G.
McCulloch, Andrew Jameson 1766 (of Ardwall, Solicitor, and author of 'Galloway, a land apart')
Macdonald, Alistair Archibald 1660 (Sheriff substitute at Caithness, Orkney, & Zetland)
McDougall, Douglas C.P. (Ex-Prtnr. Baillie/Gifford, Chair. IMRO, Dir. Scot. Inv. Trust, Monks Inv. Trust, etc.)
McEachran, Colin Neil 1789 (QC, Advocate Depute 1974-77; Pres. Pensions Appeal Trib. 1994-present)
McFadden, John Alexander Crawford 1751 (M.A. LL.B. Aberdeen, Solicitor)
MacFarlane, C. W. (Q.C. LL.B., Sheriff of Glasgow & Strathkelvin, at Glasgow)
Macfie, John W.S. (Solicitor, Hon. Sec. Scot. Tartan Soc., Edinburgh)
McGhie, James Marshall (Law Lord, Lord McGhie, Chair. Scottish Land Court, President Lands Tribunal for Scotland)
McInnes, John Colin 1731 (B.A.Ox, LL.B. Edin; Q.C., Sheriff, Mem.Invest. Powers Tribunal)
McIntyre, Robert Gordon 1691 (Executive with Morgan Crucible Co., (US-convicts), son of Lord Sorn)
McIver, Calum Alexander (Solicitor, D. L. A. Scotland, Edinburgh)
Mackay, 1676 James Peter Hymers (Lord Mackay of Clashfearn, Ex- UK Lord Chancellor.) Mackay, Peter 1791 (Sen. Civil Servt. Retd., Dir. Scottish Council Foundation, Dir. several companies)
Mackenzie, J.G. (M.A., LL.B. Cantab., Advocate)
MacKenzie, L. D. M. (M.A. Edinburgh, Director DG XXIII, European Commission (Info Tech)
Mackie, C.A.
Mackie, E. J. (LL.B.)
Mackie, Thorold (Investment Analyst, ING Barings Charterhouse Securities)
Mackness, Robin Frederick Stewart 1743 (B.A. Camb., Importer & Manufacturer)
MacLaren, I F
Maclean of Dochgarroch, Alan
MacLean, Colin P. B. (Dir. British Assets Management Trust, ISIS, MD Scot. Val. Man. Trust, Scottish Provident etc.)
MacLean, Ranald Norman Munro 1736 (Law Lord, Senior Legal rep. of Judicial Appts. Board.)
McLean, Robert Younger 1657 (B.A. Camb., A.M.I.E.E. Electrical Engineer)
MacLehose, D.
McLeod, Hugh Roderick 1675 (B.A. Cambridge; Ship-owner)
McLeod, J. M. N.
McLeod, Norman Donald 1678 (Sheriff-Substitute at Glasgow)
McLure, P.L.H (B.A. Oxon. LL.B. W.S.)
MacNaught, R. H. A. (B.A. Oxon., LL.B. Edin., Solicitor)
MacNeill, Calum H S (Q.C., Advocate Depute1998-2001, Edin. Acted v. Skye Toll protesters)
McNeill, James W. (Q.C. Advocates Library, Parliament House)
Macphail, Iain Duncan 1745 (Sheriff Principal, Lothian & Borders)
MacPhee, N. W. M. R.
Macpherson, Robin Ian (Solicitor & Partner, Brodies W.S., Edinburgh)
McVicar, Euan Forbes (Solicitor, Associate, McGrigor Donald, advised Bank of Scot. on PFI)
McVicar, Neil 1589 (M.A., Oxon., LL.B. Edin., Q.C., Chancellor to the Bishop of Edinburgh)
Mair, Hamish J. G. (Dir. Martin Currie Inv. Man. Ltd., Mgr. Martin Currie Return Trust)
Marquis Edward Graham 1607 (M.A. LL.B. Cambridge, practiced as English Solicitor)
Martin, R M
Maxtone Graham, Robert Mungo 1669 (Advocate, author of the Society's literature)
Maxwell, Peter 1618 (Resigned, BA. Oxford, LL.B. Q.C.; grandson of 1027)
Menzies, Duncan Adam Young (Law Lord, Lord Menzies, as QC acted v. Skye toll protesters)
Mercer, Walter M.D. (Advocate, Visit. Lect., Univ. Aber., Mem. Privacy Law Comm., Law Soc.)
Mercer-Wood, S. Z. K.
Michael, P. A.
Millar, Angus George 1641 (Investment Trust Manager)
Milligan, J G
Mitchell, James Lachlan Martin 1643 (Sheriff)
Mitchell, Geoffery D. M. (Advocate, Edinburgh)
Moncreiffe of That Ilk, Sir David Gerald 1606 (Bart. & 23rd Laird of Moncreiffe; cousin of 1594)
Moncreiffe, Rupert Iain Kay 1594 (Sir Iain Moncreiffe, MA, LLB. PhD; Brit. Emb. Moscow 1946)
Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Walter William (of Buccleuch & Queensberry)
Moran, Joseph Michael 1612 (Resigned; Draftsman Lord Advocate's Department)
Morison, Alastair Malcolm 1665 (Law Lord, Lord Morison; son of 1417 Sir Ronald Morison)
Morrison, Stephen Andrew Simpson (American Solicitor, regd. w/Law Society of Scotland)
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December: Mafia join Italy’s #Freemasons to ‘do deals’ with judiciary https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/worl ... -b6jcm7v0n

Today: Italy clamps down on #Masons after #mafia links exposed https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ital ... -0blw9p3q8

Government admits 'losing' thousands of papers from National Archives. Documents on the Falklands, Northern Ireland’s Troubles, and the infamous Zinoviev letter among those ‘misplaced’, leaving historians suspicious.
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Gangsters able to recruit police officers through secret society, says investigation for Scotland Yard
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Italy clamps down on masons after mafia links exposed

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January 16 2018, 12:00am, The Times
Italian freemasons are jealous of their privacy after attempts by Mussolini to ban them in the 1920s
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Italian politicians will be forced to declare whether they are freemasons under laws being drawn up after revelations that mafia bosses are joining lodges to strike deals with elected officials.

The legislation is being proposed after police raids on the four largest freemasonry orders in Italy discovered 193 mob-linked masons on the orders’ secret membership lists in Sicily and Calabria, southern Italy.

The findings were published last month by the Italian parliament’s anti-mafia commission, which alleged that mobsters used secret lodge meetings to do business with politicians and entrepreneurs. Laws proposed by the commission would ban magistrates from joining the masons and compel public officials to say if they are members.

Rosy Bindi, the commission president, said she also hoped to compel masons to compile…

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Ties between the Mob and the masons are close in Calabria
Ties between the Mob and the masons are close in Calabria
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Strong links between Italy’s secretive freemasons and the mafia have been exposed by police raids, with 193 crime bosses found to be members of lodges in Calabria and Sicily.

The investigation has confirmed long-standing accusations by magistrates and mob turncoats that freemason lodges in southern Italy are often venues for secret deals with corrupt judges, politicians and business owners.

The mafia’s enthusiastic participation in freemasonry “has led some to believe that the two have become one and the same”, according to a report this month from an anti-mafia parliamentary commission. Masons were “acquiescent” and “tolerant” of the takeover, it added.

The raids were ordered after the heads of Italy’s four main freemasonry orders refused to hand over their membership lists. “It was impossible to get…
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Two Freemasons' lodges 'New Welcome' (MPs) & 'Gallery' (lobby hacks) operate secretly at Westminster. UGLE, governing body for Masons in England & Wales, said there was no contradiction between the practice of journalism & membership of Freemasonry
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The 'initiation oaths' of Freemasons are a euphemism for death threats. Freemasonry & public office are incompatible by BY DEFINITION, as Masons swear loyalty to The Craft above serving the public. It's a UK based international political/judicial racket crying out to be exposed.
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The secret ceremonies and rituals of female Freemasons
Female Freemasons have been gathering for more than 100 years - conducting initiations, ceremonies and rituals like their male counterparts. Now, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been given unique access to their secret societies.

"What is freemasonry?" asks a master at the Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons.

"A peculiar system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols," replies Dialazaza Nkela.

She is taking part in a ceremony to reach the rank of the "second degree".

It celebrates her rise in standing within the society.

The "first degree" was previously marked by her initiation, which involved her baring her "right arm, left breast and knee" while a noose was placed around her neck.

Each of these elements, it is said, has a symbolic meaning - though we are not told anything more.

The "third degree" is said to be "where you experience death to be reborn", representing "the end of one life and the beginning of another".

What this means in practice, again, is kept from us.

But this in itself is a glimpse into the workings of a secretive society.

Many people perhaps do not even know that female Freemasons exist.

The male Freemasons - who started meeting officially 300 years ago - have always gained greater attention. They are currently led by the Duke of Kent.

But between the two female societies - the Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons and the Order of Women Freemasons, which split in the early 20th Century - there are nearly 5,000 members.
The Order of Women Freemasons meets regularly in lodges, or temples, around the country.

During ceremonies, the women dress in white robes, with regalia worn around their necks to represent their place in the hierarchy.

The service we see begins with a procession down the centre aisle.

Members of the organisation bow as they reach the front, where grand master Zuzanka Penn sits on a grand chair that looks similar to a throne.

Prayers are said during ceremonies, and at times it has the feel of a religious group, although Ms Penn is keen to stress this is not the case.

"In order to be a Freemason, you have to believe in a supreme being," she says, but it can be of "any faith at all".

"We will have people who are very religious, and people who are not as observant - but of any race, any faith," she says.

Most of the women in the societies are aged 50 or above - something they are keen to change, targeting university freshers' fairs as a way to recruit younger members.

Optician Roshni Patel is having a ceremony to mark her reaching the rank of a Master Freemason.

She joined the Freemasons seven years ago.

We are not allowed to attend the ceremony, but learn that she was given the "honour" of sitting on the throne-like "chair".

"The whole process of me being put into the chair, that was very emotional," she says, as she exits.

"Especially by all my lodge members, who I really care about."

Asked about becoming a master Freemason, she adds: "I'm in shock," while still trying to take in her achievement.

But perhaps the Freemasons' greatest recruitment barrier is their reputation for secrecy and association with corruption, including favouritism in which members help each other rise up the career ladder.

It is not something Ms Penn says she recognises.

"I've been a Freemason for over 40 years and I've never been offered a favour or offered anyone else a favour.

"You hear the stories, but I've not come across it in freemasonry at all."

n 1997, there were calls from then Home Secretary Jack Straw for officers and judges to make voluntary disclosures about their membership, although this plan was later scrapped after the Freemasons threatened to take the government to court.

Christine Chapman, grand master at the Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons, says while they "do have some police officers… I've not seen anyone being helped [through favours]".

But there have long been allegations that the society is associated with corruption in the police and judiciary.

Masonic rules demand that members support each other and keep each others' lawful secrets, which has led to fears of corrupt cliques developing.

There are about 4,700 female Freemasons in the UK, compared with about 200,000 male Freemasons
Freemasons meet in a temple, which they call a "lodge", as it is understood that is where ancient stonemasons met when working on a church or cathedral
They wear masonic aprons, dating back to the theory that freemasonry evolved from the stonemasons, who wore them for protection from stone chipping
The "third degree" is the final stage before becoming a fully fledged Mason. The ceremony involves close questioning, which is where the expression "giving someone the third degree" originates
Famous male Freemasons have included Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, Oscar Wilde and Peter Sellers

Ms Chapman stresses that the Freemasons' secrecy is to create a sense of allure and mystique rather than hiding "something sinister".

"We're not trying to take over the world, despite all these conspiracy theorists on the internet, and we're not trying to overthrow the government or anything like that.

"We need to preserve an element of secrecy only because that's what makes it special."

One of the most famous aspects of freemasonry has always been the masonic handshake - and this is no different within the female organisations.

"Yes, of course we [have a handshake]," says Ms Penn, refusing to demonstrate what it looks like when asked.

"It's a secret. You'll have to join and then I'll tell you all about it," she says, smiling.
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Freemasons call for end to 'discrimination' of members

The Freemasons have placed full-page advertisements in several national newspapers calling for an end to the "discrimination" against their members.

The United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) said it welcomes individuals from all walks of life but that members are "undeservedly stigmatised".

It said it had written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Recent news stories questioned the influence of Freemasons in policing and in parliament.

In an advert in the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian, the governing body of Freemasonry complains of the "gross misrepresentation" of its members.

Under the headline "Enough is enough", chief executive Dr David Staples said the organisation raised more than £33m for good causes last year.

The secret ceremonies and rituals of female Freemasons
He said people of any race, faith, age, class or political persuasion were welcome in the 300-year-old organisation.

The United Grand Lodge of England is restricted to men, although separate women-only lodges also exist.

There are about 200,000 Freemasons in England and Wales, who meet in more than 7,000 lodges.

In the last week, the Guardian reported that two Freemasons' lodges are operating at Westminster - which it said were for MPs and political journalists.

But Dr Staples said that, although the lodges existed, none of their members were MPs or political journalists.

The revelation followed claims that members of the Freemasons were blocking reform in policing. The outgoing chairman of the Police Federation, Steve White, told the Guardian the society was thwarting progress of women and those from black and ethnic backgrounds.

Dr Staples rejected those claims as "laughable".

He told BBC Breakfast: "We're not a secretive society. Nepotism (and) corruption is not tolerated."

He added that the handshake used by members during ceremonies is "not secret" but, when he was asked to demonstrate it to viewers of BBC Breakfast, he declined, saying he had "promised" not to.

he advert adds that the organisation will be running a series of events this year designed to answer questions people may have about the organisation, whose activities are not widely known.

Dr Staples also invites direct queries to be sent to the Freemasons' London headquarters, Freemasons' Hall.

But some have responded to the adverts with scepticism.

How can members be discriminated against if "we don't know who they are", asks Labour MP Melanie Onn.

There are about 200,000 male Freemasons and 4,700 female Freemasons in the UK
Freemasons meet in a temple, which they call a "lodge", as it is understood that is where ancient stonemasons met when working on a church or cathedral
Lodges are grouped by region, roughly in line with the old county boundaries
Freemasons wear masonic aprons, dating back to the theory that freemasonry evolved from the stonemasons, who wore them for protection from stone chipping
The "third degree" is the final stage before becoming a fully fledged Mason. The ceremony involves close questioning, which is where the expression "giving someone the third degree" originates
Famous Freemasons have included Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, Oscar Wilde and Peter Sellers
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Secret Freemasons should have no place in public life
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Don’t be distracted by the handshakes and funny aprons – we should be holding the masons to account
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Freemasons’ Hall, London. ‘No one joins the masons for the handshakes. It must be for the benefits it can bring.’ Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

It seems almost retro to be talking about Freemasons again, but after two alarming reports there is light on their darkness again. First, over the new year there was an allegation from retiring Police Federation chair Steve White that freemasonry was blocking reform within the force, preventing women and black officers progressing professionally. And this weekend saw revelations of two lodges within the Palace of Westminster: one incorporating members of parliament and staff in the Commons and Lords, and the second comprising political journalists.
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Many regard freemasonry as an 18th-century boys’ club, all funny aprons and comedic handshakes. That’s good for the masons themselves, but it’s our mistake. The most senior figures are listed, but surely that’s a sop because, all the while, the vast majority of lay members, “the brotherhood”, remain anonymous. What’s the problem, they will ask you, but don’t be fooled. No one joins the masons for the handshakes. It must be for the benefits it can bring.

And from the outside, we can’t be entirely sure what those benefits are. In the past, criminals have been found to be in the same lodges as investigating police officers. Brian Paddick, the former Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate and one-time commander at Scotland Yard, tells in his autobiography how one officer – a mason – changed both behaviour and body language on becoming aware of Paddick’s membership, an attitude he saw replicated by other masons whenever he revealed his links. The guilt, he says, led him to stop attending lodge meetings.

It’s all above board, little more than a social club, defenders tell you, a place to know more about yourself, and become a better individual. Or, as they call it, “a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated with symbols”. But if that is all harmlessly true, why the defensiveness? On learning of my intention to write an article, a senior council official phoned to berate me for making a fuss over nothing, claiming freemasonry was just a way for “men to let off steam”. When I asked why membership remained secret, he cited tradition. When I asked how many of his senior council colleagues were also masons, he paused and hung up. Need to know, I suppose.
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One can try to understand, perhaps, the thrill of being part of an invisible network and recipient of wordless acknowledgment, but it’s also important to understand that this is how power is perpetuated. Equality legislation, and audits on gender pay gaps, ethnicity and disability, – within companies and public authorities – all aim to stamp out the informal transfer of power through social networks, in favour of appointment through genuine merit. But how can that happen if favours are dispensed behind closed doors, or even when there is the lingering belief that unseen processes give people we cannot identify an advantage. It certainly can’t happen when only specific groups can benefit. The council official who called knew very well I wasn’t a mason. Being both female and Catholic, my entry would be unlikely. While a small handful of lodges outside the main organisation now admit women, my Catholicism would also be seen by most as pretty much incompatible with Freemasonry.

It is, of course, questionable in a free society whether it is right to dictate to individuals with whom they can associate. Some association with criminal intent is proscribed by law and punishable by the courts, but in all other cases people are free to choose. That said, it is well within the rights of society to shape the nature of the decisions people freely make. If Freemasons won’t be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public service? Asking public servants to either confirm they are not a member of a masonic organisation or to be open when they are won’t fully excise the backroom deals or the stench of privilege. The police have attempted for many years to impose such a stricture, with apparently limited effect. Still, it would signal intent.
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The Brotherhood hardly seems in fine fettle. It is said that membership has fallen by 150,000 in the last 20 years. But we can’t know that for sure. Indeed, when the masons talk about transparency and good spiritedness, we are taking a great deal on trust about the elements in public view, without any ability to see what lies beneath the surface.

And we have ample reason to be suspicious. Chumminess, social connection, camaraderie: all of these are in good supply at sports and dining clubs with doors on the high street and windows that peer out on to the 21st century. Masons, tell me this: if you truly huddle in secret to no malign end and with no professed benefit unavailable elsewhere, what is the point?
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Why the secret handshake between police and Freemasons should worry us
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Successive Met commissioners have tried to end the society’s influence. It is as clear as ever that membership of both bodies is incompatible with public service
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‘I asked the superintendent if he was ‘on the square’ and his attitude changed completely; suddenly he became my best friend,’ wrote Brian Paddick. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian

When the late Sir Kenneth Newman became commissioner of the Metropolitan police in 1982, he outlined his thoughts on how his officers should behave in what became known as “the little blue book”. Always a tactful man, his passage on freemasonry noted delicately that “the discerning officer will probably consider it wise to forgo the prospect of pleasure and social advantage in freemasonry so as to enjoy the unreserved regard of all those around him”.

More than 30 years later, it will come as a surprise to many that membership of the Freemasons is still causing disquiet within the police. Steve White, the retiring chair of the Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, told the Guardian this week that he and his colleagues suspected that Freemasons within the service were hampering reforms and acting in an obstructive way. “I find it odd,” he added, “that there are pockets of the organisation where a significant number of representatives are Freemasons.”

Many younger recruits regard Freemasonry as little more than a weird old boys’ club

The Freemasons themselves have denied that there is anything untoward and say that they see no conflict of interest between membership of a masonic lodge and a job in the police. “We are parallel organisations … and have high moral principles and values,” Mike Baker, spokesman for the United Grand Lodge, told the Guardian.

That may well be, but being both a Freemason and a police officer remains just as delicate and conflicted an issue as it did in the 1980s. After Newman’s pronouncement, Freemasons within the Met, some of them in quite senior positions, responded defiantly by setting up their own new lodge called the Manor of St James, and there was little that Newman could do about it. Since then, commissioner after commissioner has made the same point.
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The late Lord Imbert also took on the Freemasons when he had the top job at Scotland Yard. So did Lord Condon, and most recently, in 2014, the then commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, said that it would be difficult under human rights legislation to make a register of membership compulsory, but he made it clear that “for me as a police officer, the secrecy of membership is a concern. I think police officers should be transparent: nothing to hide, then why not mention it? My view would be that you ought to be open about your associations.”

Quite. And there are very good reasons for this distance to be observed, stretching back to the dark days of endemic corruption in the Met and elsewhere from the 1960s to the 1980s, when it emerged that some detectives were even in the very same lodge as career criminals.

Brian – now Lord – Paddick, in his autobiography, Line of Fire, disclosed that both he and and his father had been Freemasons. Paddick himself joined almost as soon as he could, at the age of 21, when he was already an officer working under an unpopular superintendent in west London. “I asked the superintendent if he was ‘on the square’ and his attitude changed completely; suddenly he became my best friend and showed me his Masonic regalia, the decorated apron worn in Masonic meetings … I found his complete volte-face quite disappointing but it was not the last time someone’s attitude to me was to change instantly when he discovered my Masonic links.” Paddick duly decided to give up attending Masonic meetings.
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As recently as 1999, a former detective and a Freemason, Duncan Hanrahan, was jailed for more than eight years for conspiracy to rob, supply drugs and pervert the course of justice. It emerged in his Old Bailey trial that he had used a fellow Freemason, who was a serving officer, to help him make contact with another officer, whom he tried unsuccessfully to bribe. And this came just three years after the home affairs select committee had announced: “We believe that nothing so much undermines public confidence in public institutions as the knowledge that some public servants are members of a secret society, one of whose aims is mutual self-advancement.”

Things may have changed a great deal in the intervening two decades since those remarks; there are thankfully many more women in the service now. Many younger recruits, particularly those from ethnic minority backgrounds, regard Freemasonry and all its aprons and handshakes and rituals, as little more than a weird old boys’ club. But Steve White has made the point that its influence within the service still exists. All those commissioners were right. If the public thinks that a secret handshake can still swing a prosecution and officers themselves feel that the same handshake can affect a promotion, then it is as clear as ever that membership of both bodies is incompatible. And it is time that all those officers who are Freemasons decided to “forgo the prospect of pleasure and social advantage” until they have left the service.
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Church of England warning that secret society may not be compatible with Christianity echoes concerns from 1987
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Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent @harrietsherwood Thu 8 Feb 2018 18.55 GMT

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The Church of England has reiterated “significant concerns” about Christians becoming Freemasons amid renewed controversy about the presence of the secretive organisation at the heart of the British establishment. Christopher Cocksworth, the bishop of Coventry, flagged up a 1987 report issued by the church that highlighted a “number of very fundamental reasons to question the compatibility of Freemasonry and Christianity”.

The bishop was responding to a question tabled at the church’s General Synod, meeting this week in London, which sought information on services celebrating last year’s 300th anniversary of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) held in “a number” of Anglican cathedrals.

Cocksworth said such data was not collected or monitored centrally, but added that cathedral services were required under canon law not to contravene church doctrine.

Michael Baker, UGLE’s director of communications, also said the information was not “to hand”, but added: “Services held in various cathedrals were normal services according to the prayer book and did not deviate from normal Anglican practice.

“The Anglican synod has never come to a conclusion on the compatibility of Freemasonry and Christianity. The 1987 report raised what [it] termed ‘serious questions’ and the synod recommended that they be discussed throughout the church. As far as we are aware those discussions have never taken place.”

Canterbury was among the cathedrals that held tercentenary services for UGLE in 2017. According to West Kent Masons, the service on 18 February last year was prepared in conjunction with the Very Rev Dr Robert Willis, the dean of Canterbury Cathedral, who also delivered the sermon.

“We shall be joined by several of the High Rulers in the Craft and the Holy Royal Arch Chapter together with Brethren from the Provinces of East Kent, West Kent, Surrey and Sussex,” said a notice on West Kent Masons website.

The service came after Freemasons in Kent, Sussex and Surrey raised £300,000 for the restoration of Canterbury Cathedral’s north-west transept.

Lambeth Palace confirmed that Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and head of the church, was not, nor had ever been, a Freemason. His predecessor, Rowan Williams, was an opponent of Freemasonry. Soon after his appointment, he said Christianity and Freemasonry were “incompatible” and he refused to appoint clergymen to senior posts if they were known to be members of the brotherhood. However, in 2011 he became embroiled in controversy after appointing a known senior mason as the bishop of Ebbsfleet.

Geoffrey Fisher, archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961, held the senior post of grand chaplain for UGLE.

The 1987 church report stated that it was “clear that some Christians have found the im­pact of Masonic rituals disturb­ing and a few perceive them as positively evil.” It said Christians had withdrawn from Masonic lodges “precisely be­cause they perceive their membership of it as being in conflict with their Christian witness and belief”.

The Association of English Cathedrals said: “Cathedrals provide a place of worship and welcome. While the church has had an uneasy relationship with the Masonic movement, we do share a common humanity, and no one would doubt its commitment to charity and community.

“Some of our cathedrals have hosted special services organised by the Freemasons in the same way they would host services for a wide variety of different community groups and organisations in the spirit of openness and welcome.”
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Sacred Texts Neopaganism
The Witch-Cult in Western Europe

by Margaret Alice Murray [1921]

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The Witch-Cult in Western Europe was the first book in which Margaret Murray developed her controversial literal interpretation of the Witch trial evidence. This work is of importance because it is a source-book of the Witch trials, with extensive quotes from the original documents, presented in the original Elizabethan English, French and German. The names of hundreds of accused witches are given in an appendix, a somber roll call of the 'burning times.' The main body of this work aims to show that the consistent narrative of the cult is evidence of a wide-spread, underground pagan religion existing in Europe up through the Renaissance. Murray, as if not having stirred things up enough, adds appendices with her controversial take on the Fairies, Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais, as well as one truly dangerous recipe. This book is one of those crucial works which every scholar of Neopaganism must come to terms with, one way or another.--J.B. Hare, April 2009.

PRODUCTION NOTES: This was one of the first texts I scanned for the site back in 2000, and I remastered the HTML in 2009. Footnotes are interspersed with the text in brackets. This was the first-ever posting of this book on the Internet.

Title Page, Preface, Contents, Introduction
Chapter I. Continuity of the Religion
Chapter II. The God
Chapter III. Admission Ceremonies
Chapter IV. The Assemblies
Chapter V. The Rites
Chapter VI. The Rites (continued)
Chapter VII. The Organization
Chapter VIII. Familiars and Transformations
Appendix I. Fairies and Witches
Appendix II. Trial of Silvain Nevillon and Gentien le Clerc
Appendix III. Names of Witches in Covens
Appendix IV. Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais
Appendix V. Flying Ointments
Bibliography
Addendum

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