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FREEMASONRYThe Brethern – A Wink, a Nod,or a Shake of the Handby Stuart ChristieTHE POINT OF A CLUB IS NOT WHO IT LETSIN, BUT WHO IT KEEPS OUT. THE CLUB ISBASED ON TWO ANCIENT BRITISHIDEAS:THE SEGREGATION OF CLASSES, ANDTHE SEGREGATION OF SEXES; AND THEYEVEN REMAIN INSISTENT ON KEEPINGPEOPLE OUT, LONG AFTER THEY HAVESTOPPED WANTING TO COME IN.ANTHONY SAMPSON‘ANATOMY OF BRITAIN ‘If secrecy is to be considered afactor in British politics andcommerce then without doubtFreemasonry is one of its principalvehicles. Freemasonry is the largestsemi-covert organisation of the westernbourgeoisie, with over six millionmembers worldwide sharing a vision ofa unified world order bound togetherthrough a series of interlockingMasonic alliances. Among the world’smost influential institutions is theUnited Grand Lodge of England, themother lodge of Craft Freemasonry,with its headquarters at Freemasons’Hall in Great Queen Street nearCovent Garden. It is here that thewealthy and influential members ofthe British Establishment meet inconditions of ritual secrecy, ostensiblyto listen to lectures on Masonic historyand to discuss charitable and otherMasonic business. In practice, theMasonic brotherhood constitutes aclandestine network for the defence ofthe status quo and establishedprivilege, in other words — a mutualaid society for the British ruling class.Of course just as a mutual-aidsociety for gaolers will be different inaims and functions from a mutual-aidsociety for prisoners (one providingclubs and the other hacksaws), so themutual-aid society of society’sprivileged power elite will be different20THE HASTINGS TRAWLER January ‘06Officers of the Grand Lodge of England meeting and greeting outside Freemasons’ Hall, Great Queen Street, Covent Gardenfrom the mutual-aid societies whichprovide assistance among those whosedeprivation of the good things in life isthe essential condition for thepreservation of the privileges of thefew.Since the benefits of privilege,preferment and patronage, as opposedto their outward trappings, arenecessarily largely hidden, so theefforts, the necessarily combinedefforts, of those who would defendtheir privilege are also hidden; that isto say, they are more than discreet,being secret and even conspiratorial.As US historian Carl Oglesby observesin his book The Yankee and CowboyWar :Clandestinism is not the usage of ahandful of rogues, it is a formalisedpractice of an entire class in which athousand hands spontaneously join.Conspiracy is the normal continuation ofnormal politics by normal means.Freemasonry is one of principalstructures that allow the joining of thehands to be a little more than whollyspontaneous.Few aspects of contemporary life —political,judicial,military,commercial, administrative or lawenforcement are untouched by thecorrupting hand of Freemasonry. Also,rarely does the press speak, other thanin veiled terms, of the role ofFreemasons in business and politics,even though their presence is often akey to decoding affairs. Indeed, onoccasion the media itself is implicatedin specific scandals involvingdisinformation spread by a masonicnetwork at the heart of the judiciary,magistracy and the press — thePoulson Affair, the Birmingham Sixcase and the Stalker Inquiry, to namebut a few. In addition, the closed-shopenvironment which is created whereverthe Brotherhood establishes a footholdis a constant source of acrimomonyand division in both public and privatesectors.How many people’s careers havebeen routinely blighted by the curse ofMasonic patronage and preferment,with particular jobs and positionsreserved for a ‘Brother’?
FREEMASONRYWHAT IS FREEMASONRY?Freemasonry is a particularlyBritish creation which firstemerged with the formation of theGrand Lodge of England in 1717 andspread throughout Europe from 1721onwards. Essentially, it consists of threedegrees or grades: Entered Apprentice,Fellow Craft Mason and MasterMason. The central theme of allMasonic ritual is the building ofSolomon’s temple and the soap operaincidents involved in its construction,such as the murder of the principalarchitect Hiram Abiff and thecontinuing search for the secret of thelost Keystone. The sinister daftness ofit all illustrates the essential madnessand badness of power elites as well asproviding a diversionary spectacle forthe curious outsider.In addition to the three Craft degreesof Freemasonry, which are open to allmales who profess a belief in anAlmighty Being including Jews,Muslims, Hindus, Roman Catholics(1),etc. there are additional side or Higherdegrees such as the Knights Templar(no relation to the originalecclesiastical Middle East Task Force)and the Ancient and Accepted(Scottish) Rite 33º who, despite theword Scottish, are exclusively White,Anglo-Saxon and Protestant. Theseside-degrees are higher only in thenumerical sense, ostensibly, as theGrand Lodge of England practisesFreemasonry only within the threeCraft degrees and does not officiallyadmit the existence of any superiorMasonic authority. The side-degreesare conferred by patronage only on aspecially approved and strictly limitednumber of candidates totalling at mosta few hundred brothers, all drawn1. Solemn excommunication for baptisedbelievers who become Freemasons is no longerautomatic according to the recently publishedCodex of Cannon Law in the Roman CatholicChurch. there is also a document from theCongregation for Doctrine and the Faith which,together with a series of official and semi-officialpronouncements, has more or less cemented thepeace between the Vatican and Freemasonry.exclusively from the intimatefriendship circles of the British rulingclass.The top three degrees of 33ºFreemasonry are themselves conferredonly after a unanimous vote ofapproval by the Supreme Council 33of the Ancient and Accepted Rite ofFreemasonry, which itself is recruited,incestuously, from among the GrandOfficers or Past Grand Officers of theGrand Lodge of England. These arethe pre-eminent Grand InspectorsGeneral, whose numbers are limited to75. The headquarters of this innerMasonic organisation is the GrandTemple of the Rose Croix (noconnection with the Rosicrucians) at10 Duke Street, St James’s.When I first began researchingfreemasonry in the early 1980s it wasinteresting to note the strong militarypresence among the exclusively WASP33º: Major-General Sir Ralph Hone,KCMG, Major General Sir AllenAdair, GCVO, Brigadier Alex CosbyFishburn Jackson, ex-ADC to theQueen.CAPTAINS AND KINGSThe principal figure in EnglishFreemasonry is the Grand Masterof the Grand Lodge of England, who isinvariably selected from the RoyalFamily and/or the English aristocracy.The present incumbent is H.R.H.Edward Duke of Kent. Once installed,the Grand Master then appoints theofficers of the Grand Lodge himself:there is no pretence at democracy,which would, after all, be out of placeamong so many aristocrats, captains ofindustry and masters of our fate.Masonic officials are highly paid. Nodetails are available concerning thesalaries paid to the thirty-five full-timeemployees of the Grand Lodge, butthey must at least be commensuratewith the (in 1983) 20 million lire(approx. 10,000) plus lavish expensespaid for the part-time services of theGrand Master of the Italiancounterpart, the Grand Orient of Italy,SignorArmandoCorona.Additionally, Grand Lodge officialshave wide-ranging powers ofpatronage accorded to them by theConstitution.The most powerful position of all isthat of Grand Secretary who isappointed by the Grand Masterhimself and who remains in office untilretirement.Apart from the three degrees of CraftMasonry and the confusing number ofside-degrees there is a complex andlabyrinthine pecking order of rank andprecedence among the officers of theexclusive Grand Lodge, which coversover seventy grades of current and pastoffice-holders.There is little publicly availableinformation on the structure,membership or workings of the GrandLodge, which actively discourages anyattempt at investigation beyond thenow slick PR veneer.Back in the 1980s, I spoke to thethen Grand Secretary of the GrandLodge of England, CommanderMichael Higham RN who refused tobe interviewed or comment on any ofthe questions I put to him. Thingshave changed radically in attitudes toFreemasonry since then.It was the negative publicitysurrounding Freemasonry followingthe publication of Michael Knight’sThe Brotherhood in 1984 that firstforced the United Grand Lodge ofEngland to go in for serious damagecontrol by publishing a leaflet on thepositive aspects of the ‘Craft’.The next PR blow Freemasonryreceived — the worst since theBradford City Council and Poulsoncorruption scandal in 1970 —occurred in April 1988 when twoAsian businessmen from Leicester,Sidney and Shaun Callis, accidentallygate-crashed a boxing function of theVictory Masonic Lodge in Blackburn.The Leicester men were beaten up andthen prosecuted on trumped-upcharges of ‘assaulting’ eightpolicemen, but were acquited —presumably by a non-masonic jury.January ‘06 THE HASTINGS TRAWLER21
FREEMASONRYLancashire police (ie, the tax-payers)eventually paid out 170,000 to thetwo men in an out-of-courtsettlement. What made the scandalmore chilling was the extent of theMasonic cover-up, which involved notonly the policemen, but also the hotelmanager, the accused’s solicitor and asenior official in the CrownProsecution Service who were allinvolved in attempting to secure theconvictions of the Callises forattacking their police assailantsFour years later, in 1992, as evidenceabout Masonic involvement in theWest Midlands Serious Crime Squad(disbanded in 1989 for corruption)began to emerge — partly as a resultof the investigation into the wrongfulconviction of the Birmingham Six,and the West Midlands forces’sinvolvement in smearing John Stalker,the Deputy Chief Constable ofGreater Manchester who had beeninvestigating the RUC’s ‘Shoot to Kill’policy — the Masonic PR machineswung into action again. This timewith the media (including Masonicjournalists) being invited to attend aMasonic meeting for the first time.February 1998 saw the firstshowdown between parliament andthe Grand Lodge since 1951. In April1951, Fred Longden. a Labour MP,called for a Royal Commission ofInquiry into Freemasonry. HomeSecretary Herbert Morrison rejectedthe matter out of hand and the subjectwas not raised again until 1998.In February 1998 the CommonsHome Affairs Select Committeechaired by Chris Mullin MPsummoned Grand Lodge Officers toprovide the names of senior judgesand police officers who wereFreemasons.Among other matters, theCommittee was investigating theactivities of the West Midlands CrimeSquad, 96 of whom were alleged tohave been Freemasons. TheCommittee had statements frompolice officers that the Freemasonswithin the squad had been operating22THE HASTINGS TRAWLER January ‘06with impunity as a ‘firm within afirm’. One of their favoured practiceswas apparently holding a plastic bagover a suspect’s head until they agreedto sign a confession.Having assured the Committee thatthat he would release the names on astrictly confidential basis, thecontemptuous Grand SecretaryMichael Higham then reneged on hispromise and accused the MPs ofconducting a ‘fishing expedition’.The Grand Secretary changed hismind after being warned that unlesshe provided the names he would becharged with contempt of parliament.Highams retired three months laterand his successor, Jim Daniel, whotook over on 1 June 1998, turned outto be considerably more media-savvy.Grand Lodge now operates a hi-techmedia-friendly and PR spin-machinefrom its headquarters at 60 GreatQueen Street, London WC2, and asophisticated but not land.org.JOINING THE BRETHRENTo become a Freemason is notdifficult. The requirements for aprospective candidate are that he mustbe male, twenty-one, and in reputablecircumstances; he must profess a beliefin a God and be prepared to take anoath on a book of Sacred Law underno less a penalty than ritual murder,mutilation and being ‘disappeared’just like a victim of a Latin Americandeath squad or a CIA ‘extraordinaryrendition’ team.The would-be initiate is alsoforbidden to countenance any actwhich may subvert the peace andgood order of society, must pay dueobedience to the law of the state andmust never be remiss in the allegiancedue to the sovereign of his native land.To the above list might be added apredilection for dressing up andperforming dramatic ritual. Themembers of the Lodge to whichinitiation is sought are balloted as tothe candidates’ acceptability to theircompany, and membership is refusedif three black balls are cast against himin the voting.The vast majority of the 350,000 orso Craft Freemasons who come underthe jurisdiction of the United GrandLodge of England are obliged by thelimitations of their friendship circlesand income to remain at the level ofthe Third Degree, that of MasterMason. The Higher degrees andofficership of the Grand Lodge are theprerogative of the rich and powerfuland not for the likes of working-classbrothers from Hackney, Hastings orSt Leonards.The following advice given by theMasonic Record in June 1964,although couched in suitablydiplomatic language, reminded theFreemason of proletarian origin toremember his place:He [the brother] must consider howmuch time he can devote toFreemasonry without detriment tofamily, business and his othercommitments. The more he progresses inFreemasonry the greater will be thedemands on his pocket and he mustdecide whether he can meet these extrafinancial obligations.For those with time, money, friendsand influence the Masonic world istheir oyster and they can join as manylodges as they can afford and will havethem. Nor are the restrictionsimposed by the credit-rating of theless-privileged brethren the onlydrawbacks to Masonic advancement.Aspiring,upwardly-mobileFreemasons who join with an eye todiscussing the price of beer with theDuke of Edinburgh, the Duke ofKent, Lord Cornwallis and otherdistinguished members of the Craftare in for a disappointment: there arelodges and lodges and, like Orwellsanimals, some brethren are moreequal than others.As with the now notorious secret or‘covered’ lodges P1 and P2 in Italy, thelatter of which had a codedmembership of 2,400 brothersalthough only 953 names were
FREEMASONRYdisclosed (2) there are a number of the1612 lodges in London and the 5,865provincial lodges (in 47 MasonicProvinces) whose purpose is to bringtogether into single discreet bodiesbrothers who hold high public orprivate office and who wish to remainat a suitable distance from the hoipolloi of Freemasonry.Thus, there are lodges whosemembers are recruited exclusively andselectively from among the ranks ofparticular power elites: Mayors andLord Mayors of London, the Bank ofEngland, chartered accountants,architects, the legal profession, themerchant navy, the armed services, theMetropolitan Police, broadcasting.There is even a Council of PublicSchool Lodges.Success and promotion in any of theprofessions is eased by membership ofthe Craft. The Royal College ofSurgeons and Royal College ofPhysicians, for example, appear to bean exclusively Masonic preserve. In hisbook The Doctors (Gollancz, 1965),Paul Ferris quotes a senior physician assaying ‘No one would becomesurgeon to the Queen unless he was aFreemason.’ This tradition dates backat least as far as Queen Victoria when,under the patronage of the Prince ofWales, who was Grand Master ofEngland from 1875 until his accessionto the throne in 1901, when heassumed the title Protector of theCraft, the British Establishmentconsolidated its hold on Freemasonry.The Prince of Wales (later EdwardVII) successfully used Freemasonry asa parallel policy-making and actionbody to influence the affairs of statefrom which he had been excluded byhis mother (herself, of course,ineligible for membership, as awoman).Freemasonry is particularly strongwithin the armed services, where it isseen as an extension of the fellowshipof the regiment. There are 42 lodgesin the British cavalry regiments alone,25 in the Royal Regiment of Artilleryand a number of Royal Marine lodges.The exclusive elite of the BritishArmy, the 22nd SAS and Artists Rifles(21st SAS), have a Lodge (Byfield)which meets on the second Mondayof every month at the Duke of YorksHQ in Chelsea. The Navy have theirown exclusive lodges such as RoyalNavy Lodge 2612, whose membersinclude such worthies as the Duke ofEdinburgh and former GrandSecretary, Commander MichaelHigham RN.Hopeful squaddies and matelotslooking for rapid advancement orsimply good Masonic friendshipshould know, however, that since1815 naval and military lodges haveintroduced by-laws excluding allcivilians and stating that no sailorbelow the rank of Petty Officer or nosoldier below the rank of Sergeant iseligible for initiation into theBrotherhood. Masonic researcherJohn Dewar, author of theauthoritative study of contemporaryFreemasonry, The Unlocked Secret, wastold by a spokesman for a largeMasonic outfitter in Great QueenStreet that much of the firm’ssuccessful business rested on exportorders for regalia from NATO troopsin Europe, an indication as to theextent of Masonic strength among theofficer corps of the British and otherNATO armed services.2. During the investigation into MicheleSindona’s Banca Privata Italiana, a conduit forMafia, fascist and Italian secret service money,police discovered a list of 953 members ofLodge P2, which included three cabinetministers, 30 generals, eight admirals, the headof the armed forces, the heads of twointelligence services as well as the senior civiliancollator of intelligence, 43 MPs, and policechiefs of Italy’s four main cities.LBLOODY OATH!ess bloodthirsty oaths thanMasonic ones, but insteadadministered by trade unionists in theearly part of the nineteenth century,were punished severely, as in the caseof the Tolpuddle Martyrs. Here aresome Masonic examples:I, in the presence of the GreatArchitect of the Universe, and of thisworthy, worshipful, and warrantedLodge, sincerely and solemnly promiseand swear, that I will always helpconceal and never reveal any part orparts, point or points of the secrets ormysteries of or belonging to Free andAccepted Masons in Masonry , under noless a penalty, on the violation of any ofthem, than that of having my throat cutacross, my tongue torn out by the root,and buried at a cables length from theshore, where the tide regularly ebbs andflows twice in twenty-four hours, So helpme, God, and keep me steadfast in thismy Great and Solemn Obligation of anEntered Apprentice Freemason. (Thecandidate then seals his oath by kissingthe volume of Sacred Law.)— Oath of Obligation administeredduring the Ceremony of InitiationI, in the presence of the GrandGeometrician , under no less a penalty,than that of having my left breast laidopen, my heart torn therefrom, andgiven to the ravenous birds of the air, ordevouring beasts of the field as prey. Sohelp me Almighty God.— Oath of Obligation, SecondDegreeI, in the presence of the Most High,solemnly promise and swear, under noless a penalty, than that of being severedin two, my bowels burned to ashes .and those ashes scattered over the face ofthe earth and wafted by the fourcardinal winds of heaven.— Oath of Obligation, Third DegreeI, in the presence of the True andLiving God , solemnly promise , underno less a penalty, than that of having myhead struck off.— Oath of Obligation, Holy RoyalArch Chapter (3)And here are some of the laws whichmight have applied:Every person, who shall in anymanner or form whatsoever administeror cause to be administered, or be3. The rules were changed in 1986. Would-befreemasons no longer have to agree todisembowelment, have their tongues cut out, ortheir ashes wafted by the winds of heaven. Theoath remains valid for Freemasons who enteredthe Craft prior to that date.January ‘06 THE HASTINGS TRAWLER23
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