Explanation of Masonic degrees

[Bogow]

First of all, let's refresh our heads on what we know about the modern freemasons from JoS: https://satanslibrary.org/666BlackSun/Illuminati.html

Let's pay special attention to this part:

At its beginning, the Illuminati was not a Masonic order, and Weishaupt himself did not enter a lodge until 1777, when he received induction into the Lodge Theodore de Bon Conseil in Munich. However, once inside Masonry, Weishaupt immediately saw its potential value to be a vehicle for the realization of his Illuminati dreams. To create an official union between the Illuminati and Freemasonry, Weishaupt set about organizing the Congress of Wilhelmsbas at the Castle of William IX of Hesse-Kassel, to occur on July 16, 1782. That special even, which was momentous in both size and aspirations, was attended by elite representatives of Masonic lodges from all over.

It was also there that a decision was reached to allow the previously excluded Jews to be granted admittance into Freemasonry. The Illuminati creed claimed all people are equal.[Communism/Christianity]

However, what exactly was freemasonry, what was it intended to be, before all this Jewish scam that it has become now? It was in order to figure out the answer to this question that I wrote this post. Initially, the organization of artels or workshops dedicated to improving any skills received sufficient attention in medieval society. There were artels of lumberjacks, builders (masons), astrologers, book printers, etc. Since these artels inside could not be completely controlled by the church and the papacy (let me remind you in the Middle Ages when the power of the church over people was maximum), independent and Satanic knowledge could be formed within these workshops. In some legends, a class of pagan bard magicians initiated into the knowledge of the pagan Gods of the Tuatha Dé Danan tribe. Bards established lineages of Pagan, Norse(runes) and Irish knowledge throughout Europe. Many of these secrets were used in communities, these were secrets about the soul and chakras.

The most famous and taken as a basis (mainly because of the “convenience” of adapting to the Jewish fairy tale about “Solomon’s Temple”) was the artel of masons. However, this does not mean that all secret societies of the Middle Ages were necessarily masons. The history of modern Freemasonry is deliberately confused in order to prevent us from discovering its Satanic roots. Initially, the method of organizing the masonic and Proto-masonic (at that time it was not called that) was to copy the method of the Druids. In total, there were 3 levels[steps] of initiation (later taken as the basis for the “blue” degrees of Masonic lodges). However, what did these degrees mean in those days? These were different stages and degrees of work on the soul and specific practical wisdom, similar to what the mystics were taught in antiquity at the Eleusinian and other Mysteries.

The initiations were mostly oral and concerned various formulas and words of power, various exercises and tasks of the initiate. All recorded knowledge, in order not to be accused of heresy or conspiracies, consisted of practical descriptions of the chosen craft that the artel was directly engaged in. Let’s say in the case of the masons it was practical knowledge on preparing solutions, cutting stones, building beams, etc. Allegories about spiritual knowledge were later drawn into these same meanings and metaphors. It was a type of cipher. The most famous now is the knowledge of alchemy, which was encrypted in the form of actions inside the laboratory - explanations of how to work with light, elements, stages of MO.

Mircea Elade, a famous Romanian researcher of secret male unions in all nations, wrote that within the Druid society there was a division into 3 steps or degrees of initiation. The passage of which took the initiate up to 25 years.

The Druid school was divided into three parts, and their secret teaching is almost identical to the mysteries hidden in the allegories of the Blue Masonic Lodge. The lowest of the three parts was the school of Ovates (Ovidd). It was an honorary degree, requiring no special purification or preparation. The Ovates dressed in green robes, the color of which among the Druids signified teaching, and they were expected to know something of medicine, astronomy, poetry and, if possible, music. An Ovath was a man admitted into the Druid order because of his merits and superior knowledge of the problems of life.

The Bards (Bairds) belonged to the second school. They were dressed in sky blue, which signified harmony and truth, and they were charged with the task of memorizing 20 thousand verses of the sacred poetry of the Druids. They were often depicted with a primitive British or Irish harp, the strings of which were made of human hair, and the number of strings coincided with the number of ribs of the person. Mentors of candidates wishing to enter the mysteries of the Druids were selected from among the Bards. Neophytes wore striped clothes - blue, green, white - the three sacred colors of the order.

The third school consisted of the Druids themselves (Derwyddon). They served the religious needs of the people. To achieve such a noble position, they had to first go through the Bard stage. Druids were always dressed in white, a color that symbolized their purity and was used by them as a symbol of the sun.

As we see, this can also be correlated with the classical division into degrees, Apprentice , Journeyman , Master which existed in Freemasonry. It is interesting that students who had not completed 8 years of training in the classical craft of the artel were not allowed to reach the journeyman stage, and only then did real initiations into the secrets and practical spiritual knowledge begin. In this way, the artels and their craftsmen were protected from penetration and disclosure of secrets. Achieving a master's degree required the creation of a so-called Chef-d'œuvre(Master-piece). This was considered an honorable indicator that the apprentice had finally become a true master and could teach himself. However, this also had a second meaning: a masterpiece meant achieving the level of an “ideal soul,” a body of light, and probably a complete readiness to comprehend higher mysteries. It was believed that an imperfect soul cannot create a true masterpiece of craft. This is probably why we cannot reproduce much of the art of the Middle Ages, from architecture to advanced painting and sculpture.

If we consider the issue in this way, it turns out that JoS is a continuation of the genuine masonic and Druid pagan systems based on the Mastery of the Soul. Of course, in our time, you no longer need to study for 8 years in a workshop to hear the basics of spiritual knowledge that are needed for your advancement, knowledge is in the public domain. However, the time that may be required to create your own soul-masterpiece does not disappear. We still need to work on it, and it is a Great Work.