Theodor Reuss

The Secret of Masonry and the Mystery of the Holy Mass

This mystery of the Mass and true secret of the ancient Freemasons, the schismatic Templars, the true Rosicrucians, and the Gnostic Neo-Christians, lies in the communion with God whose symbolic fire the holy mass depicts in its drama.



The declarations and explanations which the Roman Catholic church may give concerning the essence of the Mystery of the holy mass are incorrect, the truth being concealed, dismissed, even partly falsified. To be sure, they are intentionally incorrect, for the spiritual authorities in the Vatican know the true nature of the mystery and the true meaning themselves. The lowest Cleric is however, for official reasons, left completely in the dark concerning the true nature of the mystery. This concealment and falsification has gone hand in hand with the gradual falsification and corruption of the whole of original Christianity by the churchfathers. Just as misleading, however, as the explanations of the Roman Catholic church concerning the essence of the mystery, are the explanations of so-called recognised Freemasonry concerning the essence and the "inner work" of Freemasonry.



The very fewest of Freemasons recognize the true secret of Freemasonry, and the greater few of those that do recognize it, do not attempt to really understand what they have discovered or guessed.



As everyone knows who has dealt with the subject, today every candidate in England (the motherland of modern recognized Freemasonry) or America (earlier also, Germany) who wishes to be taken into Masonry must swear a severe oath. This old english oath (rings) in the German translation: "I XYZ in the presence of the great architect of the universe hearby swear most solemnly and sincerely upon the holy script, that I will always hide, conceal and never reveal any part or parts, point or points of the secrets of the mysteries belonging to free and accepted Masonry which have been revealed to me or may be communicated to me in the future, unless it be to a true and lawful brother or brothers and not to him or them until after the most ruthless test their of faithfulness. Further, I promise solemnly that I will never write down these secrets, nor inscribe, hew, draw, engrave, scribble, cut, scratch, carve or in any other way or manner repeat or communicate them. It will be further cause or fault, if another do so when it is in my power to hinder him by anything sensible or insensible under the canopy of heaven - If anyone in the world understand or be able to read by or through anysuch letters, signs, or symbols or if our secret art and our hidden mysteries (through my unfaithfulness) be given to the profane! All these several points I solemnly swear to observe without exception, ambiguity or spiritual reserve of any kind, under no less a penalty than by breaking any of these points to have my throat cut through from ear to ear - my tongue cut out - my heart torn from my body, my body cut in two below the navel, my innards ripped out and thrown into the deepest sea - or tossed out to the vultures to eat. So help me God my oath to keep faithfully which is the vow of a Freemason."



Thereafter the candidate must kiss the holy script. It is now clear that every sensible Candidate who was ever compelled to make such a fearful oath on the bible has unquestionably expected and must indeed expect, that he will be thereafter entrusted with fearful secrets and that he will be initiated into profoundly secret things. To his astonishment, however, every Candidate, who has been compelled to swear such a fearful oath to be accepted into Freemasonry, now learns that the whole immense secret lies in a sign, a grip and a word! Such things which have be printed in so many books (so-called heretical writings) whose recognition, however, does not ensure the admittance of the Candidate at once to any Freemasonic lodge unless he first possesses another special pass or prooves himself through the payment-receipt of his lodge dues! This situation will almost certainly strike any candidate after his acceptance and appear very odd to him.



Each Candidate taken into a Freemasonic lodge will say to himself that it is highly 'overdone' or at least in all cases be compelled to admit that it is 'carried too far' - to solemnly swear that one would rather have one's throat cut through - or have his heart and tongue torn out - or have his body cut in two and his innards thrown into the sea - rather than to betray the secret of Freemasonry, when this secret consists of nothing more than how to shake another Freemason's hand, certain rectangular signs made on the body with the hand and the keeping silent about short syllabled words which are only to be spelled or halfed words which mean nothing more than, eg.

"The Lord will raise you up"

"The Lord will strengthen you"

"Raise yourself, you live in the son"

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