In the Masonic Lodge the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is forbidden, except on the same level with Buddha, Zoroaster, Mahommed, Osiris, etc. ‘There is so-called ‘worship’ in the Masonic Lodge’ writes Rev A W
Rainsbury in ‘Freemasonry of God or the Devil’ but from that ‘worship’ Jesus Christ is deliberately excluded. There is so-called ‘prayer’ in the Masonic Lodge, but it is not offered in the name of Jesus Christ — through whom alone prayer is acceptable to God. His name is deliberately excluded even from prayers where it is normally found. There is so-called ‘praise’ in the Masonic Lodge, but the precious name of Jesus is excised from every hymn.
How can it be the mind of Him who says, ‘Swear not at all’ to take solemn vows not to divulge a secret, still unknown, and to call down on one’s person blood curdling oaths in case of failure to keep the oaths? The ritual is really Hindu with Bible names substituted. As the degrees advance the penalties increase. For the first degree, your tongue is torn from its roots, for the second, your heart; for the third, your bowels, and then burnt etc etc and you pray that it may be so. (Heresies Exposed by W C Irvine p. 95).
Freemasons rob Christ of the glory which is His due. By putting Him who is the image of the invisible God, on the same level with Buddha, Mahommed etc. they are coming dangerously near the sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no forgiveness. They also prove their rejection of Him and their want of love to Him. Masons who have been converted to Christ forsake the Lodge. ‘No servant 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’. (Luke 16: v13) It is Christ or Freemasonry. Choose Freemasonry and you reject Christ. Reject Christ and you shall be damned. ‘Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and ye perish from the way when His anger is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they who put their trust in Him. (Ps 2: v12)
Churches whatever their claim to orthodoxy which admit Freemasons to the holy sacraments of Baptism and the Lords Supper are openly countenancing what is an abomination in God’s sight. ‘But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devils and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s Table and of the table of devils’. (1 Cor. 10:20:21)
W. M.
Mercies
— William Gurnall.