Masonic Areopagitica or Why Freemasonry Is Dead

By Antonio Palomo-Lamarca

Dedicated to P2. or the secret lodge Propaganda Due,this is the book every Freemason will hate to see out there. A book not for the squeamish. Written by a Freemason and a firm believer in Freemasonry, Antonio Palomo-Lamarca opens up all the sores his Craft has been dealing with since the beginning of its emergence. A harsh but necessary critique the reader shall find in these amazing pages, where history and the occult meet. Is Freemasonry really secret? Is Freemasonry just a club? Is it a Mafia? These, as many others, are questions the author responds very eloquently. Submerge in its content and discover the answers!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781312950009

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Masonic Areopagitica or Why Freemasonry Is Dead

Masonic Areopagitica Or Why Freemasonry is Dead

To the Memory of Propaganda Due (P2).

…man's mind and interest are so deeply rooted in the earthly that we require a like power to have them raised above that level. His spirit shows such poverty of nature that it seems to long for the mere pitiful feeling of the divine in the abstract, and to get refreshment from that, like a wanderer in the desert craving for the merest mouthful of water. By the little which can thus satisfy the needs of the human spirit we can measure the extent of its loss.

Georg W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Mind.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.      Ena.

There was a time when Freemasonry was really a secret society; a protective entity and a shelter; a time when a lodge could be secret and, in fact, was secret. Nowadays, everything's changed.  The Craft has been adulterated, prostituted, abused and misunderstood.  There was a time when we had roses.  The flowers don't smell anymore, and the Masons think with the mind of a clubbish member holding a golf ball. There was a time when Freemasonry was Free; and it was Free because it was Secret. Nowadays, all that has sadly changed. The cancer of the internet has managed to finish what impudent urges commenced to long range publicity. The secret has been corrupted, and the Masons have become legionaries of the church of public-noticing. Nothing is more shameful than the sight of a contemporary ‘’freemason’’.  Lodges have websites and websites give too much information about themes most people don't care about, and those who care about do care for the wrong purposes. They explain why they’re Masons, and what makes a Mason and what is Masonry.  It is even pathetically accepted that Freemasonry ‘’makes men better’’ as if the Craft was some sort of ‘’moral factory’’.  They foster an image that comes directly from the Puritan mind mixed with pitiable patriotism.  They give a representation which is akin to the very selling-image any established religion might give out there. They have mixed in their lodges blind patriotism with fanatic religious passion, and the mixture has been called ‘’masonry’’.  The Secret has been spat on, raped, insulted and crucified on the Mount of the Human Shame. The malady has grown so bizarre now Masons utterly believe Freemasonry is ''not'' a secret society.  I smile at this. Freemasonry has no pulse anymore, because its blood is stuck among the streets of peasantry.  I get sad and maddened, but I've to get over it. I look behind. I see my ancient brothers, their aprons and their pictures; their writings and what they did for the Craft. Then, I realize behind that cloud of the past lies the hoping cries of many true brothers, asking for Justice, to be re-established with the blood from the real initiated. 

2. Dyo.

I wish to create a lodge, a lodge of powerful men. I am not interested in mainstream ‘’freemasonry’’; since childhood I’ve developed a sort of allergy to the masses, to tribalism. I believe in the Nietzschean superman: I always did. I fell in love with Zarathustra and since then, I’ve been faithful. Freemasonry must be rid of superfluities, of vulgarity, of commonality, of gregarious ethos, of mediocrity and of weak minds. A powerful lodge must be composed by powerful men; and a man is not precisely powerful by the weight of his pocket: one needs something else than that: trustworthiness! When trust in oneself is broken nothing can be done: much less resolved. Yet, trust is part of society, part of any societal group, and Freemasonry must acknowledge that. A Freemason must be able to produce and induce favours to his brothers, but that has to be fostered only by a deep sense of duty and ethical convictions. Seneca said that our worst problem is that we don’t know how to give or to receive: nec dare scimus nec accipere[1]! A Freemason must be loyal to the fact of giving: he must be magnanimous. We all have received at some point, from the start of our lives we depend on the kindness of others: to open a door, get a medicine, drink a glass of water brought to you by a waitress, and so on. People with power must learn how to give, because of them depends the rightful and productive and beneficial and healthy upbringing of our society. I do not consider completely Masonic giving to centers, organizations, churches or associations, be it for medical research or for other causes: it must be the government responsible for those things, and it should be ideal having