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BEHIND THE LODGE DOOR - an analysis of Masonic activity in 4 principal areas: 1) the religious education in the U.S., 2) opposition to the Catholic Church, 3) molding and directing national political and social policy, and 4) attracting new members.
Description
BEHIND THE LODGE DOOR is at once and in-depth a probing analysis of Masonic activity in 4 principal areas of influence, especially as they relate to the United States, but it is also an overview of the Masonic fraternity in general, that will enlighten and inform the reader and make a perusal of this book most worthwhile. The author, who documents thoroughly everything he writes, touches upon a host of interesting topics, such as the birth and rise of Freemasonry, its roots in the ancient mystery religions and gnostic cults, the Catholic Church's early and traditional condemnation of the Craft, its scope and influence in American national social and political life, its opposition to the practice of religion, its activities in various other countries (Italy, Germany, France, Japan, China, the Philippines, etc.), its rapprochement with the Catholic Church (especially during the 1960's), how it is in a very real sense a religion of its own, how it is politically extra-national, etc. This book shows how for over 150 years the political policy of the United States was marked by governmental cooperation with and encouragement of Christianity in the schools and in social and political life. However, that situation changed dramatically in 1941 when the Supreme Court, for the first time in its history, became dominated by justices who were members of the Masonic fraternity. It was a dominance that continued for the next 25 years and resulted in the imposition of an alien secular humanism on American education and the country's political life.
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