It's Been Nice Knowing You

But now, prison awaits

I’ve often wondered, but never discovered, why Freemasonry so powerfully fascinates large numbers of people who are not Masons.

On the good side of things, that is what attracts lots of men who become wonderful Masons to us. We intrigue them for some reason. They wonder, and so they seek to join.

On the bad side of things, we attract nuts. Lots and lots of nuts.

And this isn’t a new thing, history tells us that Freemasonry has been attracting nuts, convinced that we are practicing evil, from the very public emergence of our Craft in London, 1717.

Nuts, sort of like the ‘Judge’ who has sentenced me to a lifetime in prison.

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It hasn’t been delivered to me yet, so I only have the highlights as read to me by our Grand Secretary, but it seems, according to the letter received at our Grand Lodge office, that I’m getting locked up. For life!

And here I thought that I was going to get away unscathed!

Apparently this morning’s mail included a registered letter to me, from a lady ‘Judge’ informing me that I’ve been convicted (I don’t think the letter mentions of what) and will have to spend the rest of my days in jail.

Interestingly, apparently the ‘court’ in which I was tried is ‘The Court Before The United States.’ Long ago, in those jails we call schools I was taught that we ‘Mericans had kicked ol’ King George’s ass and in the process got rid of his tyrannical courts. I guess not if my conviction was from one of his courts predating said revolutionary ass kicking.

Bet you guys didn’t know that the Revolution was all a fake either! Next we’ll probably learn that Bigfoot really does wander around GeeCee’s Truck Stop on the Lewis/Cowlitz county line!

So, anywho, I guess she’ll come arrest me soon or something.

Or perhaps, more likely, get locked up herself one of these days.

Now, I’m having a bit of fun with it of course, but it really does illustrate something that Freemasonry has dealt with almost since the very day it openly declared its existence to the world.

The crazy conspiracy theorists.

And let me tell you, they really are crazy. But also, often seemingly otherwise normal people.

I’m not sure how many times I’ve been told (as I’m sure many of you have been told) that I just don’t know about all the truly evil things Freemasonry does because Masonry’s leaders hide all that stuff from us low ranking dupes. Given my particular Masonic title, I’m not quite sure whom these leaders can be, but alas, maybe it is a truly secret cabal that meets inside the crater of Mt. St. Helens each full moon.

Or maybe the nuts, even those nuts who otherwise seem normal, but are convinced that a bunch of old guys hanging out in that building downtown are mechanisms in the conspiracy that runs the world… Well, maybe the nuts should rethink how they judge and discern information before they go completely off the deep end.

But, we know that won’t happen.

So, we deal with the mystique of Freemasonry, and the good it brings us, along with the bad.

But I sure do have to wonder, what on earth originated it, and what continues to fuel it after centuries.

If you don’t see me in Lodge, I’ll probably be in the Big House over in Walla Walla.

But, I imagine I’ll escape justice and see you in Lodge very soon!

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Following my post yesterday:

A Request And A Word Of Thanks

It was pointed out to me by a Brother that some Masons just don’t want to use credit cards online. He suggested that I publish an address for anyone who would like to send a check or something instead.

That makes sense to me, so if you want it, here it is:

A check in support of Emeth can be made payable to: Cameron Bailey

And mailed to:

Centralia Masonic Lodge

ATTN: Cameron Bailey

218 N. Pearl Street, Suite 300

Centralia, WA

98531

Please include your email address so that I can let you know that it was received.

But, as long as I’m at it, a few words about how things work here on Emeth.

All of the technology that runs this place is provided by a company called Substack. All I do is type the words into my laptop. Substack creates the webpage, sends the emails, keeps the stats, provides the photos, and all the rest. Back when I started Emeth, Substack was a really tiny company and not very well known. It has grown exponentially from then to now, and is utilized by millions of people each and every day.

All of the money stuff (if you purchase a subscription here) is handled by a really massive company called Stripe. Stripe processes over 500 million transactions a day, and Stripe handles all of that in its entirety. I never see your personal information, no credit card information, not even your name (unless you use it here.)

I firmly believe that between Stripe and Substack, your information as well as my own is as safe as it can be in our modern world.

Enough of that…

And sorry that I have to give a Lodge address instead of my home address, but I don’t want to tip off the ‘judge’ as to where I live, I fear that her ‘Court Before The United States’ might send the Redshirts to arrest me, and I watched Mel Gibson in The Patriot, so I know that some of Britannia’s Huns can be brutal indeed!