Public Relations
Should we care?
The other day, I received the following message:
“You probably already know this, but just in case you don't, and for others who may read this, please be very careful about things you are asked to do by people in higher levels of your organization, especially anything secret. You seem like a thoughtful, decent person.
People in the highest levels of your organization have committed acts of immense evil. Your involvement and assistance could seem innocent and unrelated on the surface, but could nevertheless make you an accessory to some degree.”
For hundreds of years now, some people, without any evidence whatsoever, have decided that Freemasonry is evil. And it is impossible to change their minds.
I didn’t bother to reply, knowing it to be hopeless. But, as having held the highest possible office in Freemasonry, I did wonder who those guys at the ‘highest levels’ are!
I couldn’t help but think about this message yesterday when I was asked by a Worshipful Master for some advice.
His Lodge is going to be in a parade soon, and the float is designed to utilize a star from the Order of the Eastern Star. As we know, the OES star is a pentagram, oriented ‘upside down.’
In talking with a couple of Brothers, they started wondering if the star should actually be used on the float, given that some people believe an inverted pentagram to somehow be emblematic of evil, or a sign of satanism.
Would it reflect badly upon the Lodge, and the other Masonic organizations related to the Lodge?
I wasn’t sure what advice to give the Worshipful Brother.
Undoubtedly someone will see the Star and decide that Freemasons are certainly evil. But, I’m mighty sure that the person(s) who reaches that conclusion already believes Freemasonry to be evil.
Do we care about protecting everyone’s feelings (and delusions) by hiding our symbolism that their fevered minds distort?
Or should we just do our thing?
Let’s chat about it…
I had mentioned it before, but a woman I briefly dated dumped me because I was a freemason. She initially only dated me to see if I did have horns growing out of my head or something. Our two dates were basically her asking me questions about it over dinner. As others have said, as much as I tried to tell her freemasonry is a good organization, she simply didn't believe me.
The entire "higher ups" are the super cabal masons/illuminati/bohemian grove doods of the shadow government, ranks much higher than the public 33° masons. One video I watched was from a man claiming to be a 90th degree Shriner and said that there is an inner circle that the public masons don't know about, and the government is filled with lizard people aliens cleverly disguised as G. W. Bush, the Royal Family, etc. No one, even the 33° masons and Grand Masters knows about this inner circle, you have to be in the inner circle to know - thus presenting zero proof such a thing exists, and we can't prove it doesn't.
Same arguments about ghosts I guess. Lack of any evidence doesn't mean they don't exist. Can't prove a negative.
As far as the symbolism in the public, I'd say stuff like the inverted pentagram is going to be misconstrued, might as well use it to invite conversation.
When I petitioned to join Masonry, I asked a co-worker if he would be a reference. We had worked together for many years, had work and non-work related discussions, and got along well. I thought he woud be happy to be a referral.
He asked me what it was for and when I mentioned Masonry, said he could not help.
So, we sat down and discussed the whole thing. He asked if I knew that he was very religious. I told him I knew he was but didn't know his denomination. He said he was non-denominational and that he led the group in their services.
He told me that he would not be a referral because he believed that Masonry was involved in questionable acts like advertising and aggressively recruiting people. I told him that was not the case but he shared some articles with me that he found on the internet. I had to remind him that the internet is full of untruths and that he should not believe everything he reads on there.
At any rate, he did not put his name down as a referral, we continued our friendship and working relationship, and nothing more was said about Masonry.
I won't try to sway anyone's mind because I believe it's best for them to discover the truth on their own, should they choose to.
We know who, and what, we are. That's all that matters.