Revealing Hidden Truths of FOUR Freemason Phrases!
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- In this video, Maynard Edwards, a 33rd-degree Scottish Rite Freemason, takes you through four commonly misunderstood Masonic phrases that often stir controversy-both among Masons and conspiracy theorists alike. Freemasonry has its own language, and anti-Masonic groups love to take words out of context to paint the fraternity as something it's not. Maynard clears up these misconceptions by explaining terms like "Supreme Architect of the Universe," "Worshipful Master," "So Mote It Be," and the often misunderstood Hermetic phrase "As Above, So Below."
Through historical context and a closer look at the meaning behind these words, you'll learn why Freemasons use these terms, how they fit into the Masonic tradition, and how they've been misinterpreted over time. Whether you're a Freemason or just curious about the fraternity, this video sheds light on the deeper meanings of Masonic language and helps dispel some of the myths surrounding it. Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe to help preserve Masonic history and stay tuned for more informative videos!
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Are there other Masonic words or phrases you want to know the history of? Drop them in the comments!
One phrase we always argue about in the work at my Blue Lodge and even how to pronounce it is the old English word "bade".
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How about "Due Guard"?
Some brothers criticize the book, Born in Blood, for flawed evidence. But that doesn't mean the book doesn't get anything right: I think the author's discussion based on a French expression is persuasive.
Maynard, what do YOU think?
I think Born in Blood is long on speculation and short on fact. Not that it is wrong per se, but there are too many gaps in fact for it to be accepted. If we could PROVE more of it it, that would be great. again, not that its wrong. It may be spot on. It's been awhile since I read it so I don't recall the exact discussion on due guard.
But I think this is a good word for an upcoming video! Thanks for the idea!
@@MrGBrooks9 my comment was more so sarcastically intended. You know what not to reveal and what is okay
Thanks! Here is a small token of appreciation and support for the SR TH-cam channel. Keep up the good work.
Much appreciated!
I became a hermeticist before I became an Entered Apprentice. Having been a Master Mason for some time as well as a Hermeticist, I am happy on how well the two mesh together!
How does one become a Hermeticist?
@@Rooster_Sailing you just study and if you want to take if further, you practice. For philosophical teachings, read the Hermetica. For practical teachings, 22 Teachings is a school for hermetic arts - Alchemy, Tarot, Astrology etc. The journey is individualistic and doesn't look like anything in particular.
As someone who also practices the Western Mystery tradition, i have to agree. Masonry is an excellent fit, which is probably why historically there has been so much cross pollenization /inspiration from Masonry into other Fraternal societies
I agree
@@jobmoshe2803 LOL
Nathan Gosnell SW Keokuk Lodge #29, Joined Davenport Scottish Rite Valley last year and I absolutely love it!
Thank you for spreading more light. Excellent explanations my brother. M.M. from Reading Trinity #27, Redding, CA
Great video as always, from an Irish Brother
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good morning Bro. Edwards! Pray all is well! I am WM Joshua Davis of Riverside Lodge # 305 of Marion, SC. Also, I am in McDonald Consistory # 226 Valley of Marion, Orient of SC. Where the Honorable Illustrious SGIG Alonzo Haynes 33° is our Deputy of the Orient. Also, I am the Scribe of Ollie Roberts Chap. 59, HRAM, and MLK Commandary # 14 of the York Rites. Also, I am apart of the OES. Just want to say greetings and your videos are very informative and appreciated. Keep up the amazing work my Brother. Hope to see you around someday.
Hey Joshua! Thanks for the shout-out, bro! Sounds like you’re super involved-keep leading by example!!! Hope we can catch up in person someday!
Good morning Brother Edwards. I'm a Past Master from Canton Lodge No. 60 F&AM in Canton, Ohio, a member of Valley of Canton AASR in Canton, Ohio, as well as a past presiding officer of all three York Rite bodies in Canton. I love this installment, but while I'm sure there are several others, the one word missing I think could be cleared up is "light". This word appears in our public ceremonies as well as private. However, for our more conspiracy driven neighbors, they seem to believe these references to light are in replacement to the light mentioned in the Bible such as in John 8:12 and Psalms 27:1. I now it's not, however... It's something that might be worthy of explanation.
@@n8mmr How many were the children of Zattu?
Nine hundred and forty-five (Ezra 2:8)
Eight hundred and forty-five (Nehemiah 7:13)
@n8mmr I believe "light" simply means "knowledge"...specifically, of Freemasonry.
@@MST07_H In various religious texts, there are sometimes differences found in common translations. I'm not sure of the cause of this. Respectfully, I suppose my question would be what relevance is there to the Children of Zattu as applied to Ezra or Nehemiah to the video or the following discussion? There might be, but I don't see it. Regards!
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It has been argued that the Christian religious texts have been subject to alterations over the centuries, and that these are not merely errors in translation. Some scholars contend that these texts contain numerous inconsistencies and flaws that cast doubt on their authenticity. I am prepared to provide specific examples of these contradictions if you wish. Thank you for your response, however, your previous question was not entirely clear, so I am unable to provide a precise answer.
Good idea! I will add this to my list.
Frank Zepp, Past Master of Knob Creek Lodge No. 401 in Temple, Texas; member of Waco Valley, Orient of Texas. Enjoying this channel. Really enjoyed the commentary on the series, The Lost Symbol.
Greetings from the coast of North Carolina SMIB brother I was rised in Creedmoor lodge 499 SMIB BROTHER
I'm done TIN FOIL HAT WEARING ANTI MASONS 😂🤣😂🤣
Well. It is what it is. lol.
Greetings from Borneo island🌾⚔️🤲😃🤝
Hi am not a Mason but studied it in depth and enjoyed it, Former Masons even tried to put me of it but I thankfully continued and it's helped me know more about some ancient characters to apply parts to my life, 👍 🌟
Hello from Zion #001 Charleston S.C. that was a great explanation and presentation. As a mason myself I'm always searching for truth and explanation. brother Maynard you do a good job making it plain. thank you.
Hello Brother from Puerto Rico! i'm from the lodge Cuna de Betances in Cabo Rojo. Thanks for the great video.
What a great video! Well done Maynard!!! 32°, Valley of Gallipolis in Ohio.
Excellent video. (Steve Mitchell, Oasis #41 Las Vegas), Scottish Rite Valley of Las Vegas
Love the videos brother, keep up the great work!
Vista Lodge #687 F&AM Vista, CA
Excellent video! Alabama, Killen Lodge 788 and Scottish Rite 32 degree KCCH Shoals Valley in Florence, Alabama.
Pewee Valley Lodge No.829
Scottish Rite Valley of Louisville, Orient of Kentucky
Love these short, educational pieces, they are great to share on social media! Keep up the excellent work Brothers!
Steal them to use in Lodge!!
Awesome video as usual!! Nogales,AZ #11 F&AM 2nd Wednesday (July and August dark) 1900hrs. Stop by!!!!
Eric Kelly, Warrensburg, TN #631currently serving as Senior Deacon. This information is really helpful. Thank you Brother.
@Maynard Edwards,
Great treatment on 4 word etymologies!
~ Br. G.Brooks of Tampa FL (Swartsel 251) &
Roswell GA (Roswell 165)
Hello. I like your content. I’m a brother from the GL of CT, St Peter’s Lodge No. 21, New Milford, CT AF&AM. Keep up the good work.
You provide the best videos on Masonic thought and traditions. Very educational. I include them on the home page of our website. I'm a brother from South Valley Lodge, #187, in Morgan Hill, CA.
Thank you 🙏. Very kind.
Thank you for posting this to enlighten some Masons and non-Masons alike. I've been an A.F. & A.M. Master Mason in NC since 1988 and a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason, Valley Of Wilmington, Orient Of North Carolina since 11/15/1988. I'm proud to be a member and Past Master of my home lodge in District 20 and our beloved fraternity.
That's awesome! Love hearing from someone who's been in the game for so long. Keep representing the fraternity!
@michaellanphier I live right down the road from Wilmington in Southport
Greetings from El Paso Texas Valley.
Thank you for the clarification for those who wish to see. "As Above/So Below" is a spiritual universal principle in Matthew 16:19 and 18:18. "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven".
another great example!! On earth as it is in Heaven hits so hard to the conspiracy nuts though!
Hi from FL - Jupiter LIght Lodge 340, Valley of Lake Worth
Thanks! Amazing video!
Silurian #471, Newport, Monmouthshire, South Wales, my brothers! So Mote It Be!
This video would make an awesome Lodge presentation if a speaker backs out at the last minute. It beats the heck out of the old fall-back Rusty Mason or some bio about Washington.
Feel free to steal it. Just give the AASR a shout out when you do!!
I am a perpetual mastor mason out of lodge 99 in Oklahoma.
Thank you 33, 🙏💚⭐🗽
As a non calvinist... Calvin doesnt impress me. Good video brother.
Great explanation
Brother Maynard, as always, an outstanding video. Masonic membership, Poquoson Lodge 49, McMahon Lodge 303, Warwick Chapter 80 RAM, Hampton Commandery 17, AMD Acacia Council 505, and Valley of Newport News AASR (33 IGH). Again, outstanding.
I genuinely appreciate your support! It’s wonderful to see fellow Masons engaging with the content and sharing our collective journey.
Hey Brother! Adam Chavez checking in from Okeechobee, Florida
Okeechobee Lodge No. 237 F&AM.
Great work you’re doing here!
Thanks for checking in, Adam! Your support means a lot to me.
Hi there Great site from the Scottish Rite Australia
Thanks for info.🤝😃
Love the videos and the clarifications!
David D Mattock #87- Sacramento, CA
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you’re finding the videos and clarifications helpful!
Thanks for the videos keep them coming I'm from Palestine 158 in marysville Ohio and past high priest of Marysville chapter 89 member of s.s. jewel council 99 in Marysville and sir knight in bellefontaine Ohio and 32nd degree Scottish rite mason in the valley of Columbus Columbus Ohio
I really appreciate your kind words! It’s wonderful to hear from someone with such a rich background in the Masonic community. Your support means a lot!
It's been a learning experience but due to joint issues I haven't been able to go to meetings for a while and due to those joint issues I had to step down from line in blue lodge after my dr warden year and the year I was high priest I was supposed to be second in line for high priest but the brother who was supposed to be high priest that year died after 2 heart attacks I was asked if I wanted to take the office I told everyone if you have enough confidence in me to be there I'll do I'd rather you decide that instead of my taking it
Thank you for stepping up for the craft!
@@ScottishRiteMasons it was a pleasure to serve the lodge and my chapter/council as high priest for chapter and the officers positions I had in council the hardest part of it was learning the ea lecture I had started learning it to take some of the responsibilities off of the brother who I referred to that passed and the brothers voted me in as high priest in my chapter this brother he did the ea fc and mm lectures and charges and did the lectures and charges in the York rite I've always been a quiet person and due to having to return my exams in front of the lodge it helped me be become more comfortable speaking in front of others granted I still get nervous but I can do it easier so serving my lodge/chapter/council was the least I could do
Thank you!
Hi all. My blue lodge is Abbottsford Lodge #70. Royal Arch Chilliwack Chapter #19 and Perceptory Mt Slesse #78
Thanks. Have always been curious about Masonry, intrigued by scraps of knowledge about it that came to me when I was very young.
Not a mason but was raised by one, I have one question. I always thought freemasonry was an oral tradition and not to be written down. Why is it acceptable now to be more open about the teachings?
It’s always been a bit of a myth that it’s all secret. There are centuries old books and papers on masonry. Don’t believe the history channel nonsense.
Blue Lodge, Fraternal # 37 McDonough GA, Lakewood Chapter 27 , Lakewood Council # 10 , Alexius Commmandery # 22
Brother Darrin Lowery, York Rite, Riverside Lodge #862, Riverside Illinois. Just subscribed!
Welcome brother! Glad to have you.
Hello Everyone, how can I become a Freemason and join the York Rite.
Thanks for the great videos!
One that I hear is that we hold “Lucifer” in high regard. I’d love to have an explanation from you.
Tracy D. Wright
PM, Quitman Lodge No. 106, GA
32° KCCH, V of Chattanooga
Grand Sentinel, KT, GC of GA
KYCH, YRSC, RCC, KM, AMD
Ruling Elder, Presbyterian Church in America
There's a whole video on here with myself and Dr. Brent Morris. This is a silly mash up from the Taxil Hoax more or less.
The main question to ask people when they say "you are luciferian" is: what proof of this is there?
They will say "albert Pike said it in Morals and Dogma". he didn't. He said Lucifer brings false light to fool feeble minded men.
As an aside NOWHERE in scripture does it say Satan and Lucifer are the same and the word Lucifer isn't in most modern translations.
Woot! Like # 61.
Master Craftsman College? I may try this. Thanks brother.. #SMIB /G\
Congratulations on your 33rd
Just got a copy of ,stranger than fiction, by Alphonse cerza 33° He covers quite a bit of anti masonic topics in it..Alot of other interesting info in it as well
If Freemasonry isn't a religious organisation, why do you celebrate St Johns Day, 24th June?
There is this question about god,when we (sufis) say the pure being we are talking about the most hidden aspect of god,but when we say creator or as you say the architect,we are talking about the pure face or the great name of god,do you have this?do you consider a hidden aspect for this architect?
We let each man decide for himself. The fraternity does not approach the just privileges of religion.
Most Christians should recognize "as above so below" as "on Earth as it is in Heaven." There's nothing nefarious about it.
they should but many don't. SMH. Thanks for watching!
FC Jenks lodge 497.. Oklahoma. As above So below...wow I started crying when you explained that...
Your duties to help others but once i was hungry and i decided to ask for a help in mason page in reddit but i didn't get any help instead some people were laughing, man was painful experience, i decided to delete the post.
Freemasons regularly field preposterous questions/comments, often coming from disingenuous or inflammatory positions. Depending on how you worded your questions, especially when nuance is lost in text, they may have taken it as being disingenuous. Perhaps bring your concerns here to see if you get the desired results.
Sorry that was your experience. Had you visited a lodge or reached out to a brother in person you might have gotten some help.
On the internet we are absolutely bombarded with trolls. It’s likely the sub Reddit thought you were one of
Thank you Brother
Any Zambians here?
Living not leave , sorry 😅😅😂
Greetings from Vulcan Lodge 4510 and Middlesbrough Lodge of Mark Master Masons 297 in England
Valley of Cincinnati
Hi,is it possible to join freemasonery if i hv no religion?
Excellent
Great work! PM Pythagoras 358, SR Orient of FL Valley of Panama City - Tony Viejo KCCH
What I would like is, a 33rd to dispel the lie that once you get this Degree that you worship the Devil...
I am a 33rd degree Scottish Rite mason. Jesus Christ is my personal Lord and Savior. There is no Satanic element in any Masonic degree. We have men who are of faiths besides Christian. But in no way is Masonry anti-Christian.
I don’t know but somehow you do? Laughable nonsense. There are 33 Scottish rite degrees. No more. It is the last degree. Have a nice day.
Albert Pike's book absolutely DOES NOT say this. You googled something and came away with the Taxil Hoax. (Look it up). And now you type that as a fact. When you knowing spread misinformation, it is called LYING. And by pretending to read a book you haven't and quote incorrectly from it, you are being untruthful. If you are a Christian, you should know better.
It takes an absolute minimum of 8 years to go from 32 to 33, and it usually takes longer than that. Are you telling me that these men who worshipped God all their lives and spent a minimum of 8 years believing that Masonry was talking about God suddenly finds out that i was about the devil and just say, Oh, ok. no problem"?. What an absolutely ridiculous thing to believe.
I guess you are not understanding what I am saying, I don't believe this, but I wish you would do a video dispelling this lie. You are getting hostile and you misunderstood what I was saying... From understanding Freemasonry, there are secrets you can't talk about. And the 33rd is VERY tight lipped so that no information comes out on the initiation Ceremonies...
Sure
Good show
Twice master, once in ARKANSAS and once in Tennessee.
I greet you well from a London, England.
Fraternal greetings from Lodge 245 Irish Constitution
Great lecture GiG . I’m GIG Shabazz, Brownsville #510 MWUGLPHA Florida, Jackson #10 Consistory, and Kazah 49 Shriners
So it's like saying Judge Wapner?
Houston Valley,Orient of Texas,Southern Jurisdiction . Walter M Pierson #1339 AF&AM.
Hanceville Lodge 400 Ala.
Why is there this obsession with US Brn to add their AASR degree after their name? I mean, aren't we all MMs ON THE LEVEL? Also, isn't the AASR but ONE of SEVERAL Masonic Orders beyond the Craft? In that sense, should we also add ALL the Degrees in EVERY Order we are members of? Not being judgemental. I just honestly don't get it.
I do it for these videos because this is our official channel. I don’t sign peoples birthday cards with it. But when speaking from this place or in an “official” capacity I think it’s appropriate.
@@ScottishRiteMasons I hear you bro. And in this way it makes total sense. But many many many brn do so in general. And not only in the US. Even here in Greece. And again. No disrespect intended in any way. I just can’t wrap my mind around it.
I'm An EA Samuel Hompers #45
Mm. Mt horeb lodge
I'd like to ask you some questions in private sometime.
Greetings brother....
I think the anti masons get hung up on the word religion because they read manly p. Hall's book where he calls it a religion.....
Where one might say that manly p hall is highly respected.....
I just tell them I think he's a quack.
That is all.... Carry on.
I hate saying he's a kook, because I know a lot of Brothers do connect with his work; and more power to them. I do not connect with it, and though I wouldn't say it quite the same way, my opinion of his work is about the same as yours.
How many were the children of Zattu?
Nine hundred and forty-five (Ezra 2:8)
Eight hundred and forty-five (Nehemiah 7:13)
At the lower levels, it seems benign, but if you get up to the higher levels...watch out. I would never want to be part of that club. Just sayin'.🙃
I am a 33rd degree mason. The so-called “higher level”. You’re simply wrong and have fallen for the taxil hoax. Please look that up.
It is important that you not spread this misinformation because mentally ill people have been targeting Masons and burning Lodges down. Unless you condone this, I would suggest you do a little actual research first. Google the Taxil Hoax.
This is just not true by any means amd laughable to boot 😅
Read the book Morals & Dogma written by Albert Pike were your leader declared Masons worship Lucifur the light bearer.
You haven’t not read it. If you had you’d know that is not true.
I am 💯 certain you’ve never read a page of morals and dogma.
You googled something and found part of the Taxil hoax.
Writing things you don’t know for a fact and pretending you do is called LYING.
Foolish and wrong. Have a nice day.
@@ScottishRiteMasons The Leo Taxil hoax lives on even though he confessed that it was a hoax before he died.
@@ScottishRiteMasons It's also called bearing false witness. And God made it clear how he feels about that.