Masonic Initiation and Rituals

Sold my soul to the devil, that's how deep I got into this.

Masonry is an antichrist thing. It claims it's not religious,

but it is. They ask you if you believe in God, and I said, "Yes,

I did." They

didn't ask which God I believed in.

When you start out as a Mason, you come to the lodge,

they make you take off all

your clothes except your undies. They put you in this, like,

jammies, and you're blindfolded. You have a cable around your neck.

It's like a velvet blue rope, and you're tied up,

and you're led to the door of the

lodge, and you've got a guy leading you.

He knocks on the door, and then that's not it.

You go into the lodge.

You're putting your hands on a big King James Bible.

You swear the essence of the oaths, you'll keep the secrets of an Entered

Apprentice Mason. And then at the end, you swear that if I should ever

reveal the secrets of an Entered Apprentice Mason, that I, I swear

that I will have

my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the roots

and buried in the

sands of the sea where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours

should I ever knowingly violate this, my Entered Apprentice obligation.

So help me God and keep me steadfast to the due performance of the same.

At that point, the Worshipful Master says, "My brother, what do you most

desire?" I say, "Light." And then they remove the blindfold,

and you see

before you this big open Bible with a square and compass on it.

Those are to represent the three great lights of Masonry, the Bible, the

square, and the compass. Now, that's the most mild

initiation. From there on, they get more and more

creepy.