Competing Ideologies of Liberty

To Rome, truth was to be found in church traditions, disseminated by its priests who were expected to comply with established creeds.

To Protestants, truth was to be found in Scripture alone, and this was modified in the later Pentecostal movement to include inspiration by the Holy Spirit.

Freemasons sought truth through ancient writings from early civilizations in Egypt as well as from long-forgotten civilizations of the ancient past. Secularists sought truth through reason and logic, which morphed into their views of “science.” Freemasonry differed from the Secularists in that they recognized the existence of a spiritual world, whereas Secularists were materialists, who denied any realm outside of mind and matter.

Freemasonry’s obsession with the occult, however, unleashed a host of evil spirits upon the world. The god of Freemasonry is Baphomet, whose help they hoped to enlist in their plan to control all governments from local municipalities to federal governments. In their arrogance, they thought that they could control Baphomet and other evil spirits through contracts and rituals, but the reality is that these spirits control Freemasonry. Individual Freemasons are trapped in a very bad system and find it difficult to get out alive.

Each system vies for power and influence, and each claims to know the path to freedom. My view, of course, is that the early Protestants were correct in claiming that the Bible reveals the path to true freedom. Rome only perpetuated slavery throughout the Middle Ages. Freemasonry was the main power behind the French Revolution (as they themselves claim), which only perpetuated cycles of violence. Secularists laid claim to the ideas of Greek democracy, but even the Greeks never abolished slavery.

To this list we might also look east at the religion of Buddhism, which understood that the human mind could not discover ultimate truth. Buddha saw the human intellect as the source of ignorance and darkness, and so his solution was to shut down the mind altogether and to kill logical thought through meditation. It sought to escape the human experience of fallen man, thinking that the darkness of sin was inherent in his flesh and in his carnal mind.

Buddhism defined sin as ignorance and sought a solution through a classroom where men could learn to shut down the mind through meditation. How different this is from the Hebrew Scripture, where sin is an offence against the rights of God and one’s fellow men and where the solution is found in a courtroom where men pay restitution to their victims.

To a Buddhist, freedom is escaping the confines of the human mind. To a Christian, freedom is setting the mind free from its debt to sin and from its enslavement to the dictates of sin that command us to violate the law of God. The solution is not to escape the human mind nor to destroy it but rather to redeem it, put it back under the sovereignty of God, and subject it to His laws. In this way, both body and soul (mind) can fulfill its original good purpose and thereby express the nature of God and the character of heaven in the created universe.