THE
MASONIC IMPLICATION
(Condemning all
Masons as conspirators) would be like condemning all
American Jews over the
crimes and cruelties for which Henry Kissinger has been responsible....It is a
fundamental principle of The John Birch Society - as we have often repeated - to
judge every individual human being as an individual, entirely on the basis of
his own morality, integrity, and purpose, without regard to his color, creed,
social background, or even the organizations to which he belongs - provided none
of those organizations is one with a discipline which he must accept for
participation in activities contrary to his own conscience. And while I have
never been a Mason, nor a member of any other secret
society, I do not believe
that the ordinary American Mason today is subject to any such discipline. -Robert
Welch, December 1977, Bulletin
Membership in the Conspiracy, either at the outer circles or within its innermost center, is not confined to any religion, race, nationality, or fraternal organization. It should be understood that the Conspiracy is not the Jews, or the Moslems, or Catholics, or Masons, or Protestants, or Mormons, or the adherents of any single identifiable set of beliefs. The Conspiracy would be pleased to lead activist Americans on a tangent by creating an obsession against one or the other of these organizations. To be sure, the Conspiracy places its agents in all kinds of legitimate groups at every possible opportunity, but these groups must not be mistaken for the Conspiracy itself.
From as early as 1790,
many of the European Masonic lodges were used and
corrupted by the conspirator
Adam Weishaupt and his Illuminati. European Masonry was a victim of the
conspiracy in its earlier days as have been other organizations and religions
that have been infiltrated and taken over. Some groups have been used and
distorted - sometimes only to be abandoned later and discarded when the parasite
has sapped the energy of the host. It must be
understood that the Insiders of the Conspiracy are the apostates of all
morality-based religions and subscribe to no tenets of faith other than their
godless and relentless drive for power. At its core the Conspiracy is Satanic -
it opposes and seeks to corrupt all uplifting faiths. It will attempt to use any
and all organizations for its purposes. Patriotic citizens who expect to serve a
valuable role in the freedom fight must steer clear of the notion that Masonry
or any particular denomination is the Conspiracy.