TWO EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS FROM EX-MASONS

1 For a long time, even after my conversion, I defended masonry, and maintained that I was able to reconcile its philosophy and precepts — supposedly based on teaching morality and charity — with Christianity.

But in His time, and in His own gentle way, the Holy Spirit began to show me how blind I had been, and how effectively the enemy can use his weapons of subtlety and rationality in the blinding process. It was to the point of having my eyes fully open, and my heart sufficiently convicted of the evils attaching to masonry and the powerful bondage it imposes. It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do — getting rid of my regalia, masonic literature and all the outward trappings of this evil craft. But this was not enough — the Holy Spirit showed that another step had to be taken in order to completely release me from the bondage I was in, and that was to approach a brother in Christ who would pray for my release. This he did, with the laying on of hands.

What a beautiful sense of lightness and freedom I experienced when that oppression was lifted!

2 A young man in his early forties confided in me recently about obscene sexual images that he was having during his times of spiritual communion, as well as disturbing feelings about blood and killing loved ones. This man is stable, mature, and has no history of mental illness. After counselling it was discovered that the sexual imagery was linked to Freemasonry symbols, the blood and the knife which he was tempted to use to kill a loved one was linked with the Oaths in Freemasonry. When this man was cut free from all his links with Freemasonry in the name of Jesus those very disturbing feelings and images went and he has not been troubled since.