Originally Posted by solidground
"FAMOUS MASONS":
The deception of Masonry is proverbial, even to the members... for the outsiders, it is still more deceptive: Often famous names, who never had anything to do with Masonry, are included in the "lists"... and many famous names included were only 33rd degree honorary members who never attended a meeting at the Lodge, but who used the Lodge for their selfish purposes, and the Lodge uses them as a good propaganda...
"Famous Masons": In the following cavalcade most of them were only "honorary members", who never even enter a Lodge:
Politicians:
- USA:
- 14 Presidents: Clinton, Ford, Truman, both Roosevelt, Jackson, Monroe, Washington... Not Masons: Bush, Reagan, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Lincoln... (Johnson: Apprentice)
- 18 Vice-Presidents: Including Gore...
- 18 Senators: Dole, Byrd, Bentsen, Nunn, Helms, Goldwater, Kemp, Thurmond... Wallace...
- 76 members of the House of Representatives: Gingrich, Wright, Lott, Pepper, W. Ford, Rangel...
- 35 U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Out of the 9 members, in 1941: 5 to 4; in 1949: 8 to 1; in 1957: 6 to 3; in 1971: 5 to 4: Warren, Marshall...
- Generals Colin Powell, MacArthur, Doolittle.
- Declaration of Independence: 9 of the 56 signers. Franklin (helped to initiate Voltaire).
- England: Many Kings, Queens, and Prime Ministers, including Churchill, Duke of Windsor, of Kent, Prince Philip...
- Canada: 6 Prime Ministers: Diefenbaker...
- Australia: 10 Prime Ministers: Hawke...
- South Africa: Pik Botha...
- Other International Leaders: King Hussein of Egypt, Rabin of Israel, Arafat, Garibaldi, Bolivar, Marti, Villas, Zapata...
Religious Leaders:
Jesse Jackson, Oral Roberts, Robert Schuller, Louis Farrahkan, Vincent Peale, Geoffrey Fisher (Archbishop of Canterbury)... many Mormons: Smith, Young... many Rosicrucians...
- The Occult and Satanism: Aliester Crowley (magic, to destroy Christianity), Gardner (Wiccan, white witchcraft), Wescott (order of golden dawn), Helena Blavatsky (theosophy), Pike (satanist)...
Business and Economic Leaders:
The Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, H. Ford, W. Chrysler, A. Citroen, C. Hilton, J.C.Penny, C. Woodward, D. Thomas (Wendy's), Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken), M. Sachs (5th Ave.)...
Movie Actors and Directors:
Bob Hope, John Wayne, Louis Armstrong, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Danny Thomas, Al Jonson, Gene Autre, Casanova, Cecil B. DeMille, Walt Disney, Mayer (of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer), the 7 Ringling Brothers of the Circus, Houdini, Red Skelton, Collodi (Pinocchio), Lincoln (Tarzan), Roy Rogers, Nat King Cole, Oliver Hardy, Roy Clark, Jimmy Rodgers...
Musicians: Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Sibelius, Duke Ellington, Frank Lystz, Puccini...
Writers: Shakespeare, Voltaire, Kipling, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)...
Astronauts: John Gleen, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Cooper, Irwin... Lindbergh the aviator...
Founders: Booth (Salvation Army), Beard (Boy Scouts), Dunant (Red Cross), Sax (saxophone)...
Architects: Bartholdy (Statue of Liberty), Eifell (Paris Tower), Hoban (White House), Borglum (Mt. Rushmore), Smithson (Smithsonian Institute).
Medicine: Fleming (penicillin), Jenner (Small Pox), Mayo (Clinic in the USA)...
Sports: Dempsey, Sugar R. Robinson, Auerbach, Michael Jordan, Cy Yong, Willie Mays, Palmer.
"World Media": Newspapers, Radio, TV... an "enormous influence", Paul A. Fisher, of the military intelligence, lists in "Behind the Lodge Door" several founders, publishers, editors... Many members of the National Press Club of America, half of French periodicals...
"MEMBERSHIP" OF MASONRY:
Masonry exists in 164 countries, with 5 million members, 3 of them in the USA, with 250,000 on the Black "Prince Hall" (still rejected by most white lodges).
There are 33,700 Lodges worldwide:
- U.S.A.: 15,300 Lodges, with members in Ohio (220,000), Pennsylvania (206,000), South Carolina (206,000), California (188,000), Illinois (146,000), Michigan (111,000), Tennessee (96,000), Georgia (90,000), Illinois (88,000), Florida (83,000), South Carolina (75,000).
- England: 8,000 Lodges, 600,000 members.
- Canada: 1,600 Lodges, 180,000 members.
- Australia: 580 Lodges, 30,000 members.
- Italy: 560 Loges, 24,000 members.
- Germany: 400 Lodges, 21,000 members.
- Cuba: 300 Lodges, 20,000 members.
- Philippines: 200 Lodges, 15,000 members