Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

Apollo gave him: “a magic wand called the caduceus. Mercury used this to guide the souls of the dead to the Lower World. He also could control the living and the dead with it, or turn anything to gold.” [Emphasis in the original]

In one book on mythology, you will find Mercury “seated naked on a rock....” A book on witchcraft informs us that Mercury was the “inventor of incantations [and] was wont to be invoked in the rites of magicians....” Mercury was also one of the names of gods invoked in Roman Necromancy. Necromancy is sorcery or communication with the dead. Other books mention that Mercury was “the conductor of the dead to Hades [hell].” Masonic author, Albert Pike, of course, claims that Mercury is the “Guardian and Guide of Souls.” Do you want a god that is conjured up by magicians and is the conductor of the dead to hell to be the “Guardian and Guide” of YOUR soul? This god is portrayed in Masonry and the Eastern Star—but in a different guise. In the Eastern Star, the “Star in the East,” the inverted/Satanic pentagram, is a depiction of Mercury. In Masonry, the Orator is a representation of Mercury. Albert Pike states: “Of HERMES, the Mercury of the Greeks, the Thoth of the Egyptians, and the Taaut of the Phoenicians, we have therefore spoken sufficiently at length. He was the inventor of letters and of Oratory, the winged messenger of the Gods, bearing the Caduceus wreathed with serpents; and IN OUR COUNCIL HE IS REPRESENTED BY THE ORATOR.” Are you beginning to get a picture of the god that is being portrayed in Masonry