Page 49 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

The Hidden Worship of Satan

Image of Saturn from the Roman City of Pompeii

In the book Saturnalia, Macrobius has the character Praetextatus speak the following words:

It is permissible for me to reveal the great origin of the Saturnalia - not the origin that touches on
the secret nature of the divinity, but the one that is spoken of with an admixture of legendary
elements or is revealed to all sundry by the physical scientists. Telling the secret account that flows
from the pure source of truth is forbidden even in the very midst of the rites, and if someone
learns them, he is commanded to keep them hidden within his heart. Accordingly, our friend
Horus will be allowed to review with me the things that may be known.
[Ibid, page 73]

With these words, Macrobius reveals to us that the worship of Saturn was then, as it is now, cloaked
in a garb of secrecy. Like Freemasonry, those who are newly initiated are plied with legends which
serve as a substitute for the truth. Only as one advances to the level of an adept, proving their loyalty,
is the “pure source of truth” unveiled before their eyes. We observe this process in Freemasonry as
only those who attain to the highest degrees are informed that the true god of the lodge is Lucifer.
Albert Pike, a man skilled in the arcane knowledge of Masonry, and who held the position of
Supreme Commander of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in North America, wrote the following.

The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed
there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he
shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understands them. Their true
explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry...

Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets
from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and
misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the
Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for those who are
unworthy or unable to receive it, or would pervert it....