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PATCHOGUE,
New York
The initiation rituals at the Masonic lodge in this
Long Island town had been bathed in secrecy over the
years.
The
climax of Monday night's ceremony was to be a simple
prank. A new member of the Fellow Craft Club, a
select group within the lodge, would sit in a chair
while an older member stood 20 feet, or 6 meters,
away and fired a handgun loaded with blanks.
That
ritual went terribly wrong inside Southside Masonic
Lodge No. 493, in a basement littered with rat
traps, tin cans, a guillotine and a setup designed
to mimic walking a plank.
The
gunman, a 76-year-old Mason, Albert Eid, was
carrying two guns, a .22-caliber handgun with blanks
in his left pocket, and a .32-caliber gun with live
rounds in his right pocket.
He
reached into his right pants pocket, pulled out the
wrong gun and shot William James, a 47-year-old
fellow Mason, in the face, killing him, the
authorities said.
(Quote source: Shooting
Highlights Masonic Secrecy)
1
This
particular article is unusual in that it reports the
facts without doing any public relations work for
this mason in trouble. Most of the news articles
reported Detective Fitzpatrick's assertion that this
was an accident in the initial reporting of this
incident.
Right
pocket =gun with live rounds! Left pocket =
gun with blanks.
Why did Albert Eid make provision for such an
"accident," as the police were exceedingly
swift to conclude, to occur? Why were the
bullets in the chamber of the.32
caliber (some reports say .38 caliber)
semi-automatic pistol?
Many questions
must be
asked as to how a mason can accidentally shoot a man dead
in a masonic "trust us" ritual. Why did the police immediately vouch for him and
agree that it was an accident? Without an
investigation, why would they immediately come
to that conclusion? A man is dead not only
because a loaded .32 caliber gun was aimed and fired
precisely at the nose
on his face, but because the gun was in a state of
readiness to be fired. Even blanks, which can kill
or maim if shot at close range, should never be
aimed directly at a person, and definitely not
between his eyes! Provision was made for a fatality
if (for whatever reason) the wrong gun was used. And
it was.
note: William James was not a
high level Mason and thus was not aware of the deeper secrets of the Lodge,
some of which are revealed in the online book linked below.
notes:
[1] http://www.iht.com/articles/509622.html
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Masonic Initiation
Killing: Which Pocket Contained the Loaded Gun?
Masonic
Rituals For the Blue Lodge
The
Fellow Craft Degree Notice the witchcraft phrase, "So mote it
be."
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