Grace and peace.

Today, using quotes from eminent Freemasons, we shall illustrate that Freemasonry is a Roman Catholic institution.

“Symbolic Masonry [Freemasonry], under whatever form it may be propounded, is a Catholic institution, democratic in its form and government, and universal in its operation.” [Brackets mine, boldface mine, CAPS in the original.]

–A Dictionary of Freemasonry, p. 484.

“The inward development which the second degree symbolizes is typified by the lowering of the triangular flap of the apron upon the rectangular portion below. This is equivalent to the rite of Confirmation in the Christian [Roman Catholic] Churches.” [Brackets mine, boldface mine.]

 –The Meaning of Masonry, p.40.

 

“Masonry is a sacramental system, possessing, like all [Roman Catholic] sacraments, an outward and visible side consisting of its ceremonial, its doctrine and its symbols which we can see and hear, and an inward, intellectual and spiritual side, which is concealed behind the ceremonial, the doctrine and symbols, and which is available only to the Mason who has learned to use his spiritual imagination and who can appreciate the reality that lies behind the veil of outward symbol.” [Brackets mine, boldface mine.] 

–The Meaning of Masonry, p. 21.

“Iranaeus, Tertullian, Clemens, Origen, and Gregory, of Nyssa, also furnish abundant proofs that the primitive [Roman Catholic] church was a secret society. Indeed, so well known was this peculiar organization that nearly all ancient writers, Christian or Pagan, have noticed this fact. Indeed the Christian [Roman Catholic] right [sic] of baptism itself has an evident relation, as Cyril of Jerusalem represents, to the initiatory rites of Isis, Eleusis, Samothrace and Phrygia.” [Brackets mine, boldface mine.]

–A Dictionary of Freemasonry, p. 121 “DISCIPLINA ARCANA.”

“Masonry is not the Coliseum in ruins. It is rather a Roman palace of the middle ages…” [Boldface mine.]

–Morals and Dogma, p. 23.

Sources:

A Dictionary of Freemasonry, by Robert Macoy, 1989, Bell Publishing Company, New York.

The Meaning of Masonry, by W.L. Wilmshurst, 1980, Bell Publishing Company, New York.

Morals and Dogma, by Albert C. Pike.