Why are people so scared of Egyptian wisdom schools (Freemasons, Rosicrucians) ?

Question

Think about it... Moses "learned all the wisdom of Egypt". This wisdom became a part of Judaism through the esoteric wisdom of Kabbalah. Kabbalah, at its base, can provide an amazingly deep understanding of the roots of Christianity, and Christians return from soul on Earth to spirit in God. I'm not getting into it too deeply, but as a Christian, I am reading of Kabbalah and its wisdom (I don't follow it -- that's for Jews who have studied it their whole lives), and I'm amazed at its deeper meanings and ties to Christianity. There is a deeper, common wisdom to all religions, of which esoteric Christianity is the perfection.

This comes to my next question... why are people afraid of this wisdom? Moses himself learned it in Egypt, and he is a father of Judaism, and therefore Christianity as well. This is the ancient wisdom taught in mystery schools such as Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, the "Illuminati", that leads to enlightenment. I didn’t join the schools, but had been enlightened and illumed as to my true nature through the Holy Spirit by Jesus Christ, technically making ME an Illuminati as well. I know myself, and this is the bottom line of all religions: Know yourself. Jesus Christ changed my life and made me whole again, and my life has been the best since He came into my life. Some people are looking for the underlaying deeper teachings of this enlightenment through these schools, and if you read about them, you’ll discover that they teach of the Ultimate God, who is truly the Christian God above all the universe.

So, why are people scared of this?

Answer 1

Well put.
I, myself come from Freemasonry. My road to Jesus did, in fact, include a study of several schools of religious thought. Freemasonry was one. The Greco/Roman Gods was another. Ultimately, I found myself at the Cross of Christ.
I think that many are afraid that such a study will keep you away from the Cross. But, as you and I know, such a study will draw a true seeker of the truth right to the Cross of Christ.

Answer 2

These initiatory schools, whatever they started as, became hotbeds for anti-monarchic activity in Enlightenment Europe, where scholars and merchants had long conversations about methods of government that didn't involve Kings or nobles. As a result, the noble classes and their accomplices in the religious sector ran smear campaigns painting the Masons et al as heretical or satanic. We're still feeling the ripple effect of that to this day. School children still sing Ring Around The Rosy, a medieval song about the plague, and uneducated working-class Christians still think the Masons are an evil secret society. Why were the American Founders mostly Masons? Because the Masons were the social group having the discussion of the age about how to rebel against rule by a monarchy. The American Masons were just able to put into action what the European Masons had been theorizing about for years.

And I hate to break it to you, but the Masons and Rosecrucians were mostly Gnostics and Deists, and saw your Christian deity as just another flawed perception of a greater, less personal power in the cosmos. These groups are magical societies; magic is a function of understanding symbolism; all gods are just symbols.

Answer 3

Enlightenment is per the individual perception (unless you are as the vast majority...mere sheep)..and sheep are insecure and scared parties. Then we have the agnostic who is again insecure/scared as they have do/don't tug of war, and want to wait until all the information is in the declare their position. It is mostly the uninformed that have fears...that which we do not understand is most often seen as a potential threat. If you seek a simple answer to these complex humanity questions I do not see you finding any such easy solution.

Answer 4

Dont think people are scared of wisdom quite the opposite

People are scared of the unknown, rosticrucians freemasons etc are almost like secret societies - perhaps because of other relious zealots they have to be - I dont know.

Answer 5

Fear of the unknown.