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Cargando... A Pilgrim's Path: Freemasonry and the Religious Right (1993)por John J. Robinson
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It's a masterpiece...if you're interested in American Masonry and its impact on our country, this book is for you.--Brent Morris, The Scottish Rite Journal No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A Pilgrim's Progress is not a profound work of scholarship, though. For example, Robinson provides a summary and criticism of the Jack Chick comic tract Curse of the Baphomet, in which he provides the description of the "winged creature with the body of a man, the breasts of a woman, and the head of a horned goat." If you just read Robinson, you would tend to think that this "devil-figure" was the sole invention of Jack Chick, rather than a traditional occult image first published in the works of Eliphas Levi.
Besides the Chick tract, Robinson summarizes and rebuts the work of the Southern Baptist anti-Masonic organizer James Holly and televangelical media magnate Pat Robertson. He includes a discussion of the Leo Taxil hoax, and points out the forged "Albert Pike" Luciferian quote as a staple of more than a century of anti-Masonic discourse. Inevitably, he cites the Bible against the "Christian" foes of Masonry. In assessing the motives of anti-Masons, Robinson emphasizes religious power and controlling followers through fear. As a primer on the role of Masonry in American society, and a counter to common paranoid tropes on the topic, the book holds up pretty well.