What are the symbols of the purification necessary to make us perfect Masons?
A. Lavation with pure water, or baptism; because to cleanse the body emblematical or purifying the soul.” When Freemasonry pours water over the deluded candidate and tell him it symbolises “the purification necessary to make us perfect Masons” they make a mockery of the biblical Christian ordinance of baptism and do despite to God’s ONLY provision for sin and uncleanness – the Lord Jesus Christ – and his atoning work at Calvary. Every practice employed within secret societies is carefully designed to counterfeit and undermine important elements within Christian teaching. As we analyse this superstitious ceremony, we discover a subtle design to mimic the biblical practice of believers’ baptism. Romans 6:3-8 explains the important symbolic significance of believers’ baptism and its relationship to the new birth: “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was
