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Dear Delriece...
I was raised roman catholic, married a southern baptist by a methodist
minister.my dad is Episcopalian and grand father atheist but my great
grand father was a protestant minister and freemason. I have searched
for myself in freemasonry and my wife has become a pagan witch what are
the common religious bonds between the two ? "so mote it be" tells me
there is a relation somewhere
Seeker in Cincinnati OH
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Dear Seeker,
First of all, I am no Freemason, so my knowledge of their practices is limited. I do know that their religious focus is Christian, but some of their ceremonial practices have been borrowed from Paganism. Wicca is a branch of modern Paganism in which the form "So Mote it Be" is used as a phrase similar to "Amen". Wicca was only formalized as a religion in the late 1930's, so all of the old-sounding traditional phrases have been borrowed from recent practices or invented. So this new form of Paganism is actually more recent than Freemasonry, which formed around the 15th century. The connection you see results from both Wicca and Freemasonry drawing inspiration from ancient Pagan practices; the Freemasons drawing upon Pagan ceremony and the Wiccans upon the Philosophy as well as the ceremonial aspect.
Light!
Delriece
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