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From the September 30, 2024, edition of Candace Owens, posted to YouTube
CANDACE OWENS (HOST): What is Freemasonry? Full stop. OK, so during the late Middle Ages, the world was united under the holy Roman Catholic church. OK? So if you had any opposition to the church throughout Europe, you were forced to go underground. Right? We were a Christian society. And among the only organized groups that were able to move freely throughout Europe were these guilds of stonemasons, and they would then be, therefore, because they could move freely, hence, Freemasons. They were able to maintain the meeting halls or lodges in virtually every major city, and the Masons were, essentially, very talented at architecture, and they had a bunch of secret knowledge — sometimes secret knowledge of architecture and of other topics. And that knowledge was dated back to the times of Egypt. Right? And it was essential maintaining this knowledge in the construction of European churches and cathedrals.
So one of the things that is well known is that Freemasons were in opposition to the church. Right? They wanted to crush the church, which is why it is not ironic that the person who founded the Mormon church, as just one example — many of the churches, the very many Protestant faiths that we have — was Joseph Smith and he was a Freemason. That's a fact, just as one example. Now, you may know some people that are Freemasons and you're going, well, I know this person and he goes to a lodge and he's completely harmless. Yes. It is a known thing that 97 — like, something like 97% of Freemasons are not in the top tier degree of Freemasonry. And it is understood that at the top tier degree of Freemasonry, you essentially become one of the makers of the world.
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So I'm — just for those of you guys who've never even heard of that, and like I said, I would have been among you. I'm very new to relearning American history through the lens of Freemasonry. Some known Freemasons — George Washington was a Freemason, Thomas Jefferson was a Freemason, Benjamin Franklin was a Freemason, Buzz Aldrin was a Freemason — don't get me started. For those of you that have been listening to this podcast for a long time, you already know where I'm at — or where I'm at when it comes to NASA and the weird satanic chants that they were doing to establish the Apollo program and all the weird stuff that happened leading up to the moon landing. So I freaked out when I learned Buzz Aldrin was a Freemason. It's not helping my case in believing those moon landings, I'll tell you that for free. Franklin Roosevelt was another freemason.