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National Catholic Reporter
Newspapers
Christian Science Monitor
Los Angeles Times
New York Thnes
Washington
Post
plus interviews.
This article will primarily deal with the Triads which have so many other names it would take
pages upon pages to give them all. One of the names the Triads have had is the Heaven and
Earth Society. Other principal names include the Hung League, and the Three United
Association.
The Freemasons
have been very Interested in the Triads and several Masons have done in depth
studies and written books about the Thads including
G. Schlegel (The Hung League. 1866), J.S.M.
Ward (The Hung Society - see another quote of his on pg. 2), and W.G. Sterling (The Hung Society.
1925)
(This article will be trimmed back—and perhaps some of the information
can be provided In a future
The history of China is a history of authoritarian
dynasties and the secret societies that opposed them.
Throughout
Chinese history, there has basically been only one recourse to opposition to the
establishment,
that was through secret societies. Secret societies have been a way for the poweriess,
to struggle against what ever they perceived as the cause of their misery. There has never been any
lack of recruits for chinese secret societies, and there has never been any lack of causes to use to rally
the poor masses against for motivating
people into joining secret societies. There seems to be no end
to the supply of men willing to lead secret societies also. In fact, I know of over 250 Chinese secret
societies, some of which are no longer in existence. Obviously, we are not going to cover that many
secret societies in this article.
What criteria do I have for selecting what I will write about in this article. First, I desire to show the
compatibility
of Chinese secret societies to western secret societies. This compatibility
is the reason
that the Triads can work with the Mafia, the CIA, and the Illuminati. These points of compatibility
explain how Freemasonry
can work with some of the Chinese secret societies. For instance, I have a
copy of The New Age magazine, Sept. 1964, p. 38, which is put out by The Supreme Council
33?
which states,
‘Chinese Wootsu [sic] Society Compared to Freemasonry
‘Brother Morris B. de Pass, 33°, Master of Kadosh of the Peking Scottish Rite Bodies, in his annual
report, includes the following
interesting story in regard to Wootsu Society. ‘During the past year I
had the pleasure of meeting an ‘Old China Hand,’ himself a Scottish Rite Mason, who, learning of my
China background,
asked me If I had any knowledge of an old Chinese organization
similar to
Masonry. I felt certain he had in mind the ‘Wootsu Society’ (Woo meaning 5, and Tsu meaning
‘Ancestor’)
or, in English,
‘the Society
of the Five Ancestors.,
"...some
fornignors
living in China ...
were of the opinion that The Society of the Five Ancestors was the Eastern Branch of that movement
which developed in Western countries into Freemasonry
.... The tenets of the Wootsu Society do have
much in common with those of Freemasonry.
They pay homage to Buddha, whom they accept as the
