Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star: The Masonic Connection [Paperback]

Cathy Burns (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1994

You will learn about their secret passwords, symbols, colors, flowers, gems, and a Goddess connection. Also included is a special chapter on the Rainbow Girls and the hidden meaning behind the lambskin apron.

Product Details

• Paperback: 491 pages
• Publisher: Sharing (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0005021812
• ISBN-13: 978-0005021811
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #474,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is sensationalism at it's worst!, June 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star: The Masonic Connection (Paperback)

While this book may be well researched, the author's deductions are based on her own religious bias and have absolutely nothing to do with fact. She seems unable to distinguish between symbolism and Satanism and is obviously under the impression that anything not taught directly from the Bible must, therefore, be Satanic in origin. This book ultimately is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to justify the author's pre-determined conclusions, as is another of her books wherein she concludes that Alcoholics Anon is also occult-based and Satanic. Don't waste your money on this book.

20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Well researched but conclusions have agenda., January 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star: The Masonic Connection (Paperback)

This book is extensively researched and well documented with exacting footnotes and a through bibliography. It is factual in that the details of Eastern Star and other organizations are quite well presented. However, the conclusions drawn are not accurate and misleading. The author make great leaps to connect Eastern Star with occultism and Satan worship - obviously with a preordained agenda to discredit Eastern Star and the Masonic family as anti-Christian. An example is the "White Light" symbol represented by the Bible from the International Order of Rainbow for Girls ritual (which is also covered in this book.). Ms. Burns immediately links it to White Magic and other occult references. She fails to accept that all symbolism is not necessarily linked, that moral value can be taught by non-Biblical allusions, and that secrecy can not mean only privacy. This book is for fundamentalists who want reinforcement of their existing beliefs or for the Masonic family reader who wants a rounded library, a better understanding of fundamentalist anti-Masonic thinking, or information on non-Masonic symbolism through the ages.

48 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star, September 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star: The Masonic Connection (Paperback)

This book is typical of those books written by someone who thinks they know what they are talking about but don't. Eastern Star is based on the Star of Bethleham and the heroines of the Bible - Adah, Ruth, Esther, Martha, and Electa with their stories taken from the Bible. Rainbow Girls was founded by a Christian minister and based on the 9th Chapter of Genesis and of Faith, Hope and Charity - but the greatest of these is charity. The white light represents purity. Save your money - you are being scamed with this one. This author needs to get a life.