Call it an “inconvenient truth.” And ask yourself: might America be a tad better off, reckoning with and rectifying it?

One speaks here of the cornerstone for the nation’s Capitol.

That building, of course, is where both the House of Representatives and the Senate, so challenged these days, meet for many crucial (although of late decreasingly relevant) decisions.

The question this hour: Does the building itself carry a bit or more of a spiritual burden (in plain English, a curse)?

The reason for such questions: the Capitol’s cornerstone was cemented in place by George Washington, the first president, and while that was most appropriate, less desirous is that the nation’s first president was a Freemason who conducted the ceremony wearing a Mason’s apron during a formal Freemasonic ceremony.

While Congress itself was dedicated in 1774 with a Protestant prayer, and sessions these days open with Christian ones, the cornerstone should be purged and rededicated in a Christian ceremony while we still have Christians strongly represented in Congress and thus the opportunity. Christians make up 87 percent of voting members in the Senate and House of Representatives, combined, for the 2025-27 congressional session.

One priest we contacted says the stone has a multitude of dark entities attached to it and that though he has prayed over it several times, a person in the area whose specialty is discernment believes much of the darkness remains.

Redo the dedication. Or replace it.

Blessings will result.

While most Masons treat the organization as more a social club than anything occult and are by and large well-intentioned (often practicing Christianity along with the “club’s” beliefs), the occultic organization remains and at the topmost rungs, it is claimed, are Luciferians.

Washington was initiated into the Fredericksburg Masonic Lodge in Virginia on November 4, 1752, at age 20 and throughout his life embraced his Masonic affiliation, taking part in ceremonies, visiting other lodges, and becoming the first Master of the Alexandria Lodge in 1788, capped when he laid the U.S. Capitol cornerstone in Masonic regalia.

Popes have condemned Freemasonry since 1738 because its principles are considered irreconcilable with Catholic doctrine, specifically “naturalism,” “religious indifferentism” (treating all religions as equally valid), and secret, anti-clerical oaths.

Other prominent American Freemasons have included men such as Benjamin Franklin, Harry Truman, Paul Revere, Gerald Ford, J. Edgar Hoover, John Hancock, Douglas MacArthur, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Not evil men, by and large, but bearing the scent of and disorientation of ancient esoterica.

Pope Leo XIII spearheaded the Catholic anti-Masonic movement with his 1884 encyclical Humanum Genus, condemning Freemasonry for its attempts to destroy religious and civil order. He accused the organization of trying to secularize society, promote religious indifference, and dismantle Christian institutions.

As stated, most of Freemasonry seems relatively banal, represented at its lowest levels by social organizations such as the tricycle-riding Shriners (and doing good deeds, such as raising funds for hospitals), but at the highest, most secretive level have been constant rumors of deep dark mystical mischief and occultism.

While its historical origins are rooted in medieval stonemason guilds, the fraternity adopted (especially from the seventeenth century onward) pagan and Gnostic themes of “lost knowledge.”

Masonry, particularly within the Scottish Rite, frequently cites the Egyptian mysteries as the origin of its moral teachings and symbols, such as the pyramid, the eye, and secrets of life/death. Some Masonic legends refer to the Tower of Babel as a place where “language was confounded and Masonry lost,” setting up the pursuit of reclaiming that lost knowledge. It often finds itself tied in with occult practices, often as the unspoken progenitor or at least forerunner.

The cornerstone must be reclaimed as Christian if the nation’s capital is to be construed as truly in the Hands of He Who died on the Cross.

–MHB