I just stumbled across something truly incredible….
Two warnings for you upfront:
Number One, I started listening to this and couldn’t put it down. The same might happen to you. Truly eye-opening and stunning and I could not stop listening.
Number Two, I know I’m going to probably offend some people with this one, but I still have to print this.
There are two big topics that any time I mention them people absolutely lose their minds and have wild, emotional reactions.
The first is when I tell the Catholics they shouldn’t be praying to Mary, like this:
MEMO TO THE CATHOLICS: Please Stop Praying To Mary and Angels
And the second topic that universally receives equally inflammatory reactions is when I say the Freemasons are an evil, Satanic organization.
Oh boy does my email Inbox and comments section get lit up!
"How dare you say that, my Grandfather was a Freemason and he was a good person!"
"I'm never reading you again Noah, you've crossed the line now! My mother was in the Eastern Star and she's a wonderful woman."
I know, I know....I've heard them all and I know I will read them all again once I hit "Publish" on this article.
But the truth is this one is actually going to be much, much worse than normal because this one article is going to offend the Catholics AND the Freemasons in the same video!
Oh, and the Mormons thrown in for good measure too!
Not because I want to....
I'm not here to insult anyone's faith.
I am here to search out and print TRUTH wherever I find it, and when that truth contradicts with things like Freemasonry, I will print the truth regardless of the consequences because I really don't have an audience of 5+ million readers, I have an audience of one and I have to be faithful to that one.
Ok, so why will this insult the Catholics, Freemasons and Mormons all at the same time?
Not because of anything I have to say....
Meet Dr. William (Bill) Schnoebelen, a former 33rd-degree Freemason.
He recently went on the "Almost False" YouTube channel and gave a truly stunning interview exposing his life as a former Satanist and 33rd Degree Freemason.
Keep in mind these are his words, not mine, but allow me to give you some of the highlights of the things he claims in this video, which he says are based on his own firsthand experiences in his life.
Bill was studying to become a Catholic Priest when he was young, and he claims a Catholic Priest is the one who first told him he should get into Freemasonry. He says the Priest told him Jesus followed Far East magic and that's how he did all his miracles. So he told Bill to study witchcraft and he did. And he found power in it.
From there, Bill joined the local Freemason Lodge, where he describes the oaths and sick rituals they performed.
He eventually rose up to become a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason.
Along the way, Bill says someone in Freemasonry told him he should join the Mormon church because the Mormon Church is extremely similar to Freemasonry when you look closely behind the scenes. He then gives several examples.
He says Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, was a Master Mason.
He says the Catholics and the Mormons have a lot in common and Freemasonry teaches that if you want to follow the "true faith" it must be either Catholicism or Mormonism. Any other form of Christianity is not allowed.
That's just the tip of the spear folks, it goes way deeper from there....
Now a few comments from me.
As I was listening to this, I fact-checked several things he said in realtime and every single one turned out to be accurate.
Like his claim that Joseph Smith eventually rose to the rank of Master Mason:
Fact-checked TRUE!
Not exactly the guy you want founding your religion, I don't think?
Actually, I don't want ANYONE "founding" my religion.
I want to follow The Way that Jesus set out. Followers of The Way.
Not some man-made religion that came to some prophet in a vision somewhere. No thank you.
Then we have this concept that Catholics believe they are the "one true religion".
I've had extensive conversations with Catholics in recent months on this topic, and it always goes like this....I will ask them, are other Christians still "Christians" and still "saved" even if they're not Catholic?
Simple question, right?
If you ask a Protestant that question flipped around the other way, we would say we believe Catholics are on the same tree as us if they believe in Jesus Christ. Simple. Easy definintion.
But if you ask a Catholic you get a MUCH different response, and the response is generally: "Oh sure, they can still be Christians if they do a few things...."
Then you follow up and you ask: "what things do I need to do?"
And the answer comes back: "Convert to Catholicism!"
No joke, I've had this exact same conversation with dozens of Catholics in recent months AND with ChatGPT, and in each instance that's the truth you eventually get to after a bunch of gibberish answers.
I wrote about it extensively here:
Catholics Believe You Are Not Saved
So everything this man is saying below matches up with several fact-checks I ran and with my own life experiences.
You may not like him....
You may have an emotional reaction to this...
But I still have to print this.
Proceed at your own risk (and I have no doubt I'll see a bunch of you in the Comments Section):
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Bill Schnoebelen – Interview on Almost False Podcast
I was like the youngest guy in the lodge by 20 years. And this guy comes forward, and he says, we're going to lead you through this oath, but it's this long, involved, and ultimately blood-curdling oath.
What none of these men understand is that deep down inside, there's this very dark, evil energy.
I would go up to these guys that have been in the Scottish Rite forever, and I'd say, okay, I'm now a Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret—so what's the Royal Secret? And again, this is something that probably only one in a thousand Masons in America understands: the Royal Secret.
Hello and welcome back to the Almost False Podcast, where I interview regular people with incredible stories.
Today's guest is someone who has explored the darkest levels of spirituality, one of them being Freemasonry. He became a 33rd degree Mason, was part of high-level secret societies, and he is not afraid to share what he's not supposed to talk about.
So I took this opportunity to ask him as much as I could in the limited time that we had. No matter how much you know or don't know about Freemasonry, I can almost guarantee you that you'll learn a lot from this interview, as everything that is shared here is in some way related to it.
Get ready to have your mind blown by Mr. Bill Schnoebelen as he shares the dark journey that he and his wife took, and the unsettling things that they uncovered along the way.
When I got to college—and again, I wanted to be a priest...
Descent into Darkness
I went—this was a minor seminary college—Loras College at the time. It was a minor seminary. It isn’t anymore.
I had a priest in my theology class who had a doctorate in theology, and he was teaching a course in Christology because, again, I was wanting to be a priest. And he took me aside, and he said,
“If you want to be a priest, in the Catholic Church it’s taught—sacerdos est alter Christus—the priest is another Christ.”
So he asked me, “Do you want to be like Christ?” And I said, “Well, of course. Doesn’t every Christian want to be like Christ?”
And he said, “Well, if you want to be like Christ, you need to do what Christ did.”
And again, that made sense. And you know, nowadays we’ve kind of become suspicious about priests, but this was like 1968 and a priest was like God.
I mean, whatever the priest said, that was it. And he said, “Well, if you want to be like Christ, then you need to do what he did. And he went to the East and studied with the gurus in India. He went and studied with the lamas in Tibet. He went to Egypt and studied with the magicians there.
That’s how he was able to raise the dead, to walk on water, to do all these miracles.
So he says, what you need to do is you need to start studying the occult.” And this is a priest telling me this.
And so I thought, okay. Now, mind you, this was obviously decades before there was an internet.
I mean, there was a little bookstore downtown, and I went there and I found a few scattered books on the occult. And I found this book that was called Diary of a Witch by Sybil Leek.
She was one of the very first witches to, so to speak, come out of the broom closet. She was a British woman and a medium.
Anyhow, I read the book, and she was asserting in the book that witches were not evil. That this was an ancient, pagan mystery religion.
Among other things, she claimed that Jesus was a witch and his 12 apostles were his coven along with their wives.
So I kind of bought into that. And I wrote to—I found out about this guy, Alex Sanders, who was the supposed King of the Witches over in London.
I sent him a letter. This is around 1968, 69. And his wife sent me back a thing—okay, here’s a coven in Rockford, Illinois, which is about 90 minutes from Dubuque.
I went there and I got initiated as a witch. And then later on, I hooked up with an Alexandrian coven in Boston and I was made a witch high priest.
I started covens, first of all in Dubuque, where I was, and then moved to Milwaukee because there was a fellow there who had an occult bookstore.
Milwaukee is a huge city and he said, “I’ve got all these people that want to become witches. Can you come and teach them?”
When we’re talking about you being in a coven and doing witchcraft, I just want to make sure that we don’t skip over that part.
Like, what kind of witchcraft are we talking about?
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It was, it was okay. Witchcraft originally, you know, the kind of publicly available witchcraft was originally started by Gerald Gardner.
He came out and witchcraft became legal in England—it was a crime until 1951.
It was made legal, and he claimed—and all of this is disputed—but he claimed that he came in contact with an ancient coven of witches in the New Forest region of England.
They initiated him, then made him a high priest, and he went off and initiated other people.
Then there’s this other bunch, this Alexander fellow—he also claims to have been initiated by an ancient line of witches, by his grandmother.
So those were the two main fountainheads of witchcraft in the 60s.
Both were from England, but both had spread to America. And it was white witchcraft.
Both groups—their rituals were virtually identical. But the Alexandrian group that I was in was more into ceremonial magic.
Which is kind of like—if you know Protestantism, they have the distinction between high church and low church. Well, Alexandrian is more high church witchcraft.
But we didn’t believe in the devil. We didn’t think we were worshiping the devil.
We thought we were worshiping a goddess—a moon goddess—and a horned god.
So it was like a diatheism, if you will. Two deities.
We didn’t believe in demons. We just believed that it was all this nature, airy-fairy, gathering herbs in the forest, dancing in the nude.
And it all sounds very innocent, except—especially in the Alexandrian rite—there’s also some sex magic that’s involved.
So, does that kind of answer your question?
Yes. Yes. Thank you for clarifying. I just wanted to make sure that we got that covered.
So actually, let’s go back to the occult bookstore that you were talking about and let’s pick up the story from there.
Well, so anyway, I mean, so we hooked up with this fellow, and in the basement of the store we would hold these classes.
They were packed because there were all these people—and again, this was kind of, this was 1972—and you know, there were all these people that were kind of like quasi-hippies, and they wanted to get into the occult, magic, blah blah blah.
The other thing that happened at the same time is that we encountered this fellow called Eli, who was the Grand Master Druid of North America.
And Druids are a little bit different than witches.
It’s kind of like the difference between being a Baptist and being a Methodist, you know?
And we were invited down to Arkansas, which is where this fellow lived.
He had lived on top of a mountain. He had kind of an organic farm there.
And we, we went through the whole summer, got all this occult training.
We were high priests in Druidism by the time we got done.
At one point—understand, this fellow that owned the occult bookstore—he was kind of a manipulative guy.
He was older than me, very cunning. He took me aside and he said,
“You know, if you really want to understand magic, you need to read this book.”
And he handed me The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey.
And I said, “Well, why would I want to read The Satanic Bible? Witches don’t believe in Satan.”
And he said, “Well, just read the book.”
And LaVey’s contention was that magic is really about Satan, but Satan is like an archetype.
He said, “There is no real Satan. But it’s like an energy, an egregore, an archetype that you can draw upon.”
And it kind of made sense to me.
And again, the devil was gradually pulling me in.
Like the whole thing about the camel getting its nose into the tent—before you know it, the camel's in there.
So I wrote to the Church of Satan, which at that time was in San Francisco.
I became a member—a first-degree member.
Then later on, I went through some exams and studies, and I became a warlock, which was a second-degree member of the Church of Satan.
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At this point—also, I should say this because this is critical—this Eli guy, the Grand Druid down in Arkansas, he gave us two words of advice.
First of all, he said if you really want to understand Luciferian energy, you need to join the Freemasonic Order.
And he himself was a 33rd-degree Mason. He showed me his little certificate that he’d got.
He also told me that if he ever felt like we were in deep spiritual trouble, that I should join the Mormon Church.
Because it was a church that had been started by witches, for witches, that we could hang out in and pretend to be nice.
You know the image of the Mormon Church—that they’re straight, nice, wonderful, all-American people with happy families and white picket fences and, you know, all of that.
But secretly, they believe almost the same doctrines that witches believe.
And we can get into that if you want, but anyhow.
So he gave us that advice—and again, this was in the early 70s.
So I joined the Masonic Lodge. I became a Master Mason.
At the same time as I was a Satanist and a witch.
And only our inner circle of the witches—we had, by this time, initiated over a hundred witches—only our inner circle knew that we were also Satanists.
And we were continuing in this. And I finally figured out that there was a deeper level of Satanism.
And I got in touch with some of them. And again, there was no internet.
We had to do all this by mail and whatnot. And there was a group in Michigan called the Order of the Black Ram, which is like more hardcore Satanic stuff.
There was another group in Chicago called The Brotherhood. And I got involved with them because they were closer—because Milwaukee is just up the road about 90 miles from Chicago.
And I got really—I mean, I sold my soul to the devil. That’s how deep I got into this stuff.
Yeah.
Before we actually get to that part—
Degrees of Freemasonry
I want to make sure to take some time to talk about Freemasonry.
Because Freemasonry—it’s very rare to actually talk to former Masons because it’s something that you’re not supposed to talk about.
So it’s kind of an opportunity while I have you here to, for me personally to learn, but also for the people to kind of have a knowledge about what Freemasonry is.
You said that you became a Master Mason.
Can you explain how the degrees and the lodges are set up in Freemasonry so people actually understand what we’re talking about?
Well, okay.
The basic thing is what’s called the Blue Lodge. And that consists of three degrees: Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason.
A lot of Masons never go any further than that.
I did. But basically, it’s like an initiatory process.
The requirements are—you have to, at that time (now mind you, this was, I think I joined in '75)—you had to be a man, freeborn, of good report and well recommended.
So they ask you if you believe in God.
And I said yes, I did.
They didn’t ask which God I believed in.
They just said, “Do you believe in God?”
And I said yes.
I didn’t tell them that the God I believed in had horns.
So anyhow, I went through—there’s this whole process.
You do a lot of memory work.
They call it—you memorize all of these ritual things.
You have a mentor who’s called your “poster,” who’s an older Mason.
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And the guy that I had was a real, very kind guy—an executive in the power company. I can’t remember the name of the company.
He helped me memorize all this stuff. And then you go to second degree, and they have a whole bunch of stuff to memorize.
And just let me touch this briefly, because people ask me, “Well, at what point does Masonry start to look creepy?”
I mean, because there’s tons of Christians that are Masons—literally thousands of them.
And I just ask them, “How can you do that?”
Because when you start out as a Mason, they make you—
You come to the lodge, they make you take off all your clothes except your undies.
They put you in this, like, jammies—they’re like pajamas.
Typically, one knee is bare. One breast is bare—your left breast. And I think your right knee.
You’re blindfolded. And you have a cable around your neck—it’s like a velvet rope.
They call it a cable tow.
It’s like a velvet blue rope, and you’re tied up, and you’re led to the door of the lodge.
You’ve got a guy leading you—because of course, you’re blindfolded.
And he knocks on the door.
And somebody on the other side says, “Who comes here?”
And your guy, who’s guiding you—he’s a Lodge officer—he says, “Mr. Bill Schnoebelen, who has been long in darkness and now seeks to be brought to light, to receive the rights and benefits of the worship of the Lodge erected to God, as all members have done before.”
And I ask, Mr. Christian, Mr. Pastor, Mr. Elder—because there’s, like, it used to be—I don’t know if it still is—but it used to be 40% of the pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention were Freemasons.
And how can you say that you’re in darkness when you have Jesus in your heart?
You see what I’m saying?
Yeah. Yeah.
And then, that’s not it.
You go into the Lodge. You’re led around. They call it circumambulation.
You walk around the lodge. They have these officers—the Junior Warden, the Senior Warden—at different positions of the compass.
And in the East is the Worshipful Master, who’s like the big, big cheese.
Then you’re made to kneel at this altar. Again, you’re still blindfolded.
And you’re made to understand that you’re putting your hands on this huge—it’s like a pulpit Bible—you know, a big King James Bible.
And this guy comes forward—the Worshipful Master—and he says, “We’re going to lead you through this oath.”
And I’m not going to go through the whole thing because it would take like five minutes.
But it’s this long, involved, and ultimately blood-curdling oath.
At the end, you say—you swear the essence of the oath—that you’re going to keep the secrets of an Entered Apprentice Mason, which of course I’m violating right now.
And then at the end you swear that if I should ever reveal the secrets of an Entered Apprentice Mason, I will have my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the roots, and buried in the sands of the sea, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in 24 hours, should I ever knowingly violate this my Entered Apprentice obligation.
So help me God and keep me steadfast to the due performance of the same.
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Now, if you were a Christian pastor or whatever—wouldn’t that kind of raise the hair on the back of your neck?
Yeah, I think it would raise the hair on the back of the necks of pretty much most people just to hear that.
Yeah.
And then, at that point, the Worshipful Master says, “My brother, in your current situation, what do you most desire?”
And then the guy that’s with you—he’s a Senior Warden—says, “Light,” whispers it in your ear.
And I say, “Light.”
And then they remove the blindfold.
And you see before you this big open Bible with a square and compass on it.
And those represent the three great lights of Masonry: the Bible, the square, and the compass.
And then they are revealed by the three lesser lights of Masonry, which are three burning tapers that are adjacent to the altar.
Now that’s the most mild initiation. From there on, they get more and more creepy.
So, I don’t know how deep you want to go into this, but basically Masonry is an anti-Christ thing.
It claims it’s not religious—but it is.
They play around with it because they say, “Oh well, we’re just religious, but we’re not a religion.”
Because if they were a religion, then if you were already a Christian, you shouldn’t join another religion.
Most Christians would say that—like, if you’re a Christian, you wouldn’t become a Buddhist.
Right.
Masonry is a religion. I mean, it has all the qualities.
This is what I tell people. If you look at Webster’s Dictionary, there’s three things that make something a religion according to Webster:
Number one, something that has a belief in some sort of deity—Masonry has that.
Number two, that belief is expressed in some sort of ritual—and Masonry is full of ritual. I mean, that’s pretty much all it is.
And then the third quality is it has a system of some sort of ethics or morality—and Masonry has that.
So Masonry is a religion. And it’s an anti-Christ religion.
And the problem is that basically, if you drill down into this deep enough and read the books—read the books that are written by people like Albert Pike, like Albert Mackey—these are two... or Arthur Edward Waite.
These are three prominent scholars of 19th century, early 20th century Masonry.
And all of them were occultists.
Arthur Edward Waite—he wrote a book on black magic and pacts—how to sell your soul to the devil.
And in my book—shameless plug—this is an older edition, this is the first edition, it looks different now—but in my book, I document how almost every single leading occult person of the late 19th and early 20th century was a Freemason.
They just go together like, you know, love and marriage.
If people want to go look at these books, I just want you to give them an idea because if they want to confirm that for themselves—what books are you talking about? What people are you talking about?
Well, there’s Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike. He was like the greatest Masonic scholar in America in the 19th century.
He was the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite. And he’s buried in the Scottish Rite Temple, 13 blocks from the White House.
That’s one.
The other one is Albert Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.
There’s Arthur Edward Waite, who has a whole bunch of books on Masonry.
Again, all of these were footnoted in my book.
I mean, the last—lots of pages of footnotes—because I’m not just making this stuff up.
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The other person who really you need to pay attention to in all of this—because he’s more contemporary—have you ever heard of Manly P. Hall?
I have, yeah.
Yeah, well, he was one of the most notable occultists in America in the 20th century.
He passed away in 1994, I think. He was the head of the Philosophical Research Society.
He was a very high-level ceremonial magician. And he was also a 33rd degree Mason.
And he wrote this book, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry.
In that book, among many things, he says that when you become a Master Mason, you are like a warrior on the block.
And that’s kind of a Masonic code.
And “the seething energies of Lucifer are yours to command.”
So these are like the biggest Freemasonic figures that we know about today.
And yet most Freemasons have no idea about this—
Yeah.
Because they don’t read the books.
They just join the Lodge for whatever reason.
It might be for business.
Because—see, it used to be that up until, I think, the early 90s, lawyers and doctors were not allowed to advertise.
They couldn’t put an ad in the telephone book.
It was like an ethics thing.
So the only way that lawyers and doctors could kind of build up business was by Masonry.
They’d join the Masonic Lodge, they’d send referrals to one another—you know, a good old boys network.
So, that’s why a lot of people joined the Lodge.
Many people joined it because they had an uncle or a father or a brother who was in it.
And honestly, unless you really understand the occult—it’s boring.
I mean, imagine the most boring church service you’ve ever been at.
And having spent five years in the Mormon church, I can relate to that.
But it’s just—you know, guys were sitting there snoring during the Masonic ritual when I was there.
Because it’s like watching paint dry.
And they go every week.
And when I was involved in this, I was like the youngest guy in the Lodge by 20 years.
All these guys were like 50, 60, 70 years old.
And basically, they were there because they were buddies.
And afterwards, they’d play poker and eat sandwiches or something.
But what none of these men understand—I don’t think—is that deep down inside, there’s this very dark, evil energy.
Which is very sexualized.
We document in the book how many men have come to us over the years for deliverance.
They were in Masonry, and they began to be drawn into wickedness, into perversion, and even into pedophilia.
And it’s dark, dangerous stuff, because it opens up unholy desires within the men.
And then, because of the way the spiritual world works, that in turn percolates down into their family.
And it affects the wife—who may or may not be involved—because there’s a women’s order of Masonry called the Order of the Eastern Star.
Whose symbol is a satanic pentagram, by the way.
So anyway, it affects your children.
So many men that were Masons—at first it didn’t appear a problem.
But when their children started hitting puberty, they just started to go in various ways nuts because of this trickle-down influence of the Masonic Lodge.
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Yeah, I actually interviewed a woman whose dad was a Freemason, and just something very similar to that happened to her.
She was never involved in the Eastern Stars. And as far as I understand, her mom wasn’t involved either.
But there was an element of the children thing that you talked about, with their family being abused—her sibling, sorry.
And she also, around puberty, started developing some weird things.
So, it does correlate with what you’re talking about.
But I want to make sure that people understand.
I want to go back to the degrees of Freemasonry.
You talked about the Blue Lodge. You also mentioned the Scottish Rite.
There’s the York Rite—so can you explain how that’s set up so people actually understand what it means to be a 33rd degree Mason?
Because I think there’s a lot of confusion around it.
Well, it’s a little complicated. But in America—English Masonry is different—but in America, after Blue Lodge, it forks off in two directions.
You can either go to the Scottish Rite or the York Rite.
The York Rite has 7 degrees. The Scottish Rite has 29 degrees.
When I was made a Master Mason, I was told—because at that time, believe it or not, I was going to the seminary to become an Old Catholic priest—some of my brother Masons knew that.
And they said, “Well, the York Rite is the Christian path, so to speak, so why don’t you go up that thing first?”
So I did.
And the top of the York Rite is what is called the Knight’s Templar degree.
Now in the Scottish Rite, you have these 29 degrees—and some of them are really creepy.
I mean, seriously creepy.
They have one—I think it’s the 19th degree—where they actually try to call up the devil.
And finally at the top, the 32nd degree, which is the Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret—and that’s as high as most people go.
If you’re some really important person—either in industry, or in politics, or in entertainment—you might be offered to become a 33rd degree Mason.
Which is the highest degree in American Masonry.
And many people—presidents, actors—I mean, people like Roy Rogers, Harry Truman, all kinds of celebrities—Burl Ives.
They were 33rd degree Masons. Gene Autry. Many of these people.
So that’s the structure of it.
And there’s nuances in the York Rite that are very creepy. But the Scottish Rite is much more creepy.
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