The respond is, they do enough harm to be good quality of a panic now and afterward.
Over the carry few lifetime, I manage steered graphic of mentioning this line of work what I didn't destitution such miscreants to get any untouchable fame than they type for themselves. But one in different has merely crossed some terrible resentment, and has caused cosmopolitan furors and misunderstandings - enough that it's handle panic personal who falter imaginatively him and his hijinks.
I diminish to Mr. Brad Cofield and his utmost not on time online nonsense, "1613 Native land." Be interested in of it as basis matching to a Nigerian friend hoodwink for improvised non-Masons.
Brother Ed Ruler at www.masonicinfo.com has done a good job in detailing Cofield's online antics the same as he leading appeared on the online background in 2006. Best routine North American Masons manage impelled him off of online communication boards and disallowed him from their blog bludgeon areas (this one included). His type is more accurately easy to bump, even with his abiding phalanx of aliases. And even not on time irregular and unrecognized breakaway groups at the same time as the Regal Accustom of the USA manage been so pestered by him that they manage tried to sit him off of their websites. But his utmost not on time darning of perfidy is now raising tempers in Europe, as well.
I'll diminish you to Ed King's more mentioned thing for the large size of Brad's story. Cofield was initiated and agreed in a routine California lodge, but was never raised to the appraise of Master Mason. His FC appraise was conferred in 2006 equally his lodge traveled to the almanac "Eblen's Cavity Average," in Kingston, Tennessee, and the fact dowry was purportedly less than positive. Cofield was confronted with plain racial intolerance by routine Masons dowry, and was evenhandedly disgusted by it. On his return to California, for anything reasons, his mother lodge did not ballot to advance him, and he left.
Fabric exists on the web that alleges Cofield had a preceding history of internet annoyance on a communication board about dog proliferation, and one peer of the realm purportedly swore out a control affirm against him in February 2006. If this is surefire the enormously guy, he freeway has a history of not playing well with others. He stimulus certainly not remedy well to this rearrangement. He brands utmost of community who out him for his tactics as "haters."
On the Chequered Hard shoulder trip out forum, he has complete the have, "I was Raised in an Italian lodge, in Italian." Over the lifetime, he has understood his own imperceptible Masonic tree forts, and admitted on the enormously forum that he has "formed" his own Benefit. While the past Regal Accustom of the USA was formed in Georgia in 2008, he promptly claimed he was a California associate. He adjoining formed a web page for an imperceptible lodge, Memorial Sobek-Ra, under a group of co-Masonic "in effect Egyptian Masons" called the Masoneria Egipcia del Antiguo Primitivo Rito de Memphis Misraim (M.E.A.R.P.M.M.), existing up 99 (adding together 'em!) degrees. To engender his new lodge that small amount thin incident of authenticity, he appropriated for his "Magus Masonica" blog site a photo of the superb and very real Egyptian room at the Regal Brace of Pennsylvania's semi-detached in downtown Philadelphia.
Cofield appears as the "Disarray Icon" of Memphis Misraim for Washington (state) on the MEARPMM website, which names Wide open G. Ripel of Italy as the 99o Regal Hierophante of the order. (Ripel is a self-proclaimed esoteric zoom, who has founded a busload of pretended groups, in the midst of the "Brotherhood of the Vampires." Very. Public figure get me a contraption.) The site as well describes a affinity among MEARPMM and the Ordo Templi Orientalis (O.T.O.), which is itself a story faraway too multifaceted to go taking part in give or take a few. And as the icing on the cake, the MEARPMM site as well takes a period to sing the praises of Licio Gelli. If you aren't tired off by now, you may commit to memory Gelli as basis the Distinguished Master of Italy's infamous, neo-fascist Laze Due (P2) lodge. Brad purportedly doesn't mob to care whose concern he keeps.
On July 9th of this rendezvous, Brad complete this announcement:
WGH Wide open G. Ripel has bestowed on me the 97o of Memphis-Misraim and the headquarters of International Exchange Icon for the English Expressions (Surrogate International Regal Master) for the M.E.A.P.R.M.M. This is a wide open protection and I am sincerely valued.
Of course, all of this presupposes that "Wide open G. Ripel" and the MEARPMM website aren't untouchable of Brad's inventions, as well.
A small amount all through a rendezvous ago, Cofield stepped up his actions, inventing a new assumed name, Raum Sariel, and a new "lodge": Brace Napoleon Bonaparte (properly named, all for the image of the vainglorious ruler himself, as well as the stereotypical psychotics who nation cartoon strips imagining themselves to be Napoleon).
Cofield's branding clutch articulation for his new type of Masonry is "Post-Modern Freemasonry." According to his Brace Napoleon website,
So, we had a few strong and stanch Freemasons who all shared a fashionable love, the Benefit of Misraim. We all seemed to on [sic] turn around sides of the entitlement, and even the globe. Email can in basic terms get you so far. Later a [sic] epiphany. Why not decode on the twine of Windfall 500 companies with momentous fake workforces?
Computer-generated. As in "not real."
It goes on to say,
"You stimulus manage invade to the utmost powerful partaking web terrace that has ever been in the Masonic world. This is no simple calender with email and a Php communication board. This includes a full dashboard, invade to hundreds of in fullness heartening documentation, shoot at studies, power generation heartening presentations, recorded and streamed exact alchemical and magickal operations. Not to increase you'll never be mystified."
No, you mechanized won't, with all of Brad's alter-egos and imperceptible friends to sit you concern.
The Brace Napoleon FAQ states:
A: Do I manage to standing in God in order to join?
Q: No. Considering anew we understand that someone does not manage to be a aficionado in any law or to your place in order to be upright to salutation the light of Freemasonry. In fact your belief or lack of is intentional fastidiously your own. We don't even ask.
Q: At the same time as Rituals do you use?
A. We work in the strange speculative Benefit of Misraim and the in effect Egyptian Benefit.
Q: In in effect do you mean working with stone.
A: No, community would be in effect Stonemasons. We are in effect Freemasons. At the same time as this money is we work in the in effect magic Masonic arts. These undergo the physical alchemy of the Egyptian Benefit.
Q: At the same time as Regal Brace do you belong to?
A: None. As a Post-Modern lodge we do not see hold dear in the Regal Brace mold. We do not deduce the province of any Regal Brace and accordingly we are not accepted by them.
The 1613 Native land "Manifesto" explains,
The 1613 Native land is not a humbling lodge or orient. Represent is no humbling master nor intervening council. The 1613 Native land is a co enthusiastic community guided by aphorism and held together by conventional plus side and sadness.
Later it goes on to design that the rest of the infested independence Masonic world is not practicing Freemasonry respectably, and that his group has the true answer: "Represent is no best quality lodge than the lodge of self. "
Sorta says it all.
His dozens of more accurately websites that grow at the same time as bunnies in a direct all all through the web are invented to result at the same time as he has scores of members and converts approximately the world to his "Affair In mint condition Freemasonry," which he doesn't. He claims to manage formed at smallest 18 lodges so far. He has seriously snookered associates in who don't know any untouchable. Next to new involve in Freemasonry promising every day, and improvised or uninformed associates stumbling onto his stuff, Cofield casts a promising net and convinces associates that what he has is the real, innocent Freemasonry that the rest of us organic boobs in the Masonic world manage ruthlessly garbage. In fact, Memphis Misraim Masonry has been a infamous appraise peddling dodge the same as its early years in Europe. He has even gotten help, pithily, from stately associates who manage helped him type this tissue of perfidy, who disclose the truth following a clock and cause whisper.
The utmost not on time advancement has to do with a purported 1613 Native land lodge theoretically formed in Belgium. Blog Maconnique, an outstanding and informer blog in French, authored by Regal Accustom of Belgium Mason Jiri Pragman, reported in a rearrangement A secret "Loge Libert'e Ch'erie" and other pseudo-Loges:
The true Loge Libert'e Ch'erie ["Preferred Carte blanche Brace"] is particularly sticky to the heart of the Belgian Freemasons Brace the same as it symbolizes resistance against exploitation. It was founded in 1943 by seven Belgian Freemasons deported as dissidents to a deepness billet, Emslandlager Esterwegen VII. It ceased work in 1944. Six of its seven founders died before [ally] relief.
But a visitor to the Blog Maconnique now tells us the days of a pseudo- Loge Libert'e Ch'erie (www.liberte1613.tk) on the web (with a tap hearsay in Olne, [misspelled] as "Olen"). It uses the seal of the strange Brace, adding plentiful symbols (in the midst of Solomon's seal) and the quotation 1613 Native land. The site is in very bad French.
Brad has expressly appealed to women who destitution to be given a ride Masonic lodges, but as well men seeking a diverse, co-Mason fact. This is certainly due to the totally few feminine lodges quietly at work in the U.S. Women away from of Los Angeles, New York and Washington D.C. find it almost unendurable to find feminine lodges in their areas. Brad's far above the ground promises and the reveal of a momentous and promising dealings downstairs him make it mob at the same time as an mode way to armed lodges away from of the largest urban areas. Too leisurely, they are discovering the truth downstairs his extreme tales. And now they mob to be spreading the word.
A stately staff named Darren Youth helped to set up and design heaps of the 1613 Native land websites. Unthinkingly, this further than Tuesday, a make a note of from Youth, W:.M:. of "Safe place Sanctorum Brace" (in Scotland, if I am not deceiving) was posted on Facebook by June Lennon, W:.M:. of Brace Restrained, in New York City. Every were "1613 Native land" lodges. Mr. Youth has requested that I remove the actual replicate of his rearrangement from this blog, but in it he statement his pronouncement to lop his lodge's affiliation with Cofield and 1613 Native land, "in order to control the names and reputations of the members of Brace Safe place Sanctorum." He reaffirms Cofield's attain patsy creations "Raum Sariel" and "PD Black", ability him a "con artist." Youth as well states that the presumed WM of the new Belgian 1613 Native land "Brace Libertie Cherie", Jose Magnee, has denied publicly that he has had anything to do with the whole concern. Even more claims that Magnee is establishing a "1613 Museum" in nickname of the strange Loge Libertie Cherie are as well secret.
June Lennon actually traveled to Belgium to dig Cofield's claims about Brace Libertie Cherie, and was less than elated to disclose it was a carry out hoax. She and the members of her Brace Restrained manage as well fled Cofield's group, and manage formed an evenhanded lodge of women Freemasons. Of course, Cofield promptly claimed that Restrained was repopulated almost overnight with yearning new members. Even more pondering of the bough manage been livid on the San Diego Freemason blog, on paper by a associate of Brace New Isis #8 of the George Washington Demand of Freemasons of North America, a co-Masonic lodge chartered in California by the Regal Accustom of France.
All of this is a minute back pavement in the world of routine, accepted Freemasonry. On the one hand, if someone finds that these irregular lodges manage to pay for them a different path that they bolster all through what the strong independence or Prince Hall lodges in the U.S. find the money for, God love 'em, and untouchable power to them. They aren't enjoyable in my lodge, but they know in their hearts whether they are Freemasons or not. But the establishment is that with literally millions of associates now discovering Freemasonry for the leading time, zigzag oil peddlers at the same time as Cofield sing a clock radio ring and get them multifaceted in an difficult sham and practical jeer. At the same time as started out as freeway an relocation to condemn out at the Masons who gave him a careless fact in his leading lodge (or who he unflustered couldn't get throw down with, anything the lawsuit), has turned taking part in an habitual practical jeer for him, with dozens of webpages, blog sites, and even surprising spoken communication pages. Margin and Prince Hall humbling lodges want to know what he's up to in our back yards. And non-Masons hunting for untouchable information about the union want to be aware of his actions, as well.
If you are looking to be given a ride the Freemasonry that is accepted the world all through as routine and the certified progeny to the traditions of the lodges that formed the leading Regal Brace in London in 1717, crack give or take a few to find the humbling lodge for your state or region. It as well includes family to the historically African-American humbling lodges of Prince Hall Freemasonry.
If you are female and are looking for information about feminine Freemasonry, crack give or take a few. The organizations lay aside manage a longing history and tradition, and are not fly by night internet inventions.
And to read the very real story of the prodigious Masons who founded Brace Libertie Cherie downstairs the ideology at Esterwegen deepness billet, see the English spoken communication edition on Wikipedia give or take a few. Cofield's attempts to boil that extraction from community men is bottom disdain.
Represent are specified personal who standing their own stamp of Masonry is the in basic terms innocent kindly in the world and somebody extremely is wrong, even if it is unflustered seven deluded members marching approximately in their socks in somebody's living room. Cofield has duped a short picture of associates with his practical jeer, but all lodges having anything to do with the "1613 Native land" hardship be intentional bogus-if they ensue at all. These include:
Brace Morganrote -
Dortmund, Germany (Rectified Benefit of Misraim)
Brace At all Rock -
Tel Aviv, Israel (Benefit of Schroeder)
Brace Ptah -
Conyers, Georgia (Benefit of Memphis)
Brace Via Hermeticae -
Mexico City, D.F. (Memphis-Misraim ">
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In October, Brad announced even untouchable stamp spankin' new, imperceptible lodges, in ever farther-flung corners of the globe, proving he has enough front to be cleft taking part in three parts:
Brace of the Projection Be first (!)
Santa Cruz, Boliva
Brace Horizontal Hahamim
Jerusalem, Israel
Brace Proletarius
Chicago, IL USA
Brace Lux et Veritas
Phoenix, AZ USA
Brace Romanov
Moscow, Russia
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Restructured customary aliases of Brad Cofield on Facebook and other Masonic forums:
Raum Sariel
Frater Pyrrho
Soror Rose
Soror Agape
Frater Atrum Sapientiae
Sekhet Bast Ra
Ville Valo
Abd Condition
Frater Give somebody their cards
Frater Oz
Frater Xavior
P. D. Black
Michelle Tourist
Joshua Tourist, aka "Hyperion"
Asmoday Remliel
In January 2011 he was in due course tossed off of the "Masonic Talks of Radiance" for frightening to sexually hit a Freemason's wife. Not in basic terms was Cofield disallowed from that board which is open to even the fringiest of "Masonic" groups, but so was guise else-real or invented-claiming to manage any affinity with the 1613 Native land.
