01 - My initiation
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By Eddie
Monday, August 11th 2003 - 03:03:22 PM
My initiation
Since my father and grandfather were both Masons, when I started high school I joined the DeMolay. It was sort of a club for the sons of Masons. The organization was named after Jacques DeMolay who lived in the 13th and early 14th centuries and was a member of the Order of Knights Templar who had been involved with the Crusades. Philip the Fair, King of France, set about to obtain control of the Templars and get ahold of their wealth. Hundreds of the Knights were thrown into prison and tortured and all their land and holdings confiscated. Supposedly there was a confession signed by DeMolay, but DeMolay denied it as did his good friend Guy of Auvergne. In 1314, they were tried by a special court where they were ultimately condemned to death.
In order to become a member of the local DeMolay, I had to undergo an initiation. Two members came to our house one Friday evening and got me and took me to the Lodge Hall. There, in an ante room I waited with four other new members. Finally two guards came in. They were dressed only in masks and little black thongs and they carried swords. They told us to strip and put our clothes in boxes they provided. When all five of us were naked, the guards returned with rope and bound our hands behind our back. Then they wrapped more rope around our upper bodies and tied our ankles. Then they stuffed rags in our mouths and tied them there with wraps of cloth.
Once all five of us were tied and gagged, the guards helped us hop into the lodge hall where we sat on a bench. We waited for a while with half a dozen guards watching us. Then in marched the Inquisitors dressed in dramatic robes and hats. About ten of them sat at a table, and one of them called for the prisoners.
We turned and watched as the door opened. In came four guards holding a pole. There was a figure tied to the pole, his arms wrapped around a pole that was behind his back, perpendicular to the main pole. His wrists were tied in front. His legs were tied, he was bound to the vertical pole and his feet, bound, were placed on another perpendicular rod. The prisoner, who turned out to the Jacques DeMolay, also had a rod in his mouth. The rod was wrapped with cloth, and tied in place with rope. The guards brought in DeMolay and stood holding the pole to which he was tied. Then more guards brought in a second figure similarly tied and gagged. That was Guy of Auvergne.
On went the trial with charges and discussion. The guards removed the gag from DeMolay so that he could answer, and he denied all the charges and protested. We all sat and watched, and after lots of haggling and charging, the Inquisitors demanded that DeMolay be regagged and taken out for punishment. Then the guards removed the gag from Guy of Auvergne, and there was more discussion with Guy protesting and demanding his innocence.
After a bit more of this, the Inquisitors said that was enough. They regagged Guy of Auvergne and carried him out. The Inquisitors said that we should all spend the night thinking about what we had seen, and then they left. The guards had the five of us stand, and took us out of the lodge hall. They untied our legs, and took us into the basement where there was a room with pads on the floor. First they took us one at a time to a nearby bathroom, then into the room with the pads where we were hog-tied , each on his own pad. The gags were removed after we were told that if we said anything they would be put back. One new member started to protest, so they regagged him, but not the rest of us. With the guards watching all night, the five of us lay on the floor hog tied. In another room we frequently heard screams and cries as if someone was being tortured.
It was a long night and I felt sorry for the guy who spent it gagged. The guards took turns coming and going. In the morning they released our hog-ties and took us to the bathroom again. Then they gagged all of us and took us to the lodge hall where they sat us on the bench. The Inquisitors returned, and then they brought in DeMolay and Guy of Auvergne, not on their poles any more, but hog tied and made up to look as if they had been beaten and tortured - lots of red to indicate blood and marks to show the lash.
There was more talking, and DeMolay and Guy of Auvergne protested their loyalty to their organization, their brothers, and each other. They were then taken out, supposedly to be executed. We were told that we were now brothers, and that loyalty was the most important thing in our lives. After they, they untied us, and we got our clothes back.
I liked the organization. I played a guard the next year. After that I graduated to the role of Guy of Auvergne which I played twice yearly until I left the organization. As a prank the last time I did it, my fellows left me bound and gagged all night. It was the second time in my life that I spent an entire night tied up.
After I went to college, I settled in another city. That was many years ago and I wonder if the lodge in my old home town still does their initiation the same way?
Eddie
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