Boy Scouts' Collapse Mirrors Masonic Moral Breakdown
January 24, 2026
(left. Double Entendre)The Boy Scouts of America was rare among major institutions in banning homosexuals, atheists and agnostics as leaders. In a decadent age, the BSA was unique in upholding God, country and traditional values.
With 1.6 million members & 470,000 leaders in 50,000 packs, it appeared to be an incredible force for good. But how many genuine forces for good are there in this world?
Like most major institutions, the Boy Scouts has been subverted by Freemasonry, which has a hidden agenda of promoting homosexuality and denying God.
(Freemasonry is empowered by cabalist central banking families who wish to redefine reality and hijack mankind. Evidence of their power is the modern discomfort with using the term "God" which denotes the natural and moral order, truth and ultimate reality.)
Scouting's national honor society "recognizing Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives" is a Masonic secret society called the "Order of the Arrow." It has more than 180,000 members in "lodges" affiliated with more than 300 BSA local councils.The Boy Scouts must ensure that their commendable work does not provide cover & recruits for the Masonic agenda.
First, let's look at the commendable goals. The BSA web site proclaims: "That Boy Scouts also has traditional values, like requiring youth to do their "duty to God" and be "morally straight" is nothing to be ashamed of and should not be controversial. No court case has ever held that Boy Scouts discriminate unlawfully, and it is unfortunate here that anyone would characterize Boy Scouts' constitutionally protected right to hold traditional values as 'discriminatory.' That is just name-calling."
The "Scout Law" teaches youths to be "trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent."
It defines God as "the ruling and leading power in the universe" to whom we are grateful for "favors and blessings." It maintains that "Boy Scouts believe that homosexual conduct is not compatible with the aims and purposes of Scouting and that a known or avowed homosexual does not present a desirable role model for the youth in the Scouting program."
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
These are brave words for an organization that was probably founded by a homosexual to "scout" fresh talent for the British Empire's pedophile elite.
The homosexual inclinations of Scout Founder Robert Baden Powell (1857-1941) have been noted by two recent biographers. He liked being with young boys, especially if they were skinny dipping. Although married with three children, he was probably a homosexual. His father died when he was three-years-old. Subsequently, Robert was raised by his mother, "a strong woman who was determined that her children would succeed." Baden-Powell would say of her in 1933 "The whole secret of my getting on, lay with my mother."
Although some Freemasons deny he was a member, lodges as far away as South Africa, Australia and New Zealand are named in his honor. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant General and fought with distinction in Britain's colonial wars subduing Zulus and Boers. His cohorts, from Lord Kitchener to King Edward VII were homosexuals, Freemasons and debauchees.
His gravestone bears a circle with a dot in the center, which is the trail sign for "Going home", or "I have gone home." This is also a symbol of the Illuminati, representing penis and vagina.
THE ORDER OF THE ARROW
Lucifer recruits mankind using a combination of deception and seduction. Freemasonry is the Church of Lucifer, which is the real "religion" of (post-Enlightenment) Western "civilization." It operates under many banners: Liberalism, Socialism, Zionism, Communism, Fascism, Feminism and "gay rights."
Like all of the above, Freemasonry is a secret society, i.e. the membership is deceived as to the true agenda. The lower three "Blue Degrees" are fed platitudes about charity and making good men better. But, in reality, only the corruptible advance. Our whole society is based on this model which explains why our leaders, both political and cultural, have abandoned us.
Thus, it is quite likely that the Boy Scouts of America represent the innocent Blue Degrees. It is possible that "The Order of the Arrow" represents a recruitment pool for Freemasonry and ultimately other things.
John Salza is a former 32 degree Freemason and the author of the book Freemasonry Unmasked. He says, "Freemasonry has Infiltrated the Boy Scouts." The OA was founded in 1915 by two 32 degree Freemasons and its rituals are patterned on Masonic rituals. Both have three degrees; both are organized into lodges, both rituals seek esoteric spiritual knowledge and illumination. Candidates are conducted around the lodge while bound by a rope.
Salza writes:"These rituals--which include a blood covenant are being conferred upon innocent boy scouts...and are harming their souls. [This information] comes from a scout who has experienced demonic spiritual manifestations after his initiation into OA."
America's youths are being inducted into an occult secret society by stealth means. Scouts and Masons will deny there is anything wrong but this only proves their gullibility and venality. The BSA is doing the exact opposite of what it claims.
CONCLUSION
Mankind is satanically possessed, and is being inducted into a satanic cult through sex, violence, money, drugs, secret societies or media-induced panic or psychosis. Movies today are mostly mindless killing and mayhem, apocalyptic catastrophe and pornographic sadism.
The Illuminati (the highest rung of Cabalistic Freemasonry) intends to degrade mankind and deliver us to Lucifer as Tribute. This is what they mean by "change." They spit in the face of God and much of mankind seems only too willing to go along.
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Comments for "Boy Scouts' Collapse Mirrors Masonic Moral Breakdown "
Charles said (August 26, 2009):
I'm not sure what to make of this article. I hold to the belief that the BSA is still, overall, a force of good. However, I will say that the natural inclination of evil is to attempt to penetrate anything and everything that is good in order to subvert it from within and redirect it. The more influential or powerful the good entity the more that evil will target it for infiltration and subversion. Evil likes nothing better than to hijack something that was created to be a force of good. It is not infrequent that good people or good institutions are successfully taken over by evil influence. This is especially true if there are innocent adolescents involved.
Sometimes things work the other way around. E.g., the evil Left today is angry that Christmas was originally a pagan holiday and leftists try to discredit Christmas on that basis. They want us to again start calling it Winter Solstice. Christianity hijacked a number of things and converted it to good. This may upset evil more than anything else.
This is all part of the perpetual struggle between the forces of good and evil. Sometimes evil gets the upper hand, other times the good gets the upper hand. At any rate, it is a struggle that we must always fight. Evil wants us to relax and either embrace it or accept it. Evil uses tricks and con games in that attempt. But we have to resist that temptation. As it has been said, evil wins when good people do nothing.
Thanks for bringing attention to much of the evil in the world. I don't agree with everything you say but you tend to focus on the pinnacle of evil and more people need to see that perspective.
GS said (August 25, 2009):
I was an eagle scout. I worked as a professional scouter, for four summers, while growing up, and went through all phases of the Boy Scouts EXCEPT Order of the Arrow. For some reason, the troop I was in would not elect me for the OA, year after year. When I sensed the neglect that my troop master was giving me, after a few years with the troop, I went free lance, working at camp, and getting merit badges without anyones sponsorship. I became an eagle scout on my own. After I had attained eagle, in a fit of embarrassment, the scout master, whose two sons had bottomed out at star and life, asked me if I would like to be inducted into OA that year. I told him 1) it has to be voted on and there is nobody in the troop who will vote for me (to which he said, "It can be arranged".) 2) I do not need it, nor do I want it. 3) I work there and the staff would "kill me" in the initiation process.
As a post script to this weird occurrence, years later when my nephew became an eagle scout, his mother pinned my original silver eagle on his chest. My old scoutmaster (where do they get the "master" part of this?) was at the ceremony. He would not look at me or talk to me. Same with my uncle who was in fact a 33rd degree Mason. I used to wonder about these weird things and what was going on that I did not know about. While reading your article, I could feel that little chord being strummed inside of me that I was not imagining anything. I probably upset a lot of people by not going through any kind of sponsorship to become and eagle scout and was beholden to no one for it. I think I surprised a lot of people also. At my awards ceremony, the district scouter was hard pressed to say anything to me about anything and there was more than one awkward moment between me, the scouters, and my family. Nobody could handle it gracefully because they could not pat themselves on the back for making me an eagle scout.
I think the people who chewed you out do not have a clear picture about what they were doing in the scouts and a lot of weird stuff phase shifted by them without their observing it. As you point out in your writing many times, people do not pay attention, and hence, the bad guys get away with everything. But I noticed this little glitch in my boy scout training, acted upon it to distance myself from the pack, and never looked back. Thank you for filling in some spaces that I have pondered about for years.
Chris said (August 25, 2009):
I read all the letters you posted, and I have to admire you for doing that in the name of discovering the truth, despite all the grief you are getting from some Eagle Scout types who cannot get it that their own experience in their own scout troop, however pure, may not mirror that of everyone else. You certainly weren't condemning all boy scout organizations. BTW, their definition of God certainly does sounds a lot like the masonic definition of God.
As appearances DO matter, the very fact that so many scout troops are church-sponsored, and priests are allowed to become scoutmasters, is
indicative of very poor judgment, at the very least.
A few minutes ago, I heard Rayellan Allan of rumormillnews say that her former CIA husband, Gunther Russbacher, brought her to a boy scout camp in New Mexico and told her that some of the boy scouts at were programmed as assassins.
Robert said (August 25, 2009):
1. I have long noticed that boy-scouting is particularly appealing to military men and is convenient as a military recruiting tool. Many boys are told that to be an Eagle Scout is viewed very favorably when you enlist. I suspect that it is. The association of uniforms, badges, medals, and manly virtues with military service may lead to profound disillusionment with -- or profound denial of -- the horrors of real battlefields.
2. I have also noticed that the popularity of scouting in Britain (1908) and the US (1910) coincided nicely with the need for imperial cannon fodder six years later (1914 in Britain, 1917 USA). Surely the "God and Country" training was helpful in inducing good-hearted and patriotic young boys to join up and fill positions as junior officers . . . sadly, the most likely to kill and die in good conscience.
3. There is also the old saw that any all-male organization tends toward homosexuality. While there may be some truth in that, we must acknowledge that if that is case, it might be more attributable to natural human weakness -- the "Fall of Man," if you will -- that Satanists may exploit, rather than exactly attributing it to an "agenda." Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but I think there is a real difference as to who is controlling the will: the sinner himself, or the devil himself.
4. As an assistant scoutmaster, I was inducted into the Order of the Arrow as an adult, and attained the second degree (Brotherhood) of the three that I know of. I noticed at the time that there were elements of the induction ceremony that were similar to what I had heard existed in masonic rituals (handshakes, lights, whispered admonitions, surprises), but I must also say that the experience and the content were positive. As other writers have said, it was all about responsibility and service. If I had any misgivings -- and I do -- it is simply that the process of induction into a "secret" order might be used to condition a young man to become part of something that is ultimately far less innocent. Bingo.
But. Let us not pound too hard on the Luciferian-Masonic Complex and its probable homosexual agenda. Quite apart from that, participation in the National-Military complex with its mass-killing agenda is surely equally deadly, both for the individual and for the human family. This, in my opinion, is the 800 pound gorilla in the room that few care to talk about.
In my personal opinion, two of the fundamental problems in Western life and culture -- Christian or not-Christian -- are (1) the love of money (which since the days of Babylon and the introduction of usury has been debt-driven, fraudulent, and enslaving) and (2) the love of violence (either personal and individualistic, or group-sanctioned, or state-sanctioned)
No doubt that both of these are advanced by Satan -- Christ and the Apostles said so. From my reading of your posts, I think that you basically agree. (By the way, your writings are always beneficial--I'm glad to have discovered you about four years ago.)
Let us pray for the Boy Scouts -- they are, like many organizations, a mixed bag filled with all sorts of people with all sorts of agendas.
Robert
JD said (August 24, 2009):
The Boy Scouts are a bastion of opposition to the homosexual agenda and they stand for everything that is and has been good about America. They made a big difference in my life and in my father's life. I went on to become an Army Officer and a lawyer, largely because of people and ideas that I first encountered in Boy Scouts. My Troop, Troop 397 of the Milwaukee County Council, was sponsored by my grade school and parish, St. Eugene Catholic in Fox Point, Wisconsin. One can scarcely imagine a group more fiercely antagonistic to Freemasonry than the Catholic Church; Our Pastor, Fr. Mackin was staunchly opposed to everything about masonry.
All of the Scouts in a troop get to vote on the honor of election to the Order of the Arrow - and my own election was one of the highest honors, in my own estimation, that I've ever received. I was tapped out and inducted into the Order of the Arrow in 1968 at Indian Mound Reservation in Waukesha County, where my father had camped out as a Boy Scout in the 1920"s.. The entire focus of the 24 hour experience was service to other scouts and to humanity in general. Yes, there are some secret parts, but the whole emphasis is on self sacrifice and the highest of virtues. One sleeps alone for a night under the stars and one subsists then for the entire next day on little food, while working hard to repair and maintain a scouting facility (in my case, repairing roads and erecting signs that had fallen into disrepair), and, to promote reflection, one is not permitted to speak during the whole of this period. When I subsequently went for weekends with the Order of the Arrow, it was also to repair camping facilities in Fall, after they had been used by hundreds of scouts over the Summer, to get the facilities ready for harsh Wisconsin winters and to maintain them after use. It was one of the noblest things I was ever involved in, and quite morally pure. Volunteerism for the welfare of others at its best.
I've read extensively on masonic ritual as I became interested in the subject over the years - Starting with Duncan's Ritual and various words of Alfred Pike, and I think I understand what goes on in the first three degrees pretty well, and I've read much about the next 28 degrees. The only resemblance that I can discern is that OA candidates are tied to one another after they are tapped out, or formally proposed as candidates at the very beginning of the 24 hour induction period. That's it. Yes, there is a handshake and a saying, but it has no more affinity with masonry than the handshake and saying of the Knights of Columbus or any one of scores of fraternities and societies. Point blank, there is simply no connection between the practice of the Order of the Arrow and masonry whatsoever.
I honestly think your paranoia has run away with you. You have tarnished the name of very honest, very idealistic, and very good people by connecting them with things masonic through misinformation - in fact through lies. These people are among the finest and noblest I've met in 55 years. You owe all of them an apology.
Thomas said (August 24, 2009):
Read your article regarding Boy Scouts of America with interest, and saw little I could recognize. I've been affiliated with Scouting since a Cub Scout. I was a Boy Scout and Explorer, and an Assistant Post Advisor. I completed the highest level of training in 1983. I've been Assistant Scoutmaster and Scoutmaster with several Troops.
Regarding the response about non-SM boys not advancing, be assured that any Scout who participates and completes the requirements advances. If they do the work, they earn the award. Period. The biggest difference is that those who only participate sporadically don't advance as fast. Scouts with parents who volunteer participate more regularly. In that way it's no different from football or chess club.
No Scouter has the authority to add or remove any requirements--they're universal, they're published openly. For Scouts with a particular limit or disability, substitutions for requirements can be made with approval.
Protection of the Scout is paramount, and the registration process requires the Scout family to review and understand the policies including practical rules: two-deep leadership, no man-boy pairing up, etc., which are published and provided every Scout and every parent. The "Buddy System" assures that the Scout takes a fellow Scout even to meet a merit badge counselor. All in the open, nothing hidden. Still, once in a while a skunk slips in, but it's very, very rare. In my lifetime, out of many hundreds of volunteers, I've known two perverts affiliated with Scouting for a short while before they were discovered, convicted and imprisoned for very lengthy terms. Obviously they may never affiliate with Scouting again.
Concerning OA--it's a honorary camping fraternity dedicated to serving the camping program of Scouts and the communities that support Scouting. The candidates are chosen by their fellow Scouts for their accomplishment and leadership in Scout camping. The initiations include personal reflection on healthy values and cheerful service. The activities include conservation of trails and facilities at Scout camps, assisting in disaster and extreme community needs, teaching outdoor skills to other Scouts,and promoting healthy environmental awareness and personal fitness when hiking, camping, and in other outdoor activities.
I know a few Masons in Scouting. Also a couple of Kiwanis members, some Lions Clubbers, dozens of Baptists and Catholics and Lutherans and BornAgains, there's a whole Troop of Mormons in our town. One of our families are Budhists. The Religious Awards have discreet programs for virtually every religion and denomination. We even have some Republicans and (gasp) a few Democrats.
I'm sure that in some areas more Masons may participate in Scouting, but they have no more authority in the program than I have.
Hope those of you with unhappy experiences can heal from it, and don't lose too much time conflating suspicions with a lack of personal knowledge of the program into an imagination of conspiracy which just doesn't exist. (The more you try to keep a secret, the more obvious it becomes--ever notice that?)
I appreciate your concern, and hope to dispell your suspicious which I feel are unrealistic.
Ty said (August 23, 2009):
Read your article about the boy scouts. Would you consider(after investigating) promoting a alternative to the boyscouts for your readers? They are called the Royal Rangers. Check it out
http://www.royalrangersinternational.com/


































Rae said (February 19, 2020):
I was an Eagle and OA-inducted, and was once proud enough to put it on my resume. That was more than 50 years ago. Wife and I did not allow our children to participate, thankfully. Evil bastards - one big grooming operation now. I suspect it always was.
On another note, in my first swimming class at the YMCA in the late 50's (age 5-6), the class swam naked, only putting on suits for the parents on graduation day. This crap has been going on forever.