Verifying Nesta Webster - the Judeo-Masonic edifice exposed!

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this will refute freemasonry.bcy's attack on Webster: http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-maso ... ter_n.html

Here is a copy of Webster's book so that people might verify my citations of it: http://iamthewitness.com/books/Nesta.H. ... ements.htm

I suggest in addition to that book that people read "World Revolution" to get the big picture: http://ia600403.us.archive.org/20/items ... lution.pdf

The Lodge does not provide copies of these books. If they did, more people would detect their falsehoods.

Freemasonrybcy says:

"John Robison and the Abbé Augustin Barruel (1741/10/02 - 1820/10/05) have been thoroughly discredited by theRev. W.K. Firminger and John M. Roberts, amongst others."

Much of the Lodge's screed is predicated on your not reading Robison and Barruel. Robison's book "Proofs of a Conspiracy" is available here: http://books.google.com/books?id=t-lAAA ... &q&f=false

Barruel's four volume set is available here: http://www.archive.org/details/MemoirsI ... Jacobinism

Serious students of the subject might with to consult Seth Payson's "Proof of the real existence, and dangerous tendency, of illuminism": http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEMAAA ... &q&f=false

in order to understand the degree of harassment that Robison and Barruel had to put up with for bringing the facts to the people.

Robison and Barruel were not fabricators. They  consulted the original writings of the Illuminati as published by the Elector of Hesse. For those who can read German, the documents are available,  though the books of Barruel and Robison are more accessible to the average audience. In the age of the internet, the original documents are now available to the general public. They are:
1) Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens: http://www.scribd.com/doc/39494071/Eini ... rdens-1787
2) Nachtrag von weitern Originalschriften: http://www.scribd.com/doc/39494442/Nach ... ndenz-1787
3) Die neuesten Arbeiten des Spartacus und Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden: http://www.scribd.com/doc/39493666/Die- ... unich-1793

Robison was an extremely credible individual. Webster cites Life of John Robison (1739-1805) by George Stronach in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XLIX. p. 58. and extracts the following quotation, from James Watt, inventor of the steam engine:

"He was a man of the clearest head and the most science of anybody I have ever known."

Masonic sources, when you reach beyond the public relations nonsense they put forth, admit that Robison and Barruel were reliable. Esteemed Masonic historian Albert Gellatin Mackey, writing in "A Lexicon of Freemasonry", stated, in it's article on the Illuminati: "See John Robison's "Proofs of A Conspiracy,"which, although the work of an enemy of our order, contains a very excellent exposition of the nature of this pseudo-masonic institution": http://books.google.com/books?id=Qg_TAA ... ti&f=false

Mackey also admits in the same entry (p. 206) that "Weishaupt was a radical in politics, and an infidel in religion; and he organized this association, not more for the purpose of aggrandizing himself, than of overturning Christianity and the institutions of Society"

This is significant, because the Lodge will later use Mackey in an attempt to refute Webster.

There were many who were quite aware of the supra-masonic influence upon the initiation of the French terror.

Webster quotes Eckert, La Franc-Maçonnerie dans sa véritable signification, II. 125, which itself contains the following citation:

"A great sect arose which, taking for its motto the good and the happiness of man, worked in the darkness of the conspiracy to make the happiness of humanity a prey for itself. This sect is known to everyone: its brothers are known no less than its name. It is they who have undermined the foundations of the Order to the point of complete overthrow; it is by them that all humanity has been poisoned and led astray for several generations. The ferment that reigns amongst the peoples is their work. They founded the plans of their insatiable ambition on the political pride of nations. Their founders arranged to introduce this pride into the heads of the peoples. They began by casting odium on religion.... They invented the rights of man which it is impossible to discover even in the book of Nature, and they urged the people to wrest from their princes the recognition of these supposed rights. The plan they had formed for breaking all social ties and of destroying all order was revealed in all their speeches and acts. They deluged the world with a multitude of publications; they recruited apprentices of every rank and in every position; they deluded the most perspicacious men by falsely alleging different intentions. They sowed in the hearts of youth the seed of covetousness, and they excited it with the bait of the most insatiable passions. Indomitable pride, thirst of power, such were the only motives of this sect: their masters had nothing less in view than the thrones of the earth, and the government of the nations was to be directed by their nocturnal clubs.
This is what has been done and is still being done. But we notice that princes and people are unaware how and by what means this is being accomplished. That is why we say to them in all frankness: The misuse of our Order, the misunderstanding of our secret, has produced all the political and moral troubles with which the world is filled to-day. You who have been initiated, you must join yourselves with us in raising your voices, so as to teach peoples and princes that the sectarians, the apostates of our Order, have alone been and will be the authors of present and future revolutions. We must assure princes and peoples, on our honour and our duty, that our association is in no way guilty of these evils. But in order that our attestations should have force and merit belief, we must make for princes and people a complete sacrifice; so as to cut out to the roots the abuse and error, we must from this moment dissolve the whole Order. This is why we destroy and annihilate it completely for the time; we will preserve the foundations for posterity, which will clear them when humanity, in better times, can derive some benefit from our holy alliance."

The individual who said this is none other than the Duke of Brunswick, Grand Master of German Freemasonry.

George Washington was very aware of the accuracy of Robison's diagnosis of the revolutionary turmoil in Europe. The following citations are from his letters to George Snyder:
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"Mount Vernon, October 24, 1798.

"Revd Sir: I have your favor of the 17th. instant before me; and my only motive to trouble you with the receipt of this letter, is to explain, and correct a mistake which I perceive the hurry in which I am obliged, often, to write letters, have led you into.

It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.

The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of seperation). That Individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instrument employed to found, the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these objects; and actually had a seperation of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.

My occupations are such, that but little leisure is allowed me to read News Papers, or Books of any kind; the reading of letters, and preparing answers, absorb much of my time.

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Mount Vernon, September 25, 1798.

"Sir: Many apologies are due to you, for my not acknowledging the receipt of your obliging favour of the 22d. Ulto, and for not thanking you, at an earlier period, for the Book you had the goodness to send me.

I have heard much of the nefarious, and dangerous plan, and doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me. The same causes which have prevented my acknowledging the receipt of your letter have prevented my reading the Book, hitherto; namely, the multiplicity of matters which pressed upon me before, and the debilitated state in which I was left after, a severe fever had been removed. And which allows me to add little more now, than thanks for your kind wishes and favourable sentiments, except to correct an error you have run into, of my Presiding over the English lodges in this Country. The fact is, I preside over none, nor have I been in one more than once or twice, within the last thirty years. I believe notwithstanding, that none of the Lodges in this Country are contaminated with the principles ascribed to the Society of the Illuminati. With respect I am &c."
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[Note : In a letter from Snyder (Aug. 22, 1798, which is in the Washington Papers), it is stated that this book "gives a full Account of a Society of Free-Masons, that distinguishes itself by the Name of 'Illuminati,' whose Plan is to overturn all Government and all Religion, even natural."]"

See also Washington's letters to Jedediah Morse, congradulating him on his sermons against Illuminism.

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see also: http://books.google.com/books?id=A7IVlS ... 22&f=false

A very well documented book concerning the role of Illuminism in the French Revolution is by Nesta Webster herself, utilizing a great deal of primary source material: http://ia600403.us.archive.org/20/items ... lution.pdf

It was held in high enough esteem that Winston Churchill praised it in an article in the Illustrated Sunday Herald entitled "Zionism vs. Bolshevism": http://tinyurl.com/4fansvy

Librarian of Congress James Billington, although he took a much more restrained approach than Webster, noted the role of the Illuminati in initiating the revolutionary flame, and that secret societies were instrumental in fomenting revolution in the 19th century, in his book "Fire in the Minds of men". Billington notes that Fillipo Buonarroti, the "Plato" of Revolution, was obsessed with Romantic Occultism (p. 91): http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id= ... ti&f=false, and states (p. 99) "Whether or not Buonarroti was in effect propagating an Illuminist program during his revolutionary activity of the 1790s. he had clearly internalized a number of Illuminist ideals well before his revolutionary blueprint of 1810-1811. [Billington gives examples, and then states] Such borrowings from Illuminism seem substantial enough to challenge the long accepted judgement of the leading student of the subject that, after 1790, Illuminism "having disappeared from history ... lived on only in legend." There seems good reason to believe that Illuminist influence was not so much a "legend" as an imperfectly perceived reality. The same historian's perplexed observation that "the police legend" about Illuminists began to "develop with more amplitude and originality" in the Napoleonic era points to a surprising source of Illuminist influence.": http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id= ... ti&f=false

The French Revolution, Buonarotti, and the Revolutionary legacy of the 19th Century was not the only offshoot of Illuminism. It also destroyed our education system. The prinicple actors who brough this about were the Illuminati members Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Karl Kasimir Wundt (grandfather of the behaviorist Wilhelm Wundt).  Pestalozzi would influence Johann Herbart, who would in turn influence Wilhelm Wundt.

Interested readers should consult The Leipzig Connection: The Systematic Destruction of American Education by Lance Kass and Paolo Lionni. The authors show that the present education system is based on the theories of Wundt, who believed that there is no such thing as self-determination and that man is entirely based on his experiences and environment. They show how Wundt's students returned to America with PhD's, a degree that was at the time exclusive to Germany, and that they quickly ascended the academic ladder because of this distinction. John Dewey was a student of one of these students, and, as we all know, he was an extremely important influence on the modern system. Rockefeller provided the funding of Dewey and the Wundtians, who went on to dominate the teacher's colleges of the nation. They reshaped the prime values of the education system so that it allowed for a scientific, managerial collectivism. The people who are managed, the cogs in the machine, are of course merely stimulus response animals in the Wundtian view, and are to be trained to bee good worker bees, devoid of genius, independence, and originality, in this Global Beehive.

To REALLY understand this legacy, people MUST read the Turning of the Tides, a report delivered in the House of Representatives on March 21, 1952. It shows the utter assault on our education system by an ideology that was Illuminism undiluted: http://americandeception.com/index.php? ... pdf&id=515

Charlotte Iserbyt ties up a lot of loose ends in this aea in her book "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America": http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/Mo ... oA.sml.pdf

To appreciate the level to which this society has been dumbed-down by this managerial collectivist assault, please refer to this following standard 8th grade test from 1985, archived here: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/quizze ... e_test.cfm

All these groups would tie into Skull & Bones, a crucial nexus of the American power structure. Sutton Documents the Illuminati connection to Bones in his book "America's Secret Establishment": http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119639.pdf  

Skull and Bones would be a nexus of power for the monopoly capitalists who would subsidize the Bolshevik revolution. Sutton himself has proven such subsidization extensively in his books,  starting with the Hoover Institution series "Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development". An introduction to his work is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XxgcORB ... 4C0877FD6E

Returning to the revolutionary legacy of the Illuminati, in Winston Chuchill's aforementioned article, he stated:
"From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognisable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire. "

Trotsky confirmed this, writing, in "My Life", about his experience in the Odessa prisons: " It was during that period that I became interested in freemasonry. For several months, I avidly studied books on its history, books given to me by relatives and friends in the town. Why had the merchants, artists, bankers, officials, and lawyers, from the first quarter of the seventeenth century on, begun to call themselves masons and tried to recreate the ritual of the medieval guilds? What was all this strange masquerade about? Gradually the picture grew clearer. The old guild was more than a producing organization; it regulated the ethics and mode of life of its members as well. It completely embraced the life of the urban population, especially the guilds of semi-artisans and semi-artists of the building trades. The break-up of the guild system brought a moral crisis in a society which had barely emerged from medieval. The new morality was taking shape much more slowly than the old was being cut down. Hence, the attempt, so common in history, to preserve a form of moral discipline when its social foundations, which in this instance were those of the industrial guilds, had long since been undermined by the processes of history. Active masonry became theoretical masonry. But the old moral ways of living, which men were trying to keep just for the sake of keeping them, acquired a new meaning. In certain branches of freemasonry, elements of an obvious reactionary feudalism were prominent, as in the Scottish system. In the eighteenth century, freemasonry became expressive of a militant policy of enlightenment, as in the case of the Illuminati, who were the forerunners of revolution; on its left, it culminated in the Carbonari. Freemasons counted among their members both Louis XVI and the Dr. Guillotin who invented the guillotine. In southern Germany, freemasonry assumed an openly revolutionary character, whereas at the court of Catherine the Great it was a masquerade reflecting the aristocratic and bureaucratic hierarchy. A freemason Novikov was exiled to Siberia by a freemason empress." (http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky ... e/ch08.htm)

In other parts of the chapter, he noted that it was through his study of Freemasonry that he was led to Bolshevism.

The lodge notes this passage on it's own site, illustrating the degree of contempt they hold you in: http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/public_pe ... otsky.html

In the late 1940s, a series of documents were published as "Sinfonia en Rojo Mayor", later Translated by George Knuppfer (author of "The Struggle for World Power") as "Red Symphony" This contained the minutes of the NKVD interrogation of Christian Rakovsky, and fits the other facts presented in this piece. It picks up where Trotsky, in his admission, left off. To say it is CRUCIAL would be an understatement. I will refer to it later, but I provide it here: http://americandeception.com/index.php? ... pdf&id=340

An in depth analysis of this document is given here: http://www.mailstar.net/red-symphony.html

By the way, considering that Barruel, Robison, and Webster are criticizing only Grand Orient Lodges, it is suspicious for a seemingly non-Grand Orient Lodge to condemn them. This is further compounded by the fact that this lodge blatantly lies, and make misrepresentations of Webster's text.

"No documentation or citation is given for these broad generalizations.
Citing several non-existent texts in the Talmud and two 19th century authors, Graetz and D. Ginsburg, a Christian, does not establish a "secret tradition.""

The theme that the east is the cradle of these secret societies is one she develops throughout the chapter. She begins by citing Pythagoras as an originator of the Mysteries, gaining his ideas from the Egyptians.

Librarian of Congress James Billington likewise details the influence of pythagorean mysticism on illuminist thought, and one part of his chapter covering the subject is entitled "The Pythagorean Passion": http://books.google.com/books?id=saTynF ... an&f=false

As for the Talmud verses, the freemasonry apologist site is creating a strawman of her sources. She cites the Jewish encyclopedia article on Jesus to support the idea that it is anti-Christian: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view. ... ch=jesus#2

from which I quote:

"The Jewish legends in regard toJesusare found in three sources, each independent of the others,Äî(1) in New Testament apocrypha and Christian polemical works, (2) in the Talmud and the Midrash, and (3) in the life ofJesus("Toledot Yeshu'") that originated in the Middle Ages. It is the tendency of all these sources to be-little the person ofJesusby ascribing to him illegitimate birth, magic, and a shameful death. In view of their general character they are called indiscriminately legends. Some of the statements, as that referring to magic, are found among pagan writers and Christian heretics; and as the Ebionites, or Jud√¶o-Christians, who for a long time lived together with the Jews, are also classed as heretics, conclusions may be drawn from this as to the origin of these legends."

This totally supports Webster's statements.

The anti-Christian sentiment of Talmudism is noted in the following website of the Jewish extremist  website Chabad Lubavich: http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm

from which I quote:

"The Talmud (Babylonian edition) records other sins of "Jesus the Nazarene":
He and his disciples practiced sorcery and black magic, led Jews astray into idolatry, and were sponsored by foreign, gentile powers for the purpose of subverting Jewish worship (Sanhedrin 43a).
He was sexually immoral, worshipped statues of stone (a brick is mentioned), was cut off from the Jewish people for his wickedness, and refused to repent (Sanhedrin 107b; Sotah 47a).
He learned witchcraft in Egypt and, to perform miracles, used procedures that involved cutting his flesh, which is also explicitly banned in the Bible (Shabbos 104b)."

Talmud scholar Peter Schäfer, writing in Jesus in the Talmud (Princeton University Press), p. 13, noted that the Talmud (BT Gittin 57a) said:

"Jesus shares his place in the Netherworld with Titus and Balaam, the notorious arch enemies of the Jewish people. Whereas Titus is punished for the destruction of the Temple by being burned to ashes, reassembled, and burned over and over again, and whereas Balaam is castigated by sitting in hot semen, Jesus' fate consists of sitting forever in boiling excrement."

So what is the Grand Lodge talking about when they refer to "Falsifiers of the Talmud"?

The are referring to this page, in which they refute a section from the much less reliable book "Occult Theocrasy" by Edith Starr Miller, which contains the "Libbre David" Hoax, and which was later popularized by Lyrl van Hyning: http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-maso ... yning.html

In other words, they are presenting their strawman as if it is the argument of the opposition. They then state that these "hoaxes" are traceable to Pranaitis. They ignore the fact that Webster cites the Jewish encyclopedia and the de Pauly translation of the Talmud, not mentioning Pranatis once! In a way, it shows misogyny, as it suggests that Webster is incapable of conducting her own research. The hack who wrote the supposed "debunking" that I am refuting is further conemptible by he fact that s/he deliberately misrepresents what Webster wrote!

Now – Libbre David accurately reflects the Talmudic mentality, but it is likely a misspelling of "Dibre David". Ms. Starr Miller made frequent misspellings of talmudic tractates, so it would not be surprising if she misspelled this one. Unfortunately, in an otherwise good book, because of the spelling errors, she has created a pseudo-expose of the Talmud that can be used by the Masons and the Jews to discredit all opposition by claiming that it is derivative of these errors.

Pranaitis' text does not contain these hoaxes: http://americandeception.com/index.php? ... pdf&id=512

Pranaitis' text is independenly verifiable via consultation of the Soncino and Steinsaltz editions of the Talmud (not the online versions).  

Now, Paranaitis was a flawed analyst, but something that the Jews and Masons would like you to ignore is the fact that that there is a long scholarly history of (much needed) assaults on Jewish hate literature. I am speaking, of course, about Johann Andreas Eisnemenger.

The Jewish scholar Jacob Katz, professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is the sort of individual who would despise the premier critic of Talmudic hate, Johann Andreas Eisenmenger (who wrote Edenkthes Judenthum pt. 1: http://www.judaica-frankfurt.de/downloa ... ahrhaffter, pt. 2: http://www.judaica-frankfurt.de/downloa ... ahrhaffter which was translated as "The Traditions of the Jews"). He attempts to do away with Eisenmenger's criticisms, yet even he admits, in "From Prejudice to Destruction", pp. 14-15 that:
"[Eisenmenger's] book was impressive both on account of its size-some 2,120 pages in two volumes-and its tremendous erudition. . . . [He] was acquainted with all the literature a Jewish scholar of standing would have known. ... Contrary to accusations that have been made against him, he DOES NOT FALSIFY HIS SOURCES. He quotes them in full and translates them literally. ... The question is how did Eisenmenger arrive at so darkly a negative picture of Judaism while quoting its sources unadulteratedly?" [emphasis added]

Others would be more forthright, candidly admit that Eisenmenger's portrayal of their hatred is fitting, and smugly revel in the fact. Ernst Bloch is admitted in several academic texts to be at the forefront of "revolutionary Jewish Messianic thinking": http://books.google.com/books?id=dM_fCw ... ng&f=false

Yet the Jewish scholar Gershom Scholem, recalling his meeting with Bloch, said, on p. 98 of "Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship", "When I entered his study, I saw on a shelf on his desk Johann Andreas Eisenmenger's two-thousand page Edenkthes Judenthum, the most scholarly anti-Semitic work in the German language...In response to my surprised look, Bloch said that certain parts of it were the finest writings on Judaism he knew..the author had quoted and translated the most wonderful, the most profound things...I liked his assessment very much and when I acquired my own copy of the work two years later, I found it confirmed."

One modern source that draws on the work of Eisenmenger, includes relevant commentary for our time, and includes facsimiles of the recently released, uncensored Steinsaltz Talmud, is Michael Hoffman's "Judaism Discovered": http://www.scribd.com/doc/25873220/Judaism-Discovered

Hoffman's work is useful as a guide to Judaic deceit, and supports Freedman's contention that Judaism is Talmudism. I differ from Hoffman in that I believe that the Torah is also Reprehensible. In this way, I take the view of Douglas Reed (in his aforementioned text). Christopher Jon Bjerknes produced what I consider to be a very good source for those interested in Jewish racism: http://jewishracism.com/  
 
Especially these four posts:
1) http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2008/1 ... n-jew.html
2) http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2008/1 ... ewish.html
3) http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2008/1 ... art-3.html
4) http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2008/1 ... art-4.html

You would expect this to be common knowledge then. So why is it not discussed more openly? The answer is that Jews hold absolute power in the United States. For those skeptical of that fact, I suggest this site, detailing the massively disproportionate Jewish dominance of the major institutions of the United States and the World (ranging from 3,000-21,000(!!!)% overrepresentation): http://thezog.wordpress.com/

Notable Professor Francis Boyle discussed how it is ver difficult to criticize Israel in academia here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wtE9wd1uU

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"I remember once lecturing at NYU Law School about the Middle East Peace Process - the Creation of the Palestinian State- and the whole faculty and student body beat the hell out of me for 2 hours, 3 hours a bout being an "anti-Semite". Then they wouldn't publish my paper in the proceedings, and then they tried to stiff me on my expenses. And this is typical."

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"This is organized by the ADL, AIPAC, Dan Pipes, people like that - saying "we don't want this person speaking, we don't want that person speaking, we don't want this person on the faculty, make sure this person doesn't get a job offer, etc.""

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"You realize how much hypocrisy is shot through the entire academic world. These people are racists, and they're hypocrites."

quote from a commentator:

"I worked for the ADL in Boston, and what the professor is saying is absolutely true! At the ADL's NY headquarters is a library of banned books, Chomsky is right next to Hitler!

Names and bios, along with PHOTOS, of serious academics critical of Israeli policies regularly came across my desk! We were supposed to ensure that these blacklisted people were harassed wherever they appeared."

You can't even criticize Israel in public discourse, so why would you expect that you are able to criticize the hateful Jewish religion, or Judeo-Masonic conspiracies?

Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, in "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel" (2d ed. 2004), note that "in the usual English translations of talmudic literature some of the most sensitive passages are usually toned down or falsified," (p. 1) and that "the great majority of books on Judaism and Israel, published in English especially, falsify their subject matter," in part by omitting or obscuring such teachings (pp. 150-51).

There is an incredible hermeneutic of deceit within Judaism. To illustrate this, it is best to start with Kol Nidre, the Jewish "prayer" made on the day of atonement, in which Jews relinquish all future oaths. This is referenced in the Jewish Encyclopedia as follows: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view. ... Nidre#1023

"Before sunset on the eve of the Day of Atonement, when the congregation has gathered in the synagogue, the Ark is opened and two rabbis, or two leading men in the community, take from it two Torah-scrolls. Then they take their places, one on each side of the ·∏•azzan, and the three recite in concert a formula beginning with the words  , which runs as follows:

"In the tribunal of heaven and the tribunal of earth, by the permission of God,Äîblessed be He,Äîand by the permission of this holy congregation, we hold it lawful to pray with the transgressors."

Thereupon the cantor chants the Aramaic prayer beginning with the words "Kol Nidre," with its marvelously plaintive and touching melody, and, gradually increasing in volume from pianissimo to fortissimo, repeats three times the following words:

"All vows [], obligations, oaths, and anathemas, whether called '·∏≥onam,' '·∏≥onas,' or by any other name, which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the next (whose happy coming we await), we do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths."

The leader and the congregation then say together:(Num. xv. 26).

"And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them, seeing all the people were in ignorance"

This also is repeated three times. The ḥazzan then closes with the benediction, : "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast preserved us and hast brought us to enjoy this season." In many congregations Num. xiv. 19-20 is recited before this benediction. After it the Torah-scrolls are replaced, and the customary evening service begins."

The editors of the encyclopedia attempt to mitigate the public relations damage that revealing such a despicable fact would create - they state that Jews only relinquish their oaths to "God".  Michael Hoffman, in pp. 961-979 of "Judaism Discovered", notes the deception at work, and that the Kol Nidrei is actually what it appears to be on the surface. Pay particular attention to p. 972

The Jewish encyclopedia is a very revealing source, but it is still permeated with Jewish deceptiveness. To see how this plays out, note their coverage of Soferim 15, rule 10 - "The Best of the Gentiles, Kill Them".

The Jewish Encyclopedia notes this verse, but attempts to dismiss the Rabbi who said this as fringe. It says, in it's entry under "Gentile": http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view. ... ch=gentile

"Simon ben Yoḥai is preeminently the anti-Gentile teacher. In a collection of three sayings of his, beginning with the keyword (Yer. Ḳid. 66c; Massek. Soferim xv. 10; Mek., Beshal-laḥ, 27a; Tan., Wayera, ed. Buber, 20), is found the expression, often quoted by anti-Semites, "Ṭob shebe-goyyim harog" (="The best among the Gentiles deserves to be killed"). This utterance has been felt by Jews to be due to an exaggerated antipathy on the part of a fanatic whose life experiences may furnish an explanation for his animosity; hence in the various versions the reading has been altered, "The best among the Egyptians" being generally substituted. In the connection in which it stands, the import of this observation is similar to that of the two others: "The most pious woman is addicted to sorcery"; "The best of snakes ought to have its head crushed" (comp. the saying, "Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar")."

So we can see an attempt to ignore the reality of extremist hate by cushioning it with hysteria over snakes and misogyny.

Throughout the entry on "Gentile", we find irrelevant verses that are superseded by other verses. But we do find an admission that many Jews often lie about the bigotry and hate in their religion.

This Rabbi was not a fringe character. In the entry under Lag B'omer, we find the following: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view. ... g%20B'omer

"Thirty-third day in the period of the counting of the 'omer ("Lag" = border="0">, the numerical value of which is 33), corresponding to the 18th day of Iyyar. This day is celebrated as a semi-holiday, although the reason for this celebration has not been detinitely ascertained. The reason most commonly given is that the plague which raged among the disciples of R. Akiba during the period of the 'omer (Yeb. 62b) ceased on that day(Shulḥan 'Aruk, Oraḥ Ḥayyim, 493, 2). The day is therefore known as the "Scholars' Festival," when the baḥurim indulged in various kinds of amusement and merrymaking. There is, however, no foundation in the Talmud for this tradition, unless, as was suggested, the text be changed to read "from Passover to the middle ["peras"] of 'Aẓeret" (Heilprin, "Seder ha-Dorot," vol. ii., s.v. "Akiba," § 4; Jacob Mölln, "Sefer ha-Maharil," § 54, Sabbionetta, 1556; comp. "Bet Yosef" and "Darke Mosheh" to Ṭur Oraḥ Ḥayyim, 493). But even then casuistic methods have to be employed to make the incident fit the day in question. Another reason given is that the manna first descended on this day ("Ḥatam Sofer," on Shulḥan 'Aruk, Yoreh De'ah, 233). For the reasons suggested in more modern times see 'Omer.
(see image) Lag be-'Omer.(From an old print.)

The cabalists attach a peculiar importance to Lag be-'Omer. It is a tradition with them that Simeon ben Yoḥai, the alleged author of the Zohar, died on that day, and at his death revealed to his pupils many secrets which were subsequently incorporated into the Zohar. The day is therefore called "Hillula de-Rabbi Simeon ben Yoḥai" (Zohar, ed. Amsterdam, 1685, p. 291b). The term "Hillula" (= "wedding ") points to the harmonious union of all the worlds that was effected at the death of that great rabbi. The day is celebrated with illuminations, because, according to the narrative, at the death of R. Simeon the world was filled with light, since the revelations which he had received were then put in writing in the Zohar (see Zohar, l.c. and p. 296b). A hymn entitled "Bar Yoḥai," which consists of ten stanzas, each stanza corresponding to one of the ten sefirot, is sung in many communities on that day. School-children are given bows and arrows, for, according to tradition, the rainbow did not appear during the life of R. Simeon; hence the children playing with bows symbolize the death of the sage. Another interpretation is given of this custom, in accordance with a saying in the Zohar that a bow of many colors will appear in the sky immediately before the coming of the Messiah. The bow with which the children play on that day thus symbolizes the prayer of the Jews that the promised bow shall appear."

So he was one of the most important Rabbis in all of Judaism!

This Judaic hatred is quite mainstream. I provide the following examples of similar comments being given by extremely influential Rabbis:

"Gentiles exist to serve Jews": http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Jewish ... ?id=191782  
"Gentile Sperm Leads to Barbaric Offspring": http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 85,00.html
"Israeli Rabbi Preaches 'Slaughter' of Gentile Babies": http://www.jkcook.net/Articles3/0511.htm
"Farmer: Settlers burned my sheep alive": http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=343201
"Poll: 55% back rabbis' anti-Arab ruling": http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 10,00.html
"Top rabbis move to forbid renting homes to Arabs, say 'racism originated in the Torah'": http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/to ... h-1.329327
"Prohibition 'Thou Shalt Not Murder' applies only 'to a Jew who kills a Jew,' write Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur": http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/new ... r-1.261930
"Jews Consider Hate a Virtue": http://www.netivyah.org/articles/The_Virtue_of_Hate.pdf

These people are not condemned by our media. I wonder why.

Dr. Stephen Steinlight, Director of National Affairs for the American Jewish Committee, noted, in the October edition of Backgrounder, published by the Center for Immigration Studies"

"I'll confess it, at least, like thousands of other typical Jewish kids
of my generation, I was reared as a Jewish nationalist, even a
quasi-separatist. Every summer for two months for 10 formative
years during my childhood and adolescence I attended Jewish
summer camp. There, each morning, I saluted a foreign flag,
dressed in a uniform reflecting its colors, sang a foreign national
anthem, learned a foreign language, learned foreign folk songs and
dances, and was taught that Israel was the true homeland. Emigration
to Israel was considered the highest virtue, and, like many
other Jewish teens of my generation, I spent two summers working
in Israel on a collective farm while I contemplated that possibility.
More tacitly and subconsciously, I was taught the superiority of my
people to the gentiles who had oppressed us. We were taught to
view non-Jews as untrustworthy outsiders, people from whom
sudden gusts of hatred might be anticipated, people less sensitive,
intelligent, and moral than ourselves. We were also taught that the
lesson of our dark history is that we could rely on no one."

The Jewish Chronicle, in an article called "Some Carefully and Carelessly Chosen Words," reveals
that the Jewish word for Gentile woman is the Yiddish word
shiksa — meaning "whore," from the Hebrew root, sheigetz ("abomination"). It also pointed out that a little Gentile girl is called shikselke, meaning "little female abomination." (Bermant, C. (1991). Some Carefully And Carelessly Chosen Words, Jewish
Chronicle. May 17.)

Here is a video of the most repulsive, hateful comments being given by Jews, saying (when describing Arab neighbors),  that the extent of the fence around his house was the distance that a bullet fired from an M-16 could travel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ojvf3ORIWQ

Here is Morgan Spurlock assaulted by Rabbis merely for being in Israel and not being Jewish!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi3beO5-Ty4

Why might freemasonry be so interested in defending Judaism?

For an answer, we can look to Rabbi Isaac Wise, who wrote in "The Israelite" that "Masonry is a Jewish institution whose history, degrees, charges, passwords and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end.". This was noted in Volume 7 of the "Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly": http://books.google.com/books?id=qmspAQ ... CEYQ6AEwAw

Duncan's Ritual and Monitor states that Masonry is subservient to Judaism, noting that a recipient of the Royal Arch degree pledges himself "For the good of Masonry, generally, but the Jewish nation in particular." (p. 249): http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/duncans_r ... degree.htm

I will frequently use the term "parasitic animals" when talking about Jews and Freemasons. I am not describing a race - I am describing a pattern of behavior derived from the Satanic ideologies of Judaism and Freemasonry. Anybody who defects from these organizations is to be commended, but as for the loyalists - we should consider them to be similar to an infestation of maggots, which we should deal with as we would any criminal.

Readers may consider the last comment extreme. But initiating revolutionary coups in the name of "liberty, equality, and fraternity", when in reality you are only after world power – and subsequently killing enormous masses of people, is a violent expression of parasitism.

To see how Judaic hate plays out in the real world, see the following series of videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyDplkMO ... B974CFE743
 
freemasonrybcy says

"Academic proposals of an historical theory are not de facto"anti-Christian or a "device for discrediting Christianity."
There is no citation for the claim that promoters of an Essene link are "principally Jewish." Note that Ginsburg is Christian.
Most of what is known of the Essenes comes from Flavius Josephus (b. 37/38, d. c.100) a member of the Pharisees who later was granted Roman citizenship, Philo of Alexandria, and Pliny the Elder. Their differences in significant details makes any claims regarding Essene practices unsupportable.
The non-Christianity of the Essenes does not preclude their association with him or the early Jerusalem Church."

First she cites the Jewish historian Graetz, who attempts to discredit Christianity as an offshoot of the Essenes. She quotes Graetz as stating that Christianity is "nothing but an offshoot of Essenism". Considering the previously documented Judaic hatred of Christians, it is unsurprising that people like Graetz would wish to dismiss it in such a way.

Greatz is wideley lauded as one of the main Jewish historians of the modern era.

A look at Ginzburg's papers shows that he was a Jew who "converted" to Christianity, but he was so Judeo-philic that he could be considered a precursor to Pastor John Hagee: http://www.jsasoc.com/Family_archive/ginsberg.htm

Webster attempts to refute the claims of Graetz and Ginzberg by showing the differences between them and the bible.

These theories attempt to convey the idea that Christianity is plagiarism, and thereby attempt to discredit it.

Given the number of lies of the lodge already, it is unwise to consider them a credible source for discussing the Essenes.

freemasonry bcy says:

"
Acts of the Apostles 8:9 describes Simon "who used magic" as being a Samaritan, not a Jew. Early Christian writings such as the Clementine literature identify Simon Magus as the founder of post-Christian Gnosticism. The Simon Magus legend depends on Justin Martyr (c.100-c.165) who makes him the source and originator of heresy. There is no historical foundation for linking the Simon Magus legend to the Simon of Acts. A.C. Headlam, in a lengthy article, details the arguments against the existence of an historical figure. [A Dictionary of the Bible ed. James Hastings. New York: Charles Scribnar,Äôs Sons, 1811 p. 520-27.]
"


Webster cites John Yarker's "The Arcane Schools", which states the following: http://books.google.com/books?id=bG5T9r ... us&f=false

"The first Gnostic "of the Church" was Simon Magus, a
contemporary of the Christian Apostles, who passed at Rome as "a great power
of God," that is an Aeon or Sephiroth, in the language of the Gnosis and
Cabala. He was born at Gitta, in Samaria, and his Gnosis is couched in the
symbolical language of the period. He was personally known to the Apostles,
who {166} clearly considered him a person to be reckoned with, although he
would seem to have looked upon them favourably, and mildly asked Cephas --
"Pray for me." Some of his enemies admit his honesty and single-mindedness.
He had numerous disciples, and was deeply learned in Oriental, Greek, and
Jewish culture, as well as Theurgy. As an anatomist, he wrote upon the
circulation of the blood, and the physical system of the female. The handle
which he gave to his enemies consisted chiefly in this, that he reformed and
married a beautiful harlot, who repaid him with her devotion, and whom he
believed, whether rightly or wrongly, to be a reincarnation of Helen of Troy,
doomed to such rebirth for her ancient sin with Priam. Irenaeus, who
flourished in the second century, and was born 116 A.D., says that the
Simonians had a priesthood of the Mysteries, and that such "Initiated priests"
practised magic arts, and exorcisms. Simon had as disciples Menander, and
Cerinthus, a Jewish Cabalist, and Dositheus was a contemporary; they looked
upon the Creation in Genesis as consonant to the gestation of the foetus, and
the temptation of Eve had a like characer, as well as the Garden of Eden. After
this followed Saturninus of Antioch; Prodicus, 120 A.D.; Valentinian, an
Egyptian, 130 A.D.; Ptolemy, and Marcion, 136 A.D. A few details follow."

The Grand Lodge of Iowa has very kind words for Yarker: http://books.google.com/books?id=14XOAA ... er&f=false

She also cites Matter, Histoire du Gnosticisme, II. 365, quoting Irenæus., but I don't know French, so I can't confirm this citation. So far, she is right, and the lodge is wrong.

Freemasonrybcy says:

"Webster does not define which Gnostics and which Gospels.
Marcion (fl.140), who had Gnostic tendencies, set up a "canon" that repudiated the Old Testament and anything Jewish. The Diatessaronof Tatian (120-173 CE) was a compilation of all four Gospels used until the 5th century, showing that their form was not fixed in his time in Syria. It was not until Athanasius (b. c.293, d. 373) that the canon was delimited to the 27 books of the New Testament, although the Syriac canon did not come into agreement until the 7th century. "Quotations from the Church Fathers... account for more than 150,000 textual variants." [p. 815.] Verse-divisions were not invented till the sixteenth century.
"

Webster cites Matter, op. cit., II. 115, III. 14; S. Baring-Gould, The Lost and Hostile Gospels(1874).

She certainly does detail which Gnostics and which gospels. She says:

"Thus the Ebionites had their own corrupted version of the Gospel of St. Matthew founded on the "Gospel of the Hebrews," known earlier to the Jewish Christians; the Marcosians had their version of St. Luke, the Cainites their own "Gospel of Judas," and the Valentinians their "Gospel of St. John." As we shall see later, the Gospel of St. John is the one that throughout the war on Christianity has been specially chosen for the purpose of perversion.
Of course this spirit of perversion was nothing new; many centuries earlier the prophet Isaiah had denounced it in the words: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness!" But the role of the Gnostics was to reduce perversion to a system by binding men together into sects working under the guise of enlightenment in order to obscure all recognized ideas of morality and religion. It is this which constitutes their importance in the history of secret societies.
Whether the Gnostics themselves can be described as a secret society, or rather as a ramification of secret societies, is open to question. M. Matter, quoting a number of third-century writers, shows the possibility that they had mysteries and initiations; the Church Fathers definitely asserted this to be the case.120According to Tertullian, the Valentinians continued, or rather perverted, the mysteries of Eleusis, out of which they made a "sanctuary of prostitution."121
The Valentinians are known to have divided their members into three classes,Äîthe Pneumatics, the Psychics, and the Hylics (i.e. materialists); the Basilideans are also said to have possessed secret doctrines known to hardly one in a thousand of the sect. From all this M. Matter concludes that:
The Gnostics professed to hold by means of tradition a secret doctrine superior to that contained in the public writings of the apostles.
That they did not communicate this doctrine to everyone....
That they communicated it by means of emblems and symbols, as the Diagram of the Ophites proves.
That in these communications they imitated the rites and trials of the mysteries of Eleusis.122
This claim to the possession of a secret oral tradition, whether known under the name of γνῶσις or of Cabala, confirms the conception of the Gnostics as Cabalists and shows how far they had departed from Christian teaching. For if only in this idea of "one doctrine for the ignorant and another for the initiated," the Gnostics had restored the very system which Christianity had come to destroy.123"

freemasonrybcy says:

"Dar ul Hikmat translates as "House of Knowledge", not "Grand Lodge".
No details of the Fatimites and their "societies of wisdom", an 11th century branch of Islam, are supplied to justify terming them a secret society, or creating a link with Weishaupt."

As for the first item - that is exactly what Webster says. She says "In 1004 these acquired a greater importance by the establishment of the Dar ul Hikmat, or the House of Knowledge, by the sixth Khalifa Hakim, who was raised to a deity after his death and is worshipped to this day by the Druses."

She also considers this to be the Grand Lodge of Cairo. In "A Short History of the Saracens", Sayeed Amir Ali states " To the central DAr ul-hikmat, " House of Science " was attached a Grand Lodge": http://books.google.com/books?id=4EsKAQ ... CEsQ6AEwAg

Webster DOES give details about the Fatimas that show a link:

"The founder of the Fatimite dynasty of the Khalifas was one Ubeidallah, known as the Mahdi, accused of Jewish ancestry by his adversaries the Abbasides, who declared—apparently without truth—that he was the son or grandson of Ahmed, son of Adbullah ibn Maymūn, by a Jewess. Under the fourth Fatimite Khalifa Egypt fell into the power of the dynasty, and, before long, bi-weekly assemblages of both men and women known as "societies of wisdom" were instituted in Cairo. In 1004 these acquired a greater importance by the establishment of the Dar ul Hikmat, or the House of Knowledge, by the sixth Khalifa Hakim, who was raised to a deity after his death and is worshipped to this day by the Druses. Under the direction of the Dar ul Hikmat or Grand Lodge of Cairo, the Fatimites continued the plan of Abdullah ibn Maymūn's secret society with the addition of two more degrees, making nine in all. Their method of enlisting proselytes and system of initiation—which, as Claudio Jannet points out, "are absolutely those which Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, prescribed to the 'Insinuating Brothers'"129—were transcribed by the fourteenth-century historian Nowairi in a description that may be briefly summarized thus130:
The proselytes were broadly divided into two classes, the learned and the ignorant. The Dai was to agree with the former, applauding his wisdom, and to impress the latter with his own knowledge by asking him perplexing questions on the Koran. Thus in initiating him into the first degree the Dai assumed an air of profundity and explained that religious doctrines were too abstruse for the ordinary mind, but must be interpreted by men who, like the Dais, had a special knowledge of this science. The initiate was bound to absolute secrecy concerning the truths to be revealed to him and obliged to pay in advance for these revelations. In order to pique his curiosity, the Dai would suddenly stop short in the middle of a discourse, and should the novice finally decline to pay the required sum, he was left in a state of bewilderment which inspired him with the desire to know more.
In the second degree the initiate was persuaded that all his former teachers were wrong and that he must place his confidence solely in those Imams endowed with authority from God; in the third he learnt that these Imams were those of the Ismailis, seven in number ending with Mohammed, son of Ismail, in contradistinction to the twelve Imams of the Imamias who supported the claims of Ismail's brother Musa; in the fourth he was told that the prophets preceding the Imams descending from Ali were also seven in number—namely Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, the first Mohammed, and finally Mohammed son of Ismail.
So far, then, nothing was said to the initiate in contradiction to the broad tenets of orthodox Islamism. But with the fifth degree the process of undermining his religion began, he was now told to reject tradition and to disregard the precepts of Mohammed; in the sixth he was taught that all religious observances—prayer, fasting, etc.—were only emblematic, that in fact all these things were devices to keep the common herd of men in subordination; in the seventh the doctrines of Dualism, of a greater and a lesser deity, were introduced and the unity of God—fundamental doctrine of Islamism—was destroyed; in the eighth a great vagueness was expressed on the attributes of the first and greatest of these deities, and it was pointed out that real prophets were those who concerned themselves with practical matters—political institutions and good forms of government; finally, in the ninth, the adept was shown that all religious teaching was allegorical and that religious precepts need only be observed in so far as it is necessary to maintain order, but the man who understands the truth may disregard all such doctrines. Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and the other prophets were therefore only teachers who had profited by the lessons of philosophy. All belief in revealed religion was thus destroyed. It will be seen then that in the last degrees the whole teaching of the first five was reversed and therefore shown to be a fraud. Fraud in fact constituted the system of the society; in the instructions to the Dais every artifice is described for enlisting proselytes by misrepresentation: Jews were to be won by speaking ill of Christians, Christians by speaking ill of Jews and Moslems alike, Sunnis by referring with respect to the orthodo

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To establish Weishaupt's maliciousness, she writes:

"From the moment of Weishaupt's admission into Freemasonry his whole conduct was a violation of the Masonic code. Instead of proceeding after the recognized manner by successive stages of initiation, he set himself to find out further secrets by underhand methods and then to turn them to the advantage of his own system. Thus about a year after his initiation he writes to Cato (alias Zwack): "I have succeeded in obtaining a profound glimpse into the secret of the Freemasons. I know their whole aim and shall impart it all at the right time in one of the higher degrees."518
Cato is then deputed to make further discoveries through an Italian Freemason, the Abbé Marotti, which he records triumphantly in his diary:
Interview with the Abbé Marotti on the question of Masonry, when he explained to me the whole secret, which is founded on old religion and Church history, and imparted to me all the higher degrees up to the Scottish. Informed Spartacus of this.519
Spartacus, however, unimpressed by this communication, replied drily:
Whether you know the aim of Masonry I doubt. I have myself included an insight into this structure in my plan, but reserved it for later degrees.520
Weishaupt then decides that all illuminated "Areopagites" shall take the first three degrees of Freemasonry521; but further:
That we shall have a masonic lodge of our own. That we shall regard this as our nursery garden. That to some of these Masons we shall not at once reveal that we have something more than the Masons have. That at every opportunity we shall cover ourselves with this [Masonry].... All those who are not suited to the work shall remain in the masonic Lodge and advance in that without knowing anything of the further system.522
We shall find this plan of an inner secret circle concealed within Freemasonry persisting up to our own day.
Weishaupt, however, admits himself puzzled with regard to the past of Masonry, and urges "Porcius" to find out more on this question from the Abbé Marotti:
See whether through him you can discover the real history, origin, and the first founders of Masonry, for on this alone I am still undecided.523
But it is in "Philo," the Baron von Knigge, a Freemason and member of the Stride Observance, in which he was known as the Eques a Cygno, that Weishaupt finds his most efficient investigator. Thus "Philo" writes to "Spartacus":
I have now found in Cassel the best man, on whom I cannot congratulate ourselves enough: he is Mauvillon, Grand Master of one of the Royal York Lodges. So with him we have the whole lodge in our hands. He has also got from there all their miserable degrees [Er hat auch von dort aus alle ihre elenden Grade].524
No wonder that Weishaupt thereupon exclaims joyfully: "Philo does more than we all expected, and he is the man who alone will carry it all through."525 Weishaupt then occupies himself in trying to get a "Constitution" from London, evidently without success, and also in wresting the Lodge Theodore in Munich from the control of Berlin in order to substitute his own domination, so that "the whole secret chapter will be subjected to our ⊙, leave everything to it, and await further degrees from it alone."526
In all this Weishaupt shows himself not only an intriguer but a charlatan, inventing mysteries and degrees to impose on the credulity of his followers. "The mysteries, or so-called secret truths, are the finest of all," he writes to "Philipo Strozzi," "and give me much trouble."527 So whilst heartily despising Freemasonry, theosophy, Rosicrucianism, and mysticism of every kind, his association with Philo leads him to perceive the utility of all these as a bait, and he allows Philo to draw up plans for a degree of Scottish Knight. But the result is pitiable, Philo's composition, a "semi-theosophical discourse and explanation of hieroglyphics" is characterized by Weishaupt as gibberish (kauderwelsche).528
Philo [he says again] is full of such follies, which betray his small mind.... On the Illuminatus Major follows the miserable degree of Scottish Knight entirely of his composition, and on the degree of Priest an equally miserable degree of Regent, ... but I have already composed four more degrees compared to the worst of which the Priest's degree will be child's play, but I shall tell no one about it till I see how the thing goes....529
The perfidy of the Illuminati with regard to the Freemasons is therefore apparent. Even Mounier, who set out to refute Barruel on the strength of the information supplied to him by the Illuminatus Bode, admits their duplicity in this respect.
Weishaupt [says Mounier] made the acquaintance of a Hanoverian, the Baron von Knigge, a famous intriguer, long practised in the charlatanism of lodges of Freemasons. On his advice new degrees were added to the old ones, and it was resolved to profit by Freemasonry whilst profoundly despising it. They decided that the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Mason, and Scotch Knight should be added to those of the Illuminati, and that they would boast of possessing exclusively the real secrets of the Freemasons and affirm that Illuminism was the real primitive Freemasonry.
"The papers of the Order seized in Bavaria and published," Mounier says again, show that "the Illuminati employed the forms of Freemasonry, but that they considered it in itself, apart from their own degrees, as a puerile absurdity and that they detested the Rose-Croix." Mounier, as a good disciple of Bode, takes much the same view and pities the naïveté of the Freemasons, who, "like so many children, spend a great part of the time in their lodges playing at chapel."
Why in the face of all this should any British Masons take up the cudgels for the Illuminati and vilify Robison and Barruel for exposing them? The American Mackey, as a consistent Freemason, shows scant sympathy for this traitor in the masonic camp. "Weishaupt," he writes, "was a radical in politics and an infidel in religion, and he organized this association, not more for the purpose of aggrandizing himself, than of overturning Christianity and the institutions of society." And in a footnote he adds that Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy "contain a very excellent exposition of the nature of this pseudo-masonic institution."530
The truth is that Weishaupt was one of the greatest enemies of British Freemasonry who ever lived, and genuine Freemasons will do themselves no good by defending him or his abominable system."

Of course, given the behavior of the Lodge, this claim seems naïve.

Regarding the ideology of the order, she says:

"Of course on their face value the Illuminati appear wholly admirable, of course there is nothing easier than to find innumerable passages in their writings breathing a spirit of the loftiest aspiration, and of course many excellent men figured amongst the patrons of the Order. All this is the mere stock-in-trade of the secret society leader as of the fraudulent company promoter, to whom the first essentials are a glowing prospectus and a long list of highly respectable patrons who know nothing whatever about the inner workings of the concern. These methods, pursued as early as the ninth century by Abdullah ibn Maymūn, enter largely into the policy of Frederick the Great, Voltaire, and his "brothers" in philosophy—or in Freemasonry.
The resemblances between Weishaupt's correspondence and that of Voltaire and of Frederick the Great are certainly very striking. All at moments profess respect for Christianity whilst working to destroy it. Thus just as Voltaire in one letter to d'Alembert expresses his horror at the publication of an anti-Christian pamphlet, Le Testament de Jean Meslier,531 and in another urges him to have it circulated in thousands all over France,532 so Weishaupt is careful in general to exhibit the face of a benign philosopher and even of a Christian evangelist; it is only at moments that he drops the mask and reveals the grinning satyr behind it.
Accordingly in the published statutes of the Illuminati no hint of subversive intentions will be found; indeed the "Obligation" expressly states that "nothing against the State, religion, or morals is undertaken."
Yet what is Weishaupt's real political theory? No other than that of modern Anarchy, that man should govern himself and rulers should be gradually done away with. But he is careful to deprecate all ideas of violent revolution—the process is to be accomplished by the most peaceful methods. Let us see how gently he leads up to the final conclusion:
The first stage in the life of the whole human race is savagery, rough nature, in which the family is the only society, and hunger and thirst are easily satisfied, ... in which man enjoys the two most excellent goods, Equality and Liberty, to their fullest extent.... In these circumstances ... health was his usual condition.... Happy men, who were not yet enough enlightened to lose their peace of mind and to be conscious of the unhappy mainsprings and causes of our misery, love of power ... envy ... illnesses and all the results of imagination.
The manner in which man fell from this primitive state of felicity is then described:
As families increased, means of subsistence began to lack, the nomadic life ceased, property was instituted, men established themselves firmly, and through agriculture families drew near each other, thereby language developed and through living together men began to measure themselves against each other, etc.... But here was the cause of the downfall of freedom; equality vanished. Man felt new unknown needs....533
Thus men became dependent like minors under the guardianship of kings; the human must attain its majority and become self-governing:
Why should it be impossible that the human race should attain to its highest perfection, the capacity to guide itself? Why should anyone be eternally led who understands how to lead himself?534
Further, men must learn not only to be independent of kings but of each other:
Who has need of another depends on him and has resigned his rights. So to need little is the first step to freedom; therefore savages and the most highly enlightened are perhaps the only free men. The art of more and more limiting one's needs is at the same time the art of attaining freedom....535
Weishaupt then goes on to show how the further evil of Patriotism arose:
With the origin of nations and peoples the world ceased to be a great family, a single kingdom: the great tie of nature was torn.... Nationalism took the place of human love.... Now it became a virtue to magnify one's fatherland at the expense of whoever was not enclosed within its limits, now as a means to this narrow end it was allowed to despise and outwit foreigners or indeed even to insult them. This virtue was called Patriotism....536
And so by narrowing down affection to one's fellow-citizens, the members of one's family, and even to oneself:
There arose out of Patriotism, Localism, the family spirit, and finally Egoism.... Diminish Patriotism, then men will learn to know each other again as such, their dependence on each other will be lost, the bond of union will widen out....537
It will be seen that the whole of Weishaupt's theory was in reality a new rendering of the ancient secret tradition relating to the fall of man and the loss of his primitive felicity; but whilst the ancient religions taught the hope of a Redeemer who should restore man to his former state, Weishaupt looks to man alone for his restoration. "Men," he observes, "no longer loved men but only such and such men. The word was quite lost...."538 Thus in Weishaupt's masonic system the "lost word" is "Man," and its recovery is interpreted by the idea that Man should find himself again. Further on Weishaupt goes on to show how "the redemption of the human race is to be brought about".
These means are secret schools of wisdom, these were from all time the archives of Nature and of human rights, through them will Man be saved from his Fall, princes and nations will disappear without violence from the earth, the human race will become one family and the world the abode of reasonable men. Morality alone will bring about this change imperceptibly. Every father of a family will be, as formerly Abraham and the patriarchs, the priest and unfettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the only code of Man. This is one of our greatest secrets....539
But whilst completely eliminating any idea of divine power outside Man and framing his system on purely political lines, Weishaupt is careful not to shock the susceptibilities of his followers by any open repudiation of Christian doctrines; on the contrary, he invokes Christ at every turn and sometimes even in language so apparently earnest and even beautiful that one is almost tempted to believe in his sincerity. Thus he writes:
This our great and unforgettable Master, Jesus of Nazareth, appeared at a time in the world when it was sunk in depravity.... The first followers of His teaching are not wise men but simple, chosen from the lowest class of the people, so as to show that His teaching should be possible and comprehensible to all classes and conditions of men.... He carries out this teaching by means of the most blameless life in conformity with it, and seals and confirms this with His blood and death. These laws which He shows as the way to salvation are only two: love of God and love of one's neighbour; more He asks of no one.540
So far no Lutheran pastor could have expressed himself better. But one must study Weishaupt's writings as a whole to apprehend the true measure of his belief in Christ's teaching.
Evidently Weishaupt discovered, as others have done, that Christianity lends itself more readily to subversive ideas than any other religion. And in the passages which follow we find him adopting the old ruse of representing Christ as a Communist and as a secret-society adept. Thus he goes on to explain that "if Jesus preaches contempt of riches, He wishes to teach us the reasonable use of them and prepare for the community of goods introduced by Him,"541 and in which, Weishaupt adds later, He lived with His disciples.542 But this secret doctrine is only to be apprehended by initiates:
No one ... has so cleverly concealed the high meaning of His teaching, and no one finally has so surely and easily directed men on to the path of freedom as our great master Jesus of Nazareth. This secret meaning and natural consequence of His teaching He hid completely, for Jesus had a secret doctrine, as we see in more than one place of the Scriptures.543
Weishaupt thus contrives to give a purely political interpretation to Christ's teaching:
The secret preserved through the Disciplinam Arcani, and the aim appearing through all His words and deeds, is to give back to men their original liberty and equality.... Now one can understand how far Jesus was the Redeemer and Saviour of the world.544
The mission of Christ was therefore by means of Reason to make men capable of freedom545: "When at last reason becomes the religion of man, so will the problem be solved."546
Weishaupt goes on to show that Freemasonry can be interpreted in the same manner. The secret doctrine concealed in the teaching of Christ was handed down by initiates who "hid themselves and their doctrine under the cover of Freemasonry,"547 and in a long explanation of Masonic hieroglyphics he indicates the analogies between the Hiramic legend and the story of Christ. "I say then Hiram is Christ," and after giving one of his reasons for this assertion, adds: "Here then is much ground gained, although I myself cannot help laughing at this explanation [obwohl ich selbst über diese Explication im Grund lachen muss]."548 Weishaupt then proceeds to give further interpretations of his own devising to the masonic ritual, including an imaginary translation of certain words supposed to be derived from Hebrew, and ends up by saying: "One will be able to show several more resemblances between Hiram and the life and death of Christ, or drag them in by the hair."549 So much for Weishaupt's respect for the Grand Legend of Freemasonry!
In this manner Weishaupt demonstrates that "Freemasonry is hidden Christianity, at least my explanations of the hieroglyphics fit this perfectly; and in the way in which I explain Christianity no one need be ashamed to be a Christian, for I leave the name and substitute for it Reason."550
But this is of course only the secret of what Weishaupt calls "real Freemasonry"551 in contradistinction to the official kind, which he regards as totally unenlightened: "Had not the noble and elect remained in the background ... new depravity would have broken out in the human race, and through Regents, Priests, and Freemasons Reason would have been banished from the earth."552
In Weishaupt's masonic system, therefore, the designs of the Order with regard to religion are not confided to the mere Freemasons, but only to the Illuminati. Under the heading of "Higher Mysteries" Weishaupt writes:
The man who is good for nothing better remains a Scottish Knight. If he is, however, a particularly industrious co-ordinator [Sammler], observer, worker, he becomes a Priest.... If there are amongst these [Priests] high speculative intellects, they become Magi. These collect and put in order the higher philosophical system and work at the People's Religion, which the Order will next give to the world. Should these high geniuses also be fit to rule the world, they become Regents. This is the last degree.553
Philo (the Baron von Knigge) also throws an interesting light on the religious designs of the Illuminati. In a letter to Cato he explains the necessity of devising a system that will satisfy fanatics and freethinkers alike: "So as to work on both these classes of men and unite them, we must find an explanation to the Christian religion ... make this the secret of Freemasonry and turn it to our purpose."554 Philo continues:
We say then: Jesus wished to introduce no new religion, but only to restore natural religion and reason to their old rights. Thereby he wished to unite men in a great universal association, and through the spread of a wiser morality, enlightenment, and the combating of all prejudices to make them capable of governing themselves; so the secret meaning of his teaching was to lead men without revolution to universal liberty and equality. There are many passages in the Bible which can be made use of and explained, and so all quarrelling between the sects ceases if one can find a reasonable meaning in the teaching of Jesus—be it true or not. As, however, this simple religion was afterwards distorted, so were these teachings imparted to us through Disciplinam Arcani and finally through Freemasonry, and all masonic hieroglyphics can be explained with this object. Spartacus has collected very good data for this and I have myself added to them, ... and so I have got both degrees ready....
Now therefore that people see that we are the only real and true Christians, we can say a word more against priests and princes, but I have so managed that after previous tests I can receive pontiffs and kings in this degree. In the higher Mysteries we must then (a) disclose the pious fraud and (b) reveal from all writings the origin of all religious lies and their connexion....555
So admirably did this ruse succeed that we find Spartacus writing triumphantly:
"You cannot imagine what consideration and sensation our Priest's degree is arousing. The most wonderful thing is that great Protestant and reformed theologians who belong to ⊙ [Illuminism] still believe that the religious teaching imparted in it contains the true and genuine spirit of the Christian religion. Oh! men, of what cannot you be persuaded? I never thought that I should become the founder of a new religion.556"
It is on the "illuminized" clergy and professors that Weishaupt counts principally for the work of the Order.
Through the influence of the Brothers [he writes], the Jesuits have been removed from all professorships, and the University of Ingoldstadt has been quite cleansed of them....557
Thus the way is cleared for Weishaupt's adepts.
The Institute of Cadets also comes under the control of the Order:
All the professors are members of the Illuminati, ... so will all the pupils become disciples of Illuminism.558
Further:
We have provided our clerical members with good benefices, parishes, posts at Court.
Through our influence Arminius and Cortez have been made professors at Ephesus.

The German schools are quite under [the influence of] ⊙ and now only members have charge of them.
The charitable association is also directed by ⊙.

Soon we shall draw over to us the whole Bartholomew Institute for young clergymen; the preparations have already been made and the prospects are very good, by this means we shall be able to provide the whole of Bavaria with proper priests.559
But religion and Freemasonry are not the only means by which Illuminism can be spread.
We must consider [says Weishaupt], how we can begin to work under another form. If only the aim is achieved, it does not matter under what cover it takes place, and a cover is always necessary. For in concealment lies a great part of our strength. For this reason we must always cover ourselves with the name of another society. The lodges that are under Freemasonry are in the meantime the most suitable cloak for our high purpose, because the world is already accustomed to expect nothing great from them which merits attention.... As in the spiritual Orders of the Roman Church, religion was, alas! only a pretence, so must our Order also in a nobler way try to conceal itself behind a learned society or something of the kind.... A society concealed in this manner cannot be worked against. In case of a prosecution or of treason the superiors cannot be discovered.... We shall be shrouded in impenetrable darkness from spies and emissaries of other societies.560
In order to give a good appearance to the Order, Weishaupt particularly indicates the necessity for enlisting esteemed and "respectable" persons,561 but above all young men whom he regards as the most likely subjects. "I cannot use men as they are," he observes, "but I must first form them."562 Youth naturally lends itself best to this process. "Seek the society of young people," Weishaupt writes to Ajax, "watch them, and if one of them pleases you, lay your hand on him."563 "Seek out young and already skilful people.... Our people must be engaging, enterprising, intriguing, and adroit. Above all the first."564
If possible they should also be good-looking—"beautiful people, cæteris paribus...."
Such people have generally gentle manners, a tender heart, and are, when well practised in other things, of the greatest use in undertakings, for their first glance attracts; but their spirit n'a pas la profondeur des physiognomies sombres. They are, however, also less disposed to riots and disturbances than the darker physiognomies. That is why one must know how to use one's people. Above all, the high, soulful eye pleases me and the free, open brow.565
With these novices the adept of Illuminism is to proceed slowly, talking backwards and forwards:
One must speak, first in one way, then in another, so as not to commit oneself and to make one's real way of thinking impenetrable to one's inferiors.566
Weishaupt also insists on the importance of exciting the candidate's curiosity and then drawing back again, after the manner of the Fatimite dais:
I have no fault to find with your [methods of] reception ["Spartacus" writes to "Cato"], except that they are too quick.... You should proceed gradually in a roundabout way by means of suspense and expectations, so as first to arouse indefinite, vague curiosity, and then when the candidate declares himself, present the object, which he will then seize with both hands.567
By this means his vanity will also be flattered, because one will arouse the pleasure of "knowing something which everyone does not know, and about which the greater part of the world is groping in darkness."568
For the same reason the candidate must be impressed with the importance of secret societies and the part they have played in the destinies of the world:
One illustrates this by the Order of the Jesuits, of the Freemasons, by the secret associations of the ancients, one asserts that all events in the world occur from a hundred secret springs and causes, to which secret associations above all belong; one arouses the pleasure of quiet, hidden power and of insight into hidden secrets.569
At this point one is to begin to "show glimpses and to let fall here and there remarks that may be interpreted in two ways," so as to bring the candidate to the point of saying: "If I had the chance to enter such an association, I would go into it at once." "These discourses," says Weishaupt, "are to be often repeated."570
In the discourse of reception to the "Illuminatus Dirigens," the appeal to love of power plays the most important part:
Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule—to rule in a secret Society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populace, but over the best men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world?...571
And finally, do you know what secret societies are? what a place they occupy in the great kingdom of the world's events? Do you really think they are unimportant, transitory appearances?572 etc.
But the admission of political aims is reserved only for the higher grades of the Order. "With the beginner," says Weishaupt, "we must be careful about books on religion and the State. I have reserved these in my plan for the higher degrees."573 Accordingly the discourse to the "Minerval" is expressly designed to put him off the track. Thus the initiator is to say to him:
After two years' reflection, experience, intercourse, reading of the graduated writings and information, you will necessarily have formed the idea that the final aim of our Society is nothing less than to win power and riches, to undermine secular or religious government, and to obtain the mastery of the world, and so on. If you have represented our Society to yourself from this point of view or have entered it in this expectation, you have mightily deceived yourself....574
The initiator, without informing the Minerval of the real aim of the Society, then goes on to say that he is now free to leave it if he wishes. By this means the leaders were able to eliminate ambitious people who might become their rivals to power and to form their ranks out of men who would submit to be led blindly onward by unseen directors. "My circumstances necessitate," Spartacus writes to Cato, "that I should remain hidden from most of the members as long as I live. I am obliged to do everything through five or six persons."575 So carefully was this secret guarded that until the papers of the Illuminati were seized in 1786 no one outside this inner circle knew that Weishaupt was the head of the Order. Yet if we are to believe his own assertions, he had been throughout in supreme control. Again and again he impresses on his intimes the necessity for unity of command in the Order: "One must show how easy it would be for one clever head to direct hundreds and thousands of men,"576 and he illustrates this system by the table reproduced on the next page, to which he appends the following explanation:
I have two immediately below me into whom I breathe my whole spirit, and each of these two has again two others, and so on. In this way I can set a thousand men in motion and on fire in the simplest manner, and in this way one must impart orders and operate on politics.577
Thus, as in the case of Abdullah ibn Maymūn's society, "the extraordinary result was brought about that a multitude of men of divers beliefs were all working together for an object known only to a few of them."
Enough has now been quoted from the correspondence of the Illuminati to show their aims and methods according to their own admissions. We shall now see how far their apologists are justified in describing them as "men of the strictest morality and humanity."578 Doubtless there were many excellent people in the outer ranks of the Order, but this is not the contention of Mr. Gould, who expressly states that "all the prominent members of this association were estimable men both in public and in private life." These further extracts from their correspondence may be left to speak for themselves.
Character of the Illuminati
In June 1782 Weishaupt writes to "Cato" as follows:
Oh, in politics and morality you are far behind, my gentlemen. Judge further if such a man as Marcus Aurelius579 finds out how wretched it [Illuminism] appears in Athens [Munich]; what a collection of immoral men, of whoremongers, liars, debtors, boasters, and vain fools they have amongst them. If he saw all that, what do you suppose the man would think? Would he not be ashamed to find himself in such an association, in which the leaders arouse the greatest expectations and carry out the best plan in such a miserable manner? And all this out of caprice, expediency, etc. Judge whether I am not right.580
[Illustration: Diagram of Weishapt's System. From Nachtrag von weitern Originalschriften der Illuminatensekte, p. 32. München, 1787.]
From Thebes [Freysing] I hear fatal news; they have received into the lodge the scandal of the whole town, the dissolute debtor Propertius, who is trumpeted abroad by the whole "personnel" of Athens [Munich], Thebes and Erzerum [Eichstadt]; D. also[Pg 234] appears to be a bad man. Socrates who would be a capital man [ein Capital Mann] is continually drunk, Augustus in the worst repute, and Alcibiades sits the whole day with the innkeeper's wife sighing and pining: Tiberius tried in Corinth to rape the sister of Democedes and the husband came in. In Heaven's name, what are these for Areopagites! We upper ones, write, read and work ourselves to death, offer to ⊙ our health, fame and fortune, whilst these gentlemen indulge their weaknesses, go a whoring, cause scandals and yet are Areopagites and want to know about everything.581
Concerning Arminius there are great complaints.... He is an unbearable, obstinate, arrogant, vain fool!582
Let Celsus, Marius, Scipio, and Ajax do what they will ... no one does us so much harm as Celsus, no one is less to be reasoned with than Celsus, and perhaps few could have been so much use to us as Celsus.... Marius is obstinate and can see no great plan, Scipio is negligent, and of Ajax I will not speak at all.... Confucius is worth very little: he is too inquisitive and a terrible chatterer [ein grausamer Schwatzer].583
Agrippa must be quite struck off our list, for the rumour goes round ... that he has stolen a gold and silver watch together with a ring from our best fellow-worker Sulla.584
It will doubtless be suggested at this point that all these letters merely portray the lofty idealist sorrowing over the frailties of his erring disciples, but let us hear what Weishaupt has to say about himself. In a letter to Marius (Hertel) he writes:
And now in the strictest confidence, a matter near my heart, which robs me of all rest, makes me incapable of anything and drives me to despair. I stand in danger of losing my honour and my reputation which gave me so much power over our people. Think, my sister-in-law is expecting a child.585 I have for this purpose sent to Euriphon in Athens to solicit the marriage licence and Promotorial from Rome, you see how much depends on this and that no time must be lost; every minute is precious. But if the dispensation does not arrive, what shall I do? How shall I make amends to the person since I alone am to blame? We have already tried several ways to get rid of the child; she herself was resolved for anything. But Euriphon is too timid and yet I see no other expedient, if I could ensure the silence of Celsus he could help me and indeed he already promised me this three years ago....586 If you can help me out of this dilemma, you will give me back life, honour, peace and power to work.... I do not know what devil led me astray, I who always in these circumstances took extreme precautions.587
A little later Weishaupt writes again:
All fatalities happen to me at the same time. Now there is my mother dead! Corpse, wedding, christening all in a short time, one on the top of the other. What a wonderful mix-up [mischmasch]!588
So much for what Mr. Gould calls the "rare qualities" of Weishaupt's heart. Let us now listen to the testimony of Weishaupt's principal coadjutor, Philo (the Baron von Knigge), to whom the "historian of Freemasonry" refers as "a lovable enthusiast." In all subversive associations, whether open or secret, directed by men who aim at power, a moment is certain to arrive when the ambitions of the leaders come into conflict. This is the history of every revolutionary organization during the last 150 years. It was when the inevitable climax had been reached between Weishaupt and Knigge that "Philo" wrote to "the most loving Cato" in the following terms:
It is not Mahomed and A. who are so much to blame for my break with Spartacus, as the Jesuitical conduct of this man which has so often turned us against each other in order to rule despotically over men, who, if they have not perhaps such a rich imagination as himself, also do not possess so much cuteness and cunning, etc.589
In a further letter Philo goes on to enumerate the services he has rendered to Weishaupt in the past:
At the bidding of Spartacus I have written against ex-Jesuits and Rosicrucians, persecuted people who never did me any harm, thrown the Stricte Observance into confusion, drawn the best amongst them to us, told them of the worthiness of ⊙, of its power, its age, the excellence of its Chiefs, the blamelessness of its higher leaders, the importance of its knowledge, and given great ideas of the uprightness of its views; those amongst us who are now working so actively for us but cling much to religiousness [sehr an Religiosität kleben] and who feared our intention was to spread Deism, I have sought to persuade that the higher Superiors had nothing less than this intention. Gradually, however, I shall work it as I please [nach und nach wirke ich dock was ich will]. If I now were to ... give a hint to the Jesuits and Rosicrucians as to who is persecuting them ... if I were to make known (to a few people) the Jesuitical character of the man who leads perhaps all of us by the nose, uses us for his ambitious schemes, sacrifices us as often as his obstinacy requires, [if I were to make known to them] what they have to fear from such a man, from such a machine behind which perhaps Jesuits may be concealed or might conceal themselves; if I were to assure those who seek for secrets that they have nothing to expect; if I were to confide to those who hold religion dear, the principles of the General; ... if I were to draw the attention of the lodges to an association behind which the Illuminati are concealed; if I were again to associate myself with princes and Freemasons ... but I shrink from the thought, vengeance will not carry me so far....590
We have now seen enough of the aims and methods of the Illuminati and the true characters of their leaders from their own admissions. To make the case complete it would be necessary also to give a résumé of the confessions made by the ex-Illuminati, the four professors Cosandey, Grünberger, Utzschneider, and Renner, as also of the further published works of the Illuminati—but space and time forbid. What is needed is a complete book on the subject, consisting of translations of the most important passages in all the contemporary German publications.
From the extracts given above, can it, however, be seriously contended that Barruel or Robison exaggerated the guilt of the Order? Do my literal translations differ materially in sense from the translations and occasional paraphrases given by the much-abused couple?
Even those contemporaries, Mounier and the member of the Illuminati591 who set out to refute Barruel and Lombard de Langres, merely provide further confirmation of their views. Thus Mounier is obliged to confess that the real design of Illuminism was "to undermine all civil order,"592 and "Ancien Illuminé" asserts in language no less forcible than Barruel's own that Weishaupt "made a code of Machiavellism," that his method was "a profound perversity, flattering everything that was base and rancorous in human nature in order to arrive at his ends," that he was not inspired by "a wise spirit of reform" but by a "fanatical enmity inimical to all authority on earth." The only essential points on which the opposing parties differ is that whilst Mounier and "Ancien Illuminé" deny the influence of the Illuminati on the French Revolution and maintain that they ceased to exist in 1786, Barruel and Lombard de Langres present them as the inspirers of the Jacobins and declare them to be still active after the Revolution had ended. That on this point, at any rate, the latter were right, we shall see in a further chapter.
The great question that presents itself after studying the writings of the Illuminati is: what was the motive power behind the Order? If we admit the possibility that Frederick the Great and the Stricte Observance, working through an inner circle of Freemasons at the Lodge St. Theodore, may have provided the first impetus and that Kölmer initiated Weishaupt into Oriental methods of organization, the source of inspiration from which Weishaupt subsequently drew his anarchic philosophy still remains obscure. It has frequently been suggested that his real inspirers were Jews, and the Jewish writer Bernard Lazare definitely states that "there were Jews, Cabalistic Jews, around Weishaupt."593 A writer in La Vieille France went so far as to designate these Jews as Moses Mendelssohn, Wessely, and the bankers Itzig, Friedlander, and Meyer. But no documentary evidence has ever been produced in support of these statements. It is therefore necessary to examine them in the light of probability.
It is on the "illuminized" clergy and professors that Weishaupt counts principally for the work of the Order.
Through the influence of the Brothers [he writes], the Jesuits have been removed from all professorships, and the University of Ingoldstadt has been quite cleansed of them....557
Thus the way is cleared for Weishaupt's adepts.
The Institute of Cadets also comes under the control of the Order:
All the professors are members of the Illuminati, ... so will all the pupils become disciples of Illuminism.558
Further:
We have provided our clerical members with good benefices, parishes, posts at Court.
Through our influence Arminius and Cortez have been made professors at Ephesus.

The German schools are quite under [the influence of] ⊙ and now only members have charge of them.
The charitable association is also directed by ⊙.

Soon we shall draw over to us the whole Bartholomew Institute for young clergymen; the preparations have already been made and the prospects are very good, by this means we shall be able to provide the whole of Bavaria with proper priests.559
But religion and Freemasonry are not the only means by which Illuminism can be spread.
We must consider [says Weishaupt], how we can begin to work under another form. If only the aim is achieved, it does not matter under what cover it takes place, and a cover is always necessary. For in concealment lies a great part of our strength. For this reason we must always cover ourselves with the name of another society. The lodges that are under Freemasonry are in the meantime the most suitable cloak for our high purpose, because the world is already accustomed to expect nothing great from them which merits attention.... As in the spiritual Orders of the Roman Church, religion was, alas! only a pretence, so must our Order also in a nobler way try to conceal itself behind a learned society or something of the kind.... A society concealed in this manner cannot be worked against. In case of a prosecution or of treason the superiors cannot be discovered.... We shall be shrouded in impenetrable darkness from spies and emissaries of other societies.560
In order to give a good appearance to the Order, Weishaupt particularly indicates the necessity for enlisting esteemed and "respectable" persons,561 but above all young men whom he regards as the most likely subjects. "I cannot use men as they are," he observes, "but I must first form them."562 Youth naturally lends itself best to this process. "Seek the society of young people," Weishaupt writes to Ajax, "watch them, and if one of them pleases you, lay your hand on him."563 "Seek out young and already skilful people.... Our people must be engaging, enterprising, intriguing, and adroit. Above all the first."564
If possible they should also be good-looking—"beautiful people, cæteris paribus...."
Such people have generally gentle manners, a tender heart, and are, when well practised in other things, of the greatest use in undertakings, for their first glance attracts; but their spirit n'a pas la profondeur des physiognomies sombres. They are, however, also less disposed to riots and disturbances than the darker physiognomies. That is why one must know how to use one's people. Above all, the high, soulful eye pleases me and the free, open brow.565
With these novices the adept of Illuminism is to proceed slowly, talking backwards and forwards:
One must speak, first in one way, then in another, so as not to commit oneself and to make one's real way of thinking impenetrable to one's inferiors.566
Weishaupt also insists on the importance of exciting the candidate's curiosity and then drawing back again, after the manner of the Fatimite dais:
I have no fault to find with your [methods of] reception ["Spartacus" writes to "Cato"], except that they are too quick.... You should proceed gradually in a roundabout way by means of suspense and expectations, so as first to arouse indefinite, vague curiosity, and then when the candidate declares himself, present the object, which he will then seize with both hands.567
By this means his vanity will also be flattered, because one will arouse the pleasure of "knowing something which everyone does not know, and about which the greater part of the world is groping in darkness."568
For the same reason the candidate must be impressed with the importance of secret societies and the part they have played in the destinies of the world:
One illustrates this by the Order of the Jesuits, of the Freemasons, by the secret associations of the ancients, one asserts that all events in the world occur from a hundred secret springs and causes, to which secret associations above all belong; one arouses the pleasure of quiet, hidden power and of insight into hidden secrets.569
At this point one is to begin to "show glimpses and to let fall here and there remarks that may be interpreted in two ways," so as to bring the candidate to the point of saying: "If I had the chance to enter such an association, I would go into it at once." "These discourses," says Weishaupt, "are to be often repeated."570
In the discourse of reception to the "Illuminatus Dirigens," the appeal to love of power plays the most important part:
Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule—to rule in a secret Society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populace, but over the best men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world?...571
And finally, do you know what secret societies are? what a place they occupy in the great kingdom of the world's events? Do you really think they are unimportant, transitory appearances?572 etc.
But the admission of political aims is reserved only for the higher grades of the Order. "With the beginner," says Weishaupt, "we must be careful about books on religion and the State. I have reserved these in my plan for the higher degrees."573 Accordingly the discourse to the "Minerval" is expressly designed to put him off the track. Thus the initiator is to say to him:
After two years' reflection, experience, intercourse, reading of the graduated writings and information, you will necessarily have formed the idea that the final aim of our Society is nothing less than to win power and riches, to undermine secular or religious government, and to obtain the mastery of the world, and so on. If you have represented our Society to yourself from this point of view or have entered it in this expectation, you have mightily deceived yourself....574
The initiator, without informing the Minerval of the real aim of the Society, then goes on to say that he is now free to leave it if he wishes. By this means the leaders were able to eliminate ambitious people who might become their rivals to power and to form their ranks out of men who would submit to be led blindly onward by unseen directors. "My circumstances necessitate," Spartacus writes to Cato, "that I should remain hidden from most of the members as long as I live. I am obliged to do everything through five or six persons."575 So carefully was this secret guarded that until the papers of the Illuminati were seized in 1786 no one outside this inner circle knew that Weishaupt was the head of the Order. Yet if we are to believe his own assertions, he had been throughout in supreme control. Again and again he impresses on his intimes the necessity for unity of command in the Order: "One must show how easy it would be for one clever head to direct hundreds and thousands of men,"576 and he illustrates this system by the table reproduced on the next page, to which he appends the following explanation:
I have two immediately below me into whom I breathe my whole spirit, and each of these two has again two others, and so on. In this way I can set a thousand men in motion and on fire in the simplest manner, and in this way one must impart orders and operate on politics.577
Thus, as in the case of Abdullah ibn Maymūn's society, "the extraordinary result was brought about that a multitude of men of divers beliefs were all working together for an object known only to a few of them."
Enough has now been quoted from the correspondence of the Illuminati to show their aims and methods according to their own admissions. We shall now see how far their apologists are justified in describing them as "men of the strictest morality and humanity."578 Doubtless there were many excellent people in the outer ranks of the Order, but this is not the contention of Mr. Gould, who expressly states that "all the prominent members of this association were estimable men both in public and in private life." These further extracts from their correspondence may be left to speak for themselves.
Character of the Illuminati
In June 1782 Weishaupt writes to "Cato" as follows:
Oh, in politics and morality you are far behind, my gentlemen. Judge further if such a man as Marcus Aurelius579 finds out how wretched it [Illuminism] appears in Athens [Munich]; what a collection of immoral men, of whoremongers, liars, debtors, boasters, and vain fools they have amongst them. If he saw all that, what do you suppose the man would think? Would he not be ashamed to find himself in such an association, in which the leaders arouse the greatest expectations and carry out the best plan in such a miserable manner? And all this out of caprice, expediency, etc. Judge whether I am not right.580
[Illustration: Diagram of Weishapt's System. From Nachtrag von weitern Originalschriften der Illuminatensekte, p. 32. München, 1787.]
From Thebes [Freysing] I hear fatal news; they have received into the lodge the scandal of the whole town, the dissolute debtor Propertius, who is trumpeted abroad by the whole "personnel" of Athens [Munich], Thebes and Erzerum [Eichstadt]; D. also[Pg 234] appears to be a bad man. Socrates who would be a capital man [ein Capital Mann] is continually drunk, Augustus in the worst repute, and Alcibiades sits the whole day with the innkeeper's wife sighing and pining: Tiberius tried in Corinth to rape the sister of Democedes and the husband came in. In Heaven's name, what are these for Areopagites! We upper ones, write, read and work ourselves to death, offer to ⊙ our health, fame and fortune, whilst these gentlemen indulge their weaknesses, go a whoring, cause scandals and yet are Areopagites and want to know about everything.581
Concerning Arminius there are great complaints.... He is an unbearable, obstinate, arrogant, vain fool!582
Let Celsus, Marius, Scipio, and Ajax do what they will ... no one does us so much harm as Celsus, no one is less to be reasoned with than Celsus, and perhaps few could have been so much use to us as Celsus.... Marius is obstinate and can see no great plan, Scipio is negligent, and of Ajax I will not speak at all.... Confucius is worth very little: he is too inquisitive and a terrible chatterer [ein grausamer Schwatzer].583
Agrippa must be quite struck off our list, for the rumour goes round ... that he has stolen a gold and silver watch together with a ring from our best fellow-worker Sulla.584
It will doubtless be suggested at this point that all these letters merely portray the lofty idealist sorrowing over the frailties of his erring disciples, but let us hear what Weishaupt has to say about himself. In a letter to Marius (Hertel) he writes:
And now in the strictest confidence, a matter near my heart, which robs me of all rest, makes me incapable of anything and drives me to despair. I stand in danger of losing my honour and my reputation which gave me so much power over our people. Think, my sister-in-law is expecting a child.585 I have for this purpose sent to Euriphon in Athens to solicit the marriage licence and Promotorial from Rome, you see how much depends on this and that no time must be lost; every minute is precious. But if the dispensation does not arrive, what shall I do? How shall I make amends to the person since I alone am to blame? We have already tried several ways to get rid of the child; she herself was resolved for anything. But Euriphon is too timid and yet I see no other expedient, if I could ensure the silence of Celsus he could help me and indeed he already promised me this three years ago....586 If you can help me out of this dilemma, you will give me back life, honour, peace and power to work.... I do not know what devil led me astray, I who always in these circumstances took extreme precautions.587
A little later Weishaupt writes again:
All fatalities happen to me at the same time. Now there is my mother dead! Corpse, wedding, christening all in a short time, one on the top of the other. What a wonderful mix-up [mischmasch]!588
So much for what Mr. Gould calls the "rare qualities" of Weishaupt's heart. Let us now listen to the testimony of Weishaupt's principal coadjutor, Philo (the Baron von Knigge), to whom the "historian of Freemasonry" refers as "a lovable enthusiast." In all subversive associations, whether open or secret, directed by men who aim at power, a moment is certain to arrive when the ambitions of the leaders come into conflict. This is the history of every revolutionary organization during the last 150 years. It was when the inevitable climax had been reached between Weishaupt and Knigge that "Philo" wrote to "the most loving Cato" in the following terms:
It is not Mahomed and A. who are so much to blame for my break with Spartacus, as the Jesuitical conduct of this man which has so often turned us against each other in order to rule despotically over men, who, if they have not perhaps such a rich imagination as himself, also do not possess so much cuteness and cunning, etc.589
In a further letter Philo goes on to enumerate the services he has rendered to Weishaupt in the past:
At the bidding of Spartacus I have written against ex-Jesuits and Rosicrucians, persecuted people who never did me any harm, thrown the Stricte Observance into confusion, drawn the best amongst them to us, told them of the worthiness of ⊙, of its power, its age, the excellence of its Chiefs, the blamelessness of its higher leaders, the importance of its knowledge, and given great ideas of the uprightness of its views; those amongst us who are now working so actively for us but cling much to religiousness [sehr an Religiosität kleben] and who feared our intention was to spread Deism, I have sought to persuade that the higher Superiors had nothing less than this intention. Gradually, however, I shall work it as I please [nach und nach wirke ich dock was ich will]. If I now were to ... give a hint to the Jesuits and Rosicrucians as to who is persecuting them ... if I were to make known (to a few people) the Jesuitical character of the man who leads perhaps all of us by the nose, uses us for his ambitious schemes, sacrifices us as often as his obstinacy requires, [if I were to make known to them] what they have to fear from such a man, from such a machine behind which perhaps Jesuits may be concealed or might conceal themselves; if I were to assure those who seek for secrets that they have nothing to expect; if I were to confide to those who hold religion dear, the principles of the General; ... if I were to draw the attention of the lodges to an association behind which the Illuminati are concealed; if I were again to associate myself with princes and Freemasons ... but I shrink from the thought, vengeance will not carry me so far....590
We have now seen enough of the aims and methods of the Illuminati and the true characters of their leaders from their own admissions. To make the case complete it would be necessary also to give a résumé of the confessions made by the ex-Illuminati, the four professors Cosandey, Grünberger, Utzschneider, and Renner, as also of the further published works of the Illuminati—but space and time forbid. What is needed is a complete book on the subject, consisting of translations of the most important passages in all the contemporary German publications.
From the extracts given above, can it, however, be seriously contended that Barruel or Robison exaggerated the guilt of the Order? Do my literal translations differ materially in sense from the translations and occasional paraphrases given by the much-abused couple?
Even those contemporaries, Mounier and the member of the Illuminati591 who set out to refute Barruel and Lombard de Langres, merely provide further confirmation of their views. Thus Mounier is obliged to confess that the real design of Illuminism was "to undermine all civil order,"592 and "Ancien Illuminé" asserts in language no less forcible than Barruel's own that Weishaupt "made a code of Machiavellism," that his method was "a profound perversity, flattering everything that was base and rancorous in human nature in order to arrive at his ends," that he was not inspired by "a wise spirit of reform" but by a "fanatical enmity inimical to all authority on earth." The only essential points on which the opposing parties differ is that whilst Mounier and "Ancien Illuminé" deny the influence of the Illuminati on the French Revolution and maintain that they ceased to exist in 1786, Barruel and Lombard de Langres present them as the inspirers of the Jacobins and declare them to be still active after the Revolution had ended. That on this point, at any rate, the latter were right, we shall see in a further chapter.
The great question that presents itself after studying the writings of the Illuminati is: what was the motive power behind the Order? If we admit the possibility that Frederick the Great and the Stricte Observance, working through an inner circle of Freemasons at the Lodge St. Theodore, may have provided the first impetus and that Kölmer initiated Weishaupt into Oriental methods of organization, the source of inspiration from which Weishaupt subsequently drew his anarchic philosophy still remains obscure. It has frequently been suggested that his real inspirers were Jews, and the Jewish writer Bernard Lazare definitely states that "there were Jews, Cabalistic Jews, around Weishaupt."593 A writer in La Vieille France went so far as to designate these Jews as Moses Mendelssohn, Wessely, and the bankers Itzig, Friedlander, and Meyer. But no documentary evidence has ever been produced in support of these statements. It is therefore necessary to examine them in the light of probability.
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Lessing was also the friend and admirer of Moses Mendelssohn, who has been suggested as one of Weishaupt's inspirers. Now, at first sight nothing seems more improbable than that an orthodox Jew such as Mendelssohn should have accorded any sympathy to the anarchic scheme of Weishaupt. Nevertheless, certain of Weishaupt's doctrines are not incompatible with the principles of orthodox Judaism. Thus, for example, Weishaupt's theory—so strangely at variance with his denunciations of the family system—that as a result of Illuminism "the head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest, and the unfettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the only code of Man,"597 is essentially a Jewish conception.
It will be objected that the patriarchal system as conceived by orthodox Jews could by no means include the religion of Reason as advocated by Weishaupt. It must not, however, be forgotten that to the Jewish mind the human race presents a dual aspect, being divided into two distinct categories—the privileged race to whom the promises of God were made, and the great mass of humanity which remains outside the pale. Whilst strict adherence to the commands of the Talmud and the laws of Moses is expected of the former, the most indefinite of religious creeds suffices for the nations excluded from the privileges that Jewish birth confers. It was thus that Moses Mendelssohn wrote to the pastor Lavater, who had sought to win him over to Christianity:
Pursuant to the principles of my religion, I am not to seek to convert anyone who is not born according to our laws. This proneness to conversion, the origin of which some would fain tack on to the Jewish religion, is, nevertheless, diametrically opposed to it. Our rabbis unanimously teach that the written and oral laws which form conjointly our revealed religion are obligatory on our nation only. "Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob." We believe that all other nations of the earth have been directed by God to adhere to the laws of nature, and to the religion of the patriarchs. Those who regulate their lives according to the precepts of this religion of nature and of reason598 are called virtuous men of other nations and are the children of eternal salvation.599 Our rabbis are so remote from Proselytomania, that they enjoin us to dissuade, by forcible remonstrances, everyone who comes forward to be converted. (The Talmud says ... "proselytes are annoying to Israel like a scab.")600
But was not this "religion of nature and of reason" the precise conception of Weishaupt?
Whether, then, Weishaupt was directly inspired by Mendelssohn or any other Jew must remain for the present an open question. But the Jewish connexions of certain other Illuminati cannot be disputed. The most important of these was Mirabeau, who arrived in Berlin just after the death of Mendelssohn and was welcomed by his disciples in the Jewish salon of Henrietta Herz. It was these Jews, "ardent supporters of the French Revolution"601 at its outset, who prevailed on Mirabeau to write his great apology for their race under the form of a panegyric of Mendelssohn.
To sum up, I do not so far see in Illuminism a Jewish conspiracy to destroy Christianity, but rather a movement finding its principal dynamic force in the ancient spirit of revolt against the existing social and moral order, aided and abetted perhaps by Jews who saw in it a system that might be turned to their own advantage. Meanwhile, Illuminism made use of every other movement that could serve its purpose. As the contemporary de Luchet has expressed it:
The system of the Illuminés is not to embrace the dogmas of a sect, but to turn all errors to its advantage, to concentrate in itself everything that men have invented in the way of duplicity and imposture.
More than this, Illuminism was not only the assemblage of all errors, of all ruses, of all subtleties of a theoretic kind, it was also an assemblage of all practical methods for rousing men to action. For in the words of von Hammer on the Assassins, that cannot be too often repeated:
Opinions are powerless so long as they only confuse the brain without arming the hand. Scepticism and free-thinking as long as they occupied only the minds of the indolent and philosophical have caused the ruin of no throne.... It is nothing to the ambitious man what people believe, but it is everything to know how he may turn them for the execution of his projects.
This was what Weishaupt so admirably understood; he knew how to take from every association, past and present, the portions he required and to weld them all into a working system of terrible efficiency—the disintegrating doctrines of the Gnostics and Manicheans, of the modern philosophers and Encyclopædists, the methods of the Ismailis and the Assassins, the discipline of the Jesuits and Templars, the organization and secrecy of the Freemasons, the philosophy of Machiavelli, the mystery of the Rosicrucians—he knew moreover, how to enlist the right elements in all existing associations as well as isolated individuals and turn them to his purpose. So in the army of the Illuminati we find men of every shade of thought, from the poet Goethe602 to the meanest intriguer—lofty idealists, social reformers, visionaries, and at the same time the ambitious, the rancorous, and the disgruntled, men swayed by lust or embittered by grievances, all these differing in their aims yet by Weishaupt's admirable system of watertight compartments precluded from a knowledge of these differences and all marching, unconsciously or not, towards the same goal.
Although this was not the invention of Weishaupt but had been foreshadowed many centuries earlier in the East, it was Weishaupt, so far as we know, who reduced it to a working system for the West—a system which has been adhered to by succeeding groups of world-revolutionaries up to the present day. It is for this reason that I have quoted at length the writings of the Illuminati—all the ruses, all the hypocrisy, all the subtle methods of camouflage which characterized the Order will be found again in the insidious propaganda both of the modern secret societies and the open revolutionary organizations whose object is to subvert all order, all morality, and all religion.
I maintain, therefore, with greater conviction than ever the importance of Illuminism in the history of world-revolution. But for this co-ordination of methods the philosophers and Encyclopædists might have gone on for ever inveighing against thrones and altars, the Martinistes evoking spirits, the magicians weaving spells, the Freemasons declaiming on universal brotherhood—none of these would have "armed the hand" and driven the infuriated mobs into the streets of Paris; it was not until the emissaries of Weishaupt formed an alliance with the Orléaniste leaders that vague subversive theory became active revolution."


Bernard Lazare, the Jewish socialist and Dreyfusard (who therefore can't be accused of being a biased source), wrote in "Antisemitism: It's History and Causes" that " What then was the connection between these secret societies and the Jews? The problem is a difficult one to solve, for

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freemasonry bcy says:

"A careful review of the preceding pages reveals that she has shown no such thing."

A careful revie of the Lodge's "refutation" shows that it I not a refutation at all, but a fraud.

Freemasonry bcy says:

"No citation or example is given, although these quotes reveal Webster's personal politics."

Again they create a strawman of Webster's argument. Webster says:

"Indeed, during the last fifty years the Grand Orient has thrown off the mask and openly declared itself to be political in its aims. In October 1887 the Venerable Bro∴ Blanc said in a discourse which was printed for the lodges:
You recognise with me, my brothers, the necessity for Freemasonry to become a vast and powerful political and social society having a decisive influence on the resolutions of the Republican government.663
And in 1890 the Freemason Fernand Maurice declared "that nothing should happen in France without the hidden action of Freemasonry," and "if the Masons choose to organize, in ten years' time no one in France will be able to move outside us (personne ne bougera plus en France en dehors de nous)."664
This is the despotic power which the Grand Orient has established in opposition to both Church and Government.
Moreover, Grand Orient masonry is not only political but subversive in its political aims. Instead of the peaceful trilogy of British masonry, "Brotherly love, relief, and truth," it has throughout adhered to the formula which originated in the Masonic lodges of France and became the war-cry of the Revolution: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." "It is the law of equality," says Ragon, "that has always endeared Masonry to the French," and "as long as equality really exists only in the lodges, Masonry will be preserved in France."665 The aim of Grand Orient Masonry is thus to bring about universal equality as formulated by Robespierre and Babeuf. In the matter of liberty we read further that as men are all by nature free—the old fallacy of Rousseau and of the Declaration of the Rights of Man—therefore "no one is necessarily subjected to another nor has the right to rule him."666 The revolutionary expresses the same idea in the phrase that "no man should have a master." Finally, by fraternity Grand Orient Masonry denotes the abolition of all national feeling.
It is to Masonry [Ragon says again] that we owe the affiliation of all classes of society, it alone could bring about this fusion which from its midst has passed into the life of the peoples. It alone could promulgate that humanitarian law of which the rising activity, tending to a great social uniformity, leads to the fusion of races, of different classes, of morals, codes, customs, languages, fashions, money, and measures. Its virtuous propaganda will become the humanitarian law of all consciences.667
The policy of the Grand Orient is thus avowedly International Socialism. Indeed in a further passage Ragon plainly indicates this fact:
Every generous reform, every social benefit derives from it, and if these survive it is because Masonry lends them its support. This phenomenon is due only to the power of its organization. The past belongs to it and the future cannot escape from it. By its immense lever of association it alone is able to realize by a productive communion (communion génératrice) that great and beautiful social unity conceived by Jaurez, Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier. If Masons wish it, the generous conceptions of these philanthropic thinkers will cease to be vain Utopias.668
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Now, it is essential to realize that in France the anti-masonic camp is divided into two parties. Whilst the majority of Catholic writers regard Freemasonry itself as the source of all evil—"the Synagogue of Satan"—more impartial investigators have pronounced the opinion that it is not Freemasonry even of the Grand Orient variety but something concealed behind Freemasonry which constitutes the principal danger. This view is expressed by M. Copin Albancelli, whose book Le Pouvoir occulte contre la France is of the utmost importance to an understanding of the masonic danger, for here there can be no question of Catholic prejudice or of imaginary accusations made by a stranger to Masonry. M. Copin Albancelli entered the Grand Orient as an agnostic and has never returned to the bosom of the Church; yet as a Frenchman, a patriot, and a believer in law, morality, and Christian ethics he found himself obliged, after six years' experience in the lodges and after attaining the degree of Rose-Croix, to leave Freemasonry and, further, to denounce it. From what he himself heard and observed M. Copin Albancelli declares the Grand Orient to be anti-patriotic, subversive of all morality and religious belief, and an immense danger to France.
But further than this, M. Copin Albancelli declares the Grand Orient to be a system of deception by which members are enlisted in a cause unknown to themselves; even the initiates of the upper degrees are not all aware of the real aim of the Order or of the power behind it. M. Copin Albancelli thus arrives at the conclusion that there are three Freemasonries one above the other: (i) Blue Masonry (i.e. the three Craft Degrees), in which none of the real secrets are revealed to the members and which serves merely as a sorting-ground for selecting likely subjects; (2) the Upper Degrees, in which most of the members, whilst imagining themselves to have been initiated into the whole secret of the Order and "bursting with importance" over their imaginary rôle of leaders, are only admitted to a partial knowledge of the goal to which they are tending; and (3) the inner circle, "the true masters," those who conceal themselves behind high-grade Masonry. Admission to this inner circle may be, moreover, not a matter of degrees. "Whilst in the lower Masonries the adepts are obliged to pass through all the degrees of the established hierarchy, the upper and invisible Freemasonry is certainly recruited not only amongst the thirty-three degrees but in all the groups of upper-degree Masonry, and perhaps even in certain exceptional cases outside these."678 This inner and invisible Freemasonry is to a large extent international.
The most illuminating passage in the whole of M. Copin Albancelli's book is where he describes an experience that befell him after he had taken the degree of Rose-Croix. It was then that one of his superiors took him aside and addressed him in the following terms:
"You realize the power which Freemasonry has at its disposal. We can say that we hold France. It is not because of our numbers, since there are only 25,000 Freemasons in this country [this was in 1889]. Nor is it because we are the brains, for you have been able to judge of the intellectual mediocrity of the greater number of these 25,000 Freemasons. We hold France because we are organized and the only people who are organized. But above all, we hold France because we have an aim, this aim is unknown; as it is unknown, no obstacle can be put in its way; and finally, as no obstacle is put up, the way is wide open before us. This is logical, is it not?"
"Absolutely."
"Good. But what would you say of an association which instead of consisting of 25,000 nonentities as in Freemasonry, were composed of, say, only a thousand individuals, but a thousand individuals recruited in the manner that I will tell you."
And the Freemason went on to explain the way in which such individuals were selected, the months and years of observation, of supervision, to which they were subjected, so as to form a body of picked men inside Freemasonry capable of directing its operations.
"You can imagine the power at the command of such an association?"
"An association thus selected would do anything it chose. It could possess the world if it pleased."
Thereupon the higher adept, after asking for a further promise of secrecy, declared:
"Well, in exchange for this promise, Brother Copin, I am authorized to let you know that this association exists and that, further, I am authorized to introduce you into it."679
It was then that Monsieur Copin Albancelli understood that the point to which the conversation was leading up was not, as he had at first supposed, an invitation to take the next step in Freemasonry—the thirtieth degree of Knight Kadosch—but to enter through a side-door into an association concealed within Freemasonry and for which the visible organization of the latter served merely as a cover. A very curious resemblance will here be noticed between the method of sounding M. Copin Albancelli and that of the Illuminatus Cato in the matter of Savioli, described in a passage already quoted:
Now that he is a Mason I have ... taken up the general plan of our ⊙, and as this pleased him I said that such a thing really existed, whereat he gave me his word that he would enter it.
M. Copin Albancelli, however, did not give his word that he would enter it, but, on the contrary, checked further revelations by declaring that he would leave Freemasonry.
This experience had afforded him a glimpse of "a world existing behind the masonic world, more secret than it, unsuspected by it as by the outside world."680 Freemasonry, then, "can only be the half-lit antechamber of the real secret society. That is the truth."681 "There exists then necessarily a permanent directing Power. We cannot see that Power, therefore it is occult."682
For some time M. Copin Albancelli concluded this Power to be "the Jewish power," and elaborated the idea in a further work683; but the war has led him to develop his theories in yet another book, which will shortly appear.
That the lodges of the Grand Orient are largely controlled by Jews is, however, certain, and that they are centres of political propaganda is equally undeniable. We have only to glance at the following extracts—some of which are reproduced on the opposite page—from the programme of debates in the Bulletin of the Grand Orient for June 5, 1922, to recognize that the ideas they propagate are simply those of International Socialism:
Loge "Union et France": Lecture du Rapport de notre T∴ C∴ F∴ Chardard sur "L'Exploitation des richesses nationales au profit de la collectivité."
Loge "Les Rénovateurs": "Exploitation des Richesses nationales et des grosses Entreprises an profit de la collectivité." Conférence de notre F∴ Goldschmidt, Orat∴ adjoint sur la même question.
[Illustration: News paper clippings]
Loge "Les Zélés Philanthropes": "La Transformation de la Société Actuelle s'impose-t-elle?" Conférence par le T∴ C∴ F∴ Edmond Cottin.
Loge "Paix-Travail-Solidarité": "Rôle de la Franc-Maçonnerie dans la politique actuelle" par le F∴ F∴
Loge "Les Trinitaires": "Le Socialisme Français" par le T∴ Ill. F∴ Elie May.
Ten∴ Collective des L∴ "Emmanuel Arago" & "les Coeurs Unis indivisibles": "Comment propager notre Idéal Maçonnique dans le Monde profane." Conférence par le F∴ Jahia, de la R∴ L∴ Isis Monthyon.
Loge "Isis Monthyon et Conscience et Volonté": "La Terreur et le Péril Fasciste en Italie, le Fascisme et la F∴-Maç∴ Italienne," impressions de notre F∴ Mazzini, de retour, après un séjour prolongé en Italie."

Fascism did save Italy from Bolshevism.

Freemasonry bcy says:

"No citation or examples provided."

AGAIN they distory Webster's text. She says:

"In Spain and Portugal Freemasonry has played not merely a subversive but an actively revolutionary and sanguinary rôle. The anarchist Ferrer, intimately concerned with a plot to murder the King of Spain, was at the same moment entrusted with negotiations between the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Lodge of Catalonia.687 These murderous schemes, frustrated in Spain, met, however, in Portugal with complete success. The Portuguese revolutions from 1910 to 1921 were organized under the direction of Freemasonry and the secret society of Carbonarios. The assassination of King Carlos and his elder son had been prepared by the same secret organizations. In 1908 a pamphlet modelled on the libels published against Marie Antoinette was directed against Queen Amélie and her husband. A month later the assassination took place. Amongst the leaders of the new Republic was Magalhaes Lima, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Portugal.688
The authorship of these disorders was, in fact, so clearly recognized that honest Freemasons forsook the lodges. An English Mason, unaware of the true character of Portuguese Freemasonry, when in Lisbon in August 1919, made himself known to several moderate Portuguese Masons, who, while glad to welcome him as a brother, refused to take him to a lodge, declaring that they had severed all connection with Masonry since it had passed under the control of assassins. They also added that the assassination of Señor Paes, the President in December 1918, was the work of certain Portuguese lodges. A special meeting had previously been held in Paris in conjunction with the Grand Orient of France, at which it had been decided that Paes was to be removed. This decision reached, the earliest opportunity of putting it into force was sought—with fatal results. The assassin was imprisoned in the Penitentiary but liberated by the revolution of 1921, and no attempt has been made to recapture him. The murder of Dr. Antonio Granjo in October 1921 was traced to the same agency. In the pocket of the murdered man was found a document from the "Lodge of Liberty and Justice"(!) warning him of the decision taken against him for having ordered the police to protect the British tramway company.689
The present Portuguese Government, indeed, makes no secret of its masonic character and prints the square and compass on its bank-notes.
But whilst in Spain and Portugal Freemasonry manifested itself in Anarchist outrages, in the east of Europe the lodges, largely under the control of Jews, followed the line of Marxian Socialism. After the fall of the Bela Kun régime in Hungary a raid on the lodges brought to light documents clearly revealing the fact that the ideas of Socialism had been disseminated by the Freemasons. Thus in the minutes of meetings it was recorded that on November 16, 1906, Dr. Kallos had addressed the Gyor Lodge on Socialist ideals. "The ideal world which we call the masonic world," he declared, "will be also a Socialist world and the religion of Freemasonry is that of Socialism as well." Dr. Kallos then proceeded to acquaint the members with the theories of Marx and Engels, showing that no help was to be found in Utopias, as the interests of the proletarians were in absolute conflict with those of other classes, and these differences could only be settled by international class warfare. Nevertheless with that fear of the proletariat which has always characterized the democrats of revolutionary Freemasonry, Dr. Kallos declared later that "the social revolution must take place without bloodshed."690 The Karolyi régime was the direct outcome of these illusions, and as in all revolutions paved the way for the more violent elements.
Still further east in Europe the lodges, though revolutionary, instead of following the International Socialist line of Hungarian Freemasonry, exhibited a political and nationalist character. The Young Turk movement originated in the masonic lodges of Salonica under the direction of the Grand Orient of Italy, which later contributed to the success of Mustapha Kemal. Moreover, as we approach the Near East, cradle of the masonic system, we find the Semitic influence not only of the Jews but of other Semite races directing the lodges. In Turkey, in Egypt, in Syria now, as a thousand years ago, the same secret societies which inspired the Templars have never ceased to exist, and in this mingling of the East and West it is possible that the Grand Orient may draw reinforcement from those sources whence it drew its system and its name.
Amongst the strange survivals of early Eastern sects are the Druses of Lebanon, who might indeed be described as the Freemasons of the East; their outer organization closely resembles that of the Craft Degrees in Western Masonry, yet such is their power of secrecy that few if any Europeans have ever succeeded in discovering the secret doctrines. That their tendency is largely political admits of little doubt; in fact men intimately acquainted with the Near East have declared that the influence they exercise over the politics of that region is as far-reaching as that of the Grand Orient over the affairs of Europe and that they form the breeding-ground of all political ideas and changes. Though small in numbers this mysterious society is composed of past masters in the game of intrigue, who, whilst playing apparently a minor part at political meetings, secret or otherwise, or even remaining completely silent, contrive to influence decisions with startling results."

Excellent history along these lines is provided in the book "The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians": http://jewishracism.com/JewishGenocide.htm

Freemasonry bcy says:

"A laudable sentiment, but not proof of an anti-Christian conspiracy."

An anti-Christian conspiracy has been roven throghout the text.

Freemasonry bcy says:

"The usage of the obligations of Freemasonry, not "oaths", vary between jurisdictions. The "physical penalties" have always been symbolic and provide a valuable insight into the history of law and justice."

Here the lodge is lying. For insight into the binding effects of the oaths, I quote the Toronto Globe and Mail, January 15, 1985, p. M1, M3. The article is entitled "Policeman refuses to tell mason secrets":

"A Metro Toronto policeman who is a Freemason refused to give some information about his secret society at his trial yesterday at the Ernst Zundel trial, saying that he had vowed never to reveal it.

Defence counsel Douglas Christie was interested in particular in a purported Freemason oath under which the throat of any violator is cut and his tongue torn out and buried at sea.

"I'm not free to tell you," said Sergeant Roy Bassett, who has achieved the Freemason rank od Divine Prince of the Royal Secret.

"You swore on the witness stand to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," Mr. Christie said. "But you have declined to give an answer because you swore an oath to keep it secret?"

"Yes," Sgt. Bassett replied.

"So now I know whose oath takes precedence," Mr. Christie said.

Moments later, the lawyer tried again to get information about the oath, which purportedly states:
"My throat be cut across, my tongue torn out by its roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea, at low-water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in 24 hours."

Sg. Bassett refused again to discuss it, prompting Mr. Christie to say: "He should, Your Honor."

"No," County Court Judge Hugh Locke said. "I rule you can't ask that question because it is irrelevant to the issue to be tried."

Sgt. Bassett", a Crown witness who was called to provide inside information on Freemasonry."

The lodge says that their oaths provide a valuable insight into the history of law and justice. I assume that they believe it is lawful and just to force members to agree to the following:

Oath for first degree (Duncan's Ritual and Monitor, p. 34-35 - candidate substitutes his name for Peter Gabe): http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/duncans_r ... entice.htm

"I, Peter Gabe, of my own free will and accord, in the presence of Almighty God, and this Worshipful Lodge, erected to Him, and dedicated to the holy Sts. John, do hereby and hereon (Master presses his gavel on candidate's knuckles) most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, that I will always hail,  ever conceal, and never reveal, any of the arts, parts, or points of the hidden mysteries of Ancient Free Masonry, which may have been, or hereafter shall be, at this time, or any future period, communicated to me, as such, to any person or persons whomsoever, except it be to a true and lawful brother Mason, or in a regularly constituted Lodge of Masons; nor unto him or them until, by strict trial, due examination, or lawful information, I shall have found him, or them, as lawfully entitled to the same as I am myself. I furthermore promise and swear that I will not print, paint, stamp, stain, cut, carve, mark, or engrave them, or cause the same to be done, on any thing movable or immovable, capable of receiving the least impression of a word, syllable, letter, or character, whereby the same may become legible or intelligible to any person under the canopy of heaven, and the secrets of Masonry thereby unlawfully obtained through my unworthiness.

All this I most solemnly, sincerely promise and swear, with a firm and steadfast resolution to perform the same, without any mental reservation or secret evasion of mind whatever, binding myself under no less penalty than that of having my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by its roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea, at low-water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours, should I ever knowingly violate this my Entered Apprentice obligation. So help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same."

Oath for second degree (Duncan's Ritual and Monitor, p. 64-66): http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/duncans_r ... degree.htm

"I, Peter Gabe, of my own free-will and accord, in the presence of Almighty God, and this worshipful Lodge, erected to Him, and dedicated to the holy STS. JOHN, do hereby and hereon (Master presses candidate's hand with the gavel), most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear that I will always hail, and ever conceal, and never reveal any of the secret arts, parts, or points of the Fellow Craft Degree to any person whomsoever, except it be to a true and lawful brother of this degree, or in a regularly constituted Lodge of Fellow Crafts; nor unto him or them until, by strict trial, due examination, or lawful information, I shall find him, or them, as lawfully entitled to the same as I am myself.

I furthermore promise and swear that I will stand to, and abide by, all the laws, rules, and regulations of the Fellow Craft Degree, as far as the same shall come to my knowledge.

Further. I will acknowledge and obey all due signs and summons sent to me from a Lodge of Fellow Crafts, or given me by a brother of that degree, if within the length of my cable-tow.

Further, that I will aid and assist all poor, distressed, worthy Fellow Crafts, knowing them to be such, as far as their necessities may require, and my ability permit, without any injury to myself.

Further, that I will not cheat, wrong, nor defraud a brother of this degree, knowingly, nor supplant him in any of his laudable undertakings.

All this I most solemnly promise and swear with a firm and steadfast resolution to perform the same, without any hesitation, mental reservation, or self-evasion of mind whatever, binding myself under no less penalty than of having my breast torn open  ( see sign of Fellow Craft, Fig. 4, p. 17) my heart plucked out, and placed on the highest pinnacle of the temple (some say, My heart and vitals taken from thence, and thrown over my left shoulder, and carried into the valley of Jehoshaphat, &c., &c.), there to be devoured by the vultures of the air, should I ever knowingly violate the Fellow Craft obligation. So help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same."

Oath for third degree (Duncan's Ritual and Monitor, p. 94-96): http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/duncans_r ... _mason.htm
 
"I, Peter Gabe (Master gives three raps with his gavel, when all present assemble round the altar), of my own free-will and accord, in the presence of Almighty God, and this worshipful Lodge, erected to him and dedicated to the holy Sts. John, do hereby and hereon most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, that I will always hail, ever conceal, and never reveal any of the secrets, arts, parts, point or points, of the Master Masons' Degree, to any person or persons whomsoever, except it be to a true and lawful brother of this Degree, or in a regularly constituted Lodge of Master Masons, nor unto him, or them, until by strict trial, due examination, or lawful information, I shall have found him, or them, as lawfully entitled to the same as I am myself.

"I furthermore promise and swear, that I will stand to and abide by all laws, rules, and regulations of the Master Masons' Degree, and of the Lodge of which I may hereafter become a member, as far as the same shall come to my knowledge; and that I will ever maintain and support the constitution, laws, and edicts of the Grand Lodge under which the same shall be holden.

"Further, that I will acknowledge and obey all due signs and summonses sent to me from a Master Masons' Lodge, or given me by a brother of that Degree, if within the length of my cable-tow.

"Further, that I will always aid and assist all poor, distressed, worthy Master Masons, their widows and orphans, knowing them to be such, as far as their necessities may require, and my ability permit, without material injury to myself and family.

"Further, that I will keep a worthy brother Master Mason's secrets inviolable, when communicated to and received by me as such, murder and treason excepted.

"Further, that I will not aid, nor be present at, the initiation, passing, or raising of a woman, an old man in his dotage, a young man in his nonage, an atheist, a madman, or fool, knowing them to be such.

"Further, that I will not sit in a Lodge of clandestine-made Masons, nor converse on the subject of Masonry with a clandestine-made Mason, nor one who has been expelled or suspended from a Lodge, while under that sentence, knowing him or them to be such.

"Further, I will not cheat, wrong, nor defraud a Master Mason's Lodge, nor a brother of this Degree, knowingly, nor supplant him in any of his laudable undertakings, but will give him due and timely notice, that he may ward off all danger.

"Further, that I will not knowingly strike a brother Master Mason, or otherwise do him personal violence in anger, except in the necessary defence of my family or property.

"Further, that I will not have illegal carnal intercourse with a Master Mason's wife, his mother, sister, or daughter, nor suffer the same to be done by others, if in my power to prevent.

"Further, that I will not give the Grand Masonic word, in any other manner or form than that in which I shall receive it, and then in a low breath.

"Further, that I will not give the Grand Hailing Sign of Distress, except in case of the most imminent danger, in a just and lawful Lodge, or for the benefit of instruction; and if ever I should see it given, or hear the words accompanying it, by a worthy brother in distress, I will fly to his relief, if there is a greater probability of saving his life than losing my own.

"All this I most solemnly, sincerely promise and swear, with a firm and steady resolution to perform the same, without any hesitation, mental reservation, or secret evasion of mind what-ever, binding myself, under no less penalty than that of having my body severed in two, my bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes, the ashes scattered before the four winds of heaven, that no more remembrance might be had of so vile and wicked a wretch as I would be, should I ever, knowingly, violate this my Master Mason's obligation. So help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same."

Oath for fourth degree (Duncan's Ritual and Monitor, p. 166-167): http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/duncans_r ... master.htm

"I, Peter Gabe, of my own free-will and accord, in the presence of Almighty God, and this Right Worshipful Lodge of Mark Master Masons, erected to him and dedicated to Hiram the Builder, do hereby and hereon, in addition to my former obligations, most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, that I will not give the secrets of a Mark Master Mason to any one of an inferior degree, nor to any other person in the known world, except it be a true and lawful brother, or brethren, of this degree; and not unto him nor unto them whom I shall hear so to be, but unto him and them only whom I shall find so to be, after strict trial and due examination, or lawful information given. Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will support the Constitution of the General Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the United States of America, also the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of this State, under which this Lodge is held, and conform to all the by-laws, rules, and regulations of this or any other Lodge of Mark Master Masons, of which I may at any time hereafter become a member. Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will obey all regular signs and summonses given, handed, sent, or thrown to me from the hand of a brother Mark Master Mason, or from the body of a just and legally constituted Lodge of such, provided it be within the length of my cable-tow. Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will not wrong this Lodge, or a brother of this Degree, to the value of his wages (or one penny), myself, knowingly, nor suffer it to be done by others, if in my power to prevent it. Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will not sell, swap, barter, or exchange my mark, which I shall hereafter choose, after it has been recorded in the book of marks, for any other one, unless it be a dead mark, or one of an older date, nor will I pledge it a second time until it is lawfully redeemed from the first pledge. Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will receive a brother's mark when offered to me requesting a favor, and grant him his request if in my power; and if it is not in my power to grant his request, I will return him his mark with the value thereof, which is half a shekel of silver, or quarter of a dollar. To all of which I do most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, with a fixed and steady purpose of mind in me to keep and perform the same, binding myself under no less penalty than to have my right ear smitten off, that I may forever be unable to hear the word, and my right hand chopped off, as the penalty of an impostor, if I should ever prove wilfully guilty of violating any part of this my solemn oath, or obligation, of a Mark Master Mason. So help me God, and make me steadfast to keep and perform the same."

Oath for fifth degree (Duncan's Ritual and Monitor, p. 188-190): http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/duncans_r ... master.htm

"I, Peter Gabe, of my own free-will and accord, in presence of Almighty God, and this Worshipful Lodge of Past Master Masons, erected to him, and dedicated to the Holy Saints John, do hereby and hereon, most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, in addition to my former obligations, that I will not give the secrets of a Past Master Mason, or any of the secrets pertaining thereto, to any one of an inferior Degree, nor to any person in the known world, except it be to a true and lawful brother, or brethren, Past Master Masons, or within the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of such; and not unto him or unto them whom I shall hear so to be, but unto him and them only whom I shall find so to be, after strict trial and examination, or lawful information.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will obey all regular signs and summonses sent, thrown, handed, or given from the hand of a brother of this Degree, or from the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of Past Masters.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will support the constitution of the General Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the United States; also, that of the Grand Chapter of the State in which this Lodge is located, and under which it is held, and conform to all the by-laws, rules, and regulations of this, or any other Lodge of which I may at any time become a member, so far as in my power.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will not assist or be present at the conferring of this Degree upon any person who has not, to the best of my knowledge and belief, regularly received (in addition to the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason) the Degree of Mark Master, or been elected Master of a regular Lodge of Master Masons.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will aid and assist all poor and indigent Past Master Masons, their widows and orphans, wherever dispersed around the globe, they applying to me as such, and I finding them worthy, so far as is in my power without material injury to myself or family.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that the secrets of a brother of this Degree, delivered to me in charge as such, shall remain as secure and inviolable in my breast, as they were in his own before communicated to me, murder and treason excepted, and those left to my own election.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will not wrong this Lodge, nor a brother of this Degree, to the value of one cent, knowingly, myself, nor suffer it to be done by others, if in my power to prevent it.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will not govern this Lodge, or any other over which I may be called to preside, in a haughty and arbitrary manner; but will, at all times, use my utmost endeavors to preserve peace and harmony among the brethren.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will never open a Lodge of Master Masons unless there be present three regular Master Masons, besides the Tyler; nor close the same without giving a lecture, or some section or part of a lecture, for the instruction of the Lodge.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will not sit in a Lodge where the presiding officer has not taken the degree of Past Master Mason.

To all of which I do most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, with a fixed and steady purpose of mind to keep and perform the same; binding myself under no less penalty than (in addition to all my former penalties) to have my tongue split from tip to root, that I might forever thereafter be unable to pronounce the word, should I ever prove wilfully guilty of violating any part of this my solemn oath, or obligation, of a Past Master Mason. So help me God, and make me steadfast to keep and perform the same."

Oath for sixth degree (Duncan's Ritual and Monitor, p. 206-208): http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/duncans_r ... master.htm

"I, Peter Gabe, of my own free-will and accord, in presence of Almighty God and this Lodge of Most Excellent Master Masons, erected to Him and dedicated to King Solomon, do hereby and hereon, most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, in addition to my former obligations, that I will not give the secrets of Most Excellent Master to any one of an inferior Degree, nor to any person in the known world, except it be to a true and lawful brother of this Degree, and within the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of such; and not unto him nor them whom I shall hear so to be, but unto him and them only whom I shall find so to be, after strict trial and due examination, or lawful information.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will obey all regular signs and summonses handed, sent, or thrown to me from u brother of this Degree, or from the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of such; provided it be within the length of my cable-tow.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will support the Constitution of the General Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the United States; also, that of the Grand Chapter of this State, under which this Lodge is held, and conform to all the by-laws, rules, and regulations of this, or any other Lodge of which I may hereafter become a member.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will aid and assist all poor and indigent brethren of this Degree, their widows and orphans, wheresoever dispersed around the globe, as far as in my power, without injuring myself or family.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that the secrets of a brother of this Degree, given to me in charge as such, and 1 knowing them to be such, shall remain as secret and inviolable in my breast as in his own, murder and treason excepted, and the same left to my own free-will and choice.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will not wrong this Lodge of Most Excellent Master Masons, nor a brother of this Degree, to the value of any thing, knowingly, myself, nor suffer it to be done by others if in my power to prevent it.

Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will dispense light and knowledge to all ignorant and uninformed brethren at all times, as far as is in my power, without material injury to myself or family. To all which I do most solemnly swear, with a fixed and steady purpose of mind in me to keep and perform the same; binding myself under no less penalty than to have my breast torn open, and my heart and vitals taken from thence, and exposed to rot on the dunghill, if ever I violate any part of this, my solemn oath, or obligation, of a Most Excellent Master Mason. So help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same"

Oath for seventh degree (Duncan's Ritual and Monitor, p. 228-230):
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/duncans_r ... degree.htm

"I, Peter Gabe, of my own free-will and accord, in presence of Almighty God, and this Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, erected to God, and dedicated to Zerubbabel, do hereby and hereon most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, in addition to my former obligations, that I will not reveal the secrets of this Degree to any of an inferior Degree, nor to any being in the known world, except it be to a true and lawful Companion Royal Arch Mason, or within the body of a just and legally constituted Chapter of such and never unto him, or them, whom I shall hear so to be, but to him and them only whom I shall find so to be, after strict trial and due examination, or lawful information given.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not wrong this Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, or a companion of this Degree, out of the value of any thing, myself, nor suffer it to be done by others, if in my power to prevent it.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not reveal the key to the ineffable characters of this Degree, nor retain it in my possession, but will destroy it whenever it comes to my sight.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not speak the Grand Omnific Royal Arch Word, which I shall hereafter receive, in any manner, except in that in which I shall receive it, which will be in the presence of three Companions Royal Arch Masons, myself making one of the number; and then by three times three, under a Living Arch, and at low breath.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not be at the exaltation of candidates in a clandestine Chapter, nor converse upon the secrets of this Degree with a clandestine-made Mason, or with one who has been expelled or suspended, while under that sentence.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not assist or be present at the exaltation of a candidate to this Degree, who has not received the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Mason, Mark Master, Past Master, and Most Excellent Master.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not be at the exaltation of more nor less than three candidates at one and the same time.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not be at the forming or opening of a Chapter of Royal Arch Masons unless there be present nine Royal Arch Masons, myself making one of that number.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not speak evil of a Companion Royal Arch Mason, behind his back nor before his face, but will apprise him of all approaching danger, if in my power.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will support the Constitution of the General Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the United States of America; together with that of the Grand Chapter of this State, under which this Chapter is holden; that I will stand to and abide by all the by-laws, rules, and regulations of this Chapter, or of any other Chapter of which I may hereafter become a member.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will answer and obey all due signs and summonses handed, sent, or thrown to me from a Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, or from a Companion royal Arch Mason, if within the length of my cable-tow.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not strike a Companion Royal Arch Mason, so as to drew his blood, in anger.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will employ a Companion Royal Arch Mason in preference to any other person of equal qualifications,

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will assist a Companion Royal Arch Mason when I see him engaged in any difficulty, and will espouse his cause so far as to extricate him from the same, whether he be right or wrong.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will keep all the secrets of a Companion Royal Arch Mason (when communicated so me as such, or I knowing them to be such), without exceptions.

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will be aiding and assisting all poor and indigent Companions Royal Arch Masons, their widows and orphans, wheresoever dispersed around the globe; they making application to me as such, and I finding them worthy, and can do it without any material injury to myself or family.

To all which I do most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, with a firm and steadfast resolution to keep and perform the same, without any equivocation, mental reservation, or self-evasion of mind in me whatever; binding myself under no less penalty, than to have my skull smote off, and my brains exposed to the scorching rays of the meridian sun, should I knowingly or wilfully violate or transgress any part of this my solemn oath or obligation of a Royal Arch Mason. So help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same."

According to a witness account in a Rhode Island legislative investigation into Freemasonry conducted in 1835, the oaths for the first 3 degrees ARE binding, and do force a Mason to conceal all crimes of his bretheren, except for Murder and treason: http://books.google.com/books?id=k-wqAA ... ns&f=false

The reader may recall the oath in Duncan's Ritual for the Royal Arch degree. Well that's the public version. In David Bernard's Masonic Monitor, entitled "Light on Masonry", written in 1829, the receiver of the Royal Arch degree is forced to conceal all of the crimes of his fellow masons, MURDER AND TREASON NOT EXCEPTED: http://books.google.com/books?id=QlIZAA ... ed&f=false

This is likewise noted in Avery Allyn's "Ritual of Freemasonry": http://books.google.com/books?id=8yoiAA ... ed&f=false

Former president John Quincy Adams noted that Masons emphatically denied that oath, despite it being in those two volumes: http://books.google.com/books?id=iHI-AA ... ed&f=false

James C. Ordione wrote in one of his letters - "I cannot therefore feel but great surprise, when I learn that any man, sustaining a reputable character in the community, denies that the oaths and obligations quoted by me, in my letter of the 17th ult. from the work of Mr. Bernard, entitled "Light on Masonry," are administered in lodges and chapters of Freemasons" - This is in his book "Opinions on Speculative Masonry": http://books.google.com/books?id=egD_79 ... 22&f=false

In the book is a letter from former mason Mr. Merrill confirming this aspect of the oath: http://books.google.com/books?id=egD_79 ... 22&f=false

So, if you want insight into the history of law and justice in the Soviet Union, you might want to look at Freemasonry - otherwise, these oaths are detestable. It is not surprising then that Trotsky would come to Bolshevism through a study of Freemasonry.

For an excellent account of the role of Judaism and Freemasonry in creating Bolshevism, as well as a demolition of the cult of personality surrounding Lenin and Trotsky, I suggest reading Juri Lina's book "Under the Sign of the Scorpion": http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/U ... i_Lina.pdf

What do these obligations imply?

Insight comes the following source:

"Whenever you see any of our signs made by a brother Mason, and especially the grand hailing sign of distress, you must always be sure to obey them, even at the risk of your life. If you're on a jury, and the defendant is a Mason and makes the grand hailing sign, you must obey it; you must disagree with your brother jurors, if necessary, but you must be sure not to bring the Mason guilty, for that would bring disgrace upon our order. You must conceal all crimes of your brother Masons except murder and treason, and these at your own option, and should you be summoned as a witness against a brother Mason, be always sure to shield him. Prevaricate, don't tell the truth in this case, keep his secrets, forget the important points. It may be perjury to do this true, but you are keeping your obligations."
(Edmond Ronayne, "Masonic Handbook," page 183)

Masons deny these sort of things, yet here I found a review on amazon.com where a wife of a mason praised the book and stated that it was useful for study: http://i54.tinypic.com/35hqr1t.png

From the same source: "When a brother reveals any of our great secrets; whenever, for instance, he tells anything about Boaz, or Tubalcain, or Jachin, or that awful Mah-hah-bone, or even whenever a minister prays in the name of Christ in any of our assemblies, you must always hold yourself in readiness, if called upon, to cut his throat from ear to ear, pull out his tongue by the roots, and bury his body at the bottom of some lake or pond. Of course, all this must be done in secret, as it was in the case of that notorious man Morgan, for both law and civilization are opposed to such barbarous crimes, but then, you know you must live up to your obligation, and so long as you have sworn to do it, by being very strict and obedient in the matter, you'll be free from sin."(Edmond Ronayne, "Masonic Handbook," page 74)

Masons distance themselves from the handbook publicly, but as we have seen they privately recommend it. John Daniel, on p. 15 of "Scarlet and the Beast", says that Ronayne was "a Master Mason who authored the original Masonic Handbook and who later renounced Masonry ... Since this truth [the citation of p. 74] has been exposed, later editions of the Masonic Handbook have been revised, deleting this and other incriminating evidence"

It is also extremely telling that modern, publicly available editions of Ronayne's handbook do not contain the above citations, but Ronayne quotes from it in his 19th century attack on the order: http://books.google.com/books?id=IQ4AAA ... ns&f=false

And it IS available from this rare archive: http://americandeception.com/index.php? ... pdf&id=430

The book is introduced by a Freemason as an accurate guide to their rituals. However, the Mason notes that the book has been altered.

Masonic whistleblower Jim Shaw revealed to the world that the ritual for the acceptance of the 33rd degree of Fremasonry includes drinking from a human skull. He also noted that his oath to the Supreme Coouncil of the 33rd Degree was above all other allegiences: http://ia600405.us.archive.org/18/items ... m-Shaw.pdf

Masons of course dismiss him. But here is a citation that the Masons can't dismiss as easily, noting the rampant cronyism of the lodge: "Right or wrong his very existence as a Mason hangs upon obedience to the powers immediately set above him. The one unpardonable crime in a Mason is contumacy or disobedience." (Robert Morris, "Webb's Monitor of Freemasonry," page 169): http://books.google.com/books?id=rN02AA ... m.&f=false

To illustrate the utter depravity of the Lodge, note the following grotesque commentary in pp. 142-143 of Richardson's Ritual and Monitor, describing what they do to traitors. Both pages need to be read:

142: http://i55.tinypic.com/14vn4g4.png
143: http://i52.tinypic.com/11rx8p5.png

Now, Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor was released in 1866, but before that, something very important happened in the history of Freemasonry. William Morgan released the rituals of the first 3 degrees of Freemasonry in a book entitled "Illustrations of Freemasonry": http://americandeception.com/index.php? ... pdf&id=323

For this he was murdered.

Masons deny that they murdered Morgan, but at the time, it was well known. In James C, primary sources are produced relating to the event, which the reader may read at his leisure: http://books.google.com/books?id=eFIZAA ... an&f=false
 
Michael Hoffman II, in private correspondence with me, directed me to a letter from former president John Quincy Adams that he found in the University of Rochester Archives and attempted to publicize (): http://www.scribd.com/doc/7448382/Presi ... the-Masons

ʺFreemasonry, corporate Freemasonry, is chargeable with the stealing of a free citizen, and the murder of a father and husband. The proof of this subject is perfectly conclusive, and is to be found in the reports of the trials of the kidnappers of William Morgan*, and in the official accounts given by different special Attornies. It is responsible for having baffled inquiry, for having defeated investigation by the removal of witnesses, and for having produced the acquital of persons notoriously guilty. It has been decided by Judge Marcy in New York, and by two sets of triers at a circuit court held by Judge Gardiner, in the same state, and by a court in Rhode Island, that the obligations of Freemasons disqualified a man from being an impartial juror in a case where a brother mason was a party; and such undoubtedly is the law of the land. The Grand Lodge of New York has given one hundred dollars, in charity, to one of the most guilty kidnappers of Morgan. The Grand Chapter of the same state has given one thousand dollars to aid and sustain other well known kidnappers, and to enable them to escape from justice, at a time when they had no money to bestow, in charity, to widows and orphans. This has recently been established in the trial of a libel suit, brought by Jacob Gould, which was tried at Albany, New York. But perhaps the most remarkable evidence of the binding force of masonic obligations and of the real power of the fraternity, is afforded in the conduct of those who control the newspapers of the country. When the English forger, Stephenson, was kidnapped in a distant state, and brought forcibly to New York, the whole country rang with the alarm which was sounded by the newspapers and every patriot was called on to resent this invasion of personal liberty. But when a free citizen of America was dragged from his family, forcibly carried through the country and drowned in the deep waters of the Niagra, a death‐like silence pervaded the newspapers; or if they spoke, it was to notice the outrage in terms of irony and as a trifling and unimportant affair. The papers of every party teemed with the most gross misrepresentations; a simultaneous attack was made on all who were engaged in discovering the offenders; fabricated accounts of Morgan having been seen at different and distant places were incessantly circulated, and every effort was made to delude the public and mislead inquiry. How tremendously powerful must have been that organization, which could produce this shameful treachery of the press to itʹs public duties! These facts are as notorious as the sun at noon‐day, and a stronger proof of their general truth cannot be adduced, than the single circumstance, that to this day, thousands and millions of reading citizens of this country are ignorant of the history of Morganʹs abduction and murder, and are totally uninformed of the abominations of freemasonry.ʺ

One person did testify to the Murder of Morgan on his deathbed. This was Henry Valace. He revealed how a council of 8 Masons had condemned Morgan to death. The testimony was preserved in Rev. Charles Finney in his book "The Character, Claims, and Practical Workings of Freemasonry": http://ia600405.us.archive.org/18/items ... ns/url.pdf

Finney noted that Masons had complete control over the Justice system and the media, and were able to sabotage all attempts at justice. This pernicious influence has been noted by another author, Eustace Mullins, in his book "The Rape of Justice": http://ia600401.us.archive.org/29/items ... ed1989.pdf

It is worth noting that individuals from the most respectable centers of society attacked Freemasonry in the 1800s.

In 1829, a New York Senate Committee published it's findings on Freemasonry, noting that it "comprises men of rank ... in almost every place where power is of any importance"

In 1834, a joint committee in Massachusetts stated that Freemasonry was a "distinct independent government within our own government, and beyond the control of the laws of the land by means of it's secrecy"

The above two citations are given in the documentary "Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings – The New Atlantis": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18fw65mr ... 36&index=5

A monument was erected in Batavia, NY, dedicated to William Morgan. It gives details of his murder. It also gives details of where they can find the historical records documenting the Morgan account.

Masons call this "the lie in Granite". There are several problems with this interpretation.
1) People die all the time. Why would an entire town go through the effort of warning the world about Morgan's murder.
2) The masons have made so many lies in their review of Webster's book that they can hardly be considered a reliable source in this matter.

On one side of the monument, we find Morgan quoted as saying, "The Bane of our civil institutions is to be found in Masonry, already powerful and daily becoming more so. I owe to my country an exposure of it's dangers."

To illustrate the absolute fanaticism of the Masonic cult, note the following, from a Mason outraged at the fact that someone would quote Duncan's manual on a forum: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.free ... =off&pli=1

"The foolish and ignorant anti who produced this is in error.  A due examination
includes more than grips and words.  You must walk the Tilers sword and pass
HIS examination.
As you have so denoted, many of the secrets of Masonry have been divulged,
therefore the examinations are more stringent, being necessary to weed out
those unworthy professing to be Masons.
May the GAOTU exact due retribution upon your soul for divulging Masonic
information in such a manner, and for the sole purpose of being mean spirited.
May you find yourself paying due penance in the afterlife, as one unworthy to
enter the gates of Heaven.
May your inability to hold your tongue leave you without one, where it shall be
buried in the sands of the sea, between low and high tides--an unholy place
preventing future repentance and entrance into heaven.
May your heart be eaten by buzzards, and other predatory birds.  May the
remainder of your viscera be taken and burned and scattered over vast
distances.
Such is the holy and noble curse I may place upon you.  May your nightmares
come true.
Jason C. Russo
Blandford #3
A.F.&A.M. "

Freemasonry, like Judaism, is an infantile disorder. Unfortunately the adherents of both cults occupy the power centers of society.

Freemasonrybcy says:

" Quoting an ex-follower of Blavatsky, A.L. Cleather,Äôs charges of sexual perversion, Webster concludes, "It would appear, then, that these deplorable proclivities are peculiarly prevalent amongst aspirants to Theosophical knowledge." [p. 306.] She notes the socialist leanings of Theosophy, demonstrated by Besant,Äôs holding shares in the labour paper, Daily Herald and that an unidentified leading member of the Co-masonic "Order of the Star in the East" had "notified her intention of standing for [the Labour Party] in Parliament." [p. 307.]

Labeling people charlatans, perverts and socialists does not prove their association with secret societies plotting to overthrow governments. "

Those who wish to know how utterly fallacious the Lodge's arguments in favor of theosophy are invited to view "Aquarius: The Age of Evil": http://www.archive.org/details/AquariusTheAgeOfEvil

as well as the following articles:
1) http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Lucis_Trust.htm
2) http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge ... Bailey.htm

Theosophy is powerful enough that Alice Baily's publishing company, Lucis Trust (formerly Lucifer Publishing Company), is represented at the United Nations almost on par with it's other key organizations like UNESCO. According to the United Nations International Geneva Yearbook: 2009, "The Lucis Trust is recognized by the United Nations as a Non-Governmental Organisation and is represented at regular briefing sessions at UN Headquarters. The Lucis Trust is on the roster of the United Nations Economic and Social Council."  (Dominique Dombinski-Gourmard, Isabelle Dembinski, Int. Geneva Yearbook 2009, [Volume 21, United Nations Publications, 2009], p. 330).

Freemasonrybcy says:

    "The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia founded by Robert Wentworth Little in 1867, was a study group interested in all esoteric traditions.
It wasTheodor Reuss who "re-activated" the Order of Illuminati in Munich in 1880. Reuss was possibly a spy for the Prussian Police. Leopold Engel founded his World League of Illuminati in Berlin in 1893. "

Nesta Webster cites Ars Quatuor Coronatorum Volume 1, p. 54: http://www.archive.org/details/ArsQuatu ... mVol.11888

The text says that "Its purpose is the scientific and literary, historical and archaeological investigation of the occult wisdom of the ancients, the origin of the mysteries, of secret societies, and of the lost sciences and arts of alchemy, astrology, the Kabbalah, the hieroglyphic literature of Egypt, etc."

Remember that Albert Pike said, in "Morals and Dogma", p. 744: "All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kaballah and return to it; everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the Illuminati, Jacob Boeheme, Swedenborg, Saint Martin, and others, is borrowed from the Kabalah; all Masonic associations owe to it their Secrets and their Symbols.": http://www.scribd.com/doc/26746797/Albe ... -and-Dogma

The volume of Ars Quatuor Coronatorum provided on your website states that this revived Illuminati was a joint venture of Reu

[blissentia]

I think Christopher Jon Bjerkness really hit the nail on the head when he said: "the main stream media ridicule the view that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion could in any way reflect the intentions and actions of the Jewish People, but there is little to be found in that document by way of a plan for World domination, which was not first iterated some 2,500 years ago in the Jewish Old Testament. The lying Jews claim that the accusation that Jews are engaged in a struggle for World domination and World government is an "anti-Semitic canard", but this plan is plainly stated throughout the ancient Jewish Old Testament.": http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2008/1 ... n-jew.html

[blissentia]

I really need to be granted the ability to edit this. There are some spelling errors, some excerpts are repeated, and I need t make a few additions.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Nesta Webster has some amazing stuff.

Did you ever check out Occult Theocrasy, by Edith Starr Miller. They say it was a pen name.

[blissentia]

Occult theocrasy has errors, though not nearly as many as the masons allege.

I think the important contribution of the book is that it accuses British Freemasonry, and not just Grand Orient Freemasonry.

"Waters Flowing Eastward" is much more important: http://crashrecovery.org/Waters/index.htm

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

I really need to be granted the ability to edit this. There are some spelling errors, some excerpts are repeated, and I need t make a few additions.

blissentia, if you copy the text you want and then send it to me as a .txt attachment, I'll replace what is there with the attachment. --CSR

[Helphand]

@blissentia - there's some solid scholarship here, and also worthy testimony to the years of reseach in the original sources that Nesta Webster herself undertook. (She herself remarked that certain private records from the era of the French Revolution deposited with the British Museum/Library had not been sifted and Lord Acton's celebrated work on the Revolution did not draw on them).  Yet her name is now hardly known; as far as I am aware in London there is no blue plaque on any building that was her former home commemorating either her or her work. And her books have systematically been withdrawn from public libraries here.

Just familiarise yourself with the names of the individuals on the local authority committee overseeing your neighbourhood or civic public library and specfically its acquisitions policy and I think you will soon see why.

And of course the second volume of her autobiography covering the period 1919 onwards never saw the light of day as allegedly the manuscript was stolen from the West Country offices of the publisher...

[blissentia]

Thank you:

If people haven't read them yet, I suggest the following two books:

1) "Freemasonry and Judaism": http://www.scribd.com/doc/13842449/Free ... Revolution

2) "The Protocols and World Revolution": http://books.google.com/books?id=M2U-AA ... 22&f=false

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

B.C./Yukon Masonic Lodge Caught Lying About Jehovah's Witness Founder

Charles Taze Russell, Freemason Revisited!

The Lodge says this about Miller: "Her Occult Theocrasy makes no claim to be an objective study nor representative of primary source research and a selection of her remarks easily demonstrates that she was fixated on a perceived "Jesuit-Judaic-Masonic-Gnostic-Brahmin-Illuminati" plot to overthrow Christianity."

Sebastian-----Here is page 737 from the index of mason members from the book "Occult Theocrasy" by Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Miller) 1933, with one of the only known listings of Charles Taze Russell's name listed in it as a mason. I posted a reply to your other mason post about Russell with a little more information on it. The Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon was one of the web sites that told everyone that Russell was (not) a mason, but they were cited for publishing falsehoods to the public and found to be wrong!---Scan below:

Photo: http://kent.steinhaug.no/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=22441

Page from Edith Starr Miller's book "Occult Theocrasy," showing that C.T. Russell was a Freemason

I truly believe that it is more important to the reader of this research to

realize that the occult associations, teachings, use of false god symbols,

practices of numerology, phrenology, and astrology should certainly over-ride

any masonic relationships or memberships that Charles Taze Russell may have

had in his day.


After all, wasn't Russell really admitting through his occult teachings and

doctrines a more sinful kind of membership? Didn't Russell show what was

really in his heart by continuously practicing occultism and that he desired to be

a devout member of Satan's Lodge, when one considers the staggering occult

evidence penned by Russell himself?

However, for the sake of having some evidence to help some folks finalize

this issue in their minds, we have revisited some of the older documents on

this topic and found some new ones. Many people have relied on several quotes

that have discredited Charles Taze Russell as a freemason, while others have

taken quotes from some of Russell's lectures to credit him as a freemason. We

hope to offer some of the research that we have found that could help others

in this debate.


Here are some quotes taken from the "Grand Lodge Of British Columbia and

Yukon," which plainly states that Charles Taze Russell was (not) a freemason.

This page also contains phrases and words that Russell spoke in one of his

discourses that others have used to (prove), that Russell (was) a freemason. The

web site writer describes how Russell's words could be taken out of context

to (prove) that Russell was a freemason.


Here is the quote that states that Russell was (not) a freemason:


"Russell was not a freemason. Neither the symbols found in the Watchtower

nor the cross and crown symbol are exclusively masonic. And the cross and crown

symbol does not appear on his gravestone in the Rosemont United Cemetery,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — it appears on a memorial erected some years later."


And here is the quote that states that Russell (was) a freemason:


In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell

made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted

mason. I trust we all are. But not just after the style of our masonic

brethren."

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... ml#russell


The Grand Lodge of British Columbia has stated that Russell's statement was

taken out of context to (prove) that he was a mason.


However, information showing that the British Grand Lodge was presenting

[false information] to the public, came from [other] Freemason Lodge members

themselves. See below:


What do [other] lodge members say about the information contained on the

Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon web site?


by Wor. Bro. Dennis Stocks, Barron Barnett Lodge.



"The truth is that prior to 1984 the British Grand Lodge supported a policy

of silence on any criticism. This policy has unfortunately allowed falsehoods

to become established in the public consciousness as uncontested facts."


In dealing with the public face of Freemasonry we must remember that we are

not dealing with realities, but with received impressions. (See paragraphs

8-9 here)http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/freemasonry/anti2.html


Here is what the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon admit themselves:

We also find this statement by the Grand Lodge of British Columbia, of which

they admit themselves in the gray area to the left of your screen at the

link listed below. quote:



"Although the authors noted at the end of the list write with some authority,

they do not always provide citations. Membership therefore cannot be

considered confirmed unless a lodge name is supplied."


http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/textfiles/famous.html


So the Grand Lodge of British Columbia admits that certain writers may not

give a citation or [written authority] as to the listings of famous masons,

and can not confirm all of their information. Authors providing them listings

or articles have limited qualifications and write with only some authority!


"Famous" freemasons on the British Grand Lodge web site, were later found

out to be people who were not even interested in the mason agendas.


One such person was "Francis Mawson Rattenbury". The link listed below at

the British Grand Lodge lists Rattenbury under their biographies of "Famous

Freemasons". Go here and look at the first name in the (Architecture) section:


http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/index.html_


However, the biography of "Francis Mawson Rattenbury" plainly states the

following:


"Having arrived in Vancouver in May of 1892, Rattenbury received the

commission to design the provincial legislative buildings on March 15, 1893 and

immediately moved to Victoria. It appears that he returned to Vancouver long

enough to close his office and to be initiated into Freemasonry, but he was never

passed or raised. The record of his life would suggest that the teachings of

Fremasonry left little impression on him."


http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/rat ... ury_f.html


One would certainly wonder how this man could be classified as a "famous

freemason" when the Grand Lodge admits in his biography that freemasonry left

"little impression" on him!


Look at the very bottom of Rattenbury's biography, and you will see that he

never passed as a freemason and was never raised as a freemason---then look

down at the very bottom of the page and you will see that Rattenbury was even

[suspended] as a freemason, because he displayed no interest.



So how in the world could Rattenbury be classified as a [famous] freemason?

He wasn't even interested! He was not [impressed] with masons!



This shows that the British Grand Lodge [will] distort the facts about

people on their web site for their own advantage. If a person was even remotely

associated with the mason's and had a good reputation, popular, and good name,

then the British Grand Lodge would use them to glorify the freemasons

whether the person was really interested in the mason's protocols or not!



Rattenbury was certainly as successful man, smart, popular, and very good in

his architectural trades, but to claim him as a [famous] freemason when the

record clearly states he had very little interest in freemasonry, shows that

the British Grand Lodge are willing to lie to the public.



If the British Grand Lodge is willing to lie about Rattenbury, then they are

certainly willing to lie about Charles Taze Russell!



As stated above by [other] lodge members, the British Grand Lodge did not

want to have any criticism, and claiming that Charles Taze Russell who was

forever in one scandal right after another, could certainly bring a lot of

criticism to the masons if they listed him!



Anyone can see why the Grand Lodge would (not) really want to claim Russell

as a mason. Even if it were proven that Russell was a mason his name could

certainly bring criticism to the association of masons! In effect, listing

Russell as a mason could bring criticism which the British Grand Lodge worked

very hard to eliminate.


Russell's life was saturated in scandals, perjury in court, divorce, the

jelly fish case, miracle wheat, as well as other claims that could throw a dark

cloud on the mason's good name and reputation that they wanted to uphold to

the public.


So when the Grand Lodge posted the information that Russell was (not) a

mason, that information could have been based on their (impressions) and (false)

information given to the public.


The subject of the "three dots" found on page 737 to the (left) of Charles

Taze Russell's name in Lady Queenborough's book called "Occult Theocrasy, has

been researched and the information listed below would give good evidence as

to why the (context) of Russell's statements about being a mason were so

confusing.


It may be beneficial to note that the very same British Grand Lodge web site

who was quoted discrediting Charles Taze Russell as a Freemason, is also the

same web site that confirms the three dots as a definite masonic symbol!

And if these three dots are on paper next to a members name, then this

identification should be considered as authentic for masonic membership.


Quote: "The Spanish authorities were also aware of the importance placed by

freemasons upon the triangle. Its discovery on any document was taken as a

dead give-away that it was masonic. (See paragraph 5 here under Triangle

section) _http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/philippine_flag.html_

(http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/phi ... _flag.html)


Quote: "The triangle also appeared constantly in masonic communications.

Many words frequently employed in documents, like taller, logia, hermano,

Venerable Maestro, bateria, Salud, Fuerza y Union, were abbreviated and the

abbreviations ended not with single dot but three dots arranged in a form of

triangle. " (See The triangle section here)


http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/phi ... _flag.html

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/phi ... _flag.html



One of the reasons that Russell's statements have been taken out of context

is because, Russell used 2 different dialogues at the same time! It was

Russell's duty as a mason to speak to certain ones [masons present] listening to

him speak in "mason dialect," while others hearing the very same speech would

take his statements as innocent, and never catch on to what he was saying to

his fraternal brothers. Other masons sitting in the same room and listening

to the same lecture, would take Russell's statements and the words he used to

apply to masonic meanings or protocols. Please consider some of the

information listed below:


«To the Happy Few»

[Stendhal]

Domenico Ghirlandaio, The Adoration of the Magi, 1488


The initiatic monogram (or trigram), but from now on I consider it as a

symbol meant to be handled as a whole, for the monogram is unsuitable to be

intended as disaggregated) isn't but that punctiform tripartition (.·.) so

familiar to the Freemasons and by which they perform those abbreviations apparently

meant to preserve and shelter the confidential nature of initiatic

terminologies.


W.·.M.·. for Worshipful Master

L.·. for Lodge

G.·.L.·. for Grand Lodge


Indeed the utility of these formulations rests also on the fact they allow

Brothers to talk of masonic arguments in a crowded environment without fear

that eavesdropping ears may clearly comprehend the topic of the dialogue.


The reasons for this option do not repose on narcissism but merely denote a

preference for a reserved attitude: subjectively, such preference may well be

nothing more than a gratuitous choice, but as far as another Brother is

concerned it has to be regarded as nothing short of a duty, because our partner

may be utterly unwilling, for reasons it is not in my right even to argue let

alone contend, to allow third parts learn his masonic affiliation/status from

the context of the undertaken dialogue.

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So Russell could speak to an entire crowd of people using 2 different

dialogues. One dialogue was used for [innocent] ears, to make it appear to them,

that he was [not] siding with the masons, quote: " I trust we all are. But not

just after the style of our masonic brethren," while his other dialogue to

his mason friends in the crowd, would hear him say, quote "Now, I am a free

and accepted mason."


Why did the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon fail to mention to

their readers, that the [other] words that Russell used in his speech are [also]

listed as masonic language? Why did they leave that little tidbit of

information out?


Even if you leave out the word [mason], in Russell's speech, the [other]

words Russell used also had special meaning to the masons in the room, but would

[not] be noticed by others!


Please note the words "free and accepted" used in Russell's speech. What

meaning do those words have to freemasons? Here is the meaning of those words

from the very same British Grand Lodge web site, quote:


Free and Accepted : This term was first used in 1722 in J. Roberts', The Old

Constitutions belonging to the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and

Accepted Masons. Accepted "Acception" was an Inner Fraternity of speculative

freemasons found within the Worshipful Company of Masons of the City of

London. Operative members were "admitted" by apprenticeship, patrimony, or

redemption; speculative members were "accepted". First recorded use of the term dates

from 1620.

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/afandam.html#1



Using these 2 different speech dialogues in one lecture could assure Russell

that he was satisfying [both] those who were [not] masons, and those who

[were] masons listening to his discourse, without Russell giving away his

position in the freemasons. This method of communicating with a crowd of people

would give Russell a [way out], if he were confronted about his membership as a

freemason.


In the book called "Occult Theocracy" written by Lady Queenborough (Edith

Starr Miller), of which the information contained in that book came from the

generous assistance of "Mme Paquita de Shishmareff," Charles Taze Russell is

listed in the index section on page 737 as a Freemason!


The British Grand Lodge paints a picture of "imagination" surrounding the

book "Occult Theocrasy" by using such words as: hoax, assumed, fixated,

imagination, and so forth, yet found the life and books of Lady Queenborough

"noteworthy" in their description of Queenborough's accomplishments!


I truly don't believe that a former "Countess" is going to just "generously"

assist some psychopath book writer that has "no" evidence, documentation, or

better yet, eye-witness accounts as to the information contained in a book

that is also going to list [Former Countess], "Mme Paquita de Shishmareff" in

the very "Forward" of the book, if the information contained in it is not

accurate!


And what do other writing authorities have to say about L. Fry, ("Mme.

Paquita de Shishmareff?") who assisted Lady Queenborough in compiling the book

"Occult Theocrasy?"


Editorial Reviews

Book Description by L. Fry, ( Mme. Paquita de

Shishmareff )


The War Against the Kingship of Christ. Authoress, Fry was married to one of

the aristocrats of Czarist Russia and she suffered harrowing experiences in

the days of the Boishevist Revolution. This first hand knowledge of Communism

in action has given authority to her writings. For many years she was

associated with the work of the late French priest Monseigneur Jouln, helping him

in his research into the atheistic and Judeo-Bolshevist plot against

Christianity.

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So here we have a writer who shows full eye-witness [authority], while the

writers on the British Grand Lodge web site are listed by their own people as

writers with only [some] authority!


Further research into this matter shows that L. Fry ("Mme Paquita de

Shishmareff"), generously assisted "Lady Queenborough!" in the writing of the book

"Occult Theocracy." Lady Queenborough received the help from Shishmareff, and

was in a "protected" position because these writings contained names of many

"Secret Society's" known at that particular time. After Lady Queenborough's

death her book was published called "Occult Theocracy" which contained names

and ranks of many of these secret societies.


In the "Forward" of the book called "Occult Theocracy" we find this

statement from Lady Queenborough about the help she received from Shishmareff:


"It is for their instruction that this book has been written. Its

compilation has taken several years and, had it not been for the generous efforts of

one of my friends, Mme de Shishmareff and of several other persons, I would

never have been able to complete the task which I set out to accomplish."


So the compilation, publishing, and information contained in the book

"Occult Theocrasy" was [not] just from the hand or imagination of Lady

Queenborough. She mentions "several others" who also assisted her. Are we to believe

that "all" of these people conspired with Lady Queenborough to just make up

fantasy stories? It might do well for us to know who Lady Queenborough was and

what kind of people she was associated with and their connections to these

"secret societies!"


Please note the names and titles of some of the people associated with Lady

Queenborough. Why don't we start with her husband. Notice the underlined

sections!


Almeric High Paget, Lord Queenborough Born one of

fourteen children in 1861, Almeric Paget left Harrow in the late 1879 with few

resources and moved to the American mid-west, herding cattle for several years

near Le Mars, Iowa, where he was befriended by Theodore Roosevelt. He later

relocated to St Paul, Minnesota where he took up real estate sales. His

brother, Arthur, introduced him into New York society where he developed further

business contacts and met his first wife, Pauline Whitney. In 1901 he

returned to England for his wife's health. Independently wealthy and politically

active after 1906, in 1920 he became treasurer of the League of Nations Union,

an office he filled for sixteen years until he became disillusioned with

the League's development and resigned. _9_

(http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... r_e.html#9) Almeric Paget biographical notices

LORD QUEENBOROUGH Died on September 22, age eighty-eight, He was a

keen all-round sportsman and was a well-known figure in the yachting world

and on the Turf, and was President of the Royal Society of St. George and a

former President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist

Associations. He had no son and the peerage becomes extinct._14_

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... ler_e.html Photo also reproduced in

Heirs of Tradition,

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... ler_e.html plate facing p. 94, credited to Lenare. QUEENBOROUGH,

BARON. (Paget.) [Baron U.K. 1918.] ALMERIC HUGH PAGET, G.B.E., 1st Baron,

son of the late Gen. Lord Alfred Henry Paget, C.B. [see M. Anglesey, colls.] ;

b. March 14th, 1861 ; is an Hon. Fellow of Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge,

a J.P. for London and Suffolk (High Sheriff 1909), a Gov. of Guy's Hospital,

a K.J.St.J., and Pres. Miller Gen. Hospital (Greenwich) ; sometime Commodore

Roy. Thames Yacht Club ; Pres. of National Union of Conservative and

Unionist Assos. 1928-9, and has been Pres. of Eastern Provincial Div. of the Asso.

since 1909 ; sat as M.P. for Cambridge Borough (C) Jan. 1910 to July 1917,

having been defeated there Jan. 1906 ; cr. Baron Queenborough. of

Queenborough, Kent (peerage of United Kingdom) 1918, and G.B.E. (Civil) 1926 : m. 1st,

1895, Pauline, who d. 1916, dau of William C. Whitney, sometime Sec. of U.S

Navy ; 2ndly, 1921, Edith Starr, who d. 1933, dau. of William Starr Miller, of

New York, U.S.A., and has issue.(By 2nd marriage.) QUEENBOROUGH, 88, A

BARON, ONCE M.P. Former Cowpuncher Who Came to U. S. With £5 in Youth and

Made a Fortune Dies Special to the New York Times LONDON. Sept. 22—

Lord Queenborough, former president of the National Union of Conservative and

Unionist Associations, who in his youth was sent to the United States with £5

capital and later made a fortune, died today at his home in Hatfield,

Hertfordshire. He was 88 years of age The former Almeric Hugh Paget, he was the

son of Gen. Lord Alfred Henry Paget and a grandson of the first Marquess of

Anglesey, who commanded the British cavalry at Waterloo. In America Lord

Queenborough spent an adventurous period in the northwest as a cowpuncher and

farmhand. Later he went to St. Paul, Minn. where he laid the foundation of his

business career. In 1895 he married Miss. Pauline Payne Whitney, daughter of

the former United States Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney. They had

two daughters. Later Lord Queenborough was president of the Chihuahua &

Pacific Railroad and an officer or a director of many other companies. After

his return to Britain, he became Conservative member of Parliament for

Cambridge, a seat he held until his resignation in 1917. The next year he was made

a Baron. Lord Queenborough's wife died in 1916 and five years later he

married Edith Miller, daughter of William Starr Miller of New York. His second

wife, by whom he had three daughters, died in 1933. Lord Queenborough had

a fierce dislike for communism and the admittance of Russia to the League of

Nations in 1936 prompted his resignation as treasurer of the League of

Nations Union, a position he had filled for sixteen years._16_

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... _e.html#16



How about those credentials for being able to know the inside members of

"secret societies?" Lady Queenborough was privy through her husband "Baron

Queenborough" as well as others to the inside information, names, and memberships

of many secret societies and their members.



Did you notice the name "Theodore Roosevelt" listed above? And the father

to Baron Queenborough's first wife was the "Secretary of The Navy?" How many

times do you see references to words such as: "President," "Royal Society,"

"Officer," "Director," "Gen" [for General] of this company or that company in

Baron Queenborough's history file?



I seriously do not know of any Freemason's Lodge that would not roll out the

red carpet for a visit from such individuals as Baron Queenborough or his

wife Lady Queenborough! Certainly with friendships to people such as "Theodore

Roosevelt" any freemason's lodge would feel honored with a visit from people

with these credentials!



Friends, when my wife gets home from church, she tells me everything that

went on at church and who did this, and who did that. I can tell you nearly

every name of every member of my wife's church, and the jobs they perform,

where they live, and even some of their telephone numbers, and I HAVE NEVER EVEN

STEPPED FOOT INTO MY WIFE'S CHURCH!



I guarantee you, if I were a friend to Theodore Roosevelt as well as other

high ranking officials such as the Secretary of The Navy, it would not be any

problem at all to get the names of members of secret societies! These secret

societies would welcome me with open arms if I were walking along side of

people with credentials such as these!



The book "Occult Theocracy" was not intended for public circulation, but was

only intended for private distribution. "Occult Theocracy" was published

after Lady Queenborough died which is the way she wanted these events to occur.

And with the generous assistance Lady Queenborough received from "Mme

Paquita de Shishmareff," her book was published in 1933.



In the "Forward" of the book called "Occult Theocracy," we find these

statements by Lady Queenborough:



"THIS BOOK makes no claim to literary merit. It is simply a work of research

and documentation, giving evidence and facts which I trust will help the

reader in drawing his own conclusions."



The above statement by "Queenborough" (making no literary claim) to her book

is not at all saying that the information in the book is not accurate. It is

only a claim that she was not making book writing a profession, or that her

literature skills were not professional enough, in her opinion, that she

could make a living from her writings. We know this to be true because she goes

on to mention in her statement that her research was based on documentation

and things she "witnessed" with her own eyes, which gives her writings, and the

assistance given to her by Shishmareff more accountability! However,

Queenborough leaves the opinion of the reader up to themselves.



I would make a statement like that to, or something along the same lines, if

I were worried about my safety or the safety of my children because also

included in the "Forward" of "Occult Theocracy" we find this statement by

"Queenborough:"



"As a woman of the world I have witnessed things the existence of which I

did not suspect and I have realized that, due to my "protected" position in

life, they should never have been expected to have come to my knowledge. Let me

tell every woman, how ever much "protected", whether Dairymaid or Duchess,

that the safeguards which she imagines to be thrown around herself are but a

mirage of the past. Her own and her children's future are at the mercy of those

"forces" the activities of which it has been my business for the last ten

years, to follow as one of a group of investigators."



Why did "Lady Queenborough fear having her book published while she was

alive? If the information contained in her book was a bunch of hogwash, then why

was it necessary for her to be protected? Why did "Lady Queenborough" want her

book published only "after" her death? What "forces" did Queenborough fear?

And what fear would one have for their children's future because of this

information?



If Lady Queenborough was imagining all of these names and members of "secret

societies" then why would she fear for her children? Surely her children

would not be harmed by her imagination!



As I have stated before, I really believe that Charles Taze Russell engaged

in [other practices], that I personally believe were more condemning than

freemasonry. Just as Lady Queenborough leaves her book up to the reader, then I

also leave up to the reader of this research as to what they will believe or

will not believe. But my personal view is that when the Grand Lodge of

British Columbia and Yukon listed Charles Russell as [not] being a mason when

they can not confirm such a claim, then in view of the research that I have done

as well as others, I would take the listing of Russell's name in the book

"Occult Theocrasy" as accurate, because the very same British Grand Lodge has

already informed their readers that when the [triangular three dots] appear

beside a persons name on paper, this identification should be considered as an

authentic document to being a member of freemasonry! Here is Charles Taze

Russell's name listed with the 3 triangular identifying dots beside his name on

page 737 of "Occult Theocrasy."


Pictures of Lady Queenborough and her children!


http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... ler_e.html

Lady Queenborough with her two eldest children

____________________________________

Edith Starr Miller, daughter of William Starr Miller of New York and niece

of Lloyd E. Warren, married Almeric Hugh Paget (1861/03/14 -1949/09/22) —

first and only Lord Queenborough and sixth son of Lord Alfred Henry Paget

(d1888) — on July 19,1921, by whom she had three daughters. Of her parents, all

that is known is that her father William Starr Miller — a socially prominent

New York industrialist — commissioned the architects Carrere & Hastings to

design his six-storey townhouse at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 86th Street

in 1914. Although something is known of Almeric's life, and that of his

two daughters, Olive (Lady Baillie) and Dorothy, from his first marriage (New

York: 1895/11/18) to Pauline Whitney (1874-November 22, 1916), little is

known about Edith.



Noteworthy in the historiography of conspiracy theory, _Edith

Starr Miller_ http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... ler_e.html

is a widely quoted yet little known figure. Her title, Lady Queenborough, is

often misspelt "Queensborough" and sometimes referred to as a pen-name or

pseudonym. She is sometimes associated with the Order of the Golden Dawn and

the British Fascist movement. Her death in 1933 is sometimes described as

suspicious. Neither her "suspicious" death nor associations are documented. Her

Occult Theocrasy makes no claim to be an objective study nor representative

of primary source research and a _selection of her remarks_

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... notes.html easily

demonstrates that she was fixated on a perceived LORD QUEENBOROUGH Died on

September 22, age eighty-eight, He was a keen all-round sportsman and was a

well-known figure in the yachting world and on the Turf, and was President of

the Royal Society of St. George and a former President of the National Union

of Conservative and Unionist Associations. He had no son and the peerage

becomes extinct._14_

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... _e.html#14 Photo also reproduced in _Heirs of Tradition,_

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/ ... r_e.html#5 plate facing p. 94, credited to

Lenare.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Keep in mind:
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=8687&p=33218&hilit=Charles+Taze+Russell#p33218

[mchawe]

This is probably obvious to many people. But I think what happens in Freemasonery if the guy at the top of the pyramid is an evil bastard,  is that the initiate or lower level freemason is observed, and then at some point someone comes up to him and says something like,
"We have a job for you that will benefit the lodge, (or the movement or brotherhood or whatever). Would you be willing to do it ? "    
 Now the job or whatever is asked of him is a bit "iffy".    
If he replies something like, "I don't think my conscience would allow me to do that" or "I couldn't do that." (or words to that effect), then he is told, "That's all right. Don't worry, we were just testing you. Think nothing of it." The initiate or lower level mason then goes on back to playing with his apron for the rest of his life and does not advance beyond the 4th level.
On the other hand, if the lower level mason is a psycho or amoral, he might agree. The job would probably be a criminal act of some sort. Then he finds himself moving up to higher levels, being asked to do other jobs that are even more criminal as he moves up towards the top. People like Tony Blair would be in this category.
I am sure the same thing happens in the intelligence services such as MI5 and Mossad. I have read somewhere that there is a big turnover in staff of MI5. Many people find that what they are asked to do is too unbearable and so leave. Or sense they are surrounded by psychos or homosexuals. Those that remain behind are the psychos and homsexuals. (EG Anthony Blunt) Also Kay Griggs interview      http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 963487862#
You end up with psychos and/homosexuals at the top, in both freemasonery and official secret services. If you are not one, you don't advance.
This is a natural occurence in any kind of secret society, and for as long as we have these, the world will remain more and more screwed.
If you add the word "Jew" before the words "evil bastard" or "psycho" or "homosexual", the picture becomes into even sharper focus.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Spot on, mchave, spot on.