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"Tear away the mask from Freemasonry, and let it be seen as it really is"-
Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter, Humanum Genus, 1884
The Conspiracy of Freemasonry
A supplement to the September 1, 1982 issue of The Athanasian
· John Kenneth Weiskittel
In an open letter to Cardinal Franjo Seper, dated easily refuted by appealing to the Church's most
January, 1975, the Polish scholar Jedrzej Giertych detailed denunciation of Masonry, the encyclical
expressed his deep concern over Conciliar Humanum Genus, written in 1884 by Pope Leo XIII.
"Catholic" Church moves to liberalize the age-old There Pope Leo warns us directly of such decep-
Catholic position on Freemasonry. Mr. Giertych, tions: "Let nobody be deceived by a false
who has been called "one of the greatest living appearance of honesty. It may appear to some that
authorities on Masonry", took this unprecedented Freemasons do not demand anything that is openly
move after Cardinal Seper had written that Catholics opposed to religion or good morals. Nevertheless,
were no longer prohibited from joining Masonic since the fundamental animating principle of
Lodges providing that those Lodges are not openly Freemasonry is vicious and immoral, to ally oneself
hostile to the Catholic Church. with Masons or help them in any way cannot be
lawful." (4)
Make no mistake, the lengthy document by Mr.
Giertych had to be written. When Cardinal Seper In fact, Pope Leo was in possession of Masonic
wrote that Canon 2335 of Canon Law "applies only documents which spelled out their desire to imple-
to those Catholics who are members of associations ment a new set of tactics against the Roman
really conspiring against the Church" in his 1974 Catholic Church. One such communique instructed
letter to Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, he did that "the goal is no longer the destruction of the
so as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Church but to make use of it by infiltrating it." (5)
Doctrine of the Faith, the "highest guardian of …
Regarding the second of these charges – Mr.
orthodoxy". (1) How remarkable it is that this
Mallor's ridiculous implication that Catholics who
ecclesiastic is called to task for his "grave and
oppose Masonry are standing in the way of progress
dangerous error of judgement," for who could ever
– we hold that true progress cannot ever be sought
imagine an endorsement of secret societies by a
at the expense of the Church's irreformable
prince of the Church? (2) Yet there seems to be no
dogmatic and moral teachings. So writes Jedrzej
alternative to Mr. Giertych's action, since such an
Giertych:
incredibly naive(?) pastoral act by one in so power-
ful a position as the Yugoslavian prefect could If there is somewhere a notion that some form
hardly go unchallenged. of ecumenism between Christianity and
Freemasonry could be useful, this notion is
As is pointed out in the open letter – entitled About based on a mistake. The basic ideas of
Freemasonry and the Church – Cardinal Seper's Freemasonry are opposed to Christianity and it
statements on the matter clearly should in no way is not possible to bridge this opposition. (6)
be construed as the infallible teaching of the
Church, regardless of the degree of authority It is also worth noting that such attacks against anti-
possessed by their author. While showing, with Mr. Masonic Catholics are consistent with the attacks
Giertych, the respect accorded so high an office, we made against anti-Modernist Cattiolics at the turn of
shall proceed in calm assurance that the topic to be the century. Pope St. Pius X, writing in his towering
examined is still open for discussion. encyclical, Pascendi (1907), denouncing the
fraudulent theology of Modernism, cautioned:
We shall not be distracted by those who, along with There is little reason to wonder that the
Cardinal Seper, claim to see some sort of rehabilita- Modernists vent all their bitterness and hatred
tion of Masonry, rendering the current direction of on Catholics who zealously fight the battles of
that body as "very remote from the accusations … the Church. There is no species of insult which
of Atheism, organized aversion to the Church", etc., they do not heap upon them, but their usual
nor (distracted) by those agreeing with the Catholic course is to charge them with ignorance or
apologist for Freemasonry, A. Mallor, who falsely obstinacy. (7)
accuses Catholic opponents of these secret When we consider that the Masons and Modernists
societies as "those who refuse to change their both elevate reason over faith, and confuse the
habits of thought" and those who are "the sort of natural with the supernatural as well, then specula-
intellectuals rightly or wrongly known as tion of a hidden relationship between the two
integralists." (3) Regarding the first charge, it is emerges as a distinct possibility.
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Before we examine the beliefs, activities and the startling revelation that of the forty Presidents of
ultimate goals of the Masonic movement – and how the United States, fourteen of them have been
these, by their very nature, preclude any kind of Masons. This means that over one-third of the men
Catholic collaboration with or membership in who issued orders from the Oval Office were
Lodges – we would like to take a brief look at members of this secret society. Other cultural
Freemasonry in the United States, since the general influences include the widespread usage of
rule is to regard the "Craft" {as the Masonic Orders Masonic-based terms like "the third degree", to
like to call their organization) in this country as a "hoodwink" and to "blackball" by non-Masons. And
group devoted to charitable and social activities, when we look at the back of a one dollar bill we see
with vague visions of a Universal Brotherhood. It is still more evidence of the influence: the eye-in-the-
commonly believed that the Lodges of this nation triangle symbol and the phrase NOVUS ORDO
are somehow different from the anti-Catholic SECLORUM – A New Order of the Ages, as written
Lodges which make up European – or Continental in questionable Latin – are undeniably Masonic in
– Masonry (these include the Lodges found in significance, as can be discovered in the reading of
mainland European nations only; those in the British Masonic writers.
Isles and other English-speaking countries are
known as Anglo-Saxon Masonry). Some people "There are no plots," we are assured by John Whit-
thereby contend that this difference should make man, a New York Mason. "The only plots", he says,
U.S. Lodges open for Catholic membership. "are a good time when we have a dinner dance."
Despite such reassurances, and despite the prestige
Masonic America of Masons in this nation, there has always been a
certain suspicion by non-Masonic Americans
What do such well-known Americans of past and (including a great many Protestants and other
present – George Washington, Ben Franklin, Andrew citizens outside the Catholic Church) of the goals of
Jackson, General John "Blackjack" Pershing, Henry the Order. Apparently responding to such fears,
Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Franklin Roosevelt, Will George Washington refuted claims that he had been
Rogers, General Douglas MacArthur, John Wayne, an officer in a Lodge when he stated in 1798: "The
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Astronaut Ed Aldin, fact is, I presided over none, nor have I been in one
Senator Barry Goldwater, and Gerald Ford, to name more than once or twice within the last thirty years."
a few – what do these men have in common? Right! (It is our ardent hope that this statement ls an exam-
They were or are all Freemasons! ple of Washington's much-heralded honesty. Along
the same lines, he once denounced "self-created
Whether we like it or not, we live in a land where the societies".) Later John Quincy Adams, who was to
cult of Masonry continues to flourish. Masons be our sixth president, exclaimed: "I am not, never
number among our neighbors, business associates, was, and never shall be a Freemason." By 1826, con-
community leaders, and even among our acquain- cern over the issue of Masonry was so great that an
tances and friends. And for the most part, they are Anti-Masonic Party was formed and ran a candidate
decent, law-abiding citizens who are industrious, for president. The event that directly caused the
generous in civic projects, patriotic; who pay their establishment of that party was the unsolved murder
taxes without fuss – well, without too much fuss – of former Lodge member, William Morgan, who
and who attend various churches (or synagogues). In mysteriously disappeared after he began writing a
short, they are average Americans. book that was to expose the secrets of the Craft (It
is significant that Masons take an immoral oath as
Estimates of membership for U.S. Masons in over they pass through the various levels, or "degrees",
15,000 Lodges in this country run between 3 and 4 in which the secrets of the cabal are gradually given,
million. Americans make up the largest body of secrets concerning which the Initiate is informed
Lodge-goers in the world, twice as many as there are that he will be the victim of a most loathsome death
in the rest of the world. There are also Masonic aux- should he ever reveal them. We take a look at
iliary Orders such as Eastern Star (women), DeMolay these oaths in the next section).
(young men) and Job's Daughters (young women).
Over the years, the number of Catholic, Orthodox
The influence of Freemasonry upon American and Protestant organizations which have censured
history and culture has been enormous, as is hinted Freemasonry has been many, and William Whalen,
at by the roster of names given above. The Masons in his Separated Brethren, has written that "every
count nine signers of the Declaration of Christian body which has seriously investigated the
Independence as members, and also thirteen lodge and the implications of its teachings has been
signers of the Constitution. But nowhere is Craft forced to issue a condemnation." (7) Author's notei
dominance of the U.S. political scene more evident We are quoting here from the 1958 edition of Mr.
– a dominance that far exceeds their numerical Whalen's book. Since the Seper Letter in 1974, a
representation in the overall population – than in revised version of the book has been published and,
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if It is anything like the sorry shift of position as having written that "one may safely apply" such a
exhibited in the National Catholic Almanac, Mr. notion. (We intend to demonstrate in this study the
Whalen has long since made dinner of his words.) impossibility of one being a Catholic Mason, and the
proof that the overwhelming traditional teaching of
Although aware of the questionable history of the Catholic Church has forbidden Catholics to
Masonry in the United States to a small extent, and belong to a_!!Y Masonic Lodge, even one that prac-
slightly more cognizant of the Church's official ban tices only passive hostility towards the Church.}
on Catholic activities within that body, many in the Similarly, the official publication of the Grand
Church nevertheless have a somewhat positive Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, State of New
attitude towards the Craft, an attitude that is York, The Empire State Mason of April 1981,
bolstered by an image projected of rather bland includes an article entitled "Bishop Says Masonic
benevolence societies. After all, they reason, how Ban Not Aimed At U.S." The author, Adam Pfiffer,
dangerous could a group like the Shriners be, either acknowledges the fact that "since 1738, eight popes
standing at shopping centers in their fezzes and have issued 17 condemnations of the Freemasons,
looking for all the world like extras from the movie reiterating the ban on 400 occasions," (emphasis
Casablanca, while they collect donations for their added) but quotes people like Staten Island Bishop
children's hospitals, or else riding, dressed as Patrick Ahem, who assures him that "we have the
clowns in parades in their miniature funny cars? Yet warmest relations with the Masons" and that the
these deluded Catholics never see that the Shriners, twenty-page 1981 CDF communique, warning
like their other Masonic brethren, have sought and against membership in the Craft, "doesn't apply
still seek "Even in the United States … to harass here (in the U.S.)." Mr. Pfiffer quotes Cardinal
parochial schools, bar Catholic children from aux- Terence Cooke praising the Masons at a 1976
iliary school services (weekday Masses), eliminate Masonic breakfast held at New York's Hilton Hotel,
tax exemptions for religious institutions." (8) And it and then he adds that the director of communica-
was largely the voice of Freemasonry that argued tions for the New York Archdiocese, Father Edwin
that if Al Smith – and later, John F. Kennedy – O'Brien, has said: "I am not aware of any Masonic
were to be elected presidents, they would be given organizations in the United States that plot against
orders from Rome as to how they should govern the the Church." (Apparently, Father has never heard of
country. the Scottish Rite Masons, for one.) Another Con-
ciliar brain picked by Mr. Pfiffer, Bill Ryan, a
secretary for the National Council of Catholic
Recent articles in both Catholic and Masonic Bishops, says that the CDF ruling "doesn't have
publications show a continued ignorance (feigned much of any application (sic) to this country." Mr.
perhaps?) on the part of leaders in the post-Conciliar Pfiffer concludes his article by suggesting that the
Church as to the true direction of Masonry. In an idea that American Lodges are "different from those
interview in the 26 July, 1981 issue of The National elsewhere" came out of Vatican Council II.
Catholic Register, Monsignor William Levada, a
spokesman for the Vatican's Congregation for the Gnostics of the Twentieth Century
Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), allows that the religious
belief of Masons (by "Mason" we mean here the The heresy of the Gnostics is the oldest of all
leaders of the Order, those totally imbued with the heresies of the Christian Era. It is said to have its
inner teachings of the cult, and not those making up roots with the apostate sorcerer Simon Magus who,
the vast majority of members who have received we are told in Acts 8:18-19, attempted to buy the
only the lesser degrees, and who often may be Chris- Holy Spirit (thus the term simony). The key doctrine
tians of a fashion) is "Naturalism", that they tend of this false teaching is that a certain abstract
towards religious indifference, and that "one cannot gnosis, or "superior knowledge", was obtainable by
believe in the Catholic faith and at the same time only a small elite group of spiritual supermen. "They
accept Masonic religious beliefs." So far, what he refused to admit that Christian revelation had
has said is consistent with traditional Church settled once and for all questions the divine
teachings on the subject. He falters, however, when nature, of the origin of the universe, o.f the meaning
he attempts to graft the bad fruit of Cardinal of evil. Not content with orthodox Christianity, they
Seper's teaching upon it. "Membership for lay proceeded to elaborate on it." (9) In the same man-
people," says the monsignor, "is acceptable, pro- ner as the nee-Modernists of today,. they often
vided the groups are not actively hostile to the employed "traditional Catholic terminology in a
Church. Excommunication would follow only where secret, perverted sense that threatened to trap the
the Masonic group ls hostile to or talks against the unwary pious soul." (10)
Church." According to him – and this is in following
with the Seper Letter – this is "the most generally We have begun with this brief description of the
accepted interpretation of Canon 2335," and to heresy of Gnosticism because so much of Masonic
defend this idea Msgr. Levada quotes the cardinal teachings are either derived directly from, or else
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tainted with, this dread evil. To take, for example, called "enlightened ones"? As for the carrying out
the basic idea of a secret teaching, available to only of such crimes, we have already discussed the fate
a chosen few by these "bearers of light", we find of William Morgan, but we should also note that the
much evidence of this In the Craft. Consider the deaths of the composer Mozart and of Napoleon,
following definition, taken from Masonry Defined, a both raised as Catholics only to have embraced
standard reference work of "moderate" American Masonry as adults, have been speculated as having
Masonry: been of Masonic origin. On his deathbed, Mozart
Darkness … Applied to Masonic symbolism, it staunchly maintained that he was a victim of poison,
is intended to remind the candidate of his and he called for a priest. Napoleon, writes Fr.
ignorance which Masonry is to enlighten; of his Newman Eberhardt in his history of the Church,
evil nature, which Masonry is to purify; of the "supposedly broke with the masonic international
world, in whose obscurity he has been wander- clique and was abandoned by them." (15) Earlier this
ing and from which Masonry is to rescue him. year a book was marketed which reviewed the
(11) emperor's last days in exile on the African island, St.
So, in order to obtain this privileged "wisdom of the Helena; it has the provocative title The Murder of
ancients", at his initiation "the Masonic candidate Napoleon, and uses much documentation to prove
-Christian, Jew, Moslem, Buddhist, or Hindu its point. In any case, the sort of secrecy practiced
-beseeches the lodge to deliver him from darkness." by the Masons comes under Canon 684, which pro-
(12) The following exchange, taken from Rosicrucian hibits Catholic activity with secret societies, as well
sources (the Rosicrucians being a Masonic group as under the aforementioned Canon 2335.
that practices a false mysticism with occult tenden- ("Progressives" and closet Masons within the Con-
cies), is representative: ciliar Church are plotting to render these crucial
Master: "Child of man, I conjure you through all laws null and void, as Canon Law is currently under
degrees of profane Freemasonry, and by the revision). "The fact that the Freemasons is a secret
endless circle which embraces all creatures society is alone sufficient to make membership
and contains the highest wisdom: tell me why illegal for Catholics." (16)
you have come here."
Candidate: "To acquire wisdom, art and virtue." Masonry variously identifies itself as "the handmaid
Master: "Then live! But your spirit must again of religion," "a religious institution," and "not a
rule your body. You have found grace. Arise and religion, but the religion … the universal religion."
be free." (17; emphasisadded) As the "universal religion" it
(13) seeks to accommodate all in a panreligious fashion.
When it is remembered that professions of this In his study, The Masonic Initiation, a Grand
nature are required even to enter Masonic Orders, Register of the secret society named Wilmhurst
and that God is called on to witness and ratify their writes: "To the Jewish brother Masonry points to the
unchristian oaths, then the permission given by Con- Father of the Faithful; to the Hindu brother it points
ciliar Church authorities to Catholics desirous of to Krishna; to the Moslem, it points to Mahomet."
Masonic membership must be considered a serious (18) The entire range of this naturalistic,
compromise of the Faith. rationalistic, humanistic "universal religion" has
been summarized by the French Grand Orient
The oaths taken are most evil-sounding. Should the secretary, M. Bazot, and by Albert Pike, the
candidate ever divulge Masonic secrets, secrets of American known by fellow Masons as "the
which he is himself ignorant at the time of oath- Sovereign Pontiff of Freemasonry," "the prophet of
giving, he acknowledges himself liable to the most Freemasonry," etc., as follows:
bloodcurdling fates. The initiate, or Entered Appren- The Supreme Self-Existent All-Wise … Creator
tice Mason, swears that, should he ever break the was the same by whatever He was called to the
oath, his penalty would be "that of having my throat intellectual and enlightened men of all nations.
cut across, my tongue torn out by its roots and .. Catholicity was a vital truth in its earliest
buried in the rough sands of the sea"; a Mason of ages, but it became obsolete, Protestan-
the Fellow Craft degree caught disclosing tism arose, flourished, and deteriorated . . .
mysteries faces "having my left breast torn open, Each was truth for the time … The Mason does
my heart plucked out and given as prey to the beasts not war with his own instincts … He does not
of the field and the fowls of the air"; for the Master put aside the nature wh.ich God has given him,
Mason the manner of execution is no less to struggle after another which, He has not
gruesome: "having my body severed in twain, my bestowed … Masonry does not exhort us to
bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes". (14) detach our hearts from this earthly life as
How could Cardinal Seper and those of his persua- empty, fleeting, and unworthy, and fix them
sion ever allow a layman to participate in such upon heaven … Man is sent into this world, not
villainous formulae as these, promises more at to be constantly hankering after, dreaming of,
home with a pack of thieves than in a society of so- preparing for another, but to do his duty and
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fulfill his destiny here on earth … Our religion political activities of international Freemasonry for
is the natural, primitive, unique, universal, and the past 250 years. During that span the Masons
unchangeable religion – it is Freemasonry." have been Involved with intrigues, palace revolts
(19) and civil unrest in France, Italy, Germany, Mexico,
There is a section of Humanum Genus in which Brazil, Imperial Russia, Spain, Portugal and
Pope Leo XIII seems directly to challenge these numerous other nations in varying degrees,
unholy concepts: including the United States.
That God is the Creator of the world and its pro- Why the Masonic involvement in such insurrec-
vident Ruler; that eternal law commands the tions? Because, just as the secret societies oppose
natural order to be maintained, and forbids that lawful authority in matters of faith and morals, so
it be disturbed; that the last end of men is a also do they rebel against lawful governments. The
destiny far above human things and beyond danger of such amoral and anarchistic political
this sojourning on the earth: these are the theories is clearly exposed In Humanum Genus:
sources and these are the principles of all Now, from the disturbing errors which We have
justice and morality. (20) described, the greatest dangers to states are to
be feared. For, the fear of God and reverence
So what are we to make of this Masonic claim of for divine laws being taken away, the authority
being the successor of the Catholic faith, of being of rulers despised, sedition permitted and
able, in fact, to "stand and watch all religions as approved, and the popular passions urged on to
they pass in review" – a claim that even boasts that lawlessness, with no restraint save that of
"Masons alone are truly ordained and have a punishment, a change and overthrow of all
succession more than Apostolic"? (21) Obviously all things will necessarily follow. Yea, this change
their talk about this being a post-Christian world in and overthrow is deliberately planned and put
which we live is but another reason why there can be forward by many associations of Communists
no such thing as a Catholic Mason. We can see, with and Socialists; and to their undertakings the
Pope Leo XIII, that Freemasonry "repudiates the sect of Freemasons is not hostile, but greatly
benefits which Jesus Christ has mercifully obtained, favors their designs, and holds in common with
not only for the individual, but also for the family and them their chief opinions. And if these men do
for civil society," and that it represents a sad return not at one and everywhere endeavor to carry
of "the manners and the customs of the pagans." out their extreme views, it is not to be attributed
(22) We will leave the last word to Rev. C. Penny to their teaching and their will, but to the virtue
Hunt: "Freemasonry is simply Theosophy. It is the of that divine religion which cannot be
perpetuation of the worship of the old pagan gods of destroyed; and also because the sounder part
ancient Egypt, Greece, India, etc …. " (23) of men, refusing to be enslaved to secret
societies, vigorously resist their insane
attempts. (26; in America, of course, there are
Secret Societies and Political anti-communist Masons; yet we feel that,
Upheavals however sincere they may be in opposing it,
their continued membership in the Craft can
On 26 May, 1981 the four-party coalition government only diminish their effectiveness in this titanic
of Italy resigned after it was revealed that over 900 struggle, since the atheistic "inner circle" of
prominent Italian leaders from all walks of life, Freemasonry helps comprise what Pope Pius
including hundreds of government officials, were XI attacked as the occult forces behind
implicated in a plot to overthrow the government. Communism.)
Magistrates investigating the case said the con- At this point in our study it would be instructive to
spirators belonged to Propaganda . 2 (P-2), a review a little of the history of the Craft; since we
Masonic Lodge calling for the destruction of "the th~n will be able to perceive more clearly the
constitutional order of the country." (24) A little over background of its zeal fqr revolution. Although
a month later, on 28 June, Giovanni Spadolini was Masonic "historians" have concocted elaborate and
sworn in as the new Italian prime minister and, dur- fanciful explanations of the origins thei.r cult
ing an interview given out on that occasion, he -including, variously, Solomon's Temple, the Garden
observed that his was "the first secular government of Eden, and even further back. to God's creation of
in the history of the Republic." (25) That response by the world with the absurd and blasphen,ous claim
Premier Spadolini, as we shall see, is exactly the that when God said "Let there be light,'' He was, in
sort to convince us that P-2 and other Masonic effect, establishing the Masonic Order · in reality,
groups gained much of what they sought … a the sources would prove far more mundane:
"secular government." Gnosticism, which we have already examined; non-
political guilds formed during the Middle Ages to
The only readers who would register great surprise preserve the skills of workingmen; the Knights
over the P-2 scandal are those unfamiliar with the Templars, a Church-approved group of crusaders
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which later apostatized; the Charter of Cologne, a colonial rule; and second, in a more expansive and
document defending secret societies and signed by destructive manner, in the French Revolution, where
Protestant leaders such as Philipp Melanchthon, a the militant anti-Christian character of Continental
disciple of Martin Luther; and another Protestant Masonry raised its ugly head. And the power of
group, the Roslcrucians (it has been speculated that Masonry as an invisible force behind subversion in
Christian Rosenkreutz · the name means rose cross the years up to the middle of the nineteenth century
in German · the legendary founder of the occult was such as to inspire the orator of the French
group that bears his name, was actually a Grand Orient Lodge, Malapert, in 1847 to boast in
pseudonym for Luther, whose coat-of -arms is a somewhat exaggerated fashion: "In the eighteenth
cross within a rose.) century Freemasonry was so widespread
throughout the world that one could say that since
Of these influences, a special note ought to be made that epoch nothing has been done without its con-
regarding the Knights Templars. Founded in 1118 sent." (29; we emphasize the word "somewhat"
and dedicated to the preservation of Christian order here, since Pope Pius IX clearly took the threat
against the incursions of the Moslem infidels into seriously enough to warn the Church in his
Jerusalem, the Poor Knights of the Temple, as they encyclical of "1873, Etsi multi luctuosa: "Since the
were called, later became wealthy, possessing throng of its propagandists has grown enormously,
estates and castles throughout Europe. While in the these wicked groups think that they have already
Holy Land, some members became infected with the become masters of the world and that they have
false religions of Islam and Gnosticism, and the almost reached their pre-established goal.")
ensuing denial of Christ led to an abominable secret
worship of a hideous statue of the Devil – the Although surpassed by persecutions of wider pro-
Baphomet (the English for this idol's title is "Absorp- portions, it is safe to say that few times in the
tions into Widsom," a typical Gnostic invention). In history of the Church has she withstood so
1307, after nearly a century of papal concern, the ferocious an attack by the armies of Satan, or has
Vatican opened a formal investigation into the she so grieved, as in the' case of the assault of her
charges, and "On 22 March, 1312, by his Bull, Vox in "eldest daughter", France. The revolution there is
excelso, (Pope) Clement V officially notified popularly described as simply an uprising against
Christendom that the Order of the Knights Templars the monarchy, yet, true to the professed goals of the
was found to be so corrupt and so rotten with Craft, it was a "war against throne and altar." The
heresy, the whole question having been debated at Jacobins who led the mobs were, in a great many
the Council of Vienne (Dauphine), it must be dis- cases, Masons, and though they extolled the slogan,
solved and was thereby declared suppressed." (27) "the Rights of Man," these rights were systemat-
ically denied the Church: bishops and pastors were
Templars who were not involved with the inner commanded by the mob leaders to submit to rule by
heresies were permitted to join other orders, but the the revolutionists instead of by Rome; monasteries
Grand Master Jacques DeMolay was among many of and convents were sacked; Church property con-
those who were sentenced to death for crimes fiscated and desecrated; the Blessed Virgin was
against Church and State. It is reported that his last openly mocked when Notre Dame Cathedral was
words were a twin curse against the pope and converted into a "Temple of Reason", where a harlot
against Phillip IV, the French king who opposed the was enthroned and venerated as "Goddess of
order. DeMolay has been claimed as a martyr of Reason"; and many Catholics were beheaded for not
Freemasonry, with an order named after the renouncing Christ. The Russian Communist leader
Templars and a Masonic youth group named after Lenin was accurate when he identified his followers
him. Regarding the political subversion connected as "twentieth century Jacobins." (This admission of
to Masonry, to avenge the death of DeMolay the kinship brings to mind a quote of Zbigniew
neophyte's oath for the Scottish Rite has called for Brzezinski – the former national S(i,!curity director
"war against throne and altar".(28) under Jimmy Carter, a member the un-American
Trilateral Commission, and a professed Catholic
When the foundations of modern Freemasonry were -when he wrote: "Marxism is simultaneously a vic-
laid with the establishing of the Grand Lodge in tory of the external, active man over the inner,
1717, many civil governments in Europe swiftly passive man and a victory of reason over belief." He
strove to suppress the movement, as Pope Clement could easily have been writing about its cousin,
XII points out in his 1738 Bull, In eminenti, the first of Masonry.)
many papal attacks on the Craft. In the same cen-
tury, the Masons played roles in two revolutions: At least passing reference should be made to the
first, in a fairly limited way, in the American War of Illuminati since this group, accurately described as
Independence, a conflict in which many groups – "a secret society within a secret society," was a fac-
including Masons – laid down their differences tor in the Jacobin victory in France. The Illuminati
long enough to challenge successfully British was founded in Germany on May 1, 1776 by Adam
Weishaupt, a youthful university professor, and its government schools but, rather, compulsory "moral
goals – like Freemasonry, with which it soon and civic" training; and (4) Government licensing of
became affiliated – "to overthrow ever kind of all teachers, whether secular or religious. (32) Fur-
government, civil, ecclesiastical and paternal, and ther destroying the Church's authority in France
to restore what Weishaupt considered the primitive were laws requiring all marriages – including those
'state of absolute liberty and equality." (30) We can of the Catholic Church – to be sanctioned by the
be certain of their influence in the French Revolution State to be legally valid (1881), and laws legalizing
. a point disputed by some historians· since revolu- divorce (1886). (33) Considering these and many
tionists who chronicled the rebellion say so (the other such attacks on the quality of life for French
Mason Condorcet specifically mentions the Catholics, we find deplorable Pope Leo Xlll's 1892
activities of secret societies while Mirabeau, a letter to French cardinals, urging them and their
probable Mason, mentions Weishaupt by name). It flocks to "Accept the Republic as the actual govern
should come as ltttle surprise, when one considers ment existing in your country; respect it, and obey it
its goals and actl'ititles, to learn that the Illuminati as representing the power of God." (34) How, one
was suppressed authorities in its birthplace, might fairly ask, could the same pontiff who wrote
Bavaria, and condemned by Rome. So it then did the Church's most forceful denunciation of
what other subversive groups do when threatened; it Freemasonry turn around, as it were, and give a
moved to friendlier climes, changed its name and papal "imprimatur" to a dishonorable government
went further underground. Then, later, it resurfaced born of Masonic lawlessness? Part of the answer
near the middle 1800's with a new name, The League must lie with those closest to the pope, and the man
of the Just, and commissioned Karl Marx and closest to the pope at that time was his Secretary of
Friedrich Engels to expound the teachings of State, Cardinal Rampolla. It is noteworthy that, at
Weishaupt in a new tract . . . the Communist the death of Leo, Cardinal Rampo!la appeared cer-
Manifesto! (Here, alas, is but another of many tain to be his replacement on the Chair of Peter, but
historical events that have been distorted by certain at the last moment word came that Emperor Franz
"scholars"; Marx, they tell us, was supremely Josef of Austria, exercising an obscure privilege (it
original in his thinking, when better research hadn't been used in 400 years), vetoed the election
assures us that he was merely rephrasing the con- of the Secretary of State. There has been specula-
cepts espoused 75 years earlier by Weishaupt.) tion that the reason for the monarch's unusual move
was that Cardinal Rampolla was either a close sym-
yThe suffering of French Catholics continued. pathizer of Freemasonry – as his advice to Pope
Legislation was passed in the nineteenth century Leo XIII suggests – or still worse, was himself
which attacked any voice the Church might have in a Mason! We owe a debt of gratitude to Emperor
society, and was thus referred to as anticlerical in Franz Josef, whatever his motive, since the man
nature. Historian J. Salwyn Shapiro, in his critique, chosen pope instead was the patriarch of Venice,
Anticlericalism: Conflict Between Church and State Cardinal Guiseppe Sarto, who was to become Pope
in France, Italy and Spain, observes: St. Pius X, and who observed – in unflinching
The most active anticlerical group was the opposition to monstrosities such as the "Ferry
Masonic order. This secret society, professing Laws" -that "God is driven from politics by separa-
a vague deism, was the rallying center of tion of Church and State; from science by teaching
opposition to the Catholic faith. All during his doubt as a system; from art, lowered through
reign Napoleon Ill, for reasons best known to Realism; from the laws, modelled according to
himself, permitted, even encouraged the notions of flesh and blood; from schools, by the
Freemasons to pursue their activities. Though abolition of the catechism; from the family, by the
few in number they exerted considerable attempt to secularize it in its origin and deprive it of
influence because they were largely pro- sacramental grace." (35)
fessionals, writers, and public officials. The
membership of the Masons included such pro- St Pius' sad observation was not based merely on
minent anticlericals as Leon Gambetta, Jules seeing what had occurred in France because a
Simon, and Jules Ferry. (31) Masonic-instigated revolution in Italy had, at one
In 1879, as France's Minister of Public Instruction, point in 1848, left Pope Pius IX as the "Prisoner of
Jules Ferry ousted Catholic clergy and religious the Vatican." Due to the ruthless nature of the revolt,
from positions they held in public school administra- Pius was obliged to flee the Vatican for his safety.
tions and, two years later, as the premier of France, Early the next year, radicals led by the Mason
he persuaded the national legislature to enact his Guiseppe Mazzini were victorious and called their
Masonic edicts, the infamous "Ferry Laws." In brief, tyranny a "Roman Republic." They seized the
these consisted of: (1) Forced instruction in govern- secularized ecclesiastical property, urging other
ment schools to any child not attending Italian states to follow their lead. "On March 29
parochial schools; (2) No more funds for Mazzini became one of the triumvirs and on occa·
Catholic schools; (3) No teaching of religion in sion occupied the papal throne in St Peter's;
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Armellini set up placards: "Down with Christ; long It is decided in our councils that we want no
live Barabbas" – a sample of the lunatic fringe of more Christians. Let us make no martyrs, but
Freemasonry." (36) make vice popular among the masses. Let them
breathe it through the five senses. Make hearts
So where does this attack of the secret societies vicious, and you will have no more Catholics.
lead? In the United States, where we are said to be (39)
fortunate inasmuch as Masonry here Is "moderate", The conspirators go on to say that they will seek
we are seeing a society that is growing more and primarily to corrupt the young and, in particular,
more secular nearly every day. A pessimistic – seminarians; this will bring "corruption on a large
though, perhaps, ultimately true – prediction of the scale, which we have undertaken, the corruption of
danger is recited by the noted Catholic philosopher the people by the clergy and that of the clergy by us,
from France, Gabriel Marcel: "A few years earlier the corruption which leads the way to our digging
(late 1800's) Donoso Cores, whose work Louis the Church's grave." (40)
Veuillot (as editor of l'Univers, he staunchly
defended the Church against her enemies) was to If all of this seems improbable to some readers, we
introduce into France, was announcing the coming should remind them that after these documents of
of a great anti-Christian empire, that would be a Alta Vendita were seized by authorities, Pope Pius IX
colossal empire of the demagogue, an empire ordered that they be published so that this grand
governed by a plebeian of satanic grandeur, the man design would never be given a chance to succeed.
of sin."' (37) Instantly, we think of Hitler, of Stalin, of Those comprising this cabal, however, would but
Mao tse-Tung, but ought not we to think equally, say, follow in the cloven footprints of their father, the
of the Socialist Premier of France, Francois devil, for they were prepared to exercise a sinister
Mitterand, who is trying to drag that nation down the biding of their time to wait in ambush. "The work
same road as the obvious totalitarians are, only which we have undertaken is not the work of a day,
while wearing white gloves and swearing allegiance nor of a month, nor of a year," they wrote, "It may
to "the principles of democratic socialism?" And yet last many years, a century perhaps, but in our ranks
France did not reach this critical condition over- the soldier dies and the fight continues." (41)
night; she has slowly been losing a war of attrition in
which,the Masons and their allies have attacked the We should repeat, for the sake of fairness, that the
Church a bit at a time, slowly depriving her of her men we are discussing here represent an inner circle
God-given rights and, where they could, infecting whose goals are hidden from the average Mason.
her clergy with their poisonous "philosophy." (We For Masonry, wrote Pope Leo XIII, has an inner
should pray for countries so afflicted, and also for teaching which it seeks "to hide, not only from
our own land, that the venom is not allowed to cir- strangers, but from very many members also," a
culate any further here than it has already.) teaching of "their secret and final designs." (42)
Thus the conspirators instruct: " – let fall certain
words that may incite the wish to become affiliated
Vatican II: A Masonic Council? to the nearest Masonic lodge . . . To become a
member of a lodge, to feel one's self called to keep a
We pointed out earlier in this study that the enemies secret never confided to you, is for certain natures a
of the Church decided amongst themselves long luxury and an ambition … The lodges are a sort of
ago that their goal was to infiltrate and destroy her depot which must be passed through in order to
from within, and we also noted that it was only after reach us; … they form, unknown to the members,
Vatican II that many Church officials – after the our preparatory novitiate…. Never throw off the
example of men such as Cardinal Seper – chose to mask; prowl especially around the Catholic fold … "
reject the correct Catholic position on the matter of (43)
Freemasonry. So, what we are asking here is: What
connection, if any, is there between the Masonic The evil hour for the secret order will come, they
drive to worm its way into the Church, and the boast, when they will "form the council of the
180-degree reversal of Catholic teaching; or is what Sovereign," and will be "called upon to choo.se the
we are dealing with nothing more than a remarkable Pontiff who will reign." (44) Their goal is not
coincidence? necessarily one of their own as pope, but better,
according to their designs, one who i~ essentially
The Italian secret society Alta Vendita issued a well-meaning, but weak and easy for them to
"Permanent Instruction" to its members in 1819 in manipulate.
which was written: "Our final end is that of Voltaire
and the French Revolution, the annihilation of One of their spokesmen, a former canon and "an
Catholicity, and even the Christian idea, forever." apostate of the worst kind," prophesied that "the
(38) Their proposed method for achieving this goal divine cult in the form directed by the liturgy,
has been rightly called "diabolical": ceremonial ritual and regulations of the Roman
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Church will shortly undergo a transformation at an opposed to Christianity which professes to repre-
ecumenical council which will restore it to the sent a primitive, naturalistic religion that denies the
venerable simplicity of the Golden Age of the supernatural and accepts nothing of what God has
Apostles in accordance with the dictates of con- revealed in Scripture and Tradition. The ultimate aim
. science and modem civilization." (The first of the of Masonry is to establish a society and culture in
general norms laid down for liturgical reform by which God and the supernatural have no part what-
Vatican II was: "The rites should be distinguished by soever … " The Almanac statement warns that " …
a noble simplicity.") (45; the idea that rites ought to Catholics are forbidden, under pain of excom-
return to a fast form was condemned by Pope Pius munication, to belong to the Masons; for they can
XII as contrary to true doctrinal development.) not maintain their Catholic Faith and practices if
Certainly, as we demonstrated in the last issue of they subscribe to the tenets of the fraternity."
The Athanasian, many Protestants are delighted (emphasis added) This is a solid explanation of the
with the "transformation" of the Church since the Catholic Church's position on the question of
Second Council, as it has taken on a more Masonry and the impossibility of Catholic participa-
ProtestanUzed appearance. And are the Masons tion in the Lodges. Contrast this with 1981 Almanac
pleased? L'Humanism~ journal of the French Grand – still under the same editorship – which now
Orient Lodge, sounded positively overjoyed when it accepts the very false un-Catholic principles
published an article in 1968, stating: embodied in the Seper Letter. The same "Glossary"
entry underwent a typical Conciliar
Among the pillars which collapsed most easily "transformation", now reading: "A fraternal order
we note the Magisterium; the infallibility, which which originated in London in '1717 with the forma-
was held to be firmly established by the First tion of the first Grand Lodge of Freemasons. From
Vatican Council and which has just had to face England, the order spread to Europe and elsewhere .
being stormed by married people on the occa- .. ," and then -noting that the Seper Letter had
sion of the publication of the encyclical "modified" the "existing prohibition against
Humanae Vitae; the Real Eucharistic Presence, membership in the Freemasons" · alleging that
which the Church was able to impose on the "Catholic laymen may join Masonic lodges which do
medieval masses and which will disappear with not plot against the Church." The early definition of
the increasing inter-communion and inter- Freemasonry actually refutes the latter, Conciliar
celebration of Catholic priests and Protestant definition by demonstrating that Catholics cannot
pastors; the hallowed character of the priest, "maintain their Catholic Faith and practices" after
which comes from the institution of the Sacra- joining the Masons since that body represents a
ment of Ordination and which will be replaced "primitive, naturalistic religion," a point dismissed
by a decision for the priesthood for a trial by the latter. The direction, the movement, please
period; the differentiation between the note, is always of professed Catholics towards
direction-giving Church and the black-clad Masonry, never the other way around.
(lower) clergy, whereas from now on the direc-
tions will proceed from the base of the pyramid In the liturgical "reforms" after Vatican II, including
upwards as in any democracy … (46; readers the Novus Ordo "Mass" whose chief architect was
should take note that the concept of a spiritual Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, Masons saw much
institution taking orders from the non-teaching with which to be pleased. Why the appeal? Perhaps
segment of the Church – as in a "democracy" a portion of the answer was given by Tito Casini, a
– instead of from the Holy Ghost is a heresy, leading Italian Catholic writer, who disclosed in
and that Grand Orient is and always has been 1976: "The reform .has been conducted by this
anti-Catholic.) Bugnini who has been unmasked at last; he is what
A former Grand Orient Grand Master, Jacques we have long suspected: a Freemason." (48)
Mitterand, said that he had reservations about
Vatican II. While he praised the so-called pro- Whatever the particulars regarding these individual
gressive spirit of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, he events, taken as a whole they represent a real attack
criticized Cardinal Ottaviani for nearly ruining the upon the Catholic world a(ld, often enough, this
Council by following the "reactionary" outlook of attack is being made by those with a sworn duty to
Pope Pius XII. (47) defend the Church from her pernicious adversaries.
It is sorrowful witness to the effectiveness of the
Conciliar writers seemed eager to return the favor. A Masonic tactics that countless Catholics believe
good example is the in attitude shown by they are supporting the Church by carrying out the
Felician A. the Franciscan editor of the revolutionary dictates cloaked as Catholic reform.
National Catholic Almanac (now simply the The Alta Vendita was aware of this over 100 years
Catholic Almanac). In the 1961 edition of the before Vatican II. "Let the clergy march under your
Almanac, the "Glossary" entry for Freemasonry banner," directs its "Permanent Instruction," "in the
began: "An international fraternity diametrically belief always that they march under the banner of
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the Apostolic Keys." (49) We find ourselves agreeing and the love of God, reaching to contempt of self, a
with Michael Davies when he writes that "the heavenly one." So wrote St. Augustine in his
absolute conformity of the post-conciliar liturgical Catholic classic, The City of God. Pope Leo XIII cited
reform with this prediction (of Alta Vendita) made this famous line early in Humanum Genus, which we
simple coincidence seem too naive an explanation." feel was significant because he used it to describe
the Masons as among those who are helping to build
up the city of man.
The Dark Brotherhood St. Augustine tells us that the founder of the
heavenly city was Abel, who is mentioned at each
During the researching of this article we learned Mass when the priest asks God to accept the
much that was new to us concerning the Craft. And, Eucharistic Body and Blood of Christ "as Thou didst
while we have covered most of the ground we had vouchsafe to accept the gifts of Thy just servant
hoped to, we honestly feel that there is another Abel"; while the founder of the earthly city was Cain
dimension to Masonry that must be mentioned who, jealous of his brother Abel's favor with God and
because of its grave implications. urged on by the devil, killed him, becoming history's
first murderer.
When he was still Cardinal Sarto, patriarch of
Venice, St. Pius X greatly appreciated the help he This leads us to the Masonic version of the lives of
received in fighting the Lodges by a group called the Abel and Cain: The Legend of the Temple. The
League against Freemasonry. On one occasion in Masons thereby endeavor to show the ancestry of
which he addressed that body, he made the follow- Hiram Abiff, an architect supposedly murdered out
ing remark about the Masons: "I myself once of King Solomon's anger. The lineage of Abiff in
thought that what people had said about them was craft legend is as follows:
exaggerated. But today, since I, by virtue of my … one of the Elohim, or primitive genii, married
office, have had the opportunity to see the wounds Eve and had a son named Cain; whilst Jehovah
they have opened, I know that nothing I have heard or Adonai, another of the Elohim, created Adam
was in the least overdrawn. I praise all of you who and united him with Eve to bring forth the
fight against this cult, for such service is highly family of Abel, to whom were subjected the
meritorious. You are serving your family, your sons of Cain, as a punishment for the
fatherland and humanity." (50; the sad truth is that transgression of Eve. Cain, though indus-
some of the very Lodges opposed by St. Pius are triously cultivating the soil, yet derived little
now "open" to Catholics, courtesy of the Seper produce from it, whilst Abel leisurely tended
Letter.) his flocks. Adonai rejected the gifts and
sacrifices of Cain, and stirred up strife between
And now to the subject of this section. Like St. Pius the sons of the Elohim, generated out of fire,
X, we wanted to believe that some of the things we and the sons formed out of the earth only. Cain
had heard about the Masonic conspiracy were killed Abel, and Adonai, pursuing his sons, sub-
exaggerated, so fantastic did they sound to us. And jected to the sons of Abel the noble family that
yet, the more we investigate, the more we uncover: invented the arts and diffused science. (51)
we begin at the outer circles and see men who yearn In this Masonic version, Cain is portrayed as
for companionship or to have a void in their life filled industrious, while Abel is lazy by comparison; Cain
with a sense of the mystical, but most of whom feel is shown to be nearly justified in killing his brother;
relatively satisfied with their religious persuasion, and God (Adonai) is at once reduced from being the
usually Christian; we move away from the surface to only God to being one of many gods, made to appear
find numerous inner circles – one such orbit stresses unfair and arbitrary in His rejection of Cain's gifts
a panreligious naturalism that identifies God and and, worst of all, He is called the author of the strife
the universe as one and the same; another circle between brothers, exactly tHe role played by Satan
seeks to enthrone reason and then pronounce in the Scriptures.
humanity as the real god; it is but a short step to the
next ring of power, atheism (it is our conviction that, Surely such a radical attack on God's goodness
even in Lodges where belief in God is the stated must be satanic. It has always been a practice of the
policy and a prerequisite for new members, an inner satanists to mock the Church by making wicked
circle of enemies of God presides and works at the parody of her beliefs (e.g. the Blac~ Mass). The
religious perversion of the others); and, finally, the satanists, writes scholar E. Sidney Hartland,
last mystery of Masonry, that damnable worship of venerate the devil as "the God of light, the good prin
fiends … Satanism. ciple, while Adonai was the God of darkness, the ev,
principle. In short, he was Satan himself. This
"Two loves formed two cities: the love of self, worship was (and is) founded on a dualistic
reaching even to contempt of God, an earthly city; philosophy and was sort of topsy-turvy Christianity."
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(52) Certainly, when we consider that the first years after its founding, a further bond between
Gnostic was a sorcerer and that the heresy is Masonry and Satanism was made, since the Duke
dualistic, it should hardly amaze us to know that "was also a clever atheist (sic) and a very religious
Cain was a hero to certain early Gnostics as well as libertine, president of the notorious Hell-Fire Club
.satanic Masons. The Rev. Montague Summers, pro- organized for the cultivation and refinement of vice."
bably the greatest authority on witchcraft and (57) Rationalists have said that the Hell-Fire Club
demonism to live in the twentieth century, declared was, at worst, a group of freethinkers who offended
that the heresy of Manicheism (battled by St. good taste by performing their debaucheries in the
Augustine), Which accepted some Gnostic ideas, garbs of priests and nuns. Fr. Summers has written
taught that God should be hated and that Jesus was otherwise, that the Hell-Fire Club, which was spread
"a devil, who was justly punished for interfering with throughout the British Isles and has a survival into
the work of the Eon Jesus." (53) Fr. Summers goes our century, really worshipped the devil, and that "It
on to say that the idea that Christ must be is recorded that during these orgies there were
repudiated was taken further by other related actually diabolical manifestations … that the seat
groups: of the vice-chairman was always left empty, and on
And logically, then, worship is due to the occasion it was seen to be occupied by a dark,
enemy of Christ, and a sub-sect, the shadowy, impalpable figure with red fiery eyes." (58)
Messalians or Euchites, taught that divine Another key Mason of the satanic school was known
honours must be paid to Satan, who is further under the assured name of Count Cagliostro, whose
to be propitiated by means of every possible friends included cardinals and bishops, kings
outrage done to Christ. This, of course, is plain and princes. He espoused the cause of a mysterious
and simple Satanism openly avowed. secret society whose goal was a "mystical fusion"
Carpocrates went as far as to aggravate the of Christianity, Masonry and Ritual Magic. (59) He
teaching of the Cainites, for he made the per- was arrested in Rome by order of His Holiness, Pope
formance of every species of sin forbidden in Pius VI, and was sentenced to death (a sentence
the Old Testament a solemn duty, since this later commuted to life imprisonment) after being
was the completest mode of showing defiance found guilty of charges including those leveled upon
to the Evil Creator and Ruler of the World. This "heretics, astrologers and magicians." (60) Albert
doctrine was wholly that of medieval witches, Pike, the U.S. Grand Mason, and his Italian counter-
and is flaunted by modem Satanists … (54) part, Adriano Lemmi, are believed to have
1t is through commission of "every possible outrage possessed the Baphomet of the Templars and the
done to Christ" that the higher degrees of the Craft skull of DeMolay, both of which were used as
or "Red Masonry" operates. Fr. Newman Eberhardt magica! objects. (61) Roman authorrties uncovered
tells us: such a satanic statue in 1895 in an apartment "fur-
Thus the "Elect" vows war on religion by all nished for the liturgy of hell," with the idol found
means; the "Scot" is to be initiated in above an altar and the words "Templar Palladicum"
ceremonies ridiculing the Catholic priesthood; upon a wall. (62; pailadicum is another term for
the "Red Cross" begins with a parody of Baphomet.)
Calvary; the "Chevalier Kadosch" has been
initiated before a three-headed serpent sup- We have offered but a few examples of many to
posed to represent papacy, royalty, and army show the relationship between Freemasonry and
(the last is a shifting factor), is ordered to utter Satanism. To these we add one more, the fact that
a cry of vengeance against the cross, and to the Royal Arch Ritual identifies its deity – the Great
break a crucifix … (55) Architect – as J.B.O.: "J" for Jehovah; "B" for Baal;
And so, the mobs of the French Revolution roamed and "O" for Osiris. Knowledge of this and other
the streets chanting "Long live Hell!" (Vive l'enfer!), beliefs of the inner satanic circle has led Jedrzej
the blasphemous "Hymn to Satan" was performed Giertych openly to say:
at Rome's La Scala Opera House in 1882 and, fifty I came to an unshakeable opinion that the
years before that, the Memoir of the Masonic Jubilee really deeply initiated Freemasons are in fact
joined the Pharisees by saying: "Christianity is a Manichaeans. And not only this: that they are
horrible magic, the height of error, a murder." Manichaeans who prefer to serve the Devil than
God. Because if you consider that the Devil is
We are faced with spriritual warfare. The AJ!.a as powerful as God, you have a free choice.
Vendita reminded its youthful zealots that political Why should you serve God? It may be more con-
intrigue was but a small part of the Master Plan. venient to serve the Devi!. I tremble when
"The conspiracy against the Roman See," they were telling this, but it seems to be that for the most
cautioned, "ought not to be confounded with other true Freemasons the Grand Architect of the
projects. Let us conspire only against Rome." (56) world is not God, but the Devil; the Deity which
When Philip, Duke of Wharton, became Grand created Matter and which is opposed to the
Master of England's Grand Lodge in 1722, only five Spirit Certainly not all Freemasons have such
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an outlook. But they are being led to this
outlook gradually and achieve it when suffl-
c ient ly brainwashed. The essence of
Freemasonry in my opinion is satanic.
This is not true that Freemasons do not believe
in God. This is a very mistaken opinion. They do
believe in the existence of God. But they do not
serve Him. They have quite a different master.
Also: they have a different view of the universe.
(63)
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footnotes for
The Conspiracy of freemasonry
1. J. Giertych, About Freemasonry and the Church (London: 40. Davies, op. cit., page 168
Veritas Foundation Press, 1975), page 1 · 41. Ibid., pages 166-167
2. Ibid. 42. Pope Leo XIII, op. cit., page 5
3. cited, M. Davies, Pope John's Council (Dickinson, TX: 43. cited, Delaporte, op. cit., page 118 n.
Angelus Press, 1980, 4th printing), page 160
44. cited, Davies, op. cit., page 167
4. cited, !bid., page 162
45. Ibid., page 165
5. cited, Ibid., page 165
46. cited, Ibid., pages 168-169
6. Giertych, op. cit.
47. Ibid., page 169
7. W. Whalen, Separated Brethren (Milwaukee: Bruce, 1958),
page 231 48. cited, Ibid., pages 165-166
8. Ibid, page 230 49. cited, Ibid, page 167
9. Newman Eberhardt, C.M. A Summary of Catholic History 50. cited, Katherine Burton, The Great Mantle: The Life of Pope
(St. Louis: Herder, 1961), Vol 1 of 2 Vol.'s, page 90 Pius X (NY: Longmans, 1951 reprint), pages 116-117
10. Ibid, page 91 51. C.W. Heckthorn, The Secret Societies of All Ages and
Countries (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1965) Vol.
1i. E.R. Johnston, Masonry Defined (Shreveport, LA: National 2 of 2 Vol.'s, page 3
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52. in his article "Satanism", J. Hastings, ed., The Encyclo·
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