CHAPTER XXIII—THE THIRD ORDER OF THE ENGLISH

FREEMASONS.
In the Catholic Church there are many ancient and modern religious Third Orders. Of late, Leo XIII has given a new impetus to the old and celebrated Third Order of St. Francis. The announcement of Diana fostering on the Cos- mopolite Order of the Freemasons, a Third Order, HONORIS CAUSA, and calling it Luciferian, was rather puzzling for triends and foes. Was there in Freemasonry a real and authentic aping of the Catholic religious Third Orders, or was it merely a fanciful, a purely imaginary invention, with- out any basis or foundation? In the February number of LES MEMOIRES D’UNE EX-PALLADISTE were published for- midable lists of British Masons branded as Luciferian mem- bers of the Third Order HONORIS CAUSA. Amongst them Fra. Hughan occupied a pre-eminent place. English gentle- men must have called it a contemptible slander and a wicked calumny. But, lo! Wonders will never cease in this world. The same Fra. W. J. Hughan appeared in the Freemason of July 18, of the same year, 1896, as a member of the Third Order HONORIS CAUSA. All hesitations, all deubts, must vanish away. Fra. G. Kenning, whom Diana had also pro- claimed to be a Luciferian Freemason Tertiary, was publish- ing in a leader a pompous Masonic eulogium of four pages. in honor of Fra. Hughan ; on this solemn occasion, to praise his hero, the editor gave out all the Masonic titles and degrees of the Fra. from Torquay, and crowned them by that of “member of the Third Order, HONORIS CAUSA, asa Past “Supreme Magus or Magician, 9 degree of the Rosierucian “Society. We copy the very words of the Freemason. “He” —Hughan—“is....a member of the Royal Order of Scot- “land, since 1867 as well as of the Rosicrucian Society of “England, as a P. S. M. 9 degree, he i isa member of the Third | “Order HONORIS CAUSA.”
Now, friends and foes must agree as to the existence of a Third Order HONORIS CauSA, of Magi—Magicians. For the sake of hoaxing Masons and anti-Masons Diana had only changed the name of ROSICRUCIAN into that of PALLADIST, and of MAGICIAN into that of LUCIFERIAN. The lists of the ex-Palladiste seem to be those of the Rosicrucians, as mem- bers of the Rosicrucian society of Great Britain, not as members of the Rose Croix Degree, which the History by
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the 80 has shown us to be somewhat different. While we would not say that Fra. W. J. Hughan is a Luciferian, mean- ing a conscious worshipper of the real personal Lucifer, the fallen angel, or of his fellow-devils as understood by the Catholics ; still, we believe him to be a Luciferian, as “his beloved fellow student,” A. Pike, as Dr. Wynn Westcott and other Magi or Magicians are. Thus the Third Order of the Masons is not proved to be Luciferian in the sense of Satanist as contradistinguished by Waite, but it is Luciferian in the other sense, in that in which the Magicians and other OQ..." ists, who protest against the Black Magic, can be caied adepts of Luciferianism.
We have then in the English Freemasonry a full mimicry of the Catholic réligious Orders, the Monks, the Nuns and the Tertiaries. The Cosmopolite sect cannot deny the ex- istence of Female Masonry ; notwithstanding their land marks against Sister Masons, they meet with them in An- drogvnous Lodges. The SINGERIE is complete ; in the Eng- lish Masonry you meet with Brotherhoods, Sisterhoods and Tertiaries.
‘Now, when the champion of English purity in his Devil Worship ranked the TIERS ORDRE LUCIFERIEN D’HONORIS CAUSA among impossibilities, he was misleading his readers. Moreover, when he is so POINTILLEUX in his page 287, he should have had some scruple in writing: TIERS ORDRE LUCIFERIEN D’'HONORIS Causa, while Diana had written : LE TIERS ORDRE LUCIFERIEN, DIT TIERS ORDRE D’HON- ORIS CAUSA.
It would have been a barefaced falsehood to deny the existence of a TIERS ORDRE HONoRIS CAUSA of Magicians, while by craftily writing TIERS ORDRE LUCIFERIEN D'HONORIS Causa, he opened for himself a door for denial. The English have a Third Order Honoris CAUSA of Magi- cians, but A. E. Waite may say that they have not a Third Order Luciferian HONoRIS CAUSA. “The first in this plot was Lucifer,” to use the expression of T. Vaughan, quoted by Mr. Waite.
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