CHAPTER XXVI.—CONCLUSIONS.

When the exoteric Masons have preserved some belief in the true God and the true Christ, if even it is only a vague and confused notion, they should not be called Luciferian or Satanist ; their religious lethargy notwithstanding, they can- not be accused of Luciferianism or Satanism, any more than ordinary sinners or heretics could be. But such is not the case with the esoteric crafty brothers ; these enthrone any sort of deity in the place of the true God, they admit any kind of Christos except the true Christ Whatever may be the Great Architect, Great Geometrician, Great Overseer or
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Artist they worship in the place of the true God of the Hebrews, and of the Christians, we have reason to call them Luciferians or Satanists of some sort. Such were also the French esoteric craftsmen of the Grand Orient of France, before they had declared that, as Masons, they do not believe in any God, good, bad or indifferent. But since that declaration and their excommunication by many Grand Lodges of the English communion, can these French atheist Masons be called Luciferian or Satanist? Why should they, unless all atheists should be called so? The Grand Orient does not admit any God or devil ; there is no room there for Lucifer or Satan, unless these fallen angels come uninvited ; an effrontery which would not surprise an orthodox Latin Christian. Luciferianism, or Satanism, are surely as ram- pant among the other Masonic bodies in France as they are among the English. We admit that the sons and daughters of Sunny Gaul, with their FURIA FRANCESA are more apt than the sons and daughters of foggy and cool Albion to dive headlong into, or emerge from the abysses of Lucifer- ianism or Satanism, as did Eliphas Levi, Stanislas de Gaita, etc. Still, on both sides of the channel, the same Lucifers and Satans are met with in the temples of the Masonic Great Architect.
In the Masonic lodges, the Pantheists, the Gnostics, the Kabalists, or Emanationists of other occu!t species, claim to be an emanation from anda part or parcel of either the Pan, the Ensoph, the Chaos, or any other first eternal and divine source of emanation ; they say: “I will ascend into heaven ; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will be like the Most High.” Unfortunately for them the true God has said: “But yet thou shall be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.” Indeed these esoteric craftsmen, who look on themselves as some sort of Gnostic EONS, or other eman- ations from their Great Architect, are truly Luciferians, though they may not be Satanists in the sense A. E. Waite gives to that expression. From what has been said in the previous chapters, the Masonic Lucifer or Satan is a chameleon changing his hues and shades according to’ the rays of light or the angle from which you look at him. In the Masonic temples so many Mason-Masters of importance, so many: Lucifers or Satans. We will examine some of them; it will give us an idea of the others. A. E Waite has told us that the transcend-
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entalism, which he cultivates, is slowly but surely in- vading the English Masonry. These transcendentalists must claim with A. E. Waite that “through their interior and spiritual virgin they can work upwards to divinity and ascend to the invisible elements of their own undying pneuma.” They profess that “their pneuma corresponds in the micros- cosmos to the uncaused God, as the physical virgin corres- ponds to the virgin-spirit, the Mimra-Daya, or Word of God, or Logos, or Protogonos.” Now the question is: Whether the Mimra-Daya, the Virgin Spirit is, according to Latin orthodoxy, a devil taking the form of an angel of light, or, according to occultist Masons, an emanation from some Masonic Great Architect ?
The real question at issue between the orthodox Latin anti-Masons and the English occultist Masons is, whether it is with occule transcendental forces, powers, intelligences, spirits, or the orthodox devils, the occultists enter into com- munication, when, to use the expressions of the 80 Lumin- aries, they claim “to enter into communication with the spirits freed from their material envelopes, or keep in or out the good or evil spirits, by using the points of their Blazing Star with the Masonic cypher in the center ?”
Is it by the artifices of the Latin orthodox devils or by the agency of good intelligences, spirits, or other emanations from their Great Architect that the Kadosh Magi pretend to “arrive at the cradle of divine realization, to intellectual om- nipotence and autocracy ?”
These and the like questions are the very ones which are at issue between the Latin orthodox anti-Masons and the esoteric occultist craftsmen or their occultist champions. To avoid these questions the English occultists resort to strata- gems. Some times it is an absolute silence or a pompous disdain, at other times a haughty indignation or a Quixotic threatening. On this occasion the champion, A. E. Waite, tries to be humorous and facetious. He says in his Devil Worship, p. 6:
“If Abbadon, Apollonion, and the Lord of Flies are to “be understood literally ; above all, if they are liable to con- “front us in PERSONA PROPRIA between Freemason’s Hall “and Duke Street, or between Duke Street and Avenue “Road, then the sooner we can arrange our reconciliation “with the One Church which has consistently and invariably taught the one full-grown, virile doctrine of devils, and has
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“BONA FIDE recipes for knowing, avoiding, and, at need, ex- “orcising them, why the better will it be, more especially if “we have had previously any leanings towards the conception “of an universal order not pivoting on eternal perdition,”
It would be no great wonder if Mr. Waite would follow the example of his master in’ mystico-magism, Eliphas Lev., or of his CONFRERE, Stanislas de Guaita These and many others have returned to the One Church which has consist- ently taught the full grown, virile doctrine of Devils and Hell, and has BONA FIDE recipes for knowing, avoiding, and, at need, exorcising them. Indeed our transcendentalist may find his Mimra-Daya to be leading him down towards the depth of the pit instead of upwards to the elements of his undying pneuma. I[NITIUM SAPIENTIAE TIMOR DOMINI— “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Joris Karl Huysman was reported already as becoming a monk ; he agrees that to live among the Trappists or Reredictines is for him delightful and useful Indeed, many more Masons than people are aware of, especially from the rank and _ file, even in our Canadian Northwest, have left the city of Satan for the safe city of God. They have followed the example of Lord Ripon, the predecessor of the present Grand Master, H. R. H. the Prince of Wales.
From the testimonies quoted, there cannot be any rea- sonable doubt that the doctrines and practices of the High Grade esoteric English Masonry is based on a multi-colored occultism, either Kabalistic or Gnostic, Neoplatonist, Her- metic or Rosicrucian, etc. Will Bro. Klein, the new G. M. of the Lodge QUATUOR CORONATI, supplant the late A. Pike in the British craft and introduce a new shade of occultism ? Surely it would please the Prince of Wales, Lord Lathom, and the British Masons in general, to change their Pikean allegiance for that of a Britisher, even though he may be somewhat of a Teuton. With the last Christmas number of the Freemason appeared this new star in the English Masonic sky We may be on the lookout for a new lucifer; though we are aware that Bro. G. Kenning is
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* We had written the above when we read in the Freemason, February 12, 1898 : “Masonic notes and queries.—We are all eager to hear particu- “lars of Bro Klein’s discovery | we possess our souls in patience and “we cannot imagine that he or our able editor, will commit the ghastly “indiscretion of publishing the results in the Freemason or anywhere “else. There is far too little reticence, not to say secrecy as to the “esoteric knowledge at the present time —-C. H W.” If there was not
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Whatever tnay be the occultism which the esoteric craftsmen follow, there is no doubt that many of them aim at objects evidently “beyond the normal range of men,” accord- ing to Waite’s own expression; these objects are super- human, praternatural, supernatural for mankind, and are called Theurgic, Transcendental, Optimate, Thaumaturgic, or other names more or less equivalent to miraculous. (See Waite’s various works.) Now, Englishmen above all others, would not aim at objects which, in their opinion, would have no reality whatever. No doubt they may mistake unreality for reality. They may claim to have intercourse with superior powers, hierarchies of spirits, emanations from some Masonic deity, and to obtain through them thaumaturgical wonders and reach a superhuman state at least beyond the normal range of men, but still they may be unconsciously in error and unsuccessful, while they are deceived by others or by their own self-conceit. We would not deny A PRIORI the possibility of real, superhuman thaumaturgical wonders being verformed or obtained occasionally, but not infallibly, by the occultist Masons, by the use of their Blazing Star, or other talismans or amulets, by their evocations, invocations and other magical ritualistic ceremonies. We, orthodox Latin (hristians, as well as the Greeks, cannot suppose that God would perform miracles, nor allow good angels and spirits to operate real, superhuman, praeternatural wonders in favor of Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Kabalism, Herimeticism or Rosicrucianism, Magic, Theurgy and other doctrines and arts of the same nature and intent ; the simple reason is that the adepts and practitioners of those sciences and arts deny more or less the divine essence, nature and existence of the true God. More- , over, many of them have a_ sacrilegious mimicry of the Vlora (Masonic and Christian rites ; they perform a figurative year of penance, with a human skull in one hand and a taper in | the other,f they drink in a human skull the libation of | double damnation, they ape the anointment of the Mosaic and Christian priesthood, some of their Kabalist ancestors profaned the Christian mysteries, celebrated the Black Mass, anew Lucifer, why so much reticence, secrecy and esotericism ? Lo! Bro. WJ. Ilughan had the effrontery to tell us there were no: secrets except for the modes of recognition. C. H. W.is himself guilty of betraying his Brother from Torquay and violating the Masonic silence. + You often see Masonic adorned candles advertised in the Freemason for sale by Bro. G. Kenning, coining money.
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—TESTE WAITE —Now, God and his angels will not perform wonders for such adepts and practitioners in the English, nor in any other, Masonry. Nevertheless, there is nothing to prevent us from supposing that God, for the punishment of these Magicians,—whether Black er White,—of those Kab- alist and occultist Masons, may permit the orthodox Latin real Devils, Lucifers or Satans, to perform and operate, under certain circumstances and with certain restrictions, thavmaturgical, superhuman wonders and _ prodigies, such as those performed by Pharaoh’s Magicians trying to oppose Moses.
A POSSE AD ACTUM NON VALET CONSECUTIO.—“From the possible you cannot conclude the fact.” From the at- tempt made by the Masons and other occultists to obtain by their occult performances thaumaturgical wonders which may possibly be obtained or performed, we cannot conclude that the attempts have been successful and the prodigies or wonders obtained or performed. Indisputable proofs should be brought forward by fair witnesses, sifted and examined by competent persons, before we would admit as certain, a real, visible or tangible intercourse between the occultists and some personal devil or devils from the depth of the pit. We are, in regard to thaumaturgical and diabolical wonders among the Paleface unconscious worshippers of the devils, in the same position as we have been during 30 years among the Redskins conscious worshippers of evil spirits ; in either case, there should be substantial and morally undeniable proofs, before we would admit the facts of visible or sensible intercourse of the Mason occultists or of the Indian Tamah- nowas with personal devils. On these matters we follow the general views and principles of the Rev. Father J. de Bonniott and other Latin orthodox Christian philosophers and theo- logians ; but we could no more share the views of A. E. Waite than those of Taxil, Bataille and Diana on the thau- maturgical wonders he adruits as being well ascertained. We only say that, if what A. E. Waite affirms, was as well ascer- tained as he pretends that it is, there could be no doubt that real orthodox Latin Lucifers or Satans perform occasionally in the Lodges, or in the SALONS DOREs, thaumaturgical superhuman wonders and prodigies, and that occultists, whether Masons or not, have occasionally real, sensible or } Le Miracle et ses contrefacons cinquieme editson, Victor Retaur, 82 Rue
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visible intercourse with personal devils, although they may not be fully aware they are such. Orthodox Latin Christian philosophers or theologians would attribute only to Lucifer or Satan the wonders A. E. Waite mentions in several of his writings as certain. We quote from his Essay on the Eso- teric Literature, p. xxvi, the following passage as a sample:
“It is a process of psychic chemistry of a triadic and ab- “solutely supernatural character, for the diatribes of modern “mystics against the term ‘supernatural’ are founded on a “fundamental misapprehension of occultism and are due to “the influence of materialistic philosophy. It is a doctrine of “magical science that there is an inherent imperfection in “nature, and there is an absolute perfection which transcends “nature ; now the testimony of the visible universe and the “unceasing aspiration of man’s higher consciousness are in “harmony with this doctrine.
“The triadic process of which I have spoken is the “transmutation of the physical body by the soul within it, “the exaltation and transmutation of the soul by the over- “shadowing spirit and the illumination and deification of the “spirit by contact with the universal consciousness. This “process accomplishes the regeneration of the whole man, “which is the true object of transcendental philosophy and “the only safe basis of magic. All operations attempted by “the vulgar and the uninitiated, in other words, by unregen- “erated persons, are either dangerous or unsuccessful, or, as “in the case of Black Magic, of a dark and abominable “nature.
“Contemplation and quietism are the keys of this mys- “terious process, which seems to have been carried to its “highest point among Oriental nations. It is described by “Roger Bacon as the modification of the body by alchemy, “which puts much of Hermetic allegory in a new and more “intelligible light. When this modification, or new birth, has “been accomplished, the Magus is placed in communication “with the creative forces of the universe and the avenues of “spiritual perception, which are narrow, difficult, and full of “barriers to the psychologist of the day, are freely thrown “open for unlimited exploration—such, at least, is the claim “of the magical text books and the initiated epopt may pro- “ceed to the invocation of the celestial intelligences, the souls “of the great departed, and to the assertion of intellectual “dominion over the hierarchies of elementary beings. The
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“depths and hei hts of his own immortal nature are also “revealed to him, and from the pinnacles of his spiritual life, “he may soar into ecstatic, yet conscious, communion with “God himself. On the physical plane he may perform, by “the adaptation of natural laws, many prodigies which seem “to the uninitiated observer in defiance of all law, he may “endue inert substance with the potency of his individual “will, search all hearts, and read all destinies ; perceive events “happening at a remote distance ; and can impart to suitable “subjects a portion of his own prerogatives, inducing trauice, “clairvoyance, prophetic furesight, etc.
“Such is the great claim of spiritual magic, and it in- “volves at least an aspiration of the highest conceivable kind. “Its antithesis exists in the counter claim of the Black, or “Infernal, Art, withall its grotesque horrors and barbarous, “perverse processes, by which the initiates of forbidden know- “ledge employed their developed physical faculties in opera- “tions of darkness and destruction.”
We conclude by these words of A. E. Waite, already quoted :
“It is impossible for the Catholic church to do otherwise “than to brand the cultus of Lucifer as identical with that of “Satan, because, according to her unswerving instruction, the “name of Lucifer is an equivalent of Satan, and, moreover, “the Luciferian cultus is so admittedly anti-Christian, that “no form of Christianity could do otherwise than regard it as “a worship of darkness and evil.”
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I.—SECRET MONITOR.
We published in the Catholic News, of Preston, Eng- land, February 15, 1896:
“We read in the Freemason, December 14, 1895, that “with the sanction of the Rev. Canon Crane, a Masonic ser- “vice was held on the first of the same month, in the Man- “chester Cathedral. ...The sermon was preached by a Past “Grand Chaplain, the Rev. J. W. Challoner, who took his “text from St. Paul: ‘Look not every man on his things, but “every man also on the things of others,’ Among the crafty “things he is reported to have said are the following : ‘Free- “masonry, if rightly comprehended, acted beneficently on the “business of the world. The brethren were taught to deal with “their fellowmen in integrity, never to take a mean advantage “in trade—remembering that love works no ill to a neighbor.’ “Now, Manchester is the very headquarters of the Masonic “side trading degree, called ‘Secret Monitor, for Europe and “America. The Masonic Sect of Traders makes its members “swear that they will exclude from the fraternal love of the “Order in trading, the rank and file of Masonry, as well as “the non-Masons, whom they call the Profanes, in their crafty “jargon. All the Apprentices, all the Fellow-crafts, and the “Masters who are not judged worthy, are excluded. But “they promise and swear to assist a brother Secrei Monitor “in preference to any person, whether Mason or not, by intro- “ducing him to business, by sending him custom, or in any “other manner by which they can throw a penny in his way. “Is that the love which worketh no evil to a neighbor, and “even to a brother Mason, who is not a Secret Monitor? Is “that taking no mean advantage in the trade? Does this act “beneficently on the business of the world, or only in favor of “the Secret Monitors? A Cathedral for such a deceit, is it
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“not a scandal to us poor Canadians? Did not the aproned “orator profane Holy Scripture to blindfold the Masons who “are not Secret Monitors ?”
The Freemason, May 4, 1895, published a grand oration quite concordant with the Secret Monitor's oath quoted above from a Monitor, published by Dick & Fitzgerald, New York ; copyright 1860 and 1888, by Benjamin H Day. Now this crafty grand orator is, in 1898, Grand Registrar of the Grand Lodge of England, a Queen’s Council and a Judge in Great Britain ; but he is also a pre eminent Secret Monitor. We have no reason to impeach him as an English citizen and a judge ; we completely ignore him in those capacities ; we know him only as a High Grade Mason and a Secret Mon- itor. Still we confess that it is a mystery how he can con- ciliate the oath of his office as a judge with those of a Secret Monitor and a High Grade craftsman. Whether or not he was dispensed from many Masonic horrors, such as drinking the cup of double damnation in a human skull, and from some barbarous oath and penalties, he cannot deny that he is a leading Brother and Knight of a fraternity which im- poses on its members these and many other like ghastly obligations and ritualistic practices. Let us notice in :par- ticular the oath of Royal Arch, which, together with those of the esoteric Master Mason qucted (ch. III) and of the Secret Monitor, mentioned above here, must of necessity throw a dark side on the face of fair English justice, which we so often had occasion to admire in’ Sir Matthew Bigby, in Justice McCreight, in Governors, Sir James Douglas and Seymour—this last was said to bea brother or relation «f Admiral Seymour—and many other English officials and magistrates ; there were exceptions, but only confirming the general rule, in British Columbia. We quote the first sample of Royal Arch oath from the Light on Masonry, endorsed by an ex-President :
“Furthermore, do I promise and swear that a Companion “Royal Arch Mason’s secrets, given me in charge as such, [ “knowing them to be such, shall remain as secure and invio- “late in my breast as his own, murder, treason, not excepted. In some Chapters this is administered ; all the secrets of a “companion, without exception.”
In the Blue book for esoteric Masons, published in Eng- land, under the title of The Text Book of Freemasonry. London, Reeves & Turner, 196 Strand, entered at Stationers’
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Hall, third edition, 1881, and which we have already quoted, we read, p. 216:
“I....most solemnly and sincerely swear that I will “never divulge any of the secrets and mysteries belonging te “this Supreme Degree denominated the H. R. Arch of Israel, “to any individual whomsoever, unless it be to a lawful “Companion of the Order, whom I shall find such after due’ “examination, or in the body of a lawfully constituted Chap- “ter regularly assembled.... Kisses the Bible five times.”
Pshaw! What a five-fold sacrilegious kissing of the Holy Bible of the Protestants. Thanks be to God, it is not the Holy Rible of the Catholics. Still we may ask, how can a judge trust an oath on a Bible so sacrilegiously kissed by his brother Masons, if not by himself, through money and dispensation ?
Would it not be natural enough for a business man, who has to enter a suit against a Secret Monitor before such a Mason and Secret Monitor judge, to fear that the judge may be more or less under the sway of his Masonic and Secret Monitor’s oaths, rather than under the influence of the oath of his office. Moreover, if he is a fair judge, he may have to punish in a Secret Monitor, what he has sworn himself to do. Could he accept the excuse of a witness who would refuse to divulge the felony or murder entrusted to him by a brother Master Mason and Royal Arch? In many cases his Masonic and Secret Monitor’s oaths will conflict with the sworn obligations of his high office, and slowly, but surely do damage to fair English justice.
II —MASON-SISTERHOODS.
The Freemason, on the 28th September, 1895, published the portrait of the youngest vice-patroness of the Royal Mz sonic institution for girls, and, under it, all the Masonic titles of her father,a major J. G. Shank. He isa fifteen-fold High Mason and a member of the order of the Eastern Star —(LADIES FREEMASONRY, as the Freemason positively calls
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it.) Hence, the English craft cannot deny that there are in Great Britain Freemasons who have Sister Freemasons— (Lady Freemasons). There are Brother and Sister. Free- masons of the same Androgynous order, who meet in the same lodges. The 80 Luminaries, in their History of Free- masonry and Concordant Orders, have a whole chapter on ‘this Concordant Order of Ladies Freemasons. Bro. W. J. Hughan, the European editor, in the Introduction, p. xxiv, remarks as follows :
“The editor-in-chief has thought necessary to admit “chapters on the Eastern Star,”—the Ladies Freemasonry.— “Assuredly, if this Order is admitted, it is in sate hands “when intrusted to Brother Willis D. Engle.”
This aproned Reverend P. G. P., is Past Right Worthy, Grand Secretary, General Grand Chapter, in the United States, where, according to the official census, published by the 80 Luminaries, in 1890, this Ladies Freemasonry counted 874 Chapters and 45,451 members. We are not told how many of these members are Sisters, how many are Brothers. In this census-are not included the Heroines of Jericho, the Rebeccas of the Oddfellows, and other Androgynous orders.
The craft cannot deny that Freemasons have adopted women for Sister Masons and called this crafty in- vention Masonry of Adoption, or Adoptive Masonry. The Chapters, Lodges, or Constellations, etc, in which the Brothers and Sisters meet, are called Androgynous. Many esoteric Freemasons, who believe their Great Architect to be Androgynous, and who give to the square and compass a phallic meaning, are only logical, when they have Androgyn- ous temples or lodges. These are of two kinds, the mascu- line-feminine and feminine-masculine. The first are the lodges or chapters of men-Masons, in which women are in- itiated as Sisters ; the second are lodges, chapters, or con- stellations of women-Masons in which men are initiated as brothers. In the first case, women go to the men to be their Mason-sisters ; in the second, the men go to the women to be their brother-Masons. In the History by the 80, p. 860, the Reverend Engle remarks :
“In some of the States the practice prevailed of admit- “ting to chapter meeting all Master Masons,* upon a pledge “of secrecy, while in most they could gain admission only by
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“ballot and initiation, in some jurisdictions even the patron “needed not to be a member of. the chapter, but only a con- “tributing member of a Masonic lodge. In another jurisdic- “diction, while the brethren were admitted to full membership, “they were without any written law on the subject, but by “‘tradition’ deprived of the right to vote in the ehapter.... “Since 1876 the Order (with the exceptions of those portions “of it in New York. Vermont, Connecticut, and periodically “New Jersey,) has been within the jurisdiction of the General “Grand Chapter, while the Order in Connecticut and New “Jersey has used the ritual set forth by that body.”
To which category of Androgynous Mason-brothers in the Eastern Star does belong the British Major? We cannot say. He isa Life Governor of all the great Masonic char- ities, including the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls. A Parisian would ask if this institution for girls is a PEPINIERE for the Eastern Stars, and he would express the hope that MADEMOISELLE. IRENE will eventually follow her gallant father into the Androgynous chapter OU BRILLE SA GALAN- TERIE. It is to be hoped by the English Freemasons that the Royal Masonic Institntion for the daughters of defunct Masons, will not supply sisters for the lodges, chapters, or. constellations under the warrants of the Grand Orient of France. Many Englishmen must have been stupefied to hear that a number of English women have been received Sister Masons under warrants of the French and excom- inunicated Grand Orient. Verily, the English “Freemason” is slyly, but good-naturedly, falling in love with the feminine- masculine Masonry ; though it keeps up against the mascu- line-feminines its former apparent hostility. Bro.G. Kenning is well versed in the ways of his esoteric, craft and able to please the Androgynous Brothers and Knights, such as Major Shank, and the anti-Androgynous, such as the exo- teric Brothers of the nurseries. In September, 1895, to be agreeable to the first, he gave the portrait of Miss Irene, the. daughter of a Brother in the Order of Eastern Star-—Ladies: Freemasonry—while to please the latter, he published, on the 14th December, 1895, the following remarks:
“As regards women-Masons, it is entirely their own “business. If they. choose to start an opposition show, what “is there to prevent them from exhibiting? It would be “ridiculous to oppose it, and if the ladies are satisfied some of “the husbands will surely hai! the movement with satisfaction. -
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“The only objection we have is not to the movement, but the “assumption of a title, which in the present state of the “Masonic law in this country is, and must be, misleading. | “We understand a number of English women have been “received under a warrant of the Grand Orient of France. “Tf this be the case, it is no concern of ours, and we do not “see why, seeing that as Masons we have neither rcsponsi- “bility to incur, nor right to interfere, these good people “cannot be let alone. It is not in the least a question of ‘are “you in favor of women being Masons?’ No mortal can “more the ladies adore, than a Free and Accepted Mason. “And, although we suspect the adoration in the writer’s mind “applied to ‘home’ rather than ‘lodge’ rule, there is no doubt “whenever the women undertake works of charity men have “to look for their laurels.” How kind and considerate is the Brother Editor ; he has no objection to the movement, and when the present Masonic law in England shall have been repealed, he will not even object to the title of women-Masons. Eventually the gallant editor with his most velvety pen may advocate the repeal of the anti-ladies laws in the British craft. We : wonder we did not see already advertised by Bro Kenning, the signets, the stars, the jewelry and other paraphernalia for . the heroines and sisters of Major Shank. No doubt the great manufacturer of Great Queen Street could export his Masonic ware to the United States, where the Eastern Stars are so flourishing. We have seen this Brother and Tertiary, G. Kenning, pandering to the feminine-masculine Masonry ; now let us look at his skirmishing in Mexico against tlie masculine-feminine Grand Dieta, and vituperating the Grand Lodge of New York, on account of the Mexican Dieta. On the 24th of August, 1895, the “Freemason” published the fol- lowing tidings : “Truly, the Masonic world moves. Bro. Parving never “expected to see his son and his son’s wife in the same “Masonic Lodge, and the son’s wife would-be Worshipful . s‘Master,’—holding the trowel over the head of her husband, as we see the trowel over the arms of the “Modern Grand Lodge of England.” In its issue of the 31st August, 1895, the Freemason adds another tiding : “T. S, Parvin, of Iowa, met and sat in the same lodge “in the City of Mexico, with his son, T. W. Parvin, and his
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“son’s wife, Mrs. T. W. Parvin, the latter being at the same “time W. M.”—Master or Mistress.—“It inclines us to ask “the very pertinent question, ‘Will those Grand Lodges “which have recognized the Grand Lodge of Mexico, and “exchanged representatives with it, continue their relations “with it as heretofore ?’ it is clear the latter has violated the “laws of the Craft” —Masonry, but not of the Hauts-Grades Masonry, as we shall prove hereafter,—“by admitting women “as members, and by so doing has forfeited its Masonic “status. We shall wait with no small amount of curiosity to “learn what will happen.”
The Tertiary Magus editor, on the 21st of September, leaves the back rooms of its Tidings to stand in his editorial SANCTUM to announce the victory of the anti-masculine- feminines in Mexico, the Masculine-Feminines are routed out from the Grand Dieta. The Freemason says :
“The Grand Dieta of Mexico, by resolution, authorized “the initiation of women, and its Grand Secretary organized “lodges of women and presided at their initiation. But they “are now all prohibited by the Grand Dieta from doing so, “that body having repealed the law under which such pro- “ceedings were held, although it failed to deny to women “already initiated, the right conferred upon them. It is “therefore clear that the custom of making lady-Masons is “now forbidden by the Grand Dieta.”
Although peace seemed to be proclaimed in the Free- mason of the 21st of September, 1895, 0n the 11th of the following January the pacification was very uncertain. Bro. R. F. Gould wrote in the Freemason :
“The loose way in which new and mushroom Grand “Lodges are accorded recognition in America, has been long “a reproach to that country. But to acknowledge as regular “and legitimate the proceedings of the Grand Dieta of Mexico “is going very far indeed....It is indeed a reproach that a “Grand Lodge like that of New York, which is one of the “offending lodges in this case, should have recognized as “being in any way associated with Freemasonry a system “which forbids the’ presence of the Bible+ in its lodges and “sanctions or sanctioned till lately the initiation of women.” + We may add an appendix on the phallic use of the Bible by the esoteric
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The Mexican and other Androgynous Masons must think it strange that their British Brethren, headed by Major J. G. Shank, are allowed and welcomed to go to women in the feminine-masculine lodges ; and that the same British Brethren declare war, not only against the Mexicans, but even against their Yankee cousins for letting or approving the ladies to come and be initiated in masculine-feminine lodges or chapters. Bro. R. F. Gould, in three issues of the Freemason, August 22, 29, September 5, 1896, under the title of, Family of Grand Lodges, gives ample details on the: Masonic imbroglio in Mexico and in the United States in regard to the Mason Sisters and other questions ; this Past Grand Deacon of England, naturally enough, tries to favor the British view, but the whole proves once more that the whole Cosmopolite Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons is a Tower of Babel and confusion on every Masonic topic. It is sufficient for our purpose to quote a passage from an answer of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, through his Grand Sec- retary, Brother Parvin (senior), 1896:
“The making of women Masons is by no means a new “thing in Masonry. It has only been more recent, and upon “a larger scale and brought nearer home. Every well read “Mason knows fully well that in the last century a lodge in “Ireland, Lodge No. 44, at Doneraile, initiated a woman, “Miss Elizabeth St Leger, daughter of the Right Honorable “Saint Leger, Viscount Doneraile, whose son and successor “was Master of the lodge at the time She alterward mar- “ried Honorable Richard Aldworth, of the county Cork and “has left a most honorable record as a woman‘and a woman- “Mason. Moreover the Masonic student may learn, that “during the reign of Napoleon, the first Emperor, a woman “was made a Mason, he being Grand Master at the time. “She was a colonel and a very brave and distinguished “officer of his army ; served with distinction for many years, “and her sex was not discovered until she was _ severely “wounded, when, upon her recovery, the Masons, prompted by e“a spirit of gallantry conferred upon her the three Symbolic “degrees. Within the past decade, the Grand Master of the “Grand Lodge of Hungary,a Symbolic Grand Lodge.... “conferred himself the degrees of Masonry upon his own “wife....I have to learn that any Masonic Grand body ever “withdrew or even withheld their recognition from the Grand “Lodges of Ireland, France and Hungary.”
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Whether Napoleon I. was a Mason or not, it is well known that he ruled Freemasonry in France with an iron hand and velvet gloves. English craft in the matter of sister-Masons and of Devil Worship, tells us, p. 227, 228, that “its existence’—Female Freemasonry—‘“in Spain is a matter of public knowledge, “and I have Mr. Yarker's authority for stating that in certain “countries, one of which is South America, the Rite of Mem- “phis and Misraim and the Ancient and Accepted Scotch “Rite, have both initiated women, the latter up and including “the 33rd Degree No adoptive lodges exist or would be “tolerated in England, within the jurisdiction of the Grand “Lodge, and if it can be shown that the Palladian Order in- “itiates English women into Masonic secrets, that is per- “formed surreptitiously and in defiance of our Masonic “constitutions.”
If even it were granted that this is true, to a certain extent, for the English Grand Lodge as far as the Blue Degrees for the esoteric brothers, it is not veracious but de- ceptive for the other degrees and rites of the English Free- masonry. For instance, the constitutions of the Scottish Rite do not forbid Female Freemasonry, on the contrary;— TESTIBUS Waite and Yarker, etc..—the Freemasons of the Scottish Rite not only encourage, but establish, Androgynous lodges where brothers and sisters meet as Masons, at least in “some countries.” Now, according to the Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar, published by Fra. Magus Kenning, editor of the Freemason, for 1898, the Grand Patron of that An- drogynous Order in some countries, is H. Rk. H. the Prince of Wales ; the Honorary Member of Supreme Council, the Duke of Connaught ; Members of Supreme Council, the Earl of Lathom, etc., see pp. 31-41. The High Grade English Masons, when they work in the exoteric Blue Degrees of the Grand Lodge, do not oppose Androgynous or Female Ma- sonry of the feminine-masculine species, but only the mascu- line-feminine lodges, and their opposition is based upon the present law of the English craft, which they suppose to exist, as some rituals show it, while others would let us suppose the contrary ; of course, if the present law were repealed, their Opposition would cease even to the masculine-feminine lodges, and every kind of Androgynism could bloom. In the present state of the Masonic law for the Bli* Degrees, the same English craftsmen, when they work in the Red Degrees
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of the Knightery, especially in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, they not only tolerate, but, in many cases, they establish and foster Androgynous lodges, whether they be feminine-masculine or masculine-feminine ; Waite, the cham- pion of their puritanism and cant, Bro. Yarker, one of their lights, and others, tell us that it is so. Indeed, English as well as other Freemasons, Know, Will, Dare and are more than others, Silent, not to say deceptive and fallacious
As late as 1888, in the third edition of his Blue tract for Masonic propagandism, published by Bro. Hogg, and already quoted, an English craftsman pharisaically wrote, as many others do: )
“Certain degrees have been invented in what is called “Adoptive Masonry,:some of which are still practiced in “America. In France, where the plan was first devised, “Adoptive Masonry was for a time in vogue; the Empress “Josephine, in 1805, presided over a lodge. But passwords “uttered by rosy lips must lose their solemn import, and “pressure of soft hands may bring danger, instead of averting “it. In this country”—England—'"the idea never found “favor To the initiated, the motive for exclusion of the “fairer portion of the creation is perfectly obvious. To the “uninitiated it will suffice to say, a woman cannot keep a “secret. There may beexceptions, nut the secrets of Free- “masonry, though they are not its essence....must not be “exposed to any risk whatever.” Are they more important than the State secrets of the Empire, which have been in- trusted to the Queen-Empress during 60 years, without any complaint ?
The invention of Androgynous Masonry is attributed to LA GALAMTRIE FRANCAISE. but erroneously so. A Masonic Past Grand Deacon, of England, Bro. R. F. Gould, vol. I, pp. go and 68, tells us that he had noticed “an Androgynous “clause in the York”—-manuscript—“No. 4, A. D. 1693, pub- “lished in Hughan’s Masonic Sketches.” He adds P.g1 : “The “records of ‘St. Marys Chapel’ Lodge, under the date of 17th “April, 1683, furnish an instance of the legality of a female “occupying the position of ‘dame’ or ‘mistress’ in a Masonic “sense, but from the minute of the lodge it will be observed “that it was only in a very limited extent that the widows of “Master Masons could benefit by these privileges On this “case Mr. Lyon* observes: ‘In case of female members of
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“Scottish incorporations, the freedom of craft carried with it “no right to a voice in the administration of ,affyirs, Neither “was their presence required at enrolment, although their “entry mohey was double that of members’ sons’” Ina note of the same page (91), the Reverend Woodford “alludes “to that peculiar passage which recognizes female member- “ship.”
Prats the above facts and others, such as the case of the Lady Freemason, Elizabeth St. Leger—though may be LEGERE—afterward Lady Aldworth Doneraile, it is evident that long before the French Mason, Le Chambonnet, had planned the nautical voyage of the Brothers and Sisters Mason to the Island of Felicity, and, had, as Admiral, organ- ized them, the English Masons had ladies initiated to the craft. Moreover, there are good reasons to suspect that the gallant Masonic admiral of the French craft had pirated his plan from the “New Atlantis,” of Lord Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban, Francis Bacon, known generally by Pope’s characterization, as the wisest, the brightest and meanest of mankind.
Bro Hughan, of Dunscore, Torquay, Devon, England, ventures in the History by the 80 Luminaries, pp. 30, 31, to declare that the “New Atlantis seems to be and probably is the key to the modern rituals of Freemasonry.” Another Masonic light and scholar, Findel, and many more in and out of the craft, see in the Bensalem Island and its secret society one of the prototypes of the modern brotherhood of Free- masons ; why not also of the sisterhoods of the same craft ? LA GALANTERIE FRANCAISE must take a back seat and L’AMIRALE FRANCAIs, of the Androgynous fleet, has to stand before the world on the pillory for pirates.
Is it not a wonder that the Mexicans and their frierds follow better than the English do, the old landmarks of Eng- lish and Scotch Masonry in the Pre-Grand Lodge’s times? The war declared against these Mexicans on account of their masculine-feminine lodges, by partisans of feminine-mascu- line chapters or constellations, is verily a curious phenomenon - worthy of UNE FIN DE SIECLE. It is the perpetual contra- diction of exotericism and esotericism in the English craft. It is difficult to save LA CHEVRE ET LES CHOUX—the goat and the cabbages—in the same boat where is the wolf.
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ters, the same conclusion is forced on us. In spite of the pharisaical prudery and would-be respectability of the Eng- lish Masons, there is no real practical difference between their adopted sisters and those of the Swedes, French, South Americans, Mexicans, Hungarians, Spaniards, etc., in Eng- land and English speaking countries the craftsmen object to their adopted sisters coming into the lodges for men, but they let the brothers go and be initiated in the lodges for females.
III.—BARBARIC PENALTIES
I have read many English rituals, manuals, monitors, etc., and I must say with Bishop Dupanloup :
“I have there met with scenes, terrors, oaths, and scare- “crows, most extraordinary not to say ludicrous! How is it “poss ble that reasonable.and honest men should consent to “pronounce such fearful formularies against themselves ?
The terminalogy is somewhat different in the many rit- uals on our table, but the meaning and horrors are the same Here are samples of those which are for the esoteric Mason: We quoted ch. I11,that of the Apprentice; when he becomes a fellow-craft, kneeling on his right knee, his left foot in the form of a square, his right hand on the sacred volume, sup- porting his left arm with the compassses, he says :—
“.,..All these points I most solemnly swear to obey “without evasion, equivocation or mental reservation of any “kind under no less a penalty, on the violation of any of them “in addition to my former obligation, than to have my breast “cut open, my heart torn therefrom and given to the ravenous “birds of the air or the devouring beasts of the field, as a “prey.”
The Master Mason at his initiation kneels on both knees, ; places both hand on the sacred volume and says :—
“.,..Under no less a penalty than to have my body “severed in two, my bowels torn thereout, and burnt to ashes
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“in the center and those ashes scattered before the four cardi- “nal points of heaven. ..
The Royal Arch kneels on his left knee and says :—
“....Under the penalty of having the crown of my skull “struck of in addition to my former penalty.”
The Rose Croix or the Knight of the Eagle and Pelican, knecling before the altar—which should be (at least in Eng- land) a triangular table covered with black cloth and white fringe around the edge, on which must be placed Three Wax- lights, a Bible, Compasses and Triangle—and says :—
“....Under the penalty of being forever deprived of the “true word, of remaining in perpetual darkness; that a river “of blood and water shall issue continually from my body ; “and under the penalty of suffering anguish of soul, of being “steeped in vinegar and gall, of having on my head the most “piercing thorns, and of dying upon the cross: so help me the “Great Architect.”
The above for the Rose Croix is taken from manuals and text books, published by Reeves and Turner, 196 Strand, London, England.
In the same red-covered Masonic books, I find the Knight Templar, who drinks the cup of double damnation in a, human skull, swearing under the no less a penalty, “than the loss of life by having” —says he—“my, h—d (head), struck off “and placed upona pinnacle or spire, my s—. (skull), sawn “asunder and my b—. (brain), exposed to the scorching rays “of the sun....”
We could quote dozens of the like oaths and penalties ; but these, which are most in use, are sufficient for our purpose of showing the English craft to be as barbarous as any other.
IV.—A MASONIC DIABOLICAL PUZZLE.
We copy it from the Text Book of Advanced Freema- sonry, published in England, p. 220:
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“miration,” or the Sign of “Demand.” It consists in raising ' “the E-- to H—, and at the same time crossing the H—, P— “outwards, and F— i—d upon the F—d, from thence letting “them drop upon:the S—h _ The Second Sign is the answer. “Lift your R— H— to the F—h—d, with F—s c—d, except “the i—x f—r, indicating that there is but one God in Heaven, “Creator and Sovereign of all things ; also c—s the r—t L— “b—d the 1—t c—. The Third is called the Sign of ‘the “Good Shepherd,’ or ‘Pastor, and is given by c—g the A—s “with the |—t uppermost, om the R—t, you then approach “each other and place reciprocally your h—s and a—s on “each other’s B—s, forming a d—e C—s, then in the e—r one “says, ] a—d N, R ad S; the one says ‘E—I,’ the other “P__x v—m, The h—d of one is then r—d, with the i—x “f__r p—g u—s, saying E—D—-D—E C—A, the other with “the f—r p—g d—s says, E—D—D—E—S—D !” Here is the key of the puzzle: E, eyes; H, heaven; H, hands ; P, palms; F, finger; i, index; F—d, forehead ; S, stomach ; R—H, right hand; F—h—d, forehead ; F—s, . i fingers ; c, clinched. i—x, index ; f—r, finger ; c—s, cross ; r—t, right ; L, leg ; b—d, behind ; 1+, left; c, calf; c—g, crossing ; A—s, arms ; |—t, left; B—t, breast ; h—s, hands ; |
a—s, arms; B-- s, breasts; d—e, double; c—s, cross ; e—r, ear;
| a—d, and; JNRJ ; E—!, Emmanuel; P—x, pax; v—m,
| vobiscum ; h—d, hand; r—d, raised ; i—x, index; f—r, finger ; p—-g, pointing ; u—s, upwards ; E—D—-D—E C— A, Emmanuel Dominus Dominorum Excelsus, Coelis As- cendit; f-—r, finger; p—g, pointing; d—s, downwards ; E—D—D—E S—D, Emmanuel Dominus Dominorum Excelsus, Sepulture Descendit.
The law of the country does not allow us to explain in print the obscene meaning of this sign of the Evil Shepherd of the Masonic Goats of Mendes, nor of the I. N. R. I.—Igni Natura Renovatur Integra—much less the meaning most obscene of Emmanuel, Dominus, Dominorum Excelsus, Ceelis Ascendit, and Sepultura Descendit. Indeed, the
’ Prince of Orange was a hundredfeld right when he felt indig- nant at the Rose Croix. No wonder if the same craftsmen suggested by the quotation from Levi by Pike—in our chap- i ter xvi—an abominable and diabolical interpretation of the | medal of the Virgin Mother of Christ; they set her on a level with Venus. Lucifer is in the plot. English Free- masonry, like all others, belongs to the city of Satan.
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Archbishop Meurin, in his LA FRANC-MACONNERIE SYNAGOGUE DE SATAN, has given, in Latin, as far as decency allowed, the key to this Masonic phallic puzzle. This key is easily found in the esoteric literature of the English craft.
A. E. Waite may say: “A celebate religion ever sus. pects the serpent in the neighborhood of the woman,” but he could not disprove that the Great Architect of the English Masons is as Androgynous as that of the Continental brethren. He knows the controversy could not be published in public print, hence he feels safe in his phallic sanctum of the Mystico-Magicians. Would hé resort to a discussion by private correspondence, the details of which could not, of course, be published: the law wovld~not allow it; but the result could be printed for the public ?
In another appendix will be found the doctrine of the Latin-Christian anti-Masons on the Androgynous Great Architect of the English, as well as of the Continental, occultist magico-mystic craftsmen.
V.—THE BIBLE A PHALLIC SYMBOL FOR THE ENGLISH ESOTERIC MASONS,
Among the 80 Luminaries, 15 belong to the British Empire, one is a Doctcr of Oxford and Bishop of Iowa, with W. J. Hughan, European editor. Now in their History, these 80 Luminaries present the Bible as a phallic symbol of their Androgynous Great Architect ; in Mahomedan or other countries, the Koran or any book considered as sacred is used in the lodges for the same purpose. [n our chapters v and x, there are proofs that the English esoteric craftsmen give a phallic meaning to the Square and Compasses. The Lumin- aries, p. 44, speaking of their Androgynous Architect under the expression: GOD IN A DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE way, tell us, that from the junction of the Monad—Square— with the Duad—Compasses—the generation results. This is the doctrine of Eliphas Levi for the three worlds. Therefrom
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the 80 go on and say: “The UNION of the Compasses of FAITH”—the female principle-—“with the Square of REA- SON”—the male principle—‘‘on the HOLY BIBLE GEN- ERATES.” Below this they have the Book with the words: “REVELATION, LIGHT, TRUTH, WILL OF GOD,” interlaced with the Square and Compasses. To blindfold the exoteric brethren of the nursery they try to add another meaning disguising their obscene doctrine. They use the Bible as we have seen them, after the pattern of Levi, using the medal of Mary, the virgin mother of Christ, for an ob- scene teaching. The Mexicans, the French and other crafts- men,.are less offensive ,;when they do not admit the Bible, than the English, who admit it to profane it. The capitals are of the 80, not ours.
VI.—CONGRESS OF TRENT.
We translate from an authentic copy of the resolutions of the Congress of Trent* the following questions and the answers to them :
“What are the religious doctrines by which Freemasonry: “has been inspired ?
“Based upon the official authority which has sanctioned “the doctrines contained in more than one hundred and fifty “Masonic works—works which were exhibited at the sma! “exposition of the Congress of Trent—the unanimous answer “to the above question was that the religious and philosoph- “ical doctrines reproduced and propagated by the Freema- “sonry were the Phallic doctrines of the ancient mysteries “of India, of Persia, of Ethiopia, of Phenecia, of Greece and “of the Romans, of the Druids, and, since Christianity, of the “Gnostics, Manicheans, Albigenses, Pataris and. kindred “sects, of the Templars, of the Fire-philosophers, Alchemists “or Rosicrucians, who, in June 24, 1717, .founded Freema- * Resolutions du tst Congres Anti-maconniqne internationale xxvi-xxx
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“sonry with its actual symbolism, to perpetuate under its “name ‘the cultus of the Phallus,’ otherwise called ‘naturalis’ “or ‘the cultus of Nature’; it is the reason why Masonry, ‘by “the Grand Mother Lodge of all the Lodges of the World, “the Mother Lodge of England,’ has given the definition of “itself as ‘the capacity of nature, the intelligence of the power “which exists in nature and its divers operations.’ Inasmuch “as it is ‘the capacity of nature’ it defines itself by the simple “word LUX, the light by excellence, which enlightens every “man that comes to the world. _
“Inasmuch as it is ‘the intelligence of the power which “exists in nature,’ it defines itself: THE SCIENCE WHICH EM- “BRACES ALL SCIENCES, especially ‘the science of man— “NOSCE TEIPSUM. Inasmuch as it is ‘the variety of “the operations of nature, it proclaims itself to be “a beautiful system of morality under the veil of allegories “and the ornament of symbols. In fine, to sum up in a few “words the preceding definitions: ‘It is the science of the “Holy Name of God, of the word JEHOVAH’ pronounced and “interpreted in the Lodge ‘HE HO,’ which means HE SHE, the “two sexes, the gencrating power, ‘natura enim dicta est ab “eo quod nasci aliquid faciat, gignendi enim et faciendi potestas “est. Hunc quidem Deum dixerunt a quo omnia creata sunt - “et existunt.’
“To a second question: ‘What is the connection of “Masonry with Satanism ?’
“To this question the unanimous answer has been that “simple Masonry, or Masonry of the first three degrees of “Apprentice, of Fellow Craft and of Master Mason, being “commonly and ordinarily divided in ‘exoteric’ and ‘esoteric,’ “that is that the generality of its members are unacquainted “with the signification of their symbols, and consequently not “being morally prepared and disposed to a physical or sensi- “ble intercourse with the spirits or Satan, this connection “considered in a physical or a sensible point of view between “the common Masonry and the spirits, does not exist. Never- “theless from a moral and intellectual point of view it has a “regular connection with Satanism for the reason that “Masonry is an association which calls itself God, or as “Mazzini defined it, ‘Ecclesia Sancta Dei’; meaning by this “God, Lucifer or the Sun, principle of the universal material
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“distinct by their symbols and. separate meetings, from the “Apprentices and Fellow Crafts, to whom the symbols are “not explained, and can, if they wish, practise the Hermetic “or Black Art Magic, under the name of Sacerdotal Masonry, “because, by the fact of their being Masters they are priests “of Satan, represented in all the symbolic lodges by the “Blazing Star.
To a third question; “The doctrines professed, at least “apparently, by the Masons, have they a general connecting “link, and if so, what is it? ,
“To this question the umanimous reply was that the var- “ious beliefs publicly ,professed by them under different “names, may be summed up as ‘Monism, for the All in All,’ “or ‘God, the Great All’ of the idealist Pantheism, or of the “Materialism. under the name of positive science or Positiv- “ism. These doctrines in the symbolic language, universal “among Masons, have received from them the name of ‘osten- “sible Masonry’ for the profane.
“That they have all a closely connecting link in the “identification of the universe with God ; they are all derived “from Masonry, a school and seminary of Atheism ; the “nexus between them consists solely in the substitution of “the concept, idea of a God generating the universe, for the “Christian concept, idea of God, creator of heaven and earth ; “this substitution is indicated in Masonry by the application “to the Divinity of the name of Architect of the Universe, “the word Architect implying the pre-existence or co-exist- “ence of the material upon which architecture is working, and “of the instruments to work out.
To a fourth question: “What is the aim of Masonry ? “after a long discussion it was unanimously answered: The “aim of Freemasonry is universal destruction in the physical, “intellectual and moral.
“(a) In the physical order or order for existence, since “Freemasonry has deified death, or the universal destruction, ‘substituting for the Christian Most Holy Trinity, the Indian “Trinity of a God generating, destroying and regenerating, “represented by their triangle, realized in the ‘cosmos’ by the “general princip!e according to which ‘mors unius est gener- “atio alterius’ and ‘vice versa,’ successively, eternally, and “carried in practise by the Freemasons with great damage “for human society under the special names of ‘struggle for “life, perpetual evolution and indefinite progress.’
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“(b) In the moral order the aim of Freemasonry is “universal destruction, since it deifies the principle of evil and “with it deifies all the vices under the name of all the virtues.
“(c) In the intellectual order its aim is universal de- “struction of truth by the explicit and necessary profession of “lying. perjury and daily blasphemy.
“In short, summing up what precedes, it was concluded “that as those who shut-their eyes to the light of the sun and “thus, as it were, putting it out and making it obscure. put “out and make obscure the life, order and beauty of the uni- “verse, thus the Freemasons in falsifying the Christian con- “cept, idea of God creator, by substituting for it the concept, “idea of a God generator, aim at universal destruction, for in “all their symbolic rites, in all their''religious ceremonies, “they profess the adoration and ‘cultus’ of the cursed mortal “sin, ‘per peccatum mors’ ; they adore the universal revolt in “Satan, and the infinite lust of humanity; these are the “ALPHA and the OMEGA of their God, the Destruction.”
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‘PART I CHAPTER, PAGE, ER PROMUGOTION 6 ccc es eed eedee re eesaepeet ee eee es 3 Lan BNO MUIGTY ke cece cere vac resterienenn 7 11.—Exotericism and Esotericism in English Ma-
ls ee eae ee a aes wae ae ee ee 10" 111.—Esoteric Penalties, Oaths and Treason...... 13 Iv.— The English Craft Has Secret Esoteric Aims 16 v.—Esoteric and Exoteric Doctrines............ H vi1.—F xoteric and Esoteric Deity............... 21 vi1.—Exoteric Christ and Esoteric Christos...... 24
vill.— Esoteric Variations...............0e eee aee 28 IX.—Religious Lethargy of English Protestant Ex-
OURNG DISGONS .6 ves ceeeeceesesencten 32 x.—Gnosticism in English Freemasonry........ 36 xI.—Neoplatonism Revived.............eese000- 140
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