Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked-The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization

"something very much like modern Freemasonry, surely in spirit and probably to a great extent in form . . . existed in the lifetime of Philip II (1527-1598)."1 What we see, then, in the years following 1717 is rather the emergence into fuller light of a secret organised Force aiming at enrolling and forming groups of adepts to work for Naturalism, that is, for the denial of the Supernatural Life. That the preparation and the triumph of the French Revolution were the work of Freemasonry does not need proof, since the Masons themselves boast of it.3 Accordingly, the Declaration of the Rights of Man is a Masonic production. "When the Bastille fell," said Bonnet, the orator at the Grand Orient Assembly in 1904, "Freemasonry had the supreme honour of giving to humanity the chart which it had lovingly elaborated. It was our Brother, de la Fayette, who first presented the 'project of a declaration of the natural rights of the man and the citizen living in society,' to be the first chapter of the Constitution. On August 25, 1789, the Constituent Assembly, of which more than 300 members were Masons, definitely adopted, almost word for word, in the form deter- mined upon in the Lodges, the text of the immortal Declaration of the Rights of Man. After every successful Masonic Revolution, since the first in 1789, down to and including the Spanish Revolution in 1931, the world soon began to hear of the country's entering upon the path of "progress" by the introduction of "enlightened" reforms. Back in 1922, the Assembly of the Grand Lodge of France insisted that amongst the tasks lying ahead was "the creation of a European spirit . . . the formation of the United States of Europe, or rather the Federation of the World." On this side of the Iron Curtain and in the U.S.A. nations are being invited to give up their national sovereignty to enter a Federation in which those who control World-Masonry would certainly yield enormous power. Naturalism is the fundamental error of Masonry and is common to all section of the Craft. The French Grand Orient has betrayed the presence of this corruption and degradation with regard to God more openly than Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry. That is the whole significance of the controversy about the deletion by the French Grand Orient of the expression, The Great Architect of the Universe. "Between Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry and Latin Freemasonry there are indirect but effective relations which are far closer than is admitted."1 When once the disorder of Masonic Naturalism or anti- Supernaturalism is grasped, we can easily understand its varying modes of procedure with regard to governments. "With tongue and pen," declares the Freemason Pike (The Inner Sanctuary, IV, 547), "with all our open and secret influences, with the purse and, if need be, with the sword, we will advance the cause of human progress and labour to enfranchise human thought, to give freedom to the human conscience (above all from Papal usurpations) and equal rights to the people everywhere." The formation in "tolerance" given in the Lodges aims not merely at that negative mental state which puts religious truth and error on the same level, treating them both with indifference; it aims at the production of a positive hatred of what it calls the "intolerance", namely the Catholic Church's insistence on a Divine Plan for order. The effect of the ambiguous naturalistic formation of Masonry in regard to the State, accompanied as it is by denunciations of "tyranny" and "usurpation," corresponding to the denunciations of "superstition" and "intolerance" in regard to religion, will be to favour the same tendency to the Left. States will be assailed as "tyrannies" in proportion to the extent in which they accept a christian Programme for order. Thus the advent of Naturalism in Protestant countries is only a question of time. The terms "tyranny" and "despotism" may not be applied to them by Masonry as freely as they were to the realms of the Bourbons and the Hapsburgs. "The Catholic nations must be crushed by the Protestant nations. When this result has been attained, a breath will be sufficient to bring about the disappearance of Protestantism."