Kwam een interessante tekst tegen in een boek van Helena Blavatsky 'Isis Unveiled'. Er wordt een brief geciteerd waarin de connectie tussen vrijmetselarij, de tempeliers en andere genootschappen gelinkt wordt aan de jezuieten. Dit zijn insiders die dit zeggen, geen outsiders of onderzoekers, mensen die weten hoe de vork in de steel zit omdat ze zelf deel uitmaken van de kliek en er rollen in hebben gespeeld. De kwestie is of de legende en mythe die vrijmetselarij zelf beschrijft over het ontstaan van de loge, klopt. Volgens Blavatsky was dat niet zo. Zij heeft een brief geschreven aan deze heer Sotheran die zeer gewillig is om hier antwoord op te geven. Hij beschrijft vervolgens waar de meeste graden, rituelen etc. vandaan komen, de Jezuieten.
In this connection, place may well be given to a letter from Mr.
Charles Sotheran, Corresponding Secretary of the New York I^iberal
Club, which was received by us on the day after the date it bears. Mr.
Sotheran is known as a writer and lecturer on antiquarian, mystical, and
other subjects. In Masonry, he has taken so many of the degrees as to
be a competent authority as regards the Craft. He is 32 .-. A. and P. R.,
94. ⤢. Memphis, K. R*J«, K. Kadosh, M. M. 104, Eng., etc. He is also
an initiate of the modern English Brotherhood of the Rosie Cross and
other secret societies, and Masonic editor of the New York Advocate,
Following is the letter, which we place before the Masons as we desire
that they should see what one of their own number has to say :
" New York Press Club, January nth, 1877.
** In response to your letter, I willingly furnish the information desired with respect
to the antiquity and present condition of Freemasonry. This I do the more cheerfully
since we belong to the same secret societies, and you can thus better appreciate the
necessity for the reserve which at times I shall l)e .obliged to exhibit. You rightly refer
to the fact that Freemasonry, no less than the effete theologies of the day, has its fabu-
lous history to narrate. Clogged up as the Order has been by the rubbish and drift of
absurd biblical legends, it is no wonder that its usefulness has been impaired and its
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work as a civilizcr hampered. Fortunately the great anti-Masonic excitement that
rajjtHl in the United States during a portion of this century, forced a considerable band
of workers to delve into the true origin of the Craft, and bring about a healthier state
of things. The agitation in America also spread to Europe and the literary efforts of
Masonic authors on both sides of the Atlantic, such as Rebold, Findel, Hyneman,
Mitchell, Mackenzie, Hughan, Yarker and others well-known to the fraternity, is now
a matter of history. One effect of their labors has been, in a great measure, to bring
the history of Masonry into an open daylight, where even its teachings, jurisprudence,
and ritual are no longer secret from those of the *' profane,* who have the wit to read
as they run.
** You are correct in saying that the Bid/g is the 'great light * of European and
American Masonry. In consequence of this the theistic conception of God and the
biblical cosmogony have been ever considered two of its great corner-stones. Its
chronology seems also to have been based upon the same pseudo-revelation. Thus
Dr. Dalcho. in one of his treatises asserts that the principles of the Masonic Order
were presented at and coeval with the creation. It is therefore not astonishing that
such a pundit should go on to state that God was the first Grand Master, Adam the
second, and the last named initiated Eve into the Great Mystery, as I suppose many
a Priestess of Cybcle and ⤢ Lady * Kadosh were afterward. The Rev. Dr. Oliver,
another Mastmic authority, gravely records what may be termed the mmutes of a
IvkIl^c where Moses presided as Grand Master. Joshua as Deputy Grand Master, and
Aliohaf) and Bczaleel as Grand Wardens ! The temple at Jerusalem, which recent
arclixolugists have shown to be a structure with nothing like the pretended antiquity
of its erection, and incorrectly called after a monarch whose name proves his mystical
cliaracter, Sol-Om-On (tlie name of the sun in three languages), plays, as you cor-
rectly observe, a considerable share in Masonic mystery. Such fables as these, and the
traditional Masonic colonization of ancient Egypt, have given the Craft the credit of
an illustrious origin to which it has no right, and before whose forty centuries of
legendary history, the mythologies of Greece and Rome fade into insignificance. The
Egyptian, Chaldean, and other theories necessary to each fabricator of *high de-
grees ' have also each had their short period of prominence. The last ^ axe to grind '
has consecutively l>een the fruitful mother of unproductiveness.
** We both agree that all the ancient priesthoods had their esoteric doctrines and
secret ceremonies. From the Essenic brotherhood, an evolution of the Hindu Gym-
nosophists, doubtless proceedei the Solidarities of Greece and Rome as descrilied
by so-called * Pagan * writers. Founded on these and copying them in the matter of
ritual, signs, grips, passwords, etc., were developed the medieval guilds. Like the pres-
ent livery companies of London, the relics of the Engli,sh trade-guilds, the opera-
tive Masons were but a guild of workmen with higher pretensions. From the French
name ' Mason,' derived from * Mas,* an old Norman noun meaning ' a house,* comes
our English * Mason,* a house builder. As the London companies alluded to present
now jind again the Freedom of the * Liveries^ to outsiders, so we find the trade-guilds
of Masons doing the same. Thus the founder of the Ashmolean Museum was made free
of the Masons at Warrington, in Lancashire, England, on the i6th October, 1646.
The entrance of such men as Elias Ashmole into the Operative Fraternity paved the
way for the great 'Masonic Revolution of 1717,' when Speculative Masonry came
into existence. The Constitutions of 1723 and 1 738, by the Masonic impostor Ander-
son, were written up for the newly- fledge<l and first Grand Lodge of * Free and
Accepted Masons* of England, from which body all others over the world hail to-day.
⤢* These bogus constitutions, written by Anderson, were compiled about then, and in
order to palm off his miserable rubljish yclept history, on the Craft, he had the audacity
to state that nearly all the documents relating to Masonry in England had been
destroyed by the 1717 reformers. Happily, in the British Museum, Bodleian Library,
and other public institutions, Rebold, Hughan and others have discovered suffijient
evidence in the shape of old Operative Masonic charges to disprove this statement.
** The same writers, I think, have conclusively upset the tenability of two other
documents palmeil upon Masonry, namely, the spurious charter of Cologne of I535> ^i^d
the forged questions, supposed to have been written by Leylande, the antiquary,
from a MS. of King Henry VI. of England. In the last named, Pythagoras is re-
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(erred to as having formed a great lodge, at Crotona, and made many Masons, some
of whom travelled into France, and there made many, from whence, in process of time,
the art passed into England.* Sir Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's Cathedral,
London, often called the * Grand Master of Freemasons,' was simply the Master or
Piesitient of the Iondon Operative Masons Company. If such a tissue of fable could
interweave itself into the history of the Grand Lodges which now have charge of the
first three symbolical degrees, it is hardly astonishing that the same fate shiiultl Lefall
nearly all of the High Masonic Degrees which have been aptly termed *an incoherent
medley of opposite principle!*.*
" It is curious to note too that most of the bodies which work these, such as the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Rite of Avignon, the Order of the Temple,
Fe»sler\s Rite, the * Grand Council of the Emperors of the East and West⤔ Sovereign
Prince Masons,* etc., etc, are nearly all the offspring of the sons of Ignatius Loyola.
The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsay, Tschoudy, Zinnendorf, and numerous others who
founded the grades in these rites, worked under instructions from the General of the
Jesuits. The nest where these high degrees were hatchetl, and no Masonic rite is free
from their baleful influence more or less, was the Jesuit College of Clermont at Paris.
** That bastard foundling of Freemasonry, the * Ancient and Accepte<l Scottish
Kite,' which is unrecognized by the Blue Lodges was the enunciation, primarily, of the
brain of the Jesuit Chevalier Ramsay. It was brought by him to England in 1736-38,
to aid the cause of the Catholic Stuarts. The rite in its present form of thirty- three
degrees was reorganized at the end of the eighteenth century by some half dozen Masonic
adventurers at Charleston, South Carolina. Two of these, Pirlet a tailor, and a
dancing master named Lacorne, were fitting predecessors for a later resuscitation by a
gentleman of the name of Gourgas, employed m the aristocratic occupation of a ship*s
derk, on a boat trading between New York and Liverpool. Dr. Crucefix, alias Goss,
the inventor of certain (mtent medicines of an objectionable character, ran the institu-
tion in England. The }x>wers under which these worthies actc<i was a document
claimed to have been signed by Fredenck the Great at Berlin, on May ist, 1786, and
by which were revised the Masonic Constitution and Status of the High Decrees of the
Ancient and Accepted Rite. This paper was an impudent forgery and necessitated the
issuing of a protocol by the Grand Lodges of the Three Globes of Berlin, which con-
clusively proved the whole arrangement to be false in every {xxrticular. On claims
supported by this supposititious document, the Ancient and Accepted Rite have swindled
their confiding brothers in the Americas and Europe out of thousands of dollars, to the
shame and discredit of humanity.
" The modem Templars, whom you refer to in your letter, are but mere magpies in
peacock's plumes. The aim of the Masonic Templars is the sectarianization, or rather
the Christianizing of Masonry, a fraternity which is supposed to admit the Jew, Par-
see, Mahometan, Buddhist, in fact every religionist within its {x)rtals who accepts the
doctrine of a personal god, and spirit -immortality. According to the belief of a section,
if not all the Israelites, belonging to the Craft in America ⤔ Templarism is Jesuitism.
** It seems strange, now that the belief in a personal God is becoming extinct, and
that even the theologian has transformed his deity into an indescribable nondescript,
that there are those who stand in the way of the general acceptati<m of the sublime pan-
theism of the primeval Orientals, of Jacob Boehme, of Spinoza. Often in the Grand
Lodge and subordinate lodges of this and other juiisdictions, the old doxology is sung,
with its ' Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,' to the disgust of Israelites and free-
thinking brethren, who are thus unnecessarily insulted. This could never occur in
India, where the great light in a lodge may be the Koran^ the Zeind Avesta or one of
the Vedas. The sectarian Christian spirit in Masonry must ht put down. To-dny there
are German Grand Lodges which will not allow Jews to be initiated, or Israelites from
foreign countries to be accepted as brethren within their jurisdiction. The French
Masons have, however, revolted against this tyranny, and the Grand Orient of France
does now permit the atheist and materialist to fellowship in the Craft. A standing
rebuke upon the claimed universality of Masonry is the fact that the French brethren
are now repudiated.
" Notwithstanding its many faults ⤔ and speculative Masonry Is but human, and
therefore fallible ⤔ there is no institution that has done so much, and is yet capable of
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such great undertakings in the future, for human, religious, and political improvement.
In the last century the liluminati taught, 'peace with the cottage, war with the palace,*
throughout the length and breadth of Europe. In the last century the United Scales
was freed from the tyranny of the mother country by the action of the Secret Societies
more than is commonly imagined. Washington, Lafayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Ham-
ilton, were Masons. And in the nineteenth century it was Grand Master Garil)aldi,
33, who unified Italy, working in accordance with the spirit of the faithful brother-
hood, as the Masonic, or rather carbonari, principles of * liberty, equality, humanity,
independence, unity,' taught for years by brother Joseph Mazzini.
** Speculative Masonry has much, too. within its ranks to do. One is to accept
woman as a co-worker of man in the struggle of life, as the Hungarian Masons have
done lately by initialing the Countess Haideck. Another important thing is also to
recognize practically the brotherhood of all humanity by refusing none on account of
color, race, position, or creed. The dark-skinned should not be only theoretically the
brother of the light. The colored Masons who have been duly and regularly raised
stand at every lodge-door in America craving admission, and they are refused. And
there is South America to be conquered to a participation in the duties of humanity.
^Mf Masonry be, as claimed, a progressive science and a school of pure religion, it
should ever be found in the advance guard of civilization, not in the rear. If it ls but
an empirical effort, a crude attempt of humanity to solve some of the deepest problems
of tlie race, and no more, then it must give place to fitter successors, perchance one of
those that you and I know of, one that may have acted the prompter at the side of the
chiefs of the Order, during its greatest triumphs, whispering to them as the daemon did
in the ear of Socrates.
" Yours most Sincerely,
'* Charles Sotheran."
In perspectief.
Wat was het voornaamste doel van de Jezuieten orde? Het vernietigen van protestantisme om de verloren katholieke macht terug te krijgen.
Hoe deden ze dit? Door middel van oorlog, infiltratie, assassinatie, misleiding, enzovoorts.
Ze trainden hun mensen via de door hen gecreerde of overheerste genootschappen waar vrijmetselarij er 1 van is, evenals de beierse illuminati. De grootste invloeden op deze genootschappen komen uit Jezuietencolleges.
Waarom? Om de katholieke stuarts te helpen. Dus ten tijde van de religieuze conflicten, om protesetantisme uit te roeien maar zelf buiten schot te blijven.
De new world order is gewoon rooms katholicisme, en rooms katholicisme is de mysteriereligie met een christelijk jasje aan. Een wolf in schaapskleren.
De families, de bloedlijnen, waar steeds over gesproken wordt, zijn de koningen en bankiers, ook pauzen en kardinalen Maar de jezuieten regeren supreme. De koningen, de families, de industrien, zijn onderdanig aan de paus en de generaal, in ruil voor hun aardse macht en rijkdommen. De nationale banken zijn het middel om de landen economisch te gronde te richten, om vervolgens alle terrein en bezittingen over te dragen aan Rome, om een 'eerlijke verdeling' te verzekeren.
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