The Philosophy of Freemasonry

The Archbishop of Port-Louis, Monsignor Leon Meurin, says in his work "Philosophy of Freemasonry":

"In the year 1844, Disraeli placed the following words in the mouth of the Jew Sidonia (Coningsby VI. XV.):

'Since English society has begun to stir and its institutions are threatened by powerful associations, they see the formerly so faithful Jews in the ranks of the revolutionaries... This mysterious diplomacy, which so disturbs the western powers, is organised by Jews and for the greatest part also carried out by them... the monstrous revolution, which is prepared in Germany, and whose effects will be still greater than those of the Reformation, is carried out under the protectorate of the Jews. Leading its preparations and effects in Germany I see a Lithuanian Jew, in the Spanish Senor Mendizabal, I see a Jew from Aragon; in the President of the French Council, Marshal Soult, I recognise the son of a French Jew; in the Prussian minister, Graf Arnim, I see a Jew. As you already see, dear Coningsby, the world is ruled by personages who are very different from those who are regarded as ruling and do not work behind the scenes.'

-- Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby", chapter XV

"During the revolution of 1848, which was led by the Grand Orient of France, its grandmaster, the Jew Cremieux was minister of Justice. In 1860 this man founded the Israelite International League (AIU) and announced with incomprehensible insolence in the year 1861, in the 'Israelite Archives' (page 651), 'that in place of Popes and Caesars, a new kingdom, a new Jerusalem, will arise.' And our good Freemasons with their blind eyes help the Jews in the 'great work' of building up this new temple of Solomon, this new Caesarean-Papal kingdom of the Cabbalists!

"In the year 1862, a Berlin Freemason had a leaflet of eight pages printed, in which he complained about the predominance of Jews in the lodges. Under the title 'Signs of the Time', he alludes to the dangerous character of the Berlin elections of 28th April and 6th May of the year in question.

'An element', he said, 'has appeared on the scene and has exercised a dangerous influence which causes disintegration on all sides: the Jew. The Jews are leading in their writings, words and deeds; they are the most principal leaders and agents in all revolutionary undertakings, even in the building of barricades. One has seen this very clearly in Berlin in the year 1848. How is it possible that, in Berlin, 217 Jewish candidates were elected, and that, in two districts, only Jews were elected with the exclusion of any Christian candidates?'

"This position of things has worsened more and more. The Jews form the majority in the city government, so that Berlin with justice could be called the capital of the Jews.

"In the press the Jews speak of the 'people' and of the 'Nation', as if there were only Jews and no Christians existed. The explanation for this could be given by the 'Freemasonic inciters' who, following Brother Lamartine, introduced the revolutions of 1789, 1830, 1848, etc. This explanation is confirmed by 'Brother Garnier Pages', a minister of the Republic, who, in the year 1848, publicly declared that the revolution of 1848 represents the triumph of the norms of the Freemasons league, so that France was dedicated to Freemasonry, and that 40,000 Freemasons had promised their help to conduct to an end the glorious work of the erection of the Republic, which had been chosen to spread out over the whole of Europe and in the end over the entire earth."

"The high peak of all this is the political and revolutionary power of the Jews, according to the words of J. Weil, leader of the Jewish Freemasons, who in a secret report said: 'We exercise a powerful influence on the movements of our time and of the progress of civilisation in the direction of the Republicanising of the peoples.'

"The Jew Ludwig Boerne, another Freemasonic leader, said likewise in a secret document: 'We have with mighty hand so much shattered the pillars upon which the old building rests that they groan and crack.' Mendizabal, likewise a Jew and the soul of the Spanish revolution of 1820, set through the capture of Porto and Lisbon, and in 1838, by means of his Freemasonic influence, realised the revolution in Spain, where he became Prime Minister."

And his Excellence, the Archbishop, goes on to say:

"The Jew Mendizabal had promised as minister to improve the insecure financial position of Spain; but in a short time the result of his machinations was a frightful increase of the national debt and a great diminishing of the State incomes, while he and his friends accumulated enormous riches. The sale of more than 900 Christian institutions of a religious and charitable kind, which the 'Cortesa', upon the instigation of the Jews, had declared to be national property, created for them a magnificent opportunity for the unparalleled increase of their personal property. In the same manner church property was dealt with. The unskilful mockery of religious and national feelings went so far that the mistress of Mendizabal dared to flaunt herself in public with a wonderful necklace, which a short time previously had served to decorate an image of the Holy Virgin Mary in one of the churches of Madrid.

"The Berlin Freemason, whom we mentioned at the beginning, said further:

'The danger for the throne and the altar, which are threatened by the Jewish power, has reached its highest point, and it is time to sound alarm, just as the leaders of German Freemasonry did when they said: 'The Jews have understood that 'the kingly art' (the Freemasonic art) was a principal means to erect their own secret kingdom... The danger threatens not only our Order, Freemasonry, but the State in general... The Jews find manifold opportunities in the lodges, to exercise their old familiar systems of briberies; by their sowing confusion in many affairs. If one bears in mind the role that the Jews played in the crimes of the French revolution and the illegal Corsican seizure of property, if one also bears in mind the tenacious belief of the Jews in a future Israelite kingdom which will rule over the world, as well as their influence on a great number of ministers of State, one will recognise how dangerous their activity can become in Freemasonic affairs. The Jewish people forms a tribe, which hostilely opposes the entire human race, and which believes the God of Israel has only chosen one people, to whom all others must serve as 'footstools.'

"Let it be borne in mind that among the 17 million inhabitants of Prussia there are only 600,000 Jews; let it be borne in mind with what convulsive zeal this people of Oriental and irrepressible activity works to attain the overthrow of the State with all means; to occupy the higher teaching institutions, even by means of money, and to monopolise the government offices in its favour.

"Carlile, one of the most authoritative Freemasonic personages, says (page 86): 'The Freemasonry of the Grand Lodge is at present through and through Jewish.'

"The 'Kreuz-Zeitung', the principal organ of the Prussian conservatives, published, from 29th June to 3rd July 1875, a series of articles, in which it elaborated that the chief ministers in the German and Prussian government, not excluding Prince Bismarck, found themselves in the hands of the Jewish kings of the Bourse, and that the Jewish bankers were those who in practice ruled Prussia and Germany. These facts caused the Jew Gutzkow to assert: 'The true founders of the new German Reich are the Jews; the Jews are the most advanced in all sciences, the press, the stage and politics.'

"In the year 1860 M. Stamm wrote a book on this theme, in which he proves that the kingdom of all-embracing freedom on earth was founded by the Jews. In the same year, Sammter published a long letter in the 'Volksblatt', in order to demonstrate that the Jews would very soon take up the place of the Christian nobility; the rule of the nobility was falling and will lose its place in this epoch of all enveloping light and of all embracing freedom, to which we have drawn so near.

'Do you not understand', he writes, 'the true meaning of the promise, which was given by the Lord God Sabaoth to our father Abraham? This promise, which will be fulfilled with certainty, namely that one day all peoples of earth will be subject to Israel. Do you believe that God referred to a universal monarchy with Israel as King? Oh no! God scattered the Jews over the entire surface of the globe, so that they should form a kind of leaven over all races, and in the end, as the chosen, which they are, extend their rulership over the former.'

'It is not likely that the terrible repression that the Christian peoples of Europe have suffered -- who have been made poor through the usurers and the greed of the Jews and lament about this, so that the national wealth is accumulated in the hands of the great bankers -- will be satisfied with isolated anti-Semitic upheavals. The monarchies, whose firm foundations are still not shattered through the Freemasonic hammer and whose ruling houses are still not at the position of the ragged and barefooted Freemasons who have their eyes bound, will join together against this vile sect and destroy the ranks of the Anarchists.'

"Carlile, himself a fanatical Freemason, horrified at the fate of mankind in the hands of the Jews, says: 'When the legislators busy themselves again with the secret societies, they would do well to make no exception in favour of Freemasonry.'

"The privilege of secrecy is allowed to the Freemasons according to law in England, France, Germany and, according to our recognising it, in most countries. The fact that all revolutions emanate from the depths of Freemasonry would be inexplicable, if we did not know that, with the present exception of Belgium, the ministries of all lands are found in the hands of leading Freemasons, thus fundamentally, of the Jews." [22]

Other Confirmations

One of the most interesting proofs is undoubtedly that of the "Freemason" Haugwitz, who was inspector of the Lodges of Prussia and Poland. In the year 1777 he wrote in his Memoirs:

"I took over the direction of the lodges of Prussia, Poland and Russia. There I have gained the firm conviction that everything which has occurred since 1789 in France -- in a word, the revolution -- was at that time not only arranged, but was also prepared by means of meetings, instructions, oath-taking and signs, which leaves the intelligence in no doubt as to who thought it all out and directed it." [23]

As far as the murder of Louis XVI is concerned, we likewise possess the evidence of the Jesuit father Abel:

"In the year 1784", he declared, "there took place in Frankfurt an extraordinary assembly of the Grand Eclectic Lodge. One of the members placed for discussion the condemning of Louis XVI, the king of France, and Gustav III, the king of Sweden. This man was called Abel and was my grandfather." [24]

After this gathering, one of the participants, the Marquis de Visieu, declared as follows:

"What I can say to you is that a finely spun and a most deep-reaching conspiracy has been instigated, so that your religion and governments will succumb." [25]

The existence of this conspiracy and its plan to murder the king of France and the king of Sweden, are likewise confirmed by the greatest number of authors who have made serious investigations into the Freemasonry question [26], and the tragic events do the same. On 21st January King Louis XVI died, executed through the guillotine after a mock trial at which the majority of judges were Freemasons. A year later, King Gustav III of Sweden was murdered by Akustrem, a pupil of Condorcet. In the same year the Emperor Leopold vanished in a mysterious manner.

"In order to live, France must not sacrifice what is most rational in its existence: the philosophical, political and social ideals of its predecessors of 1789; it must not extinguish the torch of its revolutionary spirit, with which it has illuminated the world... The worst humiliation for France would occur if the work of the revolution were cursed... at least it should be possible to perpetuate it without the loss of its ideals." [27]

"One must never forget that it was the French revolution which realised the principles of Freemasonry, which were prepared in our temples", said a speaker at the congress of Freemasons of Brussels. [28] In an assembly of the Lodge of Angers, which took place in 1922, one of the brothers proclaimed: "Freemasonry, which played the most important role in the year 1789, must be ready to supply its fighting groups for an always possible revolution." [29]

Jewish Liberation

Let us pass over the stage of participation of the Jews in revolutions in general. Already in the year 1648 the great revolutionary leader Cromwell was supported by the Jews; a deputation, which came from remotest Asia and was led by the Rabbi Jakob ben Azabel, appeared before the English dictator. The results of the conversations which took place were not long in coming and "Cromwell used his entire power in order to abolish the laws that placed restrictions upon the Jews in England." [30] One of the closest collaborators of Cromwell was the Rabbi of Amsterdam, Manasse ben Israel. [31]

Ernest Renan, who cannot be accused of Antisemitism, wrote the following:

"In the French revolutionary movement, the Jewish element plays a chief role and it is very difficult to deny this. It is true that around 1789 the Jews went to work with much caution and concealed themselves behind the Freemasonic organisations and the philosophical associations; however this did not prevent several of the sons of Israel from taking an active part in the revolutionary events and making use of these from the material standpoint. The first shot against the Swiss Guard of the Tuilleries was fired, on the 10th August 1791, by the Jew Zalkind Hourwitz Land." [32]

But since this zeal for war carries with it many dangers, the Jews prefer to devote themselves to other, less dangerous and above all rewarding activities. The old Hebrew, Benoltas, a millionaire of this city (Cadiz), was from now on named as General Treasurer of the Order and already reckoned to possess a disposable capital of three hundred thousand Thalers. (Rule 44 of the Grand Spanish Orient of 10th April 1824). [33]

The supplying of the Republican armies was carried out through the Israelites Biderman, Max Beer, Moselmann and others. This gave occasion to the complaints which were made by Colonel Bernanville of the army of the Moselle, because for the troops he had been supplied with boys' shoes with cardboard soles, children's stockings and completely moth-eaten sailcloths for tents. [34]

Soon after, the laws that restricted the rights of the Jews were lifted, thanks to the mediation of Abbot Gregoire, Mirabeau, Robespierre and others (this is done on the first occasion by all revolutionary governments), and soon afterwards, when the ideas of 1789 gained the upper hand, a veritable flood -- according to the words of Capefigues -- of foreigners discharged themselves over France from the banks of the Rhine. [35] Then appeared in the political arena such names as Klotz, Benjamin Veitel Ephraim, Etta Palm, etc. "The Messiah has arrived for us on 28th February 1790 with the Rights of Man", [36] wrote the Jew Cohen, "and in fact the awarding of all rights of citizenship to the Jews was one of the great victories of Israel."

"The revolution of 1830", says the Jew Bedarride, "has only perpetuated these happy results."

When, in the year 1848, the rule of the peoples reached its last limits, the same author cynically added that Israelite names appeared in the highest realms of power. These chosen ones, these representatives of the people, often took on such French names as Fould, Ceriber, Cremieux, etc. The custom of there being at least one Jewish representative in the government of the Republic is something that, apart from rare exceptions, has been preserved up to our days.

However, not only in France did the Jewish people play a predominant role, but with all revolutionary movements. "The revolution that shook central Europe in the year 1848", writes Lambelin, "was spread and supported by the Jews, as the countless facts and documents prove." [37]

Among the instigators of the revolution of 1870 and among the members of the Commune appear likewise the Jews, who were represented through Ravel Isaac Calmer, Jacob Pereyra, and others. The afore-mentioned author remarks of the presence of 18 Jews among the principal leaders of the Commune. [38] It is interesting to establish that, during the burning of Paris in the year 1871, the revolutionaries left untouched the 150 buildings that belonged to the Rothschild family.

If we proceed with the study of these movements in Europe, we again find Jews, the poet Heine, Karl Marx, Lasalle and many others.

"In order to destroy the former society, which rejected him", writes Drumont, "the Jew has understood how to place himself at the head of the democratic movement. Karl Marx, Lasalle, the most principal Nihilists, all leaders of the worldwide revolution are Jews. In this manner the Jews represent the leadership of the movements, which suits them." [39] Let us not forget that the founders of the International in the year 1864 were the Jews Marx, Neumeier, Fribourg, James Cohen, Aaron, Adler, Franckel, and the sole non-Jew (?) Gompers.

In order to direct the revolutionary movement in France, the so-called newspaper "L'Humanite" was founded. For this purpose a subscription was opened, which brought in the sum of 780,000 Francs. Let us mention the names of the twelve contributors who "by chance" were all Jews: Levy Brul, Levy Bram, A. Dreyfus, L. Dreyfus, Eli Rodriquez, Leon Picard, Blum, Rouff, Kasevitz, Salmon Reinach and Sachs.

After one has read the preceding, one cannot wonder that, at the Jewish Synod of Leipzig on 29th June 1869, the following resolution was accepted:

"The Synod recognises, that the development and carrying through of modern [revolutionary] principles are the firmest guarantee for the present and the future of Jewry and its members. They are the most important conditions of life for the expanding existence and the greatest development of Jewry." [40]

"In many respects the revolution has only been the application of the ideal that Israel has brought to the world", as Leroy Beaulieu, [41] writes, an author who is in no way accused of Antisemitism. One must give him justice, for the importance of Jewish infiltration in the revolutionary work cannot be denied.

The Organization of the League of Nations

We have seen the League of Nations, which was founded and maintained by the same secret forces which we have already encountered, when it was a matter of destruction. Today Freemasonry, their helpers the Left Parties, and, behind everything, the Jewish people, attempt to destroy national feeling and the sovereignty of the state through the creation of an international super-government and at the same time to demoralise the peoples with an anti-militarist and pacifistic propaganda. If national feeling is lost, we will see those peoples standing completely defenceless against this secret and cunning power, as the "Jewish-Freemasonic striving for power" can be described.

Brother Eugen Bertraux has recently proposed to the "Grand Lodge" of France that Article 17 of the Constitution of the said "Grand Lodge" should be abolished, which (currently) prescribes to all its disciples that they should obey the "laws of the land in which they have permission to freely assemble, and that they be ready for all sacrifices which their country desires of them"; for, "according to the principles of a universal morality, every Freemason is by definition an essentially free man, who only acts according to his conscience, and our Freemasonic conscience cannot compulsively demand of its disciples that they be ready for all sacrifices which the country desires." The abolition, which he proposes, will suffice in value in protecting the individual conscience; whereby is to be understood that, in the case of an increase in tragic conflicts, those individual consciences, according to their own responsibility, will obey or disobey the call of their reason and their belief in the highest truth. [42]

The most dignified Cardinal Caro assures us in this connection, that:

"It is beyond doubt that the activity of Freemasonry against the Catholic Church is only the continuation of the war against Christ that has been waged by Jewry for 1900 years, naturally adjusted to the situation of the Christian world, by which the former has to conduct itself by means of secrecy, cheating and sanctimoniousness."

'Let us not forget that Rabbinic Jewry is the declared and irreconcilable enemy of Christianity', says Webster. 'The hatred against Christianity and against the person of Christ is no occurrence of recent date, nor can one regard it as the result of persecution: it forms an important component of Rabbinical tradition, which has arisen before any kind of persecution of Jews through the Christians took place, and which lasted in our land very much later than after this persecution ended.'

On its side, The British Guardian (13th March 1925) makes this assertion: "The Christian Church is being attacked as never for centuries, and this attack is almost exclusively the work of the Jews." (Rev. of S.S. Sacr., p. 430, 1925). For the rest, the relations of Freemasonry or of Jewry with Bolshevism and Communism in Mexico, in Russia, in Hungary, persecuting the Catholic Church and with it the whole of Christianity (and the threat of doing this all over the world), are a universal occurrence." [43]