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Freemasonry And Devil-Worship.
Freemasonry , like all sects and all human institutions , has its failings , arising from the laxity of its professors ; and if these failings are exposed , we , who desire good , ought to be rather pleased than otherwise , for Masonry would infallibly benefit by such attacks . In all these charges brought against us by numerous writers , amongst whom may be mentioned Dr . Hicks
alias Bataille , Diana Vaughan , if such a woman exists , which I much doubt , and Dominico Margiotta ; there is some truth mixed with much lying , of the most crazy description , and I am inclined to show in what direction the truth lies . As regards Faustus Socinius , though we know quite well , that he had nothing to do with the establishment of Masonry , yet it seems to
be a fact that he did establish a secret society in Poland , and there are certain Anabaptist and other Medals , that have a quasi Masonic appearance ; ifc is even believed that Luther had some reception and protection from a Guild initiation ; and I am inclined to think it possible that these Sectarian secret societies may have influenced others , of a later period , that
affected or modified certain high grades . However all this may be , if our individual or Masonic Lueiferian worship was only a question of orthodoxy according to Roman Catholic ideas , we might let tbe subject slide , but it is not so . Though I read French with tolerable ease , I must now say that none of this literature has fallen into my hands , and I am not inclined to
undertake any trouble in acquiring it . My knowledge of these writers , outside loose newspaper paragraphs , is obtained from A . E . Waite ' s " Devil Worship iu France" ( Redway , London , pp . 325 ) , a most interesting book , written in a critical and dispassionate style by a non-Mason , the end of which is that Mr . Waite pronounces the charges to be "lying myths . "
As I have just said , were it merely a question of Catholic orthodoxy we might let the matter pass , but Freemasonry generally is accused of possessing a Masonic Pope who ruled the whole Masonic world , with Lucifer in perpetual seance at Charleston ; and that this Pope , Albert Pike , attached an Androgyne branch termed the Palladium to his own Scottish
Rite , as well as those of Mizraim and Memphis . The ritual , a bogus ritual , drawn by the engineers of this Catholic petard , is a horrible one ; we are accused of teaching a species of Manichinism in which , like the ancient followers of Mani , two co-ordinate Spiritual Gods , are recognised , Lucifer and Adonai , the evil and the good , the former being worshipped by Freemasons , as the
good God , and the latter held to be fche evil genius of our race . As a portion of this disgusting ( forged ) ritual we are held to exemplify the mystery of generation , and to stab a consecrated Host ( the real presence ) with a dagger . It is needless to say that such abominations never existed in any Masonic ritual , or anything approaching the Palladium .
It is well known that certain " Rites of Adoption " sprang into existence in France at a comparatively early period last century . They were quite harmless and quite useless . About 1773 the Grand Orient of France accepted the "Adoptive " grades of Apprentice , Companion , Mistress , and other semiindependent bodies inei * eased these to twelve , the last of which
¦ was Crowned Princess , 1774 . I think also it is true that in Mexico and Spain a few , very few , ladies have been initiated into real Masonry , and advanced even up to the 33 ° both in the Scottish Rite and Memphis . Pike ' s Scottish Rite never recognised Adoptive Masonry , however , bufc the Antient and Primitive Rite of which I have the honour to be Grand Master in Great Britain and Ireland , ad vita . 7 n , did , however , recognise
the twelve grades of Adoption , and we have granted a few certificates of them , but it has always been felt that meetings of them would be distasteful to English Masons , and none have been held or encouraged . One of these grades is termed Lady of the Rose Croix , its ceremony is beautifully innocent , and is drawn upon the model of the old reception of an orthodox Templar , or upon that of St . John . So much exists true as to androgyne or Palladium initiation .
Now as to the question of Dogmatic Directory with a Lueiferian culte , of which I am alleged to be a member . It cannot be denied truthfully thafc Brother Pike , as a very able man , and head of the S . G . C . 33 ° from which all others originated , exercised great influence in his own Rite , all over the world . There is not a Council in the world that has a man in it fit to tie
his shoe strings . I fancy it is true also that Pike and Mazzini were in close correspondence together , but , apart from the oligarchial Constitution of his Rite , there can be no stigma placed against Pike , a Republican politician , on that head . As a matter of fact Pike and myself were often at loggerheads in the American newspapers , and he would have been delighted to have
sent Lucifer , if he hacl had him at his call , all over the world to demolish Mizraim and Memphis . The Rituals of the degrees of fche Scottish Rite are all well known to me . I am a 33 ° of the Scottish Rite under the certificates of various Jurisdictions , some under Pike ' s Alliance , some under his Cerneau opponents , and I can safely say that there is neither a Dogmatic Directory nor a Lueiferian colour in any of the Rituals , thev are all tamely
Freemasonry And Devil-Worship.
ortnodox . I now approach another part of the subject which is more particularly my own ; and here also there is a basis of truth upon which a superstructure of falsehood has been erected ; following Mr . Waite ' s excellent " Devil Worship in France , " I find that the Grand Italian Initiator of these Revelators was Brother G . B . Pessina , ol Naples , Grand Master of the Italian Rite of Mizraim .
That patriotic Mason General Guiseppe Garibaldi was an Honorary 33 ° -96 ° of Egypt , an Honorary G . M . 33 ° or Pessina ' s body , and a member of the S . G . C . 33 ° at Rome ; but with this latter power he had some difference . Garibaldi had no political ability , bufc be was , what is much more reputable , an honest man , and he had , what I never yet found in an Englishman , the
unselfishness to decline titles and money for services rendered his country ; and like another , Cincinnatus , retired to live upon his barren farm . On this account I arranged with the Grand Masters of the A . aud P . Rite in the four quarters of the world , to accept Garibaldi as Imperial Grand Master , and thus to confederate the Rite under the signatures of the various Grand
Masters . The treaty thus effected is innocent enough , I enclose an unsigned copy , and you are at perfect liberty to make whatever use you like of it . Unfortunately in the case of Egypt , they had taken an earlier step of which I was then unaware , for upon the death of Jacques Etieune Marconis they had elected the Marquis de Beauregard as his successor , and this complicated matters a
little . Upon the death of Garibaldi , Pessina was very anxious to become his successor , and drew up a code of laws by which the power would rest in Naples , and certain fees had to be paid to himself , but these laws were accepted by no one but himself . Pessina wished an election to take place , I opposed it on the grounds that we had no satisfactory person to succeed Garibaldi ,
unless it was Dr . Alex . B . Mott , Grand Master of America , but that it was better in the meantime to recognise Egypt , and in any case , the universally unrecognised Pessina was not a suitable man for the post . However , he insisted upon going to ballot , and Canada agreed to his election for three years ; Spain also worked with him for a time , but soon threw him overboard . Pessina
immediately proved my words that he was quite unfit for his post . Contemporary with Marconis there existed a person in the United States named Calvin C . Burt , soon expelled from American Masonry , previously to which he was appointed a 33 ° -95 ° with power to receive members , and had a photographed copy of Marconis Charter given to him . He began work , pocketed the
fees , was expelled the Rite , and still continued his depradations . After a while the photographed charter , rituals , & c , were purchased by Darius Wilson , who began the same business , and Pessina recognised him . The result of this was that Pessina and Wilson began a series of annoyances in this country , they offered charters to Ireland , which Ireland refused ; they did the same with Scotland , and a couple of expelled and suspended
Scottish Craftsmen accepted , and established a species of irregular Grand Council . I thought under these circumstances it was best to let the Rite rest till this discordance was entirely eliminated . One of the things that Pessina said about me was that I had the desire to succeed Garibaldi myself , an ungrateful untruth , and I mention it here , because it is one of the things that proves that Hicks alias Bataille was acquainted with Pessina .
Now following Mr . Waite , I will notice the following matters . Bataille begins his narrative by saying that he met a man of the name of Carbuccia who had paid Pessina 200 francs ( not an extravagant sum ) for a Patent of his 33 ° , that Manchester
Initiates bad inducted this Carbuccia into Kabalism and Hermetic Philosophy , and that he had seen Lucifer , the idol Baphomet , & c , at a meeting in Ceylon . I can safely and emphatically say that no such man ever visited Manchester , or had any , tbe least , information from Manchester Masons .
Bataille followed Carbuccia ' s example and paid Pessina 600 francs for a Patent of his 33 ° —visited Charleston , and its Eastern dependencies . He equally alleges that he visited me in Manchester , and heard from my lips that I aspired to succeed Garibaldi ; it is an infamous lie , but it seems to prove that he knew Pessina .
I now come to Margiotta , and his titles are equally those of Pessina ' s Rite ; it appears that Margiotta was friendly with an old correspondent of mine of the name of Oreste G . Cecchi , a 33 ° of the acknowledged S . G . C . of Turin . Margiotta was also Venerable of the Lodge Giordano Bruno , where he stated that he was under instructions to carry out the Orders of a Dogmatic
Directory ; I also am an Honorary Venerable of that Lodge , but I have never yet heard of any Dogmatic Directory in any part of the world . He alleges that Manchester was represented at Rome in the election of Lemmi as Supreme Chief ; the sole truth of this lies in the fact that I once commissioned the Illustrious Brother Cecchi as my representative at some innocent social function at Rome . This is the very modest basis of truth . What really to think of Margiotta I scarcely know . Let the reader judge for himself . One night , after a meeting , Pessina
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Freemasonry And Devil-Worship.
Freemasonry , like all sects and all human institutions , has its failings , arising from the laxity of its professors ; and if these failings are exposed , we , who desire good , ought to be rather pleased than otherwise , for Masonry would infallibly benefit by such attacks . In all these charges brought against us by numerous writers , amongst whom may be mentioned Dr . Hicks
alias Bataille , Diana Vaughan , if such a woman exists , which I much doubt , and Dominico Margiotta ; there is some truth mixed with much lying , of the most crazy description , and I am inclined to show in what direction the truth lies . As regards Faustus Socinius , though we know quite well , that he had nothing to do with the establishment of Masonry , yet it seems to
be a fact that he did establish a secret society in Poland , and there are certain Anabaptist and other Medals , that have a quasi Masonic appearance ; ifc is even believed that Luther had some reception and protection from a Guild initiation ; and I am inclined to think it possible that these Sectarian secret societies may have influenced others , of a later period , that
affected or modified certain high grades . However all this may be , if our individual or Masonic Lueiferian worship was only a question of orthodoxy according to Roman Catholic ideas , we might let tbe subject slide , but it is not so . Though I read French with tolerable ease , I must now say that none of this literature has fallen into my hands , and I am not inclined to
undertake any trouble in acquiring it . My knowledge of these writers , outside loose newspaper paragraphs , is obtained from A . E . Waite ' s " Devil Worship iu France" ( Redway , London , pp . 325 ) , a most interesting book , written in a critical and dispassionate style by a non-Mason , the end of which is that Mr . Waite pronounces the charges to be "lying myths . "
As I have just said , were it merely a question of Catholic orthodoxy we might let the matter pass , but Freemasonry generally is accused of possessing a Masonic Pope who ruled the whole Masonic world , with Lucifer in perpetual seance at Charleston ; and that this Pope , Albert Pike , attached an Androgyne branch termed the Palladium to his own Scottish
Rite , as well as those of Mizraim and Memphis . The ritual , a bogus ritual , drawn by the engineers of this Catholic petard , is a horrible one ; we are accused of teaching a species of Manichinism in which , like the ancient followers of Mani , two co-ordinate Spiritual Gods , are recognised , Lucifer and Adonai , the evil and the good , the former being worshipped by Freemasons , as the
good God , and the latter held to be fche evil genius of our race . As a portion of this disgusting ( forged ) ritual we are held to exemplify the mystery of generation , and to stab a consecrated Host ( the real presence ) with a dagger . It is needless to say that such abominations never existed in any Masonic ritual , or anything approaching the Palladium .
It is well known that certain " Rites of Adoption " sprang into existence in France at a comparatively early period last century . They were quite harmless and quite useless . About 1773 the Grand Orient of France accepted the "Adoptive " grades of Apprentice , Companion , Mistress , and other semiindependent bodies inei * eased these to twelve , the last of which
¦ was Crowned Princess , 1774 . I think also it is true that in Mexico and Spain a few , very few , ladies have been initiated into real Masonry , and advanced even up to the 33 ° both in the Scottish Rite and Memphis . Pike ' s Scottish Rite never recognised Adoptive Masonry , however , bufc the Antient and Primitive Rite of which I have the honour to be Grand Master in Great Britain and Ireland , ad vita . 7 n , did , however , recognise
the twelve grades of Adoption , and we have granted a few certificates of them , but it has always been felt that meetings of them would be distasteful to English Masons , and none have been held or encouraged . One of these grades is termed Lady of the Rose Croix , its ceremony is beautifully innocent , and is drawn upon the model of the old reception of an orthodox Templar , or upon that of St . John . So much exists true as to androgyne or Palladium initiation .
Now as to the question of Dogmatic Directory with a Lueiferian culte , of which I am alleged to be a member . It cannot be denied truthfully thafc Brother Pike , as a very able man , and head of the S . G . C . 33 ° from which all others originated , exercised great influence in his own Rite , all over the world . There is not a Council in the world that has a man in it fit to tie
his shoe strings . I fancy it is true also that Pike and Mazzini were in close correspondence together , but , apart from the oligarchial Constitution of his Rite , there can be no stigma placed against Pike , a Republican politician , on that head . As a matter of fact Pike and myself were often at loggerheads in the American newspapers , and he would have been delighted to have
sent Lucifer , if he hacl had him at his call , all over the world to demolish Mizraim and Memphis . The Rituals of the degrees of fche Scottish Rite are all well known to me . I am a 33 ° of the Scottish Rite under the certificates of various Jurisdictions , some under Pike ' s Alliance , some under his Cerneau opponents , and I can safely say that there is neither a Dogmatic Directory nor a Lueiferian colour in any of the Rituals , thev are all tamely
Freemasonry And Devil-Worship.
ortnodox . I now approach another part of the subject which is more particularly my own ; and here also there is a basis of truth upon which a superstructure of falsehood has been erected ; following Mr . Waite ' s excellent " Devil Worship in France , " I find that the Grand Italian Initiator of these Revelators was Brother G . B . Pessina , ol Naples , Grand Master of the Italian Rite of Mizraim .
That patriotic Mason General Guiseppe Garibaldi was an Honorary 33 ° -96 ° of Egypt , an Honorary G . M . 33 ° or Pessina ' s body , and a member of the S . G . C . 33 ° at Rome ; but with this latter power he had some difference . Garibaldi had no political ability , bufc be was , what is much more reputable , an honest man , and he had , what I never yet found in an Englishman , the
unselfishness to decline titles and money for services rendered his country ; and like another , Cincinnatus , retired to live upon his barren farm . On this account I arranged with the Grand Masters of the A . aud P . Rite in the four quarters of the world , to accept Garibaldi as Imperial Grand Master , and thus to confederate the Rite under the signatures of the various Grand
Masters . The treaty thus effected is innocent enough , I enclose an unsigned copy , and you are at perfect liberty to make whatever use you like of it . Unfortunately in the case of Egypt , they had taken an earlier step of which I was then unaware , for upon the death of Jacques Etieune Marconis they had elected the Marquis de Beauregard as his successor , and this complicated matters a
little . Upon the death of Garibaldi , Pessina was very anxious to become his successor , and drew up a code of laws by which the power would rest in Naples , and certain fees had to be paid to himself , but these laws were accepted by no one but himself . Pessina wished an election to take place , I opposed it on the grounds that we had no satisfactory person to succeed Garibaldi ,
unless it was Dr . Alex . B . Mott , Grand Master of America , but that it was better in the meantime to recognise Egypt , and in any case , the universally unrecognised Pessina was not a suitable man for the post . However , he insisted upon going to ballot , and Canada agreed to his election for three years ; Spain also worked with him for a time , but soon threw him overboard . Pessina
immediately proved my words that he was quite unfit for his post . Contemporary with Marconis there existed a person in the United States named Calvin C . Burt , soon expelled from American Masonry , previously to which he was appointed a 33 ° -95 ° with power to receive members , and had a photographed copy of Marconis Charter given to him . He began work , pocketed the
fees , was expelled the Rite , and still continued his depradations . After a while the photographed charter , rituals , & c , were purchased by Darius Wilson , who began the same business , and Pessina recognised him . The result of this was that Pessina and Wilson began a series of annoyances in this country , they offered charters to Ireland , which Ireland refused ; they did the same with Scotland , and a couple of expelled and suspended
Scottish Craftsmen accepted , and established a species of irregular Grand Council . I thought under these circumstances it was best to let the Rite rest till this discordance was entirely eliminated . One of the things that Pessina said about me was that I had the desire to succeed Garibaldi myself , an ungrateful untruth , and I mention it here , because it is one of the things that proves that Hicks alias Bataille was acquainted with Pessina .
Now following Mr . Waite , I will notice the following matters . Bataille begins his narrative by saying that he met a man of the name of Carbuccia who had paid Pessina 200 francs ( not an extravagant sum ) for a Patent of his 33 ° , that Manchester
Initiates bad inducted this Carbuccia into Kabalism and Hermetic Philosophy , and that he had seen Lucifer , the idol Baphomet , & c , at a meeting in Ceylon . I can safely and emphatically say that no such man ever visited Manchester , or had any , tbe least , information from Manchester Masons .
Bataille followed Carbuccia ' s example and paid Pessina 600 francs for a Patent of his 33 ° —visited Charleston , and its Eastern dependencies . He equally alleges that he visited me in Manchester , and heard from my lips that I aspired to succeed Garibaldi ; it is an infamous lie , but it seems to prove that he knew Pessina .
I now come to Margiotta , and his titles are equally those of Pessina ' s Rite ; it appears that Margiotta was friendly with an old correspondent of mine of the name of Oreste G . Cecchi , a 33 ° of the acknowledged S . G . C . of Turin . Margiotta was also Venerable of the Lodge Giordano Bruno , where he stated that he was under instructions to carry out the Orders of a Dogmatic
Directory ; I also am an Honorary Venerable of that Lodge , but I have never yet heard of any Dogmatic Directory in any part of the world . He alleges that Manchester was represented at Rome in the election of Lemmi as Supreme Chief ; the sole truth of this lies in the fact that I once commissioned the Illustrious Brother Cecchi as my representative at some innocent social function at Rome . This is the very modest basis of truth . What really to think of Margiotta I scarcely know . Let the reader judge for himself . One night , after a meeting , Pessina