Anti-Masonic Works.

Now this document was in print and published long before Margiotta printed it in his " Life of Andriano Lemmi , " and therefore still longer before the conversion of Diana Vaughan . The world is indebted for its publication to neither the one nor the other : the document is independent of both of them . Sweep Dr . Bataille and Diana Vaughan away from the face of the earth ; let them be as though they had never existed ; and this document alone is enough to prove the points in question .

Mr . Waite will then assuredly show that it is spurious and that it has not a shadow of title to credit . Yet what does he do ? His one and only criticism is that it is " a clumsy and ridiculous speoimen of ' English as she is wrote '" ( p . 218 ); and , after giving some samples of bad English in the document , he dismisses it as being completely unworthy here

of notice . He condemns it because of its faulty English ; and , as elsewhere , he makes merry over various un-English expressions and spellings that he meets with . He calls the Protest Signor Margiotta ' s documentary " piece de resistance "; and , in doing so , he makes two mistakes in the orthography of three words . Why ? Because neither he himselfnor the printer , perhaps , is a Frenchman .

, " This , " he says , " is the precious document which appears over the signatures of Alexander Graveson and Diana Vaughan . " Very true ;| but it is not the whole truth . Between the signatures of Alexander Graveson and Diana Vaughan stands the signature of Vicente-Feliz Palacois . These are Spanish names ; and it was Palacois , the Provincial Delegate of Mexico , who drew up the document . An English dooument is drawn up

by a Spaniard ; What wonder then that its expressions are sometimes un-English ? The fact is a confirmation bf the dooument ; for the internal evidence agrees with the external testimony that it was Palacois who composed the Protest . Mr . Waite says that the French is the original , notwithstanding the statement of others to the contrary ; and Mr . Waite is a transcendentalist , soaring above the ordinary flights of knowledge .

The mere fact that Mr . Waite has nothing more serious to allege against this most vital document than the foreign idioms of a Spanish Mexican ( English , by the way , quite sufficient for the practical purpose for which it was written ) recoils upon Mr . Waite himself , and tends to confirm what he wishes to destroy . But let Us leave these discussions , and come to the substance of that which is called in question . Let us take one or two public facts . ( 1 )

On 10 th May 1889 , the principal banner carried in procession from the railway station in Rome to the Campo dei Fiori , where the statue of Giordano Bruno was to be unveiled , was one whereon was depicted a likeness of Satan . The Holy Father thus referred to the fact in his Allocution of 30 th June following : " quodque maxime horribile est , nee defuere signa ciim simulacris nequissimi , qui sub ' esse in c ' celis Altissimo recusavit . " For a description of the procession see "Le Pape Leon

XIII . " by Mgr . de T'Serclaes , Rector of the Belgian College m Rome , vol . ii ., p . 148 . { 2 ) Adriano Lemmi , presiding as Grand Master of Italy at a Masonic banquet at Naples , 18 th December 1892 , ended his address with these words : "I drink , .... to the genius who inspired an immortal hymn to our Carducci , to the genius of the Italian revolution

( Io bevo . . . al gento che inspiro al nostro Carducci un inno imortale , al genio della rivoluzione italiana ) . " "Discorsi del Gran Maestro Adriano Lemmi , " Roma , G . Civelli , 1893 , p . 115 . The book contains a short dedioatory Preface to the Italian Freemasons signed A . Lemmi 33 . . . The hymn of Carducci is well-known . " It is his Hymn to Satan , " in fifty stanzas , the fifth of which is as follows :

A te disfrenasi II verso ardito ; - To inyoco , O Satana , £ te del convito . " To thee let my verse boldly address itself ; thee , I invoke , O Satan , King of the banquet . "

If the above be insufficient , consult other documents of unquestioned authenticity . Take Signor Solutore Zola ' s formal abjuration of Masonry , given in the '" Tablet" ( 2 nd May 1896 ) , and in various papers , Masonic included . See how they all converge , to one and the same point ; and consider whether they do not constitute an overwhelming mass of cumulative evidence establishing , upon solid grounds , the Anti-Masonic position . FBANCIS M . WVNDHAM .

Dr. Bataille And Freemasonry.

DR . BATAILLE AND FREEMASONRY .

WE also extract the following letter from our contemporary , the " Tablet " : SIB , —One of your correspondents draws the attention of the public to " Le Diable ' au 19 e Siecle , " to which he attributes the amount of credibility one would give to a work of fiction . A good deal of its contents have nothing whatever to do with the subject matter . The chapters on Apollonius of Thyana , the Possessions at Loudun , Cagliostro , 4 c , evidently serve only to

spin out along story . In other points Dr . Bataille ( Hacke and Co . ) goes a great deal too far , as , for instance , when he ( or they ) brings Indian and Chinese devil worship into connection with Freemasonry . The proof of any such connection will yet have to be given . Again , the underground workshops at Gibraltar are mere rubbish . It requires a deal of hardihood to palm off such nonsense upon English readers . But leaving all these " allotria "

aside , there remains a good and substantial foundation , which it would be wrong to throw overboard simply on account of the untrustworthy superstructure . It is a pity that such a book should have been written in the vernacular , and published in a cheap edition for " general readers . " It is bound to do an immense deal of harm , for it cannot be denied that it exercises a certain amount of fascination , particularly upon people of

immature character . Moreover , there are reticences which we should be thankful for , were they not so suggestive . For to write certain words in Greek characters which are all but identical with their Latin equivalents , or to hint at things which it requires but little imagination to picture , may be a well-meant expedient , but decidedly falls short of its purpose . Such a

work should be more scientific , more thorough , and written in Latin . Thus it would reach , or could be made to reach , those classes to whom it belongs to warn and teach the people . The book , such as it is , will lead many into Freemasonry and Satanism , were it only for curiosity's sake , while it will do little to counteract the movement .

Having said so much against the work , I now must say something in praise of it . It is more than twenty years since I began to occupy myself with tho study of Freemasonry . At that time the existence of the centre at

Dr. Bataille And Freemasonry.

Charleston , and Palladianism with its Triangles , & o ., were not yet generally known , not even among the higher degrees of the Sect . Nevertheless , the tendency of the Sect was absolutely the same as it is now . The ceremonies for initiation varied little from the present form , but—at least in some countries—the battle against the Papacy , and the implacable hatred of Jesus Christ were even more uncompromisingly expressed than they seem to be now—on the strength of " Dr . Bataille ' s " communications . We have had

proofs from every quarter of the work of the Supreme Council of Charleston , both ad intra and ad extra . Documents have been published , independently of Dr . Bataille , which remove the last doubt as to the proclamation of the reign of Satan . The Satanic sacraments are established beyond question ; the systematic profanation of Hosts and other sacred things is well-known to the majority of priests . I myself have come across people who were paid for stealing Hosts for this purpose . What we owe to Dr . Bataille is not that

he brought these facts to light , for we knew them before he published his book , but that he has given a synopsis of the organisation and the interior and exterior work of the Sect . Nor do I understand on what grounds exception could be taken to the book with regard to these points . Doubta have been expressed as to the reality of the supernatural phenomena supposed to take place in the Triangles . I am far from believing everything Dr . Bataille tells us on this score . But that such phenomena do take place

cannot reasonably be denied . I know a person who , being questioned as to attending Sunday Mass , answered that she frequented another meeting where much more remarkable things happened with the Host than at Mass . Sapienti pauca . I do not see how so many people could take an interest in High Masonry and Satanism ( which at the best are terrifying , besides being

insupportable for any one who has not lost every atom of decency ) but for that morbid craving for the supernatural which also causes so many to dabble in High Spiritualism . The devil knows where to find our weak points . He is , howover , the spirit of deceit , and the entertainments he provides for those who play with him invariably lead them further than they were prepared to go .

It has been frequently urged that English Masonry is less objectionable than Masonry in Catholic countries . While admitting this as a faot I think it worth while to point out that nowhere in the whole world does a person become a Mason sava by the Baptism by Fire , the first of the Satanic sacraments . Though a man may have no intention to undo ( as far as in him lies ) the Baptism by Water , which is the gate to Christianity , yet the fact that he receives the Baptism

of Fire , which may properly be called the gate to the Kingdom of Fire , certainly gives the devil a power over him which otherwise he would not have . Whether or not that power be exercised in its fulness will depend upon other circumstances , but let people be careful what they are doing . I do not see how , in the face of all the startling revelations that have come to us of late , any one can doubt that the Kingdom of Antichrist is within

tangible distance of us . To-day ( 29 th September ) the ancestor of Antichrist is supposed to be born . Be that as it may ( the plans of the Devil have been crossed more than once , even in this matter ) , the duty of Catholics is- 'to understand that Freemasonry and the Catholic Churoh are two opposite poles . BENEDICT ZIMMEBMAN , O . C . D . Kensington ,-29 th September 1896 .

Ad00503

GAIETY SESTMJRMT , STZR-A-ICTID . LUNCHEONS ( HOT and COLD)—At Popular Prices , in BUFFET and EESTAUEANT ( on 1 st floor ) . Also Chops , Steaks , Joints , Entrees , & c , in the GEILL EOOM . AFTERNOON TEAConsisting of Tea or Coffee , Cut Bread and Butter , Jam , Cake , Pastry , ad lib , at 1 / - per head ; served from 4 till 6 in EESTAUEANT ( 1 st floor ) . DINNERS IN RESTAURANTProm 5-30 till 9 at Fixed Prices ( 3 / 6 and 5 / - ) and a la Carte . In this room the Viennese Band performs from 6 till 8 Smoking after 7 * 45 . AMERICAN BAR . THE GRILL ROOM is open till 12-30 . PEIYATE DINING E 00 MS FOR LARGE AND SMALL PARTIES . SPIERS AND POND , Ltd ., Proprietor * ,