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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
party has recommended , has alread y determined to shut up Masonic Lodges in France , and to suspend their operations . Louis Napoleon seems , indeed , to be determined to shew that he knows nothing of the importance of an oath ; for he has not onl y broken that , by which he swore to maintain a
Constitutional Government , but he is now proving that his Masonic O . B . is as little binding as any other upon his conscience . The Univers , in the article to which we refer , and which has been alread y acted upon , thus writes : — " An evening journal announces that the Council of the Grand
Orient a few days since decided that the opening of Masonic Lodges should be adjourned to January 1 st . It seems to us that they ought to be indefinitely adjourned . It is true that this is a decision , which must not be expected from the Grand Orient . But we have a Government , and we address ourselves to its head . The part , which secret societies have takenhas shewn itself in the troubles which were
, about to desolate our country . We have nothing to say to those societies , which were in a state of insurrection ; they have been dissolved by force ; the Government will not have the weakness to permit them to be reorganized . The honest man rejects the idea of secret societies . What need is there of concealment , if our intentions are good , and our object avowable 1 What do these
affiliations , shrouded m mystery , signify , — -these oaths taken in the dark to an authority , which no one sees or comprehends ? Nevertheless , FREEMASONRY is extended over the entire surface of France , and lias its disciples in every town , and even in the most obscure milages . Assuredly , every Mason is not a conspirator by profession . Lodges are generally composed of inoffensive and low ( bornes ) men , who themselves produce no obstaclesbut who serve as a rallying
, point to the ambitious and intriguing . Masonry rjroportions itself to each by its different degrees of initiation (!) . It onl y allows that a small number should govern the association . It is a government within a government , and which perpetually threatens society . The Masonic Institution offers an aid from which other secret societies find recruitsand chiefs for a social war . All the
, chiefs of secret societies have been affiliated with Freemasonry ! The Lodges could be closed without the least opposition . The moment will never be more favourable for terminating an acquaintance with conspirators , which so many honourable men hnoiv not how to defend . LET NOT THE GOVERNMENT SAY—WE WATCH THE MASONS . Louis Philippe knew the consequences of secret societies . He did not
believe in the danger ; but he was mistaken . The danger is not in the cypher of the affiliated , — it is in the sentiment which binds them together . Who will dare to deny that secret societies , without overstepping the limits of legality , have not the most powerful means for agitation , mental perversion , and preparation for revolution ?
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
party has recommended , has alread y determined to shut up Masonic Lodges in France , and to suspend their operations . Louis Napoleon seems , indeed , to be determined to shew that he knows nothing of the importance of an oath ; for he has not onl y broken that , by which he swore to maintain a
Constitutional Government , but he is now proving that his Masonic O . B . is as little binding as any other upon his conscience . The Univers , in the article to which we refer , and which has been alread y acted upon , thus writes : — " An evening journal announces that the Council of the Grand
Orient a few days since decided that the opening of Masonic Lodges should be adjourned to January 1 st . It seems to us that they ought to be indefinitely adjourned . It is true that this is a decision , which must not be expected from the Grand Orient . But we have a Government , and we address ourselves to its head . The part , which secret societies have takenhas shewn itself in the troubles which were
, about to desolate our country . We have nothing to say to those societies , which were in a state of insurrection ; they have been dissolved by force ; the Government will not have the weakness to permit them to be reorganized . The honest man rejects the idea of secret societies . What need is there of concealment , if our intentions are good , and our object avowable 1 What do these
affiliations , shrouded m mystery , signify , — -these oaths taken in the dark to an authority , which no one sees or comprehends ? Nevertheless , FREEMASONRY is extended over the entire surface of France , and lias its disciples in every town , and even in the most obscure milages . Assuredly , every Mason is not a conspirator by profession . Lodges are generally composed of inoffensive and low ( bornes ) men , who themselves produce no obstaclesbut who serve as a rallying
, point to the ambitious and intriguing . Masonry rjroportions itself to each by its different degrees of initiation (!) . It onl y allows that a small number should govern the association . It is a government within a government , and which perpetually threatens society . The Masonic Institution offers an aid from which other secret societies find recruitsand chiefs for a social war . All the
, chiefs of secret societies have been affiliated with Freemasonry ! The Lodges could be closed without the least opposition . The moment will never be more favourable for terminating an acquaintance with conspirators , which so many honourable men hnoiv not how to defend . LET NOT THE GOVERNMENT SAY—WE WATCH THE MASONS . Louis Philippe knew the consequences of secret societies . He did not
believe in the danger ; but he was mistaken . The danger is not in the cypher of the affiliated , — it is in the sentiment which binds them together . Who will dare to deny that secret societies , without overstepping the limits of legality , have not the most powerful means for agitation , mental perversion , and preparation for revolution ?