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had been mixed up with everything that was abominable , that persons Avere admitted to the degree of epopt or priest . Those fearful principles which were the cause of the French Revolution were revealed to

him at his initiation , m all their gloomy darkness aud horror , and he ( the lecturer ) would read an extract from an address which was presented to them : " The secret schools of philosophy have been in all ages the archives of nature and of the rights of man . These schools shall retrieve the fall

of human nature , and princes shall disappear from the face of the earth . The day shall come Avhen each father shall become the priest and absolute sovereign of his oven family . Reason shall be the one book of laws , the sole code of man . This is one of

our grand mysteries . Equality and liberty ( that of the French Revolution afterwards ) shall be sovereign principles of happiness in that state . Let your instructions and light be universally diffused , and instruction will enable us to live Avithout prince or

government . Nor is true morality any other than the art of teaching men to shake off their worship , and thus to need neither princes nor governments . May our principles become the foundation of all morals ! Let reason at length be the religion of men

and the problem is solved . The morality which is to perform such wonders is not a morality of vain subtleties . Above all , it must not be that morality which , adding to the miseries of the miserable , throws them into a state of pusillanimity and despair by

the threats of hell and the fear of devils . Our people , therefore , being convinced that we alone are possessed of the real secrets of Christianity , Ave have but to add a feAV words against the clergy and priests . In the last mysteries Ave have to unfold to our

adepts this pious fraud , and then by Avriting demonstrate the origin of all religious impositions , and their mutual connection with each other . " There were some thirty or forty pages of that address which he might read to them if time would

permit . He need not say that Avhen the rulers Avere alarmed at Weishaulpt , when the German Union was started and when the French Revolution broke out and Avas put down , there was scarcely so much need of secresy . As Monseigneur Dupanloup pointed out , these were admitted . One cried out , " War against God ; Ave would

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tear down the heavens if Ave could ! " and they claimed as their disciple Voltaire himself . The only thing he had still to mention with great force Avas that he knew of those who belonged to secret societies in England that had never disgraced

themselves by such infamy as this , and would sooner leave such bodies at once than do so ; but , at the same time , they had still to ask themselves whether there Avas not a connection between these societies in England and those abroad , whose main object

had avoAvedly been the causing of revolutions and to make Avar against all religion ? He would quote but one other fact of great importance . It had been suggested to him that he had not pointed out sufficiently stronglthat secret societies of the

y present day were not carrying on the same horrors that they did sixty , seventy or a hundred years ago . To show , however , that they did , he would quote from Figaro of April 26 th , 1871 , respecting the black

and miscreant deeds committed in Paris at the time of the Commune , when the most horrible crimes against God and man Avere committed by these Avretcbes . Having quoted this extract , which in vivid and graphic language described the active part

taken by the secret societies in the monstrosities of the Commune , Avhich filled the Avorld with horror , the rev . gentleman asked if the Freemasons of England approved of the action of the Freemasons of Paris Avhen they held a great lodge to

approve of the Commune and its doings and themselves mixed up in the impious murder of the hostages ? After having given information as to the books to be read by those who wished to make themselves further acquainted with this subject , and in

expressing his willingness to aid them their studies , the rev . gentleman concluded an eloquent lecture with a vehement and sweeping denunciation of Secret Societies , which he said had been the cause and source of so much misery to mankind .

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