Freda Boot
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It soon after obtained immense power of union and propagandism.
In France, and everywhere else it had an English, a Scotch, and a local obedience.
These had separate constitutions and officers, even separate grades, but all were identical in essence and in aim, and
A brother in one was a brother in all.
However, it seemed to the leaders that more unity was needed, and
And aided by the adhesion of the Duc de Chartres, subsequently better known as the Duke of Orleans, the infamous Philippe Egalite, who was grandmaster of the Scotch Masonic body in France, the French Masons in the English obedience, desiring independence of the mother lodge of England, separated and elected him the first grand master of the since celebrated Grand Orient.
Two years after this, the execrable androgyne lodges for women called lodges of adoption were established, and had as grand mistress over them all the Duchess of Bourbon, sister of Egalite.
The infidels, by extending these lodges for women, obtained an immense amount of influence which they otherwise never could attain.
They thus invaded the domestic circle of the court of France and of every court in Europe.
Thus too, the royal edicts, the decrees of Clement XII and Benedict XV against Freemasonry, and the efforts of conscientious officers, were
were rendered completely inoperative.
After the death of Voltaire, the extension of Freemasonry became alarming, but no state effort could then stop its progress.
It daily grew more powerful and more corrupt.
It began already to extend its influence into every department of state.
Promotion in the army, in the navy,
In the public service, in the law, and even to the fat benefices in commendum of the church became impossible without its aid.
Footnote.
Before this celebrated convent of Wilhelmsbad, there was a thorough understanding between the Freemasons of the various Catholic countries of continental Europe.
This was manifested in the horrible intrigues which led to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Naples, and which finally compelled Clement XV to dissolve the great body by ecclesiastical authority.
No doubt, the Jesuits had very potent enemies in the Jansenists, the Gallicans, and in others whose party spirit and jealousy were stronger than their sense of the real good of religion.
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