Freda Boot
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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One of these, which was handed to me in a public place, had a woodcut representing the meek monarch of Judea, with a head just severed from a human body in one hand, and the sword that did the deed in the other.
Another represented him amidst a set of ridiculous figures dancing,
From this we can easily judge that illuminated masonry is at work somewhere even in London.
And that the masonry in high quarters is blind to its excesses, exactly as happened in France a few years before the French Revolution.
Now, these Minervals, if they manifested what the German Masons call religionary inclinations, might indeed receive the first three Masonic degrees, but they were not to be further promoted in Illuminism.
They were relegated to the rank and file of masonry who were of use in many ways for the movement, but they were never to be trusted with a real secret.
The teacher, without seeming to do so, was ordered to encourage, but not to applaud publicly such blasphemies as the Minervals might make use of in their essays.
They were to be led on, seemingly by themselves, in the ways of irreligion, immorality, and atheism until ripe for further promotion in evil progress.
Finally, in the advanced grades of illuminated major and minor, and in those of Scotch knight and epopt, or priest, they were told the whole secret of the order as follows, in a discourse by the initiator.
Remember, he said, that from the first invitations which we have given you, in order to attract you to us, we have commenced by telling you that in the projects of our order there did not enter any designs against religion.
You remember that such an assurance was again given to you when you were admitted into the ranks of our novices, and that it was repeated when you entered into our Minerval Academy.
Remember also how much from the first grades we have spoken to you of morality and virtue, but at the same time how much the studies which we prescribed for you and the instructions which we gave you rendered both morality and virtue independent of all religion, how much we have been at pains to make you understand while making to you the eulogy of religion, that
That it was not anything else than those mysteries and that worship degenerated in the hands of the priest.
You remember with what art, with what simulated respect we have spoken to you of Christ and of his gospel, but in the grades of greater Illuminism, of Scotch Knight, and of Epopt or Priest, how we have known to form from Christ's gospel that of our reason.
And from its morality.
That of nature.
And from its religion, that of nature, and from religion, reason, morality, and nature, to make the religion and the morality of the rights of man, of equality and of liberty.
Remember that while insinuating to you the different parts of this system, we have caused them to bud forth from yourselves as if your own opinions.
We have placed you on the way, said
You have replied to our questions very much more than we did to yours.
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