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Chapter four of the War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization This is a Libervox recording.
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The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization by Monsignor George F Dillon Chapter four Freemasonry.
Freemasonry, we must remember always, appeared generally and spread generally too in the interests of all that Voltaire aimed at, when it best suited his purpose.
The first lodge established in France under the English obedience was in seventeen twenty seven.
Its founder and first master was the celebrated Jacobite Lord Derwentwater.
It had almost immediate acceptance from the degenerate nobility of France, who, partly because of the influence of English and Scotch Jacobite nobles, and partly because of its novelty, hard swearing, and mystery, joined the strange institutions.
His lodges were soon in every considerable city of the realm.
The philosophers and various schools of atheists, however, were the first to enter into and to extend it.
For them it had special attractions and special uses which they were not slow to appreciate and to employ.
Now, though it very little concerns us to know much of the origin of this society which became then and since so notorious throughout the world, still as that origin throws some light on its subsequent history, it will not be lost time to glance at what is known, or supposed to be known about it.
Monseigneur Sigur, Bishop of Grenoble, who devoted much time to a study of Freemasonry, is persuaded that it was first elaborated by Faustus Socinus, the nephew of the two celebrated Lalius Socinus, the Heresiarch and founder of the sect of Unitarians, or as they are generally called after him, Socinians.
Both were of the ancient family of the Sozini of Siena.
Faustus, like many of his relatives, imbibed the errors of his uncle, and in order to escape the vigilance of the Inquisition, to which both Italy and Spain owed much of the tranquility they enjoyed in these troublesome times, he fled to France.
While in that country at Lyon, while only twenty years of age, he heard of the death of his uncle at Zurich, and went at once to that city to obtain the paper.
And effects of the deceased.
From the papers, he found that Lalius had assisted at a conference of heretics at Vicenza in 1547.
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