Scott Foster
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Sokinus, having established his sect in Poland, sent emissaries to preach his doctrines stealthily in Germany, Holland, and England.
In Germany, Protestants and Catholics united to unmask them.
In Holland they blended with the Anabaptists, and in England they found partisans amongst the independents and various other sects into which the people were divided.
The Abbe Lefranc believes, in Le Voix Le V, Lyons eighteen twenty one, that Oliver Cromwell was a Susinian, and that he introduced Freemasonry into England.
Certainly Cromwell's sympathies were not for the church favored by the monarch he supplanted, and were much with the independence.
If he was a Susinian, we can easily understand how the secret society of Vicenza could have attractions for one of his anti Catholic and ambitious sentiments.
He gave its members in England, as Monsignor Segur tells us, the title of Freemasons, and invited the allegory of the Temple of Solomon, now so much used by Masonry of every kind, and which meant the original state of man supposed to be a commonwealth of equality with a vague deism as its religion.
This temple destroyed by Christ for the Christian order was to be restored by Freemasonry after Christ and the Christian order should be obliterated by conspiracy and revolution.
The state of nature was the Hiram, whose murder masonry was to avenge, and which, having previously removed Christ, was to resuscitate Hiram by rebuilding the temple of nature as it had been before.
Monsignor Seeger, moreover, connects modern Freemasonry with the Jews and the Templars, as well as with Sokinas.
There are reasons which lead me to think that he is right in doing so.
The Jews, for many centuries previous to the Reformation, had formed secret societies for their own protection and for the destruction of the Christianity which persecuted them, and which they so much hated.
The rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon was the dream of their lives.
It is unquestionable that they wished to make common cause with other bodies of persecuted religionists.
They had special reason to welcome with joy such heretics as were cast off by Catholicity.
It is, therefore, not at all improbable that they admitted into their secret conclaves some at least of the discontented templars burning for revenge upon those who dispossessed and suppressed the order.
That fact would account for the curious combination of Jewish and conventual allusions to be found in modern masonry.
Then, as to its British history, we have seen that members of the Secret Brotherhood of Sokinas made their way to England and Scotland, where they found friends, and perhaps Confederates.
I have therefore no doubt but that the Abbe Lefranc is correct when he says that Cromwell was connected with them.
At least before he succeeded in his designs, he had need of some such secret society, and would no doubt be glad to use it for his purposes.
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