Scott Foster
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It made members known to each other, just as did the ancient craft in every country, and professed to take charge of the orphans and widows of deceased brethren who could not provide for them.
But in its secret conclaves and in its ascending degrees, it had means to tell the victim whom it could count upon that the architect meant a circle, a nothing, that the open Bible was the universe, and that the square and compass was simply the fitness of things, the means to make all the things.
of all men, fraternal, equal, and free, in some impossible utopia it promised but never gave.
In the recesses of its lodges the political conspirator found the men and the means to arrive at his ends in security.
Those who ambitioned office found there the means of advancement.
The old spirit breathed into the fraternity by Sokinus, and nourished so well by the heretical libertines of the England and Germany of the seventeenth century, and perfected by the infidels of the eighteenth, was master in all its lodges.
Banquets, rebeld songs, and jests revelling in sin constituted from the beginning a leading feature in its life.
Lodges became the secure home.
Home for the Rue, the spendthrift, the man of broken fortunes, the infidel, and the depraved of the upper classes.
Such attractive centres of sin therefore are spread over Europe with great rapidity.
They were encouraged not only by Voltaire, but by his whole host of atheistic writers, philosophers, encyclopediists, revolutionists, and rakes.
The scoundrels of Europe found congenial employment in them, and before twenty years elapsed from their first introduction, the lodges were a power in Europe, formidable by the union which subsisted between them all, and by the wealth, social position, and unscrupulousness of those who formed their brotherhood.
The principles fashionable, and indeed alone tolerated, in them all before long were the principles of Voltaire and of his school.
This led in time to the
The Union and Illuminism of Masonry.
End of chapter four
Chapter ten of the War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization
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