Scott Foster
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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To do this with effect, it was necessary to go over a large area of ground, and to touch upon a great variety of topics.
The writer was conscious that much of this ground and many of these topics will be very much better known to a large number of his readers than to himself.
Nearly every matter he had to speak about had been already very frequently handled ablely and exhaustively in our Catholic reviews, magazines, and newspapers, and
But notwithstanding this fact, very few, if any attempts have been made in our language to treat the subject as a whole.
Many articles which he has seen propose to treat some one feature only of the atheistic conspiracy, for example, Freemasonry, or the infidel war upon Christian education and Christian institutions, or the revolution in Italy, or the efforts of sectaries against the temporal power of the Pope, and against the welfare of Christian states generally.
Several writers appeared to assume as known that which was really unknown to very many, and few touched at all upon the fact, a fact no doubt difficult to prove from the strict and ably guarded secrecy which protects it.
Of the supreme direction given to the universality of secret societies from a guiding, governing, and even to the rank and file of members of the secret societies themselves, unknown and invisible junta ceaselessly sitting in dark conclave and guiding the whole mass of the secret societies of the world.
If it be difficult at this moment to point out the place of meeting and the members of that powerful body its existence can be proved from past discoveries of the secret workings of the order, and from present unity of action in numberless occurring circumstances amongst a vast multitude of men whose essential organization consists in blind obedience to orders coming down through many degrees from an unknown source which thinks and orders for the purposes of the whole conspiracy.
The great object, in order to understand the nature of such a conspiracy, is to find out the ends for which those who framed or adopted it took it up.
For instance, infidelity, as it is now known in the world, never, it may be said, existed to any appreciable extent before the time of Voltaire.
Voltaire devoted his whole life to spread infidelity and destroy Christianity.
When we see Voltaire and his disciples eagerly seize upon Freemasonry and zealously propagate it as a means to their ends, we may reasonably infer it was because they judged masonry fitting for their infidel and anti Christian purposes.
This is further confirmed when we see Masonry adopted by all men of their principles without exception.
And it becomes proved to demonstration when we see its organization seized upon as the basis of further and more complex planning for the avowed purposes of ruining Christianity and placing atheism in its stead.
French atheism using masonry thus perfected, produced what it aimed at during the reign of terror in France, which, as we shall see, is only a prelude to what it means one day to accomplish throughout the entire world.
In order to make these facts clear, the writer, so far as the form of a single lecture would allow, has given as much of the history and character of both Voltaire and Freemasonry as might serve to show the adaptability of the latter to the designs of the former.
He has spoken of the Union and Illuminism of Masonry through the instrumentality of Weishaupt, and has shown the immediate consequences of the organization and influence of that arch conspirator in the first French Revolution and its outcome, the consulate and the Empire.
He deemed it a duty to dispel the glamour of false glory which many Christian writers have aided in throwing over Napoleon I, a real child of Freemasonry and Revolution, and to represent him in his true colours.
For though it cannot be denied that Napoleon restored the church, it is equally true that his half hearted measures in favor of religion tended to deaden that strong reaction against atheism, which even Robespierre's attempts could not control.
While the encouragement he gave to Freemasonry caused that organization to so powerfully permeate Europe that it has since controlled the civilized world with a subtle, powerful force, which nothing has been able to stay save the Catholic Church alone.
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