Masonry, which put Buddha and Confucius on the same level as Jesus Christ, they deny Christ's role as mediator between God and man. Many of the English Lodges are made up completely of Jews, who of course deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. The formation of Masonic "toleration of all religions" is actually a positive hatred of the Divine plan for man's salvation, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Some Masons believe that their association goes back to Adam and we have seen in Dr. Shepherd's explanation, that he believes it goes back to CAIN at least. Other Masons try and trace its foundation back to Abraham, Moses, or David and Solomon. The modern version of Freemasonry had its roots in Europe during the rapid rise of atheism and anti-Christianity. By the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, the Reformation Movement had about run its course. The principles of the Reformation, which had allowed private interpretation of the Scriptures and which had been introduced with the best of intentions as the
pure worship of Jesus Christ, had ended, as men's efforts often do, by leaving no part of Christ's teaching unchallenged. Men began to attack His divinity, His resurrection and His very existence. These were men who called themselves Christian.
Page 93It was during this time, about 150 years ago, that a German Jewish philosopher named
Ludwig Feurbach declaimed:
"Man will finally be truly free, when he realizes there is no god of man, but man himself" This idea became so deeply implanted in the diseased brain of a young Jewish radical named
Karl Mordecal Marx, that it became the foundation of both Illuminism and Communism. A LEAGUE was begun in Germany by a man named Socinus, which bound groups of Polish and German Protestants into a League, or Lodge, if you will, where the only requirement was an undying hatred and opposition to the Roman Catholic Church. A man by the name of
Boyle threw doubt on everything which had been taught by Christianity, while
Spinoza destroyed what little respect
was left for the Deity. Both deists and pantheists (the doctrine that God is not a personality but that all forces are t, wnifestation of the self-existing
universe and are therefore gods. This theory made so much headway in Europe and England in the early s as to almost destroy Christianity. What had once been Protestantism, often turned into what was popular called "Free Thinking" France owed its evil preeminence in a great degree to a man named
Voltaire. He was an extraordinary man and was possibly the greatest disciple of atheism and "Free Thinking" the world has ever known. Abetted and aided by Judaism, he set out to destroy the Christian world. He once bragged that what Christ and His disciples had taken almost 2,000 years to develop, he would destroy in one generation. He was the son of ardent Roman Catholic parents, with excellent schooling and had been trained by the Jesuits. (It maybe of interest to note here that the Jesuits were controlled by Jews who had infiltrated the order begun by Fr. Ignatis Loyola in 1534). Voltaire had been trained to be a lawyer and apparently learned all the guile and trickery
for which the Jesuits were Page 94noted. At this time, the courts of Europe were rotten to the core. Many of their leaders, often professing to be Christian, were libertarians of the worst sort, showing very little Christian fruit in their lives. The court of Catherine the Great, in Russia, for instance, was noted for its unabashed lewdness, while the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia was so corrupt that it cannot even be ribed by decent language. The Regent of
Orleans and Louis XV of France, had carried sexual license to such an extent that the Court at Versailles was in utter confusion. Vice became the order of the day and as a consequence, the libertines hated anyone who took exception to their excesses. Voltaire, appearing in the midst of this scene was a witty, sarcastic, vicarious fellow who found himself at home with the voluptuaries who filled Paris. His conduct was so bad however, and his habit of ridiculing royalty so open, that he landed in the Bastille at the age of 27. He was liberated in
1727, on the condition that he leave France and never return. He crossed the English Channel and lived in England for half a century in what was
described as
"the most perfect incarnation of Satan the world had ever seen."At this time, the society of Freemasonry was just beginning to gain a foothold in London, and Voltaire became an enthusiastic member of one of the Lodges. He returned to the continent during the years 1726-1728, where he became an adept, not only for Freemasonry, but also of infidelity. His hatred of the monarchial government of France, which had imprisoned him, was almost beyond human understanding. He was a master of French prose and his writings against morality and Christianity were received with great favor by the corrupt, reading public of his day. He was adept at the
Page 95use of ridicule and blasphemy, which he used against anything that smacked of Christianity. Nothing was sacred to him and he viciously attacked Joan D'Arc, the "Maid of Orleans" with as little scruples as he attacked Christianity. His teaching was that a reign of terror would spread over the world and that it would continue as long as there was a vestige of Christianity left. His teaching was actually the forerunner of Communist terror today. He was an adept liar and wrote to his disciple Theriot: "lying is a vice when it does evil. It is a great virtue when it does good. Be therefore more virtuous than ever. It is
necessary to lie like a devil, not timidly, and fora time, but boldly and forever" He was a profound hypocrite who used religion when it became necessary for his evil purposes. Writing to a man named Damilaville, he said "The Christian religion is an infamous religion, an abominable hydra which must be destroyed by a hundred invisible hands. It is necessary that philosophers course through the streets to destroy it. Let us crush the wretch" Atone point in his life when he had an accident and broke a blood vessel, he thought he was about to die and called a priest to whom he made confession and even signed a written confession in which he decried his evil life and asked God to forgive him. He went so far as to have this retraction printed in the newspapers. But as soon as he had recovered, he
commenced his war against God with anew fury and died screaming imprecations against God and Christianity. Freemasonry spread the ideas taught by Voltaire. The first Lodge established in France was in 1727 under English obedience. Its founder was a celebrated Jacobite named
Lord Derwentwater. It was accepted almost immediately by the degenerate nobility who clamored for membership. Ina short time, Freemasons had
lodges in every city of size Page 96in Europe and England. Noted Christian leaders of the Eighteenth century realized that the real secret of Freemasonry was their disbelief in the divinity of Jesus Christ and a determination to replace this truth with the doctrine of "Naturalism" and "rationalism" There are some authorities who believe that
Oliver Cromwell was a follower of Socinus and that he introduced Masonry into England, calling them
FREEMASONS for the first time and inventing the allegory of Solomon's Temple, now so much used by Freemasons everywhere. This temple, which was destroyed by the
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