Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

450 JACOBINS LIKE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS. LODGE AND ROMISH DESPOTISM. 451
The answer is this: when formed by Jacobin Jesuits,
in 1754, in the Jesuits’ College of Clermont, Paris, it
was “the Military Organization,” as the candidate was
told. (See page 897.) It then crowned the Rite of
Perfection of c25 degrees, which was adopted .by “the,
Council of Emperors,” four years later; that is, in 1758.
(See note 877.) The Jacobins, like the Chicago anardusts
lately hung were then secretly swearing to do what
they afterwards did, v&z., wage war on the government.
Hence this 32nd grade was not called a degree, but an
“organization,” as it was. But when adopte~l by Mormn’s
Sovereign Inspectors, at Charleston, S. C., in 1801, no
war was then contemplated, but by Aaron Burr, and
he was soon tried by Jefferson, for his life. The country
was then peaceful, and satisfied and pleased with
their free constitution, adopted in 1789, only twelve
years before. Of course, no fighting was contemplated.
True French sympathizers elected Jefferson that year;
but the French revolution had reacted, and the Monroe
doctrine was soon adopted, to keep the United States
free from foreign cntangleme~ts. Masonry now did not
mean fight, but money, and false worship.
What then were idaicho, Mitchell and Provost to do?
They had resolved on an “Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite,” to rule the false worships of Masonry
throughout the world. They adopted a scale of thirtytwo
degrees; and placed this Military degree at the
head: because, it had been, as the notes and ritual say:
“the Ne Plus Ultra degrec,” and it would not do to
leave it out. They therefore stretched it, and stuffed it
into its present shape, prolix enough. Hence the hotchpotch
fiummery of a camp of nine sides, with stupid
Masonic explanations for every corner.
But the one “mission and object” (Mackey) of Masonry
is kept steadily in view; which is the worship of
the god of this world, who is Satan, as the “Grand
Architect of the Universe;” and to accomplish this by
inventing “a religion in which all mankind agree ;“ and
this, by putting all earth’s religions upon a level, and
uniting them together in Masonic worship, which is
boldly avowed in rituals, lexicons, and philosophical
degrees. This is, (in Revelation, 18, 14,) called: the
image of the beast, made by “them, that dwell on the
earth;” that is, everybody; every creed, and no creed,
all who join secret lodges. But this world-religion
must have some form and shape, to hold together; and
be taxed; hence, it takes the form, or image, of the
beast. Lodge despotism is as absolute as Romish
despotism, and is the image of it; and it is made, as we
have seen, by the lamb-dragon beast, which is Popery;
“that great city, (Rome) which reigneth over the kings
of the earth.” (Rev, 17, 18.)
Note now the profound craft, by which this is to be accomplished,
viz., Masonry promises men salvation by
ceremonies invented by men, administered by priests,
and inhabited by devils. This is the sum and substance
of all the false religions on earth, and will ultimately
units them against Christ. (See Rev. ~2O,9.) But the
only opponents Masonry dreads, is Christ, ~vhorefused
to worship Satan, and his followers. If there were no
Christians in lodges, Masonry would not live an hour.
Hence, though Christ is wholly omitted, in the lower
degrees, He is taken into the lodges, made by ,Jesuits
and Jews, as a tool of incantation, but He is not pcrmitted
to be worshiped there, except by worships ~vhich
are paid to devils. In the next and last degree, of the
world’s ruling rite, the 33rd, Christ is twice called “our