The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

324 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
crumbles with the present untruth. No Govern-
ment, in fact, has ever lied so impudently as that of
present-day Germany. For Germany has once
more raised the banner and has called us all to
the standard, to engage in fight
to the end with
the loathsome dragon now devastating the world,
more pestilent than the old one, whose path across
a fair and smiling land of a brave and courageous
people, with its poisonous breath and vile hatred,
is marked by hellish outrages on women, the hap-
less cry of tortured babes, the heart-sob of the
aged and the crimson stain of its wounded and
dying victims, and the destruction of Literature
and Art impossible to replace.
I do not say for one moment that all German
Freemasons were of this one mind in Germany,
or that there were not a large number of Brothers
who wished for the establishment of Universal
Brotherhood ; but that the majority, or those in
power, as the Governing Body, were not so minded,
there can be no doubt. If the whole of the German
Brotherhood had combined together as the
Americans did, there would have been no such
awful calamity as is now taking place ; but they
did not, as we well know, and the destruction of
the German Empire will be the result. The
French, on the contrary, having returned to the
acknowledgment
of the Great Architect of the
Universe, and joined in with the one great nation