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various secret forces. Freemasonry means the acceptance of pantheism
and the deification of man. 1
It is pantheistic in its symbolism
and in its inner or esoteric signification, so German Freemasonry,
both Grand Orient and Prussian, has contributed to the
preparation of the present mental aberration. In the previous
edition of this pamphlet I insisted upon this, and I added that
Hitler suppressed the Grand Orient Lodges but that the Prussian
Grand Lodges, which never admitted Jews to membership and remained
strictly nationalist, simply transformed themselves into
Orders of Chivalry with a purely German symbolism. I have since
been assured that they also were suppressed. Is that suppression
merely on the surface and akin to the closing of the Masonic
Lodges during the French Revolution when their members were
proceeding to action ? It is difficult to know exactly. It is certain
that the "German Christian" attempt to introduce the neo-paganism
of "the German Faith" into the Protestant Church follows
exactly the lines indicated in the declarations of the three Prussian
Grand Lodges, quoted in The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern
World, pp. 311, 312. 2
It is also certain that behind all the attempts
of the German Government is the intention of moulding
Christianity according to the ideas formulated by the German Christians.
3
It seems to me that the hatred of the Supernatural Life of
Grace displayed by the Hitlerite government indicates the presence
of a satanically inspired group such as Masonry. The iniFor
the proofs of this, see The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern
World, passim, especially Appendix VI, pp. 346-351.
2
An extract from the minutes of the assembly of the Prussian Grand-
Masters held on loth February, 1924, is there reproduced. At that reunion,
a common statement was drawn up to the effect that the three Prussian
Grand Lodges stood for "a German and Christian view of life (auf dem
Boden deutscher und christlicher Anschauung). . . . We insist on these
convictions as well as upon the respect of the rights of others, because we
are persuaded that there is no universal Humanitarian Ideal and that, just
as every personality has its root in race, only boundless love of and fidelity
to one's race can develop personality . .
3
The book, The New Racial Paganism, translated from the Italian of
Mario Bendiscioli, by George D. Smith (Burns, Oates and Washbourne)
contains a striking confirmation of these views, though there is no allusion
to Freemasonry, Prussian or other, in the book. The little book quoted in
the previous edition of this pamphlet, namely Les Forces Occultes en
Allemagne, by H. du Mesnil-Thoret, contains an extraordinary amount of
useful information in a few pages.
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