Blanchard J (anti-masonic) - Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated Part I

28 IMPOETAHCE OF THE SCOTTISH RITE.chartered by them.This usurpation and imposition was successful. Intwenty-one years Freemasonry had spread into France,Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, Saiony,Belgium, flolland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Asia,Africa and New Holland; and a few years later it hadspread throughout Christendom.The success of this swindle encouraged others. As asmall specimen of such enterprises a few years since,two adventurers invented, and were selling, a new sidedegree to Masons in Peoria, Illinois, when one of themstole the money and ran off. The other applied to alawyer, saying mournfully.—”[f the fellow hadn’t beena fool, we were making money so fast, that m a short-time his half would have been more than all he hasstolen.”By such swindling adventurers, “degrees” increasedso rapidly that Rebold says there were several thousandat one time practiced in France. As soon as the increaseof degrees and dues have tempted ambition and greed,attempts have been made to grasp universal lodge dominion.This was attempted by Weishaupt in 1777; byFrederick II., or others in his name, in Berlin in 1786;by the Grand Orient; and, indeed, by every considerableMasonic body, attempts hate been made to seize “thekingdoms of the world and the glory of them,” whichwere proffered by Satan to Christ, as the inducements todevil worship.Such an attempt to seize universal dominio~i, is thisAncient and Accepted Scotti.sh Rite of 33 degrees, ofwhich E. JuniuB Edwards, Commander in chief of theGrand Consistory of Minnesota, says: Nov. 12, 1885:—4’AIl the Supreme Councils of the world have finallyBORN IN CITY OF NULLIFICATION AND REBELLION. 29adopted this schedule.” Hence the importance ofj thisvolume.Macoy’s Encyclopedia says of this rite :—“The Ancientand Accepted Scottish Rite was, for the most part,elaborate4 from the system invented by Ramsay.”In the Historical Analysis of the fourth and fifth degrees,pages 59-68, and 89-92 of this volume, will befound quotations from Mackey, Macoy, Rebold, Folger,and Morris, whose authority as Masonic writers is unquestioned,in ample proof of the fact that this ScottishRite had its origin in the brains and breasts of an apostatePresbyterian, renegade tyrants, Jews who retainednothing of Judaism but its hatred of Christ, associatedwith Jesuits, conspiring against the liberties of Europe,and for the overthrow of the Government of France!And its first home in this country was the city of Nullification,Secession, and Rebellion; in Charleston, SouthCarolina, in 1801, where thirteen Jews and three Protestants:Mitchell, Dalcho and Provost, who had receivedit from France, falsely pretended to found it on constitutionsgiven by Frederick the Great. If Satan hadpicked the time, the inventors, and home of this Ritehe would have doubtless chosen the same. Frenchprinciples prevailed; Jefferson was first inaugurated,having defeated John Adams -in 1801, the year whenthe Charleston Council was born. Aaron Burr, whocame near defeating Jefferson, was plotting to dividethe infant Union, raising troops, in the Southwest, andboth Barmzrd and Gassett say, he used the Royal ArchCypher to cover his treason, for which Jefferson afterwardstried him. Morin’s Jews, with Mitchell and Dalcho,that same year (1801,) took Ramsay’s and his Jesuits’Rite of Perfection; added eight degrees; made it