1 TABLE OF CONTENTS FORWARD INTRODUCTION TO THE MASONIC QUESTION ................................ 3 We are actually witnessing an immense revolutionary FREEMASONRY IN APPEARANCE ..................................................... 5 movement of which the first outward manifestation was the French revolution of 1789. FREEMASONRY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ............................ 8 This movement, which, since then, has spread all over FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE AFTER 1793 ....................................... 16 the world, has a much deeper significance than is generally REVOLUTIONARY FREEMASONRY IN EUROPE supposed, and aims at the overthrow of civilization. (PORTUGAL, SPAIN, ITALY, TURKEY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY) ........ 21 The fate of humanity is at stake, and it is of great FREEMASONRY AND THE WAR ...................................................... 28 importance for us to know the causes of the movement and its consequences, or, in a word, to know where we are going. WHAT FREEMASONRY REALLY IS ................................................ 33 But among the revolutionary forces there are two, which, JEWISH INFLUENCE IN FREEMASONRY ......................................... 37 although more or less hidden and unknown to the public, arc ENGLISH FREEMASONRY ............................................................... 40 none the less primordial. These are Freemasonry and Judaism. INTRODUCTION TO THE JEWISH QUESTION.................................. 43 It is these two forces which we wish to make better JEWS IN MODERN REVOLUTIONS .................................................. 44 known. The aim of this work, therefore, is not to produce new unpublished evidence but to set out and summarize the whole THE JEWS AND BOLSHEVISM ........................................................ 47 question for a reader who is supposed to be ignorant of the JEWS AND SOCIALISM .................................................................... 59 subject. JEWISH INFLUENCE — MONEY AND FINANCE ............................. 61 It must be clearly understood that what follows applies to continental Freemasonry, the question of English masonry being JEWISH INFLUENCE — THE PRESS ................................................ 65 treated separately at the end. CAUSES OF HOSTILITY BETWEEN JEWS AND NON-JEWS ............. 69 THE JEWISH RACE ......................................................................... 71 E-book Editor's Note: THE JEWISH RELIGION ................................................................. 75 Leon de Poncin's work quotes heavily from many JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS .............................................................. 78 sources, most of which were written by Jewish or Masonic authors. In order to clearly designate Poncin's original text THE JEWISH PLAN OF ACTION ...................................................... 83 from that of secondary sources, all extended quotes from other CONCLUSION REGARDING THE JEWISH QUESTION ..................... 88 authors have been highlighted in red. CLOSING THOUGHTS: GENERAL CONCLUSION ............................ 91 BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................................................. 95 2 CHAPTER I 2. By studying the work of former Masons. INTRODUCTION TO THE MASONIC QUESTION (Such as Copin-Albancelli, Findel, Robison, etc.) WHAT IS FREEMASONRY? It has sometimes happened that a Freemason, having caught a glimpse of the truth, has felt himself in conscience bound to It is difficult to answer this question in a few words for the leave the association and to divulge its dangers to the public. following reasons: A very few persons also succeeded in insinuating themselves 1. Freemasonry is a secret society. into the Lodges in order to try to pierce the masonic It considers it necessary to conceal everything concerning it not mysteries. But these are exceptional cases. Freemasonry has only from outsiders but also from the great majority of its own known what measures to take for the avoidance of all members. Only a few chosen initiates know its real secrets. Its indiscretions. adepts collaborate unconsciously towards an aim of which they 3. By means of important masonic documents that have fallen into are ignorant, led by invisible chiefs whose very existence they the hands of certain governments which have made them public. sometimes do not even suspect. These cases occurred on three principal occasions: 2. Freemasonry has not an invariable and rigid form. The work which it proposes to accomplish is so vast that the task a) In 1785 Lanze, a member of the masonic order of is divided, each section of Masonry having its particular role, the Bavarian "Illuminati", who was carrying secret which varies according to countries, times and circumstances; so documents was struck by lightning at Ratisbon. When the that if we ask several Free-Masons for a definition of Police picked up his body, they discovered on him such Freemasonry, they can in good faith give us in Each case very compromising papers that the Bavarian government different one. immediately took the matter up. A search was carried out among the papers of the sect which led to considerable 3. Freemasonry conceals its true aim beneath vague formulas. further discoveries and ended in a celebrated trial. It purposely never explains in precise fashion what it intends. By Weishaupt, the chief, was able to escape. All the documents using vague formulas, those who direct it have been able, little by seized could be seen in the archives at Munich. Copies were little, and without too obvious contradictions, to turn Masonry in sent to all European governments, which, however, took no the direction which they desired. notice of them. All this, taken together, makes Freemasonry a very complex b) In 1845 the documents of the secret society: "the problem. A part of the truth has however been discovered by the Haute Vente Romaine" came into the possession of the following means: Vatican and were in part published by Cretineau-Joly in his 1. By studying Masonic documents. book: L'Eglise Romaine en face de la revolution. On this (Publications, reports of meetings, masonic correspondence, etc.) occasion again copies of these papers were sent to all European governments but with no better success. This work is now facilitated in certain countries, such as France, where Freemasonry believes itself c) In 1919, upon the fall of Bela Kun, chief of the strong enough to throw off partly its mask. Bolshevist revolution in Hungary, the government caused the masonic archives of the lodges in Buda-Pest to be seized. The 3 revolutionary role of the Masons was clearly revealed; all the "To the French Republic, daughter of French masonry. To lodges of Hungary were closed and Freemasonry forbidden. the universal Republic of tomorrow, daughter of universal masonry." (Toast of the President of the Grand Orient, 1923). 4. By ascertaining the masonic revolutionary work accomplished in the would during the two last centuries. "Freemasonry cannot do less than thank the sovereign Pontiff for his last encyclical. Leo XIII with incontestable This work of disintegration extends to all brandies: religion, authority and a wealth of proofs, has just informed us once more politics, morals, arts, literature, etc . and to all countries. It that there exists an impossible abyss between the church, of which is the most solid proof and the most tangible; for, if it is easy he is the representative, and the revolution, of which Freemasonry to refute an argument, facts cannot be denied, and there are so is the right arm. It is better for those who are hesitating not to many of them, that, according to the evidence it is no longer keep up vain hopes. All must come to understand that the time has possible to preserve any doubt as to the real essence of arrived for choosing between the old order, which rests upon Freemasonry. Revelation, and the new order which knows no other foundation From this study the true role of this universal association but science and human reason, between the spirit of authority and emerges little by little, and it may be briefly stated thus: the spirit of liberty." (Extract from the Bulliten of the Grand Logde of France). Freemasonry is a body of superimposed secret societies spread throughout the world. Having briefly stated the problem, we are now going to study the question in detail and to show with proofs in support: Its aim is to destroy the present civilization based on Christian principles, to establish in its place an atheistic rationalist society Freemasonry in Appearance which, in fact, leads straight to materialism although it is Its Revolutionary Part in the World supposed to have science and reason as a religion. Appearances Freemasonry in Reality have often changed but this aim has remained unalterable. Jewish influence in Freemasonry The inner nature of the struggle is spiritual. It is a conflict English Freemasonry between rationalism and the Christian idea, between the rights of God and the rights of man, who will become a man-god, directed by a state-god. In order to reach this final aim it was necessary to begin by undertaking the overthrow of monarchies representing the principles of authority and tradition, and to replace them, little by little, by the universal atheist masonic republic. The role of Freemasonry is to create the revolutionary state of mind rather than to act directly. We could quote in support of this brief summary numerous masonic documents. Here are a few taken at random: 4 CHAPTER