OCCULT THEOCRACY It Is a Common Error to Believe That the Enghsn Grand Lodge Is an Independent Body Which Was Formed in 1717
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OCCULT THEOCRASY BY LADY QUEENBOROUGH (EDITH STARR MILLER) PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I FOREWORD HIS BOOK makes no claim to literary merit. It is Tsimply a work of research and documentation, giving evidence and facts which I trust will help the reader in drawing his own conclusions. In the course of my researches as an international political investigator into the causes of social unrest, I have probed the depths of infamy which now surrounds, not ours only, but also the next generation, whose right to lead a decent life should be as good as was ours. As a woman of the world I have witnessed things the existence of which I did not suspect and I have realised that, due to my " protected " position in life, they should never have been expected to have come to my knowledge. Let me tell every woman, however much " protected", whether Dairymaid or Duchess, that the safeguards which she imagines to be thrown around herself are but a mirage of the past. Her own and her children's future are at the mercy of those " forces " the activities of which it has been my business, for the 8 OCCULT THEOCRASY last ten years, to follow as one of a group of investigators. Today, most of the good people are afraid to be good. They strive to be broadminded and tolerant ! It is fashionable to be tolerant — but mostly tolerant of evil — and this new code has reached the proportions of demanding intolerance of good. The wall of resistance to evil has thus been broken down and no longer affords protection to those who, persecuted by evil doers, stand in need of it. Worse still, there are cases wherein virtuous people's good name is relentlessly " filched from them ", but no effort will be made by the presumed good people to rally to their defence. Happy are they if they themselves can discover the cause of their ruin, materiel or moral, either partial or total. In offering this book to the public, I have endeavoured to expose some of the means and methods used by a secret world, one might almost say an underworld, to penetrate, dominate and destroy not only the so-called upper classes, but also the better portion of all classes. There are those who feel confident that if they refrain from joining any society or group and avoid entangle- ments, no harm can befall them. To such, let me say that situations can be, and are, created for innocent dupes every day and wrecked homes are the direct result. Neither fortune nor a blameless FOREWORD 9 life led, as it were, in an island of strict virtue in the midst of a tumultuous sea of evil, spells security. Irrefutable evidence of a particular example of underworld tyranny has come into my possession. The victim's guilt was her reluctance to step from virtue into the mire of evil which surrounded her. Moreover she was intolerant of evil and sought to oppose and destroy it. The case of her persecution at the hands of her foes is complete. She belonged to what is termed Society as did also some of the other actors in this bewildering drama. The world, social, financial, legal and, shall we say also, the underworld, leaving to this word its generally accepted literal meaning, knows them. So many Jekylls and Hydes stalk about unsuspectingly in our midst ! From such an example I have been led to the conclusion that, among others, three factors can help one from being completely destroyed by the combined forces of that" underworld " : a flawless life, independent means and real friends, all three of which must be backed by a fearless determination to fight evil on all points of the Masonic compass. In these days when apparently vice triumphs and virtue must be penalized, it may be well for all of us to fight the undertow by which our children may be dragged under and must of necessity perish. Vice rings and secret societies 10 OCCULT THEOCRASY form but one vortex into which youth is drawn and destroyed whilst the " good people ", because of their ignorance, look on helplessly in despair. It is for their instruction that this book has been written. Its compilation has taken several years and, had it not been for the generous efforts of one of my friends, Mme de Shishmareff, and of several other persons, I would never have been able to complete the task which I set out to accomplish. What must concern us all now is the protection of decency or, in other words — Equal rights — for such as are not vice adepts. This book is not complete. It will never be complete, but for the present it must remain as a study of the root conditions which have led to present day subversive upheavals and the overthrow of the principles of Christian civilization. EDITH QUEENBOROUGH OCCULT THEOCRASY TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME I PART I THE MYSTERIES OF FREEMASONRY Chapter I. — The Religion of the Secret ........................................21 II. — The Meaning of Occultism ....................................24 III. — Brahminism...............................................................44 IV. — Mazdeism (Zoroastrianism), Jainism .......................65 V. — Confucianism and Taoism........................................71 VI. — Egyptian Esoterism...................................................73 VII. — Judaism, The Pharisees ..............................................75 VIII. — Orpheism and the Pagan Mysteries............................90 IX. — The Druids................................................................ 100 X. — Christianity............................................................... 105 XI. — Manicheism .............................................................108 XII. — Witchcraft ................................................................. 112 XIII. — The Gnostics (The Heretics).................................... 118 XIV. — Lamaism.................................................................. 123 XV. — The Yezidees (Devil Worshippers) ......................... 131 XVI. — Orthodox Islam......................................................... 133 XVII. — Unorthodox Islam, The Ishmaelites, The Lodge of Cairo ................................................... 134 XVIII. — The Druses................................................................. 138 XIX. — The Assassins........................................................... 140 XX. — The Knights Templar............................................... 143 XXI. — Knights of Malta...................................................... 146 XXII. — The Rosicrucians....................................................... 147 XXIII. — Cathares, Albigenses, Waldenses............................ 163 12 OCCULT THEOCRASY Chapter XXIV. — The Moravians or The Order of Religious Freemasons, etc ..............................................165 XXV. — The Anabaptists ...................................................171 XXVI. — Grand Lodge of England......................................174 XXVII. — The Gospel of Revolution.....................................183 XXVIII. — The Preparation......................................................188 XXIX. — General Pepe and " The One Big Union ". 200 XXX. — Albert Pike and Giuseppe Mazzini.... 207 XXXI. — Practical Politics ...................................................241 XXXII. — Adriano Lemmi......................................................253 XXXIII. — The Interlocking Directorate..................................297 PART II CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES ASSOCIATIONS OF THE 16TH CENTURY XXXIV. Date of Foundation 307 XXXV. — 1520 The Illuminati of Spain ................ 308 — 1541 The Order of the Jesuits.... XXXVI. 3?0 — 1562 The Defenders (Roman Catho- lic) ...................................................................... ASSOCIATIONS OF THE 17TH CENTURY XXXVII. - - 1641 Ancient Order of Hibernians [XXVIII. - (Roman Catholic) ..................................................323 -XXXIX. - 163 Jansenism 325 Camisards of the Cevennes .....................................327 8 ASSOCIATIONS OF THE 18TH CENTURY XL. — 1721 Rite of Swedenborg or Illuminati of Stockholm....................................331 XL I. — 1725 Supreme Conseil and Grand Orient de France ..............................333 XLI I. — 1731 The Convulsionaries of St. Medard.............................................343 XLI II. — 1750 The Royal Order of Scotland... 349 TABLE OF CONTENTS 13 Chapter Date of Foundation XLIV. — 1751 The Strict Observance..........................350 XLV. — 1754 The Martinist Order. ............................353 XLVL — 1760 The Illuminati of Avignon ...................355 XL VII. — 1761 Antient and Accepted Scottish Rite (American), Antient and XLVIII. — 1763 Accepted Rite (England) ________ 357 XLIX. — 1766 The Order of the Mopse ...................... 365 L. — 1773 The Rite of Zinnendorf........................ 368 The Philaletes (Chercheurs de la Verite)..............................................369 LI. — 1776 The Illuminati of Bavaria .................... 370 LII. — 1786 The Tugendbund..................................376 LIII. — 1786 The Jacobins....................................... 379 LIV. — 1790 The Knights Templar of Ame rica ................................................... 384 VOLUME II LV. — 1791 The United Irishmen .............................. 385 LVI. — 1795 The Orange Society (Protestant and Masonic) ................................... 391 LVII. — 1798 The Philadelphians (The Olym pians) ............................................... 395 L VIII. — 1799 The Scottish Philosophic Rite... 397 ASSOCIATIONS OF THE 19TH CENTURY LIX. — 1804