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FREEMASONRY and the VATICAN FREEMASONRY and the VATICAN A STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION Translated from the French of VICOMTE LEON DE PONCINS by Timothy Tindal-Robertson WHEREAS before the war it was little known or discussed, Freemasonry today commands an ever-growing and informed audience which has called forth much serious literature and has even provoked television documentary films which have aroused widespread interest. Freemasonry and the Vatican is the latest book dealing with an entirely new phase in the orientation of Masonry in the modern world. There is at present in Catholic circles a constant, subtle and determined campaign in favour of Freemasonry. It is directed by the progressive element which is currently enjoying a great influence in French and American Church circles and beginning to show its hand in England too. Its avowed object is to obtain from the Vatican the revision or even annulment of the various condemnations pronounced by the Popes upon the Craft since 1738. This element consists of a number of priests, including a Jesuit, Editors of Catholic newspapers and several writers of note. In this new work, Vicomte de Poncins emphatically reinforces the Church's condemnations of Freemasonry, which, as he shows, have been renewed more than six times since the Second World War and he quotes from authoritative Masonic documents, hitherto unknown to the English reader. Although the author is mainly concerned with Grand Orient Freemasonry, he treats in some detail the question of Masonic Regularity and Irregularity and the oft-disputed relationship of the Anglo-Saxon with the Grand Orient Obediences, and brings to light startling and valuable new evidence on the origins of Anderson's Constitutions and the Grand Lodge of England. The most important part of the book is concerned with Freemasonry's relationship with politics and in particular its connection, often quite unconscious, with Communism. The author shows the peculiar and disturbing nature of this role in the light of the highest Masonic authorities, and reveals its activity in the French Revolution, the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War, the Cartel des Gauches in France in 1924 and then in the Spanish Civil War. Freemasonry and the Vatican reveals for the first time that it was the Grand Orient Freemason, Dr. Benes of Czechoslovakia, who influenced the Masonic President Roosevelt to place blind faith in Stalin with the disastrous results to Christian civilisation now known to the World. The reader will be appalled at the extent to which secret and Masonic forces influenced such conferences as that at Yalta and are operating in international politics at the present time. Vicomte de Poncins quotes in full a document discovered by the Spanish Government—known as the 'Zabrousky Letter,' and written by Roosevelt to the Jewish liaison officer between himself and Stalin. Written in 1943, it reveals how Roosevelt declared his intention of abandoning virtually the whole of Europe and Asia to the Soviets. Problems as profound as these are not readily capable of solution, and it is a mark of the author's success, that throughout the forty years he has studied them, the documents and authorities on which his conclusions are based have never been challenged and that he himself has won world wide renown for the penetrating depth of his knowledge. Freemasonry and the Vatican is his latest and perhaps the most brilliant and comprehensive study he has written. WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR 1928 Les Forces Secretes de la Revolution 1931 Refuse par la Presse 1932 La Franc-Maconnerie, Puissance Occulte Les Juifs Maitres du Monde 1934 Tempete sur le Monde La Franc-Maconnerie d'apres ses documents secrets 1936 Le Portugal Renait La Societe des Nations, Super-Etat Maconnique La Mysterieuse Internationale Juive La Guerre Occulte (in collaboration with E. Malynski) 1937 Histoire Secrete de la Revolution Espagnole 1939 Le Plan Communiste d'Insurrection Armee 1941 La Franc-Maconnerie contre la France 1942 L'Enigme Communiste Israel Destructeur d'Empires 1943 Les Forces Occultes dans le Monde Moderne 1961 Espions Sovietiques dans le Monde TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH 1929 The Secret Powers Behind Revolution 1967 Judaism and the Vatican A photograph, from the original in the author's possession, of the cover and title page of the Minutes of the International Masonic Congress of Allied and Neutral Nations, which was held at the headquarters of the Grand Orient of France in Paris on 28th, 29th and 30th June, 1917. An analysis and detailed extracts from this important document appear on pages 51 to 57. The opening page of the Minutes of the International Masonic Congress of Allied and Neutral Nations, a translation of which appears on page 51. CONTENTS Chapter page 1 The Campaign in Favour of Freemasonry 7 2 The Pontifical Condemnations 22 3 The Masonic Secret, 41 4 Judaism and Freemasonry 69 5 Satanism, Naturalism and Freemasonry 79 6 Regularity and Irregularity in Masonry 103 7 Occult Theology and Gnosticism 122 8 Freemasonry and the Revolution of 1789 138 9 Communism and Freemasonry 150 10 Twentieth-century Freemasonry 187 Appendix: Pax and Poland 201 Bibliography 217 Index 219 ILLUSTRATION 1917 Masonic Congress Frontispiece "To the crowd me must say: we worship a God, but it is the God one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees: all of us initiates of the high degrees should maintain the Masonic religion in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay, the God of the Christians, whose deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, his barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him? Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also God . religious philosophy in its purity and truth consists in the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay." Albert Pike, quoted in A. C. de la Rive: La Femme et l'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle, p. 588 "The duty of the Knight Rose-Croix is to combat the bastard Gnosticism inherent in Catholicism, which blinds the eyes of faith, turns hope into a pedestal, and charity into egoism . the secret teaching of the supreme leaders of Freemasonry may be summed up in these words: to establish the rights of Man, the privation of which constitutes a usurpation against which all means of action are permissible." La Massoneria, Florence, 1945 "Behind the activity and intrigues of those in the foreground a gigantic struggle is taking place. It is the struggle between angels and devils for the salvation or ruin of mankind. The leader of the infernal spirits is Satan. At the head of the heavenly hosts is the Queen of the Angels, with Saint Michael as her standard- bearer. He who has said no to God has entered the lists against her who has said yes. This is the true sense of the present world happenings and the only philosophy of history that can explain the last causes." Cardinal Suenens: Theologie de l'Apostolat, 1951 pp. 112-214 "Holy Michael the Archangel, defend us in the day of battle; be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray: and do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God thrust down into Hell Satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls." Prayer ordered to be recited after Mass by Pope Leo XIII, and now discontinued 1 THE CAMPAIGN IN FAVOUR OF FREEMASONRY THERE is at present in Catholic circles a constant, subtle and determined campaign in favour of Freemasonry. It is directed by the progressive brigade, currently enjoying so great an influence in France, and is assisted by pressures (whether open or secret) on the part of a considerable number of the clergy—pressures also exerted by the Catholic Press, and even by prelates among the French bishops and cardinals. Its avowed object is to obtain from the Vatican, and from the Council while it was in session, the revision or, better still, the annulment of the various condemnations pronounced by the Popes upon Freemasonry since 1738. More specifically, its aim is to bring pressure upon the Roman Curia to obtain such an annulment. The campaign relies for its success upon certain books, cleverly drawn up in such a way as to present Freemasonry in a favourable light, and it commands sources of information and means of propaganda far more extensive than those available to people who defend the traditional position, for newspapers, books, magazines, the radio and public platforms are all open to receive its voice. Furthermore, it receives the tacit support of the Order itself. To find the first signs of this new tendency, we must go back as far as the twenties. An aged German Jesuit, Father Gruber, an expert on Masonic matters, made contact with three highly-placed Masons, Ossian Lang of New York, and Dr. Kurt Reichl and E. Lehnhof of Vienna, in order to study the possibilities, first of a truce, then of a permanent modus vivendi, which would put an end to the furious war which has raged between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry since 1738. These contacts were exceedingly discreet, not to say secret, and they remained virtually unknown to the public at large. The first public expression of this new attitude took place in 1937. In that year a Mason of high degree—the 33rd—who was also a man of a most independent mind and a writer of quality, Albert Lantoine, published a book which aroused bitter controversy in various quarters.
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