THE GROWING MENACE
OF
FREEMASONRY
Disraeli, speaking at Aylesbury,
The Conspiracy of Silence.
"THE position claimed
by Freemasonry throughout the Whole World is a peculiarly and radically
exceptional one. It alone is never, except in rare instances, discussed by the
Press; indeed, it refused to allow itself to be discussed."
"Although priests
openly deliberate and pronounce upon all other points affecting the general
interests of mankind; although Christianity with its system and doctrines, the
State with its laws and constitution, are topics of free discussion; although
the most intimate and personal concerns of individual persons are made
public—Freemasonry alone, by the universal consent of Europe, is acknowledged
to be a Noli me tangere!
Everyone shrinks from speaking of it, as of an uncanny ghost. This phenomenon
is an obvious proof of the immense power Freemasonry exercises in the world . .
. . "
This was said over 60 years
ago by the Bishop of Mayence and it is still true to‑day. The time has
arrived when this Conspiracy of Silence must be dissolved. Freemasonry and the
Jew Power (which is also surrounded by a vast conspiracy of silence) have for
centuries been undermining Christian and Aryan civilisation.
Before proceeding further in
this investigation, it is necessary to consider brief statistics of the number
of Freemasons in the world. H. Coston's book, "Les
Franc‑Maçons Célèbres,"
gives the following figures for 1930, which agree with those from other
sources:—
It will thus be seen that
Thus, there were in Great Britain in 1931, 459,000 Freemasons out of
1,839,300 males of over 20 years of age, whose salaries were outside the scope
of the National Health Insurance Act; this gives a figure of 25 per cent.—that
is, of every four adult men in Great Britain, receiving £250 per annum or more,
one is a Freemason. Needless to say, if figures were available for the number
of male adults in receipt of £400 per annum and upwards, this percentage would
be considerably higher.
We have not taken into consideration
the various other secret societies represented in
Freemasonry is Essentially Jewish
WHATEVER may be the origin
of Freemasonry, and this is a very disputable point even amongst Masonic
experts, the fact remains that to‑day it is predominantly a Jewish
institution: this is shown clearly by the following quotations from various
authorities:—
Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, in "The Israelite" of
Masonry is a Jewish institution, whose history, degrees, charges, passwords and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end, with the exception of only one degree and a few words in the obligation."
Richard Carlile in "Manual of
Freemasonry":—
"The Grand Lodge Masonry of the present day is wholly
Jewish."
Bernard Lazare (Jew) in "L'antisemitisme":—
"It is certain that there were Jews around the cradle of Freemasonry; certain rites prove that they were cabbalistic Jews."
Brother Rudolph Klein in "Latomia,"
7‑8, 1928:—
"Our rite is Jewish from beginning to end; the public should conclude from this that we have actual connections with Jewry."
"The Coat of Arms used by
the Grand Lodge of
Freemasons' Guide,
"The Freemasons erect a building in which the God of
Le Symbolisme, July, 1928:—
"The
most important work of the Freemason must be to glorify the Jewish race, which
has preserved unchanged the divine standard of wisdom. You must rely upon the Jewish
race to dissolve all frontiers."
The Textbook of Freemasonry,
The initiate to the Master Rite is referred to as "humble representative of King Solomon."
An Encyclopædia of Freemasonry,
"Each Lodge is and must be a symbol of the Jewish temple; each
Master in the Chair, a representative of the Jewish king; and every Mason a
personification of the Jewish workman."
"The true reason why members of the Masonic Craft address each other as Brother so and so . . . is purely because of Hebraic Influence."
"The Freemason,"
"Bro. Benas expressed the view that the Israelitish tradition is of the very tissue of Masonic
substance, and the spirit of that tradition is its vitalising
element."
Very recent evidence is
found in a resolution of the "World Non‑Sectarian (sic) Anti‑Nazi
Council to Champion Human Rights" at
a Meeting held in London under the chairmanship of the American Jew, S. Untermeyer
(reported in South African Jewish Chronicle, 14th December, 1934) to the effect
that the Jewish boycott of Germany should continue inter alia "until it (the German Government) shall have restored
to the Masonic Lodges the status and property of which they have been
deprived."
Furthermore, it will be
found that most Freemasons, particularly of the higher grades, invariably
oppose and obstruct all attempts to investigate or to resist the constantly‑growing
domination of Jewry, and that Freemasonic Gentile politicians are constantly to
be found prepared to further Jewish interests.
It is, in fact, true to say
that no conscientious Freemason can be other than pro‑Jewish; this is
clearly shown in Dudley Wright's The Jew
and Freemasonry, London,
where on page 3 one reads: "In 1923 and 1924 some difficulty occurred in
the Province of West Yorkshire in curtain Lodges, where an attempt was made to
bar Jewish candidates from passing through the rite of
initiation; and the late Sir William Pick Rayner,
then Provincial Grand Master, addressing his Provincial Grand Lodge, said:
"How can we, as Freemasons, honour King Solomon
and, at the same time, put a reproach on one of our own day for having the same
blood in his veins as had that King? Regard for King Solomon should teach us to
regard with sympathy all who belong to the nation of which he was the exalted
head."
Masonic Brotherhood
IT is quite beyond the scope
of a pamphlet of this kind to describe or discuss the ritual and symbolism
employed in the Lodges, or to investigate their secret meanings, or to trace
most of them back to perverted Aryan‑Sumerian sun and fire rites.
We will now consider the
teachings of Freemasonry as so clearly expounded by that very able English
writer, Brother J. S. M. Ward, in his "Freemasonry, its Aims and
Ideals." In order that it may be realised that
Brother Ward speaks with the voice of knowledge, it is necessary to study his
Masonic qualifications, which are clearly stated on the title-page of his book,
"Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods."
Brother Ward, therefore,
knows his subject; he points out that persons become Freemasons from a desire
to be charitable, for comradeship, from a sense of universal brotherhood, and
from a wish to search after the Light (to learn the spiritual meaning of the
symbols and the significance of the mystical tradition).
Charity is certainly a
Christian virtue; and although it should be performed without ostentation, we
cannot agree that it need be shrouded in secrecy; however, the charity of the
Mason is very one‑sided, as Masonic charities only assist members of the
craft and their relations; we do not suggest that Masons do not contribute to
charities of wider scope, but we do maintain that the much‑vaunted
Masonic charity is restricted within a very narrow and selfish circle.
"A brother who has taken part in sedition
against the State without being guilty of any other crime, need not on that
account be expelled from his Lodge." Rev. James Anderson, "Book of Constitutions," 1738.
Nationality Superseded
REGARDING comradeship,
Brother Ward refers to "the mysterious tie which, though hidden and secret
from the outside world, yet binds together all true Masons throughout the world"
(the italics are ours). We have now come right up against that very big
question, internationalism; and it is on this that we have quite a lot to say.
We will first quote Brother Ward again (p.p. 169‑170):—"When war
broke out, many Lodges issued cards to serving members asking foreign Masons to
give help for the owner of the card. They were printed in English, French, German, and Turkish." On page 2 we
read:—"German Masons treated English or French Masons better than they did
non‑Masons who fell into their hands—and there were many well
authenticated cases of this kind." This no doubt explains why "during
the war there was a remarkable increase in the number of men who desired to be
admitted to the Order, not only in
We trust the reader has fully appreciated all that this means, namely, that in time of war there exists a secret understanding between the soldiers of enemy states . . . in other words, a Secret Society sets itself above the State. There have been cases where soldiers have actually ceased firing on the receipt of a masonic sign from the enemy; we will quote a few instances:
Le Globe, 1st year, page 51, quotes a case at the
Battle of Waterloo of a Prussian officer who utilised
this means of escape from certain death.
Le Franc‑Maçon,
August, 1860,
states that over one hundred French sailors gave the distress signal at the
Battle of Trafalgar, and were thereby saved.
John Fellows in "The Mysteries of Freemasonry,"
In this emergency, he gave
the Masonic sign of distress which induced a brother Mason, a British officer,
to interfere and save his life."
Lennhof in "The Freemasons,"
Another case is quoted in
the Masonic Review of
The German Masonic paper, Herold, in 1900, published an article
quoting cases of the use of the distress signal by British officers in the Boer
war; also by both sides in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.
The German General staff in
Other cases are quoted in
"Freemasonry in the Royal Scots," by T. R. Henderson, 1934, when it is said "Many
stories have been related in the past of the assistance rendered by one Mason
to another in cases of danger or distress. Incredible though several of them
may appear at first, most of the stories have been well authenticated; and they
may serve to show the influence of Masonry in warfare."
"The Greatness of
Race Superseded
BROTHER WARD says:—"Under
the Grand Lodge of England, I, an English Mason, have sat in a cosmopolitan
Lodge in Burmah, itself working under a lawful
charter from my own Grand Lodge, and have seen the ceremonies performed by men
of every colour and creed, and I must acknowledge
that these men were good Masons. Nor did I in any case lose caste or even feel
that I had lost caste by visiting their Lodge and partaking of their banquet." Brother Ward states that
there is a colour bar set up by U.S.A. Masons, and
considers it illogical, as negroes are mostly Christian and monogamous; he
states that "British Lodges have admitted thousands of coloured men"; and, referring to India, admits
"that in some of the side‑degrees, cases have occurred in which
the Lodge was being used for political and seditious purposes." After
considering the question, Brother Ward thinks that only the negro
should be excluded from white Lodges, as he says "what may be fair and reasonable treatment of the negro is probably
quite unreasonable in the case of the old Asiatic nations who, after all, were civilised peoples while we were still savages." It is evident that Brother
Ward has not studied the history of the early Aryans, and we recommend Colonel
Waddell's {"Makers of Civilisation,"
obtainable from I.F.L., price 28/‑, postage extra.} book to him; he will
then lose that inferiority complex he must feel whenever he sees a low‑caste
Hindu.
The Daily Telegraph of
Sir E. Headlam
in The Freemason,
"There are now, in
It is not difficult to form an idea of what has been behind the scenes of the India White Paper.
AT the formation of the
Grand Lodge of England in 1717, the original charges referring to the
conditions of membership of the Order stated:—"They should be true to God
and
"In 1721," Brother Ward relates, "the
Grand Charter of the Grand Lodge of
The results were soon to be
observed; Dudley Wright, in his booklet, The
Jew and Freemasonry, says: "Certainly the admission of
Jews to the membership of English Lodges dates from a very early period in the
history of organised Freemasonry in England";
he then quotes an article from the Daily
Post of September 22nd, 1732, referring to a meeting of a Lodge at the Rose
Tavern, where "in the presence of Jews and Christians," a new member
was admitted by Mr. Daniel Delvalle, "an eminent
Jew Snuff Merchant."
Brother W. Sanderson of the
English Mistery, says on page 55 of his book, "That which was Lost: a Treatise on Freemasonry and the English Mistery":
"It is very easy now, but quite unfair to criticise
the founders for introducing Judaic traditions. They had gone a very long way
by suppressing the New Testament for the
sake of the harmony between Christian and Jew" (our italics).
That seems clear enough! And this was in 1723, when the number of Jews in
Brother Sanderson continues:—"The volume of the Sacred Law is not the Bible, or any particular book, but the sacred book of any of the religions included in the craft. Any religion may be satisfactory if it fulfils Masonic requirements."
The position to‑day is
that Freemasonry, whilst not being officially anti‑Christian (in
From the religious
standpoint, Freemasonry may be correctly described as Deism wrapped in a solar‑lunar‑phallic
mystery. The Brahmin priest who worships naked before
his revolting sexual emblems, just as well as the woolly negro who indulges in
disgusting animal sacrifices, may both become Freemasons, provided that they recognise a Grand Architect of the Universe, whoever he may
be!
It is both interesting and
instructive to study the relations between Freemasonry and the Roman Catholic
Church. Pope Clement XII (1738) was the first to issue a Bull against all
secret sects, including Freemasonry; eleven other Popes have issued similar
Bulls since that date. These various edicts called upon the bishops to
excommunicate Freemasons, which very thoroughly excluded Roman Catholics from
joining that fraternity. As a result of this, one of the excuses made for the
subversive action of the Grand Orient Masons in France and Italy is that as
Freemasonry had been banned by the Roman Catholic Church, it was forced
underground and thereby became subversive; just as logical as saying that
because stealing is prohibited by the police, so thieves must work secretly;
but that does not make thieving a virtue!
At the present time, the
Roman Catholic Church in Britain seems to be very quiet on the subject of
Freemasonry; in fact, it is quite certain that open attacks on the part of
Roman Catholic priests are far from encouraged. Admitted, that anti‑Masonic
literature may be bought at certain Catholic
bookshops, but on examination it will be found that such books are written by
Jesuits—the exact relationship between the Society of Jesus and the Roman
Catholic Church is not too clear. We venture to assert that the majority of non‑Masonic
Protestants are not even aware of the official standpoint of the Roman Catholic
Church towards Freemasonry—sufficient evidence in itself to show how weak this
propaganda must be when it is realised that there
were 2,820,000 Roman Catholics in
As to the attitude of the
Established Church, the less said the better. The Church of England clergy,
from bishops to curate, are very numerous in the ranks of Freemasonry; needless
to say, seldom are any words ever
uttered against Freemasonry from Church of England pulpits. The Freemason,
The Greek Orthodox Church at its Council in August, 1932, banned Freemasonry, Theosophy, Christian Science, Anthroposophy, and the Y.M.C.A.
The reader who is further
interested in the purely religious side of Freemasonry is referred to;—
1. "Menace of
Freemasonry to the Christian Faith," by Rev. C. P. Hunt (Wesleyan),
Freedom Press, Breaston,
2. "Reflections on
Freemasonry," by an Anglo‑Catholic, Freedom Press, 1/8 post free.
3. "Freemasonry and the
Anti‑Christian Movement," Rev. E. Cahill, (Jesuit), M. H. Gill &
Son, Ltd.,
(These are not supplied by the I.F.L.).
BY the term, Grand Orient,
is meant a Masonic organization of that name which operates principally in the
'Latin' countries; thus, there are the Grand Orients of France,
It is possible to refer very
briefly to the revolutionary activities of Masonry in
1. Brother Lamartine in "Le Franc‑Maçon,"
1848, Vol. 1:—From the womb of Freemasonry have sprung the great ideas
which have laid the foundations of the democratic movements of 1789, 1830, 1840,
and 1848.
2. Count Haugwitz
(himself a Mason) in his petition to the Congress of Verona, 1822:—I
am definitely convinced that the drama which began in
the year 1788 and 1789, namely the French Revolution and the murder of the
King, with all its cruelties, was not only decided upon by the leaders of
Freemasonry, but also was the actual result of this society's activities and of
the oaths taken by it.
It should be noted that at
this time, the Grand Orient of France was recognised
by the Grand Lodge of England.
3. Albert Sorel, in his
"Europa und die Revolution," says that the Freemason, Lord Mansfield, stated quite openly in
Parliament that "the money that was spent to further the French Revolution
was money well spent."
Finally, the following names of many existing Lodges of the French Grand Orient show clearly the connection with events in 1789, such as:—1793, Danton, Marat, Babeuf et Condorcet, etc. The actions of Freemasonry in supporting more recent revolutionary movements will be considered later in this pamphlet.
To return to the present
day: Brother Ward confirms that direct connection was broken off between the
Grand Orient and Grand Lodge of England in 1878; but he admits that the Grand
Lodge retains fraternal connections with certain foreign Grand Lodges which are
still friendly with the Grand Orient.
Thus, the Grand Lodge of
Switzerland, "Alpina," with its
headquarters at
It will be observed that
there are many international cross-connections of which Lodge Alpina, Geneva, seems to be the centre; is it a coincidence
that the headquarters of the League of Nations are in the same town?
Furthermore, the cold‑shouldering of the Grand
Orient of France on the part of English Masonry is shown to be purely hypocritical, otherwise, why were Masons in the British Army
served with cards written in the French language if help was not to be expected
from the Grand Orient and Grande Loge of
This attitude is rendered
plainer by the fact that Masonic writers are constantly stating that there is only one Freemasonry throughout the world; it is important
therefore to give some examples:—
1. Brother Ward in
"Freemasonry, its Aims and Ideals," page 36:—"Freemasonry is an organised world‑wide
Brotherhood," page 8:— . . . mysterious tie which though hidden and
secret from the outside world, yet binds together all true Masons throughout
the world."
2. Brother Ragon in "Orthodoxie Maçonnique," page 353: "Freemasonry has the
fundamental character of being universal, which character is indispensible to its being. It is one; and any rite or any
nation that deviates from this principle is in error, and strays from the path
of Freemasonry . . . . Is there English
mathematics, Scotch mathematics, French mathematics?
No! there is mathematics, just as there is
Freemasonry."
3.
"As far as I am aware, the signs and grips of the
4. "Freemasonry is not exactly international,
it is universal; it is a society non‑national, a society of 'humanity';
not a society of international brotherhood, but a Society of Universal
Brotherhood." Bull: Off: Grand Lodge of France, October, 1922, (quoted in
"Light‑bearers of Darkness,"
5. "Neither boundaries
of States nor vast oceans separate the Masonic fraternity. Everywhere it is
one," said an American Past Grand Master (Freemason's Chronicle,
1906, 2, page 132).
Freemasonry and Modern
Politics
IT is fairly generally known
that the discussion of politics and religion is not allowed at Masonic
meetings. However, this ban does not seem to be very rigid, as Brother Ward
says:—"Nevertheless, it must be acknowledged that there is a type of
political question which may be considered a matter open to discussion in
Lodge, and the objections to politics in Lodge are rather to narrow party
politics than to be understood as debarring Masons from considering the social
welfare of their fellow men." In other words, you mustn't push Mr. Smith
as your local Parliamentary candidate, but you may make propaganda in favour of Political and Economic Planning, and the
Brother W. Sanderson
says:—"The prohibition of discussion by no means implies exclusion of
religion and politics from Freemasonry, which insists on every mason having a
religion, and on taking an active part in politics . . . Freemasonry does not
exclude politics or religion. It forbids discussion or controversy." All
this sounds rather Jesuitical or Talmudical to us!
Under the heading of
"Modern Politics," may be considered the greatest upheaval in human
history—the Great War of 1914‑1918. It is an undeniable but significant
fact that the incident that started the War was engineered by Freemasons, that
is, the murder at Serajevo of the Austrian Archduke
on
Reference has already been
made to the use by troops during the war of Masonic cards, whereby they
obtained in the enemy's hands better treatment than that meted out to the non‑Mason;
the German General Staff Order regarding Freemasonry and espionage should also
be remembered; as can be well imagined, it is most difficult to obtain positive
evidence of the relations between secret societies and international
espionage, but the possibilities in this matter need no description.
In The Freemason of
Friedrich Hasselbacher, in his book, "High Treason of the
Military Lodges" (in German), publishes photographs of Lodge meetings
in Brussells and Liége
showing German soldiers and Belgian civilians holding masonic
meetings and dinners—even the menus were reproduced, showing that when the
German civilians were short of food, the Masons dined well with the enemy! Hasselbacher's book is an unanswerable and damning document;
it reproduces in facsimile a mass of letters and 'Field Post Cards' from Masons
to their Lodges.
In one letter (p. 73), a
Brother writes to his Grand Master suggesting that he get in touch with English
Masons via the Grand Lodge of Norway, in order to find out their "war
aims"—and Freemasonry is purely a charitable institution!
Furthermore, the Wiener Freimaurerzeitung
of August, 1918, states that English soldier Masons formed a lodge at
Considerable evidence would
be brought forward to prove the Jewishness of the
League of Nations in its conception and in its aims; it will be sufficient here
to quote Leon Motzkine in "Les Juifs," September, 1933: "Of all the peoples,
the Jewish people is without doubt that which has shown the greatest joy, and
the highest satisfaction in the formation of the League of Nations . . . it
(the League) had as its mission not only the prevention of wars . . . but also
to put an end to the political, social, and moral misery of the Jews in all
countries."
"Die Freimaurerei" by Platon,
quotes the Swiss Masonic journal, Alpina, as
stating:—"go to the Hall of Mirrors at
The Berliner Tageblatt (the Leading German‑Jewish newspaper of the pre‑Hitler
era) in its issue of 3rd June, 1927, admitted that, at the admission of Germany
to the League of Nations, Stresemann employed Masonic phraseology in his first
speech, and actually gave certain signs which were replied to by Briand.
The Swiss Masonic journal, Alpina (19, 1929) reports that the Grand Master of
the Berne Lodge "Zur Hoffnung,"
made a speech at the time of the funeral of Herr Stresemann, in which he
said:—"The aims of Freemasonry may be fulfilled when it produces in one
century three such men as Stresemann, Briand, and MacDonald."
Alpina,
"It is the duty of
Universal Freemasonry to co‑operate absolutely with the
Freemasonry again came to
the fore in the Red Revolution in
A slight glimpse of what is
behind the Irish "question" may be obtained from examination of the
Home Rule for Ireland Acts, 1914 and 1920;
these preclude the Irish Parliaments from any power to "abrogate
or prejudicially affect any privilege or exemption of the Grand Lodge of
Freemasons in
In "Latomia,"
a German Masonic journal, Vol. 12, July 1849, page 237, is the following:—"We cannot help but greet socialism (Marxism) as an excellent
comrade of Freemasonry for ennobling mankind, for helping to further human
welfare. Socialism and Freemasonry, together with Communism, are sprung from
the same source."
The Attitude of Grand Lodge
of
WHILST it
would be manifestly absurd to suggest that 90 per cent. of English Freemasons are
other than true to the Crown and Constitution, it is pertinent to stress the
fact that in the face of the admitted and well known subversive movements of
the Continental Grand Orients as (of which a few examples have been mentioned),
the Grand Lodge of England has been ominously silent. Search the pages of the
daily papers; is there one word to be found from Grand Lodge or from any
leading Mason in his official capacity, protesting against this prostitution of
the "Royal Craft"? The answer is a clear‑cut NO! This silence
is damning.
We will go further in this
matter, and say that the only important political phenomenon of the last half‑century—the
growth of Socialism—was fertilised and bred in the
hot-houses of the Masonic Lodges of this country. It is true that the
revolutionary cry of 1789—Liberty, Equality, Fraternity—is not shouted from the
Masonic house‑tops of Great Britain; yet we maintain definitely that the
state of mind produced by Freemasonry makes the initiate an easy prey to
socialistic ideas; this is undeniable. The leading Socialists of every country
are to be found in the ranks of Freemasonry or of Bnai
Brith (Jewish Freemasonry); we will quote a few names
published some years ago by Heise:—
But your Freemason is not
even an honest socialist; he may believe in the equality of man, but in
practice he is obliged to show a preference towards a "Brother"—a
direct denial of such equality.
BROTHER Ward says:—"We
have undertaken a special obligation to help a brother Mason over and above any
outsider, and we are bound to do our best to discharge it." It is seldom
that this aspect of the matter is so clearly put; to make it clearer, we will
give a few obvious examples of the results of this in practice:—
1. If you are an employer,
you will engage a Mason in preference to a non‑Mason; as Brother Wilmshurst says in "The Masonic Initiation,"
p. 197: "It is a well known fact that commercial houses to‑day
find it advantageous for business purposes, to insist upon their more important
employees being members of the Order."
2. If you are a buyer in a
business firm, you will buy from Mason travellers in
preference to those who are not of the fraternity.
3. If a Mason has committed an
irregularity, either in business, public life, or of a private nature, fellow‑Masons
will do their best to hush it up. As the Freemason,
4. If a Mason is guilty of an offence, and a fellow‑Mason is in a position to decide upon the penalty, he will make it less than he would have done for a non‑Mason. Whilst we have confidence in the non‑Jewish Judges of this country as far as this matter is concerned, we cannot always admit the same sense of security as regards local magistrates and administrators.
Non‑Masons! think this over; it may explain certain happenings in your
daily life that have always baffled you.
IF the non‑Masonic
reader of this pamphlet should discuss its contents with an acquaintance who is
a Freemason, he will encounter one of the following things:—
1. A stony
look, and a complete refusal to be drawn into any discussion.
2. A point‑blank
denial that this pamphlet contains a single word of truth: we can only invite
the reader to study the books quoted in the Bibliography, to investigate the
subject for himself, and to form his own opinion.
3. An honest admission that
he had no idea that such things were so; in this case our reader can be assured
that his acquaintance is either a member of the lowest degree, or takes no
interest in the subject beyond paying his fees and enjoying certain privileges.
4. Prevarication, in the sense
that it will be maintained that the various statements quoted herein have quite
another meaning to that which they would normally appear to have; in this case
we would refer to the official statement of the National Socialist Party in
Germany, issued on