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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

Independent of it, there arose in Paris the "Grand Orient of
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France" under the Duke of Chartres, later Philippe Egalite, " as
Grandmaster. In 1778, there operated in Paris alone 129, and in the
provinces 247 lodgesIThe formation of the secret societies
underwent a similar development in other countries.
Even if there may have prevailed many disagreements
among them, in one thing they were united: in the battle against the
monarchy and the Church.
To put it briefly: the Freemason order was, and is, an
international secret organisation with the goal of establishing an
anti-religious world-republic. This goal was always before its eyes,
even when it often used and supported the monarchy, according to
its power and the circumstances dependent on it.
The sermon that one should serve man, not individual
nations, found in it its most influential organ: the all-encompassing
"humanity", the "liberty, equality and fraternity" of all men were
taught by it systematically, finally to find its way around the world
as a newly announced gospel.
"To destroy all manner of differences between men", says
the officer of the Grand Orient, Clavel, "that is the great work
undertaken by Freemasonry." 212
These proofs can be innumerably multiplied. The slogans
that shook the world again and again were the coinage of the world-
order. They rang aloud first in the year of the catastrophe, 1789.
The anti-monarchical tendency was often suppressed through
calculation, but it was never lost and triumphs today more than ever.
"To be sure, in the monarchical states, the Masons drank to
the health of the king at their communal meal. Of course obedience
to the laws was insisted upon. These precautionary measures, such
as "cleverness" demanded ofan association that so many suspicious
governments watched, did not in themselves suffice to destroy the
revolutionary influence which the Freemasons had to exercise
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according to their very nature".
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Clavel, Histoire pittoresque de la Franc-maconnerie, p. 23.
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Louis Blanc, Histoire de la revolution francaise. [Louis Blanc (1811-1882)
was a French socialist politician and historian. His history ofthe French Revolution
was published in 12 volumes from 1847-1862.
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