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Alfred Rosenberg

"It is necessary that it obtain the highest political power,
that it sit on all thrones or, much rather, that it rule over all thrones
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through its great men and through associations of its brothers". It
is unnecessary to give further citations of Masonic efforts; they all
say the same thing, and as regards the actions, the revolutions of
1789 until those oftoday were for the most part the fruits ofMasonic
influence.
Before, however, I pass on to these matters, an extremely
important factor must be emphasised: the acceptance of the Jews
into the secret societies.
The Jewish people, scattered through all the countries and
yet closely bound together, are, by their very nature, the born
conspiratorial people. Theoretically, the international theories of
Freemasonry now posed no hindrance to the Jews.
Already in 1 722 it was declared in England that "Masonry
is an association of men for the spread of tolerant and humane
principles in whose efforts the Jew and the Turk can take part as
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much as the Christian".
Nevertheless, the aversion with regard to the Jews was not
one easily to be overcome and only through sly moves was he able
to creep in and, master of intrigues, rule. In 1 754, a Portuguese Jew,
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Martinez Paschalis, founded a Cabalistic sect into which Jews
streamed in large numbers.

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See Deschamps, Les societes secretes, Vol.11, p. 239. [Nicolas Deschamps (1797-
1 872) was a Jesuit whose study of Freemasonry as an agency of religious, moral,
social and political subversion was published posthumously in 1874-1876.]
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Lemann, L'entree des Israelites dans la societe frangaise, p.353.
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[Martinez de Pasqually (ca. 1727- 1774), who may have been a Sephardic Jew,
established an Ordre des Chevaliers Macons Elus Coens de 1'Univers around 1760
and thus introduced a Hebrew order of "priests" ("kohen") into Freemasonry,
although this order was an esoteric theurgical one. His major treatise "On the
Reintegration ofBeings" was written down in manuscript by his pupil and secretary,
Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (see note below).]
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[Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803) was a French aristocrat who met
Martinez de Pasqually in 768 and became his secretary. Saint-Martin was interested
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also in the works of the German mystic, Jakob Boehme (1575-1624), whose works
he translated into French. Dissatisfied with the theurgism of Pasqually, Saint-Martin
advocated meditation as a technique to develop a spiritual form of Christianity.]

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