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Alfred Rosenberg

All this, just as today, under the cloak oftolerance, freedom
of thought and humanitarianism. In this the Hamburg lodge "At the
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three nettles" especially distinguished itself.
Mr. Blumroder said in a (Astraa) lodge 242 lecture: "If the
development of humanity should progress, the old forms in state
and church must fall under heavy hammer blows.
The old structures will then be destroyed through force and
ifthis destruction is punishable according to human laws, the eternal
law that rules over the history of mankind is however satisfied by
it".
Gotthold Salomon, 243 doctor of philosophy, brother of the
"Rising Dawn" lodge, honorary member of the "Silver Unicorn"
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lodge, makes public the following statement which cannot be
excelled in clarity: "Why is there also no trace in the entire Masonic
ritual of Church Christianity? Why do the Masons not talk of the
birth of Christ but, like the Jews, of the creation of the world? Why
is there no Christian symbol in Freemasonry? Why the circle, the
square and the scales? Why not the cross and other instruments of
torture? Why not, instead of Wisdom, Strength and Beauty, the
Christian trio: Faith, Charity, Hope?"
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The Mason Ludwig Bechstein, Court Counsellor, Chief
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Librarian of Meiningen, Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle,
reveals his goal in the following naive words: "Everybody wants to
be happy; the enjoyment of life is the right of every man: but this
right is much impaired by the pressure of the present".
Mr. Goldschmidt, a Jewish brother, writes in his "Signs"
on the occasion of the dissolution of an order: "The dissolution of
the order in one part of America cannot merit approval; whatever

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[The Masonic lodge Zu den drei Schwertern und Astraa zur griinenden Raute
was founded in Dresden in 1738 and was the third lodge to be established in
Germany.]
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[Gotthold Salomon (1784-1 862) was a German rabbi and politician who fought
for Jewish emancipation.]
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[The lodge Zum silbernen Einhorn was in Nienburg.]
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[Ludwig Bechstein (1801-1 860) was a collector of fairy-tales and librarian of
Duke Bernard II of Sachsen-Meiningen.]
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[The lodge "Zum rothen Adler" was founded in Hamburg in 1 774.]
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