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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

in dark uncertainty regarding the activity of their highest generals.
It is they who seek "the philosophers' stone".
One can indeed understand that many a seeking Mason,
indignant, wards off the attacks on his order; for example, Findel in
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his well-known history ofFreemasonry: in the works of Eckert,
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Barruel, among others, he sees malevolent hostilities and
suspicions but without examining all the criticisms more closely.
One does not at all need to be totally in agreement with the mentioned
researchers but one must admit that they had rightly foreseen the
necessary sad consequences of the secret society in spite of many
well-intentioned efforts of individuals.
Findel still speaks (in 1861) from a superior point of view
of the so-called "Jewish question". But as an honest man much later
he raised his voice loudly against the Jews, forced to do so by bitter
experiences. He then thought that the Jew "considers all foreign
peoples simply as objects of exploitation", he demanded the
exclusion of Jews from Freemasonry since he recognised that they
are "our oppressors".
Today Brother Findel would see himself divested of all his
illusions. It does not therefore occur to me to deny that therefore
there are also among the Masons men with serious efforts; only I
regret that they allow themselves to be fooled by men whom one
must count amongst the criminals of the greatest calibre.
We have got to know briefly some men, currents and
methods ofFreemasonry. They were practitioners of lies, deception
and crime legalised through supposed honorable motives.
This influence brought Louis XVI to the scaffold; through
Freemasonry was the assassination ofDuke ofBerry committed, as
well as that of Ferdinand, King ofNaples, ofFranz Joseph ofAustria
and Wilhelm I ofPrussia. Emperor Leopold II was a victim ofpoison,
Gustav III of Sweden ofAnkastrom's pistol shot, etc.

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[Gottfried Josef Findel (1 828-1 905) was a Freemason who wrote several works
on Freemasonry, of which the most important is his Geschichte der Freimaurerei
von der Zeit ihres Entstehens bis aufdie Gegenwart, Leipzig, 1861-1862.] ]
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[See above p. 109.]
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[See above p. 123.]
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