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Freemasonry And The Spanish Inquisition.
always preserved , seeing nothing but beneficence practised and recommended in the masonic lodges , without denying or combatting any article of the Catholic faith . The fiscal consented to this arrangement , and M . Tournon was condemned to be imprisoned for one year , after which he was to be conducted , under an escort , to the frontiers of France . He was banished from Spain for ever , unless he obtained permission to return from the
king or the holy office . During the first month of his imprisonment , he was directed to perform spiritual exercises , and a general confession ; to spend half an hour every morning in reading the meditations on the book of spiritual exercises of St . Ignatius de Loyala , and half an hour in the evening in reading the considerations of Father John Eusebius Nieremberg , in his work on the difference between temporal and eternal ; to recite every day part of the Rosary of our Lady , and often
to repeat the acts of faith , hope , charity , and contrition ; to learn by heart the catechism of Father Astele , and to prepare himself to receive absolution at Christmas , Easter , and Pentecost . A private auto-de-fe was celebrated in the hall of the tribunal , in which M . Tournon appeared without the sanbenito , and signed his abjuration , with a promise never again to attend the assemblies of the Freemasons . M . Tournon went to France , and it does not appear that he ever returned to Spain .
The society of Freemasons has occupied the learned men since the middle of the seventeenth century , and the number of fables which have been published concerning it , have confused the subject , and done much injury to it . The mysterious initiations of this Order first began to attract observation in England during the reign of Charles I ., who perished on the scaffold in 1649 . The enemies of Cromwell and the republican systemthen established the dignity of Grand Master of the
, English Lodges , to prepare the minds of the Freemasons for the reestablishment of the monarchy . William III . was a Freemason , and though the dynasty was changed by the accession of George I ., it does not appear that Freemasonry was suspected in England . It was introduced into France in 1723 ; and Ramsay , a Scotchman , established a lodge in London in 1728 , giving out that the society had been founded in 1099 by Godfrey de BouillonKing of Jerusalempreserved bthe
, , , y Knights Templars , and brought to Edinburgh , where it was established by King Robert Bruce in 1314 . In 1729 , the Order was introduced into Ireland . Holland received it in 1731 ; and the first lodges were opened in Russia in the same year . It appeared in Boston , in America , in 1733 , and in several other towns of the New World , subject to England . It was also established in Italy in that year , and two years after Freemasons were found at Lisbon .
I believe the first severe measure against the Freemasons in Europe was that which was decreed on the 14 th of December , 1732 , by the Chamber of Police of the Chatelet at Paris . It prohibited Freemasons from assembling , and condemned M . Chapelot to a penalty of six thousand livres for having suffered them to assemble in his house . Louis XV . commanded that those Peers of France and other gentlemen who had the privilege of the entry , should be deprived of that honour if they were members of a masonic lodge . The Grand Master of the Parisian lodges being obliged to quit France , convoked an assembly of Free-
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Freemasonry And The Spanish Inquisition.
always preserved , seeing nothing but beneficence practised and recommended in the masonic lodges , without denying or combatting any article of the Catholic faith . The fiscal consented to this arrangement , and M . Tournon was condemned to be imprisoned for one year , after which he was to be conducted , under an escort , to the frontiers of France . He was banished from Spain for ever , unless he obtained permission to return from the
king or the holy office . During the first month of his imprisonment , he was directed to perform spiritual exercises , and a general confession ; to spend half an hour every morning in reading the meditations on the book of spiritual exercises of St . Ignatius de Loyala , and half an hour in the evening in reading the considerations of Father John Eusebius Nieremberg , in his work on the difference between temporal and eternal ; to recite every day part of the Rosary of our Lady , and often
to repeat the acts of faith , hope , charity , and contrition ; to learn by heart the catechism of Father Astele , and to prepare himself to receive absolution at Christmas , Easter , and Pentecost . A private auto-de-fe was celebrated in the hall of the tribunal , in which M . Tournon appeared without the sanbenito , and signed his abjuration , with a promise never again to attend the assemblies of the Freemasons . M . Tournon went to France , and it does not appear that he ever returned to Spain .
The society of Freemasons has occupied the learned men since the middle of the seventeenth century , and the number of fables which have been published concerning it , have confused the subject , and done much injury to it . The mysterious initiations of this Order first began to attract observation in England during the reign of Charles I ., who perished on the scaffold in 1649 . The enemies of Cromwell and the republican systemthen established the dignity of Grand Master of the
, English Lodges , to prepare the minds of the Freemasons for the reestablishment of the monarchy . William III . was a Freemason , and though the dynasty was changed by the accession of George I ., it does not appear that Freemasonry was suspected in England . It was introduced into France in 1723 ; and Ramsay , a Scotchman , established a lodge in London in 1728 , giving out that the society had been founded in 1099 by Godfrey de BouillonKing of Jerusalempreserved bthe
, , , y Knights Templars , and brought to Edinburgh , where it was established by King Robert Bruce in 1314 . In 1729 , the Order was introduced into Ireland . Holland received it in 1731 ; and the first lodges were opened in Russia in the same year . It appeared in Boston , in America , in 1733 , and in several other towns of the New World , subject to England . It was also established in Italy in that year , and two years after Freemasons were found at Lisbon .
I believe the first severe measure against the Freemasons in Europe was that which was decreed on the 14 th of December , 1732 , by the Chamber of Police of the Chatelet at Paris . It prohibited Freemasons from assembling , and condemned M . Chapelot to a penalty of six thousand livres for having suffered them to assemble in his house . Louis XV . commanded that those Peers of France and other gentlemen who had the privilege of the entry , should be deprived of that honour if they were members of a masonic lodge . The Grand Master of the Parisian lodges being obliged to quit France , convoked an assembly of Free-