Notes By Father Foy On His Second Lecture.

more Priests ! No God ! " "Not this man , but Barabbas ! " At that moment , and in that land , Sacerdotalism , or Priestcraft was no more . But what of the chaos of infamy that ensued 1 As to those who came forward as the champions of Christianity and of the New

Testament , these were put down simply as Jesuits in disguise . As then religion was in favour of the authorities that be , Religion was first of all to be pulled down . Hence the object of this order was laid down for the cbeckiii

the tyranny of Princes , Nobles , and Priests . As a matter of fact , then , Princes and Priests were most distinctl y in its way . Therefore Princes and Priests were especially " tho wicked , " whose hands they were to tic up by means of these associations , if they could not be rooted out altogether .

IHE RAPID SPREAD . ( Germany ) . In half a year , 1750 , this Association underwent a complete change all ovei Germany ; and its officers multiplied without number .

FRANCE . This illuminism was introduced into 280 centres of this kind by Count Mirabeau , E evolutionist , traitor and spendthrift , from the knowledge that he had acquired of the system in Germany , and particularly in

Berlin . Of those so called Kni ght Templar Associates , one of the most infamous of mankind , was the chief , Phillip Egalite , Duke of Orleans , father of Louis . 'Philli ppe , traitor also , and coward . Those who have read of the butcheries

, prescriptions , and infamies of the Revolution of Franco a centurybaek , will know full well how the chief inspiration for all this came from the Jacobin Lodge : one of these 200 associations , but in activity and wickednesscertainly their chief .

, Of this lodge , Orleans was the warden or chief , and his son , afterwards king , Louis Phillippe , was the door keeper . The revolution that followed from this

source shut up the Churches of France , and declared the abolition of all reli gion , Tho observance of Sunday was destroyed , and the Goddess of Reason set up for worship . Tho proclamation for all this was as follows : " abolish from among you every ecclesiastical corporation . " Henceforth the world was to be governed , not by the

monarch , tho altar , the Church , and the priest ; but by liberty , equality , and fraternity' ;—with what results we already know , Surely did not all this reach in Paris the abomination of all abominations , when in the Cathedral of Notre Dame , then closed as a Temple of God , this awful scene

was enacted : — "AVe do not , " said the High Priest of this now sect , " call you to the worship of inanimate idols . Behold a masterpiece of nature , " lifting up the veil which disclosed to view a naked female . "This sacred image should inflame all hearts !"

And it did so ; the spectators , the people , maddened with a very frenzy and intoxication of sensuality , were beside themselves , and shouted out : " No more altars , no more priests ; no God , but the God of nature . " The rebellion then against priestly

domination and control , sacerdotalism or priestcraft , reached , for the first time a grand climax . As it did afterwards again in the shocking profanations and sacrileges in the commune of that same city , four years back . — Barruel and Air . Robison

( passim ) . " Yes ; Mr . Proudhon was received as a freemason . The man who said God is the origin of evil , and who replied to the question : what do we owe to God 1—war . "And the young men of the Liege Congress , who uttered these terrible and

savage cries : hatred to God ! war to God ! we will rend the heavens like a sheet of paper . These young men were considered admirable auxilaries to the Secret Societies , which stretched out to them thc hand of friendship . "—p . 40 . —Bishop Dupanloup ' s

Pamphlet . [ They say " Finis eoronat opus , " and we hope that Father Foy is satisfied now that we have published these notes for him , which , though they show great industry on his part , are utterly beside the question .

The German Union and Foreign Illuminatism have long since been dead and buried ; but even supposing they existed ivhich they do not—what have we , as Freemasons , to do with them . Nothing-It is entirely a " mare ' s nest" of the Roman Catholic authorities , and we should have thought the Jesuits too acute to be influenced by such utter rubbish —E . ]