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Father Foy On Secret Societies.
but the committee and its tyranny ! It is true that in France the official organ of freemasonry has been somewhat shocked at the publicity given to this montrous abuse , which had been but too long tolerated . From reasons of order and
prudence , the Grand Master pretended that this extreme measure was a reflection on Masonic principles , and in consequence he suspended the Lodge called " L'Avenir , " for six months . But how often , and in how many other lodges and Masonic
newspapers have not the princip les of the " Avenir" and the confraternity been proclaimed 1 That which the Masonic journals such as the Monde Maconnique , set up above everything is Atheism by the dying bed . These deaths without Godthese
, departures for eternity without any relig ious consolations , these funerals without prayers , these are what this newspaper calls " dying without weakness . " For one single number I see related and carefully chronicled five deaths and five burials of
this sort , two of which are of women and they are described in these terms : " He died without the assistance of a minister of any religion . " " He died faithful to his principles , and was buried without a priest . " " U seless to mention that the Induce F . was a purely civil
ceremony . " And again , " Upwards of two thousand Masons followed the hearse of Induce S . C . " Elsewhere in the same review , I read : " Ever since 1868 Brother Bremond , treasurer of the Lodge called 'L'Echo du Grand Orient , ' and entrusted to
the' Venerable' of the Lodge a letter , in which he declared ' I wish to be buried civill y and masonically . '" So that I am not surprised to read in this Monde Maconni que that the R . Lodge " L'Ecole Mutuelle , " which has for first Sur (
Inspector ) Brother Tirard , placed among the " orders of the day" for discussion the following subject : " On the Organization of Civil and Masonic Burials . " And , alas , what impieties , and I must add , what miserable stupidities these lodge Orators indul
ge in on these occasions ! Thus at the funeral of Brother Bremond , of whom We spoke just now , Brother Pinchenat exclaimed "Man dies , but his ideas do not die with him . . . . Poor dear brother , thou wilt revive in us . " What a consolation for this poor Brother Bremond thus
to revive in the dear Brother Pinchenat Do not then talk to me any more of this toleration and respect for religion , inscribed , must one say , so hypocritically , on the frontispiece of the Masonic Constitution . He would now show some of the means whereby these societies had
endeavoured to carry out the objects they bad in view . He bad spoken of the bad literature of the German Union being the main instrument in the hands of these
secret societies in foreign countries , lhey also effected their purposes by means of secret assassinations . The words of the oath as taken by the members in some of the societies was a terrible one , and he would give it . This was the oath the
violation of which condemned them to assassination on the part of the society . It was as follows : — " I swear , in the name of the Supreme Architect of all worlds , never to reveal the secrets , the signs , the gripsthe passwordsthe doctrines , or the
, , customs of the Freemasons ; and to preserve with respect to them an eternal silence . I promise and swear to God never to betray any of them , either by writing , by word , or gesture ; never to cause them to be written , lithographed ,
or printed ; never to make public anything of that which has now been confided to me , or of that which shall be confided to me in the future . I pledge myself to
this , and submit myself to the following penalties if I fail in keeping my word . They may burn my lips with a red-hot iron , they may cut off my hand , they may pluck out my tongue , they may cut my throat , they may hang up my dead body
in a lodge till the admission of a new brother , as a scourge for my faithlessness , and as a terrible warning to others . Then they may burn it , and cast its ashes to the winds , to the end that there may not remain a single trace of the memory of my
treason . So help me God , and His Holy Gospel . Amen . " That was the oath that was taken . Thus they saw how unscrupulous these men were . Mazzini was the chief of one of the Italian lodges , the Carbonariand he told them that if
, any one broke this oath there was death declared against him , not by any public tribunal , but by a tribunal of these secret societies ; and , notwithstanding how far the culprit mig ht flee , even if it were to
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Father Foy On Secret Societies.
but the committee and its tyranny ! It is true that in France the official organ of freemasonry has been somewhat shocked at the publicity given to this montrous abuse , which had been but too long tolerated . From reasons of order and
prudence , the Grand Master pretended that this extreme measure was a reflection on Masonic principles , and in consequence he suspended the Lodge called " L'Avenir , " for six months . But how often , and in how many other lodges and Masonic
newspapers have not the princip les of the " Avenir" and the confraternity been proclaimed 1 That which the Masonic journals such as the Monde Maconnique , set up above everything is Atheism by the dying bed . These deaths without Godthese
, departures for eternity without any relig ious consolations , these funerals without prayers , these are what this newspaper calls " dying without weakness . " For one single number I see related and carefully chronicled five deaths and five burials of
this sort , two of which are of women and they are described in these terms : " He died without the assistance of a minister of any religion . " " He died faithful to his principles , and was buried without a priest . " " U seless to mention that the Induce F . was a purely civil
ceremony . " And again , " Upwards of two thousand Masons followed the hearse of Induce S . C . " Elsewhere in the same review , I read : " Ever since 1868 Brother Bremond , treasurer of the Lodge called 'L'Echo du Grand Orient , ' and entrusted to
the' Venerable' of the Lodge a letter , in which he declared ' I wish to be buried civill y and masonically . '" So that I am not surprised to read in this Monde Maconni que that the R . Lodge " L'Ecole Mutuelle , " which has for first Sur (
Inspector ) Brother Tirard , placed among the " orders of the day" for discussion the following subject : " On the Organization of Civil and Masonic Burials . " And , alas , what impieties , and I must add , what miserable stupidities these lodge Orators indul
ge in on these occasions ! Thus at the funeral of Brother Bremond , of whom We spoke just now , Brother Pinchenat exclaimed "Man dies , but his ideas do not die with him . . . . Poor dear brother , thou wilt revive in us . " What a consolation for this poor Brother Bremond thus
to revive in the dear Brother Pinchenat Do not then talk to me any more of this toleration and respect for religion , inscribed , must one say , so hypocritically , on the frontispiece of the Masonic Constitution . He would now show some of the means whereby these societies had
endeavoured to carry out the objects they bad in view . He bad spoken of the bad literature of the German Union being the main instrument in the hands of these
secret societies in foreign countries , lhey also effected their purposes by means of secret assassinations . The words of the oath as taken by the members in some of the societies was a terrible one , and he would give it . This was the oath the
violation of which condemned them to assassination on the part of the society . It was as follows : — " I swear , in the name of the Supreme Architect of all worlds , never to reveal the secrets , the signs , the gripsthe passwordsthe doctrines , or the
, , customs of the Freemasons ; and to preserve with respect to them an eternal silence . I promise and swear to God never to betray any of them , either by writing , by word , or gesture ; never to cause them to be written , lithographed ,
or printed ; never to make public anything of that which has now been confided to me , or of that which shall be confided to me in the future . I pledge myself to
this , and submit myself to the following penalties if I fail in keeping my word . They may burn my lips with a red-hot iron , they may cut off my hand , they may pluck out my tongue , they may cut my throat , they may hang up my dead body
in a lodge till the admission of a new brother , as a scourge for my faithlessness , and as a terrible warning to others . Then they may burn it , and cast its ashes to the winds , to the end that there may not remain a single trace of the memory of my
treason . So help me God , and His Holy Gospel . Amen . " That was the oath that was taken . Thus they saw how unscrupulous these men were . Mazzini was the chief of one of the Italian lodges , the Carbonariand he told them that if
, any one broke this oath there was death declared against him , not by any public tribunal , but by a tribunal of these secret societies ; and , notwithstanding how far the culprit mig ht flee , even if it were to