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Father Foy On Secret Societies.
blood . Wherever these societies had spread , there had been this dissolution , this destruction of principle , and uprooting 0 f ffovernment . He might go much farther than this , but he would cease , and briefly allude to his third point—and that was
the consideration of these societies from the period of the French Revolution down to the present time . When the government became tranquil again , after having been oppressed by the wars and revolutions , and the armies which invaded the
country , they kept somewhat of a sharp eye on members belonging to the secret societies . Notwithstanding this they appeared to have grown more imperious even than they were before , and he would quote from a distinguished work , that had more than a world-wide circulation , from the
pen of an orator , the greatest m the world , viz . the Bishop of Orleans . Bishop Diipanloup had collected the documents that had appeared in the Journal Masonique , in order to show that they were aiming at the destruction both of God , Society , and Mankindaud he would read a few
, extracts : —Christianity , it is said incessantly in the Lodges , is a lying , bastard religion , repudiated by common sense ; brutahsing , and which must be annihilated . It is a heap of fables , a worm-eaten fabric , which must fall to make way for a Masonic
Temple . There are some of their formal assertions , chosen out of some thousands . Catholicism is a used-up formula , and repudiated by every sensible person : a worm-eaten fabric ! At the end of eighteen centuries the human conscience finds
itself still face to face with this bastard religion , propounded by the successors of the Apostles ! It is not the lying religion of the false priests of a Christ which will guide our steps . Thus spoke , at the installation of the Lodge of " Hope , " the
great orator of the Lodge , the Brother Lacomble . According to this orator , the ministers of the Gospel are a party which has undertaken to enchain all progress , stifle all li ght , and destroy all liberty , m or to rei quietlover a brutalized
gn y population of ignorant slaves . Further ° Q he continues : To-day , that the light Is beginning to shine through the clouds , we must have the courage to make short work of all this rubbish of fables , even 8 n ould the torch of reason reduce to
cinders all that still remains standing of these vestiges of ignorance and superstition . This is the way Freemasonry speaks j this is what it calls not troubling its head about Christianity , and how it respects it when it does occupy its attention . The
theme is precisely the same with every species of imjhety ; for example , the same sentiments are expressed in all those books with which the revolution and Freemasonry are deluging Rome at this momentand which I have read with my
, own eyes . Its theme , its word of command , is precisely that of Yoltaire : " Let us crush the infamous one ( Earasons I'infame ) " These are the very words , in fact , used by the venerable member of the Lodge called " La Fidelite" at Ghenton
, , the occasion of his installation . " In vain with the eighteenth century , we flattered ourselves to have crushed the Infamous One ; he only takes fresh and more vigorous root . " . . . Every one knows that Freemasonry received Voltaire in its
Lodges , and associated itself with his work . And as a further proof that , faithful to these ill-omened traditions , it has never ceased to fight with Yoltaire ,
either privately or publicly , but with an indefatigable perseverance against Catholic institutions and all Christian influences , we may quote the words of Brother Jean Mace , one of the most eminent of the Freemason body , who at a great Masonic dinner at Strasbourg proposed the toast
of Voltaire in the following words : '' To the memory of Brother Voltaire , that indefatigable soldier . All the battles he fought he gained , my brethren , on our behalf , and for our profit . " According to Brother Jean Macerevealed religion is a
, log which humanity drags after it ; but "happily , " he adds , "Freemasonry is at hand to replace the faith in revelation , which is rapidly disappearing . " Next , let us listen to the words of the Grand Master of the French Freemasons , the
Bro . Baband-Laribiere , nominated three years ago Prefect of thePyreness Orientals , in which post he died : —• " Freemasonry , " he says , " is superior to all dogmas . " . . . " Anterior and superior to all religions , " writes another brother , "Freemasonry is to g ive a new impulse to the world . " AmLjn fact , in another speech , this very BaSand-Laribiih-e exclaims , "All dogmas
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Father Foy On Secret Societies.
blood . Wherever these societies had spread , there had been this dissolution , this destruction of principle , and uprooting 0 f ffovernment . He might go much farther than this , but he would cease , and briefly allude to his third point—and that was
the consideration of these societies from the period of the French Revolution down to the present time . When the government became tranquil again , after having been oppressed by the wars and revolutions , and the armies which invaded the
country , they kept somewhat of a sharp eye on members belonging to the secret societies . Notwithstanding this they appeared to have grown more imperious even than they were before , and he would quote from a distinguished work , that had more than a world-wide circulation , from the
pen of an orator , the greatest m the world , viz . the Bishop of Orleans . Bishop Diipanloup had collected the documents that had appeared in the Journal Masonique , in order to show that they were aiming at the destruction both of God , Society , and Mankindaud he would read a few
, extracts : —Christianity , it is said incessantly in the Lodges , is a lying , bastard religion , repudiated by common sense ; brutahsing , and which must be annihilated . It is a heap of fables , a worm-eaten fabric , which must fall to make way for a Masonic
Temple . There are some of their formal assertions , chosen out of some thousands . Catholicism is a used-up formula , and repudiated by every sensible person : a worm-eaten fabric ! At the end of eighteen centuries the human conscience finds
itself still face to face with this bastard religion , propounded by the successors of the Apostles ! It is not the lying religion of the false priests of a Christ which will guide our steps . Thus spoke , at the installation of the Lodge of " Hope , " the
great orator of the Lodge , the Brother Lacomble . According to this orator , the ministers of the Gospel are a party which has undertaken to enchain all progress , stifle all li ght , and destroy all liberty , m or to rei quietlover a brutalized
gn y population of ignorant slaves . Further ° Q he continues : To-day , that the light Is beginning to shine through the clouds , we must have the courage to make short work of all this rubbish of fables , even 8 n ould the torch of reason reduce to
cinders all that still remains standing of these vestiges of ignorance and superstition . This is the way Freemasonry speaks j this is what it calls not troubling its head about Christianity , and how it respects it when it does occupy its attention . The
theme is precisely the same with every species of imjhety ; for example , the same sentiments are expressed in all those books with which the revolution and Freemasonry are deluging Rome at this momentand which I have read with my
, own eyes . Its theme , its word of command , is precisely that of Yoltaire : " Let us crush the infamous one ( Earasons I'infame ) " These are the very words , in fact , used by the venerable member of the Lodge called " La Fidelite" at Ghenton
, , the occasion of his installation . " In vain with the eighteenth century , we flattered ourselves to have crushed the Infamous One ; he only takes fresh and more vigorous root . " . . . Every one knows that Freemasonry received Voltaire in its
Lodges , and associated itself with his work . And as a further proof that , faithful to these ill-omened traditions , it has never ceased to fight with Yoltaire ,
either privately or publicly , but with an indefatigable perseverance against Catholic institutions and all Christian influences , we may quote the words of Brother Jean Mace , one of the most eminent of the Freemason body , who at a great Masonic dinner at Strasbourg proposed the toast
of Voltaire in the following words : '' To the memory of Brother Voltaire , that indefatigable soldier . All the battles he fought he gained , my brethren , on our behalf , and for our profit . " According to Brother Jean Macerevealed religion is a
, log which humanity drags after it ; but "happily , " he adds , "Freemasonry is at hand to replace the faith in revelation , which is rapidly disappearing . " Next , let us listen to the words of the Grand Master of the French Freemasons , the
Bro . Baband-Laribiere , nominated three years ago Prefect of thePyreness Orientals , in which post he died : —• " Freemasonry , " he says , " is superior to all dogmas . " . . . " Anterior and superior to all religions , " writes another brother , "Freemasonry is to g ive a new impulse to the world . " AmLjn fact , in another speech , this very BaSand-Laribiih-e exclaims , "All dogmas