THE EXPRESS AND DR. MORAN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 24, 11 October 1873, Page 8

THE EXPRESS AND DR. MORAN.

Weitino under this head ia the « Marlborough News,' •• Catholicus " a correspondent, says .— ' Sic— Would you be so kind as to grant me a small space in your valuable columns to anewer an article of the Express'of the 23rd August, in which the editor of that paper served his readers with a quotation from the New Zealand Tablet on the secret", and mysteries of freemasonry. The zealous defender of the craft, finding rt was not in his power to upset the statements of the New Zealand lABLET, laughed at them and ridiculed them in a manner which sadly disguised utmost want of argument. There is nothing new in these tactics ; at all times it has been customary for many to think that to raise a hearty laugh at anyone or anything was the best way to defend a cause, and would save the trouble to find good reasons and arguments, which they have not always in store. The editor of your contemporary gives the quotation as the fair amount of credulity of the nineteenth century. But as I have already in several instances proved that the statements made by Monseigneur de Se»ur, and quoted by the New Zealand Tablet, can be substantiated by the declaratiom of masons of high . degrees, for instance by that of the JJuke of Brunswick and other officers of the Prussian Lodges in 1794 • by that of the Count D-'Augutz before the Congress of Verona in 1822' who had directed the lodges in Russia and Poland for many years • and also by the acknowledgment of Professor Robison ; by several masonic papers, as the Masonic World, &c. ; by the writings of high Masonic Officers, as Louis Blanc, Prudhom, Brother Kogon ; by tne declarations of Mazzini, Garibaldi, and other celebrities of the order • by the rituals and other documents of masons which have at different times fallen into the hands of Government. In 1797, Babeuf for heuding a conspiracy against the Directory of Prance, was executed on the 24th May. Papers were found on him in which the revolutionary principles of freemasonery were laid down. Similar documents and declarations were also obtained in Naples and Home in 1848; m the Courts of Justice, as proved by the Jew of Verona and Cretmeau Joly, in his work Rome before the Revolution. In 1782 the Bavarian Government was alarmed by rumours as to the principles and proceedings of certain masonic lodges, and especially of one known by the name of Lodge Theodore. These rumours gaining strength the Elector instituted a judicial enquiry into' the rules and proceeding of this lodge. The Government inquiry served to confirm the suspicions of the Government and of the public, and these masonic lodges were closed. In defiance of the royal edict the Lodge Theodore continued its meetings. In 1793, four professors, masons of the said lodge— Utschneider, Cossondy, Kenner, and Gruuberger, with two others— were summoned before the Court of Inquiry, and questioned on oa<-h respecting the rules and principles of the order. They affirmed tnat in the higher grades Christianity was abjured, sensual pleasures declared lawful, materialism inculcated, loyalty and patriotism proscribed, and the subordination of ranks and the accumulation of property pronounced to be baneful. All these declarations were soon corroborated. In 1786, the Bavarian Government ordered a domiciliary visit to the house- of Councillor Zwack, and in the cellar a casket was discovered containing a portion of the archives of the order Shortly after a still larger collection of importent documents were published by the Bavarian Government. Other mo3t important documents were} found by the police ou the companion of Weishaupt, after he

tSL^VW by ,, UU S ht TS and m ea. Thh information, mostly taken from Robinson's Lectures on modern History, will show totto g» * kyttelton Times,' who styles himseK Bohemian what he must think of the pretended Christian' spirit of mason " T^layiae of foundation stones of churches is only to give a change to the-puK ttth* ~rt? t£ of maßOns *>««** oath,.if Bohemian knew the nature death from JT'T^''^ appaUin * c^^nM-the threats of SrJte brothers to-*ny member who shall be unfaithful cluli'o^h f . aC . compameS th ° ta £ in S o{it > he come to the conclusion that it is by no means the respect to Almighty God, but fear which induces masons to keep the oath. The Jew of Verona and SSSST f° y> l U hb ™* Romebef °™the Revolution, prove Jw It n Ju 6 ?-* BSL*8 SL* by , no mean 3 cm P fc y worda afc all - Is a wonder that the Catholic Church, which has a thorough knowledge of free! masonry, and of its objects and means, should forbid it to her children and in bo doing act only in self defence. """"ren