PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 156, 28 April 1876, Page 16

PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

Albeadt for several years a strange movement has been going on in all the German lodges against the Jewish Masons. From all that oozed out, an ugly part of the darkness in which Masonry necessarily keeps itself, has been brought to light, and gives an insight into the real tendency of that secret league, which even our common and honest Masons will be astonished to hear of. Whoever studies, even superficially, what is known of Freemasonry, must be struck at the number of Jewish expressions, and reminiscences occurring in all that concerns the building of the " Temple of Solomon." " Richard Carlile's Manual on Freemasonry" gives ample proof of an intense hatred of Christianity, such as characterised at all times the wandering Jew, and which is the very soul of the higher degrees of the secret craft. Now the fact becomes more and more known, that the unknown highest superiors, to whom Masons bind themselves blindly by the most formidable oaths, and whose commands they execute with a blind obedience unworthy of a free man, are Jews and sworn enemies of Christianity, whose final object is to conquer the empire of the world by means of their enormous wealth, by establishing a universal Masonic republic, in which the Christian religion would be entirely uprooted, and all nations made the " footstool" of Jehovah — that is of the Jews. Carlile teaches us that " the original meaning of the name and distinction of Jew was that of a wise and perfect man, by devotion to science. The word is of the same meaning as Jehovah — literally it is the God of man, the Holy Ghost, or inspired spirit of man." We know that the highest superior in the Temple of Solomon is called Jehovah, in whom all Masonic wisdom, science and perfection are embodied. Jehovah and Jew are synonymous in the Masonic jargon. Is it really true that Freemasonry is an attempt of the Jews to rebuild the Temple of Solomon in a higher sense, namely by establishing their reign over the whole world, after hammering down all thrones and altars ? Is it really true that there are two lodges in London, from which issue the threads that direct all revolutionary societies in the world, and that into these two lodges no Christian has ever been received, nor ever been permitted to cross the threshold ? Is it true that there are in the principle towns all over the Continent and America exclusively Jewish lodges, which refuse admission to any Christian ? Is it true that in the lodges secret Jewish societies exist with a peculiar j ainj of their own ?

We ask these questions, because they contain assertions of the Freemasons themselves; and because, if they are to be affirmed, they give a clear explanation of the general revolution going on for centuries in the Christian world, and because they throw an immense light on the whole history of Europe since the time of the Crusades. — • Catholic Examiner.'