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The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

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<strong>The</strong> influence <strong>of</strong> the freemasons on the Italian Socialist Party was<br />

at one stage so monumental that the party began to exclude free-<br />

masons in 1914 (Alec Mellor, "Logen, Rituale, Hochgrade - Handbuch<br />

der Freimaurerei", Vienna, 1985, p. 476).<br />

During the Third Republic (1870-1940), French <strong>freemasonry</strong> was<br />

very actively involved with politics. <strong>The</strong> fact that the ideological<br />

stance <strong>of</strong> <strong>freemasonry</strong> leans towards socialism was confirmed by a<br />

thesis, "French Freemasonry Under the Third Republic" by Mildred J.<br />

Headings at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore ("Studies in<br />

Historical and Political Science", series LXVI, No. 1, 1949, pp. 283-<br />

284).<br />

<strong>The</strong> spokesman <strong>of</strong> the United Grand Lodge, John Hamill, claimed:<br />

"Members <strong>of</strong> the Grand Orient have always been very politically minded,<br />

very minded on social policies as a group rather than as individuals."<br />

(Brian Freemantle, "<strong>The</strong> Octopus", London, 1995, p. 16)<br />

"<strong>The</strong> Grand Orient is socialist in the broadest sense <strong>of</strong> the word,"<br />

wrote the French author Maurice Talmeyr in his book "Comment on<br />

fabrique l'opinion" / "How to Create Opinion" (p. 27).<br />

In France there are about 35 different masonic systems. <strong>The</strong> three<br />

largest are the Grand Orient <strong>of</strong> France, the Grande Loge <strong>of</strong> France<br />

(26 000 members) and the Grande Loge Nationale Francaise (27 000<br />

members).<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is also an extremely secret lodge within the Grand Orient<br />

called Demain. At least ten ministers under Mitterrand were members<br />

<strong>of</strong> this secret lodge (Ghislaine Ottenheimer and Renaud Lecadre, "Les<br />

freres invisibles" / "<strong>The</strong> Invisible Brothers", Paris, 2001, p. 21).<br />

In those areas where the National <strong>Front</strong> has taken <strong>power</strong> -<br />

Vitrolles, Orange, Marignane and Toulon - the Grand Orient has been<br />

forced to close several lodges and replace them with a "travelling<br />

lodge", which is under direct protection from Paris.<br />

In 1998, the Grand Orient expelled the masonic brother Jean-Pierre<br />

Soisson, a regional politician from Bourgogne who had been re-<br />

elected with the support <strong>of</strong> votes from the <strong>Front</strong> National (ibid, p.<br />

66).<br />

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