The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

were also freemasons. Together with several other freemasons, they
founded an entire network of fictitious local organizations, which
received government grants funded by tax-payers money. Many of
the masonic brothers that Medecin involved in his criminal activi-
ties, were members of the Grand Orient, but when their presence felt
uncomfortable to the other brothers, they went over to the French
National Grand Lodge where they founded a lodge of their own (No.
475). Other local government employees flocked to this lodge. It is
estimated that the brothers of Nice managed to steal a billion francs
between 1983 and 1989 (Bernard Bragard, Frederic Gilbert and
Catherine Sinet, "Le feuilleton nicois", Paris, 1990). Medecin later
moved to Uruguay, where he died.
Another example of how a brother who has made himself im-
possible in one order can be "re-used" in another: Guy Kornfeld was
thrown out of the Grand Orient in 1986 for stealing 180 000 francs
from the brothers in his lodge, Salvador Allende. Four years later he
was accepted without difficulty into the National Grand Lodge of
France. In May 1990, Kornfeld was caught in an identity check in a
bank in Monaco and was arrested. He was carrying 3.6 million francs
in state bonds, which had been taken in an armed robbery in Belgium
a week earlier (ibid, p. 86).
In order to attract influential people, the French National Lodge
has formed lodges of special interest (loges d'appel), based on the
secretive lodge Demain in the Grand Orient, where the rituals have
been reduced to a minimum. Ministers and other men of power feel
at home in these lodges. The Spartacus lodge was created for heads
of radio and television, the lodge La Banniere Etoilee (the Starry
Banner) is for businessmen who wish to invest in the United States,
the lodge Les Chevaliers de Jerusalem (Knights of Jerusalem) is for
those who are especially interested in Israel, L'Esprit Olympique (the
Olympic Spirit) is for sportsmen, Les Cabires is for masons interested
in French-African issues. The yearly membership fee for some of
these exclusive lodges is 10 000 francs, which pays for ten meetings.
The dinners, which are enjoyed in connection with the meetings,
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