The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

two institutions (the Knights Templar and the Order of Zion) in 1188,
the Prieure de Sion has counted twenty-seven grand masters to the
present day." The most recent were:
Charles Nordier (1801-1844), the famous author Victor Hugo (1844-
1885), who was succeeded by the composer Claude Debussy (1885-
1918), after whom came Jean Cocteau (1918-1963).
Other famous grand masters of the Prieure de Sion were: Nicolas
Flamel (1398-1418), Leonardo da Vinci (1510-1519), Robert Fludd
(1595-1637), Johann Valentin Andreae (1637-1654), Isaac Newton
(1691-1727), Charles Radclyffe (1727-1746) and Charles de Lorraine
(1746-1780), according to Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry
Lincoln ("Holy Blood, Holy Grail" (New York, 1983, p. 131).
As early as 1614, the mystic Robert Fludd (grand master of the
Order of Zion) started the secret Rosicrucian movement in England.
After him came Thomas Vaughan and Elias Ashmole. The Rosicrucians
intended to take over the lodges of the freemasons. The Prieure de
Sion was the secret organization that created the Scottish Rite within
freemasonry in the 1700s.
Johann Valentin Andreae wrote the original manifesto of the
Rosicrucians under the name of Christian Rosenkreutz (Michael
Baigent, Richard Leigh, "The Temple and the Lodge", London, 1998,
p. 201).
Charles Nordier was grand master of the Prieure de Sion between
1801 and 1844. The Prieure de Sion also conspired against Napoleon
at this time. According to a Prieure de Sion document, the number of
members was 1093, divided into a hierarchy with nine degrees, as
well as eight or nine thousand novices.
Charles Nordier later wrote: "There are a great many secret societies
in operation. But there is one that takes precedence over all others. This
supreme secret society is called the Philadelphes." He wrote of "the
oath, which binds me to the Philalephes and which forbids me to
make them known under their social name this society by its true
name" (Charles Nordier, "A History of Secret Societies in the Army
under Napoleon", p. 105).
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