The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

cular country, as are the communists. Both groups advocate 'equa-
lity'. The communist confiscation of private property was a masonic
idea. Freemasonry as well as communism is rooted in the working
class "movement", and the pioneer organization was copied from the
masonic scout movement in the West.
Astromov, the leader of the Autonomous Freemasonry, realized
that if freemasonry was legalized in Soviet Russia, the movement
would be prevented from acting with efficiency. Acting in secret was
preferable. The Soviet Autonomous Freemasonry was a union of a
large number of lodges. Astromov had taken over the leadership after
the Grand Master Vladimir Telyakovsky, who died in 1924.
January 1925 saw the re-establishment of the Northern Star Lodge
in France for Russian freemasons, a number of members transferring
there from the Grand Orient of France. The lodge had actually been
founded before 1917. Many notorious terrorists were active there,
including Nikolai Avksenchev, who was master in 1925-27 and 1931,
and Pavel Pereverzev (1929-30), a previous member of several terror
organizations (Platonov, "Russia's Crown of Thorns: The Secret
History of Freemasonry 1731-1996", Moscow, 1996, p. 307). Avksen-
chev later joined the Provisional Government as foreign minister.
Pavel Pereverzev was finance minister in the same cabinet.
The Northern Star became the leading lodge for the Russian exiles
in France. The Grand Orient of France allowed its members to meet at
its headquarters in Paris.
On 10 February 1927, the Russian Consistory became the admi-
nistrative centre of freemasonry. As from 1930, the centre received
financial assistance from Paris.
Many members of the Grand Orient, including Teplov, Lobolensky
and Count Alexander Orlov-Davydov, did, however, not join, as in
their opinion the activities of the re-born lodge were far too public.
The Free Russia lodge, founded on 9 November 1931, had very
frequent contacts with international Zionism.
Vladimir Jabotinsky, a radical Russophobe, belonged to this lodge
(ibid, p. 308).
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