The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

Acts of vengeance were staged once again precisely 23 years later,
on 18 March 1871, when the Paris Commune was declared. In the
Soviet Union, 18 March was celebrated as the day of the Red Aid.
Freemasons murdered Georgios, the king of Greece, on 18 March
1913.
The actual basis of freemasonry was a ruthless meritocracy, a class
of society, which is only achieved with the help of merits and docu-
ments. This implies subversiveness in all static societies based on a
traditional hierarchy, according to the American historian James H.
Billington.
During the early 18th century, lodge meetings were usually held in
private chambers in inns or taverns, where the members gathered
around a long table.
It became obvious that the new form of freemasonry posed a
political threat to traditional order. The lodge meetings in the
Netherlands were banned in 1735, since information had come to
light that the masonic brothers were secretly involved in political
activity. In 1738, Pope Clement XII banned the activities of the
freemasons in all Catholic countries, including France and Poland. It
was a heinous crime to belong to the freemasons, according to the
papal bull In Eminenti.
The Empress of Austria, Maria Theresia, closed all the lodges in
1742, including the one her husband Franz I was a member of. But it
was already too late, because freemasonry had by then reached a
position where it could no longer be controlled. Its members were too
many and they were far too influential. Rich extremist Jews who
were members of different lodges and supported their activities had
access to enormous funds, which the worldly powers could not
ignore.
Certain freemasons could not cope with the evil that the rituals
bring out and have left the order. An former grand master, also a lea-
ding financier in London, gave Martin Short this frightening testi-
mony, which is recounted in his book "Inside the Brotherhood:
Further Secrets of the Freemasons" (London, 1990, pp. 124-126):
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