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ectory of the Carbonari and was led by a group of Italian noblemen, amongst whom a prince, " the profoundestof initiates, was charged as Inspector-General of the Order " to propagate its principles throughout theNorth of Europe. " He had received from the hands of Kingge [i.e. Knigge, the ally of Weishaupt?] thecahiers of the last three degrees." But these were of course unknown to the great majority of Carbonari, whoentered the association in all good faith. Witt Doehring then shows how faithfully the system of Weishauptwas carried out by the Alta Vendita in the three first degrees, he explains- It is still a question of the moralityof Christianity and even of the Church, for which those who wish to be received must promise to sacrificethemselves. The initiates imagine, according to this formula, that the object of the association issomething high and noble, that it is the Order of those who desire a purer morality and a stronger piety, theindependence and the unity of their country. One cannot therefore judge the Carbonari en masse; there areexcellent men amongst them.... But everything changes after one has taken the three degrees. Already in thefourth, in that of the Apostoli, the promises to overthrow all monarchies, and especially the kings of the raceof the Bourbons. But it is only in the seventh and last degree, reached by few, that revelations go further.At last the veil is torn completely for the Principi Summo Patriarcho. Then one learns that the aim of theCarbonari is just the same as that of the Illuminés. This degree, in which a man is at the same time princeand bishop, coincides with the Homo Rex of the latter. The initiate vows the ruin of all religion and of allpositive government, whether despotic or democratic; murder, poison, perjury, are all at their disposal.Who does not remember that on the suppression of the Illuminés was found, amongst other poisons, a tincturaad abortum faciendum. The summo maestro laughs at the zeal of the mass of Carbonari who have sacrificedthemselves for the liberty and independence of Italy, neither one nor the other being for him a goal buta method.[51]Witt Doehring, who had himself reached the degree of P.S.P., thereupon declares that, having taken hisvows under a misaprehension, he holds himself to be released from his obligations and conceives it his dutyto warn society. " The fears that assail governments are only too well founded. The soil in Europe is volcanic."[51]It is unnecessary to go over the ground already traversed in World Revolution by relating the history ofthe successive eruptions which proved the truth of Witt Doehring's warning. The point to emphasize againis that every one of these eruptions can be traced to the work of the secret societies, and that, as in the eighteenthcentury, most of the prominent revolutionaries were known to be connected with some secret association.According to the plan laid down by Weishaupt, Freemasonry was habitually adopted as a cover.Thus Louis Blanc, himself a Freemason, speaks of a lodge named the Amis de la Vérité, numbering Bazardand Buchez amongst its founders, "in which the solemn puerilities of the Grand Orient only served to maskpolitical action."[52] Bakunin, companion of the Freemason Proudhon,[53] " the father of Anarchy," makesuse of precisely the same expression. Freemasonry, he explains, is not to be taken seriously, but " may serveas a mask " and " as a means of preparing something quite different."[54]I have quoted elsewhere the statement of the Socialist Malon that " Bakunin was a disciple ofWeishaupt," and that of the Anarchist Kropotkine that between Bakunin's secret society-the Alliance SocialeDemocratique-and the secret societies of 1795 there was a direct affiliation; I have quoted the assertion ofMalon that " Communism was handed down in the dark through the secret societies " of the nineteenth century;I have quoted also the congratulations addressed by Lamartine and the Freemason Cremieux to theFreemasons of France in 1848 on their share in this revolution as in that of 1789; I have shown that the organizationof this later outbreak by the secret societies is not a matter of surmise, but a fact admitted by allwell-informed historians and by the members of the secret societies themselves.So, too, in the events of the Commune, and in the founding of the First Internationale, the rôle of Freemasonryand the secret societies is no less apparent. The Freemasons of France have indeed always boastedof their share in political and social upheavals. Thus in 1874, Malapert, orator of the Supreme Council ofthe Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, went so far as to say: " In the eighteenth century Freemasonry wasso widespread throughout the world that one can say that since that epoch nothing has been done without itsconsent."The secret history of Europe during the last two hundred years yet remains to be written. Until viewedin the light of the dessous des cartes, many events that have taken place during this period must remain forever incomprehensible.But it is time to leave the past and consider the secret forces at work in the world to-day.End of PART INesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 143 —
Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 144 —
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system of the Jewish hierarchy and
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policy. A system which, with no oth
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devoted his life to murder. Thus by
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CHAPTER IIITHE TEMPLARSIN the year
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nesses, says the official report, "
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from this source. Indeed Eliphas L
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ment of physics by which the mystic
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Freemasonry traced to the Crusades:
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Cross; and finally, that a degree o
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