Association Freemasons shaping society "History of Revolution"

The Freemasons are a world-wide fraternity organization with millions of members. A fraternal organization or fraternity is an organization that views its members as a brotherhood. The Freemasons are the largest brotherhood in the world and are a known secret society, although within the last century has become more known as a society with secrets.The fraternity is the most powerful movement in the world today and has been for generations. The truth is most people join Freemasonry to either make a difference in the world or to gain powerful connections to people for business or political reasons. The Freemasons make no denies to this, and claim the fraternity merely makes good men better.Here is a song written included in the Andersons Constitution for Masonry:“Great kings, Dukes and Lords have laid by their swords;That our mystery to put a good grace on,And ne’er been ashamed to hear themselves named;As a free and accepted mason.We are brothers of princes and fellows of kings;So let the bottle go round again, fill the glasses to the rim,We’ll be free and merry, drinking port and sherry and let it, let run the table round;While envy does the masons foes confound.Here is another:“There once was an owl that lived in oak,The more he heard, the less he spoke;The less he spoke, the more he heard,Oh let us be like this great wise bird”.
A mason in its original form and meaning means builder and was used to describe a skilled architect or even in some cases as a skilled crafts-men. I use the word skilled because they were; in fact they were the only people with the knowledge of the trade. The term Freemason was officially known in the early 1700s, however evidence exist to prove they existed centuries earlier. The term free-stone-mason was first recorded in 1375 and the term free-stone was recorded as early as 1212 in Normandy.Many people are also under the impression that Freemasonry originated in England, but many rituals, ceremonies and words used actually originated in earlier periods and from other European nations, as well as India and Egypt. For instance, the word cowan is a word Freemasons use to describe a non-mason. The word was derived from the French word “covenne” which means “ignorant person”. The word tyler which is a title received in the Masonic lodge is derived from the French word “tailleur” meaning “cutter”. Another good example is the name freemason, which first appears in England in the 1700s when Freemasonry was officially legally established, is actually from the French phrase “frère mason” meaning “brother mason”. The freestone masons also known as the stonemasons because they worked in stone, were in fact an organized union of workers. They were well known for their skills and traveled from town to town looking for towns that welcomed them and provided work. The mason-livery company in London had been active since 1220 and there were also other companies of stone-masons in Chester, Durham, new castle and Richmond in Yorkshire. In Scotland the stonemason companies were even older than in England and it was the stone masons company of Glasgow that first granted a charter stating the rights and duties of the trade workers in 1057 which was issued by king Malcolm 3rd of Canmore after he won the throne by killing Macbeth. The building of cathedrals, churches and castles provided the freestone-masons unions with plenty of work, which provided the masons with plenty of wealth and comfort. The regulations for masons in France were written up in 1268 after a meeting with the royal families and high-level craftsmen took place. The regulation stated that masons, mortar-makers and plasterers could have as many assistants as they pleased as long as they did not teach the assistants anything about the trade. Unskilled workers were always needed as assistants to clear out the foundation of the building site and to bring stone and mortar to the work site. These workers were not fully unionized and were paid much less. King Philip 4th of France was at war with the King Edward 1st of England in the late 13th century, but their war came to an end when the two kings signed a treaty known as the treaty of Paris on may 20th 1303. The treaty’s terms were that France was to return the city of Gascony back to England’s authority and to seal the deal King Philips daughter married King Edwards’s son. This treaty did not last though, and later resulted in a war that would last 116 years. Although historians have found a way to fill the tale of the battle to be about control of a kingdom, at the very basis the war was about which nations’ leaders would be the successors of the Roman Empire economic-hold and control of the freestone unions. In order to pay for the war before the treaty king Philip 4th of France would arrest Jewish property owners so he could seize their assets and in 1306 before a revolt occurred he expelled them from France. Philip was able to do so because he had authority from the Holy Roman Empire and the pope.
The knights of templar were in fact created by the church and over 300 years had grown into a large and powerful influential organization. However many of the knights were low-level and low in the social statue chain, whereas the Templar leadership was very much made up of nobles. The Templar organization as we already read had evolved from the average workers that turned military men during the crusades. Many of the men had been stone workers previously and after the crusades had risen in ranks to become titled as nobles such as dukes, earls and lords, etc… Often in order to complete the “perfect” solution, a traumatic conflict must occur in order to unite the people in a common cause, the Knight’s of Templar and the Hashashin were each other’s traumatic conflict.Three months after Saladin had recaptured Jerusalem and exiled Christian after Templar’s led by Reynald of Chatillon ransacked the Muslim holy cities in 1170, Richard 1st the son of King Henry 2nd, later to be known as King Richard the lion-hearted declared that he was taking back the cross referring to the holy city, Jerusalem. The English king sold offices and titles to the highest bidders and because of this he was able to pay for thousand of horses and a fleet of 250 ships that had been directed to France. In 1190 King Richard joined forces with King Phillip 2nd of France and together assembled 100,000 men to invade Jerusalem. In 1192 the 3rd crusade had failed to recover the land and another peace treaty with Saladin was made. However the treaty was again broken as a 4th crusade known as the pathetic children’s crusade of 1212 which resulted in the enslavement of thousands of children that were expected to fight in the name of Christianity while the fifth crusade of adults were in training. The crusades 5 through 8 were not effective at all and by 1291 the last Christian city in the holy lands surrendered and the cities silver and gold were evacuated to Cyprus.
Even after this the Templar’s remained a large organization as they were welcomed into other European cities and even owned large properties. They had already been exempted from paying tax and were now serving as tax collectors for the crown. Also they were money lenders too, who charged a fee for lending the money which was basically an early form of interest.Although popular history teaches us that the history of banking began with early Jewish and Italian money lending institutions, there were actually earlier forms of banking that pre-date the Rothschild’s or Medici families.The Knights of Templar were one of three groups to first charge interest. At that time charging interest on money lent was against the churches doctrine, yet somehow the Templar’s were exempt from this rule. Old documents found revealed that the Templar’s charged as high as 60% interest per year and just like modern Swiss banks they set up for special cliental a special long-term private trust fund accessible only to the originators of the account.
The banking system was originally proposed because often pilgrims, merchants, etc… That were traveling to the holy land would be robbed by thieves. The Templar’s developed a system molded after a Muslim technique, which was equivalent to an early form of credit.Through this system a traveler could deposit funds to cover travel expenses to his local temple controlled by Templar’s and would receive a specially coded receipt. This receipt was issued in the form of a letter of credit, which was redeemable from any temple. At the end of a journey the traveler would receive either a cash refund or his account balance or at times a bill to cover any over-draft. One should keep in mind on the controversial side; most pilgrims were robbed by Muslim thieves thought to be members of the Assassins or Hashashin also known as the Fedayeen.In 1290 King Phillip 4th of France had devalued his own currency to bring more revenue, which caused coins to lose 2/3’s of its value within 10 years. Because of the loss, he charged tax to the church to make up the loss, which in turn made a conflict with the church and Pope Boniface 8th. The Church and the King of France then turned away from the Templar’s making accusations of causing acts against the Church. By 1307 raids against the Templar’s were in effect. By 1310 many Templar’s were arrested, however out of the 100,000 Templar’s arrested only 600 were tried and only 54 were sentenced to death, which is far less than most historians make a reader imagine. Templar’s in France were arrested first in 1307, yet none were arrested in Rennes-le-Chateau. Few had confessed to acts against Christianity such as homosexuality, defacing Christian property or symbolism and pagan practices and received punishments of loss of property, while no Templar’s in England were prosecuted until 1308 and many Templar’s from France had fled to Britain. By 1311 all Templar’s property had been seized and given to the knights’ Hospitaliers.It should be noted that all the assets and funds that were seized never actually belonged to the Templar’s, it was actually the people’s money whom used the Templar’s as banks, and when the Templar’s were so-called persecuted it was peasants who lost all their money. Money that was given to the Templar’s to bank, who loaned most of it to kings and nations that never paid back their loans and never had too.Just like our present day “war on drugs” is being used to create profits to fund scientific voyages into space exploration, the war against the Templar’s was to make enough profits to fund exploration voyages in search for more gold, conquer more land and establish dominance over the entire world. Which is basically what happened, the Medici family in Italy created an early proto-type of banking after the Templar’s and were one of the main families to sponsor and finance Christopher Columbus voyages.Jacques DeMoley was a Frankish noble who served as the 23rd and last official grand master of the Knights of Templar and nothing is known about 2/3’s of his life.In 1314 Jacques DeMoley and three of his highest officers were sentenced to life in prison. Two of the men accepted their punishments, but DeMoley and the provincial grand master of Normandy retracted their original confessions of committing devil worship and crimes against the church and claimed to be innocent. This angered King Philip and he ordered that DeMoley and the provincial grand master of Normandy be burnt alive. Before DeMoley retracted his original confession, he spoke with the King of France Philip 4th on June 24th of 1314 and had been partially reassured he wouldn’t face a prison sentence. He probably thought he could just say a few hail-Mary’s and walk away from it; however we know this wasn’t the case. Also on June 24th of 1314 Robert the Bruce defeated King Edward 2nd of England at the battle of Bannockburn and re-conquered Scotland. No one truly knows what happened in the battle because the only literature written about the battle was only written 60 years after it was over. Jacques DeMoley in his final days called a meeting of his highest officers and told them to change the name of the order. From this point many Templar’s fled to Scotland where Robert the Bruce was in a war for independence for Scotland from England’s rule. The Templar’s also went into hiding in Portugal when the persecution against them was ceased. The king of Portugal had cleared all Templar’s in that area of all accusations and there they operated under the new name L’ambrados.The 1380s was a period where many Europeans died from the bubonic plague, the population had reduced and laborers were needed. Because of this wages were raised and the governments of the time made legislations to have a fixed maximum and minimum rate on salary wages.
While Templar’s were being persecuted in France, many Templar’s in England were left untouched, but the order was still dismantled. A court official named John Legge stated in 1381 that a poll tax which the government wished to impose put a financial burden on common folk. In May of 1381 a rebellion broke out in Essex to protest against the tax. The next day the rebellion had spread into London. During this a rebellion in the county of Kent occurred and another rebellion had formed and freed a prisoner in the Rochester castle and then moved into an area known as Maidstone, where a man called Wat the Tyler was suddenly proclaimed to be the group’s leader. Tyler’s first act of leadership was to free a priest named John Ball whom had been imprisoned during the Templar persecutions.
Wat the Tyler became known as Walter Tyler; however it was not his real name. The priest John Ball was known to have directed many of his letters to a “John” while in prison. The man John was who became called Wat the Tyler took his alias name from an earlier member of the Knights of Templar.
As the rebellion grew, an army of 10,000 men marched into London and for an entire week, ransacked the city causing destruction of property and public records owned by Robert Hales the treasurer of England. They also entered an old church that had once belonged to the Knights of Templar and only removed public records and made sure not to do any damage to the church.
In 1381 King Richard 2nd of England at the age of 14 had recently gained control of the kingdom and had met with the rebels in an open field at miles-end just outside the city. There he agreed to pardons for all the rebels and promised to abolish serfdom. It was clear that young king Richard 2nd was not in control of either the rebels, nor the tax that had been imposed which was what had started and gave reason for the rebellion. It should also be noted that the tax was created by King Richard 2nd’s advisors and not the young king himself.
During the meeting between the king and the rebels outside the city, a mob inside the city had captured the archbishop Simon Sudbury and a few leading heads of the Knights Hospitallers whom they beheaded. When the king returned to the city and heard what had happened he immediately broke the treaty. However with persuasion from his advisors the young king requested another meeting with the rebels led by Wat the Tyler. It is said at this meeting an argument broke out and weapons were drawn and Tyler was wounded, but managed to escape and disappear forever. After this the rebellion quickly faded, king Richard 2nd still abolished serfdom and many people had already stopped supporting the rebellion after a group of rebels had purposely broken the first treaty for no specific reason. The knight’s Hospitallers also called the sovereign order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta were three branches of knights who also stemmed from the crusades. The three branches were, the knights of Malta, the knights of Rhodes and the chevaliers of Malta. The organization began as a type of hospital in Jerusalem in 1080 to provide aid for sick pilgrims. After the crusaders re-captured Jerusalem in 1099 and during the first crusade it became a religious military order and was to provide care and defense for people in Jerusalem.In 600AD Abbot Probus was commissioned by Pope Gregory the great to build a hospital in Jerusalem. In 800AD Charlemagne the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire paid to have a library added to it. The Hospitaller’s military order was founded following the first crusade by a man named Gerard who was given the permission to do so by the Pope Paschal 2nd in 1113, five years before the Templar’s were officially created.
In 1185 Frederick Barbarossa the Holy Roman Emperor of the time, pledged his protection to the Knights of St. John. In 1372 Robert Hales had become lord of the Hospitallers, which was equivalent to a grand master, and at the time Templar’s were being persecuted.
After the lost of Jerusalem to Saladin, the Knights of St. John moved their headquarters to Rhodes. After the Turks finally took the island in 1522, the order relocated to the island of Malta, where they became the military order of Malta also known as the Knights of Malta. Today the main headquarters rest in Rome under the direct supervision of the Pope. The knights of Malta are also referred to as propaganda Masonica due (P2-Freemasons). The other branch of the Knights of St. John are the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, which unlike their co-branch Malta, the St. John’s order is a protestant order with its headquarters in London and under the authority of the King and Queen of England.All of these groups were the same group, controlled by the same council, and in Scotland there is proof to this as there exists frequent documents that refer to a single joint order known as the order of the knights of St. John and the Temple.The l’ambrados in Spain became known as the Alumbrados by the 1400s and was known as people that practiced mystical forms of Christianity. The group was known to exist in the 1400s but disappeared by the 1600s.
The Spanish inquisition was a movement set by the request from the Moors in Spain. It resulted for a while in a peaceful multi-religious society, but later became a violent anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic persecution that made many Jews and Muslims convert to Christianity in fear.At this time the catholic monarchs controlled Spain.The catholic king and queen drove the Moors out of Granada and expelled the Jews from Spain.Saint Teresa of Avila who lived between the years of 1515 to 1582, openly confessed to being part of the Alumbrados. She is also recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as one of the 33 doctors of the church and was the first of three female doctors of the church. During the Spanish inquisition the Alumbrados were successful in recruiting many converses, which were Jewish converts to Christianity and Moriscos, which were Moorish converts to Christianity. Between the 1400s and 1600s Moors, which were Arab/African Muslims were given the choice by the monarchy to either convert from their religion to Christianity or to leave the Iberian Peninsula, which had been their home for hundreds of years. It didn’t make sense that the once persecuted Templar’s turned A’lumbrados still favored the Christian Church.
After the incidences in Scotland and Spain, the Rosicrucian’s emerged in the 1600s. The Rosicrucian order also known as the Brethren of the Rosy Cross is claimed to have originated in the year 46AD when an Alexandrian Gnostic named Ormus and his 6 followers whom claimed to have been taught by Mark the disciple of Jesus began their mission. Documents available in France prove that an order called the Rosy Cross had been founded in 1188 by a Knights Templar named Jean de Gisors, whom worked for King Henry 2nd of England and became the First Grand Master for the order of Zion. The term Rosicrucian first came into views in 1614 in a publication put together from the work of a figure called Christian Rosenkreutz. In 1610 a new religious movement in Germany known as the Rosicrucian movement arose and made their new doctrine public. The doctrine was titled “the universal and general reformation of the whole-wide world” and was made public in 1614. The doctrine was in the form of a book which described how a member of the sect had been wandering in the woods when he had come across the grave of a man named Christian Rosenkreutz. There the author claimed to have found three books that Rosenkreutz had apparently written. In Rosenkreutz books were his visions of a future paradise in which men believed in a god or Supreme Being, whom people of all different religions could worship while granting religious tolerance to everyone. The documents were titled “Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crusis” meaning report of the Rosicrucian brotherhood.The report detailed a journey through the holy lands, then the Mediterranean areas gaining esoteric knowledge then studying with the Alumbrados of Spain and finally returning to Germany where the supposed traveler founded the Rosicrucian order.Here is the code; Rosicrucian literally translates to rosy cross, which was a Templar founded organization and their symbol. The figure Christian Rosencreutz’s name also changes as Christian stands for Christianity and Rosencreutz can become two Latin words ros, which means dew and crux which means cross. A dew-cross is the chemical symbol for light.In 1638 a Masonic poem was published in Edinburgh, which read:“for we the brethren of the rosie crosswe have the mason word and second sightthings for to come we can fortell alright”.This poem sparked questions amongst the people as many people wondered what was the mason word and what exactly the last line meant. Because of all the curiosity a false story was created in 1695. The story was about a Presbyterian minister of a parish in Kirkcudbrightshire whom was told a story about a mason that had met the devil and donated his first child to him in return for the mason word…The story was later proven to be made up, but the results from it would have many falsely associate the society or later the Freemasons with witchcraft or devilry and drift away from the more logical theories of a political conspiracy to nonsense about devil worshippers summoning the power of Satan to control the world. This original story also became the basis for the story Rumplestilskin.In 1698 a leaflet was distributed in the streets of London, the authors name was given as “Mr. Winter” and no one was ever linked to this person. In the leaflet he told people that he must warn them of the mischiefs and evils practiced in the sight of god by those called the freed- masons. He quotes:“For this devilish sect of men are members in secrets which swear against all without their following. They are the anti-Christ which was to come, leading men from fear of god”.
This point would mark the beginning of the “Age of Enlightenment” as science would begin to overtake religion, logic would be used to promote liberalism and that would mean no need for monarchies as industry would become the main focal point of world leaders. Again what is interesting is that between 1550 and 1700 the freestone masons changed from being a trade union of working masons that accepted all the doctrines of the Christian catholic belief, to a legally accepted organization of intellectuals who favored religious toleration and friendship between men of different religious beliefs who acknowledged the belief of a one supreme god.The Association Freemasons officially became legalized in 1717 In England.The grand lodge apparently elected their grand masters but since 1721 grand masters have always been a noble man or a member of the royal family. In 1721 a man known as Mr. Payne was grand master and he had proposed that a noble brother, john the duke of Montagu should succeed him unelected and from that point on grand masters were appointed and not elected. Payne later was appointed governor of the St. Luca and St. Vincent islands in the west-Indies. He also married Lady Mary Churchill and was reportedly the richest man in England at the time.In 1722 Philip Wharton the duke of Wharton at age 24 became grand master of an English lodge. His father Thomas Wharton was the first Marquess of Wharton who wrote the lyrics to the song “lillibullero” which was set to the tune of a song in Purcell’s opera known as “the Indian queen”. The song described the plans of Irish Catholics conquering England for James 2nd and the massacre of English Protestants. A generation later king James 3rd also known as James the pretender made Philip Wharton a duke, which was a position of nobility. Positions like dukes, earls, lords, etc… were nobility positions and were not given to just anyone. Kings would either sell titles or award hardworking peasants that had done a great service for the king a title, which in turn would allow a peasant family to rise in social status to a noble family.While Philip Wharton was in England he became a member of a Masonic sect called the Hell-Fire club and later became a grand master of an English lodge. However he was expelled from the masons in 1723 for challenging the newly appointed grand master. So much for being a democratic group!After this he still remained in close connections to King James 3rd and became the duke of Northumberland. He later traveled to Spain and urged the king of Spain to declare war on England. While there he was appointed as colonial of an Irish regiment in the Spanish army and took part in an attack on Gibraltar. In England he was denounced as a traitor and although he was in arguments with English freemasons he is still credited for forming the first Freemason lodge in Spain, which was under authority of the English grand lodge.
Philip Wharton would again try to change sides, when he offered his services and information to Horace Walpol who claims to have refused Wharton. Horace Walpol was a British ambassador in Paris and an active Freemason and interestingly enough Philip Wharton became a Roman catholic and died in the Franciscan monastery in Paris in 1731…oddly enough he was 33 years old.In 1799 two laws were created. The unlawful oaths act and the unlawful societies act, which stated that certain oaths could not be made especially to disclose secrets. However the Prince of Wales, Edward whom was also grand master of an English lodge intervened and was assisted by his deputy grand master Francis lord Rawdon.
Rawdons father was the Earl of Moira who was also a Freemason and supported the French revolution and had also been a British soldier in the American Revolution, which I found conflicting since the French Revolution was trying to liberate French commoners and British soldiers were suppressing the revolutionary liberation of the American people. After Rawdons father died he was promoted to major general and served in the Netherlands against the French revolutionary army his father once supported.
The unlawful oath act and unlawful societies act was agreed to have a clause inserted into the acts specifically to exempt Freemasonry. The clause was that every lodge had to supply the local justice of the peace with the names of the members and record times and places lodge meetings took place.
This is a verse from an entered apprentice poem that was published in 1725:“the world is in pain, our secrets to gain; and still let them wonder and gaze on;they ne’er can divine, the word or the sign;of a free and accepted mason.”
In 1737 a man named Mason Ramsey publicly connected the Freemasons to the Knights of Templar, one year later Pope Clement 12th issued a ban on Freemasonry known as the papal bull. However the church was only able to enforce the law in catholic states. Many might view this at first glance, that the church and Freemasonry were at odds-ends; however this ban allowed a few strange characters to operate in a series of events that would lead to the French Revolution.
First a man named Giuseppe Balsamo who had been born in Palermo in 1743 definitely existed, yet no one knows for sure what family he came from; however rumors claim he was a Portuguese Jew. In 1776 he began to travel in Europe and while in London he called himself Count Caglastro and was initiated as a Freemason in a London lodge. He would later in his life tell people he was the inventor of Egyptian Freemasonry while on his journey to Germany, where he came into contact with the illuminati Bavaria. From there he went to Lithuania, to St. Petersburg and then Poland before returning to Paris in 1785. Back in Paris he became friends with the cardinal Louis de Rohan, who was part of the Rohan family which was one of the most powerful families in France at the time. Rohan being a catholic cardinal obviously couldn’t be a Freemason and wasn’t, however he was sympathetic to the order.
Another man named Giovanni Jacobo de Seingalt was a Venetian aristocrat who had become a priest, but was expelled for scandalous behavior. He was reported to have had several sexual affairs with young women and became known as a womanizer. However parents in Venice were more concerned that the priest would persuade the young men to convert to Freemasonry, which was viewed as devil worship from most catholic commoners. The priest had become a Freemason in the Lyons lodge in France in 1750 and because of the accusations against him, the authorities were forced to prosecute him and expel him from his duties as a priest. In 1755 he was suspected of being a spy for foreign governments, but no proof was ever found although evidence was presented that proved he was a Freemason, which had become illegal in Venice since 1751. The ex-priest refused to spill any Masonic secrets and was sentenced to five years in prison. One year later he escaped by help of the warden whom claimed he was blackmailed. The ex-priest freemason Giovanni Jacobo de Seingalt then went to Paris where he was welcomed and was appointed director of a national lottery, but soon after he left Paris to visit other parts of Europe. He was reported staying with Frederick the great in Prussia and with Voltaire in Switzerland before he returned again to Paris. King Louis 16th of France however did not trust him and banned him from returning to France, so the ex-priest went to Bohemia and became a librarian.
Another person whom was usually called St. German was present in France in 1748, but left to visit Italy, Russia and other unknown areas, but returned to Paris in the 1780s. No one knows who he really was… in Venice he was called the Count of Bellamura, in Paris he was called chevalier de schoning, in Milan he was known as the Chevalier Welldone and in Genoa he was Count Soltikov. Along his journey he told people he was 500 years old, that he knew the secrets of ancient Egypt and claimed he could turn coal into diamonds. He also claimed to be one of the highest members of Freemasonry, although no records show he was ever initiated. Keep in mind though no one ever truly knew his identity. Another interesting fact is that modern man knows it is possible for coal to be turned into synthetic diamonds, but this knowledge was not known at that period of time, at least not to common man. The strange man also became friends and spent time with Frederick the great of Prussia. Frederick of Prussia had been visited by each of the three characters and was an important figure within the French Revolution.In 1751 Pope Benedict 14th issued another law that was in connection to the first law in 1738 to ban Freemasonry. The law was passed mainly because the king of Spain and Naples wanted to suppress it in Spain and Naples. The kingdom of Naples at the time was known as the Papal States to just south of Rome and Calaria and all the south of Italy including the island of Sicily. The entire area was ruled by the king of Spain and the king’s son would be the king of Naples and heir to the throne of Spain.Now even though the papal law was passed and banned Freemasonry, places like France paid no attention to the law. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Maria Theresa helped to suppress Freemasonry, but the authorities in those areas turned a blind eye to the activities of aristocrats that joined Freemasonry. Even her husband the Emperor Francis 1st was a Freemason. When he died in 1765 Maria Theresa arranged for her son Joseph 2nd to be elected as the Holy Roman Emperor and she also appointed him to be coregent with her of the kingdom of Hungary and all her Habsburg territories. After her death in 1780 her son Joseph 2nd became the sole ruler of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and revoked the papal law that had banned Freemasonry.
Mozart was a Freemason and actually incorporated this story into his creation the magic flute, which back then was thought to have revealed a Masonic secret. In the magic flute opera theater show, the wicked queen that persecutes the young hero and heroine is representing Maria Theresa, the evil spirits who encourage her to do so are representing the Catholic Church and the all wise just and beneficial ruler Sarastro who punished the wicked queen and protector of the good and noble is Joseph 2nd.In 1790 Joseph 2nd died and was succeeded by his brother Leopold 2nd, who had extreme pressure on him by the Roman Catholic Church to ban Freemasonry. His sister Marie Antoinette wrote Leopold 2nd a letter on august 17 1790 about the Freemasons, in it she says:“Take good care, over there about any organization of Freemasons. You must already have been warned that it is by this road that all the monsters here hope to achieve the same ends in all countries. O god, protect my country and you from similar misfortunes”.Marie Antoinette had been from Austria, but was the queen of France and was in France at the time she wrote the letter. I guess she did not realize her father the Emperor Francis 1st and brother Joseph 2nd were Freemasons.
One cause of the French Revolution was because back then people associated with aristocracy did not have to pay taxes. This had been a privilege that had been given to aristocrats in return for their relinquishing all political influence. During the same time the French government consisted of the state’s general which consisted of the first estate which represented the clergy or church, the second estate represented the nobility and the third estate represented the common man. But to be more specific it actually represented members of middle-class and independent craftsmen and artisans that owned property. In 1789 Abby Joseph Emmanuel Sieyes wrote a pamphlet titled “what is the third estate”. In it he claimed the third estate was the only elected legislative body that had the right to govern France. Sieyers was not a Freemason, however his pamphlet became widely known to the public by help of Freemason groups. Honore Gabriel Riquet the count of Mirabeau became the leading spokes person for the third estate. Riquet had once been sentenced to death for rape but succeeded in having the sentence reversed. Under his leadership the third estate wanted to preserve the monarch rule and to make it more like England, a constituted monarchy with limited powers. Marie Antoinette refused to cooperate with him. Riquet was also not a Freemason, however all of his associates were. Eventually the third estate proclaimed itself to be the national assembly with full legislative powers. At this time King Louis 16th took no effective action against the third estate, but a rumor in Paris had started that the king was secretly preparing a military coup to dissolve the third estates national assembly and arrest the leaders. The people of Paris whom heard the rumor banned together and raided the arms depot of the invalides and with their newly obtained weaponry they stormed the Bastille on July 14th 1789. In October of 1789 the people of Paris led mostly by the women of Paris marched to Versailles and forced the King and Queen of France to return to Paris where they would be held captive in their own palace grounds.
During this raid the governor was beheaded and others were lynched and hanged from lamppost in the streets. In August the national assembly passed the declaration of rights of man and abolished all the privileges of aristocracy. King Louis 16th of France accepted the declaration, but did not agree with the third estate now known as the revolutionaries, on two issues. Because the king had agreed to abolish the privileges of aristocracy many aristocrats left France and went to Germany and England where they would create propaganda to urge the governments to overthrow the French revolutionist by force. During the era many priest in France were closely connected to the common man and were happy to see the abolition of the aristocracy privileges and it was considered as liberation of the commoners from oppression. However in April of 1791 Pope Puis 6th issued a law that condemned the revolution in France and called on all true Catholics to oppose it. Why on earth was the church opposing a revolution that took power away from aristocracy and liberated poor people?Although the third estate who was leading the revolution at the time was trying to create a revolution, they still wanted the king to be head of state, eventually the common man who owned no property began to question if a revolution to liberate people was happening or was it plainly just a revolution to create a change of social views.One point that led to the extremist revolutionaries was because the duke of Orleans, who was also the grand master of the grand orient reportedly bought all the grains in 1789 and sold it abroad and even hid some of it away creating a near starvation amongst commoners.In 1790 a conflict had broken out between the revolutionaries and the revolutionary extremist. The third estate which was now the government was led by two men named Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert de Motier Marquis de la Fayette or simply Lafayette and Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau. The two had managed to maintain law and the government now called the national assembly drafted a new constitution resembling the English constitution. The draft stated King Louis 16th would remain as head of the executive government and he would retain the right to veto any legislation. Also the national assembly created the National Guard, which was an army that was set up to protect the property of the aristocrats and would open fire on extremist that tried to get close. The National Guard was also placed to protect the king and queen from angry mobs and to protect the common man’s national assembly from a royal coup.
In 1791 the king and queen tried to escape from France by intending to cross into the Rhineland in Varennes where an army awaited to assist them. The royal family never made it; they had been blocked by mobs of people who had been leaked the information that an escape was taking place. The royal family returned to Paris under the protection of the National Guard, but on July 17th 1791 a revolutionary demonstration against the royal family took place at the champ-de-mars in Paris. There Lafayette ordered the National Guard to open fire on demonstrators killing several. People all across Europe then and even up to today saw the actions of the revolution in France as being led by the Freemasons, yet Lafayette whom was a freemason was defending the monarchy. Emperor Leopold of Austria and King Frederick the great William of Prussia met in Pilnitz to discuss the possibilities of a joint action against the French revolutionist. King Gustavus 3rd of Sweden also believed that all countries in Europe should make war on France. He was also a Freemason and encouraged the formation of Masonic lodges in Sweden and had become a grand master of the Swedish grand lodge. The empress Catherine the great of Russia was also alarmed of the acts taking place in France and believed a revolution threatened the power of kings and queens in Europe and wanted foreign powers to unite and crush the revolutionist.Catherine the great was the daughter of a minor German prince and she had only married into the Russian imperial family. Her husband was Tsar Peter 2nd of Russia who tried to have her killed but somehow she persuaded the imperial guard to make a coup d’etat and kill her husband the tsar. When she became empress of Russia she did not object to the formation of Masonic lodges, but in 1794 she began to suppress it. According to a well established tradition, Freemasonry in Russia was introduced by Peter 2nd, soon after he became tsar…and he had been initiated in London.Although Catherine suppressed Freemasonry, her son Paul 1st would later lift the ban, but later on ban it again. His son Alexander 1st was a liberal, but was suspicious of Freemasons and banned all secret societies. But in 1805 he would be visited by a man named Ivan Baeber a leading Freemason at the time and convinced the Tsar to exempt Freemasonry from the law against secret societies. Many leading figures in Russia of the time were Freemasons such as field marshal Mikhail Larionovich Kutusov the commander-in-chief of the Russian army in 1812 that fought Napoleon. The general count Alexander Ostermann Tolstoy and the poet Alexander Pushkin were just to name a few.In France in April of 1792 a government was formed by the more moderate section of the Girondians.The Girondians were a revolutionary group that wished to take the revolution to a whole new level, and were considered borderline extremist. They were called Girondians because the deputies of the group came from the province of Gironde in south western France and they were in alliance with another group called the Jacobins.A group known as the society of friends of the constitution was a pre-revolutionary group that had formed in France and had leased a hall from the Jacobins convent of Catholic Dominican friars, which later became known as the Jacobin club. Since then all revolutionaries were called Jacobins, mainly because the original group claimed to be protecting the revolution from aristocrats. However, in earlier times in 1688 England’s pro-catholic king James Stuart 2nd was overthrown by his Dutch son-in-law William of orange who was a protestant. James name in Latin was Jacobus, which became the root for the name Jacobite. Freemasons from Scotland and Wales supported King James 2nd and wanted to restore him to the English throne. This seemed odd since on the surface Freemasonry was supposed to be in conflict with Catholic’s.The new Girondians government that was allied to the Jacobins responded to the threats of foreign intervention by declaring war on Austria and Prussia. Although this may seem as though the new government wanted to defend themselves, King Louis 16th and Queen Marie Antoinette of France secretly wanted a war because it provided an excuse for the Austrian and Prussian armies to invade France and liberate the king and queen and crush the revolution. The entire time the revolution was being fought, the French king and queen had been in communication with Austria by a family connection I might add and in my own words helped manipulated the entire situation. On June of 1792 a revolutionary army led by the Jacobins invaded the Tuileries palace and forced their way passed the National Guard all the way to the king and made him wear a red-cap of liberty on his head. Jacobin revolutionaries in France were named the red-cap of liberty earlier and were often referred to as the red lodge. Another important fact is this was the first time in history the color red was used to describe a revolution or revolutionaries and the red-cap of liberty was the exact same model as the cap of Hades that had been given to Perseus to make him become invisible according to Greek mythology and the same cap worn upon the god Mithras from the secret society we learned about earlier Mithraism. During this raid the Jacobins decided they were going to proclaim a republic and called for a revolutionary army from the Jacobin controlled city Marseilles. The leader of the army was Francois Joseph Westermann, whom was a Freemason. As the army marched to tuileries palace they sang the song “chant de l’armee du Rhine” which was composed the year earlier by Rouget de Lisle another Freemason.The song had been composed to honor the French army on the Rhine, but after the famous march to Paris it became known as “la marseillais”.At this time the Prussian army was waiting on the northern frontier of France and they were under the command of field marshal Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand the duke of Brunswick and also happened to be a Freemason.In august of 1792 the royal family was officially imprisoned and the next day a republic was proclaimed. On august 12th 1792 a man named abbe Augustin Barruel claimed as well as others that the Freemasons, two days after overthrowing the French monarchy ran through the streets of Paris revealing the mason word which had been a secret that was on the curiosities of all non-masons. The secret words revealed were liberty, equality and fraternity.
Abbe Barruel then began warning governments of their so called plans for the future, while also in a book he wrote expressed his thanks to the British government for granting him political asylum in Britain and had also wrote that he understands that his allegations about the activities of revolutionary Freemasons did not apply to the respectable English Freemasons.
Lafayette, who at the time was commander-in-chief of the revolutionary armies facing the Prussian and Austrian invaders, began to support the monarchy after the Jacobins had marched into Paris. The new government of Paris then denounced him as a traitor and he fled to neutral territory in liege. However even after turning his support towards the monarchy he was still imprisoned for five years by the Austrian government. On September 2nd 1792, revolutionary Jacobin members broke into the Conciergerie prison and killed aristocrats. Among them was the princess Marie Theresa de Lambelle, who was a friend of Marie Antoinette and a member of a Freemason lodge that initiated women. It was thought by the society she was in position to leak secrets of the order. The news of the needless massacre was enough to spread panic to conservative Europeans and the people of France demanded that the Austrian and Prussian armies invade France. On September 20th 1792 the battle of Valmy took place where the French revolutionist army of volunteers defeated the trained Prussian and Austrian troops. The German author Joann Wolfgang who was also a Freemason visited the Prussian army on the evening of the battle and stated “a new epoch in world history begins here today”. However positioning was clearly an advantage in this war. The Freemasons had initiated King Louis 16th’s cousin Philippe the duke of Charters and he became the grand master of the French orient. Philippe had later become the duke of Orleans when his father died. He later joined the Jacobins and was elected to the national assembly. When this happened he renounced his title of duke of Orleans and took the name Philippe Egalite….egalite in French means equal.In 1793 the French revolutionary government decided to put Louis 16th on trial for treason for welcoming the enemies of France to invade France. Louis 16th was tried before 700 deputies of the national assembly which was now called the convention. They found him guilty of treason 426 votes to 278. The convention then sentenced him to death, which also won 387 votes to 314. The former king’s cousin Philippe voted in favor of the death sentence. A deputy then proposed that the death sentence for Louis 16th should be postponed until further notice. This vote was defeated 361 to 360…one single vote decided on whether to give Louis a death sentence or not…Philippe voted against the proposition and was in favor of the death sentence. On January 20th 1793 a vote took place as to whether the sentence should be done immediately and passed 380 votes in favor to 310, and the next day Louis 16th was guillotined, this was proof to many back then that the Freemasons were behind the French revolution and the theories back then were; the grand master Philippe Egalite had ordered and helped in the manipulation of Freemasons and the monarch to overthrow his cousin king Louis 16th so that he could replace him. Some may see this as odd, but royal families are usually quite large and often cousins or even siblings would get jealous of others in higher positions because of birthright, and since all royal males were educated in the mysteries they knew that birthright held no actual significance and not only was Louis 16th not a part of the world of Freemasonry, many of his distant family members were.Eventually the Jacobins and the Girondins came into disagreement, mainly because the Girondins refused all compromise. The Girondins had also accused a man named Jean-Paul Marat of betraying the revolution, but the people of Paris came to his support and protested at the session of the convention trying to prosecute him. This led to Marat being acquitted and many Girondin leaders getting arrested. In July 1793 a young Girondin woman named Charlotte Carday gained entry to Marat’s house by pretending to have a list of names of Girondin members to be guillotined. There she stabbed Marat to death when she had the chance and was later caught and guillotined. From this point the Girondin party disappeared. Did I mention the leading members of the Girondin group were members of the Lyons lodge Freemasons?In the summer of 1793 the Girondins belonging to the lodge defied the authority of the Jacobin government in Paris and guillotined one of the local Jacobin leaders. Another good point is that Lyons Freemasons had already played a leading role in the rising of the Jacobins in Paris earlier.What was also disturbing to many was that the Freemasons apparently stood for democracy and equality, yet the structure of masonry with its grand masters and hierarchical ranks was undemocratic and conflicted with the revolutionary aim for equality for common man. When the common man began to question this Philippe Egalite decided to resign as grand master of the grand orient stating that he believed it was an inappropriate position for a revolutionary to hold. His tactic wasn’t bought by the people and he was later found guilty of supporting the Girondins and was guillotined in November of 1793. Marie Antoinette was also guillotined a month later. During this period of chaotic guillotining common man was so confused as to who was a Freemason, who was a revolutionist and who really had aims to liberate the peasants.In 1794 a man named Robespierre gained control of the government and went on a guillotine spree. Thomas Paine, a Freemason who had been imprisoned had a mark on the inside of his cell instead of the outside like all the other prisoners. The guard missed the mark and Paine wasn’t guillotined. A law had also passed stating that if the death penalty failed for whatever reason it could not be reinforced. Freemasons claim the only reason Paine didn’t die was because the guard forgot he marked the cell on the inside. No explanation was ever given as to why he marked the inside of the cell instead of the outside.During Robespierre’s reign over the government, he made a tactical error. During a convention he announced that he had a list of deputies that were traitors to the republic and that he would give their names after the lunch break. As soon as he began to speak after lunch, he was interrupted by the deputies, who then denounced him as a traitor and ordered for his arrest and he was guillotined the next day. Within the next month’s a few leading revolutionaries were guillotined and the rule of government was replaced with corrupt politicians that had become known as the directory. It might not make a difference, but it makes for an interesting conversation…the guillotine was named after Dr. Joseph Guillotine, a medical doctor that believed the death penalty should be quick and painless…guess what he was a Freemason too.I guess they felt bad for all the victims of manipulation who lost their heads for change.
Another popular revolution was the American Revolution that was being fought during the same time as the French Revolution.The first grand lodge in America was established in Boston in 1733 and was headed by Henry Price and assisted by Andrew belched the son of the colonial governor of Massachusetts at the time. Benjamin Franklyn another well known Freemason attended meetings in the Boston grand lodge as did the famous Paul Revere in the 1760s. For people that don’t know what the American Revolution was, it was a battle where America fought England for American independence.One cause of the American Revolution was a tax stamp. At the time the English parliament that controlled the American colonies had stated that every legal document in the American colonies had to have a stamp and a tax from it must be paid to the English government. When resistance to the stamp broke out in the Americas, Benjamin Franklyn not only supported the resistance but encouraged it. At this time he was a Freemason and had gone to London to discuss the tax stamp issue with English Freemasons.A Pennsylvanian lawyer named Joseph Galloway was a good friend of Benjamin Franklyn, in fact when Franklyn went to London he entrusted his documents to Galloway. However Galloway had remained loyal to king George 3rd the king of England during this period, and when British forces marched into Philadelphia Galloway was appointed superintendent of police and was in charge of the civil government. The British army controlled Philadelphia for only 9 months and when they lost it Galloway went back to England. In 1788 a Pennsylvania assembly pronounced him guilty of high treason but only ordered that his property in the USA be confiscated.This led to the Boston Tea party. On Thursday the 16th of December in 1773, somewhere between 60 to 200 men that reportedly exited the Green Dragons tavern near the Boston port where the St. Andrews Freemasons lodge met once a month on a Thursday were seen boarding three British ships that were anchored at griffins wharf in the Boston harbor and broke open 340 chest of tea and threw it into the water. All the men had been dressed like Native Americans and were reportedly seen returning to the tavern after the raid on the British ships and miraculously, they were never seen again. here's the interesting part, the St. Andrews Freemasons lodge records show that masons held their annual meeting on Thursday the 9th of December 1773 with 14 members and 10 visitors attending. The books also show that the meeting was adjourned for a week until the next Thursday, which was the 16th. Lodge records for that day show that apparently only 5 members showed up and then posted on the lodge door "on account of the few members present... lodge closed until tomorrow evening". This incident became historically known as the Boston tea party. The tax stamp and the Boston tea party were political tactics that caused commotion and produced enough havoc to gain support from the common man for a revolt.Another spark to the revolution was the British governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson whom was in favor of taking action to suppress the resistance of the tax. He had written a private letter to a fellow Freemason that was a police officer in London. The letter expressed his feelings about the tax stamp and the Americans that resisted it. Somehow Benjamin Franklyn got a hold of the letter, made copies and published them. This caused an outburst of voters against Hutchinson and sparked violent demonstrations in the north of America, especially Massachusetts.Another key player was Thomas Paine who traveled to America from England and wrote books encouraging and urging Americans to overthrow the monarchy of King George 3rd and to declare a republic. Yes the same Thomas Paine whom was supposed to be guillotined at the end of the French revolution. During the same time king Louis 16th of France whom was still king sent a noble man named Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert de Motier Marquis de Lafayette. Yep the same Freemason Lafayette that had been involved in the French Revolution. The king gave Lafayette permission to put together a group of volunteers to fight for freedom in America. In April 1775 the war of independence also known as the American Revolution started, mainly due to general Gage the British commander-in-chief, who sent troops from Boston to Lexington and concord to attack the American revolutionist. However the revolutionaries in Boston heard the British were coming and it wouldn’t be surprising if it were because of behind the scenes Freemasonic deals. I say this because the next move was to send the famous Freemason Paul Revere to Lexington to warn the American revolutionary army the British were coming. During the battle the British army lost 1/3 of its soldiers.France had already lost Canada and India to Britain in the Seven Years War and many historians believe France saw the trouble in America as a way to regain control of lost territories. When the French heard what was happening they sent a man named Julien Achard de Bonvouloire to encourage Americans to resist the British government. When Benjamin Franklyn returned from London he and his colleague John Jay had three secret meetings in December of 1775 with Julien Achard de Bonvouloire in Carpenter’s Hall.By the summer of 1776 the continental congress issued the declaration of independence.In 1778 the American revolutionaries captured Saratoga and France declared war on England. In June of 1779 Spain would join forces with France against Britain, yet they were still weary of Americans because they feared America would try and take the Spanish territories of Florida and Louisiana.In 1783 founding father George Washington was initiated into the Alexandria lodge also known as lodge #22, which had also been founded in 1783.Washington was quoted in 1798 saying:"it is not my intention to doubt that the doctrine of the illuminati and the principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States, on the contrary, no one is more satisfied of this fact than I am".
Back in France after the rise and fall of Napoleon which further helped shape Europe, King Louis 18th reclaimed the throne of France. King Louis 18th pretended to be skeptical of the Freemasons because of their involvements with Napoleon, and they were protected by Elie the duke of Decazes a Freemason whom had been a successful lawyer under Napoleon and was later appointed by Louis 18th to be a minister of the police and later minister of the interior.As much as King Louis 18th tried to pretend, many still suspected him of being a Freemason and many claimed he was initiated when he was count of Providence in the 1770s. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find any evidence he was a member. The king’s brother the count of Artois however was a Freemason and he acted against the duke of Decazes liberal policies and because of this, he was able to become an ally to Austria and Russia whom had already formed the holy alliance to suppress revolutions and liberalism. The count Artois son was the duke of Berry and he supported liberalism and was offered to be grand master of the grand orient, but in 1820 before he could accept he was stabbed to death by a man named Louvel who was not part of any organization. The death did cause conservatives to blame liberals for the assassination through. In 1824 Lafayette, a freemason who had been active in both the French and American revolutions visited the USA and received a Hero’s welcome for his service to the American cause during the American independence. When he returned to France he went on a tour of French cities attending Masonic banquets. These banquets were supposed to be only Masonic occasions but instead they attracted large crowds of liberal opponents to King Charles 10th government. King Charles 10th had succeeded King Louis 18th when Louis died in 1824. In July of 1830 a revolution against king Charles 10th broke out, which had been started by a young Freemasons lodge. The group was called “aide-toi, le ciel t’aidera” meaning “help yourself and heaven will help you”. A book I read while doing research described how a man named Charles de Talleyrand who served as a diplomat under the Jacobins, Napoleon and Louis 18th had been in his house watching as the government’s forces and the revolutionaries were fighting in the streets. In the book his friend asked him “who’s winning”? “We are” replied Talleyrand. “Who do you mean we” asked his friend? “I’m not sure yet” replied Talleyrand.
Eventually the revolutionaries won and the grand lodge acclaimed the young Freemasons as heroic fighters for liberty and Talleyrand went on to serve as a diplomat under the new regime of Louis-Philippe. The revolutionaries did not proclaim a republic like in most cases, instead they asked Charles 10th’ s cousin Louis-Philippe the duke of Orleans and the son of Philippe Egalite to be king.
Revolutions would continue to occur throughout the 19th century and each time a secret society would be at the route. The Lautaro lodge began in the 19th century in Spain. At this time the Spanish Empire stretched up the west coast of South Central America and into America all the way to San Francisco. The territory of Oregon separated the Spanish empire from Russian America which was Alaska to as far south as Sitka, which is approximately 600 miles north of Vancouver. The Spanish Empire also included California and a large part of the Americas west of the Rocky Mountains as well as Texas and Florida and several Caribbean islands including Cuba.The Portuguese colony at the time had Brazil, while the rest of the other small territories in South America belonged to either France or Britain. Brazil back then had been given to Portugal in arbitration by the pope in 1494 when he granted the rest of south and Central America to Spain. In 1810 a revolution broke out in Buenos Aires, which led to the proclamation of independence of Argentina from Spanish rule. During the next several years the rest of Spanish America revolted against Spain and by 1830 the former Spanish Empire was divided into 16 different independent republics that would wage wars against each other as well as engage in civil wars themselves. Most of the men that led the revolution were Freemasons. Carlos Maria de Alvear, Miguel de Azcuenaga, Antionio Luis Berutti, Juan José Castelli, Vincente Lopez y Planes who wrote the words to the Argentine national anthem, Juan Jose Paso, and Manuel belgrado the designer of the Argentine flag. All these people were important players in the revolution and all were Freemasons. In 1814 Chile liberated from Spain and was led by Freemason general Jose de San Martin aka the liberator.Another man named Bernardo O’higgins was active in the revolutions, he was the illegitimate son of a Creole woman and Ambrose O’higgins an Irishmen who had served the Spanish king in the 18th century and had been given the title marquis of Vallermar and Osorno and was also appointed Spanish viceroy of Peru. Bernard O’Higgins became a member of the Lautaro lodge and assisted the revolutionaries. In fact all the names mentioned just above were all members of the Lautaro lodge, which had been named after a South American native who led an unsuccessful revolt against the Spanish rule in the 1500s.Another Irishmen named William Brown also helped the revolutionaries. He had migrated to the United States joined the navy, was captured at sea by the British, then began working for the British Navy and became an officer because of the good job he did. He was later captured by the French but escaped twice by use of Masonic hand gestures. Finally he reached England and then travailed to Buenos Aires and became appointed to command the Argentine fleet. In South America, Spain and Portugal Freemasonry was used to fight Catholicism, which coincidentally had been spread earlier by the Masonic group the Alumbrados, whom were a later organization of the Templar’s whom were both created and destroyed by the church.
The Conflict – Solution tactic goes further than Freemason opposed Catholicism, or western religion against eastern religion, it deepens into political ideologies of capitalism and communism, as well as many other inner conflicts, all with pre-calculated outcomes.