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"All the supposed abominations, the skeletons and death's head, the coffins and the mysteries, are mere bogeys for children. But there is one dangerous element and that is the element I have copied from them. They form a sort of priestly nobility. They have developed and esoteric doctrine more merely formulated, but imparted through the symbols and mysteries in degrees of initiation. The hierarchical organization and the initiation through symbolic rites, that is to say, without bothering the brain by working on the imagination through magic and the symbols of a cult, all this has a dangerous element, and the element I have taken over. Don't you see that our party must be of this character...? An Order, the hierarchial Order of a secular priesthood."
-Adolf Hitler praising Freemasonry
- 'The Blue Forget-Me-Not Flower Pin'; another Masonic fabrication demolished
- German Freemasonry and Its Attitudes Toward The Nazi Regime
- Hitler's Racial Ideology, Content and Occult Sources - Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
- Frederick the Great, and His Relations with Masonry and Other Secret Societies
- The Nazi Party, the Thule Society, the Occult, and Freemasonry
Anti-Freemasonry advocates:
Italy In 1736 a Masonic lodge in Florence, Italy was investigated by the Roman Catholic Church. On June 25, 1737, the lodge was condemned by the Chief Inquisitor in Rome. On May 9, 1739, Tommaso Crudeli, a physician of the city, was taken into custody and questioned about his Masonic affiliation. The questioning started on August 10, 1739, and he was tortured as they demanded from him the "secrets" of Freemasonry. He was imprisoned and not released until April, 1741. His health was ruined as a result of the experience. He died on January 27, 1745.
- From 'The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction' by Alphonse Cerza, published by the Masonic Service Association in September, 1967.
relations between Freemasonry and Italy improved in 1985.
Portugal One of the oldest stories of persecution of Masons involves John Coustos, a native of Switzerland, who was taken to England by his father. He went to Portugal on business and was arrested by the Inquisition on the charge of being a Freemason. He was tortured and questioned over a period of time and then sentenced to the galleys. In 1744, he was released as a result of the intercession of George II of England. Coustos wrote a book giving all the details of his experience at the hands of the Inquisition.* From 'The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction' by Alphonse Cerza, published by the Masonic Service Association in September, 1967.
Hitler etc.
Hungary's Béla Kun proclaimed in 1919 the dictatorship of the proletariat in Hungary. One of his first decrees ordered the dissolution of all Masonic lodges.
Spain's Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera ordered the abolition of Freemasonry in the country.
Benito Mussolini decreed in 1924 that every member of his Fascist Party who was a Mason must abandon one or the other organization. In 1925 he dissolved Freemasonry in Italy.
Hermann Goering as Prime Minister of Prussia (after the Nazis took over) wrote in 1933 that "..in National Socialist Germany, there is no place for Freemasonry." The edict that this eventually became affected all of the countries that were under Nazi control.
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, as Reichsminister for propaganda and national enlightenment under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, inaugurated an "Anti-Masonic Exposition" in 1937 to display the booty seized by the Gestapo.
Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, also a Nazi, wrote openly and virulently against Freemasonry. He was convicted of war crimes by the trial at Nürnberg and executed in 1946.
General Francisco Franco sentenced all Freemasons in his country automatically to ten years in prison. By the 1950s, even elements of the Catholic Church were opposing his totalitarian rule.
In 1815, Francisco J.Mier y Campillo, the Inquisitor-General of Spain during the Spanish Inquisition, suppressed Freemasonry and denounced the lodges as "societies which lead to sedition, to independence, and to all errors and crimes." He then instituted a witch hunt during which Spaniards were arrested and imprisoned in the dungeons of the Inquisition on the charge of being "suspected of Freemasonry".
State of New York ? - 1850
State of Vermont - 1850
State of Massachusetts - 1850