The Freemasons

TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. The Name Freemason 2 II. There is Freemason and Freemason 5 III. What is the Secret of the Customary Recruiting of Freemasonry 9 IV. With what Ceremonies one is made a Freemason 13 V. First and Terrible Trial of the Apprentice Mason 18 VI. The Three Journeys ; a Second Trial of the Apprentice Mason 22 VII. The Final Trials 25 VIII. The Oath 27 IX. Of the Degree of Companion, the Second Masonic Degree 32 X. Of the Third Degree, the Degree of Master Mason 34 XI. Of the High Degrees of Freemasonry 45 XII. Of the High Degree of Judge-Philosopher-Grand-Commander-Unknown 48 XIII. Of the High Degree of Knight Kadosch 50 XIV. Of the High Degree of Rosicrucian 53 XV. Of True Freemasonry, which is Occult, and all Secret 57 XVI. Horrible Excesses Practised by the Masons of the Back Lodges 63 XVII. What the Brothers of the Back Lodges Think and Say of, and Expect to do with, their Dear Brothers of the Exterior Lodges 68 XVIII. How the Masons of the Back Lodges make use of, and Manage the Princes and Noblemen who Join Freemasonry 70 XIX. Of the Public Organization of Exterior Freemasonry 77 XX. Does Masonry Love the Poor as it would have us Believe? 83 XXI. That Freemasonry is a Formidable Power 84 XXII. That Freemasonry is, in Spite of its Sayings, Essentially Impious, Antichristian, and Atheist 88 XXIII. How Masonry Finds its Happiness in the Worship of the Sun 93 XXIV. The Masonic Press 97 XXV. That Freemasonry is Beginning to lay Hold on Youth by Means of Instruction and Education 100 XXVI. How Freemasonry Extends its Action to Young Girls 105 XXVII. About Adoption by Freemasonry, otherwise Female Freemasonry 108 XXVIII. A Banquet ©f Mason Sisters 116 XXIX. Does Feminine Masonry Confne itself to Banquets and Amusements? 119 XXX. That the Church has very Justly Anathematized the Whole Freemasonry, without any Restriction 123 XXXI. Express Sentences Passed on Freemasonry by the Sovereign Pontiffs 126 XXXII. What we must do, in the Face of the Great Anti-christian Conspiracy 131 Digitized by Google. Bound with Histoire, doctrine et but de la Franc-maçonnerie. Lyon, 1866; and Ségur, Louis Gaston Adrien de: Les Francs-maçons. Paris, 1868 No. 3 in a binder's collection