"I believe that as far as France is concerned, you worry too much about freemasonry. Here it is far from having the significance that it may have elsewhere in Europe. Here everything is open and one knows all. Then where could the danger be?" "One dines, one sings, one talks, which has given the King occasion to say that people who drink and sing are not suspect of organizing plots. Nor is it a society of atheists, for we are told God is on the lips of all. They are very charitable. They bring up the children of their poor and dead members. They endow their daughters. What harm is there in all that?" This line is amazing... "Nor is it a society of atheists, for we are told God is on the lips of all. They are very charitable. They bring up the children of their poor and dead members. They endow their daughters. What harm is there in all that?" The reason why this all powerful cabalistic specter (did I word that right?) has loomed over nations for centuries is because it is of Satan. >>And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. How powerful is Satan? He is the "prince of the power of the air." The "god of this world." >>Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: >>In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not Satan, by permission, temporarily governs the kingdoms of this world and he gives them to whomever he wants. >>Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; >>9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Who did Satan give the kingdoms of this world to? >>Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: >>16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. And why? Their rejection of their messiah, their stubbornness and apostasy existed for centuries, until Jerusalem and their religion was destroyed by the Romans. >>51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. >>52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: >>Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? >>43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.