and the influence they have exercised will be seen on examination to have been twofold—financial and occult. Throughout the Middle Ages it is as sorcerers and usurers that they incur the reproaches of the Christian world, and it is still in the same role, under the more modern terms of ...
Masonic Oaths Procured by Fraud I found that in taking these oaths I had been grossly deceived and imposed upon. I had been led to suppose that there were some very important secrets to be communicated to me; but in this I found myself entirely disappointed. Indeed I came to the deliberat...
was to convey Latin phrases like‘memento mori,’which means‘remember you shall die.’The idea that the symbol of death is obscure is to follow the common theme that the risk of death is never far away and is always present when we least aware. This concept was used in art to remind ...
christian denomination, making these orders—especially the biggest of them, freemasonry—an implicit threat to the authority of the catholic church. in 1738 pope clement xii forbade all catholics from joining a masonic lodge. others implied that the male-only groups might be hotbeds of sodomy. ...