Vicomte Léon De Poncins eS} ' \ a VICOMTE LEON DE PONCINS SECRET POWERS BELEND REVOLUTION FREEMASONRY AND JUDAISM Omni/CurisTiAn Book Cius P.O. Box 900566 Patmpate, CA 93590 ACHEVE D’ IMPRIMER LE 19 NOVEMBRE 1929 PAR F. PAILLART, A ABBEVILLE (FRANCE) Reprinted 1986 Reprinted 1996 SUMMARY FREEMASONRY INTRODUCTION TO THE MASONIC QUESTION Difficulties of the problem........................ 15 How we arrived to our present knowledge........., 16 FIRST PART FREEMASONRY IN APPEARANCE Definition of freemasonry ........................, 21 Origin of freemasonry............................ 22 Organisation of freemasonry....................... 23 SECOND PART THE REVOLUTIONARY PART PLAYED BY FREEMASONRY IN THE WORLD Freemasonry and the French Revolution of 1789.... 28 Freemasonry in France from 1793 to our days...... 49 Revolutionary freemasonry in Eyrope : Portugal, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Austria, Hungary. 60 Freemasonry and the War of 1914-1918..........., 77 8 THE SECRET POWERS BEHIND REVOLUTION CONCLUSION What Freemasonry really is. Organisation of freemasonry : origin, aim, ways of proceeding, occult organisation........... 00.06. Jewish influence in freemasonry.................04. English freemasonry....... 00... c ee cee eee eee Il JUDAISM INTRODUCTION TO THE JEWISH QUESTION The statement of the problem..................00.. FIRST PART The revolutionary part played by Jews in the World. . Jews in modern revolutions. ........ 0.00 eee e cence Jews and Bolshevism. ...... 0.0.0... cece wee e eee eee Jews and Socialism. ......... 0... c cece eee cece nee Jews and Economic Life ............. 0... cece eens Jews and the Press.......... 0.20 eee e eee ences Jews in the modern world............ecc eee eeeeees SECOND PART JHE ORGANIZATION OF JUDAISM General hostility between Jews and non-Jews...... The Jewish race... 0... ccc cece cee eee eee The Jewish nation..............00. 00s eee eee eee 91 100 108 117 119 119 127 157 163 171 178 SUMMARY CONCLUSION Good Jews and bad Jews........... cece e eee eens Is Judaism a conscious or unconscious destructive POWED oo cece cet cence e ete et enees GENERAL CONCLUSION FOREWORD We are actually witnessing an immense revolutionary movement of which the first outward manifestation was the French revolution of 1789. This movement, which, sinee then, has spread all over the world, has a much deeper significance than is gene- rally supposed, and aims at the overthrow of civilization. The fate of humanity is at stake, and it is of great importance for us to know the causes of the movement and ts consequences, or, in a word, to know where we are golg, But among the revolutionary forces there are two, which, although more or less hidden and unknown to the public, are none the less primordial. These are Freemasonry and Judaism, If is these two forces which we wish lo make better known }, It must be clearly understood that what follows applies to continental Freemasonry, the question of English masonry being treated separately at the end. 1. The aim of this work is not to produce new unpublished evidence but to set out and summarize the whole question for a reader who is supposed to be ignorant of the subject. FIRST PART FREEMASONRY INTRODUCTION TO THE MASONIC QUESTION WHAT IS FREEMASONRY ? It is difficult to answer this question in a few words for the following reasons : I, Irreemasonry is a secret society. Tt considers it necessary to conceal everything con- cerning it not only from outsiders but also from the great majority of its own members. Only a few chosen initiates know its real secrets. Its adepts collaborate unconsciously towards an aim of which they are igno- rant, led by invisible chiefs whose very existence they sometimes do not even suspect. II. Freemasonry has not an invariable and rigid form. The work which it proposes to accomplish is so vast that the task is divided, each section of Masonry having its particular réle, which varies according to countries, times and circumstances; so that if we ask several Free-Masons for a definition of Freemasonry, they can in good faith give us in Each case very different one. ITI, Freemasonry conceals its true aim beneath vague formulas. It purposely never explains in precise fashion what it 16 THE SECRET POWERS BEHIND REVOLUTION intends. By using vague formulas, those who direct it have been able, little by little, and without too obvious contradictions, to turn Masonry in the direction which they desired. All this, taken together, makes Freemasonry a very complex problem. A part of the truth has however been discovered by the following means : 1. By srupyiNG MASONIC DOCUMENTS. (Publications, reports of meetings, masonic correspondence, etc.). This work is now facilitated in certain countries, such as France, where Freemasonry believes itself strong enough to throw off partly its mask. 2. By sTUDYING THE WORK OF FORMER MASONS. (Such as Copin-Albancelli, Findel, Robison, etc.). It has sometimes happened that a Freemason, having caught a glimpse of the truth, has felt himself in cons- cience bound to leave the association and to divulge its dangers to the public. A very few persons also suc- ceeded in insinuating themselves into the Lodges in order to try to pierce the masonic mysteries. But these are exceptional cases. Freemasonry has known what measures to take for the avoidance of all indiscretions. 3. By MEANS OF IMPORTANT MASONIC DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE FALLEN INTO THE HANDS OF CERTAIN GOVERN- MENTS WHICH HAVE MADE THEM PUBLIC : These cases occurred on three principal occasions : a) In 1785 Lanze, a member of the masonic order of the Bavarian « Illuminati », who was carrying secret documents was struck by lightning at Ratisbon. When