1/20/03
HIGH LEVEL JESUITS AND HIGH LEVEL GNOSTIC FREEMASONRY
By J. Parnell McCarter
Ignatius
Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order, was himself a member of a Gnostic Illuminist
group in Spain called “Los Alumbrados.” Evidence suggests that high level
Gnostic Jesuits (following in the course of the Order’s founder) formed ties
with other underground Gnostics for centuries before speculative freemasonry’s
public rise in the early eighteenth century. And there has been an historic connection between the Jesuit
Order and higher level Gnostic speculative freemasonry, as documented in such
books as Let My People Go and Rulers of Evil.
One
such evidence of the Jesuit-Masonic connection in the history of the Masonic
Knights Templar is found at http://www.templarhistory.com/mts.html :
”1742. Lord Kilmarnock and other exiled Stuart participants showing that
the Jacobite Templar link still existed receive Karl Gotthelf, Baron Von Hund
into the Order of the Temple in Paris.
1745. 24th,September Prince Charles Edward Stewart, himself a senior
Templar gives a soiree for the Chivalry of the Order in Holyrood Palace,
Edinburgh. It is recorded in a letter from the Duke of Perth to Lord Ogilvie.
1754. Meeting at College of the Jesuits in Clermont.
1796. Alexander Deuchar becomes the Heritor to the Jacobite Templar legacy.
1807.January, Deuchar holds a meeting of Knights Templar in Edinburgh.”
The meeting in
1754 illustrates the connection between
the Jesuits and freemasonry. The Roman
Catholic Stuarts utilized freemasonry as a tool to try to re-gain the throne of
England, a goal the Jesuits had as well, even as the Stuart Charles II seems to
have used masonry to help accomplish his Restoration to power in the
seventeenth century.
The
Gnostic movement went public subtly in the form of speculative English
freemasonry in the early 18th century in Protestant England. Though
started by “professed” (albeit questionable) Protestants, it was not long
before the Roman Catholic Duke of York was the most powerful English
freemason. And Scottish Rite and Knight Templar freemasonry was led
by Romish Jacobites with Jesuit ties.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/secret012.html offers useful insights into the
establishment and character of Scottish Rite and Knight Templar freemasonry:
"Decades before the English
Grand Lodge was created, many Masons in Scotland were already known to be
helping the Stuarts. These Scottish loyalists used their lodges as secret
meeting places in which to hatch political intrigues. Pro-Stuart Masonic
activity may go as far back as 1660 - the year of the Stuart Restoration (when
the Stuarts took the throne back from the Puritans). According to some early
Masons, the Restoration was largely a Masonic feat. General Monk, who played
such a pivotal role in the Restoration, was reported to be a Freemason.”
Michael "Ramsey was a Scottish
mystic who had been hired by James III to tutor James' two sons in France.
Ramsey's goal was to re-establish the disgraced Templar Knights in Europe. To
accomplish this, Ramsey adopted the same approach used by the Mother Grand
Lodge system of London: the resurrected knights Templar were to be a secret
mystical/fraternal society open to men of varied occupations. The old knightly
titles, uniforms, and 'tools of the trade' were to be used for symbolic, fraternal
and ritual purposes within a Masonic context."
- William Bramley, The Gods of Eden
During their stay in
France in 1745, the "Young Pretender" Bonnie Prince Charlie and other
Stuarts "had become deeply involved in the dissemination of Freemasonry.
Indeed they are generally regarded as the source of the particular form of
Freemasonry known as 'Scottish Rite'. 'Scottish Rite' Freemasonry introduced
higher degrees than those offered by other Masonic systems at the time. It
promised initiation into greater and more profound mysteries - mysteries
supposedly preserved and handed down in Scotland. It established more direct
connections between Freemasonry and the various activities - alchemy, Cabalism
and Hermetic thought, for instance - which were regarded as 'Rosecrucian'. And
it elaborated not only on the antiquity but also on the illustrious pedigree of
the 'craft'."
"...It did not,
like many rites of Freemasonry, consist primarily of free-thinkers and
atheists. On the contrary, it seems to have been deeply religious and magically
oriented - emphasizing a sacred social and political hierarchy, a divine order,
an underlying cosmic plan. And the upper grades or degrees of this Freemasonry,
according to M. Chaumeil [Le Tresor du triangle d'or] were the lower grades or
degrees of the Prieure de Sion."
- Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
Evidence therefore
suggests that high-level Jesuit Gnostics used speculative freemasonry as a tool
to promote Gnosticism and to undermine Reformed Protestantism. Gnosticism also served
as a unifying bond with Jewish Cabalists who were involved in freemasonry. This included the Jewish Rothschild family, who
served as the Vatican’s treasurer and seems to have financed various Jesuit
projects.
Much of modern society
has succumbed to Gnostic dogma by embracing various forms of New Agism.