To begin with in this 'War on Terror' it is an extension of ALL previous

wars; whether they be called holocaust (not a word until the 1960's or there

after); or world war II, or the wars of Alexander the Great, or any other

war. It is a war against anyone who does good or really believes in Torah, or

who studies, or brings real benefit to the world. Because only illness,

disease, hatred, crime, fraud, and dumb-minded agents, heresy, slander,

pseudo-religions, cults, obesity, radiation weapons, microwave weapons,lies,

makes money from Rome--totally opposite of Torah; and everyone but those

making the money after the deaths in all areas, end up being accused.

Therefore, Jews are a higher target. This is why there is so many lies

against Jews, milions are being tortured, kept in prisons by the use of mind

controls and microwave weapons, induced with deaths, supposed car accidents

and plane accidents by the hundreds just within the last few years.

The time of Noah, and the time of Abraham, and Joshua tell us that

Babylon/Rome was worldwide, and so was crime, and the "Jews" or the

"Israelites" were intermarried, as Noah is from Northern Africa (as we see

today certain individuals manipulating what they believe is the only African

'Jews.' Abraham was from Iraq as well. Noah's line went through Iraq or Ur.

And the Jews and intermarried throughout the world. The Jewish religion of

the One God, is destroyed by Rome. This is from the as like today, they

torture Torah believers and kill them, or force them into prisons, or

poverty, and other deaths, while using 'Satanists' in Rome and in killings

for the wars. After intermarrying, Rome forces the majority into

'Christianity' or satanism, or the occults, or other heresy, and then has

using Christians who hate Jews by being given slander as seen in this

document. In this way, Rome has billions of Jews who have been intermarried

to be used for their continuous wars. See below where it states that the Jews

will never recieve the land of Israel because of Rome. We see this now,

whereas all in Israel were attacked for years, while the money goes to Rome

and counterparts working for Rome, and then they begin new construction on

synagogues they blew up, and enter the Temple with 'new' people after deaths

and indictments in Israel of all Jewish groups. In other words, they use

mostly secular, satanic, and cults, not even Jewish, to kill off Jews and

those who were intermarried at least a century before in each country and who

were converted to "Christianity" or other cults. And, they use Jews that were

broughtin as immigrants (who are also killed like Senator Wellstone and

Chabad members in airplane crashes) to help go along with the deaths of Jews

who are former decendants of Jews from before the last wars. "Christians" are

still taught such hatred of "Jews" when it is Rome behind all heresy, deaths,

money schemes, taking of the Temple, idols, which Christianity and all other

religions of Babylon are. (See forced conversions, homeless Jews and shelters

forcing them into 'Christ,' deaths and torture of Rabbis). There were "Jews"

in every country before Queen Elizabeth II. Those who are from older Jewish

marriages are run over in the next fifty years with Romes new minions in

secular and occultism along with every 'nice' (this is what was stated by the

satanists in every obituar of millions of Jews sicne 1990) Jewish person who

studies Torah and is a scholar. In fact, most of those who are from Jews who

practiced Torah who can be swayed into other cults, heresy, and religions, by

Rome, are also killed at higher rates than non-Jews; or those who never

believed in Torah or higher study of the Eternal God.

Below is the article from the Ancient Source Book. You will notice that

Babylon always has some of the Israelites and those in forced conversions by

forcing them into poverty or some other near-death situation. They also have

no claims of the 'Jews' who are worldwide at the time of Jesus but that they

have 'circumcision' and 'Laws' The attack on the 'laws' as we see in

corruption today is done by Rome and Babylonian gods they force on society.

The Laws come not before god, as the 'Church' states but after many years of

study. It is also Babylonian Rome that continues using the 'gods' to kill

everyone off, and forces people to not be able to follo any laws by reason of

the fact that they create a criminal society with millions in cults against

everyone else. And then, their only other claim against. The 'Jews' are

everyone by the 1960's because of the worldwide wars and intermarriage twenty

times over since even before 'Christ.' So, the Jews are anyone who follows

law and the Eternal God, as the Israelites continued trying to do while

Babylon had every other cult at that time in Israel and in Egypt, and from

Persia attack the "Jews," the Israelites who worshipped the One God. So, Rome

has one more accusation, though most is simply slander (as we see today even

more of). This is that 'they killed Christ.' No one has killed Israelites

since that time and now but Romes Babylonian religions and groups they can

get to keep doing it the same way. Just as the earliest 'Jews' in India at

the time of the Hebrews leaving Egypt (who were in exile everywhere) would

not be recognized as such or would be targets for war in later society (as

theya re today when only some 'Jews' in India are recognized as such); so it

is with many so-called 'whites' who are really Jewish descent from the

Caucasus, Russia, Scottland, Ireland, England, Europe at the time of the

first Babylonian killings in Israel and King Herod's acquaintence with some

'Jews.' The last 100 years attests to this truth, but even those of modern

Jewry have been killed just for money purposes and to destroy real scholarly

work other than that controlled for the wars, weapons, and profits;

controlling even the schools of thought.

So, today, we see the same exact manipulation and groups (though with

different names) to be used for wars (the wars also given many names) while

they kill off Jewry. But, no matter where you look, you only see people who

either speak of the past as some remote and distant thing not having anything

to do with the present, or those who are going to operate for the war in some

way (under 'new' names for the tactics); Most speak of things they believe

are 'new' like the weapons of radiation, or a "New World Order" when it is

the same world order of Rome tactics (Over 7 million websites calling this a

'War on Terror' and 'End Times' and 'New World Order'

And this, below, from Daniel was actually speaking of King Herod along with

those King Herod Used (other Kings) to kill the Jews at the time of Jesus,

which they turn around in their favor. None of those in the Bible were just

speaking of the 'last days' but each time Rome kills Jews and takes over the

Temple, they are told it is the 'End times' as people now are.

"And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached

their fullness, a king shall arise, having fierce features, who understands

sinister schemes. His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; he

shall destroy fearfully, and shall prosper and thrive; he shall destroy the

mighty, and also the holy people.” (Daniel 8:23, 24)"

(See Rabbis tortured in israel)

"Mock human sacrifices are done every year in the Bohemian Grove in

California by our political and corporate elite. A forty foot tall idol of

Moloch is used to sacrifice an effigy of a human while dozens of men wear

black robes and hold torches performing a ceremony. In Leviticus 18:21 God

denounces such behavior."

Bohemia grove is actually mocking Rabbis who are killed and tortured. But,

Rome will always pretend to be the Jews 'savior' while killing them, the

court, while denying any law, the judge, the accuser of crime while

committing the crimes on the Jews (see Jewish deaths, repression, poverty,

killing of Rabbi scholars, every single day from before 1948, Rome denying

their deaths through the media), and even throughout the whole wars, they

really only save the satanists they created, and the Christians; after each

group used and 'scandal probe' the Jews get blamed or simply killed.

“So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they

worshiped the beast, saying “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war

with him? He was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies”

(Revelation 13:4, 5)

--The 'blasphemies' and 'Dragon' mentioned here, was supposed to be, and can

be seen in the document below of the 'Church' speaking blasphemies against

'Gods people' and when anyone even mentions Jewish deaths they get attacked

with blasphemies by Christians and those brainwashed by Rome today.

All of these cults are and were created by Rome before the killing of 'Jesus'

(see torture of Rabbis today on Youtube.com; that is those they haven't

killed already) at which time they also had many others brainwashed to help

kill Jews, an dspit in the face of anyone who would save them (also like

today) who believe in the One Eternal God-- only 'Jesus' is mentioned because

Rome had to quickly get conrol of these pseudo-religions again by the

distortion of 'who' was killed and 'why' by creating such hellacious

blasphemies and lies against the Jews. And you will see in the Ancient texts

below that it states the Jews will never get their Temple.

"Members of the Skull & Bones secret society at Yale are 'born again’ into

the Order by lying in a coffin, then kneeling before a figure dressed as

Satan after (hopefully pretending) to slit a nude woman’s throat. George W.

Bush and John Kerry are lifetime members.

The documents on pseudo-sciences, pseudo-psychiatry (John Dewey being one who

wrote about how to destroy families and true religion, the Jews by drugs,

lies, heresy, and the very microwave mind controls, pedophilia and sex

crimes, using those who hate Jews, also to get them involved, and religions

the same as in the days of 'Jesus.'), pseudo-evolution, pseudo-science in DNA

(or the way it is or isn't really used), mass medical fraud by and ancient

(really Roman) control, are all done by Romes earliest 'builders' and

Babylonians for the "church." The Freemason documents show the calculated

hate just as the Church does, against Jews. Documents shown before 1940's. By

the present moment (also at the time of 'Jesus' and Rabbi killings) they

would get more "Jews" into 'satanism,' but most are not; not to mention the

other groups they use to kill Jews who are Jewish, believing, in a blind

manner, that they are 'using force to get Jews to do something' (such as in

Israel while being attacked). Then, they lock the Jews up for being

'terrorists' or kill them so that no information can leak out as to the real

events around the situation.

"Freemasonry is a religion, it is a secret society, and high level members

knowingly deceive lower level members and non-members. At the highest levels

Freemasonry is satanism.

Mormonism is a cult and the founder, Joseph Smith, was a Freemason. Mormons

believe Jesus and Lucifer are brothers, and believe that they can become

Gods, just like Satan said in the Garden of Eden.

10 Satanic Commandments in 8 languages stand as an enormous granite monument

in Elberton Georgia. Created anonymously in 1980.

There is a Satanic pentagram clearly designed in the street layout of

Washington D.C."

Results
search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu84lqoFGSE0Az55XNyoA

%22&fr=yfp-t-501

'whether it be for 'disinformation,' heresy, socialism, revolution groups,

communism, partisans, Labor, and the list goes on; however, none of the

groups are set up until the thousands of other Jews are killed so as to keep

the war on the Jews going until each group themselves become targets; with

Rome keeping their newly converted areas protected. Each Jewish person,

whether in law, or politics, or as immigrant, gets killed, accused,

destroyed.

All of those in the groups used (every single one has become victim) from the

CIA's years of radiation crimes, microwave 'mind conrol' crimes, the creation

of 'terrorists' by CIA's (worldwide) crimes and mind control, to the Israeli

Mossad, to the KGB, to the NSA's worldwide, to the FBI's worldwide (one set

up in Israel while millions of Jews continued being killed); all have

separated brains (also done by the KGB under Romes orders) so that they see

very little as to the whole manipulation of all other groups, and how this is

exactly like it was under Egypt, Babylon, and in Israel the first times. They

all believe they are doing some 'modern covert crime' (even under Stalin and

Hitler, they fired so many pros and began hiring prisoners and criminals off

the street for these agencies which has taken place under Bush, with the

exception of their 'satanists'). The Satanists and Christians are taught, as

I stated above, that it is the "Jews" who do everything wrong, and many Jews

are with Rome to make sure the deaths occur; although they too may be totally

blind or put into a Rome position long after many deaths. No one could have

missed the millions of deaths of Jews from Israel, to Russia, to the United

States and millions forced into poverty, near death now.

Below is the excerpt for educational purposes only and in conformance with

copuright laws.

Here is the address of the ancient texts web
www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chrysostom-jews6.html

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Medieval Sourcebook:
Saint John Chrysostom (c.347-407) :
Eight Homilies Against the Jews

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Notes on reaction to the posting of this text
Homily 1
Homily 2
Homily 3
Homily 4
Homily 5
Homily 6
Homily 7 [e-text added May 2002]
Homily 8 [e-text added May 2002]

Introduction

John Chrysostom is considered a "doctor of the Church", and among the

greatest of the Greek Fathers. He was bishop of Antioch at the time of these

sermons, although he became archbishop of Constantinople in 398. He was

admired for his eloquence and gifts in preaching. As an introduction to these

sermon, here is the discussion by James Parkes.

Bibliographical Hints

To find out more about this subject see:

John Chrysostom, Discourses against Judaizing Christians, translated by Paul

W. Harkins. The Fathers of the Church ; v. 68 (Washington : Catholic

University of America Press, 1979)
This is apparently the most up to date translation, and should be used by

anyone wanting to comment on these texts in written work.

Grissom, Fred Allen, Chrysostom and the Jews : studies in
Jewish-Christian relations in fourth-century Antioch, Thesis (Ph.

D.)--Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1979.

Meeks, Wayne A. and Robert L. Wilken, Jews and Christians in Antioch in the

first four centuries of the common era, Scholars Press for the Society of

Biblical Literature, c1978.

Wilken, Robert Louis, John Chrysostom and the Jews : rhetoric and reality in

the late fourth century (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1983)



CHRYSOSTOM AND THE JEWS OF ANTIOCH, pp. 163-166

from James Parkes: The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue: A Study in

the Origins of Antisemitism, (New York: JPS, 1934)

While in their writings Hilary and Eusebius introduced the pagan world to

this strange version of Jewish history, Chrysostom expressed similar theories

with much greater violence from his pulpit at Antioch. In eight sermons which

he delivered in 387 he speaks with a bitterness and lack of restraint unusual

even in that place and century {PG Vol 97). If it were not for the exegetical

background which has already been shown, it would be impossible to explain,

let alone excuse, his tone. Christianity was no longer in any danger. He

himself had not, like Athanasius, ever known any persecution from the Jews,

and the period of trial under Julian had been very short. Even had they been

a menace in old times, the rich and powerful Jewish community of Antioch was

now hemmed in, like every other, by numerous imperial edicts issued under

Christian inspiration. Moreover, Chrysostom was a man whose character excited

the admiration of his contemporaries. If he was hated by politicians for his

unswerving firmness, he was loved by the multitudes, and his commentaries on

the gospels are still read and studied in the Orthodox Church because of

their deep spiritual beauty.

Such was the man who in eight sermons covering more than a hundred pages of

closely printed text, has left us the most complete monument of the public

expression of the Christian attitude to the Jews in the century of the

victory of the Church. In these discourses there is no sneer too mean, no

gibe too bitter for him to fling at the Jewish people. No text is too remote

to be able to be twisted to their confusion, no argument is too casuistical,

no blasphemy too startling for him to employ; and, most astonishing of all,

at the end he turns to the Christians, and in words full of sympathy and

toleration he urges them not to be too hard on those who have erred in

following Jewish practices or in visiting Jewish synagogues. Dealing with the

Christians, no text which urges forgiveness is forgotten: dealing with the

Jews only one verse of the New Testament is omitted: Father, forgive them,

for they know not what they do'.

The only explanation of his bitterness contained in the sermons themselves is

the too close fellowship between Jews and Christians in Antioch. There is no

single suggestion that the Jews were immoral or vicious; no suggestion that

Christians were actually corrupted by the contact, either in their morals or

their orthodoxy. Only one contemporary event is referred to at all, apart

from general denunciations of the visiting of the synagogue at times of

Jewish feast or fast. This was the case of a Christian woman who was taken

into a Jewish house to take an oath in a business affair, because the

Christian with whom she had to deal believed that an oath taken in the Jewish

manner was more binding than any other. What the actual affair was we are not

told. To Chrysostom's eyes the crime was that a Christian woman had been

taken into a Jewish house, not that she had been seduced or taught heretical

doctrine or anything else. It was enough that she had been made to enter the

house [Sermon I:3].

There is no material in these sermons for a study of contemporary Jewish

life. Events and beliefs of centuries earlier are quoted as though still

accepted. On the strength of Psalm xcvi, 37, he states that they ' sacrificed

their sons and daughters to devils: they outraged nature; and overthrew from

their foundations the laws of relationship. They are become worse than the

wild beasts, and for no reason at all, with their own hands they murder their

own offspring, to worship the avenging devils who are the foes of our life"

[Sermon I:6]. It seems almost as if his hearers in Antioch objected to so

monstrous a statement, for in his sixth sermon he returns to the charge, and

says that even if they no longer murder their own children, they have

murdered the Christ, which is worse [Sermon VI:2, 3]. The synagogues of the

Jews are the homes of idolatry and devils, even though they have no images in

them [Sermon I:3; based on Jer. vii:11]. They are worse even than heathen

circuses [Sermon I:3. The very idea of going from a church to a synagogue is

blasphemous [Sermon II:3]; and to attend the Jewish Passover is to insult

Christ. To be with the Jews on the very day they murdered Jesus is to ensure

that on the Day of Judgment He will say ' Depart from Me: for you have had

intercourse with my murderers' [Sermon III:5 and VI:8] . Some say that the

synagogue is hallowed by the fact that the Holy Books of the Law are to be

found in it. One might just as well say that the temple of Dagon was hallowed

by the Ark being in it, even though the Ark destroyed the idol to prove the

opposite [Sermon I:5, ref to I Sam V]. It is truer to say that the fact that

these Books are to be found in the synagogues makes them more detestable, for

the Jews have simply introduced these Books, ' not to honour them, but to

insult them, and to dishonour them' [Sermon I:5 and VI:6]. The Jews do not

worship God but devils [Sermon I:3, based on John 8:19], so that all their

feasts are unclean [Sermon I:6]. God hates them, and indeed has always

hated them. But since their murder of Jesus He allows them no time for

repentance [Sermon VI:1]. It was of set purpose that He concentrated all

their worship in Jerusalem that He might more easily destroy it [Sermon

IV:6]. The Jewish pretence that their misfortunes are due to Rome are not

worthy of attention. ' It was not by their own power that the Caesars did

what they did to you: it was done by the wrath of God, and His absolute

rejection of you' [Sermon VI:3]. It is childish in the face of this

absolute rejection to imagine that God will ever allow the Jews to rebuild

their Temple or to return to Jerusalem. Their experience under Julian should

convince them of that [SermonV, passim. The whole sermon is an insulting

sneer at their misfortunes and exile, and a gloating over the certainty of

their damnation. Cf. the sermon ' That Christ is God: addressed to Jews and

Pagans ' in the same volume]. When it is clear that God hates them, it is the

duty of Christians to hate them too; and he begins his sixth sermon with a

revolting analogy of a beast in the arena, who has tasted blood, and longs

for it again. So he, Chrysostom, having once begun to denounce the Jews,

cannot leave off [Sermon VI:1] for he who has no limits in his love of Christ

must have no limits in his battle with those who hate Him [Sermon VII:1]. ' I

hate the Jews ' he exclaims roundly, for they have the Law and they insult

it'.

But when in the last sermon he comes to address those miserable sinners who

had been frequenting Jewish celebrations his tone is unrecognizable. He

insists that they must be dealt with gently, for the true attitude to a

sinner is 'whenever we hear any good of him, to tell it to all; but when we

hear any evil or wicked thing, to keep it to ourselves, and do all in our

power to change It [Sermon VIII:3]. It is evident that Chrysostom's Jew was a

theological necessity rather than a living person. If he looked different

from the actual Jews living in Antioch it was part of the malice of the Jew,

one of the snares of the devil, set to catch the unwary Christian. The

comment of a Catholic theologian on these sermons is worth quoting

[Murawski]: ' Das Gebot der Nächstensliebe wird man in diesen Reden nicht

wiederfinden, und ebensowenig werden solche Reden fähig gewesen sein die

Juden mit Sympathie für das Christentum zu erfüllen '. [ English: "One will

not find the requirement to love one's neighbour in these speeches, nor will

such speeches have been able to fill the Jews with any sympathy for

Christianity".]


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John Chrysostom: Adversus Judaeos

HOMILY I

TODAY I HAD INTENDED to complete my discussion on the topic on which I spoke

to you a few days ago; I wished to present you with even clearer proof that

God's nature is more than our minds can grasp. Last Sunday I spoke on this at

great length and I brought forward as my witnesses Isaiah, David, and Paul.

For it was Isaiah who exclaimed: "Who shall declare his generation?" David

knew God was beyond his comprehension and so he gave thanks to him and said:

"I will praise you for you are fearfully magnified: wonderful are your

works". And again it was David who said: "The knowledge of you is to

wonderful for me, a height to which my mind cannot attain". Paul did not

search and pry into God's very essence, but only into his providence; I

should say rather that he looked only on the small portion of divine

providence which God had made manifest when he called the gentiles. And Paul

saw this small part as a vast and incomprehensible sea when he exclaimed: "O

the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How

incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!"

(2) These three witnesses gave us proof enough, but I was not satisfied with

prophets nor did I settle for apostles. I mounted to the heavens and gave you

as proof the chorus of angels as they sang: "Glory to God in the highest, and

on earth peace, good will among men". Again, you heard the Seraphim as they

shuddered and cried out in astonishment:

"Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is filled with his

glory". And I gave you also the cherubim who exclaimed: "Blessed be his glory

in his dwelling".

(3) So there were three witnesses on earth and three in Heaven who made it

clear that God's glory cannot be approached. For the rest, the proof was

beyond dispute; there was great applause, the audience warmed with

enthusiasm, you assembly came aflame. I did rejoice at this, yet my joy was

not because praise was coming to me but because glory was coming to my

Master. For that applause and praise showed the love you have for God in your

souls. If a servant loves his master and hears someone speak in praise of

that master, his heart comes aflame with a love for him who speaks. This is

because the servant loves his master. You acted just that way when I spoke:

by the abundance of your applause you showed clearly your abundant love for

the Master.

(4) And so I wanted again today to engage in that contest. For if the enemies

of the truth never have enough of blaspheming our Benefactor, we must be all

the more tireless in praising the God of all. But what am I to do? Another

very serious illness calls for any cure my words can bring, an illness which

has become implanted in the body of the Church. We must first root this

ailment out and then take thought for matters outside; we must first cure our

own and then be concerned for others who are strangers.

(5) What is this disease? The festivals of the pitiful and miserable Jews are

soon to march upon us one after the other and in quick succession: the feast

of Trumpets, the feast of Tabernacles, the fasts. There are many in our ranks

who say they think as we do. Yet some of these are going to watch the

festivals and others will join the Jews in keeping their feasts and observing

their fasts. I wish to drive this perverse custom from the Church right now.

My homilies against the Anomians can be put off to another time, and the

postponement would cause no harm. But now that the Jewish festivals are close

by and at the very door, if I should fail to cure those who are sick with the

Judaizing disease. I am afraid that, because of their ill-suited association

and deep ignorance, some Christians may partake in the Jews' transgressions;

once they have done so, I fear my homilies on these transgressions will be in

vain. For if they hear no word from me today, they will then join the Jews in

their fasts; once they have committed this sin it will be useless for me to

apply the remedy.

(6) And so it is that I hasten to anticipate this danger and prevent it. This

is what physicians do. They first check the diseases which are most urgent

and acute. But the danger from this sickness is very closely related to the

danger from the other; since the Anomians impiety is akin to that of the

Jews, my present conflict is akin to my former one. And there is a kingship

because the Jews and the Anomians make the same accusation. And what charges

do the Jews make? That He called God His own Father and so made Himself equal

to God. The Anomians also make this charge-I should not say they make this a

charge; they even blot out the phrase "equal to God" and what it connotes, by

their resolve to reject it even if they do not physically erase it.

II

But do not be surprised that I called the Jews pitiable. They really are

pitiable and miserable. When so many blessings from heaven came into their

hands, they thrust them aside and were at great pains to reject them. The

morning Sun of Justice arose for them, but they thrust aside its rays and

still sit in darkness. We, who were nurtured by darkness, drew the light to

ourselves and were freed from the gloom of their error. They were the

branches of that holy root, but those branches were broken. We had no share

in the root, but we did reap the fruit of godliness. From their childhood

they read the prophets, but they crucified him whom the prophets had

foretold. We did not hear the divine prophecies but we did worship him of

whom they prophesied. And so they are pitiful because they rejected the

blessings which were sent to them, while others seized hold of these blessing

and drew them to themselves. Although those Jews had been called to the

adoption of sons, they fell to kinship with dogs; we who were dogs received

the strength, through God's grace, to put aside the irrational nature which

was ours and to rise to the honor of sons. How do I prove this? Christ said:

"It is no fair to take the children's bread and to cast it to the dogs".

Christ was speaking to the Canaanite woman when He called the Jews children

and the Gentiles dogs.

(2) But see how thereafter the order was changed about: they became dogs, and

we became the children. Paul said of the Jews: "Beware of the dogs, beware of

the evil workers, beware of the mutilation. For we are the circumcision". Do

you see how those who at first were children became dogs? Do you wish to find

out how we, who at first were dogs, became children? "But to as many as

received him, he gave the power of becoming sons of God".

(3) Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to attack

their own salvation. When there was need to observe the Law, they trampled it

under foot. Now that the Law has ceased to bind, they obstinately strive to

observe it. What could be more pitiable that those who provoke God not only

by transgressing the Law but also by keeping it? On this account Stephen

said: "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart, you always resist the

Holy Spirit", not only by transgressing the Law but also by wishing to

observe it at the wrong time.

(4) Stephen was right in calling them stiff-necked. For they failed to take

up the yoke of Christ, although it was sweet and had nothing about it which

was either burdensome or oppressive. For he said: "Learn from me for I am

meek and humble of heart", and "Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is sweet

and my burden light". Nonetheless they failed to take up the yoke because of

the stiffness of their necks. Not only did they fail to take it up but they

broke it and destroyed it. For Jeremiah said: "Long ago you broke your yoke

and burst your bonds". It was not Paul who said this but the voice of the

prophet speaking loud and clear. When he spoke of the yoke and the bonds, he

meant the symbols of rule, because the Jews rejected the rule of Christ when

they said: "We have no king but Caesar". You Jews broke the yoke, you burst

the bonds, you cast yourselves out of the kingdom of heaven, and you made

yourselves subject to the rule of men. Please consider with me how accurately

the prophet hinted that their hearts were uncontrolled. He did not say: "You

set aside the yoke", but "You broke the yoke" and this is the crime of

untamed beasts, who are uncontrolled and reject rule.

(5) But what is the source of this hardness? It come from gluttony and

drunkenness. Who say so? Moses himself. "Israel ate and was filled and the

darling grew fat and frisky". When brute animals feed from a full manger,

they grow plump and become more obstinate and hard to hold in check; they

endure neither the yoke, the reins, nor the hand of the charioteer. Just so

the Jewish people were driven by their drunkenness and plumpness to the

ultimate evil; they kicked about, they failed to accept the yoke of Christ,

nor did they pull the plow of his teaching. Another prophet hinted at this

when he said: "Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer". And still

another called the Jews "an untamed calf".

(6) Although such beasts are unfit for work, they are fit for killing. And

this is what happened to the Jews: while they were making themselves unfit

for work, they grew fit for slaughter. This is why Christ said: "But as for

these my enemies, who did not want me to be king over them, bring them here

and slay them". You Jews should have fasted then, when drunkenness was doing

those terrible things to you, when your gluttony was giving birth to your

ungodliness-not now. Now your fasting is untimely and an abomination. Who

said so? Isaiah himself when he called out in a loud voice: "I did not choose

this fast, say the Lord". Why? "You quarrel and squabble when you fast and

strike those subject to you with your fists". But if you fasting was an

abomination when you were striking your fellow slaves, does it become

acceptable now that you have slain your Master? How could that be right?

(7) The man who fast should be properly restrained, contrite, humbled-not

drunk with anger. But do you strike your fellow slaves? In Isaiah's day they

quarreled and squabbled when they fasted; now when fast, they go in for

excesses and the ultimate licentiousness, dancing with bare feet in the

marketplace. The pretext is that they are fasting, but they act like men who

are drunk. Hear how the prophet bit them to fast. "Sanctify a fast", he said.

He did not say: "Make a parade of your fasting", but "call an assembly;

gather together the ancients". But these Jews are gathering choruses of

effeminates and a great rubbish heap of harlots; they drag into the synagogue

the whole theater, actors and all. For there is no difference between the

theater and the synagogue. I know that some suspect me of rashness because I

said there is no difference between the theater and the synagogue; but I

suspect them of rashness if they do not think that this is so. If my

declaration that the two are the same rests on my own authority, then charge

me with rashness. But if the words I speak are the words of the prophet, then

accept his decision.

III

Many, I know, respect the Jews and think that their present way of life is a

venerable one. This is why I hasten to uproot and tear out this deadly

opinion. I said that the synagogue is no better than a theater and I bring

forward a prophet as my witness. Surely the Jews are not more deserving of

belief than their prophets. "You had a harlot's brow; you became shameless

before all". Where a harlot has set herself up, that place is a brothel. But

the synagogue is not only a brothel and a theater; it also is a den of

robbers and a lodging for wild beasts. Jeremiah said: "Your house has become

for me the den of a hyena". He does not simply say "of wild beast", but "of a

filthy wild beast", and again: "I have abandoned my house, I have cast off my

inheritance". But when God forsakes a people, what hope of salvation is left?

When God forsakes a place, that place becomes the dwelling of demons.

(2) But at any rate the Jews say that they, too, adore God. God forbid that I

say that. No Jew adores God! Who say so? The Son of God say so. For he said:

"If you were to know my Father, you would also know me. But you neither know

me nor do you know my Father". Could I produce a witness more trustworthy

than the Son of God?

(3) If, then, the Jews fail to know the Father, if they crucified the Son, if

they thrust off the help of the Spirit, who should not make bold to declare

plainly that the synagogue is a dwelling of demons? God is not worshipped

there. Heaven forbid! From now on it remains a place of idolatry. But still

some people pay it honor as a holy place.

(4) Let me tell you this, not from guesswork but from my own experience.

Three days ago-believe me, I am not lying-I saw a free woman of good bearing,

modest, and a believer. A brutal, unfeeling man, reputed to be a Christian

(for I would not call a person who would dare to do such a thing a sincere

Christian) was forcing her to enter the shrine of the Hebrews and to swear

there an oath about some matters under dispute with him. She came up to me

and asked for help; she begged me to prevent this lawless violence-for it was

forbidden to her, who had shared in the divine mysteries, to enter that

place. I was fired with indignation, I became angry, I rose up, I refused to

let her be dragged into that transgression, I snatched her from the hands of

her abductor. I asked him if were a Christian, and he said he was. Then I set

upon him vigorously, charging him with lack of feeling and the worst

stupidity; I told him he was no better off than a mule if he, who professed

to worship Christ, would drag someone off to the dens of the Jews who had

crucified him. I talked to him a long time, drawing my lesson from the Holy

Gospels; I told him first that it was altogether forbidden to swear and that

it was wrong to impose the necessity of swearing on anyone. I then told him

that he most not subject a baptize believer to this necessity. In fact, he

must not force even an unbaptized person to swear an oath.

(5) After I talked with him at great length and had driven the folly of his

error from his soul, I asked him why he rejected the Church and dragged the

woman to the place where the Hebrews assembled. He answered that many people

had told him that oaths sworn there were more to be feared. His words made me

groan, then I grew angry, and finally I began to smile. When I saw the

devil's wickedness, I groaned because he had the power to seduce men; I grew

angry when I considered how careless were those who were deceived; when I saw

the extent and depth of the folly of those who were deceived, I smiled.

(6) I told you this story because you are savage and ruthless in your

attitude toward those who do such things and undergo these experiences. If

you see one of your brothers falling into such transgressions, you consider

that it is someone else's misfortune, not your own; you think you have

defended yourselves against your accusers when you say: "What concern of mine

is it? What do I have in common with that man"? When you say that, your words

manifest the utmost hatred for mankind and a cruelty which benefits the

devil. What are you saying? You are a man and share the same nature. Why

speak of a common nature when you have but a single head, Christ? Do you dare

to say you have nothing in common with your own members? In what sense do you

admit that Christ is the head of the Church? For certainly it is the function

of the head to join all the limbs together, to order them carefully to each

other, and to bind them into one nature. But if you have nothing in common

with your members, then you have nothing in common with your brother, nor do

you have Christ as your head.

(7) The Jews frighten you as if you were little children, and you do not see

it. Many wicked slaves show frightening and ridiculous masks to

youngsters-the masks are not frightening by their nature, but they seem so to

the children's simple minds-and in this way they stir up many a laugh. This

is the way the Jews frighten the simpler-minded Christians with the bugbears

and hobgoblins of their shrines. Yet how could their ridiculous and

disgraceful synagogues frighten you? Are they not the shrines of men who have

been rejected, dishonored, and condemned?

IV

Our churches are not like that; they are truly frightening and filled with

fear. God's presence makes a place frightening because he has power over life

and death. In our churches we hear countless homilies on eternal punishments,

on rivers of fire, on the venomous worm, on bonds that cannot be burst, or

exterior darkness. But the Jews neither know nor dream of these things. They

live for their bellies, they gape for the things of this world, their

condition is not better than that of pigs or goats because of their wanton

ways and excessive gluttony. They know but one thing: to fill their bellies

and be drunk, to get all cut and bruised, to be hurt and wounded while

fighting for their favorite charioteers.

(2) Tell me, then, are their shrines awful and frightening? Who would say so?

what reasons do we have for thinking that they are frightening unless someone

should tell us that dishonored slaves, who have no right to speak and who

have been driven from their Master's home, should frighten us, who have been

given honor and the freedom to speak? Certainly this is not the case. Inns

are not more august then royal palaces. Indeed the synagogue is less

deserving of honor than any inn. It is not merely a lodging place for robbers

and cheats but also for demons. This is true not only of the synagogues but

also of the souls of the Jews, as I shall try to prove at the end of my

homily.

(3) I urge you to keep my words in your minds in a special way. For I am not

now speaking for show or applause but to cure your souls. And what else is

left for me to say when some of you are still sick although there are so many

physicians to effect a cure?

(4) There were twelve apostles and they drew the whole world to themselves.

The greater portion of the city is Christian, yet some are still sick with

the Judaizing disease. And what could we, who are healthy, say in our own

defense? Surely those who are sick deserve to be accused. But we are not free

from blame, because we have neglected them in their hour of illness; if we

had shown great concern for them and they had the benefit of this care, they

could not possibly still be sick.

(5) Let me get the start on you by saying this now, so that each of you may

win over his brother. Even if you must impose restraint, even if you must use

force, even if you must treat him ill and obstinately, do everything to save

him from the devil's snare and to free him from fellowship with those who

slew Christ.

(6) Tell me this. Suppose you were to see a man who had been justly condemned

being led to execution through the marketplace. Suppose it were in your power

to save him from the hands of the public executioner. Would you not do all

you could to keep him from being dragged off? But now you see your own

brother being dragged off unjustly to the depth of destruction. And it is not

the executioner who drags him of, but the devil. Would you be so bold as not

to do your part toward rescuing him from his transgression? If you don't help

him, what excuse would you find? But your brother is stronger and more

powerful than you. Show him to me. If he will stand fast in his obstinate

resolve, I shall choose to risk my life rather than let him enter the doors

of the synagogue.

(7) I shall say to him: What fellowship do you have with the free Jerusalem,

with the Jerusalem above? You chose the one below; be a slave with that

earthly Jerusalem which, according to the word of the Apostle, is a slave

together with her children. Do you fast with the Jews? Then take off your

shoes with the Jews, and walk barefoot in the marketplace, and share with

them in their indecency and laughter. But you would not chose to do this

because you are ashamed and apt to blush. Are you ashamed to share with them

in outward appearance but unashamed to share in their impiety? What excuse

will you have, you who are only half a Christian?

(8) Believe me, I shall risk my life before I would neglect any one who is

sick with this disease-if I see him. If I fail to see him, surely God will

grant me pardon. And let each one of you consider this matter; let him not

think it is something of secondary importance. Do you take no notice of what

the deacon continuously calls out in the mysteries? "Recognize one another",

he says. Do you not see how he entrusts to you the careful examination of

your brothers? Do this in the case of Judaizers, too. When you observe

someone Judaizing, take hold of him, show him what he is doing, so that you

may not yourself be an accessory to the risk he runs.

(9) If any Roman soldier serving overseas is caught favoring the barbarians

and the Persians, not only is he in danger but so also is everyone who was

aware of how this felt and failed to make this fact known to the general.

Since you are the army of Christ, be overly careful in searching to see if

anyone favoring an alien faith has mingled among you, and make his presence

know-not so that we may put him to death as those generals did, nor that we

may punish him or take our vengeance upon him, but that we may free him from

his error and ungodliness and make him entirely our own.

(10) If you are unwilling to do this, if you know of such a person but

conceal him, be sure that both you and he will be subject to the same

penalty. For Paul subjects to chastisement and punishment not only those who

commit acts of wickedness but also those who approve what they have done. The

prophet, too, brings to the same judgment not only thieves but also who run

with the thieves. And this is quite reasonable. For if a man is aware of a

criminal's actions but covers them up and conceals them, he is providing a

stronger basis for the criminal to be careless of the law and making him less

afraid in his career of crime.

V

But I must get back again to those who are sick. Consider, then, with whom

they are sharing their fasts. It is with those who shouted: "Crucify him,

Crucify him", with those who said: "His blood be upon us and upon our

children". If some men had been caught in rebellion against their ruler and

were condemned, would you have dared to go up to them and to speak with them?

I think not. Is it not foolish, then, to show such readiness to flee from

those who have sinned against a man, but to enter into fellowship with those

who have committed outrages against God himself? Is it not strange that those

who worship the Crucified keep common festival with those who crucified him?

Is it not a sign of folly and the worst madness?

(2) Since there are some who think of the synagogue as a holy place, I must

say a few words to them. Why do you reverence that place? Must you not

despise it, hold it in abomination, run away from it? They answer that the

Law and the books of the prophets are kept there. What is this? Will any

place where these books are be a holy place? By no means! This is the reason

above all others why I hate the synagogue and abhor it. They have the

prophets but not believe them; they read the sacred writings but reject their

witness-and this is a mark of men guilty of the greatest outrage.

(3) Tell me this. If you were to see a venerable man, illustrious and

renowned, dragged off into a tavern or den of robbers; if you were to see him

outraged, beaten, and subjected there to the worst violence, would you have

held that tavern or den in high esteem because that great and esteemed man

had been inside it while undergoing that violent treatment? I think not.

Rather, for this very reason you would have hated and abhorred the place.

(4) Let that be your judgment about the synagogue, too. For they brought the

books of Moses and the prophets along with them into the synagogue, not to

honor them but to outrage them with dishonor. When they say that Moses and

the prophets knew not Christ and said nothing about his coming, what greater

outrage could they do to those holy men than to accuse them of failing to

recognize their Master, than to say that those saintly prophets are partners

of their impiety? And so it is that we must hate both them and their

synagogue all the more because of their offensive treatment of those holy

men.

(5) Why do I speak about the books and the synagogues? In time of

persecution, the public executioners lay hold of the bodies of the martyrs,

they scourge them, and tear them to pieces. Does it make the executioners'

hands holy because they lay hold of the body of holy men? Heaven forbid! The

hands which grasped and held the bodies of the holy ones still stay unholy.

Why? Because those executioners did a wicked thing when they laid their hands

upon the holy. And will those who handle and outrage the writings of the holy

ones be any more venerable for this than those who executed the martyrs?

Would that not be the ultimate foolishness? If the maltreated bodies of the

martyrs do not sanctify those who maltreated them but even add to their

blood-guilt, much less could the Scriptures, if read without belief, ever

help those who read without believing. The very act of deliberately choosing

to maltreat the Scriptures convicts them of greater godlessness.

(6) If they did not have the prophets, they would not deserve such

punishment; if they had not read the sacred books, they would not be so

unclean and so unholy. But, as it is, they have been stripped of all excuse.

They do have the heralds of the truth but, with hostile heart, they set

themselves against the prophets and the truth they speak. So it is for this

reason that they would be all the more profane and blood-guilty: they have

the prophets, but they treat them with hostile hearts.

(7) So it is that I exhort you to flee and shun their gatherings. The harm

they bring to our weaker brothers is not slight; they offer no slight excuse

to sustain to the folly of the Jews. For when they see that you, who worship

the Christ whom they crucified, are reverently following their rituals, how

can they fail to think that the rites they have performed are the best and

that our ceremonies are worthless? For after you worship and adore at our

mysteries, you run to the very men who destroy our rites. Paul said: "If a

man sees you that have knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not

his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are

sacrificed to idols"? And let me say: If a man sees you that have knowledge

come into the synagogue and participate in the festival of the Trumpets,

shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to admire what the Jews

do? He who falls not only pays the penalty for his own fall, but he is also

punished because he trips others as well. But the man who has stood firm is

rewarded not only because of his own virtue but people admire him for leading

others to desire the same things.

(8) Therefore, flee the gatherings and holy places of the Jews. Let no man

venerate the synagogue because of the holy books; let him hate and avoid it

because the Jews outrage and maltreat the holy ones, because they refuse to

believe their words, because they accuse them of the ultimate impiety.

VI

That you may know that the sacred books do not make a place holy but that the

purpose of those who frequent a place does make it profane, I shall tell an

old story. Ptolemy Philadelphus had collected books from all over the world.

When he learned that the Jews had writings which treated of God and the ideal

state, he sent for men from Judea and had them translate those books, which

he then had deposited in the temple of Serapis, for he was a pagan. Up to the

present day the translated books remain there in the temple. But will the

temple of Serapis be holy because of the holy books? Heaven forbid! Although

the books have their own holiness, they do not give a share of it to the

place because those who frequent the place are defiled.

(2) You must apply the same argument to the synagogue. Even if there is no

idol there, still demons do inhabit the place. And I say this not only about

the synagogue here in town but about the one in Daphne as well; for at Daphne

you have a more wicked place of perdition which they call Matrona's. I have

heard that many of the faithful go up there and sleep beside the place.

(3) But heaven forbid that I call these people faithful. For to me the shrine

of Matrona and the temple of Apollo are equally profane. If anyone charges me

with boldness, I will in turn charge him with the utmost madness. For, tell

me, is not the dwelling place of demons a place of impiety even if no god's

statue stands there? Here the slayers of Christ gather together, here the

cross is driven out, here God is blasphemed, here the Father is ignored, here

the Son is outraged, here the grace of the Spirit is rejected. Does not

greater harm come from this place since the Jews themselves are demons? In

the pagan temple the impiety is naked and obvious; it would not be ease to

deceive a man of sound and prudent mind or entice him to go there. But in the

synagogue there are men who say they worship God and abhor idols, men who say

they have prophets and pay them honor. But by their words they make ready an

abundance of bait to catch in their nets the simpler souls who are so foolish

as to be caught of guard.

(4) So the godlessness of the Jews and the pagans is on a par. But the Jews

practice a deceit which is more dangerous. In their synagogue stands an

invisible altar of deceit on which they sacrifice not sheep and calves but

the souls of men.

(5) Finally, if the ceremonies of the Jews move you to admiration, what do

you have in common with us? If the Jewish ceremonies are venerable and great,

our are lies. But if ours are true, as they are true, theirs are filled with

deceit. I am not speaking of the Scriptures. Heaven forbid! It was the

Scriptures which took me by the hand and led me to Christ. But I am talking

about the ungodliness and present madness of the Jews.

(6) Certainly it is the time for me to show that demons dwell in the

synagogue, not only in the place itself but also in the souls of the Jews. As

Christ said: "When an unclean spirit is gone out, he walks through dry places

seeking rest. If he does not find it he says: I shall return to my house. And

coming he finds it empty, swept, and garnished. Then he goes and takes with

him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter into him and

the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also

to this generations".

(7) Do you see that demons dwell in their souls and that these demons are

more dangerous than the ones of old? And this is very reasonable. In the old

days the Jews acted impiously toward the prophets; now they outrage the

Master of the prophets. Tell me this. Do you not shudder to come into the

same place with men possessed, who have so many unclean spirits, who have

been reared amid slaughter and bloodshed? Must you share a greeting with them

and exchange a bare word? Must you not turn away from them since they are the

common disgrace and infection of the whole world? Have they not come to every

form of wickedness? Have not all the prophets spent themselves making many

and long speeches of accusation against them? What tragedy, what manner of

lawlessness have they not eclipsed by their blood-guiltiness? They sacrificed

their own sons and daughters to demons. They refused to recognize nature,

they forgot the pangs, of birth, they trod underfoot the rearing of their

children, they overturned from their foundations the laws of kingship, they

became more savage than any wild beast.

(8) Wild beasts oftentimes lay down their lives and scorn their own safety to

protect their young. No necessity forced the Jews when they slew their own

children with their own hands to pay honor to the avenging demons, the foes

of our life. What deed of theirs should strike us with greater astonishment?

Their ungodliness or their cruelty or their inhumanity? That they sacrificed

their children or that they sacrificed them to demons? Because of their

licentiousness, did they not show a lust beyond that of irrational animals?

Hear what the prophet says of their excesses. "They are become as amorous

stallions. Every one neighed after his neighbor's wife". He did not say:

"Everyone lusted after his neighbor's wife", but he expressed the madness

which came from their licentiousness with the greatest clarity by speaking of

it as the neighing of brute beasts.

VII

What else do you wish me to tell you? Shall I tell you of their plundering,

their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their

cheating in trade? the whole day long will not be enough to give you an

account of these things. But do their festivals have something solemn and

great about them? They have shown that these, too, are impure. Listen to the

prophets; rather, listen to God and with how strong a statement he turns his

back on them: "I have found your festivals hateful, I have thrust them away

from myself".

(2) Does God hate their festivals and do you share in them? He did not say

this or that festival, but all of them together. Do you wish to see that God

hates the worship paid with kettledrums, with lyres, with harps, and other

instruments? God said: "Take away from me the sound of your songs and I will

not hear the canticle of you harps". If God said: "Take them away from me",

do you run to listen to the trumpets? Are these sacrifices and offerings not

an abomination? "If you bring me the finest wheaten flour, it is in vain:

incense is an abomination to me". The incense is an abomination. Is not the

place also an abomination? Before they committed the crime of crimes, before

they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, it

was an abomination. Is it not now all the more an abomination? And yet what

is more fragrant than incense? But God looks not to the nature of the gifts

but to the intention of those who bring them; it is this intention that he

judges their offerings.

(3) He paid heed to Abel and then to his gifts. He looked at Cain and then

turned away from his offering. For Scripture says: "For Cain and his

offerings he had no regard". Noah offered to God sacrifices of sheep and

calves and birds. The Scripture say: "And the Lord smelled a sweet odor",

that is, he accepted the offerings. For God has no nostrils but is a bodiless

spirit. Yet what is carried up from the altar is the odor and smoke from

burning bodies, and nothing is more malodorous than such a savor. But that

you may learn that God attends to the intention of the one offering the

sacrifice and then accepts or rejects it, Scripture calls the odor and the

smoke a sweet savor; but it calls the incense an abomination because the

intention of those offering it reeked with a great stench.

(4) Do you wish to learn that, together with the sacrifices and the musical

instruments and the festivals and the incense, God also rejects the temple

because of those who enter it? He showed this mostly by his deeds, when he

gave it over to barbarian hands, and later when he utterly destroyed it. But

even before its destruction, through his prophet he shouted aloud and said:

"Put not your trust in deceitful words for it will not help you when you say:

"This is the temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord"! What the prophet

says is that the temple does not make holy those who gather there, but those

who gather there make the temple holy. If the temple did not help at a time

when the Cherubim and the Ark were there, much less will it help now that all

those things are gone, now that God's rejection is complete, now that there

is greater ground for enmity. How great an act of madness and derangement

would it be to take as your partners in the festivals those who have been

dishonored, those whom God has forsaken, those who angered the Master?

(5) Tell me this. If a man were to have slain your son, would you endure to

look upon him, or accept his greeting? Would you not shun him as a wicked

demon, as the devil himself? They slew the Son of your Lord; do you have the

boldness to enter with them under the same roof? After he was slain he heaped

such honor upon you that he made you his brother and coheir. But you dishonor

him so much that you pay honor to those who slew him on the cross, that you

observe with them the fellowship of the festivals, that you go to their

profane places, enter their unclean doors, and share in the tables of demons.

For I am persuaded to call the fasting of the Jews a table of demons because

they slew God. If the Jews are acting against God, must they not be serving

the demons? Are you looking for demons to cure you? When Christ allowed the

demons to enter into the swine, straightway they plunged into the sea. Will

these demons spare the bodies of men? I wish they would not kill men's

bodies, that they would not plot against them. But they will. The demons cast

men from Paradise and deprived them the honor from above. Will they cure

their bodies? That is ridiculous, mere stories. The demons know how to plot

and do harm, not to cure. They do not spare souls. Tell me, then, will they

spare bodies? They try to drive men from the Kingdom. Will they choose to

free them from disease?

(6) Did you not hear what the prophet said? Rather, did you hear what God

said through the prophet? He said that the demons can do neither good nor

evil. Even if they could cure and wanted to do so-which is impossible-you

must not take an indestructible and unending punishment in exchange for a

slight benefit which can soon be destroyed. Will you cure your body and

destroy your soul? You are making a poor exchange. Are you angering God who

made your body, and are you calling to your aid the demon who plots against

you?

(7) If any demon-fearing pagan has medical knowledge, will he also find it

easy to win you over to worship the pagan gods? Those pagans, too, have their

skill. They, too, have often cured many diseases and brought the sick back to

health. Are we going to share in their godlessness on this account? Heaven

forbid! Hear what Moses said to the Jews. "If there arise in the midst of you

a prophet or one that says he has dreamed a dream and he foretell a sign and

a wonder, and that sign or wonder which he spoke come to pass, and he say to

you: "Let us go and serve strange gods whom our fathers did not know, you

shall not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer".

(8) What Moses means is this. If some prophet rises up, he says, and performs

a sign, by either raising a dead man or cleansing a leper, or curing a maimed

man, and after working the wonder calls you to impiety, do not heed him just

because his sign comes to pass. Why? "The Lord your God is trying you to see

whether you love him with all your heart and all your soul". From this it is

clear that demons do not cure. If ever God should permit demons to cure, as

he might permit a man to do, his permission is given to test you-not because

God does not know what you are, but that he may teach you to reject even the

demons who do cure.

(9) And why do I speak of bodily cures? If any man threatens you with Gehenna

unless you deny Christ, do not heed his words. If someone should promise you

a kingdom to revolt from the only-begotten Son of God, turn away from him and

hate him. Be a disciple of Paul and emulate those words which his blessed and

noble soul exclaimed when he said: "I am sure that neither death nor life,

nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to

come, no height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate

us from the love of God, which is in Christ our Lord".

(10) No angels, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor any

other creature separated Paul from the love of Christ. Do you revolt to cur

This notes what Pil Schneider (tortured when refereing to the underground bases connected to Rome and the 'aliens' or Chimeras (create life) to scare the public for years with CIA 'mind controls' all of which are the same activity in ancient Israel but with different tactics; plagues, etc. and it also notes the bigger aspect to the wars since 1929, not being for Israel or Jews; but the wars in Israel with each person of a religious/military/public figure being replaced/killed by 2006 also shows this.


The Builder Magazine

November 1929 - Volume XV - Number 11



Ernst and Falk

From the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Translated by BRO. B.A. EISENLOHR, Ohio

THERE appeared in THE BUILDER, vol. I, page 20, an article entitled: "Ernst

and Falk." " Translated from the German of G. E. Isessing (1778) by Louis

Block, P.G.M. of Masons in Iowa." In a precatory note the editor states that

it was during the author's "last years that he wrote 'Ernst and Falk: Five

Conversations for Freemasons'-a gem of purest ray and a treasure forever to

the Order which he loved." The translator calls them not " conversations "

but " discourses. " They are to be called "dialogs" here, if for no better

reason than that this term is suggestive of the Soeratic dialog whose manner

was well matched by Lessing's in "Ernst and Falk."



In how far these dialogs constitute "a gem of purest ray," especially in the

light of the fourth and fifth dialog, here presented, each reader will have

to judge for himself. There probably will be differences of opinion. The

article on Masonry in the Catholic Encyclopedia, as reprinted in THE BUILDER,

vol. V, p. 250, does not seem to miss the truth so very far in what it says

about Lessing's opinion of Masonry, and the same would be true of other

intellectuals in Germany at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of

the nineteenth century. That they did not hold such a very high opinion of

the Order is not at all surprising in view of the great number of different

"systems" prevailing then, or their experiences with the Johnsons,

Cagliostros, and like adventurers, or the evident frauds that everywhere were

being practiced under a pretended Masonic cloak. Lessing's connection with

Masonry, and His Masonic works: Nathan the Wise and The Education of the

Human Race, as well as Ernst and Falk are the fruits of the author's pure

humanity. They are not only Masonic Classics, they have been cataloged in the

classic literature of the world. Perhaps in some later articles in THE

BUILDER some competent brother will attempt to discuss the author and his

Masonic writings. It is a field ripe for the reaper. Here, the translation of

only the fourth and fifth dialogs is attempted. Why Brother Block did not

continue the translations the writer does not know. The prefatory note about

there being "five conversations" is quite correct. In THE BUILDER, vol. II,

p. 201, appears the third of the five. From the note accompanying it we

quote: "Herewith we present the Third Discourse, to appreciate which the

reader must needs turn baek to the first two," and in the present instance,

this should be amended to read "turn back to the first three," the first two

appearing in vol. I, and the third in vol. II.



In very brief summary, the first three dialogs say that Masonry has its

foundation in those things that are part and parcel of human society. Each

man is to live with all his fellowmen so that the one shall perfect the

other. Individuals are hindered in this by such things as the diversity of

races, of political constitutions, differences in occupation, in social rank,

and differences in creed. Freemasonry is to do away with all these

differences and their infamous influence by establishing humanity as the bond

that unites all human beings. Freemasonry is not instituted, primarity, to

lend assistanee in extreme need, or to bestow benefactions upon others, or

for purposes of amusement and entertainment. Its purpose is to exercise the

individual in improving himself constantly and to assist others in the

attainment of perfection.



This is "the spark" that "had kindled."



Ernst went and became a Free-Mason. What he found there forms the Subject of

a fourth and fifth discourse with which the road divides. (1)



The business or translating is often a treacherous thing. Even the best

translator may happen to have before him all edition of the original which is

faulty, through careless editing or other reasons, and the peculiarities of

the original idiom are ever with him, as will be manifest in the translation

herewith presented. Occasionally the idiom defies translation. Almost at the

end of the third dialog Falk says, in substance, that the Masons have never

made a secret of a certain fundamental principle of Masonry. According to

this principle they accept every worthy man of proper disposition without

regard to his nationality, his religion, his station in the social order.

Then he continues:



Naturally this fundamental principle takes for granted the existence of men

who have risen above such divisions, rather than those who intend to create

them.



This translation seems justified according to two of four immediately

available editions, each by a different publisher. According to the other

two, Falk says something like this:



Indeed, this fact [that Masons accept worthy men regardless of their

nationality, religion, etc.] seems to presuppose the existence, even now, of

fundamental laws that were established by such men as have risen above these

divisions, rather than that the purpose of this fait should be the

establishment of such laws.



The passage as quoted above from THE BUILDER is clearer than this. But is it

as authoritative? The original German is not so very clear in either of the

available versions. The difference between them is merely one letter. The

following translation of the fourth and fifth dialogs is based upon Gotthold

Ephraim Lessing's samtliche Schriften. Herausgegeben von Karl Lachman,

Dritte, auf's neue durchgesehene und vermehrte Auflaye, besoryt durch Frank

Muncker. Vol. XIII. Leipzig: G. J. Goschen, 1897. This is the most scholarly,

painstaking, comprehensive, and most authoritative edition of Lessing's Works

that has appeared up to the present time.



Inasmuch as the author uses some English words and phrases in these dialogs,

their translation into English is an impossibility. Because of that fact and

others, the "flavor" of the original is lost somewhat in translation.



Lessing was librarian of the Ducal Library at Wolfenbuttel, Brunswick. The

first three dialogs were accompanied by a few lines of dedication to the Duke

of Brunswick, Ferdinand, who was himself a Mason. They were preceded also by

a "Preface by a Third Party." Not all editions contain these. Since they did

not appear in THE BUILDER, vol. I, they are given here. The first three

dialogs were published in 1778, the last two in 1780, though it is pretty

well established now that the fourth and fifth were written, at least in

outline, before the others were, and even before Lessing was made a Mason.



DEDICATION OF "ERNST AND FALK" Dialogs 1, 2 and 3



To His Most Serene Highness, Duke Ferdinand. Most Serene Duke:



Even I was at the fount of Truth and drew from its waters. Only he can judge

of how deeply I have drawn, from whom I expect permission to draw even more

deeply. The people are languishing for water and are perishing. Your

highness' Most Humble Servant.



Preface by a Third Party



IF the following pages do not contain the true ontology of Freemasonry I

would be eager to learn in which of the innumerable writings that have been

the cause of them, a more definite idea of its substance may be found.



But if all Freemasons, regardless of what stamp they may be, will be glad to

admit that the viewpoint here indicated is the only one from which sound eyes

see a real form, and not one from which a mere phantom shows itself to the

dim visioned eye, then the question still might be asked, why no one has come

out in such plain language long ago?



There is much that could be replied to this question. But one will hardly be

able to find another question that resembles it more than does this one: Why

did the elementary books of instruction in Christianity come into existence

so late? Why have there been so many and good Christians who were neither

able nor willing to give an intelligible statement of their faith?



But this, after all, would have occurred too early, in Christendom, inasmuch

as faith would have gained but little, had it occurred. If only the thought

had not come to the Christians to give a statement of it in a very absurd

manner.



Let every individual make his own application.



FOURTH DIALOG Preface by a Third Party



AS is known, the author of the first three dialogs had this continuation in

manuscript, ready for printing, when he received a pleading hint, from higher

up, not to publish it.



Previous to that, however, he had communicated the fourth and fifth dialogs

to some friends. Presumably without his permission, these friends had made

copies of them. By a peculiar accident one of these copies came into the

hands of the present publisher. He regretted that so many magnificent truths

were to be suppressed and, not having received any hint, he resolved to have

the manuscript printed.



If this liberty is not abundantly excused by the desire to see light east

over such important subjects, then nothing more can be said in defense of

having taken this liberty, than that the publisher is not an initiated Mason.



Nevertheless, it will be found, by the way, that for reasons of caution and

respect for a certain branch of this society he has not, in the publication,

mentioned several names which were spelled out in full.



FALK. Welcome, Ernst! Back again at last. I have long since finished my

mineral spring treatment.



ERNST. And because of that you feel quite well? I'm glad of that.



FALK. What does that mean? Never has a "I'm glad of that" (2) been uttered

more irritably.



ERNST. I am irritated, and it would lack but little for me to say that you

are the cause of my irritation.



FALK. I ?



ERNST. YOU induced me to take a foolish step. Give attention! Give me your

hand! What have you to say? You shrug your shoulders ? That caps the climax.



FALK. I induce you ?



ERNST. It may be, without intending to do so.



FALK. And yet the blame is mine.



ERNST. The man of God speaks to the people about a country which flows with

milk and honey, and the people should not be longing for it? And are the

people not to grumble over this man of God when, instead of leading them into

this promised land, he leads them into arid deserts ?



FALK. Well! Well! The damage can't be so very great. Besides, I see that you

have been working at the graves of our forefathers.



ERNST. They were not encompassed with flames, however, but with smoke.



FALK. Then wait until the smoke is dispersed, and the flame will shed light

and warmth.



ERNST. The smoke will suffocate me before the flame gives me any light. And I

will see that others, who are better able to stand the smoke, will warm

themselves at the flame.



FALK. You surely are not speaking of people who like to endure the pungent

smoke, if it but be the smoke of another's bountiful kitchen?



ERNST. So you know them, after all ?



FALK. I've heard about them.



ERNST. All the more, what is it that could induce you to trick me this way?

To make a false showing to me of things whose groundlessness you knew all too

well ?



FALK. Your vexation causes you to be very unjust. You claim that I spoke to

you of Freemasonry without having given you to understand, in more ways than

one, how useless it is that every honest man should become a Freemason? How

useless only? Indeed, how harmful.



ERNST. Well, that may be.



FALK. You claim that I did not tell you, that one may fulfill the highest

obligations of Masonry without being called a Freemason ?



ERNST. Rather, I remember that. However, you well know that, when my fancy

has once spread its pinions, has made one flap with them- can I restrain

them? I reproach you with nothing except that you held before them such a

bait.



FALK. And you soon wearied of the effort to reach it. Why didn't you say a

word to me about your intention?



ERNST. Would you have dissuaded me ?



FALK. Most certainly. - Who, in the case of an active boy, wound talk him

into getting back into the gocart again because he still falls now and then?

I'm making you no compliments. You had already gone too far to make a new

start from there. No exception could be made in your case. All must set foot

upon that road.



ERNST. Nor should I rue having set foot upon it, if I could promise myself

better things of the remainder of the road. But, promises, excuses for

delays, and nothing but promises !



FALK. Well, it's something if they are already making promises. And what is

it they are giving promises about ?



ERNST. Oh pshaw, you know. It is the Scottish Masonry, the Scottish knight.



FALK. Oh yes, quite right - But based upon what promise is the Scottish

knight hoping for ?



ERNST. Would that somebody knew !



FALK. And those like you, the other novices in the Order, don't they know

anything either ?



ERNST. Ah they, they know so much, they expect so much! The one wants to make

gold, the other wants to conjure up spirits, the third wants to re-establish

the * * * (3). You're smiling, and smiling only?



FALK. What else can I do ?



ERNST. Show indignation at such nonsensical fellows!



FALK. If it were not for one thing that reconciles me with them again.



ERNST. And what's that?



FALK. That in all these dreamings I recognize a striving after reality, that

from all these mistaken paths one can nevertheless see whither the true path

leads.



ERNST. And from the making of gold, too ?



FALK. From the making of gold, too. Whether gold really can be made or not

made is a matter of indifference to me. But I am very certain that sensible

human beings will be wishing to be able to make it only with regard to

Freemasonry. Also, anyone who comes into possession of the Philosophers'

Stone, becomes a Freemason that very same moment. And it really is odd, that

all reports about actual or supposed goldmakers that are current in the

world, actually confirm this.



ERNST. And those who would conjure up spirits?



FALK. About the same is true of them. It is impossible that spirits can give

ear to the voice of any human being other than that of a Freemason.



ERNST. How seriously you can say such things !



FALK. By all that's sacred! Not more seriously than they are.



ERNST. Oh pshaw! But finally these new * * *, so it please God?



FALK. O well, they !



ERNST. Do you see? You know nothing to say about them. For surely, * * *

existed once upon a time, but goldmakers and spirit conjurers possibly never

existed. And, of course, it is easier to say what is the attitude of the

Freemasons to such creatures of the imagination, than what it is to real and

actual ones.



FALK. Indeed, in this case I can only express myself in a dilemma: Either, or



ERNST. That's good, too. If one at least but knows that, of two statements,

one of them is true. Well then: Either of these "would be (4) " * * *-



FALK. Ernst ! Stop before you finish your mockery. On my conscience! There

It is just they who either are surely on the right road, or they are so far

from it that there remains to them not even the hope of ever getting on it.



ERNST. Well, I can't help but listen to all of that. For, to ask you for a

more detailed explanation



FALK. Why not ? It has been long enough now that they have been using

secrecies from which to make the secret.



ERNST. What do you mean by that?



FALK. As I have already told you, the secret of Freemasonry is that which the

Freemason cannot reveal even were it possible that he wanted to reveal it.

But secrecies are things which, while they indeed can be revealed, were

concealed at certain times and in certain countries partly because of envy,

were choked back partly because of fear, were kept secret partly as a matter

of prudence.



ERNST. For instance ?



FALK. For instance, in the first place, this relationship between * * * and

Freemasons. It may be, indeed, that once upon a time it was necessary and

well not to let anything of this be noticed by others. But now, now on the

contrary it may become very harmful if they continue to make a secret of this

relationship. Rather ought it to be loudly acknowledged, and all that ought

to be necessary is, to determine the exact period in which the * * * were the

Freemasons of their time.



ERNST. May I know it, this period?



FALK. Read the history of the * * * thoughtfully. You must hit upon it. you

surely will hit upon it, and that is the very reason why you should not have

become a Freemason.



ERNST. O, that I were sitting among my books this very minute. And if I hit

upon it, will I get your admission that I have done so ?



FALK. At the same time you will find, that you do not need my admission. But,

to get back to my dilemma again.



It is this period alone which furnishes the data for its determination. If

all Freemasons who are now pregnant with the * * * see and feel this real

period, well for them ! Well for the world! Blessings upon everything that

they undertake! Blessings upon everything which they forbear from

undertaking! But if they do not see and feel it, this period; if a mere

consonance has misled them; if it was only the Freemason working in the * * *

(5) who made them think of the * * *; if they merely fell in love with * * *

on the * * * (6); if they merely would like to bestow on themselves and their

friends nice * * * fat prebends; well, then, may Heaven grant us very much

compassion so that we may refrain from laughing.



ERNST. Behold ! You still are able to get warmed up and bitter.



FALK. Sorry, yes ! I thank you for your remark, and I'm cold as ice again.



ERNST. And what do you think, which one on the two cases is the one of these

gentlemen ?



FALK. I fear it is the latter. Would that I might be mistaken! For if it

should be the former, how could they entertain such a peculiar project ? To

re-establish the * * * ! That great period at which the * * * were Freemasons

no longer occurs. Europe, at least, has long since passed it and, in matters

pertaining to it, no longer has need of any extraordinary assistance. What is

it then that they're after? Do they, too, want to become a saturated sponge

that the higher ups will sometime squeeze dry? But to whom am I directing

this question, and against whom ? Did you ever tell me, could you tell me

that other than novices burden themselves with these vagaries about

goldmakers, spirit conjurers, * * *? Other than children, than people who

have no scruples about abusing children? But children become men. Just leave

them undisturbed! Enough, as said, that even in the toy I behold the weapons

which at some time the men will wield with a sure hand.



ERNST. After all, my friend, it is not these childish things that put me out

of humor. Without presuming that anything serious might be back of them, I

ignored them. A cask, I thought, thrown overboard for the young whales ! But

what vexes me is this: Everywhere I see nothing, everywhere I hear nothing

but these childish things; that no one pretends to know anything about that

concerning which you aroused expectations within me. I may strike this tone

as often as I will and towards whom I will. Nobody cares to join in; always

and everywhere the deepest silence.



FALK. You mean



ERNST. That equality which you indicated to me as being the fundamental law

of the Order; that equality which filled all my soul with such unexpected

hope: at last to be able to breathe it in fellowship with men who understand

how to do their thinking in a sphere that is above all civil modifications,

without sinning against any one of these equalities to the detriment of a

third party.



FALSE Well ?



ERNST. It still exists? If ever it did exist! Let an enlightened Jew come

along and put in his application. "O" they say, "a Jew? Of course, a

Freemason must at least be a Christian. It is quite a slatter of indifference

as to what kind of a Christian. Without distinction as to religion, means,

only, without distinction as to the three publicly tolerated religions in The

Holy Roman Empire. " Don't you think so, too?



FALK. No, not exactly.



ERNST. Let an honest shoemaker who, at his last, has had leisure for many a

good thought (even though it were a Jacob Bohme and Hans Sachs (8)), let him

come and put in his application! "O" they say, "a shoemaker! Why, of course,

a shoemaker." Let a faithful, experienced, tried servant come and put in his

application. "O" they say, "of course, people of that kind, who can't

themselves select the color of their own coats - we enjoy such good company

among ourselves."



FALK. And how good is their company ?



ERNST. Oh, well ! I have nothing in particular to criticize in regard to

that, except that it is exclusively good company, of which one gets so tired

in the world - princes, counts, gentlemen of the nobility, officers,

councilors of all sorts, merchants, artists - all of these, without

distinction as to their social class, have their topsy turvy fancies in the

lodge, it is true. But as a matter of fact all are of one and the same class

and, alas, this is - (9)



FALK. In my time things were not exactly like that. And yet!. I don't know, I

can but guess. I have been outside of all connection with lodges too long a

time, whatever their form may be. Not to be able to be admitted for a while

into the lodge now and, to be debarred from freemasonry, these, surely, are

two different things.



ERNST. How so ?



FALK. Because the relationship between the lodge and Freemasonry is like that

between the church and belief. From the outward prosperity of the church we

can draw no conclusions as to the faith of its members, none whatever. There

is rather a certain outward prosperity of it concerning which it would be a

miracle if it could exist along with the true faith. And furthermore, both

have never yet gotten on with each other. On the contrary, the one has always

destroyed the other, as history teaches. And thus, I fear, I fear



ERNST. What ?



FALK. In short, this lodge business, as I hear it is carried on at the

present time, it will not down with me. Having a treasury; to acquire

capital; invest this capital; try to use it to make the best bargain; buy

lands; have kings and princes bestow privileges; to use the prestige and

power of them for the suppression of the brothers who belong to an observance

different from the one which they would so much like to establish as being

the essence of the thing - If this does well in the long run ! How gladly

would I be willing to have prophesied falsely !



ERNST. O well ! What is it than can happen ? The State does not carry on so

any longer now. And besides, among the persons that make its laws, or

administer them, are probably, even now, already too many Freemasons.



FALK. Very well ! Then even though they have nothing to fear from the State,

what kind of an influence, do you think, will such a form of government have

on them themselves? Will they not, evidently, get back to that, from which

they wanted to tear themselves away ? Will they not cease being what they

claim to be? I don 't know whether you quite understand me



ERNST. Just continue !



FALK. To be sure ! Yes indeed nothing endures forever. Possibly this is the

very means selected by Providence to put an end to the whole schema of

Freemasonry.



ERNST. Schema of Freemasonry? What is it you call by that term? Schema?



FALK. Well! Schema, husk, dress.



ERNST. I still don t know



FALK. You surely don't think that Freemasonry always played the part of

Freemasonry?



ERNST. Now what does that mean? That freemasonry did not always play the part

of Freemasonry?



FALK. In other words, do you really think that that which is Freemasonry was

always called Freemasonry? - But see ! It's already past noon ! And there my

guests are already coming. You're surely going to stay?



ERNST. I didn't want to, but now I shall probably have to. For a twofold

satiation now awaits me.



FALK. Only, at table, please, not a word.



NOTES



(1) THE BUILDER, vol. ii, p. 202.



(2) These italics. and all which follow, appear in the original.



(3) The asterisks here, and wherever they appear subsequently, represent the

Order of the Knights Templar. Not of course, the American Masonic Order, but

in most places the original one, and in others the pretended revived Templar

Order that was making claims to the leadership of German Masonry at the time

Lessing wrote.



(4) Lessing here used the English words as marked by the inverted commas.



(5) Gosche's edition of Lessing's works, Berlin, 1875, p. 26, says: "An

attentive reader will easily be able to fill out the two * * * and some .'



(6) In the (second) edition of Ernst and Falk, 1781, the year of Lessing's

death, this passage reads: "the red cross on the white mantle."



(7) The punctuation of the original is here preserved. The sense is not very

clear. Two imprints of the 1780 edition have an exclamation point instead of

the question mark, The Gosche edition has however a comma instead but by what

authority? However the comma makes for clearer sense, viz., "It (this

equality) would still exist if ever it did exist! With the question mark as

it is given the meaning would be: "You say it still exists."



(8) The noted mystic and a well known poet of the Reformation period, both of

whom were shoemakers by trade.



(9) Here the edition of 1781 has: "one and the same class, that class namely,

on which time hangs heavily and whom the need to be occupied joins into one

and the same class."



----o----



If Pythagoras Returned



By BRO. CYRUS FIELD WILLARD, California (Concluded from October)



WE have spoken above of certain modifications which may be produced in the

egg and we ought to go further; proceeding from the idea that life is

produced by physico-chemical phenomena - which is, of course, metaphysical

for the experimental sciences show only a certain simultaneousness - certain

scientists leave tried to reproduce artificially, or at least to imitate

living tissue by beginning with the mysterious "protoplasm" which is their

constituent element.



Already the study of the "Brownian movements" have shown microscopic

particles in a state of incessant agitation, which appear inherent to them,

and may be perhaps the first stammering of life. But they have also wished to

go farther and surprise the secret of the construction and the genesis of the

cell.



Von Schron, Benedikt and other scientists have tried to seize the process of

the formation of crystals, but always by proceeding from a "germ crystal," as

in the egg all proceeds from an organic germ. The celebrated experiments of

Leduc have shown crystalline formations imitating vegetation by letting fall

a drop of a solution of sugared sulphate of copper into a mixture of

gelatine, ferrocyanide of potassium and marine salt. These similitudes of

plants possess some of the properties peculiar to living beings, but they are

not alive. If they are a daring manifestation of the power of the human, they

have not given us true living beings. Only they prove that when man

reproduces the putting to work of certain processes of nature, he happens by

the same effort to produce coherent forms, and not merely a vague chaotic

magma - is it not still "geometry" which reappears, here artificially, there

natural?



I would say as much of the experiments of Benard, or of those of Butschli of

Heidelberg, with linseed oil, alkaline carbonates and water, or with the

yellow of an egg, etc.: Mere one imitates the substances called "colloidal"

which are at the base of organisms, and even in certain cases they have been

able to form little film envelopes, microscopic cells, containing a jelly

analogous to that of organic tissues. This is not the famous "homunculus"

dreamed of by certain alchemists, but it is an interesting demonstration of

the steps which nature follows "spontaneously" in its constructions:-

architecture.



In another order of ideas, it is fitting to observe that the examination of

the spectra of different flames permits us to note, by the lines that appear

there, the chemical composition of the luminous focus thus analyzed. Behold

then, light indicating by its shafts that which are finally seen as

geometrical outlines and are the elements of the body in Combustion. And the

number of the lines (arithmetic) happens to corroborate their position

(geometry).



In the phenomena of acoustics the Mason will find still another reason for

meditation and study of the letter G.



We wish to make allusion to the experiments which have become classic because

they are so old, although they have been multiplied and perfected in our day.

This is not only the problem of the proportions of the strings or sonorous

pipes, of which it would be commonplace to speak; it is not only the direct

graphs of the sonorous vibrations of the tuning-fork, which give such curious

designs by the combination of the two movements, parallel or rectangular; it

is the action of the vibration of a sonorous environment on flames, with the

old experiments of Helmholtz. There are also the curious designs formed by

the stroke of a violin bow on plates sprinkled over with sand, according to

the place where they produce a contact, which is combined with that of the

violin bow.



At the same time we cannot help thinking of the other designs which are

luminous and which the phenomena of interference produce; the effects of the

polarization of light and the colored rings which appear in bi-refractory

crystals. Let us remark besides, that all these designs can be expressed in

numerical language: sound form and number.



The Mason in passing will salute the calculations of thermodynamics which

unite by figures the calorific vibration and the mechanical effect. But he

would not know that experimental psychology records sensation with figures,

and that the scientist Charles Henry has noted in this manner, in equations,

even the phenomena of life and of thought.



Then he would take cognizance of the results of stereochemistry, or the

relations of the atoms in their grouping in the molecule and the conceptions

which it inspires in the observer. Behold several composite bodies which are

formed of the same constituent chemical elements. Analysis reveals no

difference. What is it then which permits us to establish their identity and

to distinguish one from the other, to explain why they do not cause light to

deviate in the same way when it is caused to traverse their crystals.



This idea is that, in their chemical identity, that which distinguishes them

one from the other, is the molecular arrangement of their elements in space,

that is to say a geometrical rule. It is scarcely fifty years ago that Van

t'Hoff and de Bel, relying on the work of the great Pasteur, have brought to

light this new branch of science, which since has made considerable progress.

It has not only cleared the minds but it has permitted the synthesis of a

certain number of organic products. It is therefore no more a reverie than

all the other Scientific hypotheses, from which they have drawn the laws and

the results of it remain positively valid.



It is likewise remarkable that chemistry has had to have recourse to symbolic

notations, and to formulas which are a veritable algebra, permitting the

noting of the composition of bodies, the results of their combinations and of

their modifications by notations which one may compare to real equations.



The atomic notation employed by modern chemistry based on the admission of

the atom, a notion conceived by Grecian antiquity, is moreover conformable to

those which are current, although under another aspect, in the Oriental

philosophy. But again we must insist that the systems and their expression

are only points of view and the main point alone is of consequence for

Masonic esotericism, the equivalents and the definite proportions of the

combination of bodies brings to light that which we might readily call the

arithmetic of chemistry, by the side of its geometry.



Ampere had already admitted experimentally that the atoms are maintained

"separated from each other by repulsive forces," necessitating by this the

corollary of attractive forces, like the love and the hate of the atoms, of

which the old Greek philosophy speaks.



Wurtz has again taken up the same conception which is now classic, but it is

an entirely different question than that of the constitution of the atom, or

what Leibnitz would have called the monad, for the ancient atomist admitted

the impenetrability and the indivisibility of the atoms and saw in force only

a manifestation of movement, the point of view followed by the materialists

of our times.



But the present scientific knowledge has left very far behind it the atoms of

Democritus, and we are going to see, by the following, how they are

considered today.



The multiple and Protean-formed manifestations of the atoms, according to

contemporary physicists, no longer put us in the presence of a ponderable and

irreducible element but they make us meet, face to face, a new geometry of

which the constitutive factors will have to be determined and which will lead

us to new examinations. We shall see if they take us away from or bring us

closer to our point of departure.



The works of the experimentalists, our contemporaries, have demonstrated by

remarkable experiments that the theory of the atom, fundamental material

unity, has gone out of date and they have built a new theory of the atom,

which makes of it a multiplicity, of which the units have no longer the

character of matter in the sense that current language attaches to this word,

nor even in any acceptation.



The scientist M. Langevin has written this:



The conception of the atom of electricity, from which the material atoms are

formed, furnishes the necessary tie between matter and the Ether environment,

with which it is surrounded. The atom is a complex whole formed of a centre

positively electrified, called the nucleus, around which gravitate the

negative corpuscles or electrons. Ether, meta-ether, energy; what matters it

what they are called?



It is a kind of planetary system; it seems that the genial Pascal may have

prophesied it when he wrote in his "Pensees," that he saw in his abridgment

of the atom, "an infinity of universes of which each one has its firmament.

its planets its earth."



The atom of each body forms thus a distinct little world. The study of the

radio-active power of bodies, causing the discovery among other things of the

Alpha particles, has permitted us to examine these microscopic universes.



The atom of aluminum contains around its nucleus a group of 13 electrons at

varying distances. The atom of gold contains 79 electrons gravitating in six

orbits around its nucleus. The nuclei themselves are of an astonishing

complexity; that of aluminum contains 14 electrons and 27 protons; that of

gold, 118 electrons and 197 protons and that of mercury 200 protons and 120

electrons. What would Pythagoras say today of this arithmetic, and of this

geometry, proceeding from nothing in order to construct everything? Into what

admiration would he be plunged in the examination of the work of Curie, of

Becquerel and of Perrin?



What would he think of the algebraic calculations scrutinizing the frame of

universal life and filling up the gaps in it, classifying a new chemical body

in the Mendeleieff's tables, or making the discovery of an invisible planet

in the sidereal spaces of the universe?



Spiritualist on materialist, the Mason can thus see his system surpassed and

restored to unity with the contrary system, by the sciences which the symbol

of the letter G conceals, and which seem everywhere present, in order to

realize a synthesis conformable to that of the esoteric tradition.



Do we deserve to be taxed with being reactionary in spirit because we approve

of our illustrious predecessors for having placed in the foreground geometry

as the interpretation?



While much of the foregoing is "done over" into English in the words and

expressions of the translator, there are many things not covered. In

Langmuir's postulates we find a geometrical formation of the atom and in the

laboratory of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady there are young ladies

who have built up models of the different atoms in accordance with the

theories of Dr. Isangmuir showing the various geometrical shapes assumed.



There is an emphasis of the Letter G which is all the more effective because

silent. In many lodgerooms today in America, we see even when the lodge is

not in session the letter G in the East back of the Master's chair, and at

the same time, when the lodge is in session and the Master assumes his jewel,

there is a duplication and emphasis as he places his jewel in its proper

position.



Pythagoras was a Greek born on the island of Samos in the Egean Sea, who

settled in the southern part of Italy, called Magna Grecia. He required from

those who wished to join his brotherhood at Krotona, that they should possess

a knowledge of geometry. In fact Plato, one of his later followers, said "God

geometrizes" and today we know how true this is. The Greeks called the earth,

"Gea," and its measurement was "metron" hence "geometry" was used to measure

the earth, the other planets and for other purposes. The letter G in Greek

was called "gamma" and it was made exactly in the form of the square, the

jewel of the Master, and one of the Great Lights.



The Compasses, another of the great lights, was used to circumscribe the

circle, or to give the spherical form of the earth, "Gea," and this circle

with a horizontal diameter and an upright line crossing in the center, the

Mundane Cross, formed a square, the fourth part of a circle, the Gamma or

letter G.



The sphere drawn by the compasses represented the atom, as well as the earth

or the universe, following the old Hermetic maxim engraved on the Emerald

Tablet, " As above, so below." Four gammas (Tetragammaton) or four squares

with their ends joined at the center of a circle, make the Swastika, the

oldest symbol of the world according to the Smithsonian Institution.



When you next see the letter G in the East think of this and "our ancient

brother Pythagoras," who no doubt was the Master of building fraternities in

Greece, who built the surviving temple of Paestum not far from Krotona, as

well all the other temples that were "the glory that was Greece." Then

remember that our latest scientific knowledge is taking us back to the

knowledge of the ancients and the philosophy of Pythagoras who said, " God is

Universal Mind." When we realize the unit of matter, the atom, is composed of

electricity and has the three phases of energy, substance and consciousness,

and this consciousness is universal, we begin to get an awe-inspiring

conception of that Grand Architect of the Universe, who is always

geometrizing, based on the latest developments of modern science.



We also see why, as stated in Anderson's Constitutions,



A Mason * * * if he rightly understands the art, will never be a stupid

atheist nor an irreligious libertine.



That art is symbolised by the letter G.



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The Almonte Stone



Communicated by BRO. N.W.J. HAYDON, Associate Editor



THIRTY-SEVEN years ago an alleged discovery was made of an inscription,

apparently of Masonic significance, near Almonte, a town about forty miles

southwest of Ottawa. It is necessary to make the statement guardedly,

because, as has so often happened in like cases, no adequate steps were taken

at the time to authenticate the find. In spite of having followed up every

line of inquiry that seemed likely to promise further information on the

subject, one must confess that the results have been very meagre and very

unsatisfying.



The first, and most obvious approach was to the local lodge, Mississippi No.

147. The secretary wrote me saying that he had no information on the subject,

but would pass my letter on to the- Master of the lodge, W. Bro. R.A.

Jamieson, who as it happened was also Town Clerk, and very much interested in

the history of the locality. Not hearing anything further, after an interval

of some months I wrote to him direct. He replied that it was the first he had

heard of my inquiry. He said that he had heard vague rumors of the discovery

of the inscription, but had no definite information on the subject whatever.

He added that he had no means of prosecuting an inquiry along the most

natural lines, as the files of the local newspaper had been removed.



The following July I met him at the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Canada (for

Ontario), and obtained some further information. The files of the local

newspaper, the Almonte Gazette, were in the hands of the Hon. Andrew Haydon

(no relative of mine, by the way, so far as I know) and through him I

obtained the first real light on the subject. He was preparing a history of

Lanark County, in which Pakenham Township is situated, and very kindly looked

up the original account that appeared in the Almonte Gazette. I might add

that I had previously written to the Department of National Archives at

Ottawa, in the hope that they might have a file of the Gazette there, but was

informed that if there had ever been one it had been destroyed with many

other documents in the destruction of the Parliament Buildings by fire some

years ago.



As soon as the date of the discovery was fixed I made a search through the

files of the Canadian Freemason and the Canadian Craftsman, but found no more

than a single paragraph in the former journal. This quoted a dispatch from

London, Ontario, which without giving any details, scoffed at the "discovery"

as a hoax.



Since then I have had some further correspondence with Bro. Jamieson, whose

inquiries have resulted in very little further information. He, however, did

elicit from a son of Bro. Forsythe, the first Mason to examine the stone,

that he remembered a man coming to the farm when he was a boy, to cut out the

portion bearing the inscription. All those who were mentioned as having

examined the stone in the account in the gazette, are now dead with the

exception of R. Wor. Bro. Dr. McIntosh. To this brother I also wrote and was

informed by him that, so far as he knew, the proposal to cut out the

inscribed portion of the stone was carried out, though he had no knowledge of

what became of it.



Bro. Jamieson wrote to me more recently to say that he was going to have the

minutes of the lodge searched in order to see if any mention was made of the

discovery, or of the proposal to cut out the inscription, and if this was

one, how the relic was disposed of. However, nothing rather has come to hand,

and though I have written Bro. Jamieson twice since, no further word from him

has reached me.



The date of the issue of the Almonte Gazette containing original report was

May 27, 1892. This account is here reproduced, with the heading and

sub-heading under which appeared, and a reproduction of the cut which

accompanied it.



A MASONIC MYSTERY



An alleged relic of 1604 discovered in Pakenham Township - How it was found -

What it looks like - Speculation as to its author



Considerable interest has been created in Masonic circles in this district by

the discovery of a peculiar inscription on a rock situated on a mound in an

out-of-the-way place on Mrs. Joseph Dickson's farm in Upper Pakenham. The

discovery was accidentally made by Mrs. Dickson's son over a year ago. He

told Mr. John Forsythe, his neighbor, of what he had seen. The latter thought

there was nothing of importance in the affair, and paid little attention to

it until a few weeks ago, when, during a search for his cattle, his attention

was drawn to a polished rock with Masonic emblems carved on its surface. Mr.

Forsythe, being an enthusiastic member of the Craft, made a careful

examination of the stone, and, finding it to possess unusual interest for

members of the fraternity, he communicated the result of his investigations

to his brethren in Almonte and Pakenham and invited them out to inspect it

for themselves. The invitation was accepted, and a short time ago Messrs. R.

Pollock, J. M. Munro, A. J. McAdam and W. P. McEwen, of Almonte, and Dr.

McIntosh, Major O'Neil and R. Moore, of Pakenham, enjoyed the hospitality of

Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe, and during the afternoon paid a visit to the spot

containing the mysterious inscription. They found a rock with a polished

surface six or seven feet in length, and a couple of feet in depth, bearing

an inscription that, judged by its appearance, had been placed there by an

unknown hand at a very early period, as the action of the elements in the

intervening period, clearly demonstrated. The writer, believing that Gazette

readers would be interested, took an impression of the inscription, of which

the following is a copy, but greatly reduced in size:



How such an inscription came to be carved in such a place is a mystery. If it

was cut in the stone in the year 1604 - nearly three centuries ago - as the

figures would seem to indicate, it looks as if some follower of Champlain

(who passed through this section about the year 1603) had done the work; but

of course is mere speculation. We understand that Mr. Forsythe intends sawing

out the interesting relic, and it will form the nucleus of a museum in

connection with his lodge - Mississippi No. 147, A. F. and A. M., G.R.C.,

Almonte. Some Almonte craftsmen have submitted specimens of the polished

stone to a prominent geologist, with the object of gaining information as to

the effects of the elements on it through the lapse of time, and every effort

will be made to unravel the mystery surrounding the affair.



The description leaves much to be desired. The writer says he "took an

impression of the inscription," by which is probably to be understood a

rubbing. The description of the stone as "polished" is very vague, and while

the dimensions given probably refer to the stone itself, grammatically they

refer to the polished surface. It remains doubtful whether this surface was

natural, or artificial. This makes a good deal or difference, for

inscriptions cut on natural surfaces, unless very deep and on a very large

scale, very rapidly become indistinct. The photograph of the Nova Scotia

Stone reproduced in THE BUILDER, vol. x, p. 295, shows such indistinctness

very conclusively.



The crux of the inscription is naturally the date. The square and compass, in

unusual position it is true, the hand, the trowel and perhaps even the eye,

may probably be accepted as having been quite clear. The design below the

trowel looks as if intended to represent a wall of rubble Masonry, either in

course of erection, or else an unfinished part of the "inscription." Perhaps

both. But the date is naturally very difficult to accept; and if the cutting

was done on a natural surface, it is well within possibility that the second

figure was 8, of which part had been less deeply cut owing to irregularity of

the surface, and had thus been obliterated by weathering. The date 1804 might

not be too early for a pioneer settlement in the vicinity; the ostensible

date, however, seems to present such grave difficulties as to be incredible.



The whole history of this "discovery" is a striking instance of the ignorance

and carelessness with which possible evidences of Masonic antiquity are

treated. The project of cutting out the stone was unfortunate to say the

least. Better to have left it to the weather than to have removed and lost

it. On the other hand those who condemned it off hand as a hoax or imposition

were equally to blame; for that was only to be decided by examination. If

only such things could be carefully described and impartially judged at the

time of discovery, so that if genuine they might be preserved, and if not

that the fact might be authentically established! Unfortunately most of the

Craft "care for none of these things," and it is much easier to come to a

snap decision without information than it is to investigate. So some will

believe and some will reject, according to their individual disposition,

while the student can only regret that opportunities for examination were so

carelessly neglected and ignored.



NOTE



Other difficulties to be solved lie in the fact that the first known white

man to travel the Mississippi River, which is joined by the Indian River

quite near the Dickson farm, was Etienne Brule in 1610, not 1603 as stated

above. There is, too, the opinion of the Department of Archives at Ottawa,

who wrote me after receiving a copy of the photostat of the Inscription, that

the form of the figures and letters is different from that in use at the date

they present.



As to the suggestion that the figure 6 was really an 8, I find on examining

Robertson's "History of Freemasonry in Canada", that there was no record of

any lodge in the vicinity of Almonte during the era of our Provincial Grand

Lodges of Upper Canada. He gives, however, details of a lodge that met at

Richmond, in Carleton County, under a warrant dated 1821, which place was a

village on the Goodwood River, some twenty miles southwest of Ottawa. in the

Rideau Military Settlement



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Freemasonry in South Africa



By BRO. WILLIAM MOISTER Transvaal



Bro. Moister, to whom we are indebted for this most interesting account of

the Craft in South Africa, is the Editor of the South African Masonic World.

He is also, if we have it correctly, Grand Organist of the District Grand

lodge of the Transvaal.



The situation in South Africa will seem very strange to American Masons, and

will be very instructive. It is a striking proof that the doctrine of

exclusive territorial jurisdiction is not a Landmark, as so many believe it

to be, nor is it even a necessary regulation for the good government of the

Fraternity and the preservation of peace and harmony among the Craft



THIS brief survey of freemasonry in South Africa makes no pretense whatever

to be a History of the Craft in this sub-continent, but is written,

primarily, with the view to correcting some erroneous impressions which

prevail in other countries, and also in the hope that the information may be

of use to such American brethren as may visit these shores, and who would

like to enjoy fraternal intercourse with their South African brethren.



I have had the pleasure of meeting a number of brethren from different

American jurisdictions, and most of them have been under the impression that

there is a Grand Lodge of South Africa. Let me say at once that we have no

Grand jurisdiction at all in South Africa. The nearest approach to it is the

case of the Grand East of the Netherlands, which body has a Deputy Grand

Master for South Africa in the person of Right Wor. Bro. C. C. Silberbauer,

33d, to whom the two Provincial grand Masters are subject, he being the

direct representative of the Grand Lodge at the Hague.



Just a word as to the order in which the four Constitutions were founded in

South Africa. The Netherlands started with Lodge de Goede Hoop (Anglice -

Good Hope) in 1772 and this Constitution was also the pioneer of Freemasonry

in the Transvaal. The English, after some military Lodges which functioned in

the latter part of the eighteenth and early in the 19th century, founded the

British Lodge No. 334 in 1811. Scotland followed (also at Capetown) in 1860

with the Southern Cross Lodge 398, but it was not until 1895 that the Irish

Grand Lodge Chartered a Lodge in South Africa, this being Abercorn, No. 159.



There are now about three hundred and fifty Lodges under all four

Constitutions, English, Irish, Scottish and Netherlandic, in the Union of

South Africa and Rhodesia. At present Rhodesia has no local government in the

shape of District or Provincial Grand Lodges, although there is a movement to

establish a District Grand Lodge under the Scottish Constitution. All Lodges

in these regions work directly under their respective Grand Lodges. This was

the case with many Scottish Lodges in the Union of South Africa until a few

years ago, when the District Grand Lodge of the Eastern Province was

established. The same remark applies to the Irish lodges at the Cape

(Peninsular) which did not come under the regime of the Provincial Grand

Lodge of South Africa. But a couple of years ago the Provincial Grand Lodge

of South Africa, Southern, was established at Capetown, with the Rev. Dr.

Watters as Prov. Grand Master.



The territorial divisions in South Africa, would, I imagine, appear somewhat

chaotic to the American brother who is used to clearly defined geographical

distinctions with supreme jurisdiction in each state. Constitutionally, the

boundaries overlap to a confusing extent, and as each Constitution has its

own ruling with regard to "higher" degrees, the Royal Arch, Mark Masonry, and

so on, it requires some study to grasp the position. Let me say one thing

here; in English, Irish, Scottish or Netherlandic Lodges any brother visiting

Lodges in South Africa from America will be sure of the same brotherly

welcome and hospitality. All work together for the common cause and with the

utmost harmony, and in many districts, have joint Funds of Benevolence, and

Education, and the like, no constitutional distinction being made either with

regard to maintenance or benefits.



THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.



There are five District Grand Lodges District Grand Lodge of South Africa,

Western Division, D.G.L. of S.A. Eastern Division, D.G.L. of S.A., Central

Division, D.G.L. of Natal and D.G.L. of Transvaal, under Right Wor. Bros.

Thos. N. Cranstoun-Day, J.C. Duff, Joseph Van Praagh, Daniel Saunders and

G.S. Burt Andrews respectively. The first District Grand Lodges covers the

western portion of Cape Province (formerly Cape Colony), the second has a

very wide range, extending to Matatiele in East Griqualand in the East, and

as far as Heilbron in the Orange Free State. Formerly the Lodge at De Aar

came under this District but has recently been transferred to the Central

Division. The Headquarters of the Western Division are at Capetown, of the

Eastern at Port Elizabeth and the Central at Kimberley. The D.G. Lodge of

Natal has its seat at Pietermaritzburg, while that of the Transvaal is at

Freemasons' Hall, Johannesburg. This last, by the way, is the only District

Grand Lodge which owns its own building, in which most of the English Lodges

in Johannesburg also hold their meetings. The Central Division takes in one

Lodge in the Western Free State (at Koffiefontein) while several Lodges in

the Eastern portion of this Province are subject to the D. G. Lodge of Natal.

I must here remark that the term " Province " used Masonically does not

necessarily bear any relation to the word in a geographical sense. The

Central Division is the smallest of the District Grand Lodges and governs

Lodges in the Diamond Fields area and North as far as Mafeking.



THE IRISH CONSTITUTION.



As I have already remarked, the Lodges in the Cape Peninsular come within the

scope of the Prov. Grand Lodge of South Africa, Southern, while all the rest

of South Africa, including Rhodesia, is under the charge of Rt. Wor. Bro. Dr.

J. G. Croghan who resides at Johannesburg. Although starting many years later

than its Sister Constitutions, the Irish body is making splendid headway. The

enthusiasm displayed by the Irish Craft is wonderful and at the Annual Stated

Communication brethren travel many days' journey from the uttermost parts of

South Africa to attend.



THE SCOTTISH CONSTITUTION.



There are four District Grand Lodges, Western Province, Eastern Province,

Natal and Transvaal. The Transvaal D.G. Lodge includes the Orange Free State

and one Lodge in foreign Territory, Friendship Lodge at Lourenco Marques,

Portuguese East Africa. These are governed by Rt. Wor. Bros. James Murray

Wilson (Capetown), Dr. F. A. Saunders (Eastern Province), Robert R. Peattie

(Natal) and James Thompson (Transvaal). As remarked earlier, there is a

movement afoot to establish a District Grand Lodge in Rhodesia.



THE NETHERLANDIC CONSTITUTION.



The affairs of this Grand Lodge are controlled from Capetown by Rt. Wor. Bro.

C. C. Silberbauer. The Provincial Grand Master at Capetown is Rt. Wor. Bro.

Mossir Alexander, K. C., who has the whole of South Africa under his charge,

including Rhodesia, while the Prov. Grand Master of the Transvaal is Rt. Wor.

Bro. William B. M. Vogts. This, the oldest Constitution in South Africa, is

making good headway, although it is small, numerically, compared with the

English and Scottish Craft. Some old Lodges under this banner are dormant,

but a few have been revived of late years while new Lodges are being formed

in various parts of the country.



As I said above, the fact that we have these four Constitutions working

together, with some diversity of territorial jurisdiction, will seem

confusing to brethren who reside in a country where the geographical

boundaries are clearly defined, and where only one Grand body holds sway in

each. The confusion is, however, intensified when we come to the "Higher,"

allied or side degrees, for each Constitution has its own peculiarities in

this respect. For instance: In the English system the Royal Arch Degree,

while worked in a separate Chapter bearing the number of the Lodge with which

it is identified (although not always the same name) is regarded as part of

"Pure and Antient" Freemasonry, and a complementary degree to that of Master

Mason. The brother who holds the rank of District Grand Master is, as a rule,

the Grand Superintendent of the Royal Arch, though this is not an invariable

rule. At Capetown the District Grand Master is Rt. Wor. Bro. Cranstoun-Day,

while the Office of Grand Superintendent is held by the Deputy District Grand

Master, M. E. Comp. W. J. Gibbons. In all the other Districts the Grand Supt.

is the District Grand Master.



In the Mark Degree the Office of District Grand Master is usually held by

another distinguished brother. This degree, although it has the Duke of

Connaught as Grand Master, is not actually recognized as part of Craft

Freemasonry, under the English Constitution, but with the Scottish it is

different. Any Craft Lodge may work the Mark degree, and some do; but in the

Transvaal the degree is usually worked in a R. A. Chapter. In the English one

may take the R. A. without the Mark, but not in the Scottish or Irish. And a

Master Mason may proceed to the Rose Croix without any intermediate degree

under the English rule, but not with the Scottish. In the last named

Constitution there is a degree, "Excellent Master," which comes before the

Royal Arch, and an English Companion has to retire while this is being

worked, though an Irish Companion is only required to take a short

obligation, as it is considered that the Irish R. A. approximates to the

Scottish sufficiently to permit the Companion to remain in the Chapter while

it is being worked. There are other degrees associated with the Royal Arch in

the Scottish working, the R. A. Mariner, Knights of the Sword, Knights of the

East and Knights of the East and West, and the Installed Degrees pertaining

thereto, as well as the Cryptic degrees. The R.A. does not appear to be

worked by the Netherlandic Constitution, although there are a few Rose Croix

Chapters operating in South Africa. They have, I believe, some other degrees

of which I cannot say anything, excepting that they are associated with the

Rose Croix system.



THE HIGHER DEGREES.



The Ancient and Accepted Rite, and the A. and A. Scottish Rite have several

Chapters Rose Crois (18d). In the case of the English, there are under the

control of two Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, Ill. Bro. G. S. Burt

Andrews, for Northern South Africa, and Ill. Bro. J. C. Duff for the Southern

portion, while Ill. Bro. James Thompson is the Sov. Grand Inspector General

of the Transvaal for the Scottish body. As a rule the members of the Rose

Croix are all brethren who have served the Craft with distinction, and the

degree may be considered an exclusive one. After passing the Chair of Most

Wise Sovereign in a Rose Croix Chapter a brother is usually recommended by

the Chapter for the 30d, which is as high as most brethren ever get. There

are very few (probably not more than a score) of 31d and 32d Masons in South

Africa, while it is not until a brother is appointed to the charge of a

territory as Sov. Grand Inspector General that he has the honour of the 33d

conferred on him. There are other orders such as the Knights Templar and the

Order of the Secret Monitor working here, but their numbers are limited, and

few of the rank and file of the Craft enter them.



I have noticed that the "Higher degrees" seem to command a large support in

America, and this is, probably, because where very large Lodges exist, the

brethren naturally seek for other channels of advancement. With us the Lodge

is a small unit, many Lodges containing perhaps twenty to thirty active

members. We consider a Lodge of a hundred a large one. Our opportunities for

advancement in the Craft proper, therefore, are greater than seems to be the

case in the United States, five to ten years being long enough in the

ordinary way for a brother to attain the Chair of King Solomon, while there

are the further prospects of advancement in District or Provincial Grand

Lodge rank.



MASONIC BENEVOLENCE



The four Constitutions unite in supporting Masonic Charities in most

Districts and Provinces. We have only one District which can boast of "Bricks

and Mortar" in this respect, namely the Transvaal, which has a fine Masonic

Hostel for boys at Boksburg, a few miles from Johannesburg. There is every

prospect of a similar institution for girls being established in the near

future, while another scheme which has been mooted from time to time is the

foundation of a Hostel for aged brethren and widows. The Boys' Home is under

the auspices of the Transvaal Masonic Educational Institution, while the

relief of aged and indigent brethren and their widows and dependents is

undertaken by the Transvaal Masonic Benevolent Fund. In addition to this,

most District and Prov. Grand Lodges have their own Benevolent Fund, as has

every Private Lodge.



MEETING PLACES.



The only District Grand Lodge which owns a building is that under the English

Constitution for the Transvaal. Freemasons' Hall in Johannesburg was acquired

some years ago, and the Offices of District Grand Lodge are in this fine

building. Most of the English Lodges in the city meet there. In some other

cases a building is owned jointly by two or three Lodges

By 1950, the world has succum to heresies of demonic nature from media, and gangster-type programming, to total control through education for dumbing down.

Before and after 1950, they use Chinese Scientists (many still being killed now or arrested a spies, one arrested in regard to Los Alamos by 2003) along with Islamists, and 'satanists' who are only arrested later or killed.

(See Clinton/KGB and Chinese)

They used microwave weapons to create ADHD, SARS (radiation effect), cancers, by signals to the brain to pick up body and brain signals to send back and through satellite; illnesses, attacks through tracking, etc.

Search: Chinese + Scientist + 1975 + brain signals (althouh the scientists killed from 1990 to present in all countries were also used)

China is where the stock money is being invested from crime now. Trillions of dollars a year in fraud, like the more recent Airport arrests, and the Chinese black-market butterfly sales reported on CNN are paying for Jewish deaths). The death money from elderly homes, to the banks, after the bankers deaths (over 20 in Russia and the Intl Sephardic Jewish banker in 2005), all other deaths and indictments takes the money to Swiss Accounts.

And all anyone sees is the 'Pauls' (those who watch the death of rabbis in Israel and go along with the Satanic Church) or 'do gooders' used as 'informants' in doctors, radiology, and every palce else if anyone mentions the crimes.

The Destruction of Russian, Israel, UK, United States Jewry; and forced conversion to heresy through radiation, job loss, millions of deaths; Same as Ancient Days; those who turn into the "Pauls" who go along with the Satanic Church and watch "Jesus" (the current torture of Rabbis who believe in one god and speak up for the worldwide kidnapping of children and creation of orphans)--those are very clearly seen. 'Zionism' is only another term for the "Jubilee" each century of the Church using Satanists/Builders/Reich to force conversions and then kill Jewish, setting up new churches (as was currently the case in Russia after millions of Jewish deaths); and millions taken out of Russia, not given work, then displaced, forced into shelters, poverty, killed by 'do gooders' who do not see how they got there.

The documenation is always the case throughout every century for Rome to have mass killings, plagues, and deaths under "Terror Wars" and call it a "New World Order." The brainwashing, accusations, deaths, to get to the 'Jubilee' as in Jubilee 2000, when millions of Jews had already been killed.

"Now, before the 14th century, the Jews of Europe had already begun to be persecuted in parts of Europe.."

Rome will keep playing both sides, the Satanic Reaper and Jewish killer and their 'savior' accepting them into another country for the next wars.

You wil notice the setting up of new construction, new areas, areas that are 'not affected' as much by the wars, and many other purposely controlled things for creating 'prosperity' in other areas, another money maker in -reconstruction at the same time.

"It is important to realize that most of these changes occurred in western and central Europe - not eastern Europe.

Eastern Europe did not suffer from the plague to the same extent.

"Poland had hardly any cases of plague at all."

"The doctors, radiologists, nurses, police, KGB, Mossad, CIA's, FBI's, are all killed at some time to bring abuot this massive 'Satanic Jubilee' we see

today, along with the plagues, the populationists used, pseudo-eugenics to

continue killing and then set up new churches in all countries with a "new"

Pope. So, the deaths of Jews who do right or who follow the Holy Torah

continued from 1929 for this moment where we see massive ritual killings,

hired terrorists, the use of foreign scientists and armies, and agents, in

each opposite country, race' and 'religious' wars, while the 'races' and

'religions' are the same as ancient days."

Jewish doctors have continued being killed

Other Jewish doctors and nurses killed at he end of the 'holocaust' in WWII

for this ongoing 'Old World Order'

Henrietta Szold
In early 1948, just before the State of Israel was declared, Arab troops

ambushed and murdered seventy-seven Jewish doctors and nurses from

...www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Szold.html

In 2004, a woman is fired from a government facility/NSA for opening her mouth about tapping water. Of course from 1929 to today, the 'plagues' have gotten worse, along with the 'diseases' made by Romes Chinese, and other scientists, who were then killed before 9-11 or are still being used under the world leaders.

"Rumours that Jews had started the plague:

In 1348, the rumor spread that the black death was due to an international conspiracy of Jews to poison Christendom.

It was reported that one of the chief rabbi in Savoy had dispatched his poisoners to France, Switzerland, and Italy.

(remember Jews were often merchants - and the infected rats were carried by merchants - so there may have been coincidental evidence to support these accusations)

The Count of Savoy authorized the inquisition of Jews under torture to affirm or deny these rumours.

Some Jews confessed - under torture mind you - to spreading the plague.

A Jewish merchant (Agimet) who had been buying silks in Venice - confessed that he had poisoned the wells of Venice with a special powder."


And like the case above, since 1929, all Jews who observe Torah or who were least innocent, who got the tail end of the crimes, was killed, shot, indicted, and will be at a later time. The facts show it over and over again.

1) Europes 'Black Deaths' and wars
www.luc.edu/faculty/ldossey/bubonicanov6.htm

By 2006, millions of Jews are killed (Chabad, politicians, Jewish children in plane 'crashes,' car crashes, SARS (radiation), and every other type of crime against them, or put on 'mental' lists in Chicago's "Eugenics inhertiance" lists, emmigrants from Russia above age 40 reduced to poverty, death, cancer from radiation, or put into elderly housing on WIC, or into shelters, where they are forced to 'come to Christ.'

Crisis Management for Community's Most Vulnerable
January 11, 2007

Jan L. Apple
Jewish Federation Feature
An initiative entitled Community Connections Enhanced Case Management is

making a dramatic difference by stabilizing the lives of some of the most

vulnerable Jews in the Philadelphia region.

Administered by Jewish Family and Children's Service (JFCS), Community

Connections, in place since April 2005, provides ongoing, in-depth case

management services to needy Jews under age 65 and their families, living at

or near poverty. During its first year, 156 clients were served. That number

is expected to increase.

Also Search: killed + holocaust survivor (0ver 10,000+ have been targets)
Obituary + holocaust survivor
Plane crashes
Synagogues set on fire around the world
Jewish + harassed + Canada (or Russia)
Russia just now setting up more hate groups
again after massive purges

"Our focus is on people with chronic needs," explained Joanne Lippert, LSW,

assistant director of JFCS' Case Management Department. "Most of these

clients have chronic mental health issues, illnesses or physical

disabilities. Some are homeless. People are often shocked to discover that

there are Jewish homeless in our community."

Here, where they forced Jews into shelters, and 'mental health' clinics, the 'do gooders' will later be killed or accused of helping with the deaths or destruction, or killed which has been the case. And the doctors, radiologists, and others being used as 'informants' too, have continued being targets of murder (along with the 2000 discussion with Art Bell on the deaths of coroners).

In many instances, they forced Jews (in the U.S. in shelters and wordlwide) to 'declare Christ' after their near-death and job loss, after years of radiation (they have also continued to isolate myself through these radiation crimes and use totally ignorant people to yell at me and say, "I don't need to know anything, you need Christ!"). They are doing this to millions. The ACLU is receiving millions of calls as they stated on their phone line. But, no one is getting any real help until their death. They will keep up with the illegal actions, fabricating something in the end, and then getting rid of those involved.

Who are with the Pauls today; those who will spit in the face of a tortured

Rabbi, ready to slander the next killed, or arrested, and even the innocent,

and then stand by when people are tortured, and deny any truth while they see

it each day in front of them; or those who speak up about it; those who are

most closely related to the 'Trinity' and other areas for profits, who cave

in under others being hanged, even over a job? And in every single case,

those in NSA, CIA, FBI, courts, and all other areas will go along with it; as

they are fired if they don't, and you can be sure that they too will become

victims; and with each victim, not one, did the 'state' and Nepotism use

anyone who likes them to kill them. Under surveillance for over 60 years,

Jews were not attacked and induced with death by someone set up who agrees

with them but who is opposed to their beliefs just as when Noah knew all had

become corrupted and there was none who listened. And the enemy attacks the

individual today with each opposer they can, while killing each person who

will not be an opposer already having them all staked out, i.e., an attack

right in a Rabbis own home or in their car and then attacks on the police who

went to the scene, then attacks from one person after the other.

The goal is not to really get rid of heresy but increase it. The goal is not

here to really let those who beleive in Torah have the land, but to have

worldwide leaders keep helping with money to Swiss Banks and reduce the power

of Torah believers, those who have studied truths for years, and do not

succumb to heresy so that those fighting for power in other areas can keep

control of Israel and keep up the wars, the attacks on them.

"In the summer of 1929, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak

Schneersohn (1880-1950), visited the Land of Israel. The Rebbe departed the

Holy Land on Thursday, August 22, two days before the Arab Riots of 1929 in

which scores of Jews were massacred in Hebron and Jerusalem. Among the dead

and wounded were several of the Rebbe's family relations and disciples."

A Sephardic Perspective on Hevron Part II - Opinion - Arutz Sheva
... murderers killed Hakham Hanokh Hasson, the chief Sephardic rabbi, and his

entire family. ... Sephardic rabbi in Hevron subsequent to the 1929 pogroms

was ...www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/5974 -

1929 Hebron massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Safed, 18 Jews were killed and 80 injured. See also: 1929 Safed massacre

... [6] Rabbi Slonim refused to turn over the students and was killed on the

...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

Messianic Movements and killings now become accepted by taking old deities

and changing the names, adding dictionary terms and suggestive heresies heard

long enough, after many years of it, and many years of indoctrination and

acceptance of the suggestions given through large secular areas to cults,

where money and weapons and the stock markets in death has increased the pull

of power along with oil.

1929 News
... Frank MARLOW, racketeer, was found shot and killed near the Flushing

Cemetery. ... Rabbi LEVINTHAL has been elected a delegate for the Zionist

congress at ...www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Newspaper/BSU/1929.News.July.html

The mob operates out of U.S. and Chicago even paying Klaus Barbie and those

associated with Scientology in Germany; the same as present, and with the

KGB.

Chicago Jewish News - Jewish Chicago's Hometown Newspaper
... Epstein tells it, in 1929 Goldman was serving as rabbi of the Cleveland

Jewish Center. ... family, including his wife, were killed, he somehow got

hold of ...www.chicagojewishnews.com/lists_chirabbis.htm

Few said anything until much later, and those who were murdered by doctors,

killed, political assassinations, were denied because all were so consumed

with 'cover ups,' minds too small to see the big picture, total denial of

truth by brainwashing, and only 'trained to do' or totally self-induldged in

their own god while milions are taking part in the killings, the whole

society taking part, half lying and the other half working for the corruption

under the Nepotism the truth sayers.

Well over 10 million Jews have been killed and through many actions, certain

families continued to be attacked and kept from multiplying until the

present. Also by the constant wars, movements, 'intermarriage,' conversions

to Judaism, killings, many are continually forced into secularism and other

religions, not recognized as 'Jews.' But, those who believe in real Torah

will sure to be attacked.

"This is the regime of Auschwitz, to which the transports began

yesterday—12,000 Jews, men, women, children, and the elderly, ill and

healthy, each and every day, to be suffocated, incinerated, and used as

fertilizer in the fields. In view of them, why are you, fellow Jews and

government ministers in all the free countries, being silent about this

slaughter, in which some six million Jews have been murdered thus far, and in

which tens of thousands are now being murdered every day?"
--Rabbi Weissmandel
from www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hungary1.html

Rabbi Yekele one of the Famous Turkl's Hasidim
Rabbi Mordechai Zeev Wolf Turkel 1845-1929. was a prominent Rabbi, descendant

of ... with his family to Belzitz in September 1942 and was killed two months

later. ...www.geocities.com/turkel.geo/FAMOUS/Yekel.htm

Rabbi Meir Kahane would be set up for attacks before 9-11, while millions of

other Jews were still being killed, although I don't believe he was as

scholarly as many Rabis of the past and still those being attacked; people

have been killed moreso based on 'thought' and real intelligence, those in

living reality, especially for the last 80 years for this Rome Occupation.

Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane
... why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in

1929? ... Arabs cried and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that upset

stomach ...www.kahane.org/meir/dear_world.htm

We still see this term 'goy' even with those in cults and converts today;

with no understanding of what it would have meantif it were used in ancient

days; Just like the other words which are turned around under Roman standards

and gods. It was a term for those in heretical movements and wars; which

again most have succumb to today with zoarastrianism. There was a King of Goy

during raids in Israel and constant attacks while the new group with Moses

tried to protect families from all the worldwide religions and set up the

Tabernacle, but at each moment, 'history' is controlled more verbally until

all conform to distorted texts to be controlled for these constant wars.

"Goy" is any distortion outside of rela Torah truths. We see people with no

training but in distorted heresy today use this term. Of course, they are

usually not up on the constant moving and removing of Jewish societies, most

who were forced into Christianity because of Paul, Rome, Egypt, Iran, and the

same today.

millions of references are out there on the 'hate' and 'goy,' in some

instances with imaginations of racial ideas without any real concept of how

people have been constantly intermarried for years, overlapping religions,

Persian and other powers doing it, as millions of other simple minded

references while not living in reality of the moment:

Rabbinic Literature as a historical source for the study of the Gospels ...

(PDF)
that a ʻgoyʼ who studies the Torah must be killed (Sanh 59a). R. Yohanan ...

The following is told about Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa, a Gali

...christusrex.org/www1/ofm/sbf/Books/LA52/LA52217Manns_RabbinicLit.pdf

Rabbinic Literature as a historical source for the study of the Gospels ...

(PDF)
that a ʻgoyʼ who studies the Torah must be killed (Sanh 59a). R. Yohanan ...

The following is told about Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa, a Gali

...christusrex.org/www1/ofm/sbf/Books/LA52/LA52217Manns_RabbinicLit.pdf



The statements below are always the case. You do not hear about anything

except anti-Israel while millions of Jewish are still being killed to destroy

that power, because the 'leaders' are in Nepotism spots for many years while

the money goes to only a couple; the leaders are getting big benefits by

deaths, investments in oil, war, all being 'told what to say and do' based on

opposite teachings, and geared towards those making money off the many gods

and heresies who oppose Israel.

Yasir Arafat's Timeline of Terror
www.camera.org/index.asp

Members of the media are focusing much attention on Yasir Arafat's legacy.

Many of the historical briefs and timelines being published whitewash his

decades-long involvement in terrorism. While they note that Arafat led Fatah

and the PLO, the terrorist acts committed by these groups are often ignored.

For example, a Nov. 4 AP timeline, reproduced in the publications and Web

sites of many different media outlets, lists only one failed act of sabotage

in 1965, 3 suicide bombings in December of 2001 and one in 2002.

In fact, groups under Arafat's direct or indirect command – including Fatah,

Black September, Tanzim and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade – were responsible for

hundreds of bombings, hijackings, assassinations and other attacks, including

the 1972 murder of 11 of Israel's Olympic athletes in Munich, the 1973 murder

of the American ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel, and the 1985 hijacking of the

Achille Lauro cruiseship (resulting in the murder of wheelchair-bound Leon

Klinghoffer).

The AP timeline instead highlights Israel's anti-PLO actions without

providing the reason – decades of terrorist attacks against innocent

civilians. Not only is the PLO's history of international hijackings,

kidnappings and child murders ignored, the terrorist organization and

Arafat's leadership of it are actually praised:

Feb. 4, 1969: Arafat takes over PLO chairmanship, transforms it into a

dynamic force that makes Palestinian cause known worldwide.

Anielewicz, Mordecai Leader of the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto

killed in 1943.

Anschluss From a German word for political union, Hitler's annexation of part

of Austria.

antisemitism Hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jewish people or

Judaism. The term "Semitic" refers to the descendents of Shem, a common

ancestor of Middle Eastern peoples, but is now used specifically to refer to Jews.

Today, we have seen this from 1990 to present, cleaning out whole

communities, bringing in immigrants, forcing Jewish on drugs by microwave

weapons, deaths, into poverty, forced conversions to Messianism, moved to

Israel and forced into poverty there or killed, and turned gay by the Roman

Catholic Church or pedophiles, arrested, until there are isolated Jeiwsh

communties with Islam moving in in New York.

"Ghetto and Shtetl
To make their spiritual lives richer, Jews had usually chosen to live in

Jewish communities, close by a synagogue. Nevertheless, these were voluntary

settlements, and there were always some Jews who lived outside of them for

one reason or another. During the fourteenth century in Spain and Portugal,

however, Jews were compelled for the first time to live apart from non-Jews.

Then in 1516, in Venice, Italy, the Catholic Church ordered that walls be

built around the Jewish quarter. Venice gave this walled-in compound the name

ghetto, which may come from borghetto ("little borough") or from the Italian

word for a nearby iron foundry, gettare ("to cast in metal"). At night the

ghetto gates were sealed and guards were posted to make sure that the Jews

would not come out until daybreak.

In part, the Catholic Church created the ghetto to protect the Jews from

attack. Ignorant peasants believed not only that the Jews were guilty of

having killed Jesus, but also that the Jews brought bad luck or practiced

evil magic. So when things went wrong, or life became difficult, they blamed

the Jews, and often did them bodily harm. But in part the Church built the

ghetto in order to separate Jews from Christians, and this isolation only

served to make matters worse, for it heightened the superstitions of the

peasants.

In a short time--and for like reasons--ghettos appeared throughout Europe.

Jews were sometimes forced to wear badges on their clothing to show they were

Jewish (this was another idea that the Nazis would later borrow). By

generally accepted practice, often written into Church law, Jews were not

allowed to own land and were forbidden to participate in many professions.

In eastern Europe, particularly in Poland and Lithuania, there were fewer

ghettos. Instead, Jews lived in small private towns called shtetls. The

government often protected shtetls, and the government would sometimes use

taxes collected from the Jews living in these small communities to support

the local rabbi or even a town council. But the shtetl had much the same

effect as the ghetto: it singled out the Jews and separated them from the

non-Jewish world." ---www.rossel.net/Holocaust05.htm

www.jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/

"In just 50 years, almost a million Jews, whose communities stretch back up to 3,000 years, have been 'ethnically cleansed' from Arab countries. These refugees outnumber the Palestinian refugees two to one, but their narrative has all but been ignored. Unlike Palestinian refugees, they fled not war, but systematic persecution. Seen in this light, Israel, which absorbed most of these Jewish refugees, is the legitimate expression of the self-determination of an oppressed indigenous, Middle Eastern people.
This website is dedicated to preserving the memory of the near-extinct Jewish communities. It will attempt to pass on the stories of the Jewish refugees and their current struggle for recognition and restitution. Awareness of the injustice done to these Jews can only advance the cause of peace and reconciliation.
(Iran: once an ally of Israel, Iran is now an implacable enemy and numbers of Iranian Jews have fallen drastically from 80,000 to 20,000 since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Their plight - and that of all other communities threatened by Islamism - does therefore fall within the scope of this blog.)"

"Palestinians have not been the Middle East's only victims of tumultuous forces beyond their control. Another group that got swept up in history's unforgiving currents was the Arab world's once-thriving Jewish minority: the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.

NOTE: That from Biblical days, there could not be less than 500 million Jews today, even by wars, as other peoples accumulate. And we hear of 'population control' 'Eugenics' which is another term for this constant Roman Empire turmoil of fifty million groups at a time killing others or allowing it to happen. And those used by the Roman Catholic CHurch are mostly gangsters and criminal types, not any pure race or Aryan or any other the other lies. It is simply for them to make money and set up newer cities. Usually the city where big investments are going, was previously used for the killing of Jews; as China and Germany were under unethical studies.

"There were some three-quarters of a million Jews living in Arab countries prior to the creation of Israel in 1948. The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) had a Jewish population of up to half a million; Iraq, up to 140,000; Egypt had up to 100,000; and Yemen, around 50,000. Today, the Jewish populations of most Arab countries number a few hundred or fewer, with the exception of Morocco which still has a few thousand Jews.

"Although most Middle Eastern Jews saw Zionism as a remote and alien European dream, about half the Jews who left or were expelled from Arab countries ended up in Israel. The rest went to Europe and the Americas, the largest single group settling in France.

"Rather like "Jew", "Arab"' is a very loose tag applied to a diverse range of peoples and cultures. It covers the real McAhmed Arab societies of Arabia, as well as the "Arabised" societies of the rest of the Middle East. The only things Arabs share in common are language - and that is not always the case, given the great difficult those from the western reaches of the Arab world have in communicating with those in the east - and to a lesser extent religion, ie most but by no means all are Muslim.

"Each major Jewish population in the Arab world had its own distinct identity and history. The Iraqi Jewish population is believed to have been the most established, having lived in Mesopotamia since at least the Babylonian exile. In fact, according to Biblical mythology, Abraham was an "Iraqi" who moved to Canaan (modern-day Syria, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine) and, procreative genius that he was, gave birth to three nations: the Israelites, the Arabs and the Edomites. Bizarrely, "God" also promised old Abe land that was already inhabited for his offspring, without satisfactorily explaining how this would come about or what was to be done with the locals.

"Palestinians have not been the Middle East's only victims of tumultuous forces beyond their control. Another group that got swept up in history's unforgiving currents was the Arab world's once-thriving Jewish minority: the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.

"There were some three-quarters of a million Jews living in Arab countries prior to the creation of Israel in 1948. The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) had a Jewish population of up to half a million; Iraq, up to 140,000; Egypt had up to 100,000; and Yemen, around 50,000. Today, the Jewish populations of most Arab countries number a few hundred or fewer, with the exception of Morocco which still has a few thousand Jews.

"Although most Middle Eastern Jews saw Zionism as a remote and alien European dream, about half the Jews who left or were expelled from Arab countries ended up in Israel. The rest went to Europe and the Americas, the largest single group settling in France.

NEWS FOR MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE: holocaust
... be named for an Israeli Holocaust survivor killed in Monday's shooting rampage. ... year-old Romanian-Jewish immigrant and Holocaust survivor named Liviu Librescu ...motnews.blogspot.com/search/label/holocaust

Israeli Holocaust official likens Jewish Settlers To Nazis -- Signs of ...
Lapid, a Holocaust survivor who lost his father to the Nazi genocide, said in a ... Noam Arnon, said 37 Jews had been killed in the Hebron area in the past ...signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/126040-Israeli+...+To+Nazis

Those in Russia, Israel, and the United States who will not succumb to satanic/Builders/Baal/pedophile Heresy have been victims in the millions.