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FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM

This article is a sort of sequel to the preceding one, and it also appeared in La Flèche No. 11, March 15, 1932. Naglowska signed it with one of her favorite pseudonyms, “Auguste Apôtre.”

La Flèche has just explained the attitude of our group with respect to the inesthetic act of J. Marquès-Rivière.

For my part, I will say here what I think on the subject of the two Houses of God that at this moment divide the civilized world into two hostile camps with regard to each other, in spite of the unique spiritual base that binds them together beyond the always-deceiving human appearances.

The two Houses of God, Roman Catholicism, on the one hand, and Freemasonry, on the other, possess the truth of the Second Term of the Trinity, the truth of the Son, which separates the flesh from the spirit because of the divorce brought to the earth by Christ (read La Flèche Nos. 7, 9, and 10).

But, while the Roman Church, whose mission was and still is to express only the pure Christic idea—oh! as pure as possible—subordinates the word of the First Term to that of the Second, and totally ignores the Third Term, whose coming signifies for it the end of the world. Freemasonry, on the other hand, has for its historic task, besides the realization of the Christian idea, the keeping alive of the First Term, of which the Jews are the chosen people, and the preparation of the coming of the Third Term, which will reveal all truths to humanity.

It is because of its mission, so defined, that the more or less official teaching of Freemasonry is by necessity uncertain and at times even contradictory.

Indeed, belonging historically to the Second Term of the Trinity, this Society sees the separation established by Christ between the spirit and the flesh as a good thing, and shares, in the ethical and moral domains, Christian sentiment. It officially venerates chastity and considers the woman’s sex as the pit of sin.

But, representing, at the same time, the persistent will of the First Term, it is the guardian of the eternal Law of the affirmation of the concrete world—an affirmation wished by the Creator, that is to say by the very Life of God—and in that is near to Judaism. Like the latter, it is rationalist and intellectual, because, desiring life, in spite of the blame thrust upon sex, it is forced to give itself some artificial excuses that form the intellect. Man is intelligent, because having denied the natural light, that is to say the devine, he is forced to illumine himself with lamps that he has invented.

In the third place, Freemasonry prepares the future. It does it unconsciously, pushed into it by a force that it does not know except incompletely. It does not know where it is going, but it has faith in its invisible guides. And it is that which it calls: its tradition.

The future, the new phase, presents itself to the eyes of the Roman Catholics as a disappearance of the world, precisely because it is impossible for them to admit, without contradicting themselves, spiritual perfection joined to the continuation of the human race. Man does not come into the world without a previous coitus, but the Perfect, according to Christ, must not indulge in sex. In the city of the Just, according to the Catholic thesis, there will be no new births. To even make Life continue, the immortality of the Just would be needed. That is the source of all the clever Christian inventions concerning the Beyond and the Future Life, after the second coming of Christ upon the earth.

The tradition, which is anyway very obscure, of Freemasonry allows for a solution that is at the same time more logical and more divine. It is there that human Reason has truly shown the Mirror of God.

Indeed, the triumph of Christ (or of the Messiah) appears to the eyes of Freemasons under the natural form of a positive event, that is to say in conformity with the eternal Laws. For them, the reign of Christ triumphant is the triumph of Good over Evil within a human framework and without the disappearance of our planet. It is here, in the harmony of the laws that we call physical, that the Miracle will be accomplished, the great transformation of humans, who, illuminated by the true Light, will reorganize their existence according to Justice, Mercy, and Truth.

How? No Freemason will answer this question for you, for none of them know the answer. The Masonic mystery is hermetic in this regard, because no Freemason has anything to reveal on the subject. They only know that in duly respecting every word of God, that of the First Term as well as that of the Second, the Third Word will come as it must come, according to its natural logic. In that the Brothers of Freemasonry are really algebrists who patiently follow the development of the equation whose solution will be correct, because the givens are exact.

Now, if some imagine that La Flèche, organe d’action magique is a Masonic organization, destined to defend the cause of the Brotherhood, we beg them to disabuse themselves of the notion as soon as possible. Not only are none of us (who sign as La Flèche, Auguste Apôtre, Hanoum, Xénia Norval, and Maria de Naglowska) Freemasons, but it is also very probable that none of the Brothers working in the Workshops would be in agreement with what we have just expounded.

But we affirm this: better than the Freemasons, we know what they are doing and where they are going—for we have received the revelation that they have not, as yet. We have traveled for almost fifty years, and the Light has shown itself to us.

We have lived in Rome, without physically approaching the place reserved for St. Peter and his vicars, and we have heard that which can only be perceived from afar.

We have wandered among the sands of the desert, and we have paid homage to Great Egypt.

The words that have been put into our mouth enclose the total truth of the present hour, and what we proclaim, we understand.

The great Widow has again seen her Spouse. She found him in a tomb, and he dressed her wounds.

The Spouse awakens at this moment, and the second marriage of the Separated will soon be celebrated, to the great joy of all.

Humanity will not suffer much longer. After the last storm, general Peace will triumph.

The Golden Mass will be the concrete consecration of the beginning of the New Era.