Preliminary :   Without any doubt the reader is not being deliberately deceived by the author — considering the nature of some of the controversies one could almost say, refreshing.

It seems to me, I would rather say I am nearly certain but then I am not thoroughly familiar with the detail — that Paul A. Fisher has partially erred by mistakenly assigning much blame for much human misfortune to certain organizations which might have been partially involved and yet not be the principal agents of illth.

The Masons were sundry variety of groups which had often refused to recognize one another, which would compete for notable members, which might often not even have known one about the other and which were often not that really serious about what there were up to.

One notes in Behind the lodge door the absence of consideration given Mr. Aleister Crowley, and that does look like a serious omission. Perhaps this might be corrected by the author at some later times ; anyhow, one might confer Autohagiography by A. Crowley and his other accounts of his own (extremely numerous) titles of membership or of merit in the various organizations.

One of Crowley�s mottoes having been, �exceed�, he was not sparing in his criticisms of the Christian religion, and some few others to boot. Yet, one can venture to offer that some familiarity with his work will make a better Christian out of the Christian.

The absence of the works by A. Crowley which I have noticed in the Los Angeles Public Library does not look accidental. Whodunit.

And why. My main drift, roughly stated : there has been an anti-social conspiracy, or series of conspiracies, going on in the 20th century, possibly somewhat linked with some earlier traditions — the marxist-leninist conspiracy. This, without any doubt whatsoever, by the statements of its key members themselves, from Oulianoff (Lenin) to Suslov, etc.

Why guess anything else (which may be desultory). Any links after 1917-20 with any other organizations might have resulted from the tactics of infiltration which were standard with the Bolsheviks.

There may be more to these stories than I know but one can ever aim with certainty at that 20th century development — which has not yet entirely been dissolved.

WPT

From Behind the Lodge Door by Paul A. Fisher, 1988

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James H. Billington . . . notes that the �Masonic lodges of Geneva provided the ambiance� in which the early19th Century revolutionary, Filippo Giuseppe Buonarotti — the �first apostle of modern communism� — formulated �his first full blueprint for a new society of revolutionary republicans ; the Sublime and Perfect Masters�. Both the society�s name and the three levels of membership proposed for it �had been adopted from Masonry.�^{76, 77}

The New Age observed that after 1825, many Russian Masons exiled themselves to France, where lodges operating in the Russian language were sponsored by the Grand Orient. Some of the exiles later returned to Russia, and organized lodges in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Later, additional lodges were organized in the early 20th Century and had �an avowedly political aim and view ; namely, that of the overthrow of the autocracy.�⁷⁸

The Scottish Rite monthly added: �The first Revolution in March, 1917 is said to have been inspired and operated from these lodges and all the members of Kerenski�s government belonged to them.�⁷⁹

Comment   By some data I have seen elsewhere the above statements are entirely true. Significant may also be the Masonic connection of the French �socialist� Albert Thomas, who seemed to have belonged to one of the lodges together with Kerensky etc.

This �socialism� may have been indeed problematic ; please confer The Fatal Years by Colonel B.V. Nikitine, where clear arguments are seen that this Kerensky�s �socialism� had assisted the Bolsheviks in their quest for ruin and murder.

However, the earlier (and more truly Russian) Revolution of March 1917 was simply hijacked, so to speak, by Lenin�s group ; Kerensky himself was eventually extremely active at undoing that tragic outcome, in part of his own mistakes, in part of some other factors. — (WPT).

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    76, Billington [James A., Fire In The Minds Of Men. New York, Basic Books, 1980], p. 92.
    Billington also substantially confirms what the Abbé Barruel and Professor Robison had disclosed in the late 18th Century about the Order Of Illuminati. (etc).
    77. Billington, p. 91.
    78. New Age, February, 1945. Frederick C. Loofbourow, citing a Russian exile and Mason, Dr. M.M. Imchanitzky, an �active member of the Masonic Club �Russia� in New York City,� p. 82.

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Rockford, Illinois : TAN Books, 1994.

Fisher, Paul A. Title Behind the lodge door : Church, State, and Freemasonry in America / Paul A. Fisher. Publisher Washington, D.C. : Shield Pub., c1988. Description 362 p. ; 24 cm. Note Errata slip inserted. Includes index. Note Bibliography: p. [345]-353. ISBN 0944700004 : Language English