THE BUILDER DECEMBER 1919

THE ENCYCLICAL LETTER "HUMANUM GENUS" OF THE POPE LEO XIII

In the November issue of THE BUILDER we published the Encyclical
Letter "Humanum Genus" of Pope Leo XIII. Brother Albert Pike, Grand
Commander of the Supreme Council 33d Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, made the following reference to it in
his Allocution to the Supreme Council in October, 1884. Brother
Pike's famous reply to the Pope's Letter will be published in an
early issue.

IF THE Encyclical Letter of Leo XIII., entitled, from its opening
words, "Humanum Genus," had been nothing more than a denunciation
of Free-Masonry, I should not have thought it worth replying to.
But under the guise of a condemnation of Free-Masonry, and a
recital of the enormities and immoralities of the Order, in some
respects so absurdly false as to be ludicrous, notwithstanding its
malignity, it proved upon perusal to be a declaration of war, and
the signal for a crusade, against the rights of men individually
and of communities of men as organisms; against the separation of
Church and State, and the confinement of the Church within the
limits of its legitimate functions; against education free from
sectarian religious influences; against the civil policy of non-
Catholic countries in regard to marriage and divorce; against the
great doctrine upon which, as upon a rock not to be shaken, the
foundations of our Republic rest, that "men are superior to
institutions, and not institutions to men"; against the right of
the people to depose oppressive, cruel and worthless rulers;
against the exercise of the rights of free thought and free speech,
and against, not only republican, but all constitutional
government.

It was the signal for the outbreaking of an already organized
conspiracy against the peace of the world, the progress of
intellect, the emancipation of humanity, the immunity of human
creatures from arrest, imprisonment, torture, and murder by
arbitrary power, the right of men to the free pursuit of happiness.
It was a declaration of war, arraying all faithful Catholics in the
United States, not only against their fellow-citizens, the Brethren
of the Order of Free-Masons, but against the principles that are
the very life-blood of the government of the people of which they
were supposed to be a part, and not the members of Italian
Colonies, docile and obedient subjects of a foreign Potentate, and
of the Cardinals, European and American, his Princes of the Church.

Therefore, seeing it nowhere replied to in the English language in
a manner that seemed to me worthy of Free-Masonry, I undertook to
answer it for the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, which has
been ever prompt to vindicate itself from aspersion, and carry the
war into the quarters of error. I did not propose to stand upon the
defensive, protesting against the accusations of the Papal Bull, as
unjust to the FreeMasonry of the English-speaking countries of the
world, pleading the irresponsibility of British and American
Masonry for the acts or opinions of the FreeMasonry of the
Continent of Europe: nor was I inclined to apologize for the
audacity of Free-Masonry in daring to exist and to be on the side
of the great principles of free government.

When the journal in London which speaks for the Free-Masonry of the
Grand Lodge of England, deprecatingly protested that the English
Masonry was innocent of the charges preferred by the Papal Bull
against Free-Masonry as one and indivisible; when it declared that
the English Free-Masonry had no opinions political or religious,
and that it did not in the least degree sympathize with the loose
opinions and extravagant utterances of part of the Continental
Free-Masonry, it was very justly and very conclusively checkmated
by the Romish organs with the reply: "It is idle for you to
protest. You are Free-Masons, and you recognize them as Free-
Masons. You give them countenance, encouragement and support, and
you are jointly responsible with them and cannot shirk that
responsibility."

And here is what is said by the Bishop of Ascalon, Vicar-Apostolic
of Bombay, &c., in a pastoral letter promulgating the Bull:

"In the performance of their duty, the Parish Priests and
Confessors must not admit as valid or reasonable the common excuse
that Free-Masonry in India and England aims at nothing but social
amusement, mutual advancement, and charitable benevolence. Such
objects require neither a terrible oath of secrecy nor an elaborate
system and scale of numerous Degrees, nor a connection with the
Masonic Lodges of other countries, about whose anti-Christian,
anti-social, and revolutionary character and aim no doubt nor
further concealment is possible. The Masonic lodges all over the
world are firmly knitted and bound together in solidarity. If all
of them share in the pleasure of a triumph achieved by a particular
Lodge, or by the Lodges of a particular country, all must likewise
submit to the stigma of an anti-Christian, anti-social, and
revolutionary sect, as which Free-Masonry is in many countries
already openly known, and even unblushingly confessed by its own
adepts."

I was not willing that the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in
the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States should humiliate
itself to as little purpose: nor was there any danger that it would
do so.

The organs of our American Masonry were inclined to treat the
Encyclical Letter as needing no reply, and to regard it with
contemptuous indifference. In their opinion, it seemed, the
lightnings of the Vatican were harmless, and the American Masonry
would do a foolish thing to pay any attention to the Bull. It may
be so; and I receive with due humility the admonition that to reply
to it was to make much ado about nothing.

But the Free-Masonry of the United States is not what it was in the
days of the Fathers. While it has succeeded, obedient to the
impulsion of Bro.'. Richard Vaux, of Pennsylvania, and others, in
pretty effectually isolating itself from the Masonry of the rest of
the world, other Orders at home unceremoniously jostle it in the
struggle for precedence, and it in vain appeals t its antiquity and
former prestige to protect it against irreverence. Incalculable
harm is being done by Bodies of base origin, whose agents traverse
the country soliciting men to receive the counterfeit Degrees which
they peddle, selling them by the score for ten or fifteen dollars
to any one who will buy, and conferring all in an hour or so, or by
administering a single obligation. Rites without claim to be
Masonic, teaching nothing, worth nothing, flauntingly advertise
their multitudes of Degrees that are nothing but numbers and names;
new Orders called Masonic spring up like mushrooms; and even the
legitimate Masonry, held responsible for all these nuisances and
vagaries, parades its uniforms and gewgaws, collars and jewels, too
much in the public view, and has so gained popularity while losing
its right to reverence.

Its complacent sense of security may be rudely disturbed by and by.
It seems to me that an organized crusade against it by all the
Roman Catholics in the United States, an anti-Masonic movement
organized and directed by the Papacy, and engineered by Priests,
Bishops and Cardinals, is not a thing to be made light of by the
American Masonry, treated with indifference and regarded with a
lordly and sublime contempt. And it is very certain that its
protestations that it has no political or religious opinions, and
no sympathies with the revolutionary tendencies of the Masonry of
the Continent, will neither placate the Papacy nor win for it
respect anywhere.

If, in other countries, Free-Masonry has lost sight of the Ancient
Landmarks, even tolerating communism and atheism, it is better to
endure ten years of these evils than it would be to live a week
under the devilish tyranny of the Inquisition and of the black
soldiery of Loyola. Atheism is a dreary unbelief, but it at least
does not persecute, torture, or roast men who believes that there
is a God. Free-Masonry will not long indulge in extravagances of
opinion or action anywhere It has within itself the energy and
capacity to free itself in time of all errors: and he greatly
belittle Humanity who proclaims it to be unsafe to let Error say
what it will, if Truth is free to combat and confute it. But Free-
Masonry will effect its reforms in its own proper way; and would
not resort, if it could, not even to save itself from dissolution,
to means like those which the Papacy has heretofore employed, and
would gladly employ again, to extirpate Judaism, Heresy an Free-
Masonry.

Nowhere in the world has Free-Masonry ever conspired against any
Government entitled to its obedient or to men's respect. Wherever
now there is a Constitutional Government which respects the rights
of me and of the people and the public opinion of the worlds it is
the loyal supporter of that Government. It has never taken pay from
armed Despotism, or abetts persecution. It has fostered no Borgias;
no stranglers or starvers to death of other Popes, like Boniface
VII no poisoners, like Alexander VI. and Paul III. It has no roll
of beatified Inquisitors or other murderers; as it has never, in
any country, been the enemy of the people, the suppresser of
scientific truth, the stifler of the God-given right of free
inquiry as to the great problems, intellectual and spiritual,
presented by the Universe, the extorter of confession by the rack,
the burner of women and of the exhumed bodies of the dead. It has
never been the enemy of the human race, and the curse and dread of
Christendom. Its patron Saints have always been St. John the
Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, and not Pedro Arbues d'Epila,
Principal Inquisitor of Zaragoza, who, slain in 1485, was beatified
by Alexander VII. in 1664.

It is not when the powers of the Papacy are concentrated to crush
the Free-Masonry of the Latin Kingdoms and Republics of the world,
that the Masons of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the
United States will, from any motive whatever, proclaim that they
have no sympathy with the Masons of the Continent of Europe, or
with those of Mexico or of the South American Republics. If these
fall into errors of practice or indulge in extravagances of dogma,
we will dissent and remonstrate; but we will not forget that the
Free-Masonry of our Rite and of the French Rite has always been the
Apostle of Civil and Religious Liberty, and that the blood of
Spanish and other Latin FreeMasons has again and again glorified
and sanctified the implements of torture, the scaffold and the
stake, of the Papacy and the Inquisition.

Neither does Free-Masonry any more execrate the atrocities of the
Papacy than it does those of Henry VIII. of England and his
daughter Elizabeth, the murder of Sir Thomas More and that of
Servetus, and those of the Quakers put to death by bigotry in New
England; than the cruel torturing and slaying of Covenanters and
Non-Conformists, the ferocities of Claverhouse and Kirk, and the
pitiless slaughtering of Catholic Priests by the revolutionary fury
of France.

It well knows and cheerfully acknowledges the services which some
of the Roman Pontiffs and a multitude of its clergy have in the
past centuries rendered to Humanity. It has always done ample
justice to their pure lives, their good deeds, their self-denial,
their devotedness, their unostentatious heroism, as these have been
eloquently and beautifully portrayed by Kenelm Henry Digby. It has
always done full justice to the memories of the faithful and
devoted Missionaries of the Order of Jesus and others, who bore the
Cross into every barbarous land under the sun, to make known to
savages the truths and errors taught by the Roman Church, and the
simpler arts of civilization. It was never the unreasoning and
insensate reviler of that church, railing against it without
measure or regard to justice and truth; nor could it be,
remembering that lot only Bayard and Du Guesclin, but Sir Henry
More, Las Casas and Fenelon were loyal servants of it.

But also it has known to its cost that none of the tages of the
History of the World are more full of rightful crimes and monstrous
acts of cruel outrage han those of the Papacy of Rome; and it now
knows, by the revival of the Bulls of Benedict and Clement, that
the seeming moderation, mildness and liberality of opinion of that
Church have been but a mask, which, being torn from its face, its
intolerant, persecuting, cruel, inhuman spirit flames out as
ferociously as ever from its bloody eyes.

It seems to have learned nothing, and to be incapable of learning
anything, although a higher will and a sterner law than its own
have made it powerless to burn heretics, whether men or women,
free-thinkers and Free-Masons, at the stake, or to extort
confessions of guilt by torture; and permit it no longer to
persecute science as heresy and blasphemy.

For surely if the age of the Papacy had brought with it a larger
measure of wisdom, as men were fondly hoping, the present Pope
would not, at this age of the world, have ordered every Catholic in
every Republic in the world to become not only disloyal to but the
irreconcilable enemy of the Government under which he lives.

Nor would the present Pope have re-enacted and made his own the
Bulls of Benedict and Clement, or have pronounced against Catholics
who persist in continuing to be Free-Masons, all the lesser and
greater penalties ever prescribed by any of his predecessors. For
(not to multiply appalling instances) he cannot be ignorant that,
at the first auto da fe, ("Act of the Faith,") celebrated at
Valladolid in Spain, on the 21st of May, 1559, and at the second
even more solemn one, held in the same city in the presence of
Philip II. himself, his son and sister, the Prince of Parma, and
many Grandees and Nobles of Spain and high ladies of the Court and
country, there were strangled and then burned, for the unpardonable
sin of having become convinced of the truth of, and therefore
having embraced, some of the opinions of Martin Luther, Dona
Beatrix de Vibero Cazalla and nine other women, in presence of the
audience; and at the first, the body of Dona Eleonora de Vibero,
(who had been interred as a Catholic, without suspicion ever having
been raised as to her orthodoxy, and when she had, in her last
sickness, taken all the sacraments,) having been exhumed, was borne
to the pyre on a bier, adorned with a San Benito of flames, the
pasteboard mitre on its head, and so burned. Upon the confession
extracted from some prisoners under the tortures, or by threats of
torture, the Fiscal of the Inquisition had accused her, after her
burial, of Lutheranism, for permitting her house to be used for
Lutheran assemblings; whereupon she was adjudged by the beloved
Tribunal of the Papacy to have died in heresy, her memory was
condemned to infamy entailed on her posterity, and her property
confiscated, her body ordered to be exhumed and burned, her house
razed to the ground, and forbidden to be rebuilded, and a monument
was ordered to be set up on the site with an inscription relating
to this event.

Even the impudence of a Roman Catholic journalist will hardly
venture to stigmatize this as false. It is related by Juan Antonio
Llorente, in his "Critical History of the Inquisition in Spain,"
derived from original documents in the archives of the Supreme
Tribunal and those of the Subterranean Tribunals of the Holy
Office: from which came the statements contained in our "Reply" of
the number of victims butchered by Torquemada and his successors.
Llorente was ex-Secretary of the Inquisition of the Court, Canon of
the Primatical Church of Toledo, Chancellor of the University of
that city, Knight of the Order of Charles III., and member of the
Royal Academies of History and of the Spanish Language at Madrid.

"All these dispositions" (of the judgment against the dead woman
Eleonora) "were executed," Llorente says: "I have seen the place,
the column and the inscriptions. It is stated that this monument of
human ferocity against the dead was demolished in 1809."

But at these autos da fe the Archbishops and Bishops, clergy,
nobles, and ladies present were not entirely deprived of the
expected luxury and pleasure of seeing human creatures burned
alive. At the first, Francisco de Vibero Cazalla and the Licentiate
Antonio Herrezuelo, and at the second, Don Carlos de Seso and Juan
Sanchez, were roasted alive for the mortal sin of Lutheranism. Of
a score or two of suspected Lutherans and others, not burned alive,
or strangled and then burned, all the property they possessed was
confiscated to the uses of the Holy Office, a method of enriching
itself which it had then pursued with great diligence, by continual
confiscations, for eighty years, and yet was not weary.

At the second, Dona Marina de Guevara, a Nun, accused of
Lutheranism, suffered. The Supreme Tribunal decreed that she was
guilty, and had incurred the penalty of the greater
excommunication, and "remitted" her "to the judicial power and to
the secular arm" of the Corregidor and his Lieutenant, "to whom,"
the judgment said, "we recommend to treat her with kindness and
pity," that Tribunal knowing that sentence of death must inevitably
and necessarily follow, and that its own judgment was really the
death-sentence. If the Corregidor had dared to mitigate the
penalty, he would himself have felt fastened into his flesh the
sharp and venornous fangs of the Inquisition, for he would have
proven himself a favourer of heretics. What a hideous formula was
that recommendation to kindness and pity! "It is impossible,"
Llorente says, "to impose on God by formulas contrary to the secret
dispositions of the heart."

"Since the Inquisition was established," Llorente wrote in 1817,
"there has hardly been a man celebrated for his knowledge who has
not been persecuted as a heretic"; and he gives a formidable list
of those who suffered in their liberty, honour and fortune "because
they would not shamefully adopt scholastic opinions or erroneous
systems born in the ages of ignorance and of barbarism."

Certainly the restoration of this convenient instrument of the
Apostolic See, which acts on anonymous denunciations, takes
testimony ex parte upon such denunciations, and convicts on
suspicions, and confessions extorted by an admirable variety of
tortures, and even upon persistent refusals to confess, is not
impossible; because, on the 21st of July, 1814, Ferdinand VII.
reestablished it in Spain, after Bonaparte had suppressed it in
1808, and the Cortes-General Extraordinary of Spain had done the
same on the 12th of February, 1813. (1)

The time may even come again, if Constitutional Government can be
destroyed by the Papacy in Spain, Portugal or Italy, when that may
happen to a FreeMason, which happened to Gaspardo de Santa Cruz and
his son under Ferdinand and Isabella, about the year 1487. The
father had taken refuge at Toulouse, in France, where he died,
after he had been burned in effigy at Zaragoza. One of his sons was
arrested by order of the Inquisitors for having aided the escape of
his father. He underwent the punishment of the public auto da fe,
and was condemned to take a copy of the judgment rendered against
his father, to go to Toulouse and present this copy to the
Dominicans, demanding that his father's body should be exhumed and
burned; and, finally, to return to Zaragoza and make report to the
Inquisitors of the execution of the sentence. And to this shameful,
revolting, and monstrous judgment he submitted without murmuring,
and executed it.

In 1524 (Charles V. being then Emperor of the Romans) there was put
up, in the Inquisition at Sevilla, by the Licentiate de la Cueva,
by the order and at the cost of the Emperor, an inscription in
Latin, composed by Diego de Cortegana, by which it was stated that,
from the time of the establishment of the Inquisition there, in
1485, under the Pontificate of Sextus IV. and during the reign of
Ferdinand V. and Isabella, until 1524, "more than two thousand
persons obstinate in heresy had been delivered to the flames, after
having been judged conformably to law, with the approbation and
favour of Innocent VIII., Alexander VI., Pius III., Julius II., Leo
X., Adrian VI., and Clement VII."

The Church of Rome had prepared and matured all its plans of
campaign against liberal institutions and Constitutional
Government, carefully, thoroughly, and comprehensively, before the
Encyclical Letter "Humanum Genus" gave the signal for opening the
campaign and commencing the new crusade, to endanger the peace of
the world, foment anarchy, and initiate a new era of violence and
murder. A clerical victory at the elections in Belgium has been
followed by the enactment of a law destructive of the commonschool
system, and placing education under the control of the Priests and
Jesuits. It will not disturb the Pope or his Cardinal-Princes if
civil war results, as now seems probable, if thousands of lives are
sacrificed, if the King loses his throne, and the Kingdom of
Belgium is obliterated. In Spain the Romish clergy have set on foot
a demonstration in every Church throughout the realm in favour of
the temporal power of the Pope; and if Alfonso does not place
himself unreservedly in the hands and at the bidding of the Church,
revolutionary movements against his throne, already beginning to
appear in the north of Spain, will be fomented. The Pope
promulgates an Encyclical Letter against the adoption of a new law
of divorce by the legislative power of France, and instructs the
Bishops to annul it so far as they may find it possible. And we may
look for disturbances in Mexico and the South American States,
fomented by the Priesthood in obedience to the orders issued from
the Vatican against Free-Masons and Constitutional Government.

By Papal Brief of January 17, 1750, the Father Joseph Torrubia,
Pro-Censor and Reviser of the Inquisition, was authorized to
procure initiation into Masonry, to take all the oaths that might
be required of him, and to use every means possible to acquire the
most complete knowledge of the membership of the Free-Masonry of
Spain: and in March, 1751, the Father Torrubia, having taken
without sinfulness the oaths required, and been initiated, put into
the hands of the Grand Inquisitor the ninety-seven lists of
membership of the ninety-seven Lodges at that time in activity in
Spain: upon which, on the 2d of July, 1751, the King, Ferdinand
VI., decreed the complete suppression of the Masonic Order, and
prescribed the punishment of death, without any form of preliminary
procedure, against all who should be convicted of belonging to it.

Undoubtedly Pope Leo XIII. would consider it laudable for any good
Catholic now, if need were, to imitate the example of the Father
Joseph Torrubia; and entirely proper for himself to grant such a
brief as was granted to that worthy Father; although all honest men
ought to regard such a service as base and infamous, and consider
perjury and betrayal of confidence to be virtues only in the eyes
of the Church and not in those of God.

But his Apostolic Holiness has graciously permitted that during one
year, those who in obedience to his orders renounce Masonry, shall
not be required to divulge the names of their superiors in the
Order; not because to do so would be unutterable baseness, but
because it is politic, as likely to induce many to renounce the
Order, who would not be willing to do that and at the same time
become faithless and perjured scoundrels.

While inciting the fanatical and venal instruments of his
Priesthood against Free-Masonry and Constitutional Government, the
Pope omits nothing to make more effectual his edict of
Excommunication. It is necessary to give assurance to those who may
help in the good work of exterminating Free-Masonry, overturning
Constitutional Government, and re-enslaving intellects, souls and
science, of immunity, if not in this world, then certainly in the
next, for all the outrages, villainies and crimes that they may
commit.

Accordingly the Pope embraces the present occasion, while he is
causing disturbances in Belgium, Spain, Mexico and Italy, to issue
his proclamation, as Spiritual Autocrat of the whole world,
panoplied with all the powers of the Almighty God, by which he
plenarily pardons all the sins of a great number of the faithful,
neither knowing nor caring what the enormity of those sins may be.

The paragraphs which follow, taken from a translation in the
Catholic Examiner of Brooklyn, of the Encyclical Letter of Leo
XIII., of August 30, 1884, "setting apart October as a month of
prayer to the Mother of God," will show that we do not
misunderstand the use to which the Pope puts his plenary
indulgences:

"For it is, indeed, an arduous and exceedingly weighty matter that
is now in hand; it is to humiliate an old and most subtle enemy in
the spread-out array of his power; to win back the freedom of the
Church and of her Head; to preserve and secure the fortifications
within which should rest in peace the safety and weal of human
society.

* * * * * * *

"That the heavenly treasures of the Church may be thrown open to
all, we hereby renew every indulgence granted by us last year. To
all those, therefore, who shall have assisted on the prescribed
days at the public recital of the Rosary, and have prayed for our
intentions, to all those also, who from legitimate causes shall
have been compelled to do so in private, we grant for each occasion
an indulgence of seven years and seven times forty days. To those
who in the prescribed space of time, shall have performed these
devotions at least ten times either publicly in the churches or
from just causes in the privacy of their homes and shall have
expiated their sins by confession and have received communion at
the altar, we grant from the treasury of the Church a plenary
indulgence. We also grant this full forgiveness of sins and plenary
remission of punishment to all those who, either on the feast-day
itself of our Blessed Lady of the Rosary, or on any day within the
subsequent eight days, shall have washed the stains from their
souls and have holily partaken of the Divine banquet, and shall
have also prayed in any church to God and His holy Mother for our
intentions."

What these "intentions" are, the Letter Humanum Genus does not
permit the world to doubt. And in the latest Encyclical Letter,
granting absolutions in advance, they are expressed in this
sentence:

"May our Heavenly Patroness, invoked by us through the Rosary,
graciously be with us and obtain that, all disagreements of opinion
being removed and Christianity restored through the world, we may
obtain from God the wished for peace in the Church."

It is also proclaimed that another letter is about to be issued
which will cause a profound sensation in the Catholic world, in
which the Pope is to expound to his vassals his opinions in regard
to civil government. He cannot make them much more plain than he
has already made them; but it is not probable that his lofty
intentions will be in any degree abated. He has already proclaimed
war against Protestantism, free education, and constitutional
restraints upon arbitrary power; and he will continue to do so more
and more emphatically and offensively, until not only the rulers of
Protestant countries, but all, wherever constitutional government
exists, will find themselves compelled to declare the Papacy the
malignant disturber of the peace of the world, and to unite in
measures to curb its arrogance and deprive it of the power of
making mischief and of its cherished prerogative of being the curse
and the terror of the world.

* * *

Free-Masonry makes no war upon the Roman Catholic religion. To do
this is impossible for it, because it has never ceased to proclaim
its cardinal tenets to be the most perfect and absolute equality of
right of free opinion in matters of faith and creed. It denies the
right of one Faith to tolerate another. To tolerate is to permit;
and to permit is to refrain from prohibiting or preventing; and so
a right to tolerate would imply a right to forbid. If there be a
right to tolerate, every Faith has it alike. One is in no wise, in
the eye of Masonry, superior to the other; and of two opposing
faiths each cannot be superior to the other, nor can each tolerate
the other.

Rome does claim the right to prohibit, precisely now as she always
did. she is never tolerant except upon compulsion. And Masonry,
having nothing to say as to her religious tenets, denies her right
to interfere with the free exercise of opinion.

It will be said that the English-speaking FreeMasonry will not
receive Catholics into its bosom. That is not true. It will not
receive Jesuits, because no oath that it can administer would bind
the conscience of a Jesuit; and it refuses also to receive
atheists; not denying their perfect right to be atheists, but
declining to accept them for associates, because Masonry recognizes
a Supreme Will, Wisdom and Power, a God, who is a protecting
Providence, and to whom it is not folly to pray; and Who has not
made persecution a religious duty, nor savage cruelty and blood-
guiltiness a passport to Paradise.

(1) In the Gaceta of the Spanish Government, No. of date 23d
February, 1826, the execution of a person accused of Masonry is
thus referred to:

"Yesterday was hung in this city Antonio Caso, (alias) Jaramalla:
he died impenitent, and leaving in consternation the numerous
concourse which were present at the spectacle; a terrible whirlwind
making it more horrible, which took place while this criminal was
expiring, who came forth from the prison blaspheming, speaking such
words as may not be repeated without shame, and although gagged he
repeated as well as he could, 'Viva mi Seeta ! Viva la Institucion
Masonica!" so he was dragged by the tail of a horse to the
scaffold. Notwithstanding the efforts which Priests of all classes
had made, they had not been able to induce him to pronounce the
name of Jesus and Mary. After he was dead, his right hand was cut
off, and dragging his body they took it to a dung-heap. Thus do
these proclaimers of liberty miserably end their lives; and this is
the felicity which they promise to those who follow them, to go to
Shine where the beasts do."
