Language:
French
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
L'Affaire Dreyfus; Juifs en France
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1994) 67-77
Keywords:
Catholic Church History 19th century
;
Freemasonry History 19th century
;
Antisemitism History 19th century
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 19th century
;
Mysticism Judaism
Abstract:
Discusses influences of Jewish mysticism on Masonic doctrine. States that these influences were known and were considered as positive up to the middle of the 19th century. Relates reasons for the rise of antisemitism at the end of the 19th century and, against this background, describes the evolution of the anti-Masonic movement in France and Italy. The most important event was the 1884 encyclical issued by Pope Leon XIII condemning Freemasonry for its alleged ties with Satanism (which was understood as spiritual opposition to the Church). Surveys books and pamphlets of this period in which the presence of Jews amongst the Masons, and their influence, is stressed. Notes, especially, the book by Leon Meurin, "La Franc-Maçonnerie, synagogue de Satan" (1892). His basic ideas are that Freemasonry originated from Judaism via Kabbalah and that Freemasonry is directed by a "Jewish International", a conspiracy of Satanic forces working against the Catholic Church.
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