| During 18th and 19th centuries, the activities of | | | | the great fabric" will come about when the basics |
| Masons in countries such as France, Germany, | | | | of Masonic philosophy—materialism, humanism |
| Italy and Russia, clearly showed that the goal of | | | | and Darwinism—are imposed on society. |
| Masonry was socio-political revolution. Masonry | | | | |
| wanted to establish a new order in which religious | | | | The most interesting aspect of this silent and |
| institutions and religious faith are eradicated, and | | | | remote strategy is that those Masons who are |
| to this end has attempted to topple monarchies | | | | carrying it out almost never reveal that it is being |
| that were supportive of religion. In many | | | | done in the name of Masonry. They do their work |
| European countries, Masonic lodges became | | | | under different identities, titles and in different |
| rallying centers for opponents of religion, where | | | | positions of power, but they impose a commonly |
| coups, uprisings, assassinations, political plots and | | | | espoused philosophy they adopted through |
| anti-religious politics were conspired. Behind all such | | | | Masonry, on society. |
| activities, whether on a small or grand scale, which | | | | |
| have occurred since the French Revolution in 1789 | | | | The result of this deceit is very detrimental. The |
| to the twentieth century, is found the influence of | | | | program of alienating the masses from religion, |
| Masonry. | | | | carried out by Masonry in the eighteenth and |
| | | | | nineteenth centuries, gave rise to neo-pagan |
| According to the English historian Michael Howard, | | | | ideologies such as racism and fascism, and secular |
| Masonic lodges concentrated their efforts in the | | | | and violent ideologies such as communism. The |
| second half of the nineteenth century to | | | | spread of social Darwinism deemed people to be |
| overthrow the two remaining important Empires: | | | | animals struggling for their existence, the brutal |
| the Austro-Hungarian and the Russian Empires, | | | | results of which came about in the second half of |
| and were able to achieve their goal as a result of | | | | the nineteenth century and in the twentieth |
| the World War One. | | | | century. |
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| In other words, at the beginning of the twentieth | | | | The World War One was the work of European |
| century, Masonry had, in great measure, achieved | | | | leaders who, as a result of Darwin's suggestions, |
| its goal of socio-political revolution. | | | | regarded war and bloodshed as a biological |
| | | | | necessity. During that war, 10 million people went |
| Therefore, the twentieth century was not one of | | | | to their deaths, for nothing. The World War Two |
| Masonic revolutions. Thinking they have no more | | | | that followed it, and in which 55 million people |
| obstacles to confront, Masons prefer to merely | | | | perished, was again the work of totalitarianism, |
| disseminate their philosophy instead of hatching | | | | like fascism and communism, that was the result |
| political plots. They spread their materialist and | | | | of the seeds of militant secularism sown by the |
| humanist philosophy to the masses under the | | | | Masons. Throughout the whole world, during the |
| guise of science, or by means of art, the media, | | | | twentieth century, all the destructive wars, |
| literature, music and all manner of popular culture. | | | | conflicts, cruelty, injustice, exploitation, hunger, and |
| Masons do not intend by this propaganda to | | | | moral degradation, basically, were products of |
| eradicate the divine religions in a sudden revolution; | | | | irreligious philosophies and ideologies. |
| they want to achieve this over the long-term, and | | | | |
| to initiate all people into their philosophy only little | | | | In short, the philosophy of Masonry has yielded |
| by little. | | | | bitter fruit. It could not be otherwise as it is a |
| | | | | divine law. Historically, those pagan peoples who |
| An American Mason sums up this method as | | | | rejected the religion of God, in preference of their |
| follows: | | | | traditional mythology and the religion of their |
| Freemasonry does its work silently, but it is the | | | | ancestors, followed the road to destruction. |
| work of a deep river, that silently pushes on | | | | Freemasonry, a contemporary manifestation of |
| towards the ocean. (The Catholic Encyclopedia, | | | | this paganism, is drawing the whole world, and |
| "Masonry (Freemasonry)," New Advent. | | | | themselves, into ruin. |
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| According to Voice magazine, published by the | | | | Human beings must protect themselves from this |
| Grand Lodge in Chicago, "So, silently but surely | | | | potential calamity, by overcoming the intimations |
| and continually, it [Masonry] builds into the great | | | | of what Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, a renowned |
| fabric of human society"( Voice, Chr. 1889, II, 257 | | | | Islamic scholar, referred to as "the disease called |
| sq.; The Catholic Encyclopedia, "Masonry | | | | materialism and naturalism," and in this way |
| (Freemasonry)," New Advent. This "building into | | | | preserve the faith of the masses. |