The original title of this book, which was compiled from a series
of lectures delivered in Edinburgh in October, 1884 by Mgr. Dillon,
was The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian
Civilization. The author wrote it "in order to do his part in
carrying out the instruction given by the Sovereign Pontiff in the
Encyclical Humanum Genus when he called upon the pastors of souls,
to whom it was addressed, to 'instruct the people as to the
artifices used by societies of this kind in seducing men and
enticing them into their ranks, and as to the depravity of their
opinions and the wickedness of their acts'. Mgr. Dillon's work has
already been honoured by the Holy Father himself with so marked and
so unusual an approbation that there is no need for us to accord it
any further praise than merely to take note of the fact. The book
was presented to His Holiness, accompanied by an Italian version of
its table of contents, and of long extracts from its principal
sections, and Leo XIII was pleased to order that the Italian
version should be completed, and the book printed and published at
Rome at his own expense." (The Month, Sept. 1885). Despite the fact
that the lectures were delivered by a Catholic prelate to an
audience composed mainly of members of his own faith, we feel that
the subject of international political skullduggery is one which
cannot fail to interest Catholic and non-Catholic alike, the more
so indeed since events in the course of the decades following the
original publication of this book have confirmed the lecturer's
thesis. The last four editions have appeared under the title of
Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked. Mgr. Dillon does not speak
explicitly of the two currents of thought and action proceeding
from the Masonic French Revolution, namely, the current of
Rousseauist-LockianMasonic Liberalism and the current of Socialism
and Communism. Implicitly, however, he does so when, on the one
hand, he foreshadows the United States of Europe and World
Federalism and, on the other, quotes the infamous Declaration of
the International in 1868. This Declaration, formulated at the
International Congress held at Geneva in 1868 and quoted by Mgr.
Dillon in his preface, is well worth reproducing, at least in part.
It runs as follows: "The object of the International Association of
Workmen, as of every other Socialist Association, is to do away
with the parasite and the pariah. Now what parasite can be compared
to the priest. "God and Christ, these citizen-Providences, have
been at all times the armour of Capital and the most sanguinary
enemies of the working classes. It is owing to God and to Christ
that we remain to this day in slavery. It is by deluding us with
lying hopes that the priests have caused us to accept all the
sufferings of this earth. It is only after sweeping away all
religion, and after tearing up even to the last roots every
religious idea that we can arrive at our political and social
ideal. "Down, then, with God and with Christ Down with the despots
of heaven and earth Death to the priests Such is the motto of our
grand crusade." In a note on page 20 of the original edition Mgr.
Dillon returned to the question of the direction of Freemasonry,
which he had mentioned in his preface. He there says: "The Jewish
connection with modern Freemasonry is an established fact
everywhere manifested in its history. The Jewish formulas employed
by Freemasonry, the Jewish traditions which run through its
ceremonial, point to a Jewish origin, or to the work of Jewish
contrivers .... Who knows but behind the Atheism and desire of gain
which impels them to urge on Christians to persecute the Church and
destroy it, there lies a hidden hope to reconstruct their Temple,
and in the darkest depths of secret society plotting there lurks a
deeper society still which looks to a return to the land of Judah
and to the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem?"
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