Premium Episode 79: The Anti-Masonic Party & Thurlow Weed (Sample)
A Freemason hit job, the book that cost its author his life, and the political operator who exploited a pilled population to found the Anti-Masonic Party. We travel back to the 19th century and examine the anti-Freemason political movement and their hapless presidential candidate William Wirt.
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https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1012&context=upk_political_history
https://www.questia.com/read/6740285/memoirs-of-the-life-of-william-wirt-attorney-general
So it's my understanding that the the experience of becoming a member of Masonic Lodge is divided into three ceremonial stages known as degrees.
So these three degrees are loosely based on the journeyman system from medieval Europe in which they used to educate craftsmen.
So at each educational stage a craftsman was required to achieve proficiency before moving on to the next stage.
So it's like it's like you know it's like a hierarchy basically.
So most people are also not so wild about the Freemasonry as a concept because a suspicious number of prominent historical figures were Freemasons.
For example, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, Mozart, Davy Crockett, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Houdini, Gerald Ford, Henry Ford, John Wayne, and even Colonel Sanders.
Wait, at least three of those were Hanna-Barbera characters.
Don't try to fucking...
I mean, I can understand why people are weirded out by that, but it's like, I feel like if you did the same thing with, like, how many, like, you know, members of Congress were, like, Eagle Scouts or something, it would also kind of be suspicious.
No, I mean, Andrew Jackson was, at the time, an open Freemason.
Oh, yeah, he was.
Yes, he was absolutely an open Freemason.
So people started freaking out because the fucking president was talking about this shit.
Just like, you know.
Well, yeah, but George Washington was too.
Anti-masonry as a movement is about as old as masonry itself, but it really picked up steam in the late 18th century in the wake of the French Revolution.
It was Dudroch for bricklayers.
In 1797, John Robinson, a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, published a book with the imposing title, Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies.
This was when the title took up the first page of the pamphlet, right?
Later that year, Augustin Barel, a French Jesuit who was living in exile in London after the revolution, published a book on the same topic entitled Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism.
So both books stipulated that the French Revolution was the result of an immense international conspiracy spearheaded by Freemasons in the thrall of the Bavarian Illuminati.
God, it's exact, it's amazing!
It's exactly the same.
Now, the Bavarian Illuminati was a real secret society that was founded in 1776, but it obviously wasn't pulling the strings of the world.
No, I don't believe it caused the French Revolution.
I don't think that many French historians would agree with that.
No, no one would agree with that.
I love this idea that this guy, Augustine Burrell, he was a member of the clergy, and he was so incredibly pilled by the French Revolution, it broke his brain that he wrote this massive four-volume book He was so full of hatred.
It was like the first attempt to create a comprehensive, detailed New World Order conspiracy theory.
Basically, all the conspiracy theories that we hear about today, about there's one secret organization behind the scenes who's making the world go round, we have this guy to thank.
A French guy.
A French guy.
Hell yes.
Now, Burrell's book was even praised by Edmund Burke, the 18th century British Member of Parliament who is considered the philosophical founder of conservatism.
Burke wrote this to Burrell.
I cannot easily express to you how much I am instructed and delighted by the first volume of your history of Jacobinism.
So this is it.
Just the alliance between conservatism and batshit conspiracy theorists was forged.
Incredible.
This is truly, yeah, the origin story.
Wild.
The first Tucker Carlson is inviting his QAnon guest on.
In his book, Burrell warned that the conspiracy that toppled the French monarchy may come to destroy the United States next.
As the plague flies on the wings of the wind, so do the triumphant legions infect America.
God grant that the United States may not learn that their costs at republics are equally menaced with monarchies, and that the immensity of the ocean is but a feeble barrier against the universal conspiracy of the sect.
Ooh, I love how he writes.
Such flair, such drama.
Yeah, very nice, very nice.
At least one United States founding father, Thomas Jefferson, actually did read Burrell's book.
He even says that he learned about the existence of Illuminati from reading it.
But in a letter to James Madison, Jefferson confessed that he wasn't impressed by the work, calling it, quote, the ravings of a bedlamite.
What's a Bedlamite?
This is an insane person.
Bedlam is like pure chaos, right?
Yeah, a person who belongs in an insane asylum, basically.
It's like, oh, beautiful America, you are the last hope.
And Thomas Jefferson, who the fuck is this lunatic?
Totally.
However, the anti-Masonic movement in the United States wasn't spearheaded by secular elites like Thomas Jefferson.
Instead, it arose from more common and deeply religious Americans.
Anti-Masons viewed Freemasonry as an attempt to fill important functions traditionally associated with religious organizations.
Freemasonry, in the eyes of its opponents, could be used as sort of like a surrogate religion.
Masonic lodges, like religious bodies, They transmitted esoteric knowledge through rituals, myths, and symbolism.
Masons in the early 19th century themselves frequently alluded to the similarity between baptism in a church and initiation in a lodge.
Religious anti-Masons believed that unless masonry was destroyed, it would overthrow the church and its moral code, along with the American system of justice and other small-r Republican institutions.
Now, religious anti-Masons were also convinced that in order to climb the degrees of Freemasonry, Masons were required to do something morally depraved.
They didn't know what, but the religious anti-Masons, they knew it was bad.
For example— Well, now we know what it is from Jake.
For example, here's a passage from a— They basted him in olive oil.
For example, here's a passage from a 1827 religious newspaper decrying Freemasonry.
It will be observed that with every degree there is an increase of atrocity and blasphemy if it increases in the same proportion to the 43rd degree.
How dreadful must be the profanation of the holy name of God!
And what must we think of the man who goes on deliberately, from step to step, accumulating upon his soul the awful guilt of these horrid obligations?
By the way, this is exactly what, like, QAnon people, a lot of conspiracy theorists believe about, like, elite politicians or celebrities.
Like, the only way that they got there was by doing something atrocious and to get initiated into the big satanic club.
The use of important sounding titles such as Master, High Priest, King, and others by Masonic bodies and the wearing of elaborate regalia for public ceremonies, including processions, funerals, and the laying of cornerstones, angered the anti-Masons.
Solomon Southwick, An anti-Masonic candidate for governor of New York in 1828 declared that masonry could never be a Republican institution because, "...its knights, kings, high priests, and other dignitaries, more extravagantly ridiculous in this age and time, are at war with the simplicity of manners and equality of rights which distinguish a Republican government and are not safely to be tolerated among a free people."
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