Archbishop Johann Gabriel Léon Meurin, S.J. (1825–1895) — German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and Palestine, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay (1868–1886), and Archbishop of Port-Louis, Mauritius (1887–1895) — is best known for his exhaustive study of Freemasonry and its roots in Jewish Kabbalah, La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan (Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893). Pope Leo XIII praised the book in a personal letter as the finest work yet published on Freemasonry. Meurin’s years of missionary study of Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and Hebrew sources gave him an unusually learned basis for his theological claims. The passages below are drawn entirely from La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan and cover the traditional Catholic themes of Jewish deicide, the theological enmity of post-Mosaic Judaism toward Christ and the Church, supersessionism, the Kabbalistic corruption of the Mosaic religion, and the Jewish programme of world temporal dominion. All English passages are taken verbatim from the anonymous English translation archived at the Internet Archive (see Sources); passages marked [trans. from French] are translated directly from the 1893 French original, also archived at the Internet Archive.
I. Deicide and the Crucifixion of Christ
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §8: “The Jews in the Fallen Order of the Templars”
If the Pharisees did not hesitate to crucify Christ, they will also not hesitate to persecute Christians whose spiritual faith is in direct opposition to their temporal hopes.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §8. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 9. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §8
Let us pass over in silence the times of the Gnostics and the great persecutions of the first centuries, in which the Jews played a role as important as it was odious, and let us stop at the Middle Ages. The Templars were corrupted in Palestine. In their secret meetings, they renounced Christ, and — this is always the consequence — indulged in debauchery.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §8. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 9. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
II. The Fallen Synagogue — Three Hatreds Against Christ
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §4: “The Number Eleven in Masonic Decorations”
In these two symbols, the lights and the battery, we see brought together the three fundamental mysteries of Freemasonry:
- The mystery of the fallen Order of the Templars, which hides behind the lower ranks of the secret society: here is the year 1312 crying for vengeance;
- The mystery of the fallen Synagogue, which is hidden behind the secret society of all Freemasonry: here is the Jewish era;
- The mystery of the fallen Angel, who is hidden behind the ten Sephiroth, that is to say the divine Trinity and “the seven angels who are always before the throne of God”: here is the number eleven.
Three hatreds conjured against the Lord and his Christ!
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §4. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, pp. 6–7. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
III. The Theological Enmity of Kabbalistic Judaism Toward Christianity
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §5: “Jewish Kabbalah, the Dogmatic Basis of Freemasonry”
Will it serve to open the eyes of these thousands of non-Jewish Freemasons who do not see the slavery to which the Pharisees, the Jews of Kabbalah, reduced them, and in which they hold them captive by mysteries that they do not reveal to them even at the 33rd degree? Will we find there the subjugation of Christian peoples and their political authorities under the domination of Jews?
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §5. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 7. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §7: “Satan in Paganism”
This is where we discover the poisonous source of errors and supernatural hatreds which fill the ancient and modern paganism, as well as the soul of the Jew of Kabbalah and the follower of Freemasonry, with indescribable rage against God and against everyone those who believe in God.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §7. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 9. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §9: “Chain of Hatreds and Mysteries of Freemasonry”
The fallen Angel seduced the ancient peoples by his lying doctrines; paganism seduced the Jew hypocritical and stubborn; the Jew seduced and corrupted the religious Order of the Templars, and still deceives today the great credulous mass of Freemasons. Having monopolized the treasures and civil power of this world, the Jew is waging a fierce, merciless war without respite, to the Church of Jesus Christ and to all those who refuse to bend the knee before him and his Golden calf. Gird the Jew‘s forehead with the royal diadem and put on under his feet the kingdom of the world, this is the true goal of Freemasonry.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §9. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, pp. 10–11. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
IV. The Corruption of Mosaic Religion by Pagan Kabbalah — Supersessionism
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §6: “Paganism Incorporated into Jewish Kabbalah”
It is not the orthodox Synagogue, nor the true doctrine of Moses, inspired by God himself, that the modern Kabbalists represent; this is paganism with which some sectarian Jews were imbued, during the Babylonian captivity. We just have to study the doctrine of Jewish Kabbalah and to compare it with the doctrines philosophies of the most ancient civilized peoples, Indians, Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks and others, to ensure that everywhere is taught the same pantheistic system of emanation; Everywhere we find a certain eternal principle from which emanates a first triad, and, after it, the whole universe, no by creation, but by substantial emanation. We are forced to admit, between Kabbalistic philosophy and ancient paganism, there is a connection intimate that is difficult to explain in any other way only by the inspiration of the same author, that is to say of the enemy of the human race, of the Spirit of lies.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §6. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, pp. 7–8. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Book I, Chapter I: “The Kabbalistic Ensoph — The Masonic First Cause”
The dogmas of Freemasonry are those of Jewish Kabbalah, and in particular, of the book Zohar. This fact is not admitted in any Masonic document. This is one of the great secrets that the Jews knew how to keep themselves.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Book I, Chapter I, §1. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 13. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Book I, Chapter I: “The Triangle and the Three Points”
The oldest of all the books, the Pentateuch of Moses, gives striking evidence that the trinity of persons in God was known from the earliest times. Indeed, we read in Genesis that before creating man, God said: “Let us make man in our image and resemblance;” and that after the fall of Adam and Eve, God says again: “Behold, Adam has become like one of us.” It is impossible to suppose that by speaking thus, God made use of the plural of majesty in the manner of princes; because although the second and third person are sometimes found honorarily named in the plural, never, in all antiquity, has a person when speaking of himself make use of the plural. Likewise we cannot suppose that God, speaking in the plural, addressed himself to the angels; for man was not created in the image and likeness of angels. There therefore remains only the only conclusion, that in speaking thus, God wanted to reveal the plurality of persons in his divinity.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Book I, Chapter I, §3. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, pp. 15–16. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
V. The Secret Leaders of Freemasonry — The Jews and World Temporal Dominion
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §2: “The Number Thirty-Three in Freemasonry”
The secret leaders of Freemasonry, the Jews, were very circumspect in the gradual revelation of the organization of their secret society.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §2. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 2. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §2
The second series, from the 12th to the 22nd degree, must devote the Male Jewish Pontiff; and the third series, from the 23rd to the 33rd degree, must constitute the Pontiff, Jewish King or Kabbalistic Emperor.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §2. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 2. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
VI. Satan, the Jews, and the Antichrist — The Chain of Conspiracy
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §8: “The Jews in the Fallen Order of the Templars”
Allied with his new followers, known for the extraordinary tenacity of their race, he was able to move the world, and he stirs it again.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §8. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 9. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §9
Let us search, and we will find in history, the Freemason; in Freemasonry, the Order fallen from the Templars; in both together, the Kabbalistic Synagogue; in all three, the ancient pagan mysteries, and finally, in all, Satan himself.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §9. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 10. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §9
The points indicated should serve as an introduction to this little treatise, to show the reader at first glance the chain of mysterious hatreds concentrated in Freemasonry for the continuation and accomplishment of the work of the Antichrist: “because the mystery of iniquity is already taking place.”
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §9. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 9. [English translation: https://archive.org/details/english-with-original-la-franc-maconnerie-Synagogue-de-satan-1893-leon-meurin-sj_20240920_1657]
VII. The Masonic Lodge as the Synagogue — Freemasonry as Fundamentally Jewish
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Epigraph from the Apocalypse (Revelation 2:9)
“I know what you suffer and how poor you are; nevertheless you are rich. You are slandered by those who say they are Jews and are not: they are the Synagogue of Satan. Fear nothing of what you are about to suffer.”
[Meurin places this text from the Apocalypse as the epigraph of his entire book, framing his argument: the modern Kabbalistic Jews who control Freemasonry are, in the words of Scripture itself, not true Jews but the Synagogue of Satan.]
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, epigraph page. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893. [French original: https://archive.org/details/MeurinLLaFrancMaconnerieSynagogueDeSatan1893]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §7: “Satan in Paganism” [trans. from French]
C’est là qu’on découvre la source empoisonnée des erreurs et des haines surnaturelles qui remplissent le paganisme ancien et moderne, ainsi que l’âme du Juif de la Kabbale et de l’adepte de la franc-maçonnerie, d’une rage indescriptible contre Dieu et contre tous ceux qui croient en Dieu.
[That is where one discovers the poisoned source of errors and supernatural hatreds which fill ancient and modern paganism, as well as the soul of the Kabbalist Jew and the Masonic initiate, with an indescribable fury against God and against all who believe in God.]
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §7. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 9. [French original: https://archive.org/details/MeurinLLaFrancMaconnerieSynagogueDeSatan1893]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Introduction, §9 [trans. from French]
Ayant accaparé les trésors et le pouvoir civil de ce monde, le Juif fait une guerre acharnée, sans merci et sans trêve, à l’Église de Jésus-Christ et à tous ceux qui refusent de fléchir le genou devant lui et son veau d’or. Ceindre le front du Juif du diadème royal et mettre sous ses pieds le royaume du monde, voilà le vrai but de la franc-maçonnerie.
[Having monopolized the treasures and the civil power of this world, the Jew wages a relentless, merciless and ceaseless war against the Church of Jesus Christ and against all those who refuse to bow the knee before him and his Golden Calf. To place on the head of the Jew the royal diadem and to put the kingdoms of the world under his feet — that is the true goal of Freemasonry.]
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Introduction, §9. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, pp. 10–11. [French original: https://archive.org/details/MeurinLLaFrancMaconnerieSynagogueDeSatan1893]
VIII. The Conclusion — The Deicidal People and the Final Battle
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §1: “The Synagogue of Satan in Universal History”
Hell has once again unleashed the fatal errors of once-vanquished paganism; it has called under its banner the ancient hatred of the fallen Synagogue and the exasperated audacity of the deicidal people, always ready to recommence their bitter war against the Lord and his Christ; it has enlisted in its army all the violent passions of corrupted humanity, avarice, pride, ambition, and above all lust, its ever-young, ever-vigorous support, and among all its weapons the sharpest and most formidable. All these forces Hell has organized and directs against the Church of Christ.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §1. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 462. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §1
Paganism, Judaism, apostasy, vices and passions, under the supreme leadership of Lucifer, are mounting a joint assault on the heavenly Jerusalem, hoping that their united battalions will finally achieve the victory that separate attacks have not been able to give them until now. This is their supreme effort before declaring themselves vanquished and laying down their arms. Let us wait a little longer: the spouse of the Savior is accustomed to conquer through suffering. She imitates her divine Spouse in everything. Freemasonry, this new Synagogue of Satan, will be, like the ancient Synagogue, defeated by the Cross.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §1. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 462. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §1
The crisis of our century, provoked by Freemasonry, is not at all as formidable as many people think. Once unmasked, this secret society will be hated by everyone and abandoned by the great mass of its honest followers. These will recognize how the hypocrisy and lies of their unknown leaders had misled them, and forced them to cooperate in a Jewish and satanic work of which they had not the slightest suspicion.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §1. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 463. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
IX. On Governments — Restricting Jewish Power
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §2: “Governments”
There is reason to believe that public conscience will rise up against the Jews, the true authors of Freemasonry.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §2. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 463. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §2
Israel infandum scelus audet morte piandum [Israel dares to commit a horrible crime worthy of death]. This will not be the first time that popular indignation, suppressed for too long, will erupt and commit regrettable acts of violence against the Jews. Governments, not yet entirely absorbed by the Sect, should take precautions against this threatening peril.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §2. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 463. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §2
It would be sufficient, we believe, to prohibit Jews from the occupations of bankers, merchants, journalists, professors, doctors and apothecaries. It does not seem unjust to declare the gigantic fortunes of certain bankers national property, because it is not admissible that a man can, by financial maneuvers, amass in a short time a fortune more than royal, a truly national capital, and thus impoverish the country and the people who give him hospitality.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §2. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 464. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §2
The Royal Axe threatens to bring down the heads of all sovereigns, like that of Louis XVI, unless they take the most energetic measures to protect themselves and deliver their people from the Masonic imposture. To join the Secret Society of Freemasons is a crime of lèse-majesté [to harm the majesty]. And almost all monarchs have been weak enough, if not to commit it, at least to sanction it!
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §2. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 464. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
X. Address to the Jews — Supersessionism and the Call to Conversion
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §3: “The Jews“
What a strange figure in humanity is this people of Israel! How great and majestic it is in its history, as long as it walks with the Lord! How great it is also and above all terrible in its hatred against its Messiah, whom it misunderstood and killed on the cross!
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §3. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 464. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §3
If he [the Jew] only wanted to elevate himself from the material meaning of his holy books to the spiritual meaning, he would be saved… But he does not want to. His avenging is voluntary. It is a psychological phenomenon that one encounters among great intelligences and among great criminals, to persist in evil and in lies. Pride is the explanation. Satan himself can no longer be saved: he does not want to and never will. The pride of a great intelligence prefers a thousand times to suffer than to lower itself and recognize its error.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §3. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 465. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §3
As soon as he humbles himself before God, the Jew sees: “something like scales falls from his eyes.” (Acts ix, 18) He is then astonished at not having known earlier what is now so evident to him, the divinity of the Messiah.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §3. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 465. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §3
The great prophecies of the Old Testament cannot be explained otherwise than by the Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true man. In him all the messianic prophecies and all the symbols of Mosaicism find their harmonious and rational interpretation; it is only with ill will, with preconceived ideas and endless contradictions, that one can give them another interpretation. Why then do the Jews not see the truth? Why do they seek it in a Kabbalah that is fundamentally anti-rational and openly satanic?
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §3. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 465. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §3
Do not hope, O Jews, to be able to escape the calamity that threatens you once again! Your deicidal nation has at this moment arrived at one of those apogees of power and prosperity, so often repeated in your history, which must end, as always, in a great national misfortune. The day that will crush you will be the eve of a vital expansion of the Church, your victim, such as history has never seen. Your prophets have promised it!
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §3. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 466. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
XI. Address to Catholics — Against Jewish Domination
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §5: “Catholics”
We do not want to be slaves to the Jews, and we will not be. We do not want to be disinherited from our country, and we will not be. We have had enough of the insults with which Freemasonry has heaped us, of the affronts made by the Jews to our holy religion and of their insults to our Savior, to his holy Mother and to our Pontiff. We will forget the divergence of our political opinions to be united and firm against the impudence and insolence of the adversaries of God and his Christ. Victory is assured to us. The future belongs to us.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §5. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 468. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §5
The humiliations inflicted by Freemasonry on this harmless, pious and patient people have reached their peak: they attack the faith with atheistic education, the sanctity of marriage with divorce, the purity of morals with impious theater and immodest literature, freedom of worship with revolting prohibitions, property with iniquitous and audacious thefts, the reputation of the clergy with incessant slander, equity with outrageous ostracism, and so on… The time has come to change all that.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §5. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 468. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
XII. On Protestants — Freemasonry Does the Work of Protestant Revolution
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §4: “The Protestants”
The most initiated Freemasons have quite often, and quite rightly, reproached Protestantism for having stopped halfway. Before proclaiming the divinity of human Reason, it was necessary to emancipate it from divine Faith: the divine authority of the Church had to be lowered before Reason. This is the work of Protestantism. By burning the Papal Bull, Luther took the first step towards Free Thought, which burns the decrees of Reason. The Templars in Scotland, and the Jews everywhere, quickly understood the importance of the revolution begun by the German monk.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §4. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 467. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §4
Let the Protestant Freemasons disabuse themselves of the profound error that the Lodge will stifle Catholicism for the benefit of Protestantism. It only wages war against the Catholic Church because it knows that it alone is divine; the Protestant Sects do not worry it; they do its work!
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §4. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 467. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
XIII. On the Supreme Pontiff — The Church Will Defeat the Synagogue of Satan
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §6: “The Supreme Pontiff”
The Popes, with the Church they lead, will once again defeat Manichaeism, Kabbalah, and all Paganism that has dared to raise its head again, before giving way to the religion of the Crucified.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §6. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 469. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan — Conclusion, §6
History will tell: the Synagogue of Satan was brought down by the all-powerful voice of the glorious old man seated on the pontifical throne, by the Vicar of Jesus Christ, Pope Leo XIII.
— La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan, Conclusion, §6. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893, p. 470. [English translation: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-Synagogue-of-satan-and]
Sources
- Primary — French original: Léon Meurin, S.J., La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan. Paris: Victor Retaux et Fils, 1893.
- Internet Archive (scanned original): https://archive.org/details/MeurinLLaFrancMaconnerieSynagogueDeSatan1893
- Internet Archive (anti-masonic collection scan): https://archive.org/details/DeschampsNLesSocietesSecretesEtLaSocieteVolIII1882
- Primary — English translation: Anonymous English translation of La Franc-Maçonnerie, Synagogue de Satan (1893), uploaded to the Internet Archive, 2024.
- Biographical: Catholic-Hierarchy, “Archbishop Johann Gabriel Léon Louis Meurin S.J.”: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmeurin.html
- Publisher’s note (Hades Éditions reprint): https://hadeseditions.com/Nosauteurs/Mgr-Leon-Meurin
- Editions Ethos biography: https://editionsethos.com/leon-meurin/
- English translation of the Conclusion (pp. 462–470): The Journal of American Reform, “Opposing the Synagogue of Satan and its Influence, a Short Program — Meurin, 1893”: https://americanreform.substack.com/p/opposing-the-synagogue-of-satan-and