The freemasons want to build a spiritual temple to God alone

(By Eliphas Levi) – Now, the symbolism of the head with two faces, the back of God is the devil, and the back of the devil is the hieroglyphic face of God.

“Why the name of frank-masons or free-masons?

Free from what? From the fear of God?

Yes no doubt, since, when one fears God, one is looking at him from behind.

The tremendous God is the black God, which is the Devil.

The free-masons want to build a spiritual temple to God alone, to the God of light, to the God of
intelligence and philanthropy, they battle the God of the devil and the devil of God.

But they bow before the pious beliefs of Socrates, of Vincent de Paul and of Fenelon.

What they would, along with Voltaire, gladly call “infamy” is this head or better said this foolishness which took the place of God during the Middle Ages.

The brighter a light is, the darker the shadow it produces is.

Christianism has been at the same time the salvation and the curse of the world.

It is the most sublime of all the wisdoms and the most frightening of all the follies.

If Jesus was not God, he was the most dangerous of evil-doers.

The Jesus of Veuillot is accursed.

That of Renan is inexcusable, that of the Gospels is unexplainable, but that of Vincent de Paul and of Fenelon is adorable.

By Eliphas Levi from The Book of Splendours