"Jesuitry" Quotes from Famous Books
... compelled to perform acts, which, if real, would have been abominable; but being mere chimeras, were preposterous, and excited contempt and laughter only. Eight hundred Degrees of one kind and another were invented: Infidelity and even Jesuitry were taught under the mask of Masonry. The rituals even of the respectable Degrees, copied and mutilated by ignorant men, became nonsensical and trivial; and the words so corrupted that it has hitherto been ... — Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike |