The Jesuits driven away from Masonry and their dagger shattered by Freemasons

 

By: Nicolas de Bonneville. Eric Serejski (Tr.). Distributor: Ebook: Amazon | Paperback: Lulu. 2011.

The Jesuits Driven Away from Masonry and Their Dagger Shattered by Freemasons has been reproduced entirely in the monumental “Picart” or Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, Volume 6, 1818 (Augmented Edition).  The Picart, recently called The Book That Changed Europe, spearheads worldwide religious tolerance.  To cite the Editor of the section on Freemasonry of this work,

“The historical observations and research of the author of the work titled The Jesuits Driven Away from Masonry and Their Dagger Shattered by Freemasons appeared to us of an interest worthy of being included in this volume, as masonic conclusion.  The praises of Mirabeau and the confessions of Mallet du-Pan in the Mercure de France of 1788, and those of one of the German translators easily identified as one of the heads of the Highest Masonry, prove the merit of the work, for which no writer has dared answer for the last thirty years, and where the true Masons go to seek the Ariadne’s thread to help them walk in this inextricable labyrinth.”

 

James Billington, the U.S. Librarian of Congress, writes in Fire in the Minds of Men that “Nicolas de Bonneville” of Paris was one of the “founding fathers” of the “modern revolutionary tradition.”[1]

It is therefore a great pleasure to introduce for the first time Bonneville's work that remained untranslated into English for more than two centuries.

 

Table of Content

  • Forward by Eric Serejski
  • Introduction by Eric Serejski
  • 1. Scottish Masonry Compared With the Three Vows and the Secret of Templars of the 14th Century.
    • Introduction
  • 2.  Similarity of the Four Oaths of the Company of Saint Ignatius and of the Four Degrees of the Masonry of Saint John.
    • Introduction
    • Similarities of the Four Oaths and Four Degrees
    • Conclusion
  • 3.  Masonry Dissected  with Notes and Proofs
    • Introduction
    • Bonneville’s Notes on the Title
  • Masonry Dissected
    • Bonneville’s Notes on the Preliminary Discourse
    • Enter’d Prentice’s Degree
    • Fellow-Craft’s Degree
    • The Master’s Degree
  • Bibliography
  • Illustrations

 

 

[1] Billington, James Hadley. Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. Basic Books. 1980.