“9. We must ever be on the watch to make all changes in the state serve our own ends; political parties, cabals, brotherhoods, and unions--in short, everything that affords an opportunity of creating disturbances must be an instrument in our hands. For it is only on the ruins of society as it exists at present that we can hope to erect a solid structure on the natural system, and ensure to the worshippers of nature the free exercise of their rights.” If this method of working, _operatio_, is not _secundum adventum Satanæ_, we should be glad to know what is. Herein we find every feature of Antichrist and his hosts which the Holy Ghost has drawn for our warning. They are heaped together in such hideous combination throughout this summary as scarcely to need particularizing. Our readers may not, however, be unwilling that we should single them out one by one as they appear more or less prominently in the several paragraphs; premising that throughout one characteristic reigns and prevails, and, indeed, lends its color to all the rest, that special attribute of “the father of lies”--falsehood! We will take the paragraphs in order, and photograph their most prominent Antichristian features. _The first._--Spurning authority. Giving ear to spirits of error and doctrines of demons. Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having a conscience seared. Blasphemers. Mockers, walking according to their own desires; animals, not having the Spirit. Mockers in deception, walking according to their own lusts. _The second and third._--Lovers of themselves, lawless, proud, malicious, traitors, froward, discourteous, fearful, mockers in deception. _The fourth._--Calumniators, cruel, traitors. _The fifth._--Mockers in deception. _The sixth._--Traitors, without affection, without peace. _The seventh._--Traitors, walking in impieties, walking according to their own lusts, incontinent. _The eighth._--Having their conscience seared, without peace, cruel. _The ninth._--Spurning authority, traitors, lawless, without peace. It must be borne in mind, moreover, that these are not merely repulsive infirmities of individuals, but the essential and inevitable characteristics deliberately adopted by the craft of Freemasons, and which it cannot be without, if they are the brand which the finger of God has marked upon the loathsome brow of the Antichrist of “the last time.”[36]