Barruel, who was completely versed in Freemasonry, and who had been himself a Mason, states (p. 222) that “the grade of Kadosch is the soul of Freemasonry, and the final object of its plots is the reintroduction of absolute liberty and equality through the destruction of all royalty and the abrogation of all religious worship.” And he backs this statement by a tragic incident in the history of a friend of his, who, because he was a Rosicrucian, fancied himself to be “in possession of the entire secret of Freemasonry.” It is too long to admit of our quoting it. The reader anxious for information we refer to _The Secret Warfare of Freemasonry_ (pp. 142-144). _Le Libertaire_, a New York paper, in the interests of Freemasonry, about the year 1858 had the following: “As far as religion is concerned, the _Libertaire_ has none at all; he protests against every creed; he is an atheist and materialist, openly denying the existence of God and of the soul.” In 1793 belief in God was a crime prohibited in France under pain of death. Those of our readers who have some acquaintance with modern philosophy we need here only remind of the _natura naturans_ and _natura naturata_ of Spinoza, born a Jew, but expelled from the synagogue for his advocacy of these principles of Freemasonry: “The desire to find truth is a noble impulse, the search after it a sacred avocation; and ample field for this is offered by both the mysterious rites peculiar to the craft and those of the Goddess Isis, adored in our temples as the wisest and fairest of deities.”--_Vienna Freemason’s Journal_ (3d year, No. 4, p. 78 et seq.) In the _Rappel_, a French organ of Freemasonry, was the following passage a few weeks ago: “God is nothing but a creation of the human mind. In a word, God is the ideal. If I am accused of being an atheist, I should reply I prefer to be an atheist, and have of God an idea worthy of him, to being a spiritualist and make of God a being impossible and absurd.” In short, the craft is so far advanced in its course of triumph as to have at length succeeded in familiarizing the public ear with the denial of the existence of a God; so that it is now admitted as one amongst the “open questions” of philosophy. Our illustration of the crowning indications of the satanic mark of Antichrist afforded by the Freemasons--the sitting in the temple of God, so as to make himself out to be, as it were, God--will be short but decisive. The well-known passage in the last work of the late Dr. Strauss, to the effect that any worship paid to a supposed divine being is an outrage on _the dignity of human nature_, goes far enough, we should have thought, in this direction; but they go beyond even this.