"I owe you, Illustrious brother, an explanation which it is necessary to give to our rituals." "Masonry being nothing else than active revolution, permanent conspiracy against political and religious despotism,...." "The Grand Master innocent, you have already seen, is man ... man who was born innocent because he was born unconsciously." "Our Grand Master Innocent was born to be happy and to enjoy in all their fullness all his rights without exception: But he fell, struck with the blows of three assassins: of three infamous beings who placed formidable obstacles in the way of his happiness, and against his rights...." "These three infamous assassins are: the Law, Property and Religion". "The Law because it is not in harmony with the rights of the individual man and the duties of the man who lives in society: rights which all acquire in all their integrity...." "Property: because the earth is the property of no one and its products pertain to all in the measure for each one of the true necessities for his welfare." "Religion: because religions are no more than the philosophies of men of talent, which the people have adopted...." "Neither the Law, Property nor Religion can impose themselves upon man, and as they deprive him of his most precious rights they are assassins against whom we have sworn to exercise the utmost vengeance. "Of these three infamous enemies, Religion ought to be the object of our constant mortal attacks, because a people never have survived their religion, and destroying religion we have at our disposition the law and property and we can then regenerate society, establishing over the ruins, masonic Religion, masonic Law and masonic property." [17] "Insurreccion en Filipinas"; vol. I. p. 109. [18] One not acquainted with the seducing nature of the masonic operation and the peculiarity of the native character, would wonder to find the name of a Catholic priest so intimately connected with freemasonry and its offspring, especially in a country in which the Church wages close and continual warfare with the evil. There is little need for surprise however, when we consider the seductive influence of the one hand and the simplicity and childishness of the native character on the other. Many of the native clergy were body and soul wrapt up in the workings of freemasonry and were Spain's worst and most crafty enemies.