THE WAR OF ANTICHRIST WITH THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION. A Review of THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF ATHEISM; ITS EXTENSION THROUGH VOLTAIRE; ITS USE OF FREEMASONRY AND KINDRED SECRET SOCIETIES FOR ANTICHRISTIAN WAR; THE UNION AND “ILLUMINISM” OF MASONRY BY WEISHAUPT; ITS PROGRESS UNDER THE LEADERS OF THE FIRST FRENCH REVOLUTION, AND UNDER NUBIUS, PALMERSTON, AND MAZZINI; THE CONTROL OF ITS HIDDEN “INNER CIRCLE” OVER ALL REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS; ITS INFLUENCE OVER BRITISH FREEMASONRY; ITS ATTEMPTS UPON IRELAND; OATHS, SIGNS, AND PASSWORDS OF THE THREE DEGREES, ETC., ETC. THE SPOLIATION OF THE PROPAGANDA. LECTURES DELIVERED IN EDINBURGH IN OCTOBER, 1884, BY MONSIGNOR GEORGE F. DILLON, D.D., Missionary Apostolic, Sydney. “_Instruct the people as to the artifices used by societies of this kind in seducing men and enticing them into their ranks, and as to the depravity of their opinions and the wickedness of their acts._”—ENCYCLICAL HUMANUM GENUS OF LEO XIII. DUBLIN: M. H. GILL & SON, UPPER SACKVILLE-STREET. LONDON AND NEW YORK: BURNS AND OATES. 1885. Nihil Obstat. W. FORTUNE, D.D., _Censor Theologus Deputatus_. _Die 3 Mensis Maii, 1885._ Imprimatur. GULIELMUS J. CANON. WALSH, _Vic. Cap. Dublin_. _Die 4 Mensis Maii, 1885._ CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE vii I.—INTRODUCTION. 1 Reasons for selecting the Subject—“Catholic Institute,” a Society such as those commended by Leo XIII., in the Bull, _Humanum Genus_.—Necessity of keeping Youth from bad Associations—Necessity of unmasking Secret Societies—Words of Leo XIII.—Freemasonry and Secret Societies with us—On the Continent—All Secret Associations Atheistic, and intensely hostile to the Church, Christianity, and Social order—Union of all Secret Societies—All knowingly, or otherwise, under a central direction and control—Fraud and Force—Review of Atheistic Organization since the first French Revolution—Features of its Progress. II.—THE RISE OF ATHEISM IN EUROPE. 5