The ancient Roman maxim Divide et Impera—“Divide and Rule”—remains one of the most enduring and astute strategies for power ever devised. Used by Rome to maintain control over its vast and diverse territories, it relied on keeping subject populations internally fractured so they could not unite against the Empire. The brilliance of this method lies in its simplicity: people divided are people distracted, manageable, and ultimately more easily subjugated. Though centuries have passed, the spirit of Divide et Impera is alive and well in politics and in communities once assumed to be insulated from such manipulation.

The Rebranding of Control

In ancient times, Roman povincial governors masterfully played local leaders, religious groups, and neighboring communities against one another. They awarded privileges unevenly, cultivated rivalries, and discouraged cohesion. This ensured that no unified resistance could ever rise. Today, we see similar tactics, cloaked in the language of inclusion, diversity, and pluralism.

We see governments and institutions in our time, frequently exploiting ideological, racial, and religious differences. The result is : fragmentation. Meanwhile, the ruling elite acts with greater impunity, shielded as it is by the smoke of division.

Amid the chaos of distraction, emergency laws pass with minimal scrutiny, freedoms are slowly but surely eroded without recourse, wealth consolidates in the hands of the few, and large-scale surveillance is introduced without prior general discussion and public approval.

The Fracturing of the Fraternal Ideal

Alarmingly, even an institution like Freemasonry that was built on unity are not immune to such machiavellian policy. Once a refuge from the turbulent divisions of the outside world, it now increasingly mirrors those same divisions within the walls of its temples as the…

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The influence of inns and innkeepers in the expansion of Freemasonry is indisputable. In the early days Masonic lodges commonly met in inns and taverns—venues that offered both practicality and hospitality in an era with few other options. These informal settings provided more than just shelter; they fostered a relaxed and sociable atmosphere, free from the constraints of long travel at a time when motorcars did not yet exist. Before the establishment of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Middlesex, several of the first Lodges in the area convened in such places.  The following list is by courtesy of WBro Stan Marut, and it shows  the first lodges established in the Middlesex area  –  even before the Provincial Grand Lodge – which met in taverns.

LODGE No	NAME	CONSECRATED	FIRST MEETING PLACE
72	Royal Jubelee	1810	Golden Lion, Goodman’s Fields*
255	Lodge of Harmony	1785	Toy Inn, Hampton Court
382	Royal Union Lodge	1825	King’s Arms Inn, Uxbridge
778	Bard of Avon	1859	Golden Lion Hote, Stratford-upon-Aven, later moving to Middlesex
788	Crescent	1859	King’s Head Hotel, Eel Pie Island, Twickenham
858	South Middlesex	1861	Beaufort Hotel, North End, Fulham

* Goodman’s Fields was essentially outside of the City walls in what is now E1. In 1810 it would have been in Middlesex. Perhaps the first Middlesex Lodge in that area? Many others met in what we might call West/South West Middlesex. Indeed, there is perhaps a whole other history to be written about these early meeting places.

Now read on.

IN THE BEGINNING

Taverns, lnns and Coffee Houses played a meaningful role in the expansion of Freemasonry on the British Isles. The first Grand Lodge of England of speculative Freemasons was itself established at a tavern called The Goose and Gridiron, St Paul’s Churchyard, London. It was June 1717 and over the next six decades the Grand Lodge went on to meet at similar establishments in and around London. Only in 1775, the original Freemasons’ Hall was erected in Great Queen Street, London.

ln medieval time, there was a Free Mason’s Arms inn about every 16 to 20 miles on England’s highways, where operative Freemasons traveled in search of employment. In his diary entry for 1644, Samuel Pepys observed that Freemasons gathered solely in unique inns during their breaks from labour. They were required by regulations to stay in venues that were deemed honest and where only civil company was present. The Fraternity’s Arms were often painted on a sign board installed above the establishment’s porch-way and served to identify such places.

The landlord of every recognized Free Mason’s Arms inn was sworn in as a Serving Brother—continues Pepys — before being allowed to enter the lodge. His wife was sworn in as a “Mason’s Dame” so that if necessary she could work as a waitress and her conduct was explicitly stipulated for in her “oath.”

ln his diary, Samuel Pepy’s was, of course, referring to Freemason who were “operative” and belonged to their exclusive trade corporation called a Guild or Livery if based in the Square Mile i.e., the City of London. The Worshipful Company of lnnholders or Hostelers was established under Royal Charter in 1514. ln the City of London both operative and speculative masons met at the Masons’ Hall, a property today demolished but which once stood on Masons’s Lane, off Basinghall Street, near the Guildhall.

After the 1666 Great Fire of London savaged the City, whose buildings were mainly made of timber, an extensive restoration program began under the leadership of Christopher Wren. A year earlier in 1665, the plague had ravaged the country, leading to the deaths of many local Freemasons. Those vacancies were filled by craftsmen from other cities as well as from abroad; but on completion of the rebuilding of London, they moved back out of the capital, driving Freemasonry to turn into a “speculative” Order for survival.

FROM OPERATIVE TO SPECULATIVE

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The international Masonic Institutions have been harmed as never before during the last two years of Sars2 restrictions. The Brotherhood gets its nourishment from face-to-face debate both in and outside its lodges. But for far too long, the rules put in place have limited our freedoms and have prevented this intellectual confrontation taking place.  

But that is only the tip of the iceberg.

During these times of semi-incarceration, Masonic authorities of all Obedience have encouraged their members to roll up their sleeves and volunteer to help inject these supposed “miracle serums” that have failed to safeguard us time and time again.

They’ve also imposed on us to wear a mask, which master masons, knowledgeable  in symbolism, should recognise means surrender, subordination, resignation, and destroys our identity.

“Freemasons want to assist the National Health System and uphold the Masonic essential values of friendship, integrity, charity, and respect at all times.” These were the words of the Chief Executive Officer of the United Grand Lodge of England, an odd title that suggests there may be little of spiritual in what the institution represents.

In history, dictators always fought their conflicts by exposing themselves in person, and that when they lost, they paid the price with their own life.

Today, the world’s aspiring tyrants fight instead  in a covert and cowardly manner. They use lies to sway people’s opinions. and sow the seeds of evil by repeating those lies until they bear fruit.

Who are the modern days tyrants?

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The Fabian is a private elitist Society that has been working in the shadow in England since it was formed in 1844.  Its members  aspire to form a Socialist World Government that would wipe out human rights, lead to the appropriation by the State of all private property, give parity of rights to individuals who practise aberrations like homosexuality, one sex marriages, one sex parenting, trans-genderism and so forth. Such Global Government, would be formed with leaders chosen because of their superior intelligence.

The Fabian Society had a renaissance during Tony Blair’s term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from  1997 to 2007, but even his successor Gordon Brown, the present Labour leader, Keith Starmer, and his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, are members.

In 2020, London re-elected Sadiq Khan as Ciy Mayor. The son of immigrants, Khan succeeded the Tory liberal Boris Johnson in 2016 and is considered a “moderate Muslim” . He was from 2008 to 2010 the President of the elitist Fabian Society.

The coat of arms of the Fabian Society depicts a wolf in sheep’s clothes, pointing to the Society’s policy of deception!  The Society wishes to run the world and is as sinister as the Illuminati and as treacherous as The Rotary Club, a Society that hides behind Charity donations but whose members’ true intention  is to find business opportunities  and maximize their profits. 

The Fabian Society had a renaissance during Tony Blair’s term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from  1997 to 2007, but even his successor Gordon Brown, the present Labour leader, Keith Starmer, and his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, are its members.

In the photo below, Tony Blair is shown in 2006 unveiling a restored window at the London School of Economics in London, which was commissioned by George Bernard Shaw . Shaw was a famous playwright and co-founded, with Stanley James Webb, the Fabian Society. He was also a socialist and a keen supporter of the Eugenics, a science described as” the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable“. Shaw described his frightening vision of a future society with these words:

“(…) Under Socialism, people would not be allowed to be poor. They would be force-fed , be clothed and provided with accommodation, would be educated and provided with a job, whether they like it or not. If it turns out that they do not have enough an industriousness to deserve all of this, they will probably be gently eliminated; but if they were allowed to live they should live well (…)”

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I am a Freemason. I am also a Baby Boomer. In my generation that would make me a bit of an anomaly because most men in America born after WWII have not been joiners until very recently.

But my father was a Freemason; as was his brother. They owned and operated adjoining farms on the great wheat and cattle producing plains of Oklahoma. For as long as I can remember, my dad would come in from his work every Wednesday afternoon, take a shower, and put on his Sunday suit My uncle would come by and pick him up and they would go to the Mason’s Hall together. They did this for 50 years. I can’t remember a time when I was not going to be a Freemason.

I also knew the men in my community. It was a small place of only about 2,500 people. It was where we celebrated the festivals of our lives, went to church, and participated in social conversations outside our home. I knew the most respected men in my town. I can’t remember when I did not know them.

I entered the fraternity of Freemasonry during the summer of my 21st year. When I arrived at the lodge for my first degree, or stage of joining, all these men I had known and respected in my childhood were there. They were my father’s friends. I can remember to this day standing in the ante-room of the lodge, duly prepared in a garment provided me for the occasion, waiting for someone to return my knocks on the door, and thinking to myself: Tonight, I am going to be initiated into Manhood.

Although at the time I didn’t realize it, through my initiation into the world’s oldest secret society for men, I was participating in one of the most ancient traditions of manhood. In every culture the world has ever known, men have yearned to be initiated into manhood. It is fundamental to man’s understanding of his own process of growth. And we have always known it even if we have not defined it for ourselves.

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The Euro Lodge 2021 is a project that Tetraktys is pleased to support. The aim is to set up a Craft Lodge with Brethren from the European Union and with a EU nationality who live and work in the United Kingdom. Without doubt, the conflicts and divisions that Brexit has created in our society are the reasons behind this idea. Citizens from EU-member States who had been allowed to settle in the UK ,without constraints, for the previous fifty years, have been turned into aliens in the name of a dubious 52/48% vote on a poor turnout. A vote often described by right-wing Tory politicians as an “overwhelming” verdict to leave the Community and as a justification to cast away from this island millions of of Europeans. A tragedy for those who had to leave and those who have remained.

This EU Lodge Project reminds me of the contents of an article, titled “Masonic Europeanism”, that the online magazine Corrispondenza Romana published not long ago. I’ve extrapolated and translated some of its passages to show you that the idea of a united Europe is Masonic goes back a long time.

According to the French academic Yves Hivert-Messeca, the Freemasons were dreaming of a trans-national society or fraternity and conspiring for a new Europe as early as the eighteenth century.

Prof Gianmario Cazzaniga, a scholar that the Grand Orient of Italy highly esteems, shares this opinion. He also believes  that the concept of a Universal Republic first arose in the circles of literati, aristocrats, antique merchants, and scientists and later received the support of Huguenots , bankers and Freemasons.

The realization of a European Republic that would reflect Masonic principles, implies the project of a socio-cultural metamorphosis achievable only through a revolution–the French one of 1789 and the New World Order more recently –that would crush the power of the Papal State, the political and military Catholic monarchies (such as the Habsburg in the past), or the Republics now.

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A new masonic year is about to begin and with the resumption of  the activities the same old question will resurface : how many dreadful functions or Masonic degree ceremonies must we attend ,month after month, to feel that our Fraternity is still relevant and vital in our lives? How can we claim to be taking good men and making them better  in an environment where members don’t feel any different on the inside than they do on the outside?

There is also the question of mediocrity. Accepting it in our Lodge activities is like accepting mediocrity in our personal lives. When nothing instructional, clever, intellectual, or spiritual transpires in our private and holy settings,we become just another average, run-of-the-mill organization, no matter how glowingly a Secretary may describe his lodge‘s previous evening event. This is known as self-appreciation, it is a vain and  egotistical behavior that has nothing to do with love and brotherhood.

It is tough to see how this style of Masonry might improve. Are we going to be role models for young men, or are we just another group of ordinary guys? We must be conscious of our mission, of what we know, and how we practice it in order to be exemplary men in an exemplary institution.

Year after year, however, we fail to teach our Brethren about “Freemasonry and we continue to accept applicants who have objectives other than a desire to improve themselves and to grow spiritually. We encourage them to apply even if they are unsuitable so that we may get to perform a ceremony or two thanks to their stupidity.

Our ritual is learnt by mechanical or habitual repetition, but it is often misunderstood and badly performed. Candidates should be taught for several months and prove their worthiness before they receive the next degree,  instead we only send them on their way to memorize the answers for their next ceremony.

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More than a hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner wrote:

In future, medicine will eliminate the Soul

Under the pretext of a ‘scientific discovery’, there will be a vaccine that will treat the human from birth to not fully understand that he is made of :

• Body
•  Soul
• Spirit

The task of removing the Soul from the human race, will be entrusted to greedy, materialistic doctors.

Just as today people are vaccinated against this or that disease, so in future our children will be vaccinated with a substance that will make them  immune from the “madness” of spiritual life. Man would then be extremely intelligent, but he would not develop a conscience, and that is the true aim of some materialistic Societies.

Through  such vaccine, the Etheric Body will detach from the Physical Body and once the Etheric Body will have left, the relationship between  Universe and Etheric Body will become extremely unstable, and man would turn into  an automaton. [1]

The vaccine, therefore, will  be  the  Manichean[2] force that separates the Physical from the Etheric Body and Man will no longer be able to free itself of materialistic feelings. He will no longer be able to rise to a spiritual plane.

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WHO WAS RUDOLF STEINER ?

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was an Austrian philosopher and educational reformer. He remains perhaps best known for the educational methods he pioneered in his Waldorf schools, which have spread slowly but steadily around the world since his death. A trained philosopher and at the same time a mystic, Steiner believed that spiritual insights could be gained through systematic thought. He founded the spiritual belief system called Anthroposophy, an offshoot of Theosophy, and disseminated his ideas through an energetic campaign that included years of lectures and a group of writings that ran to some 350 volumes when collected. (SOURCE: https://www.encyclopedia.com)

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[1] _{Because on Earth Man can divest himself from materialistic instincts  only though  the work of the Spirit.}

[2] _{the philosophy of Manichaeism, which is an old religion that breaks everything down into good or evil. It also means “duality,” so if your thinking is Manichean, you see things in black and white.}

The anniversary of the French Revolution on July 14th has not been commemorated as a major event for quite some time, whether in presence or absence of a world pandemic. Today’s researchers are not reticent about criticizing the work of Robespierre and his contemporaries and yet France continues to celebrate the event with typical triumphalist narratives and oppressive rhetoric.

The scent of victory for the democracy that historians have ever since enjoyed filling the air with is not so much to cover the stink of death that emanates from the Revolution’s massacres – a “collateral damage “of which democracy has never been ashamed – but to cover the stench of lies. The Revolution was ever a lie, that is why an enthusiastic cult of 1789 has been retained ever since.

The Revolution lied from the very beginning when it proclaimed it was the reaction of a population suffocated by absolutism. In reality, history reveals that Louis XVI’s tenure was the antithesis of tyranny, beginning with the King’s kindness as a man.

Louis Capet abolished torture in the criminal system and was planning to abolish feudal privileges as well. Historians believe that when Louis XVI was guillotined, he had no faults except that he was a symbol of a world that the Revolution wanted to destroy: his execution had to be, and was, a rite of passage.

The second institutional lie after “tyranny” was the assertion that the Revolution had been both spontaneous and popular when in fact it had been an intellectual project theorized and brought into operation by “others”.

Of course, a part of the French people did take up arms against the monarchy. But it is also true that the Fathers of the Enlightenment – the “others” – had flooded prerevolutionary France with anti-monarchical and anti-Christian propaganda for half a century.  

THE ASSEMBLY OF THE REVOLUTION

The power that hammering media information has to inculcate “strange thoughts” into the collective consciousness is clear to everybody to see during the present declared pandemic. Just imagine how valuable this type of communication had been in the eighteenth century public opinion!

Pius XII noted in the radio message of Christmas 1944: 

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