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 SPOILATION 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.