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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Ilaine who wrote (30360)6/29/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Another story of sorts, Blue.

I wrote my Master's thesis on Joseph de Maistre, the "reactionary" Catholic philosopher who was posted to St. Petersburg as the Ambassador from Sardinia (!!).

De Maistre was very pro-Jesuit and very anti-Freemason (anti-Illuminati, more specifically). So, of course, I tried to read up on both the Jesuits and the Freemasons.

And you know, the number of books in the Columbia U. Library on both subjects was enormous. Yet I was unable to find a single halfway objective full-length book on either the Jesuits or the Freemasons! (There were some decent scholarly articles.)

For the most part, you would get either a vast conspiracy theory (Jesuits/Freemasons are plotting to take over the world) or something close to hagiography (Jesuits/Freemasons are misunderstood heroes...)

I wrote that thesis 30 years ago, and some decent studies may have come out in the interim. But I rather doubt it.

Why do you suppose the Jesuits still excite such suspicions?

Joan
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