It is precisely because of the close ideological foundation of the Free Masons Association and the Yinghua Temple that the Temple of Heaven has been able to take root in Europe, not only serving more and more Chinese in Europa, but even pulling some Europa people into it. 1――

For the Holy See, the Free Masonry Society and the Temple of Seris are a pair of demons who are in cahoots, and Rome and Seris have always been at odds, and every year they have to engage in the "excommunication" of Seris, either to crusade against Seris's atheism, or to accuse Seris's medical skills of witchcraft.

The Free Masonsons Society, a thousand-year-old enemy of Rome, was able to rise in a key factor because of the alliance of Europa intellectuals, the burgeoning business class, and the royal power that wanted to seize secular power. This century-long tide gave rise not only to the Reformation, but also to Protestantism, to the Free Masons' Society, and the Europa Enlightenment was initiated by these forces that were united in opposition to the Holy See.

Unlike other forces with clear clues from the Renaissance and the Religious Revolution, the rise of the Free Masonsons was quite complex, which set the stage for it to become a popular vector for conspiracy theories.

After Cai Xin came to Europe, he once studied this organization in depth, and kings such as King Frederick II of Prussia and King George II of Britain, celebrities such as Voltaire of France, and almost most of the celebrities who were dissatisfied with the status quo of politics, culture, religion, and science and technology were members of this organization. And the top of this organization is also from the upper class. For example, the second generation of the British Free Masons Society is the Duke of Montaque, the third generation is the Duke of Canton, and many members of the royal family are also important members of the organization. Even in the thirteen states of North America as far away. Many influential people in the local area are also members of this organization.

Cai Xin, who is in charge of Europa's foreign affairs, will not ignore such an influential group, but what interests him more. The ideological foundation of this organization is very similar to that of Yinghua Heavenly Dao.

The free stonemasons at this time would have embraced the idea that the world was built by gods incarnated by reason, including human beings themselves, who designed and created them. The design of the gods is complex, yet harmonious and perfect, and contains infinite wisdom, and it is based on the pursuit of this wisdom that everyone has formed such an organization.

This kind of thinking is almost only separated by a wall from the Yinghua Heavenly Dao, the "Dao" pursued by the Yinghua Heavenly Dao. There is no difference between the wisdom pursued by the Free Masons Society, and the most obvious difference between the two is that there are different identifications of the carrier attributes of this wisdom.

Yinghua Tiandao is rooted in the Taoist theory of "heaven is not benevolent", and believes that the origin of the creation of this world has no will, that is, there is no so-called "divinity" of Europeans. The Free Masons would not give a specific description of the origin of the world, so as to involve people of different religious backgrounds, but still emphasized theism, that is, the Creator has a will.

To put it simply. You believe that there is a god in this world, and your belief in this god does not prevent you from joining the Free Masons Society and becoming a fellow believer in other gods. You even have to believe in a god to be eligible for this organization. Free stonemasons do not care about the name of God, the commandments of God, and the doctrines of God. They don't build churches to penetrate into people's souls, they only care about God's wisdom and God's rational side.

Whether there is a god or no god is actually not the point, and even emphasizing theism is still a necessary cover-up, after all, in Europa, before the maturity of modern materialist atheism, you are not human if you don't believe in God.

The focus of the free stonemasons is on rational wisdom, and even in contrast to Syris's theory of "the unity of heaven and man", they also believe that the world is a large universe and man is a small universe, and there is a correspondence between the two. The free stonemason's view of the world is similar to that of the celestial temple of Seris, believing that man is actually an imperfect copy of the universe, and needs to constantly revise himself with reason and morality, and pursue the way of wisdom, so as to complete the construction of the "inner temple" and finally realize the unity of heaven and man. …,

Based on this consensus, the Free Masons Society had a particularly close relationship with the Seris and the Celestial Temple of Seris, and intellectuals like Voltaire, who fanatically respected Seris, regarded the Free Masons as a Europa replica of the Seris Heavenly Way.

Although Yinghua is happy to accept this kind of exchange, he also does not want the Europa people to know the Heavenly Way of Seris so well. On the one hand, Cai Xin politely suggested that the British Free Stonemasons would reduce the specifications of Syris's trip for physical reasons, and on the other hand, he emphasized the difference in ideas between the two in front of Pete, which was also to be cautious to keep a certain distance from the Free Stonemasons.

In Cai Xin's view, the Free Masonsons Society also has something to criticize, the first point is its ideological foundation, although the theism it advocates comes from Plato, but part of the foundation attached to theism is the Gnostic sect that has been hacked by the Holy See for thousands of years. This sect emphasizes that there is no one true God, that Christ is only one of them, and that God and man are separated, and Jesus is man. It is only through the study and perception of knowledge that people can attain "Gnosis" and thus communicate with the gods.

For the Chinese, it doesn't matter whether there is one god or several gods, anyway, whoever they meet will burn incense, but for the Catholic Church and even the Holy See later, this is heresy within heresy. In the Roman Empire, this sect that was prevalent in Greece was eliminated by Catholicism, which became the official religion, and in the dark ages of the Middle Ages, the Holy See's crackdown on alchemists, witches and other "evil spirits" also continued to blacken this extinct sect, intentionally or unintentionally.

Of course, the Gnostics and similar polytheistic sects were not entirely pure in their own right, and like the White Lotus, the polytheism that expanded by their attachment to Christ also gave birth to "devils" like Lucifer and related cults.

The second point is also the ideological foundation, the Gnostics are only one vein, and the other root vein is buried deeper, which is related to the name of the organization, and it is also the real origin of the organization.

In the Middle Ages, there were very few intellectual groups independent of religious forces, and most of the fields of knowledge were monopolized by religion. There is a hygro ode to music. Iron smelting and military technology are still very backward, and they cannot form a specialized intellectual class, even governing the country. It was also because religion held secular power, coupled with Europa's feudal system, that no independent civilian-intellectual class was born.

Able to be independent of religious thought. There are only categories such as commerce, shipbuilding, navigation, etc., which are exclusive to the Jews, and shipbuilding and navigation are also closely related to commerce, and the other category is architects and builders who are called "stonemasons". The symbols of the Free Masons' Society, the compass and the ruler, are symbols of this status[1].

The church had to build churches, the monarch had to build castles, and the architects of the Middle Ages had no low status. For architects and construction workers, no matter how much the gods favor, if they want the house not to collapse, they have to rely on their knowledge and sweat. At that time, the Free Masonsons' Guild was created, which was similar in nature to the "Guild of Architects".

With the fading of the Catholic Church, the Free Masons gradually got rid of the characteristics of the industry and rose to become the "Guild of the Wise". At the same time, it retains the characteristics of the previous guild. That is, it is not open to the public, but only expands the membership with apprenticeships, which is the so-called "secret organization". However, not engaging in public activities is not the same as underground activities, and the nature is closer to that of a private club.

Not only did the Roman Catholic Church attack the Free Masons with this "privacy", but in the eyes of the Chinese at this time. This mix of mentorship and clique activity tends to lean towards the White Lotus, and the radical rhetoric of some members of the Free Masons in the religious sphere makes it easy for the Catholic accusations to resonate with the rest of society. …,

The third point is related to the development route of the Free Stone Mason Society, the core appeal of the Free Stone Mason Society is the way of wisdom, and it is naturally impossible to take the bottom route. Well-educated aristocrats, scientists, intellectuals, and even some moderate clergy became the target of the Free Masonry Society. These people came together with a common theme: the revolt against the tyranny of the Holy See with knowledge. And in some areas, when the pressure of the Holy See ceases to exist, who will these people fight against?

Cai Xin himself is worried like this, of course, it is only a faint worry, after all, such a loose organization cannot have any executive ability.

Before Cai Xin came to Europe, the emperor also talked to him about the Free Masonry Society, and the emperor muttered at that time: "It is a magician's guild, which is not a good thing in the eyes of ordinary people, and those who hate it can attach countless bad things to it, after all, its members are either often whimsical weirdos, or big people who are either rich or noble." And the entire history of the Western world is precisely these people who are pushing forward, and we better keep a certain distance from it......"

Cai Xin didn't understand much about the concept of "Magicians' Guild" at that time, but after arriving in Europe and having a good understanding of this organization, he roughly understood that perhaps the emperor was calling those alchemists in Luofu Mountain "magicians", plus a "guild", so it would be very appropriate to describe the Free Masonry Guild.

Based on the emperor's admonition and his own understanding, Cai Xin also felt that this free stonemason would have too many branches, and each branch had a certain degree of organization, but there was not too much correlation between the branches, which made it easy for some branches to do something and affect the organization as a whole.

Relatively speaking, the Yinghua Heavenly Temple has the right to revise the scriptures through the parade and sacrificial meetings, and constantly corrects the behavior of various heavenly temples, but does not deal with specific personnel and finances, and the state supervises it to a certain extent, so there is no such worry.

Therefore, Cai Xin should be so cautious about keeping a distance from the Free Masons Society, and there is no "Masonic conspiracy theory" at this time, on the contrary, the "Syris's conspiracy theory" is fermenting.

Among the crimes against Seris by the Catholic Church of Rome was "to conspire to subvert Europa, built by God's people, by controlling heresy", and the so-called "heresy" was the Free Masonsons' Society[2].

If the envoys of the Temple of Heaven and even the Anglo-Chinese really want to wear a pair of pants with the Free Masons Society, it will provide ammunition for the Holy See to stir up civil sentiment in vain, and at the same time, it will also create a centripetal force against the Anglo-Chinese for Europa needlessly.

"By the way, Mentor Anderson, I have another matter to trouble you, I heard that the Bank of Ingland is lobbying British parliamentarians to continue to raise the import duties of our Seris, in order to threaten our banks of Seris to accept their financial agreement. I don't know if the chief tutor is willing to mediate......"

Cai Xin's topic suddenly turned to financial affairs, not only Pete's smile was a little stiff, but Anderson was also a little surprised.

Cai Xin's next words made Anderson even more embarrassed: "I roughly know that there are a lot of Jewish bankers in your Free Masons Society, and they have a lot of say in this matter. ”

Anderson hurriedly said: "Our Free Masons Society is just a sorority club, and we have no interference in the specific affairs of the members, and we can't guarantee anything, but if we just contact us, this is no problem." ”

He said apologetically, "In order to expand the influence of our Free Masons Society, it is also a last resort to absorb these people. ”

More than a last resort, the Jews had such a great influence on the Free Masons that the section on the origins and beliefs of the organization in the constitution was tinged with a strong Jewish classic.

This is also a historical inevitability, the Free Masons have absorbed a large number of the most outstanding and active talents in Europe, and most of them are upper-class figures, as the most astute businessmen, the most discerning investors (of course, this vision is not accurate), it is inevitable that the Free Masons will aim at the Free Masons. …,

The reason why Anderson was apologetic was another reason why Cai Xin had to keep a certain distance from the Free Masons Society: Jews, specifically Jewish bankers, were in the new situation of trade between East and West, and became a stumbling block for the British and Chinese.

Trade is booming, the demand for financial services is also becoming more and more intense, Jewish bankers rely on their unique position in Europa's financial business, the British and Chinese merchants who come to Europe to engage in trade as soft persimmons, and use various means to squeeze out the local financial power of the British and Chinese, Cai Xin just mentioned is one of them.

Of course, the Jews were not at the top of the financial food chain a hundred years later, but it was they who held the bottom and the middle of the most active segments. They are like lubricants at this point, and without them, the newly established financial system of the countries of Europa would not work. Taking advantage of this position, the Jewish bankers united to put financial and even political pressure on the Anglo-Chinese financiers who came from afar, and the Anglo-Chinese had only two choices, either to become the Jews' next home or to get out.

Cai Xin naturally had to stand up and seek justice for his own people.

"It's not part of our agreement......

Pete hastened to make a declaration of neutrality, you go to the fight yourself, and the Kingdom of Britain will sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

Cai Xin looked at Anderson and sighed meaningfully: "Jews, what a headache. ”

In Lisbon, a fat man jumped to his feet in a Chinese-style building with cornices and beams: "Go! Gotta do it today! If I don't take down that Jew, I won't be surnamed Zhong! ”

This young fat man looks good, but his eyes are slipping all the time, if time is turned back a few decades, it is a good time to get out of the top position for an hour.

A wooden man beside the fat man asked in a daze: "Third son, do you want to bring a gun!?" ”

"You stupid, you have to use your brains and your mouth to fight the war with the Jews! Knives and guns are used for fart! ”

Zhong Sanri roared, and there was quite a momentum of his father's superiority. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )