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not what it pretends. It has doubtless imposed on him by means of forged documents, as also upon Leo Taxil, and M. Adolphe Ricoux. The writings which it fathers upon Albert Pike, and quoted by Signor Margiotta, as in other cases, are stolen from Eliphas Levi, the so-called alphabet of the Palladium included. The documentary _piece de resistance_ upon which our author relies as evidence for the existence of an international Masonic organisation is a certain _voute de Protestation_, on the part of a so-called Mother-Lodge Lotus of England, secret Temple of Oxford Street, against the transfer of the Dogmatic Directory from Charleston to Rome, the "Standing Committee of Protestation" being Alexander Graveson, Provincial Delegate of Philadelphia, U.S.A., V. F. Palacios, Provincial Delegate of Mexico, and Diana Vaughan, Provincial Delegate of New York and Brooklyn. Signor Domenico Margiotta has been grossly deceived over this document. What he prints as the English original in guarantee of good faith, side by side with a French translation, is a clumsy and ridiculous specimen of "English as she is wrote," and the French is really the original. I append some choice specimens:--"To the Most Illustrious, Most Puissant, Most _Lightened_ Brothers ... composing, by right of _Ancient and Members for life_, the Most Serene Grand College of _Emerited Masons_." Here the underlined passages are a Frenchman's method of interpreting into English _Tres Eclaires Freres, a titre d'Anciens et de membres a vie_, and _Macons Emerites_. Again: "The protesters numbered six-and-twenty, including twenty-five _sovereing_ delegates present at the deed, and one sovereign delegate, who could not _stand by_ (_ne peut etre present_), but the substitute of _which_ wisely and prudently abstained from the vote _at the first turn_ (_au premier scrutin_) and threw a blank ticket at the second, _expound_ (verb governed by _protesters_) the _acts and situation thence disastrously resulting_ for our holy cause." Once more: "The present protesting vault _aims at the two ballots_ (_vise les deux scrutins_), and _requests to be proceeded_ urgently to their annulment." Again: "_The Charleston's Brothers_ ... have not acted in such a manner as to forfeit _the whole Masonry's esteem_.... The direction ... has _not discontinued to prove foresight_.... It was _injust_ to transfer," &c., and so on for sixteen printed pages which certainly deserve to rank among the curi
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