John Daniel - Scarlet and the Beast Vol. I

John Daniel
[color=#a00000]Scarlet and the Beast
A History of the war between English and French Freemasonry

From a previous Amazon review:

John Daniel is an evangelical Protestant who places much of the content of his book within the context of Protestant “Bible prophecy.” In Volume I, Daniel shows that Freemasonry is the common denominator in all common conspiracy theories (Communists, International bankers, Multinational corporations, European aristocracy, Jews, Jesuits, and the Illuminati). Drawing heavily upon the work of Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, he proceeds to show that the rivalry between the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar developed into rivalry between the Grand Lodge Masonry of England and the Grand Orient and Scottish Rite Masonries of France. He shows how this rivalry figured in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the revolutions of the 1800’s, Marxism, the Russian Revolution, World Wars I and II, the establishment of the League of Nations and the United Nations, and more. This volume is also valuable because it discredits the antisemitic conspiracy theory. While acknowledging the involvement of many Jews in subversive movements (for example, 82% of the Bolshevik government was staffed by Jews), he shows that the most prominent of these Jews were Masons, and were acting as Masons, not as Jews. In fact, he says Masonry is inherently antisemitic, and that Masonry conspired to both undermine Orthodox Judaism through Reform Judaism and to promote Jews in their ranks, so that if Masonic conspiracies were revealed, the Jews, and not the Masons, would be assigned blame.