The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 40

History. A Baulk

History. A Baulk.

What is History? My dictionary says—"to learn or know by enquiry. A written record or narration of facts or events in the life of a nation, state, institution, or epoch, with disquisitions on their cause and effect."

History is a written Record or narration, if it is edited from written Records, but no disquisition can be History, nor can an edited narration be History unless the Records from which it is edited are authentic. To be authentic they must be vouched for, and the voucher must be the evidence they present by being perfect in sequence, detail and rote, and in nothing contradicting each other. Is there such History extant?

Is opinion history? is surmise history? can the thoughts of a biogropet be conceived and narrated? Can intent and purpose be found by implet? can the character and inspet of a man be summed up from Active editing? can history be the narration of probabilities? can isolated and distant events however correctly narrated be the history of a nation, state, institution, or epoch?

If these questions are answered in the negative, then the history of the past is not to be found at the present—it is lost or suppressed.

I have placed my Baulk, who can pass it?

My Pulle is this—There is no history of the Roman Empire, Roman Republic, or of the Roman Church. The History of the Roman Empire was never archived by the Romans; no records were ever kept, nor could more than eleven men in the whole of the Empire, from first to last, either read or write. The history and records of Rome are incidents in the History of Greece only, excepting the yearly annetted statistics of spocet kept by the Supreme Lodge of Record and Statistics in the Hades of the planet, and to which access is only available to crowned heads by right, and students by favor.

The Record of the Church of Rome has been kept by Masonic Lodges appointed to that task only; and archived monthly in the Lodge vaults of eight different localities—Smyrna, Aleppo, Paris, Dresden, Adrianopol, Sumatra, Delhi and Carnatic; and all summarised in the librette of the Lodge of St. Asaph, 15 miles from the city of Seringapatam. The Church commenced to keep record in the year 201, discontinued until the year 203, lost the record and commenced again in 204, and destroyed every paper in 402 to prevent Gladstone (a Puritan triumvir) from getting possession of them. The only records now in the archives of the Church date from the year 709, and are not in sequence.

The Church Records archived since 1221 are available; but by the Canon of impiety it is a fault punishable with death to be found perusing them without the consent of twelve Bishops.

There, is, and ever was, a blank in Church history between the supposed time of the advent of. Jesus of Nazareth and year of the Compact of Clotus, (411) the year in which the Christians of Europe were formally made a "Sectary" of the Church of Rome, and the Church first adopted the title of "The Church of Christ." The history of the first four hundred years was always termed the "Masonic Era" in all monasteries and nunneries until the reformation of the Catechism in 1798. The Dogma of the "Apostolical Succession" was a "Device of Craft" to bridge over the chasm left by the absence of all narration of event appertaining to the first 400 years. The Monk Abbot Euralleus made oath and declared that "The Records of that eventful period were in the hands of the Freemasons only, and that they were secreted in ninety different places; it would be useless, therefore, to attempt a Surmised History." "It was resolved that the Apostolical Succession should bridge over the Appenine way." —Appendix to the Compact of Clotus.

The Church of Rome had in every way attempted to put down the growing Sectary of Christianity by fine, imprisonment, torture, and public execution. Rome was the Supreme government and the Church was the executive. Arian went to Rome to plead the cause of the Christians in Smyrna, and the result was the Arian Massacre—the indiscriminate slaughter of the inhabitants of Smyrna. The outcry led to the Compact of Clotus, by which the Christians were admitted as a Sectary of the Church of Rome, and the Church publicly adopted Christianity. Records had been repeatedly forbidden. Escubus, in 201, made it a "Dignity of the State" that no record should be kept of its proceedings. He was Pope, and to give his decree more effect he issued a proclamation to parents "not to tolerate the practice of writing amongst children, so that no attempt should be made to transmit the story of the present to the future, when men should be more indebted to the Church for their information."

Ever since Protestant writers have secured liberty to publish their writings they have exhibited their inferiority to Catholic writers whenever history eould be introduced. Protestants have only Catholic published everset to refer to, and they must abide by it, although they may know that the authority is a straitened Church manipulation. Catholic controversialists are trained to their craft, and they know the sleight-of-hand it admits of. If history fails they can supply as much as is needful, well knowing that Protestants cannot detect their "crow." They dread no enemy but "The Accursed Masons." "Why their lore is suppressed and their bummistrie kept dark is" (to the Hierarchy) "a state of continual suspense."

This summary is given to show the uselessness of the Bible as a basis from which to date history. I do not intend to couple it with Christianity in any way but as events in the history of the first attempt to make Christianity a speculative theology.

Colollary.—All Church History is a concocted Fraud.

Corollary.—All history depending on a narration of events pas-sing through the supremacy of the Dark Ages of the Church is Fiction of History.

Corrolander—The History of the Christian Era has never been written, nor have events been entabletted anywhere but in Masonic Lodges.