27 December 1942

PIERRE DE FRANCE-PLANTARD

has declared, at a meeting of the Masters of the Order

The decision whereby the General Assembly entrusted authority to me bears the date 21 September 1942.

Let us now summarise, if you wish, the work that we have accomplished since that time:

And what member would not wish to do so?

During these past three months people have been overwhelmed by so many personal worries and have been distracted by so many problems that it has been impossible for them either to be kept regularly informed or for them to keep track of any information that they have come across by chance. Some have even found themselves deprived of any official news, something that has not stopped them from continuing to criticise our actions, even though they do not know what these are. On the other hand many have rightly taken up arms against the false information and the tendentious rumours about us which are being spread by certain groups; but these allegations hang over every one of us, and every one of us is demanding to know the truth and is asking for evidence that they can check the correctness of.

This brief speech to you addresses the preoccupations of every one of us.

It is not a manifesto, but an account of things that we have already done; it is not a programme, but a balance sheet. Too often we have confused our plans - still less, our desires and our dreams - with reality. Too often also we have confused the more or less inconsistent possibilities of the future with the concrete facts of the present, in such a way that we are failing, today when this misjudgement is costing us so very dear, to apply ourselves to maintaining discretion, objectivity and, one might even say, to silence.

Let us try and keep calm, for the idle chatterers who are deafening us with their dangerous propaganda will soon no longer be talking: adopting this approach will help us regain our composure and master our nerves. But of all those who surround us and of all those traitors who have landed us in our present trouble, who will now show the most zeal for the interests of our Order, as they ultimately conceive of them? Shall we give them our trust, a hundred times scorned? Let us go therefore! Let us simply leave hanging in the air the chaos caused by their contradictions, and allow their ink to turn yellow with age.

Here are the facts.

On that day when, via the hands of the Comte Moncharville, the General Assembly entrusted to me the leadership of the Order, my very first action was to ask the Comte himself to draft our statutes and to form up the ranks of our Order by assigning to each person a post equivalent to his true value, then ... information… I did not hesitate to officially declare the formation of the Order, finally I gave a little.... throughout our Order.

Our internal and external security was thus assured.

During this period, French freemasonry, under the aegis of ... torches took wing and rejoined German and English freemasonry, and in so doing created a degree of turbulence that was extremely dangerous for the security of the new order, forming foundations that were extremely favourable for preparing an Anglo-Franco-German alliance in 1918.

People know that we, the watchful guardians of Christianity are spiritualised, and that one of our aims is to prevent the reformation of the freemasonries; also a certain newspaper, subject no doubt to a certain Masonic influence, has adjudged us to be dangerous (!) and, in plain language, has announced that our Order was merely "a reconstituted freemasonry".

I want Hitler's Germany to know that every obstacle to our own plans does harm to him also, for it is the resistance put up by freemasonry that is undermining German might.

As for the Order, against which everyone is pitting their strength, the effect of the enquiry has been zero, what happened after the disappearance of Jacques de Molay will no longer hamper our progress, since from now on the Order will be kept in existence by our reliable and able cadres.

The Alpha, which is present everywhere, has abolished its ‘1793’ through its resurrection of 1937; the Celtic Order has now been reconstituted, and is already spreading its influence.

I want these words to send loud and clear to every single person the necessary warning, namely that glimmer of light that will guide them in their task.

From 'Vaincre' No. 5, 21 January 1943, page 3.

NOTES:

1. The year given as 1918 in the above article could be a misprint for 1938.

2. The translation is incomplete, having a few words missing, owing to the poor quality photocopy of the text next to the binding.

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