Evening star., 1901-12-14
With Headquarters in the Mysterious
City Of Lhassa'
IT is ARISTOCRATIC And FEMINIST
But It Explains Why the Gar Says
"The Empress and |"
ITS TEMPLES AND PALACES
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence or Inc Evening Stdi-
PARIS December I, 1901.
Russia is ruled by a great secret So
cietv-uot that of the nihilists. and OF
very different character 1t is arustocrd.lC'
naacefuIlv progressive and feminist Yet
We 10 the governor, diplomat. minister or
czar who persists in ignoring its recon-
rnandatfons, LobanOf-Rostowsky dled SUI
darIv in a railway car. MouraVlen 1851
consciousness after a cup of coffee ana
never recovered. Lamsdorf is certainly not
sure of his fate, though he hopes
Il was in Paris apropos of the czar 5 VlsN'
that the words were uttered. IN an eActu-
sive salon of the Monceau quarter alter
dinner. n dozen guests listened speHoouhu
to a strange and splendid Russian laoy.
The tale she told was extraordinary yet
such was the sweet gravity of the recital
the matter of fact exactness OF It's "eallh
Of details and the air of power ana au-
tborfty that dignified its telling, that not
ona of the twelve world-worn Parisians eX-
perienced a moments incredulity. EXcep1
for the names, no introduction was pldCSu
on its repetition. Indeed II seehleu tI ~ -, %
understood that. the time approaching iIpT1
ness a first hint of these things nhSht wen
be given to the world 49,,
..There are two Free Masonries. sne
said land both have their origin IN the
orient one is exclusively masculine ana
reigns in the Latin and Anglo-SaXon coun-
tries IT is democratic. demagoglc even
and tends to the destruction OF an ,na,,- niet
chfsed society. The second Free masonry
differs from it in that it is eventually aris
tocratic only pacifcally progressive anu -
above ALL feminist.
ceeds by selection. 1t governs a great part
of the orient and the whole OF the SIaV peo-
pie BY its means the Chlnese-huss
French alliance will be made. by lts dIu
the white car will come to rule over
India. and Constantinop!e will become the
fourth capital of the Romanof1s- II naue
the FranCO-Russian alhance because is rlussla
had need of money to prepare her destlIleS
in the orient and because its occult leaders
Judge it prudent to build up, IN Russia, d
buIwark against the aggresslons OIL 'ie
west. In word, the Boxer movement III
china Is due to it, as an awakener of the
east. although the Boxer leaders are but
its ignorant instruments.
The Gar Ignorant.
''You must not imagine, on the other
hand" she continued, that Russia de-
sires and those of the society are always
or ever-identical. The czar and his min
listers know less of the societys desires
than of its commands. Thus. Russia Is to
go so far in China. and no farther; IT, Tor
her own purposes. she persists, it will be
at her considerable risk. 1 have said that
this White Free Missionary is feminist. 1t
is to its feminist influence that the Franco
Russian alliance owes its squarely pacific
character This feminist influence dictated
the peace conference of the czar, IN spite
of the opposition of the Russian mlltary
party and the German emperor. Russia 5
present attack on China is not an incon-
sistenCy. there being less of war than
high intrigue about it, so much so that
there are plenty of Europeans who already
perceive the truth that Russia is more
than ready and willing to pose as some
thing between China's big brother and
policeman Thus again. although the So
ciety desires the total disarmament of
Europe. it recognizes that Russia alone can
scarcely bring ii about; therefore Russia
having obeyed in making a beginning, 1t is
counted to her for righteousness. Although
arisJoCratiC, the society is in no way an
enemy OF the people. On the contrary, Its
first principle is that all reform, to be
fruitful. must be worked out in calm and
peace; that all revolutions, even the most
holy. are paid for too dearly by the COM
mon people"
How is it that no one has heard of this
hefore?" asked some one.
Such a powerful organization is heard
of only when ii desires to be- was the
reply, "and. besides, its very structure
hides it. Although one great Free Masonry,
II divides itself into many secret societies.
For an example you have only to take the
DukhObors or Dukhoborskys, the strug-
glers of the spirit, some 1000 of whom
were recently allowed to be emigrated to
Montana and northwest Canada by Eng
lish diCiples of Tolstoi. You may be sure
that the rank and file of these good people
-hwhether they emigrate or remain in Rus
sia-dO not dream that occult influences di-
rect them Such societies, like the Boxers
In China. are mere instruments of the
White Free Masonry whose inner struc-
ture includes four degrees of initiation.
Highest Honors for Few.
The number of those who attain the
highest degree is limited. They WELD the
occult power. and. according to circum-
stances, may be found beside the throne
or living in garret. Their power remains
the same. They form the class of Free
Beings to attain which the initiated must
give up everything, even his personality
and name This explains why high per-
sonages-grand dukes, archdukes and
princes even-sometimes disappear without
any anxiety being manifested by their i'm
perial or royal families. 1t explains, too
how individuals coming from no one knows
where. from vegetating in obscure en-
ployments. suddenly spring into promi-
nence, to occupy the most delicate and per-
ilous posts Such was the rise of Lams-
dorf Such was the rise of Mouravieff.
When these men remain the docile instru-
ments of the power that makes them all
goes we'll When they fail to follow the
line OF conduct traced out for them an
implacable justice first warns them then
demonstrates and at last removes them
Thus in Russia you may say that the ma
JOrity of high functionaries are destined to
sudden death
1T is the same for the czars. When they
desire really to play the autocrat, to show
themselves 100 independent respectful
warnings are presented to them In the
form of infuenZas and typhoids. If they
amend their conduct things arrange them
selves If they do not they are sent to Join
their fathers. You understand now why
never Romanoff has yet died a natural
death
I'VE thought the nihilists did that" an
other guest ventured.
The strange woman smiled enigmatically
In that smile one might read almost any-
thing. \ nihilist might read for example
that his own dread society may be no more
than an fnstrument.' and he himself no
less cat s-paw than Boxer or a Duk-
hobar.
And now she approached the most aston
ishing part of her revelation. Several times
the question had been asked where and
now does such a formidable freemasonry
have its origin.
Asia's Intellectual Home
Its primitive seat she began, hesitat-
ingly-"I shall have to ask you to be very
unprejudiced-you are Europeans-pardon-
end 1t Is natural that you should look on