Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes, La.
Organe de la Ligue franc-catholique contre les societes secretes maconniques ou occultistes et leurs filiales / Bulletin bi-mensuel de la Ligue Anti-maconnique
Quis ut Deus? Dieu premier servi
1912--1939 Monthly, then semimonthly, quarterly, weekly, bimonthly
Paris, France.
Language: French.
Editor: L'Abbe Ernest Jouin; Charles Nicoullaud ("Fomalhaut"); Andre Lesage,Marquis de la Franquerie.
Corporate author: Organe de la Ligue franc-catholique
1/1, January 1912-1939. Not published July 1914-1920. 20 francs a year in France and Belgium, 25 francs abroad; 80 pp. (varies) plus an irregular, huge multi-page "Index Documentaire" of rare documents or a "Bibliographie des Ouvrages Imprimes et Manuscrits qui ont paru sur La Franc-Maconnerie, Les Rose-Croix, Les Templiers, Les Illumines, Les Carbonari, Les Societes Secretes, La Magie, Le Mesmerisme, etc." Two volumes a year.

The journal was a clearinghouse of information on current secret societies and the more obscure intricacies of eighteenth-century Masonry, and is a mine from which nuggets of obscure information are still being taken, for example on Julius Evola, Le Clement de Saint-Marcq, the O.T.O., Theodor Reuss, and the like. It was also rabidly anti-Semitic, biased, hateful and credulous to a degree that is hard to believe. Monsignor Jouin (1844-1932) founded the journal to expose the material he found in a vast (30,000 volumes) library of occult and Masonic books he acquired in 1910. He featured long expositions of Jewish ritual murder, and also published in France the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, along with essays thereon and on the textual history of the work. The journal discussed, citing chapter and verse from a vast erudition and bibliography, the intricacies and interconnections of Freemasonry, Satanism, the Rotary Club, the Boy Scouts, Feminism, the "King of the World," the (Neo-) Gnostic Church, Antoinism, and the bona fides of Leo Taxil's Diana Vaughan. From 1928 to 1933 the journal devoted a regular "partie occultiste" (the "rose" section, as contrasted with the regular "grise" section) specifically to occultism. Jouin also edited another journal, Le Peril Judaeo-Maconnique (5 volumes, 1919-1927), a production similar to Henry Ford's The International Jew. Though the journal shared many of the interests and prejudices of La France Chretienne Antimaconnique/La France Anti-maconnique, it carried on a polemic with it over whether it was necessary to be Christian and to believe in Satanic influence in order to be properly anti-Masonic, and the journal's editor in chief, Charles Nicoullaud (the astrologer and occultist "Fomalhaut," 1854-1925) and assistant editor Gustave Bord engaged in a long-running dispute with the "Sphinx" (Rene Guenon), who was contributing to the pages of La France Chretienne, over the nature of Masonry's "Unknown Superiors." (Guenon later, in the 1930s, accused Juin of being a pawn of "contre-initiation" forces and alleged that the journal was in cahoots with Aleister Crowley.) The journal regularly carried long disquisitions on "Initiation in the Theosophical Society," R. Steiner (by Wincenty Lutoslawski), the Illuminati, etc., and also reprinted a curious letter of Charles Johnston (the husband of Mme Blavatsky's niece) attacking "Latin Freemasonry" for its atheistic and political bent. It also regularly carried long, learned reviews of current occult literature. The journal has now been republished by Editions Delacroix in France. Dorbon 4090. Creighton University; Yale University; Brandeis University; Harvard University; Ohio State University; Stadtsbibliothek zu Berlin; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

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