>>12777781Words by one of the greatest Freemasons of all time, Albert Pike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_conspiracy_theories>Many, since Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma was first published in 1871, have come to view the Freemasons as the lineal heirs of the Knights Templar, but other conspiracy theorists ascribe that role to the Jesuits, citing Pike in the aforementioned work:>Hugues de Payens himself had not that keen and far-sighted intellect nor that grandeur of purpose which afterward distinguished the military founder of another soldiery that became formidable to kings. The Templars were unintelligent and therefore unsuccessful Jesuits>Eight hundred Degrees of one kind and another were invented: infidelity and even Jesuitry were taught under the mask of Masonry