The widow's son by Wilson Robert Anton 1932-

Author:Wilson, Robert Anton, 1932-
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Bluejay Books : Distribution by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1985-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Lt. Sartines was pondering a strange document. It had come to him from one of the mouches assigned to penetrate the Grand Orient Lodge of Egyptian Freemasonry and find out what the devil Chartres and his colleagues were really plotting behind all that mystic mumbo-jumbo. According to the mouche, this was a most important document, normally shown only to those of the highest degree of initiation. "I made this copy," the mouche said with quiet dignity, "at the risk of my life."

Which meant that he expected to be paid extra.

Sartines compromised and paid a little extra. This document was meaningless to him, but he believed that the mouche was sincere in claiming that it was very important to these Grand Orient cultists.

It was not a genealogy, although a few of the people on it were related in some degree or another.

It might contain some important facts, Sartines thought, or it might be the key to the system of lies by which the Grand Orient convinced its members that it knew a great secret. Sartines had investigated enough to know all Masonic orders claimed one deep, dark secret or another. The secret usually turned out to be a Hebrew or Arabic word that meant nothing to anyone but a mystic.

Sartines examined this document again: Louis Phillipe, Due de Chartres

Well, naturally, Sartines thought, he'd have himself put at the top. But the next name stopped him a moment: Charles Radclyffe, C.R.C.

RadclyfTe, an Englishman, had been quite active in France about two generations ago. He was involved in—what? Something to do with the Jacobites, who were trying to return the Stuarts to the throne of England. And yes, there had been rumors, Sartines recalled, that Radclyffe was an alchemist and an organizer of the Strict Observance sect of Masonry. C.R.C.: that would be Chevalier de la Rose-Croix. The usual Rosicru-cian nonsense.

Sartines suddenly remembered more: Radclyffe was the illegitimate son of Charles II. If James II had been restored to the throne, if the Jacobites had succeeded, this Radclyffe would be as close in succession, almost, as Chartres was to the French throne now.

Which might mean something or might be a coincidence.

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