LETTER ‘“‘HUMANUM GENUS”
THE POPE, LEO XII,
Free-Masonry and the Spirit of the Age
APRIL 20, 1884
Original Latin, and English Translation.
GR’. ORIENT OF CHARLESTON.
18M. DE SECTA MASSONUM.
SANCTISSINT DoMIINT Nostm LEONIS pivina peovn
PAPAE XIIL
BYISTOLA ENCYCLICA AD PATRIARCHAS PRIMATES ARCHIEPISCOPOS.
ET EPISCOPOS CATHOLIC! ORBIS YNIVERSOS GRATIAM ET cOM-
MNIONEM VM APOSTOLICA SEDE HANENTES,
\VENERABILIBVS FRATRIBVS PATRIARCHTIS PRIMATIBVS ARCHIEPIS-
COPIS ET EYISCOPIS CATHOLIC! OBIS VNIVERSIS GRATIAM. ET
COMMYNIONEM CVM APOSTOLICA SEDE HABENTIRYS
LEO PP, XIII.
VENERARILES FRATRES,
SALVTEM ET APOSTOLICAM BENEDICTIONEM,
HUMANUM cENUs, postea quam a ereatore, munerumque cae
lestium largitore Deo, invidia Diaboli, miserrime defecit, in
partes duas diversas adversasque diseessit; quarum aliera
assidue pro voritate ot virtute propugnat, altera pro iis, quae
virtuti sunt veritatique contraria—Alteram Dei est in terris
regnum, vera sciliest Tesu Christi Ecclesia, cui qui volunt ex
‘animo et convenienter ad salutem adkaerescere, necesse est Deo
et Unigenito Fillo elus tota mente ac summa yoluntate servire;
akterum Satanae est regnum, cuius in ditione et potestate sunt
quicumque funesta ducis sui et primorum parentum exempla
xecuti, parere divinae acternasue legi recucant, ct malta
posthabito Deo, multa eontra Deum contendant. Duplex hoc
regnum, duarum instar civitatum contrariis legibus contraria
in studia abeuntium, acute vidit deseriptique Augustinus, et
lutriusque efficientem’ caussam subtili brevitate complexus est,
its vert itates duas amores duo: terrenan scilicet
amor sui ueque ad contomptum Dei: caclestim vero amor Dei
uaque ad contemptum xui.*—Vario ae multipliet eam armorum
tom dimicationis genore altera adversus alteram omni saecu-
Yorum aetate conflisit, quamquam nen codem semper ardore
atque impetu. Hoc autem tempore, qui deterioribus favent
"De Civit, Dei Lib. xiv, ¢ 17.
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partibus videntur simul conspirare vehementisimeque euneti
contendere, auctore et adiatrice ca, quam Maseonum appellant,
Jonge lateque diffusa et firmiter constituta hominum societa‘e
Nihil enim iam dissimulantes consilia sua, excitant sese adveras
Die numen audacissime, Ecclesiae sanetae perniciem palam
aperteque moliuntur, idque eo proposito, ut gentes christianas
partis per Iesum Christum Servatorem beteficiis, si ficri pos-
set, funditus despolient Quibus Nos ingemiscentes malis, iad
saepe ad Deum elamare, urgente animum earitate, compellimur:
Ecce inimiei tui sonuerent, et qui odorant te, exbulerant eapat.
Super populvm tau matignaveriat consitium; et eogitavernt
‘adveraus sancton twos, Dizeruat: venite et dispordamua cox de
gente.*
In tam pracsenti diserimine, in tam immani_pertinacique
christiani_nominis oppugnatione, Nostram est indicare perieu-
Jum, de signare adversarios, horumque consiliis atque artibus,
quantum porumus, resistere at acternum ne percant quorum
Nobis est commisa salus: et Tem Christi regnum, quod tuendum
aceepimus, non modo stet et permanent integrum, sed novie
‘usque incrementis ubique terrarum amplificetur.
Romani Pontifices Decessores Nestri, pro salute populi chris-
tani sedulo vigilantes, une tam capitelem hostem ex occultae
cconiurationis tencbris prosilientem, quis esset, quis vellet, celeri-
ter agnoverunt; fidemque praecipientes cogitatione futur, prin-
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