IT WAS ONLY MISSING ”PLUTO”! – JEWS AND MASONS FIND OUT AT NATHAN'S HOUSE, THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE GRAND EAST OF ITALY, FOR THE VISIT OF THE CHIEF RABBI RICCARDO DI SEGNI. THE GRAND MASTER STEFANO BISI REMEMBERED ERNESTO NATHAN, JEWISH MAYOR OF ROME, FREEMASON AND ANTI-CLERICAL – PREJUDICES ABOUT CONSPIRACY ”PLUTO-JUDEAN-MASONIC”? ”THE SPREADING OF ‘CATHOLIC CIVILIZATION’, JESUIT MAGAZINE, WHICH THE POPE CORRECTED THE PROOFS. DA LI', DISCRIMINATION AND LEGENDS. BUT TODAY…”

Grand Master Stefano Bisi, together with the Brothers of the Lazio Communion, last January 8th he received the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of the capital at Casa Nathan, Riccardo Di Segni. Many brothers were present at the event, the first of its kind to take place in the temple of the Roman House of the Grand Orient named after Ernesto Nathan, Jew, brother and mayor of Rome and that, as has been mentioned, it adds to the numerous initiatives on the relationship between Freemasonry and religions, organized by the Communion with the aim of promoting dialogue and tolerance, especially in a moment like the current one characterized by resurgent racism and dangerous populism.

A meeting, which Bisi wanted to dedicate to Nedo Fiano, Honorary Grand Master of the Goi, and Liliana Segre, senator for life, both survived the tragedy of the Holocaust . “Two important people for our beloved homeland”, he underlined, recalling Fiano's tireless commitment to making people understand, especially to young people, through his testimony, what happened during fascism and Nazism; and Senator Segre's proposal to delete the word race from the Constitution.

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A proposal, reported the Grand Master, in harmony with the choice of the Grand Orient to eliminate that atrocious term from its own system. Decision that was made official during the last Grand Lodge of Rimini. A small sign, a small gesture, but of great symbolic strength. “The story of Nedo Fiano and Liliana Segre – added Bisi- must be a warning to all of us against resurgent racism".

To do the honors and kick off the event, the president of the College of Lazio Carlo Ricotti, which reconstructed the history of relations between the Jewish communities of our country and Italian Freemasonry. A noble history that dates back to the First War of Independence, at the dawn of the Risorgimento, and which has its roots in the common struggle for political freedom, the unity of the nation and the rights of citizenship. It's then, underlined Ricotti – announcing for the 9 February a conference on the Roman Republic of 1849 to which he invited the rabbi- that "that bond of ideal brotherhood between Jews and Freemasons" was born, which will then be both, during the years of authoritarianism and dictatorships, “object of discrimination, black legends, political and religious persecution".

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During his speech, the president of the College, in remembering i 21 Freemasons who were massacred together with many Jews at the Fosse Ardeatine, announced the decision of the assembly of the Worshipful Masters of Lazio to decide on a special contribution for the repositioning of the stumbling blocks, the brass plates placed in the pavement of many cities in memory of the victims of Nazi-fascism, and which have recently been the subject of vandalism in Rome, and made an appeal to the Jewish community to have a new "stone" in memory of the Jew and Freemason Carlo Zaccagnini, gold medal of the Resistance, locked up in via Tasso, tortured and then murdered by the Nazis.

A round of applause welcomed the rabbi. “I thank you,” Di Segni began- for this great honor done to me in being welcomed with such attention by all of you in this very important place, where I also see many colleagues and friends. I came to know Freemasonry through a family history that is more familiar to many of you than it is to me. I suspected,” he said- an affiliation of my father. But at that time I didn't even know what it was and I was looking in books. And this is how I discovered a first affinity between Judaism and Freemasonry".

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Affinity in the sense of omission, he said, underlining how history dedicates very little space to both of these two great realities. There is an information taboo, he noted, which unites us and which generated the idea of ​​the Jewish Masonic conspiracy, also recently evoked by a journalistic intervention after the news of this meeting came out. An'idea, recovered from fascism, but that in reality, the rabbi reported, it developed during the second half of the nineteenth century within the Catholic Church, which represented the soul and justification of the ancient regime in an era in which they were establishing themselves, after the revolutions of the end of the 18th century, freedom and emancipation movements. It was like that, Di Segni observed, that Freemasonry was described as the daughter of Judaism.

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“And the body that contributed most to establishing the association between these two realities and fueling the opposition towards them was La Civiltà Cattolica, the Jesuit newspaper, which in some way also represented the official thought of the pontiff who corrected the drafts", explained Di Segni, reconstructing the climate of the time by quoting Giuseppe Oreglia, who was the editor of the newspaper in the 1870s and 1880s, and then Nathan, strongly anticlerical mayor and freemason.

Nathan, he also recalled, “represents a brilliant and important example of a group of Jews who found in Freemasonry the ideal place to express a new concept, which fused together the ideas of equality, of freedom, of progress, and also a form of religion different from that of the origins".

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Today the world has changed a lot. And the Church has also changed profoundly and while two centuries ago and even afterwards it denounced the Jewish Masonic conspiracy, now in an anti-secular form it claims the Judeo-Christian roots of Europe, the rabbi noted, which he reported anyway, with concern, the fact that the theme of the conspiracy that brings Jews and Freemasons together comes up again, like during fascism, associated with finance and exploited in a populist key. The teachings of the past, he said, “they require us to be extremely vigilant”.

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“The path we can take together – he concluded, addressing the free masons- it is a non-political path, but values. We have many values ​​to present to society, extremely current values ​​which are a source of rightful pride for both of us. We must ensure that they are preserved and promoted and this is why I thank you for the attention and welcome you have given me".

The meeting ended with an exchange of books and the presentation of a Grand Orient medal to the rabbi by the Grand Master.

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