The Relation Between Freemasonry and the Jesuits

It is curious to note too that most of the bodies which work these [the High Masonic Degrees], such as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Rite of Avignon, the Order of the Temple, Fessler's Rite, the 'Grand Council of the Emperors of the East and West — Sovereign Prince Masons,' etc., etc., are nearly all the offspring of the sons of Ignatius Loyola. The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsay, Tschondy, Zinnendorf, and numerous others who founded the grades in these rites, worked under instructions from the General of the Jesuits. The nest where these high degrees were hatched, and no Masonic rite is free from their baleful influence more or less, was the Jesuit College of Clermont at Paris.

That bastard foundling of Freemasonry, the 'Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,' which is unrecognized by the Blue Lodges was the enunciation, primarily, of the brain of the Jesuit Chevalier Ramsay. It was brought by him to England in 1736-38, to aid the cause of the Catholic Stuarts.

Charles Sotheran in a letter dated January 11th, 1877 found in
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 2 vols., New York: J. W. Bouton; London: Bernard Quaritch, 1877, vol. 2 - Theology, p. 390.