Knight Kadosch--later to become the thirtieth degree of the "Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite"--the Hiramic legend was changed into the history of the Templars with Jacques du Molay as the victim. So the reprobation of attack on authority personified by the master-builder becomes approbation of attack on authority in the person of the King of France.
The introduction of the upper degrees with their political and, later on, anti-Christian tendencies thus marked a complete departure from the fundamental principle of Freemasonry that "nothing concerning the religion or government shall ever be spoken of in the lodge." For this reason they have been assailed not only by anti-masonic writers but by Freemasons themselves. To represent Barruel and Robison as the enemies of Freemasonry is therefore absolutely false; neither of these