Fraternity" carrying out the orders of their superiors.
The Encyclopédie was therefore essentially a Masonic publication, and Papus, whilst erroneously attributing the famous oration and consequently the plan of the Encyclopédie to the inspiration of the Duc d'Antin, emphasizes the importance of this fact. Thus, he writes:
The Revolution manifests itself by two stages: 1st. *Intellectual revolution*, by the publication of the *Encyclopédie*, due to French Freemasonry under the high inspiration of the Duc d'Antin. 2nd. *Occult revolution* in the Lodges, due in great part to the members of the Templar Rite and executed by a group of expelled Freemasons afterwards amnestied.<sup></sup>
The masonic authorship of the Encyclopédie and the consequent dissemination of revolutionary doctrines has remained no