Le Tombeau de Jacques Molai : ou histoire secrète et abrégée des initiés, anciens et modernes, des templiers franc-maçons, illuminés, etc. et Recherches sur leur influence dans la Révolution française ; suivie de la Clef des Loges

plausible pretext to make them odious.

They were accused before a Commission of denying Jesus Christ, of trampling the crucifix underfoot, of adoring a small idol called Baffomet Baphomet, and of engaging in anti-physical an archaic term for sodomy prostitution in their secret assemblies.

Jacques Molai, Grand Master of the Order, was in Cyprus, where he was valiantly waging war against the Turks. Upon the orders of the Pope, he came to Paris and was put in the Bastille 1. From the depths of his prison, he created four mother-lodges;

1. The Bastille was at that time only a city gate flanked by two towers.