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

to spread. I hope that this work will now leave little to be desired; and if it does not say everything one might perhaps wish to know, it at least indicates all the sources from which one can draw instruction about an abominable sect, which, like the ancient Proteus, a Greek sea god capable of changing his shape at will Proteus, takes all forms, sheds floods of human blood while playing, corrupts the morality of the people, and plunders property. . . . ; a hundred-headed hydra, which seems impossible to defeat if the Government is not willing to seize the club of Hercules.

Accept now the treachery of the Greeks and from one crime
Learn of them all . . . . . original: "Accipe nunc danaum insidias et crimine ab uno Disce omnes"