Franklin in Paris

On the subject of mentalblog.com: Initiation of Voltaire into the Nine Sisters Lodge.

Franklin was treated like a rock star for eight years that he lived in Paris. One of the members of the lodge was polish prince Adam Kazimirierz Czartoryski. Prince Czartoryski was a life long patron of Menachem Mendel Lefin, and undoubtedly he told Lefin about Ben Franklin's virtues (see the Seforim blog: Nancy Sinkoff -- Benjamin Franklin and the Virtues of Mussar.)

Incidentally when Nazis took over Paris they brought to Berlin the entire archive of the Nine Sisters Lodge, they were convinced that this very lodge was at the center of judeo-masonic conspiracy to take over the world. The archive was considered lost but it reappeared in Moscow eight years ago. CCCP took it from Berlin after the war. The archive was returned to masons four years ago.

Benjamin Franklin did not come from the gentry. He was going around in his shtreimel and simple green surtuk, even in wigged and powdered Paris. His image was everywhere.