The Illuminati -- called “The Order” by its
members -- was a secret society founded on May 1, 1776 by Adam Weishaupt.
[It's interesting that it bears part of the the same name as
The
Order of Skull and Bones]
According to University of Edinburgh professor (and General Secretary of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh) John Robinson in Proofs of a Conspiracy (1798),
its purpose was to root out all religion and ordinary morality,
abolish national distinctions, demean patriotism, and “rule the world.”
Weishaupt had been a Jesuit and professor of Canon Law at the University at
Ingolstadt (Bavaria), and he initially called his secret society
Perfektibilisten. According to Will and Ariel Durant in Rousseau and
Revolution (1967), Weishaupt
“followed the model of the Society of
Jesus [Jesuits], divided his associates into grades of initiation,
and pledged them to obey their leaders in a campaign to ‘unite all
men capable of independent thought,’ make man ‘a masterpiece of
reason, and thus attain highest perfection in the art of
government’.”
Weishaupt said, “Reason will be the only
code of man…. When at last reason becomes the religion of man, so will
the problem be solved.” To Weishaupt (Illuminati code name Spartacus),
the “problem” was all authority, monarchical and religious, as well as
ownership of private property.
Weishaupt believed that he had developed a plan that could not be
stopped, saying “my means are effectual, and irresistible. Our secret
association works in a way that nothing can withstand.”
A key component of his plan included
directing academic and religious education. If the Illuminati “was to
govern the world,” as they believed, they had to “acquire the direction
of education—of church management—of the professorial chair, and the
pulpit” (Robinson, page 109).
From Illuminati “secret correspondence”
Robinson found their “Instruction B for the whole degree of Regent” that
included winning “the common people in every corner. This will be
done chiefly by means of the
schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show condescension,
popularity and toleration of their prejudices which we shall at
leisure root
out and dispel.”
According to Friedrich Christoph Schlosser’s History of the
Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French
Empire. With particular reference to mental cultivation and progress
(Vol. IV, 1845), the Illuminati was particularly interested in princes,
declaring that their “grand object shall be to disseminate true
knowledge among classes, and to bring the ruling princes under
guardianship of the order.” One way the Illuminati did this was to place
their members as tutors of the children of nobility, especially princes
who would later become rulers of countries. Such is the case of
Alexander I of Russia who came under the influence of the Illuminati at
a young age.
The secret correspondence of the Illuminati also revealed their plan to
use the liberation of women for their purposes, as is stated
“There is no way of influencing men
so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be
our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good
opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public
opinion and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense
relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of
restraint, and it will fire them more, and cause them to work for us
with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be
indulging their own desire of personal admiration.”
Concerning religious education, Terry
Melanson of the online Illuminati Conspiracy Archive said “Weishaupt
and his control turned Jesus into a socialist revolutionary:
representing Him as a secret society adept, who came to preach
egalitarian virtue.” In a letter dated September 19, 1776, Weishaupt
refers to “our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth.”
In terms of morality, Robinson indicated the Illuminati’s plan
included “destroying the veneration of marriage-vows.” And he includes a
letter from Illuminist Count Ludwig Savioli (code name Brutus) stating:
“The Order must possess the power of
life and death in consequence of our Oath… by the same right that
any government in the world possesses it: For the Order comes in
their place, making them unnecessary.”
This power of life and death included
abortion, as Robinson wrote that in the handwriting of Franz Zwack
(Weishaupt’s closest confidant, and code name Cato) was “description of
a strong box, which, if forced open, shall blow up and destroy its
contents—Several receipts for procuring abortion—A composition which
blinds or kills when spurted in the face… A method for filling a
bed-chamber with pestilential vapours….”
Regarding abortion, Weishaupt wrote to
confidant Jakob Hertel (code name Marius) in September 1783 that
Weishaupt and his sister-in-law “have tried every method in our power to
destroy the child” in her womb.
Not only did the members of the Illuminati have code names, but
symbols as well. According to Librarian of Congress and Rhodes Scholar
James Billington in Fire in the Minds of Men (1980),
“Weishaupt described his recruitment
of Illuminists from within Masonic Lodges in Munich as ‘the progress
of the [picture of a
point in the middle of a circle]’ in the political area.”
Also, if one looks at the Masonic
website, one can see the
owl as an Illuminati symbol
for their Minerval degree, which was just above the class of Novice. In
Greek mythology, Minerva (Pallas-Athene or Athena) was the goddess of
wisdom and reason. The Illuminati’s Censor at the Minerval Assembly (at
night) bows in front of the pyramid painted there. At this point, you
might remember the gigantic carved owl present at the Bohemian Grove in
California where many of the elite yearly gather in secret.
Robinson related that once one became an Illuminatus Minor,
“the pupil is warmed by the pictures
of universal happiness, and convinced that it is a possible thing to
unite all the inhabitants of the earth in one great society…. [Then]
it may frequently be no hard task to make him think that patriotism
is a narrow-minded monopolizing sentiment.”
In a strategy
Fabian Socialists later would
adopt, the Illuminatus Minor also is told: “We must do our utmost to
procure our advancement of Illuminati to all civil offices.”
Fabian Socialist H.G. Wells in New Worlds for Old (1907) revealed:
“Socialism ceased to be an open
revolution, and became a plot. Functions were to be shifted,
quietly, unostentatiously, from the representative to the official
he appointed: a bureaucracy was to slip into power….”
Part 2:
Baron Adolph von Knigge (code name Philo)
was Weishaupt’s second-in-command from 1780-1784. And according to
Robinson, “his favorite scheme” was to create “Citizens of the World.”
You might reflect at this point whether you have heard any leading
political figures recently refer to themselves as “Citizens of the
World.” Thus, whether it’s world citizenship, abortion, women’s
liberation, or some other issue today, one can probably trace its
origins back to being part of the Illuminati’s plan.
Concerning the strategies of the Illuminati,
they are similar to those of the PE today. For example, the Illuminati
adopted the Machiavellian concept that “the end justifies the means,”
contrary to the Biblical admonition that one should not do evil that “good”
may come from it. Today, one can see some of the PE’s activities regarding
population control as exhibiting the same perspective of “end justifies
means.”
The plot of the Illuminati began to be exposed by the Bavarian Court of
Enquiry which commenced its investigation in 1983, and it concluded with the
abolishment of the Illuminati in 1786. There had already been friction
within Weishaupt’s ranks as Baron Adolph von Knigge (code name Philo), who
was initiated into the Illuminati in July 1780 and was Weishaupt’s second in
command, resigned on April 20, 1784 over Weishaupt’s direction and
dictatorial management of the Order as revealed in the Supplement of Further
Original Works (1787) regarding the Illuminati. Next year (1788), Baron von
Knigge wrote:
“As a rule, under the veil of secrecy,
dangerous plans and harmful teachings can be accepted just as well as
noble intentions and profound knowledge; because not all members
themselves are informed of such depraved intentions, which sometimes
tend to lie hidden beneath the beautiful façade….” (See Steven Luckert’s
dissertation titled Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, and Jacobins:
Conspiracy theories, secret societies, and politics in late
eighteenth-century Germany).
Even though the Illuminati had been
abolished in 1786, Weishaupt already had a plan for its continuation. In
Augustin Barruel’s Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism
(1798), Weishaupt is quoted as stating:
“I have foreseen everything, and I
have prepared everything. Let my whole Order go to rack and ruin; in
three years I will answer to restore it, and that to a more powerful
state than it is in at present…. I [shall] rise stronger than ever…. I
can sacrifice whole provinces, the desertion of a few individuals,
therefore, will not alarm me.”
With the abolishment of the Illuminati in
Bavaria in 1786, Weishaupt fled to the court of Saxe-Gotha under the
protection of Duke Ludwig Ernst II, who ruled there and was a
high-ranking Illuminatus (code name Quintus Severus/Timoleon). Ernst II
was initiated into the Illuminati in 1783, and today’s British royal
family are his direct descendants. According to Rene Le Forestier in
Les Illumines de Baviere et la Franc-Maconnerie Allemande (1915), Ernst
II on February 25, 1777 had become a member of the Strict Observance Masonic
lodge, and a banquet table was brought in having the shape of a T—“a symbol
noticeable on monuments of the old Knights Templar.”
Taking over the Illuminati leadership
in 1786 was Johann Bode (code name Aemilius/Winefried), and in 1787
he founded a branch of the Illuminati in the Les Amis Reunis lodge in
Paris. Bode adopted the name Philadelphes, rather than Illuminati,
in France. And in an interview with Charles Porset in the December 1995
edition of Humanisme (publication of the Grand Orient Masonic
Lodge of France), there is reference to a 1789 document holding the
Philadelphes responsible for the French Revolution which began that year.
It is entirely logical that the Illuminati would be a prime instigator of
the French Revolution as the theories of French philosopher Jean Jacques
Rousseau, who greatly influenced Weishaupt, inspired the Revolution.
In addition, according to Librarian of Congress (and Rhodes scholar) James
Billington in Fire in the Minds of Men (1980):
“It was [Jacobin and French
revolutionist] Honore Mirabeau’s ‘evocative’ language and his
popularization of Illuminist concepts that, during the early years of
the Revolution, swayed many of the conspirators in Paris.”
Prominent Freemason Marquis de Luchet (who
obtained the position of Bibliotheque for Voltaire) in the first year of the
Revolution (1789) warned in Essai Sur La Secte Des Illumines about the
infiltration of the Illuminati into the Masonic lodges, saying:
“You who are misled, or could be, know
that there is a conspiracy…. It was formed in the deepest darkness; a
society of new beings who know each other without being seen, who
understand each other without explanation, who serve without friendship.
The goal of the society is world government, taking over the
authority of sovereigns, taking their place, and leaving them nothing
more than the empty honour of wearing the crown.”
The Illuminati not only spread to France, but
to other countries as well. According to Le Forestier, King Frederick
William II of Prussia wrote to Frederick Augustus I (Elector of Saxony) on
October 3, 1789 that he had been informed that “a Masonic sect, who are
called Illuminati or Minervals, after having been expelled from
Bavaria, have become formidable and have spread rapidly throughout the
whole of Germany and into neighboring countries.”
In Germany, the philosophical Jacobin Johann Gottlieb Fichte, though not a
member of the Illuminati, was accused of having sympathy for them. Fichte
actually developed the “dialectical process” before Georg Hegel to
whom this process is attributed. Terry Pinkard in Hegel: A Biography
(2001), revealed that Hegel was mentored by Illuminati member Jacob Abel
(code name Pythagoras).
Terry Melanson of the online
Illuminati Conspiracy Archive
(a website with extensive research information) indicated that “one of the
core concepts that influenced him [Hegel] was the notion of a single
‘philosophy of history’.” And according to Reinhart Koselleck in
Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Modern Society (1988),
this philosophy
“substantiated the elitist
consciousness of the Enlightenment. This was the power that the
Illuminati possessed, a power they shared with the whole of the
Enlightenment. This was the threat: it revealed the plan of conquest to
those under attack.”
As Antony Sutton explained in America’s
Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones:
“Progress in the Hegelian State is
through contrived conflicts: the clash of opposites makes for progress.
If you can control the opposite, you dominate the nature of the
outcome.” Remember here that the PE and Skull & Bones member William
Whitney in the late 19th century devised a political strategy of giving
large sums of money to both major political parties, and then
alternating power so the public thinks it has a choice when both major
political parties’ candidates actually are controlled by the PE."
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Our Lord tells us:
“In the world you will have
tribulation;
but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
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Dennis Laurence
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