Summary Early History of the Illuminati Master Conspiracy |
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In dealing with an emotionally-charged topic such as conspiracy, to avoid confusion it is necessary to begin with a definition of the concept. Conspiracy is a human activity involving (1) more than one person, (2) the parties to this activity are advancing basically the same or common objectives, and (3) they are advancing objectives which, by very reasonable standards, are personally harmful, evil or destructive. And, finally, (4) they're doing all this either in secret or without fully advertising in advance what they're planning to do, and certainly not to their potential victims. Note that the definition says the parties to a conspiracy are doing the same things, or advancing common objectives, but not at all necessarily are they all doing so for the same personal reasons or motivations. And the essential focus of conspiratorial research should be on the actions of individual persons, not merely their backgrounds or organizational affiliations. Down through the ages there have been many secret
societies and conspiratorial movements that had as their goals absolute
rule of the world, overthrow of all existing governments, and the final
destruction of all religion. Because much of these earlier movements have left little and very fragmentary evidence, it is not possible to come to the conclusion that any continuing organizational structure existed from 1100 to 1700, or before, which was engaged in a coordinated and centrally controlled plot for world rule and the destruction of monarchical and ecclesiastical power. By the middle of the eighteenth century remnants and
parallels of various destructive movements began to associate under a
central group which was to plan and create a continuing organizational
structure that would someday, its founders hoped, rule the world after all
existing religions and governments had been destroyed. The influence Voltaire had over King Frederick of Prussia and the publication of Diderot's Encyclopédie, beginning in 1751, were measures of their early success. The conspirators hoped that the Encyclopédie would become a standard reference source wherein every literate person would seek knowledge on all subjects and thus receive propaganda against civil order and the Christian religion. Its publication caused the influence of this group to grow rapidly. In his correspondence, Voltaire reveals a major concern to be the destruction of all religion (first and foremost, the Catholic Church) and of all monarchs (even ultimately those like Frederick who were sympathetic to the plot) and of all morality derived from religious belief. Out of the resulting chaos an elite group of aristocratic philosophers would rule the world. Inspired by these radical philosophers and instructed by a mysterious occultist from what is now Denmark named Kölmer, it was a professor of Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt (Bavaria, Germany) who established a continuing organizational structure to direct the worldwide attack on religion and monarchy, and which organizational structure would, it was hoped, eventually rule the world. His name was Adam Weishaupt and the organization he founded on May 1, 1776, was called the Order of the Illuminati.
The leaders of these institutions, monarchs (or future monarchs) and clergymen, had to be either brought under the control of the Order or destroyed. If such a prospect frightened the new Illuminatus Minor, if he still possessed any sense of traditional morality, he was kept inactive at this level until his ethical concepts were altered. As Weishaupt stated, "These [ruling] powers are despots when they do not conduct themselves by its [the Order's] principles; and it is therefore our duty to surround them with its members, so that the profane may have no access to them. Thus we are able most powerfully to promote its [the Order's] interests. If any person is more disposed to listen to Princes than to the Order, he is not fit for it, and must rise no higher. We must do our utmost to procure the advancement of Illuminati into all important civil offices." Finally, after the candidate had proved his absolute
devotion to the secrets of the Order, he was allowed to enter the
top-level circle of initiates as an Illuminatus Major, just below the
position of Rex held by Weishaupt. He was even required to learn how to write with both hands so that his handwriting would not remain the same and traceable if any correspondence he wrote were intercepted by civil authorities. His copy of the writings of the Order was kept in a special container in his home which would ignite and destroy its contents if a non-member attempted to open it. An elaborate spy network was set up so that all members would constantly be checking on the loyalty of each other. The secret police of the Order killed anyone who tried to inform the authorities about the conspiracy. This band was known as the "Insinuating Brethren" and had as its insignia an all-seeing eye. The structure of the Order was pyramidal with Weishaupt at the top and two or three immediate subordinates, Each of these had three men under their orders, Each of those three had several men who carried out their dictates, and so on. In their correspondence they were required to use false names for themselves and the names of different ancient cities when they referred to cities where the Order was active. Weishaupt called himself Spartacus; others were Cato, Marius, Brutus, Pythagoras, Socrates and Hannibal. Much of the organizational system of the Jesuits was adopted for the Order. Weishaupt had been raised and educated by the Jesuits and had rebelled against them. He adopted those same institutions to destroy thrones and altars which the Society of Jesus had established to support them. In reward for selling himself totally to the Order, the
top-level Illuminatus (and there were not very many of these) was granted
all the material and sensual benefits that could possibly be obtained,
Weishaupt intended that: Sometimes this policy became a necessity instead of a
perverse luxury. It seems in 1780 Spartacus-Weishaupt had gotten his own
sister-in-law pregnant and had to eradicate this embarrassment. He planned
to procure an abortion, and, of course, admitted all this to a few other
Illuminati who understood that the woman's life was quite expendable in
order to protect the Conspiracy. Frequently the character of his members
was quite an embarrassment to Weishaupt when prospective recruits were
being convinced how idealistic the Order was. Before 1789 it is estimated that there were at least two thousand members of the Order in the German-speaking lands. Many of these were ministers, mostly Protestant, lawyers, doctors, and even a few princes. None were members of the lower classes, the agricultural working masses, or the serfs. This would also be true with regard to France by 1789. In just a few years after the Order's creation, Weishaupt could boast: "We have been very successful against the Jesuits, and brought things to such a bearing, that their revenues, such as the Mission, the Golden Alms, the Exercises and the Conversion Box are now under the management of our friends. All the German schools and the Benevolent Society are at last under our control. We have got several zealous members in the courts of justice, and we are able to afford them pay and other good additions. Lately we have got possession of the Bartholomew Institute for Young Clergymen, having secured all its supporters. Through this we shall be able to supply Bavaria with fit priests." The influence of the Order on German education and the German clergy were devastating. By 1800 many German ministers no longer believed the most basic tenets of Christian doctrine. They had been converted to the worship of "reason." The original writings of the Order contained detailed instructions on how hatred and bloodshed might be created between different racial, religious, ethnic, and even sexual groups. The idea of promoting hatred between children and their parents was introduced. Even the kinds of buildings to be burned in urban insurrections were outlined. In short, virtually everything subversive one sees in the twentieth century essentially was planned and written down by Adam Weishaupt over two hundred years ago. An examination of his writings will fully substantiate this claim. It was not until the summer of 1782 (six years after the founding of the Order), that it really began to grow in power and influence outside Bavaria. Having already contemplated the possibility of infiltrating the freemasonic bodies of Western Europe and then taking control of them, Weishaupt and his brilliant disciple, Baron Adolf von Knigge (Philo), at last had their chance. That summer leaders and delegates of the continental European freemasonic bodies were to meet at the town of Wilhelmsbad. Weishaupt's agent, von Knigge, joined them and presented quite an enticing promise of the secrets which the Illuminati had to offer. In response many of the German and French delegates
joined, bringing the influence of the Order back to their individual
lodges. The two leaders of German freemasonry, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick
and Prince Karl of Hesse, joined the Order, thus bringing the whole of
German freemasonry under the control of the Illuminati. Other members included Herder, Goethe, Lafayette, and Talleyrand. The charge of actually spreading the doctrines throughout France was give to Bode (Aurelius) and Busch (Bayard). So well did the Illuminati missionaries work that by 1788 every lodge under the French Grand Orient-and they numbered in that year 266-is said to have been indoctrinated with the system of Weishaupt. The Illuminatus Duke of Orléans was the leader of the Grand Orient Lodge in Paris. While key instructions were being sent to the Jacobin Club houses in Paris (which the Illuminati-dominated Grand Orient lodges created and controlled) from the directorate under Weishaupt's command in Bavaria, the Elector of Bavaria uncovered the entire plot. A courier sent from Frankfort to Paris in 1785 was accidentally killed by a bolt of lightning. On his body were found incriminating papers about the Order and the name of Xavier Zwack. His home in Landshut was raided by the Elector's police and his copy of Weishaupt's writings was taken. The Elector publicly outlawed the Order and closed many of the freemasonic lodges known to be under its control. The Elector also sent printed copies of the Order's writings to all the important monarchs in Europe. It was from copies of the Order's writings that Prof. Robison and the Abbé Barruel gathered the information contained in their books. When Weishaupt was banished from Bavaria by his sovereign in 1785, he was received at the court of the Duke Ernest-Louis of Saxe-Gotha who, besides a pension, gave him the title of Honorary Councilor. Several of Weishaupt's principal subordinates, including the Marquis de Constanza and Count Saviola, were banished from Bavaria back to their homelands on the Italian peninsula where they also received pensions. In 1788, after the suppression of Illuminism in Bavaria, Karl Bahrdt and Baron von Knigge attempted to revive it under the name of the German Union which soon came to control the book selling and publishing business in the German lands, thus assuring that only those books on religion, philosophy and politics which were acceptable to the Order would be available and read by the public. However, it was not until 1810 that the Order was to be revived in what is now Germany, this time under the name of the Tugendbund. In his "Lectures on the French Revolution", Lord Acton observed: "The appalling thing in the French Revolution is not the tumult, but the design. Through all the fire and smoke we perceive the evidence of calculating organization. The managers remain studiously concealed and masked; but there is no doubt about their presence from the first." In France the ten years prior to 1789 had seen the development of greater social and political reform by the monarchy than ever before. The lot of the common people had steadily improved and there was no visible discontent due to economic misery, unlike other states such as Prussia. In other words, there was less excuse in 1789 for a revolution in France than ever before. In order to conduct a first experiment in destruction of monarchy, religion and morality, the Illuminati had artificially to engineer a revolt. The Illuminist Joseph Balsamo or "Cagliostro" engineered the "Diamond Necklace" scheme to bring disgrace to the Church and to an innocent Queen Marie Antoinette. The technique of the manufactured smear was thus introduced. The Duke of Orleans bought up a huge quantity of bread and grain and had some hidden and some sent out of the country. He did this deliberately so that when the starving people demanded something to eat, the Duke's agents could tell them that their food had been taken by the King. By this means, the Illuminists created an artificial famine. "Toward the end of 1793, the new revolutionary Republic found itself faced with hundreds of thousands of working men for whom it could not find employment. The revolutionary leaders embarked upon a fearful new project that was to be copied by tyrants ever after, called 'depopulation'. "The idea was to
reduce France's population of twenty-five million down to either eight or
sixteen million, depending on which source you believe. Maximilien
Robespierre believed depopulation to be 'indispensable'." The siege of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, so fictitiously portrayed by Thomas Carlyle, was an excellent example of how the Illuminati stage-managed the events of the Revolution. Only one out of every thousand people in Paris participated in this "siege." The incident was merely an attempt to obtain guns and ammunition rumored to be in the Bastille so that those loyal Frenchmen who participated could use the weapons to put down a Jacobin disturbance in another part of Paris. Even though the guards at the Bastille did not know the true motive of the mob, only one of the fifteen available cannons was fired at the crowd. After the mob got inside they found only seven inhabitants, all living quite comfortably in this "horrible monstrosity of despotism:" four forgers, two lunatics who were mad before they were imprisoned, and the Comte de Solages, who was incarcerated for "monstrous crimes" at the request of his family. Needless to say, they found none of the instruments of torture about which they had heard. Similar fully orchestrated contrivances were going on during the March on Versailles, the invasion and siege of the Tuilleries and the massacres of September. The clergy was particularly an object for extermination and unbelievable persecution. The churches were profaned and prostitutes worshiped on their altars. The rule of civil government and authority in Paris dropped to an unprecedented low during the Reign of Terror which began in 1794. It also resulted in many of the Illuminists losing their lives as the mobs were no longer controllable. About the time of his execution in 1794, the Illuminist Robespierre, director of much of the Terror, advocated the policy of deliberately murdering fifteen million Frenchmen so that the remaining food supplies would be adequate. Although this prototype ecological "depopulation" program was not fully carried out, it is estimated that over three hundred thousand Frenchmen died during the Terror, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand of those murdered were members of the middle and the lower agricultural and working classes. As always, the "revolution" only victimized its alleged beneficiaries. Also during this time, the whole calendar was changed because it had religious significance (seven days in a week, why?-l,794 years since what?), and the first conscription for military service was put into effect. The Illuminist Gracchus Babeuf and his followers objected to the chaotic course of events and planned an insurrection for 1795. One of their members confessed to the government and the attempt was crushed. Babeuf and others Illuminists hoped that an agent of the Order would seize control of France and militarily conquer the rest of the world, thus establishing the Order's goal of a Universal Republic or New World Order. Although Napoleon Bonaparte was recruited into the Illuminati and prepared for such a role, as his imperial power grew, he set his course rather independently of the Order's objectives. It is well established that both Napoleon's later military defeats and his personal demise were engineered by his former Illuminist comrades. The failure of utilizing Napoleon was a temporary setback for the Conspiracy. To some extent, they were also delayed by the legal rulers of Europe who, in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna, set about the task to restore Europe to what it had been prior to 1789 and Napoleon. They were determined to make sure the Illuminati's conspiracy, about which they were all fully aware, particularly the Austrian statesman Clemens von Metternich, would never again be successful in an attempt to overthrow the entire existing social order. By 1815, however, Weishaupt's ambassadors had begun to spread the Conspiracy into many parts of the world beyond Bavaria and France. Some of these agents were Weishaupt's close subordinates in the Order and others were Illuminists from France, many of whom had been connected with the Babeuf plot. Among those responsible for extending the Illuminati's infiltration and power all over Europe were: Xavier Zwack, Anacharis Clootz, Prince Nubius, Piccolo Tigre, Filippo Michele Buonarroti and his organization after 1809 called the Sublimes Maitres Parfaits (Sublime Perfect Masters) and Louis Auguste Blanqui and the Société des Saisons (Society of the Seasons). The latter two branches of the Illuminati formed the source of the League of the Just which became the Communist League in 1848. Among the subversive and revolutionary nineteenth and early twentieth century movements created by the Illuminati (primarily through European Grand Orient freemasonry, not British and American freemasonry) were the Marxian and "utopian" socialist movements; anarchism; syndicalism; Pan Slavism; Irish, Italian and German "nationalism;" German Imperialism; the Paris Commune; British "New Imperialism;" Fabian Socialism and Leninist Bolshevism. Their projects over subsequent decades included: 1. The creation of hatred and violence between
Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, aimed at breaking Ireland away from
the United Kingdom and bringing Ireland under Communist control. This
would serve as the model for many future "anti-Colonialist" movements
aimed at British, French and other overseas possessions and territories.
The destruction of remaining Catholic influence and the building of
Communist power in Mexico from Benito Juarez to the present. 3. In other parts of Europe which were already nation-states (France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, etc.), the Illuminati staged insurrections and revolts (simultaneously in 1848) aimed at subversion, infiltration and control of those governments. 4. The United States was established as a
Constitutional Republic in 1789, the same year the Illuminati's
devastation of France began. Illuminists began organizing insurrectionary
and secessionist movements to destroy the American Republic as early as
1794. Their efforts were delayed by widespread public exposure.
American branches of the Illuminati's European network (Young America and
the Knights of the Golden Circle) finally established the secession
movements that produced the rebellion ("civil war") of 1861-1865 and their
agents assassinated President Abraham Lincoln after he defeated their
plans to destroy the Union. 1. Primary source material consist of original documents, diaries, records, correspondence and physical evidence from the persons directly involved in the events. 2. Contemporary sources are accounts written about the events close to the time they occurred. 3. Secondary source material, overwhelmingly the easiest to obtain, consist of accounts written much later about the events by persons who are relying solely upon one or more of these three categories of evidence. Therefore, unless a secondary source utilizes verifiable primary or contemporary sources, its content proves little more than the opinion of the author. This is true not only of many so-called "conspiracy" books in recent decades, but also of many mainstream histories and biographies. In this bibliography we have concentrated on primary and contemporary sources, using more available secondary sources only when they contain and cite the original source material. Many of the original sources are available in major national, university and private libraries, as well as some in recent reprint editions. They can also be searched by antiquarian book dealers. I. Order of the Illuminati The original published form of the Order's papers include:
Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens (Munich, 1787);
Nachtrag von weitern Originalschriften, etc. (Munich, 1787); Die
neuesten Arbeiten des Spartacus und Philo in dem Illuminatenorden
(Munich, 1794). Published collections of the Illuminati papers include:
Richard van Dülmen, ed., Der Geheimbund der Illuminaten
(Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: frommann-holzboog, 1977) and Henry Coston, La
Conjuration des Illuminés (Paris: La Librairie Française, 1979). II. French Revolution and Napoleon Two primary sources in which the Illuminist Mirabeau
expressed a plan to use French freemasonry to bring about a revolution
are: III. Survival and Continuity of the Illuminati, 1789-1848 Benjamin Fabre, Un Initié des Sociétés Secrètes
supérieures "Franciscus, Eques A Capite Galeato" 1753-1814, Portrait
et Documents inédits Nombreuses reproductions en Photogravure, Preface de
Copin-Albancelli (Paris: La Renaissance Française, 1913), containing
correspondence between Weishaupt's agents up to 1814. IV. The Communist Movement: An Illuminist Spawn Carl Wittke, The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling, Nineteenth-Century Reformer (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1950). V. Italian and German Unification Memoirs of the Secret Societies of the South of Italy,
Particularly the Carbonari. Translated from the Original Ms. (London:
John Murray, 1821). VI. American War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Lincoln Assassination and Aftermath The most extensive documentation of long-term Illuminist
plotting to destroy the American Republic, from before the Whiskey
Rebellion of 1794 to the leadership of the secession movements that
provoked the war of 1861-65 and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is:
William H. McIlhany, No Civil War At All: Eighty Years of Conspiracy to
Destroy the United States, 1790-1870, serialized in Journal of
Individualist Studies, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-2 (Winter, Fall, 1992). A few of
these sources include: VII. World War I and the League of Nations Francis Neilson, How Diplomats Make War (New York:
B.W. Huebsch, 1921). VIII. The Bolshevik Coup in Russia Edgar Sisson, One Hundred Red Days: A Personal
Chronicle of the Bolshevik Revolution (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1931. IX. Communist Revolution in Ireland, Mexico and Spain H.B.C. Pollard, The Secret Societies of Ireland, Their
Rise and Progress (London: Philip Allan, 1922). X. Anti-Colonialism Nesta H. Webster, Surrender of an Empire (London:
Boswell, 1931), detailing the destruction of the British Empire by
Communist-controlled "anti-colonialist" movements abroad and influential
conspirators in the British government. XI. Great Depression, The New Deal, Soviet Agents in Executive Branch G. Edward Griffin, The Creature From Jekyll Island, A
Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Westlake, CA: American Media ). XII. Illuminist Roots of the Nazi Movement and How It Came to Power Rudolf von Sebottendorff, Bevor Hitler Kam (Munich,
1934). XIII. World War II: Making it Happen in 1939 David Irving, Churchill's War (New York: Avon
Books, 1991). Probably the most important and best documented study under
this topic by one of the outstanding historians of the century. XIX. World War II: Pearl Harbor and America's Entry John Toland, Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
(Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1982). Among the many earlier books
proving the Roosevelt Administration knew about in advance and encouraged
the attack on Pearl Harbor for an excuse to enter the war: XX. The United Nations and The New World Order G. Edward Griffin, The Fearful Master, A Second Look at the United
Nations (Boston: Western Islands, 1965). XXI. The Executive Branch - Foundations - Domestic & Foreign Policy Elite Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope (New York: MacMillan, 1966),
documentation for which is supplied in his: The Anglo-American
Establishment (New York: Books in Focus, 1981) XXX and, Walter Nimocks,
Milner's Young Men: The "kindergarten" in Edwardian Imperial Affairs,
Durham: Duke University Press, 1968. XII. Maintenance and Expansion of Communist Power Since 1917 Antony C. Sutton, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development,
1917-1965, 3 vols., (Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1968-1973). Details the
total dependency of the Soviet Union on western aid and technology, most
of that from the United States or subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. Summarized
and updated in his: National Suicide, Military Aid to the Soviet Union
(New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1974) and The Best Enemy
Money Can Buy (Billings, Montana: Liberty House, 1986). Joseph Finder,
Red Carpet (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983). XIII. Communist Strategy for Conquest: Selected Strategy Subversion and destruction of religious faith: Marvin Antelman, To Eliminate the Opiate (New York: Zahavia,
1974). Divide and Conquer Alan Stang, It's Very Simple, The True Story of "Civil Rights,"
(Boston: Western Islands, 1965). Terrorism: The KGB's International Network Pierre deVillemarest, Histoire Secrète des Organisations Terroristes,
4 vols., (Genève: Éditions Famot, 1976). XIV. U.S. Foreign Policy After 1945: Promoting Communism Everywhere Arthur Bliss Lane, I Saw Poland Betrayed (New York: Bobbs-Merrill,
1948). XV. Glasnost and Perestroika: The KGB's Massive Deception Since 1989 Anatoliy Golitsyn, New Lies For Old (New York: Dodd, Mead),
1984, available in two unauthorized paperback reprints. Unedited Original Text of two articles appearing in The New
American, Special Conspiracy issue, September 16, 1996 
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Weishaupt planned for the Order to maintain publicly the
image of a charitable and philanthropic organization. It
was this image which attracted so many German educators and Protestant
clergymen. When they joined they were convinced that the goal of the Order
was the purest form of Christianity, to make of all mankind "one happy and
prosperous family." When the novice or Minerval advanced to the rank of
Illuminatus Minor (and only those who were obviously ready for this
knowledge were allowed to advance), he was told that the only obstacle
which lay in the path to the Order's goal of universal happiness was the
power being held by the religious and governmental institutions of the
world which were just not going to allow such happiness to occur at their
expense. 
Queen
Victoria
