by David Allen Rivera www.viewfromthewall.com
Dr. Charles Frederick Bahrdt (1741-1793), an Illuminati member, Mason, and
German theologian, who was the professor of Sacred Philogy at the
University of Leipzig, took advantage of the Illuminati's apparent demise
by recruiting several of its members for his so-called 'German Union' in
1787. Bahrdt, the son of a minister, called his group the German Union for
Rooting Out Superstition and Prejudices and Advancing True Christianity.
In 1785, Bahrdt had
received an anonymous letter, containing the plans for the German Union,
which was signed, "From some Masons, your great admirers." That same year,
he was visited by an Englishman who urged him to establish the Union,
promising to link it with the British Masonic structure. In 1787, he
received another letter containing more details and organizational
details.
Bahrdt had done some religious propaganda work for Weishaupt, "to destroy
the authority of the Scriptures," and it was commonly believed that it was
Weishaupt who was directing the activities of the organization behind the
scenes in order to carry on the goals of the Illuminati.
The German Union appeared to be a Reading Society, and one was set up in
Zwack's house in Landshut. Weishaupt wrote: "Next to this, the form of a
learned of literary society is best suited to our purpose, and had
Freemasonry not existed, this cover would have been employed; and it may
be much more than a cover, it may be a power engine in our hands. By
establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking
these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may
turn the public mind which way we will ... A literary society is the most
proper form for the introduction of our Order into any State where we are
yet strangers." They planned about 800 such Reading Rooms.
The membership initially consisted of 17 young men, and about five of
Bahrdt's friends. Knigge helped him to develop the organizational
structure, which was divided into six grades:
1) Adolescent
2) Man
3) Elder
4) Mesopolite
5) Diocesan
6) Superior
The 'Society of the 22' or the 'Brotherhood' was its inner circle.
In a pamphlet entitled To All Friends of Reason, Truth and Virtue, Bahrdt
wrote that the organization's purpose was to accomplish the enlightenment
of people in order to disseminate religion, remove popular prejudices,
root out superstition, and restore liberty to mankind. They planned to
have magazines and pamphlets, but by 1788, Bahrdt had sunk over $1,000
into the group, and was spending all of his time working on it. Despite
his efforts, they still only had 200 members.
Near the end of 1788, Frederick Wilhelm, the King of Prussia, worried
about the growth of the organization, had Johann Christian von Wollner,
one of his ministers, write an opposing view to Bahrdt's pamphlet, called
the Edict of Religion. Bahrdt responded by anonymously writing another
pamphlet of the same name to satirize it. In 1789, a bookseller by the
name of Goschen, wrote a pamphlet called More Notes Than Text, on the
German Union of XXII, a New Secret Society for the Good of Mankind, in
which he revealed that the group was a continuation of the Illuminati.
The German Union, which represented Weishaupt's "corrected system of
Illuminism," never really got off the ground because of its openness,
which provoked hostile attacks from the government and members of the
clergy. Bahrdt left the group and opened up a tavern known as 'Bahrdt's
Repose.' The German Union ceased to exist after he died in 1793.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
The Illuminati had secretly spread to France by 1787 (five years after
they had planned), through French orator and revolutionary leader Count
Gabriel Victor Riqueti de Mirabeau (1749-1791, Order name 'Leonidas') who
had been indoctrinated by Col. Jacob Mauvillon while he was in Berlin on a
secret mission for King Louis XVI of France in 1786. Mirabeau introduced
Illuminati principles at the Paris Masonic Lodge of the Amis Reunis (later
renamed 'Philalethes'), and initiated Abbé Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
(1754-1838, a court cleric in the House of Bourbon).
The most trusted members were brought into the 'Secret Committee of United
Friends' (it is interesting to note that a group of the same name
originated in 1771 as an occult group). The initiations took place at the
Illuminati's Grand Lodge, about 30 miles from Paris, in the Ermenonville
mansion owned by the Marquis de Gerardin. The famous impostor Saint
Germain (1710-1780, or 1785) presided over the initiation ceremonies.
Germain was believed to be a Portuguese Jew, who was a member of the
Philalethes Lodge. He was a Mason, a Rosicrucian, and belonged to several
other occult brotherhoods. He spoke Italian, German, English, Spanish,
French, Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Chinese. He was said to be the son of
Prince Rakoczy of Transylvania; raised by the last Medici, Gian Gastone;
and was educated at the University of Siena. He told people that he had
lived for centuries, and knew King Solomon. He was arrested in London in
1743 for being a Jacobite spy, and he took credit for establishing
Freemasonry in Germany. As an impostor, he posed as Comte Bellamarre,
Marquis de Montferrat, and Chevalier Schoening.
During the initiation, new members were sworn to "reveal to thy new chief
all thou shalt have heard, learned and discovered, and also to seek after
and spy into things that might have otherwise escaped thy notice ... (and
to) avoid all temptation to betray what thou has now heard. Lightning does
not strike so quickly as the dagger which will reach thee wherever thou
mayest be."
Count Alessandro de Cagliostro (also known as Giuseppe Balsamo), a Jew
from Sicily, who was said to be one of the greatest occult practitioners
of all time, was initiated into the Illuminati at Mitau (near Frankfurt)
in 1780, in an underground room. He later said, that an iron box filled
with papers was opened, and a book taken out. From it, a member read the
oath of secrecy, which began: "We, Grand Masters of Templars..." It was
written in blood. The book was an outline of their plans, which included
an attack on Rome. He discovered that they had money at their disposal in
banks at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, London, Genoa, and Venice. He found out
that the Illuminati had 20,000 lodges throughout Europe and America, and
that their members served in every European court. Cagliostro was
instructed to go to Strasbourg, France, to make the initial contacts
necessary for the instigation of the French Revolution. Identified as a
Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion, it is believed that he was the
liaison between them and the Illuminati. He was arrested in 1790, in Rome,
for revolutionary activities.
The French Masons had committed themselves to a plan for overthrowing the
government, under the guise of liberty and equality; ending the autocratic
regimes, in order to have government by and for the people. Jeremy Bentham
and William Petty (Earl of Shelburne) planned and directed the French
Revolution, then later directed the plot towards America.
In 1788, at the request of Mirabeau and Talleyrand, Johann Joachim
Christoph Bode (1730-1793, 'Amelius'), a lawyer at Weimar, and a Mason,
was summoned to France. He had been initiated into the Illuminati at the
Congress of Wilhelmsbad, and later took over the Order in the absence of
Weishaupt. Bode and Baron de Busche ('Bayard'), a Dutch military officer
in the service of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, in order to conceal
the purpose of their presence in France, said they were there to
investigate the influence of the Jesuits on the secret societies. However,
the real reason for them being there, was to further the goals of the
Illuminati in France. They operated out of the Lodge of the Amis Reunis,
changing its name to 'Philalethes,' which means, 'searchers after the
truth.'
The Marquis de Luchet, a friend of Mirabeau, wrote in his Essay on the
Sect of the Illuminati in January, 1789: "Deluded people. You must
understand that there exists a conspiracy in favor of despotism, and
against liberty, of incapacity against talent, of vice against virtue, or
ignorance against light! ... Every species of error which afflicts the
earth, every half-baked idea, every invention serves to fit the doctrines
of the Illuminati ... The aim is universal domination."
Intellectuals known as 'encyclopedists' were instrumental in spreading
Illuminati doctrine. Soon other lodges become aligned with the Philalethes,
such as the Nine Sisters; the Lodge of Candor, which included members like
Laclos, Sillery, D´Aiguillon; the Lameth Brothers, Dr. Guillotine, and
Lafayette; and the Propaganda, which was established by Condorcet, Abbé
Sieyes, and Rochenfoucault.
Revolutionary leaders in France, such as Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore
de Robespierre (1758-1794), who was made head of the Revolution by
Weishaupt; Marquis Antoine Nicholas Condorcet (1743-1794), philosopher and
politician; Duke de la Rochenfoucault; George Jacques Danton (1759-1794);
Marquis Marie Joseph de Lafayette (1757-1834), General and statesman;
Jerome Petion de Villeneuve (1756-1794), politician; Philippe, Duke of
Orleans, Grand Master of French Freemasonry; de Leutre; Fauchet; Cammille
Benoit Desmoulins (1760-1794), D´Alembert; Denis Diderot (1713-1784),
encyclopedist; and Jean-Francois de la Harpe (1739-1803), critic and
playwright, all joined the Illuminati, who had eventually infiltrated all
266 Masonic lodges by 1789, even though the Masons weren't aware of it.
The Illuminati created situations in order to create dissention among the
people. For instance, the Duke of Orleans instructed his agents to buy up
as much grain as they could, then the people were led to believe that the
King intentionally caused the shortage, and that the French people were
starving. Fellow conspirators in the government helped create runaway
inflation. Thus the people were manipulated into turning against a king
whose reign had strengthened the middle class. The monarchy was to be
destroyed, and the middle class oppressed. God was to be replaced by the
Illuminati's religion of reason that "man's mind would solve man's
problems."
During the first two years of the French Revolution, which started in
April, 1789, the Illuminati had infiltrated the Masonic Lodges to such an
extent, that they had ceased operation, and instead rallied under the
name, "The French Revolutionary Club." When they needed a larger meeting
place, they used the hall of the Jacobin's Convent. This revolutionary
group of 1300 people emerged on July 14, 1789 as the Jacobin Club. The
Illuminati controlled the Club, and were directly responsible for
fermenting the activities which developed into the French Revolution. Lord
Acton wrote: "The appalling thing in the French Revolution is not the
tumult but the design. Through all the fire and smoke, we perceived the
evidence of calculating organization. The managers remain studiously
concealed and masked; but there is no doubt about their presence from the
first."
In the playing out of a plan which called for the population to be cut
down by one-third to one-half, over 300,000 people died, including the
execution of King Louis and his family. This was done to insure the
stability of the new French Republic. In August, 1792, after the overthrow
of the government, the tri-colored banner was replaced by the red flag of
social revolution, while the cry of "Vive notre roi d´Orleans" gave way to
the Masonic watchword, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" Those who
responded with the proper Masonic handsigns, had their lives spared. By
November, 1793, as the massacres had spread all over France, the churches
had been reorganized along the lines of Weishaupt's contention that
"reason should be the only code of man."
Talleyrand, who became the bishop of Autin in 1788, because of his radical
reorganization of the Church, was excommunicated by the Pope. He became a
deputy to the National Assembly. The Jacobins controlled the National
Assembly, and for all intents and purposes, Mirabeau became France's
leader. In true Democratic spirit, he said: "We must flatter the people by
gratuitous justice, promise them a great diminution in taxes and a more
equal division, more extension in fortunes, and less humiliation. These
fantasies will fanaticize the people, who will flatten all resistance."
The Revolution was considered at an end on July 28, 1794, when Robespierre
was guillotined.
Thomas Jefferson, who served as minister to France for three years
(1785-89), described the events as "so beautiful a revolution" and said
that he hoped it would sweep the world. Treasury Secretary Alexander
Hamilton said that Jefferson helped start the French Revolution, and wrote
in a letter to a friend, dated May 26, 1792, that Jefferson "drank freely
of the French philosophy, in religion, in science, in politics. He came
from France in the moment of fermentation, which he had a share in
inciting." Jefferson wrote to Brissot de Warville in Philadelphia, in a
letter dated May 8, 1793, that he was "eternally attached to the
principles of the French Revolution." In 1987, during a trip to the United
States by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, where they visited
the Jefferson Memorial, she referred to Jefferson as "one of the world's
greatest thinkers."
It is interesting to note, that during the Communist revolution, Nikolai
Lenin said: "We, the Bolsheviks, are the Jacobins of the Twentieth
Century..."
An Illuminist, and member of the revolutionary French National Assembly,
Vicomte de Barras, witnessed a 24 year old Napoleon repelling a siege at
Toulon in 1793 by English and Spanish military forces. Barras, appointed
by the Assembly as the Commander-in-Chief of the French military, in 1795
became a member of the five-man Directorate, which began to govern France,
and soon became the most powerful political figure in the country. He
chose Napoleon to lead the military forces. However, in 1799, Napoleon (a
Knights Templar) broke his ties with Barras, because he feared Barras was
attempting to restore the Monarchy. Napoleon eliminated the Directorate,
and in 1804, with the support of Talleyrand (who served as his foreign
minister), became Emperor. Unwittingly, as a puppet of the Illuminati, his
reign brought about the total disruption of Europe, which was needed for
the Illuminati to get control and unify it. He ended the Holy Roman
Empire, and made his brother Joseph, the King of Naples in 1806. Joseph
was replaced by Napoleon's brother-in-law Murat, when Joseph became the
King of Spain in 1808. His brother Louis was made the King of Holland, and
another brother Jerome, the King of Westphalia.
In 1810, Napoleon confiscated the contents of the Vatican archives, which
amounted to 3,000 cases of documents, and took it to Paris. Although most
were later returned to Rome, some were kept. By this time, Napoleon had
changed the face of Europe, but, he settled his warring ways and
ultimately the French Revolution had failed, because Europe had not been
fully conquered. The Illuminati immediately took steps to dethrone him,
which took five years. In order to get money to Wellington's English
forces, Nathan Rothschild funneled money to his brother James (who handled
financial transactions for the French government), in Paris, who got it to
Wellington's troops in Spain. In addition, the Illuminati secretly worked
to make agreements that shifted national alliances against France.
Upon his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon was again exiled, this time, to the
island of Saint Helena in the south Atlantic, which is where he died in
1821. He had written in his will: "I die before my time, killed by the
English oligarchy and its hired assassins."
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