Patriot/Militia Debt to the Illuminati ADAM WEISHAUPT "The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest, and the unfettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind. THIS IS OUR GREAT SECRET." - Spartacus (Weishaupt) to Cato (Zwack). Proofs of a Conspiracy, Robison, p. 91. "Men originally led a patriarchal life, in which every father of a family was the sole lord of his house and his property, while he himself possessed general freedom and equity. But they suffered themselves to be oppressed -- gave themselves up to civil societies, and formed states. Even by this they fell; and this is the fall of man,..." - Priest's Degree instruction. (Ibid., p.106.) Elsewhere Weishaupt (same letter as above) wrote that "The KINGDOM OF GRACE is that restoration which may be brought about by illumination and a just Morality. This is the NEW BIRTH." (Ibid., p. 92.) Degree of Magus or Philosophus, "the doctrines are the same with those of Spinoza, where all is material, God and the world are the same thing, and all religion whatever is without foundation, and the contrivance of ambitious men." Rex grade "that every peasant, citizen and householder is a sovereign, [SOUND FAMILIAR?] as in the patriarchal state, and that nations must be brought back to that state, by whatever means are conducible -- peacefully, if it can be done; but, if not, then by force -- for all subordination must vanish from the face of the earth." - Ibid., p. 115. Weishaupt also promoted ruling the world through the order, the pupils by being in the Order were rulers. He also ruled his immediate subordinates so severely they tended to complain, and thus leak too much info, and to quit. So much for the virtue of the man. The Illuminati also manipulated women, viewed as highly valuable to influence men, by giving them hints of possible freedom and equality in the new order, but in fact this was a lie as the above lectures no woman would be receiving (when they did initiate women, they had their own "mysteries" type rituals to keeep them busy), sows. And they maintained two cliques of women agents: The virtuous, used to influence virtuous men [i.e., those who don't party and have casual sex], and the loose, used to influence libertine men. The two, one writer observed, were not allowed to know of each other's existence as groups, or at least the virtuous were not allowed to know about the other set. (As usual, the virtuous and sheltered are made fools of and used, while larger pictures are kept from them.) For those of you who don't know about this, The Illuminati was a secret society, founded in the latter half of the 1700's, by Adam Weishaupt, who was envious and angry that he did not get a professorial "chair" or job at Ingolstadt University, which was traditionally reserved for a Jesuit. Weishaupt set about to take over the world, using an order derived in part from the Jesuit model, but with paganoid motifs, anarchism and atheism, and a series of grades by which the members was led into more and more amorality and evil. Whether any overt Satanism was practised is not clear, and unlikely. The values of Satanist culture overlap those of anarchy far more than they do those of communism, except to the degree the latter shares points with totalitarian feudalism and totalitarian fascism. The Illuminati (or "The Order") piggybacked on the Freemasons, recruiting from among them. The opening wedge was preaching "the happiness of man" while training the recruit gradually to be ruler by intrigue and influence, both then and in the proposed future stateless society. Anyone outside the Order who was independently talking the same line, was recruited. A courier carrying some papers for them was hit by lightning. The letters horrified the authorities, and the Bavarian police raided Baron von Knigge's house and some others. The finds were even worse incl. recipes for poisons, abortifacients (which back then even secularly inclined people had the sense to consider disreputable at best), and forged seals and so forth. In other words, espionage and arsenal type stuff. The papers of The Illuminati were published and sent to the various governments in the as yet not united Germany, probably elsewhere, to alert the rulers (not all of them tyrannical at all) of the evil designs. Weishaupt took refuge with the Duke of Saxe-Gotha. Some times after they were disbanded, the so-called German Union of reading rooms and book printers/dealers was formed, along the same lines, same purpose, same search to co-opt similar thinkers not among them already. Here the focus was different, being more public propaganda by reading rooms of their ideas. The founder of the German Union was at Moses Mendelssohn's funeral. Mendelssohn founded the Reform branch of Judaism which pretty nearly repudiates most Judaism identifiers, and has little if any probloem with rejection of the doctrine of divine inspiriation of the Torah, a point that must be held to be accepted by the Orthodox, among many other points of course. Reform was bent on assimilation, and easily became host to the Jacob Frank heretics, themselves a spin off of the false messianic mystic Shabbatai Zevi (who repudiated Judaism and adopted Islam under some duress). Gershom Scholem writing on all this gives more details, and as for the Frankists, see Rabbi Felix Antelman's To Eliminate the Opiate. The Frankists of course did not get on with the Orthodox Yeshivas, and their and the Yeshiva students would get in brawls. (Started by the Frankists, who worshipped Jacob Frank among others.) On one occasion, a Frankist woman who was a double to the wife of the chief Rabbi of Prague went to the chief of police and said she had seen her husband kill a Christian boy as sacrifice, the old "blood libel," because the Frankists were angry that their heresies were rejected. When a pogrom broke loose, the Frankists had already left Prague. (Note to people who don't read too carefully, the foregoing is not an anti- semitic rant, and I have no patience with people who think to recruit me to that stuff, nor do I want to hear from someone outraged persons who didn't get the point. These little known developments in East European Jewish history are quite possibly the result of conspiratorial gentile influence, and do not in any way reflect inherent tendencies in Judaism, whether of blood or of doctine. A real problem that laid the groundwork for it, however, was the Qabalah, or at least that version taught by Isaac Luria. Zevi based his claims on some mystical and qabalistic nonsense. Rabbinic opinion on the Qabalah ranges from blind acceptance to viewing it as heretical. The latter is probably closer to the truth. The contents are recognizeably drawn from pagan and gnostic influences and the earliest material is the Sepher Yetzirah, which assigns mystical meaning and role in creation to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Possible useage of letters as talismans is perhaps taught by this. The next oldest is the Sepher Briah,/i>, a more straightforward Bible exegesis, with some speculation and non heretical stuff, plus the first mention of the Sephiroth, but not like a tree. What I recall sounded more like a flight of UFOs. The Sepher ha-Zohar is the big kicker. Several volumes, it was published by the author (or compiler, depending on who you believe) Moses de Leon's widow. De Leon was a Spanish Jew who according to one source wrote it all himself, but the popular idea is that he collated ancient texts. Internal evidence refutes this, see Scholem. Zoharic qabalism is apparently the main source for the ritual magic and other problematic sides of qabalism, the main repository of pagan and gnostic derived ideas, and borrowed in turn from by Western magicians.) The Illuminati went on more as legend, it is possible that Netchaev was an Illuminatus, no one else is all the later ferment can be accused of this with any probability. Obviously the actual members who were fanatics would continue their plans. You only need one Illuminatus here and there, who is good with arguments, to move things in an unwholesome direction or to an unwholesome extreme, if the others are swayed. The Skull and Bones Order fraternity at Yale, ably depicted in the movie The Brotherhood of the Belluse it to promote their initerests, and the partners are reminded that their relationship exists for the benefit of family and social networks, not for their own benefit (this in violation of the teaching of Genesis 2:24). Sexual character differences are emphasized so that they are kept alienated from each other. Their sexual styles even are often pressured to be on radically different tracks. The various Conspiracy links out on the Web often incl. stuff that deals with this sort of thing, called "ruling class conspiracy." The trails that conspiracy researchers first followed were misinterpreted by them as evidence of Communist conspiracy, because of the "grid" these peopled everyhting through. In fact, it is a lot more complicated than that. The links go all through the political spectrum, and are more and are especially heavy into the right. Currently, Illuminati type thinking is being purveyed through the libertarian movement, and the Cato Institute, among others.
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