The Illuminati
“The Illuminati is the continuation of the Mystery Religions of Babylon and
Egypt. And the bloodlines of the Illuminati go back to people who at one
time lived in Babylon and Egypt.”
Fritz Springmeier, “Bloodlines of the
Illuminati”
Like the Masons, the “Illuminati,” their concepts, and esoteric knowledge
traces back thousands of years to the Egyptian Mystery Schools/Religion.
However this order was first publicly identified in 1776, the same year
America signed the Declaration of Independence.
On May 1st, 1776, “Mayday,”
Adam Weishaupt, professor of Law at Ingolstadt University, officially formed
the Bavarian Illuminati.
“The bloodlines, and the Illuminati secret society network
through which they manipulate, has been the force behind many of the major
Empires of history. In ancient times Sumer and Babylon were both
headquarters for the 'Illuminati' in the land now called Iraq, and Egypt was
extremely important to them also. It was the accounts, texts and artifacts
from Sumer and Babylon that were burned or looted from Iraqi museums in the
wake of the American and British invasion.
After Babylon, the Illuminati
bloodline network moved its headquarters to Rome and it was during this time
that we had the Roman Empire and the creation of the Roman Church or
institutionalized Christianity. The Roman Catholic Church structure'
controlled by the Jesuit secret society remains at the heart of Illuminati
operations. The 'operational' headquarters moved into northern Europe after
the fall of the Roman Empire and for a period it was based in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands.
This was when the Dutch began to build their empire through the
Dutch East India Company and they settled South Africa. In 1688, William of
Orange, one of the bloodlines, invaded England from the Netherlands and took
the throne as William III in 1689. William ruled jointly with Queen Mary and
then by himself after her death in 169l. In that year William signed the
charter that created the Bank of England, and the global banking system
began to emerge. Banking and manufactured debt has always been one of the
main vehicles used by the bloodlines to control humanity.
From this time the bloodlines and their Illuminati secret society network
moved their centre of operation to London and what followed, of course, was
the 'great' and enormous British Empire. This was not the Empire of the
'British' in truth, but that of the Illuminati bloodlines based in Britain.
This expansion of the British and other European empires to all parts of the
world exported the bloodlines to every continent, including, most
importantly today, North America.”
David Icke, “Tales From Time Loop”
Adam Weishaupt’s Illuminati was designed to be an organization so elusive,
so secretive as to hide its membership within other secret societies.
Weishaupt wrote in his journal that Freemasonry was in fact the organization
most fit for infiltration by the Illuminati:
“The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never
appear in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and
another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Free
Masonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it, and
therefore takes little notice of it.
Next to this, the form of a learned or
literary society is best suited to our purpose, and had Free Masonry not
existed, this cover would have been employed; and it may be much more than a
cover, it may be a powerful 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.
In like manner we must try to obtain an influence in the military
academies (this may be of mighty consequence) the printing-houses,
booksellers’ shops, chapters, and in short in all offices which have any
effect, either in forming, or in managing, or even in directing the mind of
man: painting and engraving are highly worth our care.”
Adam Weishaupt,
founder of the Bavarian Illuminati, 1776 (from John Robinson’s “Proofs of a
Conspiracy”)
Weishaupt himself showed little respect for the Brotherhood of Freemasonry
and mocked its structure in his journals. He knew, just as the bloodlines
atop the global secret society pyramid know, that the whole hierarchical
structure of passing formal “degrees” is an unnecessary process.
If the
point is to learn occult subjects and become “Illumined,” there is no need
for degrees, no need to slowly reveal secrets, no need for the rituals,
rewards, and regalia.
“Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a
concealed
mystery. The hankering of the mind is irresistible; and if once a man has
taken it into his head that there is a mystery in a thing, it is impossible
to get it out, either by argument or experience. And then, we can so change
notions by merely changing a word. What more contemptible than fanaticism;
but call it enthusiasm; then add the little word noble, and you may lead him
over the world … For their sakes, and to rivet still faster their own
fetters, they engage in the most corrupting of all employments and for what?
To learn something more of an order, of which every degree explodes the
doctrine of a former one. Would it have hurt the young Illuminatus to have
it explained to him all at once? Would not this fire his mind when he sees
with the same glance the great object, and the fitness of the means for
attaining it? Would not the exalted characters of the Superior, so much
excelling himself in talents, and virtue, and happiness (otherwise the Order
is good for nothing) warm his heart, and fill him with emulation, since he
sees in them, that what is so strongly preached to him is an attainable
thing?
No, no it is all a trick; he must be kept like a child, amused with
rattles, and stars, and ribbons and all the satisfaction he obtains is, like
the Masons, the fun of seeing others running the same gauntlet.”
Adam Weishaupt, from John Robinson’s, “Proofs of a Conspiracy” (12930)
John Robinson was a Mason invited to join the Illuminati in the late
eighteenth century.
After investigating the order, Robison declined the
invitation and published a book which offered his conclusions instead called
“Proofs of a Conspiracy Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe,
Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati and Reading
Societies:”
“In short, I have found that the covert of a Mason Lodge had been employed
in every country for venting and propagating sentiments in religion and
politics that could not have circulated in public without exposing the
author to great danger. I found, that this impunity had gradually encouraged
men of licentious principles to become more bold, and to teach doctrines
subversive of all our notions of
morality of all our confidence in the moral government of the universe of
all our hopes of improvement in a future state of existence and of all
satisfaction and contentment with our present life, so long as we live in a
state of civil subordination.
I have been able to trace these attempts,
made, through a course of fifty years … I have observed these doctrines
gradually diffusing and mixing with all the different systems of Free
Masonry; till, at last, AN ASSOCIATION HAS BEEN FORMED for the express
purpose of ROOTING OUT ALL THE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS, AND OVERTURNING ALL
THE EXISTING GOVERNMENTS OF EUROPE. I have seen this Association exerting
itself zealously and systematically, till it has become almost irresistible:
And I have seen that the most active leaders in the French Revolution were
members of this Association, and conducted their first movements according
to its principles, and by means of its instructions and assistance, formerly
requested and obtained: And, lastly, I have seen that this Association still
exists, still works in secret …
The Association of which I have been
speaking, is the Order of ILLUMINATI … abolished in 1786 by the Elector of
Bavaria, but revived immediately after, under another name, and in a
different form, all over Germany. It was again detected, and seemingly
broken up; but it had by this time taken so deep root that it still subsists
without being detected, and has spread into all the countries of Europe.”
John Robinson, “Proofs of a Conspiracy” (69)
"It was not my intention to
doubt that the doctrines of the Illuminati had not spread in the United
States. On the contrary, no one is more fully satisfied of this fact than I
am."
George Washington, 1782
As Robinson alluded, the Illuminati was abolished in 1786, but was then
revived immediately after under different names. It became increasingly
obvious to the “good guys” of European Freemasonry that even more drastic
measures would have to be taken against the Illuminati.
In 1794 the Duke of
Brunswick, the Grand Master of German Freemasonry wrote a letter to his
brethren recommending the dissolution of the entire organization, due to the
fact that it had been infiltrated was being manipulated by unseen hands.
“I have been convinced that we, as an Order, have come under the power of
some very evil occult Order, profoundly versed in science, both occult and
otherwise, though not infallible, their methods being black magic, that is
to say, electromagnetic power, hypnotism, and powerful suggestion. We are
convinced that the Order is being controlled by some Sun Order, after the
nature of the Illuminati, if not by that Order itself. We see our
edifice…crumbling and covering the ground with ruins, we see the destruction
that our hands no longer arrest…a great sect arose, which taking for its
motto the good and the happiness of man, worked in the darkness of the
conspiracy to make the happiness of humanity a prey for itself.
This sect is
known to everyone, its brothers are known no less than its name. It is they
who have undermined the foundations of the Order to the point of complete
overthrow; it is by them that all humanity has been poisoned and led astray
for several generations…They began by casting odium on religion…Their
masters had nothing less in view than the thrones of the earth, and the
governments of the nations was to be directed by their nocturnal clubs…the
misuse of our order…has produced all the political and moral troubles with
which the world is filled today…we must from this moment dissolve the whole
Order”
Duke of Brunswick, Grand Master of German Freemasonry, 1794
The Illuminati, just 18 years after its official formation, was so powerful
and influential that its infiltration into Masonry caused the Duke of
Brunswick to try and “dissolve the whole order.”
Neither Freemasonry nor the
Illuminati were dissolved, however, and their power and influence has only
increased in the centuries since.
“And in 1812, the President at Harvard University, Joseph Willard, retired
to preach in Vermont. He took the occasion of his retirement on July 4,
1812, to express his concern over the consequences of the then looming war:
‘There is sufficient evidence that a number of societies of the Illuminati
have been established in this land.
They are doubtless striving to secretly
undermine all our ancient institutions, civil and sacred. These societies
are clearly leagued with those of the same order in Europe ... We live in an
alarming period. The Enemies of all order are seeking our ruin. Should
infidelity generally prevail, our independence would fall, of course. Our
republican government would be annihilated.’"
Ralph Epperson, “The New World
Order”1156
“The art of illuminism lay in enlisting dupes as well as adepts and by
encouraging dreams of honest visionaries or the schemes of fanatics; By
flattering the vanity of ambitious egotists; By working on unbalanced brains
or by playing such passions as greed and power to make men of totally
divergent aims serve the secret purpose of the sect.
People with money were
welcomed but kept oblivious of actual secrets. The purpose is to win power
and riches. To undermine secular or religious government and attain the
masters of the world.”
Nesta Webster
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