Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng2.kpn.DE!newsfeed.freenet.de!multikabel.net!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!ramfeed-1.ams.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!feed.xsnews.nl!border-2.ams.xsnews.nl!69.16.177.242.MISMATCH!cyclone02.ams!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe04.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail
From: "Trevor W . McKeown" <
[email protected]>
Newsgroups: alt.illuminati,alt.games.illuminati,alt.answers,news.answers
Followup-To: poster
Subject: alt.illuminati FAQ (v. 2.0)
Reply-To:
[email protected] (Trevor W. McKeown)
Keywords: This posting answers common questions asked about the Bavarian Illuminati and contemporary conspiracy theory.
User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (PPC Mac OS X)
Approved:
[email protected]
Archive-name: organizations/illuminati-faq
Posting-Frequency: bi-annually
Last-modified: 2004/03/19
Version: 2.0
URL:
http://anti-masonry.info/alt.illuminati.html
Copyright: (c) 2005 Trevor W. McKeown
Maintainer: Trevor W. McKeown <
[email protected]>
Disclaimer: Approval for *.answers is based on form, not content.
Message-ID: <ttrevor-D3C8B9.00073602122008@shawnews>
Lines: 1141
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.85.139.100
X-Complaints-To:
[email protected]
X-Trace: newsfe04.iad 1228205258 24.85.139.100 (Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:07:38 UTC)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:07:38 UTC
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:07:36 -0800
Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.illuminati:89684 alt.games.illuminati:2398 alt.answers:84369 news.answers:321286
alt.illuminati FAQ
----------------------------------------------------------------------
alt.illuminati Frequently Asked Questions
compiled by Trevor W. McKeown
version 2.0
Last modified: 19 March, 2004
<
http://anti-masonry.info/alt.illuminati_FAQ.html>
The Illuminati has played a central role in what was once termed the
plot theory of history but now is simply called conspiracy theory. The
difficulty--if not impossibility--in documenting actual causality
between incidents, trends, events, personages and groups has not
prevented an exponential growth in theories, speculations, opinions and
accusations. The alt.illuminati FAQ is intended to provide what
documented facts are available and provide an overview of the many
theories.
Version history:
1992/10/26 Peter Trei posted "Bavarian Illuminati" FAQ Ver 1.1
- three articles from the "Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia,"
1992/11/ Peter Trei posted "Bavarian Illuminati" FAQ Ver 1.1
- three articles from "Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia,"
- remarks on credibility of Robert Anton Wilson and
Robert Shea
- additional German references from Roald A. Zellweger
[1992/10/27]
1994/01/ Peter Trei posted "Bavarian Illuminati" FAQ Ver 1.2
- no obvious changes.
1993/04/16 alt.illuminati newsgroup created by Gregg Bloom
- From:
[email protected] Fri Apr 16 01:00:55 1993
"Reason for creation: The impending war.
We shall be victorious!"
1994/09/08 Thomas Moll posted what he called the first attempt at an
alt.illuminati FAQ
- Question and answer format, focused on
'Illuminatus! Trilogy'
1995/04/19 Enchanter! posted "alt.illuminati FAQ v1.1"
- excerpts from Milton William Cooper's "Behold a
Pale Horse";
Peter Trei's notes on Robert Anton Wilson and Robert
Shea;
Trevor W. McKeown's "FAQ: The Illuminati";
Quotes from Larry Abraham, 'Call it Conspiracy';
Review of 'En Route to Global Occupation,' by Gary H.
Kah;
Three articles from "Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia,"
-
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/4243/alt_illuminati_faq.txt
1996/02/18 Trevor W. McKeown, posted "A Bavarian Illuminati Primer"
- freemasonry.bcy.ca/Writings/Illuminati.html
2003/12/01 Frater E.K.O. <
[email protected]> posted
"Bavarian Illuminati FAQ, Ver 1.2"
- Peter Trei's FAQ Ver 1.2, without Peter Trei's
remarks on the Illuminatus! Trilogy.
2004/03/19 alt.illuminati FAQ v. 2.0
-
http://anti-masonry.info/alt.illuminati_FAQ.html
Contents:
I ALT.ILLUMINATI
1. What's the history of this newsgroup?
2. Where's the newsgroup charter?
3. Where did this FAQ come from?
II ILLUMINATI
1. What was the Bavarian Illuminati?
2. What is the Illuminati?
3. What was the Alumbrados?
III HISTORY
1. What is the link between the Illuminati and Freemasonry?
2. What are some reliable histories and literature about the
Illuminati?
3. How does this tie in with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
IV SYMBOLS
1. What does the eye in the pyramid mean?
2. What does the pentagram mean?
V PEOPLE
1. Who was Adam Weishaupt?
2. Who was Baron Adolph von Knigge?
3. Who was the Abbe Buerrel?
4. Who was John Robison?
5. Who was Thomas Jefferson?
6. Who was Benjamin Disraeli?
7. Who was Cecil Rhodes?
8. Who was Lady Queenburough?
9. Who was Nesta Webster?
10. Who are Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea?
VI FICTION
1. What is the Illuminatus! Trilogy?
2. Fnord?
3. Was the Illuminatus! Trilogy made into a play?
4. Isn't there a card game?
5. Are there newsgroups devoted to the Illuminati games?
6. What movies mention the Illuminati?
7. Do the Illuminati get mentioned in popular fiction?
VII CONTEMPORARY CLAIMANTS
1. Does the Illuminati still exist?
VIII THEORIES
1. Who are the lizard people?
2. Did the Illuminati kill American President Abraham Lincoln?
3. Is the Illuminati intentionally causing widespread illness and
disease?
4. Who put the face on Mars?
5. Who caused the French Revolution?
6. Who killed JFK?
7. Who caused the [enter conflict] war?
8. Are the illuminati satanists?
9. Is the communist menace a pawn of the Illuminati?
10. Does the Illuminati cause unemployment?
11. Is the Illuminati the New World Order?
12. Does the Illuminati cause pollution?
13. Are the Knights Templar the original Illuminati?
14. Does the Illuminati want to bring about the End Times?
15. Doesn't the Illuminati hide at the highest levels of
Freemasonry?
16. Is the Skull and Bones fraternity an Illuminati front?
17. Is the CIA an Illuminati front?
18. Does the Illuminati control the Vatican?
19. If they don't exist, why do we keep hearing about the
Illuminati?
The alt.illuminati FAQ is maintained at
anti-masonry.info/alt.illuminati_FAQ.html. If your favorite theory is
not included in this list, it's obviously a conspiracy. Fnord.
I ALT.ILLUMINATI
1. What's the history of this newsgroup?
The creation of alt.illuminati is apparently undocumented. While
proposals to start newsgroups are generally posted into similar
newsgroups and alt.config, a search of alt.discordia, alt.conspiracy,
news.answers, alt.answers, and alt.config newsgroup archives fails to
show any such posting. Neither uunet.uu.net archives nor
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/control/ contain any messages regarding
proposals or charters establishing the newsgroup. The first post into
alt.illuminati was made by Gregg Bloom , on Fri Apr 16 01:00:55 1993:
"Reason for creation: The impending war. We shall be victorious!" He
posted once again later that day as Dark Elf and has not posted in this
newsgroup since.
2. Where's the newsgroup charter?
At this date, there isn't one. A review of early posts suggests the
intent of the newsgroup was to discuss the Illuminatus! Trilogy in
context of current events, with an emphasis on humour and irony.
3. Where did this FAQ come from?
Peter Trei (
[email protected]) first asked for suggestions for
an Illuminati FAQ in alt.discordia, bit.listserv.fnord-l and
alt.conspiracy on 1992-10-26 15:23:16 PST. The next day Roald A.
Zellweger added several German citations. The "Bavarian Illuminati" FAQ
Ver 1.2 was posted, as a work in progress, in November of the same
year. Unaware of the work of Peter Trei, Trevor W. McKeown posted his
own Illuminati FAQ on June 13, 1994; Thomas Moll posted what he called
the first attempt at an alt.illuminati FAQ on September 8, 1994; and
Enchanter! posted "alt.illuminati FAQ v1.1"-- an amalgam of the first
two with additional quotes by Milton William Cooper and others -- on
April, 19, 1995. Trevor W. McKeown rewrote his FAQ and posted it as "A
Bavarian Illuminati Primer" on February 18, 1996, subsequently editing
and adding to it several times. A copy of Peter Trei's text was
reposted by Frater E.K.O. with Peter's name stripped out and redated,
December, 2003.
II ILLUMINATI
1. What was the Bavarian Illuminati?
Adam Weishaupt (1748/06/02-1811) Professor of Natural and Canon Law at
the University of Ingolstadt, founded the Illuminati of Bavaria on 1
May, 1776 with a membership predominantly made up of his students.
Originally called the Order of the Perfectibilists, "its professed
object was, by the mutual assistance of its members, to attain the
highest possible degree of morality and virtue, and to lay the
foundation for the reformation of the world by the association of good
men to oppose the progress of moral evil." The rituals were of a
rationalistic and not occult nature. Status as a freemason was not
required for initiation into the order. Baron Adolphe-Francois-Frederic
Knigge claimed a system of ten degrees incorporating the three degrees
of symbolic Freemasonry. Where Weishaupt and Knigge promoted a freedom
from church domination over philosophy and science, John Robison and
the Abbe Barruel saw a call for the destruction of the church. Where
Weishaupt and Knigge wanted a release from the excesses of state
oppression, Robison and Barruel saw the destruction of the state. Where
Weishaupt and Knigge wanted to educate women and treat them as
intellectual equals, Robison and Barruel saw the destruction of the
natural and proper order of society. The Edicts by the Elector of
Bavaria, Duke Karl Theodor on June 22, 1784, for its suppression, were
repeated in March and August, 1785 and the order began to decline, so
that by the end of the eighteenth century it had ceased to exist. See
freemasonry.bcy.ca/Writings/Illuminati.html for a Bavarian Illuminati
Primer with extensive footnotes, citations, references and links.
2. What is the Illuminati?
Just about anything you want it to be. Some communist commentators
viewed the Illuminati as a capitalist plot. Capitalistic, free
enterprise writers viewed them as socialists. Those on the Christian
right view anyone not of their own specific faith to be satanic and
probably Illuminati inspired; the Roman Catholic Church is definitely
Illuminati. Although possibly the Illuminati are actually a front for
the Jesuits. Many in the self-styled American milita movement view the
US government as being Illuminati controlled. The United Nations must
be Illuminati. Islamic fundamentalists view the Illuminati as behind
the freemasons, the New World Order and Western culture, and they're
Zionists. No information has come from any group seriously claiming to
be the Illuminati although Charles L. Westbrook Jr., in The Talisman of
the United States, Signature of the Invisible Brotherhood [Ayden, NC.]
and Lyndon LaRouche claim to have uncovered hidden messages in the
streetplan of Washington, DC, and one pseudoanonymous online poster
claims that the Illuminati hides messages in the wardrobe and social
calender of fashion model Heidi Klum. Fritz Springmeier, in The Top 13
Illuminati Bloodlines [Portland : Springmeier, 1995] and Dr. John
Coleman, in Committee of 300, The Conspirators Hierarchy [Nevada :
Joseph Holding Company, 1995] purport to tell you who the illuminati
are. The factual history of the Bavarian Illuminati is dealt with
above. A review of the main streams of conspiracy theory is given under
Sec. VIII.
3. What was the Alumbrados? (Spanish for 'enlightened')
A mystical movement first recorded by Menendez Pelavo about 1492 in
Spain. They believed that the human soul could enter into direct
communication with the Holy Spirit and, due to their extravagant claims
of visions and revelations, had three edicts issued against them by the
Catholic Inquisition, the first on September 23, 1525. Although
Ignatius of Loyola -- founder of the Jesuits in 1534, and composer of
the "Constitutions" of the Society of Jesus -- was brought before an
ecclesiastical commission in Alcala in 1527 to determine if his
teachings were heretical, he was cleared of any suspicion that he was
an alumbrado, He wrote nothing that would suggest he accepted their
beliefs. The name translates as 'illuminati' but the name is the only
similarity with the later Bavarian Illuminati. Guerinets: The
alumbrados, under the name of illumines, arrived in France from Seville
in 1623, and were joined in 1634 by Pierre Guerin, cur� of
Saint-Georges de Roye, whose followers in Picardy and Flanders, known
as Guerinets, were suppressed in 1635 [Jean Hermant 1650-1725, Histoire
des heresies, Rouen : 1727]. "Another and obscure body of Illumines
came to light in the south of France in 1722, and appears to have
lingered till 1794, having affinities with those known
contemporaneously in this country as 'French Prophets,' an offshoot of
the Camisards." [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 edition.]
III HISTORY
1. What is the link between the Illuminati and Freemasonry?
While many contemporary conspiracy theorists claim that the Illuminati
is made up of "high-ranking" 33� freemasons, just as many other
conspiracy theorists claim that this is an unprovable red herring that
distracts from the very real and provable conspiracies. Freemasonry
denies any connection other than a brief historical association with
the Bavarian Illuminati. Many conspiracy theorists use the terms
Freemasons, Illuminati, Zionist Occupational Government (ZOG) and New
World Order almost interchangably. The masonic response to many of
these accusations can be found in the Anti-masonry FAQ, available at
anti-masonry.info/anti-masonry_faq.html.
2. What are some reliable histories and literature about the Illuminati?
There are two easily definable catagories of books on the Illuminati
and conspiracy theory. Those that stick to the facts, avoid opinions
and provide clear documentation of their sources; and all the rest.
This list will give you facts. Another list at the end of this FAQ will
give you the opinions.
Johannes Rogallavon Bieberstein, Die These von der Verschwrung,
1776-1945: Philosophen, Freimaurer, Juden, Liberale und Sozialisten als
Verschwrergegen die Sozialordnung , Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,
1976.
Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish
World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion . Chico, CA:
Scholars, 1981 [1969])
Carl F. Graumann and Serge Moscovici, eds., Changing Conceptions of
Conspiracy . New York: Springer, 1987.
Richard Hofstadter, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics",
Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays .
New York: Knopf, 1966, pp. 3-40;
George Johnson, Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in
American Politics . Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1983.
John M. Roberts, The Mythology of the Secret Societies . London: Secker
& Warburg, 1972. Vernon L. Stauffer, New England and the Bavarian
Illuminati. Studies in History, Economics and Political Law , edited by
the Faculty of Political science of Columbia University. Volume LXXXII,
Number 1. Whole Number 191. Chapter III, pp. 142-228. New York: The
Columbia University Press, Longmans, Green & Co., Agents. London: P. S.
King & Son, Ltd., 1918. (Dean and Professor of New Testament and Church
History, Hiram College) 374 pages. Chapter III is reprinted online at
freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/stauffer.html
3. How does this tie in with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
An easily demonstrated hoax, the Protocols is often quoted and
reprinted by those who wish to interpret its vague terms as forcasting
one interpretation of current events. Antisemetic in tone, and in
intent, it is used to link Zionism, or Jews, with the Illuminati.
William Guy Carr (1895-1959) claimed they "are the Long rang Plan of
the Illuminati which was explained by Amschel Rothschild to his
associates in Frankfort in 1773." [Pawns In The Game. Los Angeles, St.
George Press: 1958. p. 157.] In the USA, the Protocols was republished
in Milton William Cooper's Behold a Pale Horse . [1943/05/06 -
2001/11/06] Between August and November of 2002, the New Jersey based
Arabic-language newspaper The Arab Voice published excerpts from the
Protocols . In justification, editor and publisher, Walid Rabah, noted
that "some major writers in the Arab nation accept the truth of the
book." A detailed, referenced refutation of the Protocols is at:
freemasonry.bcy.ca/Writings/protocols.html
IV SYMBOLS
1. What does the eye in the pyramid mean?
Symbols mean what the user wants them to mean. While Jungian
psychologists will talk about archetypes and the terminally
unimaginative will insist that only their understanding of a symbol can
be the real one-cultural diversity and historical records contradict
this belief. The eye in a triangle resting on an incomplete pyramid is
a uniquely American invention. Of the four men involved in designing
the USA seal in 1776, only Benjamin Franklin was a freemason, and he
contributed nothing of a masonic nature to the committee's proposed
design for a seal. The committeemen were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson, and John Adams, with Pierre Du Simitiere as artist and
consultant.
The single eye was a well-established artistic convention for an
'omniscient Ubiquitous Deity' in the medallic art of the Renaissance.
In 1614 the frontispiece of The History of the World by Sir Walter
Raleigh showed an eye in a cloud labeled "Providentia" overlooking a
globe. Du Simitiere, who suggested using the symbol, collected art
books and was familiar with the artistic and ornamental devices used in
Renaissance art. The all-seeing eye of God is noted several times in
the Christian Bible : Psalm 32:8 "I will instruct thee and teach thee
in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye." Psalm
33:18 "Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon
them that hope in his mercy." Ezekiel 20:17 "Nevertheless mine eye
spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in
the wilderness." The eye inside of an equilateral triangle, point up or
down, has often appeared in Christian art. It is often placed high
above the alter as in the Pfarrkirche at Grmunden am Traunsee (1626)
and the Fisherman's church at Traunkirchen, while it appears over the
doorway of the church of the monastary of St. Florian near Linz.
While the eye and pyramid icon is clearly not masonic nor derived from
any real-world usage other than the American Great Seal, conspiracy
theorists are quick to point out that it, or variations of a circle
inside a triangle, often appear in corporate logos. In popular fiction
a stylized eye and pyramid, or some version of a single eye, is a
common visual shorthand for power, secrecy, conspiracy or control. The
intent of the creators of films and television programmes, in utilizing
these icons, can only be a matter of conjecture. It is quite probable
that conspiracy theorists and the visual arts are simply feeding off
each other. A number of conspiracy theorists, such as Jordan Maxwell,
have claimed that the eye and pyramid symbol is printed in Bavarian
Illuminati texts "until recently" on display in the British Museum. No
citations or references are given, although mention is also sometimes
made to UFOs and extraterrestrials. The dust jacket illustration for
the 1972 hardcover edition of None Dare Call it Conspiracy includes the
eye and pyramid symbol from the USA Great Seal. Passing mention is made
inside to the Illuminati, but no mention is made to the seal. See
anti-masonry.info/anti-masonry02.html#eye_pyramid for footnotes and
citations.
2. What does the pentagram mean?
From the Greek, "pente", meaning five and "gramma", a letter; the
pentagram is a five pointed figure formed by producing the sides of a
pentagon both ways to their point of intersection, so as to form a five
pointed star. It has no specifically satanic origin or meaning and no
connection to the Bavarian Illuminati. The pentagram (also called
pentacle, pentalpha, pentacle, pentagle, or pentangle) is thought by
some occultists to trace its esoteric significance to an astronomical
observance of the pattern of Venus' conjunctions with the Sun and has
had many meanings in many cultures through the ages. �liphas L�vi
claimed, with no justification or historical precedent, that one point
upward represents the good principle and one downward, the evil. This
has become a commonif unfoundedbelief. The pentalpha seems to have
been widely used in Christianity, and may even be found in certain
Gnostic sects. It is commonly known as the "Star of Bethlehem," the
"Star of the East," or "Star of Solomon," and is a symbol of Divine
guidance. From a symbol for health or healing, It was appropriated in
the mediaeval period as a charm to ward off demons, evil spirits and
witches, which seems to be the root source of its common association
with modern wicca and satanism. See anti-masonry.info/pentagram.html
for footnotes and citations.
V. PEOPLE
1. Who was Adam Weishaupt?
"Founder of the Illuminati of Bavaria, born at Inglstadt, 1748, died
1811. He was educated in law and attained the rank of Professor in 1772
at the University of Ingolstadt. He had been educated by the Jesuits
but acquired a dislike for them, and in his professional life, he was
soon in conflict with the whole clergy, partly because he held the
chair of Canon Law, which had always been held by an ecclesiastic. In
conferences with his students in whom he planted liberal ideas on
religion and philosophy, and he soon conceived of a close association
of enlightened or intellectual persons who might advance the moral and
intellectual qualities of themselves as well as others. This idea
materialized as the Illuminates or Illuminati, who at first had no
connection with Freemasonry. In 1777, he was admitted to Lodge Theodore
of Good Counsel (translated by some as Lodge Theodore of Caution) at
Munich, and from that time, he sought to interrelate the affairs of his
Illuminati with Freemasonry.
"He soon formed an association with Baron von Knigge, an able and
upright man from north Germany, and the two might have accomplished
their objectives and some good had it not been for the opposition of
the Jesuits (who were still powerful though banished from Bavaria) and
the Roman Catholic clergy. More- over Weishaupt and Knigge could not
agree upon some of the latters' ritual- istic interpretations. From the
literature on the subject of Illuminism and from the caustic remarks of
Masonic writers, we might suppose that this order or movement lasted a
long time, but the whole drama opened with the organization of the
Perfectionists in 1766 and, 18 years later in 1784, the Bavarian
government banned all secret associations. The next year, Weishaupt was
discharged from his position at the University and banished from the
country. He fled to Gotha and found asylum with Duke Ernest of that
little city, remaining there until his death in 1811. In Gotha, he
published a number of works, those on Illuminism being: "A Picture of
Illuminism," 1786; "A Complete History of the Persecutions of the
Illuminati in Bavaria," 1785 (only the first of two planned volumes
published); "An Apology for the Illuminati," 1786; "An Improved System
of Illuminism," 1787, and others.
"The most objective writers on the subject give Weishaupt credit for
being of high moral character and a profound thinker, and it is worth
noting that his associate, Knigge, spoke with great respect of his
intellectual powers. It appears, however, that he was the victim of at
least two powerful forces, first, the vindictive hate of the Church of
Rome and the Bavarian government and, secondly, his own inadequate
judgement of how to launch a revolutionary and more or less secret
movement such as Illuminism. He was really employing methods of the
Jesuits, for his whole order seems to have been composed of spies and
counter spies, and only those most adept at scheming and trickery were
advanced. The candidates all had pseudonyms, that of Weishaupt being
Spartacus, and those who became too inquisitive about matters as to
which their suspicions were aroused were turned out. If the purpose had
been philosophic, ethical, or for the improvement of the mind or
salvation of the soul, it need never to have been quite so secretive,
and from the Masonic standpoint, Weishaupt was not justified in using
the Fraternity as the vehicle for his scheme, good or bad, though he
had ample precedents on all sides." [Henry Wilson Coil, Coil's Masonic
Encyclopedia , 1961.]
2. Who was Baron Adolph von Knigge?
"German freemason and, in part, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati. He
was born near Hanover in 1752, and died at Bremen in 1796. He was
initiated in a lodge of the Strict Observance at Cassel in 1772, but,
for a time, seemed uninterested in the society, thogh later becoming
one of the foremost German writers on the subject. He published "On the
Jesuits, Freemasons, and Ros- icrucians," 1781, anon.; "Essay on
Freemasonry," 1784; "Contribution Towards the Latest History of the
Order of Freemasons," 1786; and "Philo's Final Declaration," 1788. He
also wrote many non-masonic works, one being "On Conversation with
Men," towards the end of his career and after a sad experience with the
Illuminati and disappointment with the Strict Observance, causing him
therein to devote much space to secret societies and denunciation of
Freemasonry. The most interesting and significant part of Knigge's
career was his participation with Weishaupt in the promotion of the
Bavarian Illuminati, he being almost an equal party." [Henry Wilson
Coil, Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia , 1961.]
3. Who was the Abb� Buerrel?
Abb� Augustin Barruel (1741/10/02 - 1820/10/05), a member of the Jesuit
Society, wrote M�moires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinisme , The
Abb� published the first two of his four volumes in 1797 and the last
two in 1798. Only the third volume deals with the Illuminati and
Freemasonry, most of his information was derived from freemason and
Lutheran pastor, Jean Auguste Starcke, and a Viennese journalist,
L�opold Aloys Hoffman.
4. Who was John Robison?
John Robison (1739-1805) was a mathematician, scientific writer, and
lecturer in the field of natural philosophy. He contributed to the
third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was elected first
general secretary the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Author of Proofs of a
Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe carried
on in the Secret Meetings of the freemasons, Illuminati, and Reading
Societies, collected from Good Authorities . Due to the anti-Jacobin
sentiments of the day it was received with some excitement but the
Encyclopaedia Britannica says that this book, "betrays a degree of
credulity extremely remarkable in a person used to calm reasoning and
philosophical demonstration." Robison had been initiated into
Freemasonry at Liege. Further information is available at
http://anti-masonry.info/stauffer_notes.html#182
5. Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Thomas Jefferson (1743/04/13 o.s.-1826/07/04), United States President
from March 4, 1801 to March 4, 1809, was not a freemason. On Jan. 31,
1800 he corresponded to his friend, Bishop James Madison, writing:
"Barruel's own parts of the book are perfectly the ravings of a
Bedlamite" and "As Weishaupt lived under the tyranny of a despot and
priests, he knew that caution was necessary even in spreading
information, and the principles of pure morality. This has given an air
of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment.... If
Weishaupt had written here, where no secrecy is necessary in our
endeavors to render men wise and virtuous, he would not have thought of
any secret machinery for that purpose." Jefferson's endorsement of what
he viewed as the Illuminati's liberal and democratic agenda has led to
him mistakenly being labelled an Illuminati.
6. Who was Benjamin Disraeli?
Disraeli (1804 -1881) was a popular novelist before he was prime
minister of England (1868, 1874-80). In Coningsby (1844), he created a
secondary character named Sidonia who remarks in a conversation about
the various undersecretaries, ministers and advisors to the European
states: "The world is governed by very different personages from what
is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." In context, there
is no suggestion that these personages are in league, secretly or
otherwise, nor that they are in any way illuminated. In 1856 he warned
the British House of Commons about secret societies in France, Italy
and Germany [ Hansard, H. of C. debates, III series, cxliii, 773-1, 14
July 1856].
7. Who was Cecil Rhodes?
Cecil Rhodes (July 5, 1853 - March 26, 1902) was a British
administrator, financier and philanthropist who left �6,000,000 to
public service and endowed 170 Oxford scholarships. He wrote six wills
over his lifetime. In the first, written at the age of 23--sometime
after his doctor had warned him that he had but six months to live--he
proposed to "form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance
of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world
under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the
making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire." This was written on June
2, 1877. By the time he wrote his final will, his thinking had evolved
to the establishment of a scholarship trust fund. The trustees for the
Rhodes Scholarships in 1902, were Lord Alfred Milner (1854-1925), Lord
Rosebery, Lord Grey, Alfred Beit, L. L. Michell, B. F. Hawksley, and
Dr. Starr Jameson. The scholarships were to be given without regard to
race or creed. Conspiracy theorists see this as the origin of the Round
Table, which they claim became the Council On Foreign Relations, which
in turn set up the Trilateral Commission. [ American Rhodes
Scholarships , Frank Aydelotte; Call it Conspiracy , Larry Abraham.
(Double A Publications: Seattle, Washington, 1985) p. 91.]
8. Who was Lady Queenburough?
Edith Starr n�e Miller Paget, Baroness, (d. 1933) was the author of
Occult Theocrasy in which she claimed that Continental Freemasonry and
International Communism were Illuminati inspired creations of satanists
dating back to creation. Further information is available at
anti-masonry.info//miller_e/index.html
9. Who was Nesta Webster?
Nesta Helen Webster n�e Bevan (1867-1960) was the author of Secret
societies and subversive movements published in 1921 and reprinted in
1924, 1966, 1970, 1980 and 1989. Author of a series of articles for the
British Fascists' The Fascist Bulletin from May 1926 to January 1927,
she also contributed to The Patriot until the Second World War. Further
information is available at anti-masonry.info/webster_n.html
10. Who are Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea?
In the mid 1970s, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson restarted popular
speculation with their fictional Illuminatus! Trilogy . This mixed
actual history with conspiracy theory and pure invention, and very
deliberately produced doubts in the reader's mind as to the nature of
reality--a technique which the authors referred to as "guerilla
ontology," in pursuit of "Operation Mindfuck." They were apparently
introduced to illuminism by some of the correspondance they received
while working as letters column editors at Playboy magazine.
At the core of Illuminatus! is an aeons-old conflict between the
conspiracies representing the forces of order, bureaucracy, and
repression, represented by the Illuminati, and the conspiracies
representing the forces of chaos, spontaneity and freedom, representing
by the Erisians (followers of Eris, the Greek goddess of discord). The
plot involves every conspiracy you've ever heard of, many you haven't,
monomaniacal midgets, golden submarines, giant squid, ancient Atlantis,
zombie Nazi stormtroopers, and a good deal of sex.
Wilson and Shea drew heavily on Akron Darual's History of Secret
Societies, the Principia Discordia of the Erisians, many kinds of
fringe conspiracy theory, and their own imaginations. One of their
conceits is that Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati,
secretly murdered George Washington and took his place.
Illuminatus! became an underground bestseller, and while Shea seems to
have been content to sit back and enjoy the royalties, Wilson has
worked the interest it developed into a minor industry. He has brought
out a steady stream of fiction and "non-fiction" concerning the
Illuminati and related topics, noteably the Schrdinger's Cat trilogy,
"The Illuminati Papers," "Cosmic Trigger - The Final Secret of the
Illuminati," and most recently the Historical Illuminatus Series, which
is up to four books. [Peter Trei, 1994]
VI FICTION
1. What is the Illuminatus! Trilogy?
Written by Robert Joseph Shea (b. 1933, d. March 10, 1994) and Robert
Anton Wilson (b. January 18, 1932), the Illuminatus! Trilogy consists
of The Eye in the Pyramid (1975) (ISBN), The Golden Apple (October
1975) (ISBN), and Leviathan (November 1975, January 1976, November
1977, May 1979) (ISBN: 0440147425). Originally published by Dell in
1975 as three separate paperbacks, but since, long available in one
large 800+ page volume (ISBN: 0440539811). A hardcover is also
available from Fine Communicatins [sic?] (ISBN: 1567312373). It
received a Hall of Fame Award from the Libertarian Futurist Society in
1986 as a work of "classic libertarian fiction." The story involves
investigations of and initiations into various conspiratorial groups,
sex, drugs, and a dangerous rock band.
Peter Trei writes: "I've met Wilson, and my impression is that he lacks
sincerity. I don't think he actually believes in the continuing
existence of the Illuminati, but knows he's stumbled onto a gold mine.
He does seem serious about some of the psychological theories he
promotes."
A couple of other works of interest are the History of Secret Societies
by Akron Daraul, and Neil Wilgus' The Illuminoids. The first tries to
link together a number of groups, claiming that the Illuminati, the
freemasons, the Italian Carbonari, and the Spanish Alumbrados are all
linked and can be traced back to the Hashashins of the ancient middle
east. "The Illuminoids" is post-Illuminatus! and catalogs the
conspiracy theories connected to it. [Peter Trei]
Three issues of an Illuminatus! comic book covering the first book,
with one trip per issue (the trilogy consisted of five books subdivided
into ten trips, with fourteen appendices), were published by Rip Off
Press between July of 1987 and March of 1991.
Illuminatus! was also featured in the 1998 film 23: Nichts ist so wie
es scheint, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid. Wilson had a brief cameo
as himself. The official site for the film is
www.movie.de/BVI/Archiv/23/index.html See also
us.imdb.com/Title?0126765
Robert Anton Wilson's official site: www.rawilson.com/illuminatus.html
Layman's Guide to Illuminatus!: longwood.cs.ucf.edu/
2. Fnord?
In the Illuminatus! Trilogy, the authors created a word which, in the
context of the story, when placed in any medium would allow the creator
to implant subliminal messages in the the viewer's mind while leaving
the viewer unaware. The expression has become a password for fans of
the book and is often used in an ironic or sarcastic context.
3. Was the Illuminatus! Trilogy made into a play?
An eight and a half (to ten?) hour, five part (The Eye in the Pyramid,
Swift-Kick Productions, The Man Who Murdered God, Walpurgisnacht Rock
and Leviathan) stage version by Ken Campbell and Chris Langham's
Science Fiction Company of Liverpool opened "at the Liverpool Theatre
of Language, Mus, Dream and Pun on Harpomas, November 23, 1976. It was
performed in London at the National Theatre in March, 1977 (it was also
performed in Seattle in 1978, and possibly in Jerusalem as well...?).
4. Isn't there a card game?
A convulated, confusing, and often quite humourous card game, Steve
Jackson Games released Illuminati: New World Order (Limited and
Unlimited, 413 cards) in 1995. There are eight different Starter Set
box backs. There is also an Assassins set of 125 cards, and a Church of
the Sub-Genius boxed set. Steve Jackson Games: Conferences and
Newsgroups [list of relevant newsgroups for SJGames]:
www.sjgames.com/general/conferences.html Official INWO Card List -
April 18, 1995: www.sjgames.com/inwo/lists/il_html3.html Illuminati:
www.sjgames.com/illuminati/ Generic Universal RolePlaying System
(GURPS) Illuminati: www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/Illuminati/ Illuminati:
New World Order (INWO): www.sjgames.com/inwo/
5. Are there newsgroups devoted to the Illuminati games?
Yes, several newsgroups discuss the Illuminti game. -
alt.games.illuminati - alt.games.illuminaty - rec.games.board -
rec.games.trading-cards.misc - rec.games.frp - rec.games.frp.gurps
6. What movies mention the Illuminati?
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace (2001)
Christopher Walken plays Cagliostro, erroneously styled "the Grand
Master of the Illuminati". Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Adrien Brody,
Brian Cox, Joely Richardson, Christopher Walken. Directed by Charles
Shyer, written by John Sweet. Drama R 117 min., USA, English.
Technicolor.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Laura Croft's father writes in a note to
her: The world will be in great danger, with a secret society known as
the Illuminati, devious dangerous men who seek to fulfil an ancient
prophesy...." 00:32:30. Laura Croft discovers the Illuminati
headquarters in Venice. She says to Manfred: "You're with the
Illuminati." Manfred Powell replies: "I beg your parden? There's no
such thing. It's just a bed time story." 00:53:22. Directed by Simon
West Writing credits (WGA) Sara B. Cooper (story) and Mike Werb (story)
Action Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor, Daniel
Craig. 100 min. USA, English . Color (DeLuxe) , Dolby Digital.
Mention of Freemasonry in movies is more common, as are depictions of
the all-seeing-eye or the eye in a triangle. One list is at
freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/cinema.html
7. Does the Illuminati get mentioned in popular fiction?
Often. The Illuminatus! Trilogy has been dealt with elsewhere. Four
other examples will suffice:
The Crusader , Jack T. Chick. These Christian comic books attack
freemasonry, the Catholic church, communism and the new age movement.
The author did not view them to be fictional accounts although their
purported source, Alberto Rivero, has been demonstrated to be a figment
of the author's imagination. The Crusader Series. Jack T. Chick. Chick
Pubications, Chino, California: 1979. 17 vols.
DC Comics. According to the Unofficial History of the DC Universe,
[www.comicboards.com/dcguide/History/History_1_1900.htm] , in 11th
century Persia, Vandal Savage's secret organization, formed in ancient
Atlantis, takes the name "the Illuminati". Rip Hunter's cousin, Dan
Hunter, time-travels to 1770 and inadvertently aids the Illuminati in
killing George Washington and replacing him with Adam Weishaupt of
Bavaria, a look-alike. Other than noting that in Flash No. 137, Vandal
Savage is a Sumerian king in 2700 BCE, issue titles and dates are not
cited.[www.blaklion.best.vwh.net/timeline2.html]
Foucault's Pendulum , Umberto Eco. Translated from the Italian by
William Weaver. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San Diego, New
York, London:1988. ISBN: 0-15-132765-3 [Hardcover, 641 pages.]
Angels & Demons, Dan Brown. New York : Simon & Schuster : Pocket Books,
2000. A work of fiction involving a secret brotherhood known as the
Illuminatia cult of early scientists who had vowed revenge against the
Vatican for crimes against scientists like Galileo and Copernicus.
VII CONTEMPORARY CLAIMANTS
1. Does the Illuminati still exist?
Remembering that the Bavarian Illuminati's professed goals were
representative democracy, separation of church and state, and the
emancipation of womenit could be said that in the Western nations the
Illuminati won. That said, no one, of any creditablity, has claimed to
represent the Illuminati recently although there are any number of
claimants:
World League of Illuminati: Allegedly the singer and journalist Theodor
Reuss "re-activated" the Order of Illuminati in Munich in 1880. Leopold
Engel founded his World League of Illuminati in Berlin in 1893. From
these two sprung the Ordo Illuminatorum which was still active in
Germany as late as the mid-1970s. Much research has been compiled by
Peter-R. Koenig.
Die Alte Erleuchtete Seer Bayerns: Alleged by Marc Lachance to have
been founded in 1947 by employees of the Munich newspaper, Suddeutsche
Zeitung, there are unsubstantiated claims to a longer lineage. With
some 100 members claimed in Bavaria, Baden-Wurttenburg and Thuringia,
they have disavowed ritual, and keep organised structure to a minimum.
The Illuminati Order: Self-styled Grandmaster Solomon Tulbure [pseud.]
can be found online at OneWorldOrder.Org or by regular post at P.O. Box
201 Powell, TN 37849 USA. He wants your money.
Orden Illuminati: Another addition to the list of claimants to the
Illuminati tradition, this group was founded in Spain in 1995 by
Gabriel Lopez de Rojasn and can be found online at
www.ordeniluminati.com
VIII THEORIES
1. Who are the lizard people?
There are three theories about the lizard people: they are
extraterrestrials; they are inner terrestrials living within the earth;
or they are manipulating humanity from another dimension. Dr. Arthur
David Horn is convinced that humanity was seeded by extraterrestrials.
William Bramley, in Gods of Eden (Avon Books), believes they are living
inside the earth, and have created a secret society called the
Brotherhood of the Snake. Alex Christopher, in Pandora's Box, Volumes I
and II (Pandora's Box, Alabama), claims to have seen reptilian
"big-eyed Greys" and reports a deep underground reptilian-human base
beneath the Denver Airport. William Cooper, in Behold a Pale Horse
writes that the human race is controlled by extraterrestrials through
religion. David Icke accepts all these theories and claims that
reptilian shape-shifters he terms the Babylonian Brotherhood have
interbred with humans since prehistoric times in a plan for world
domination. [The Biggest Secret, The book that will change the world,
Davide Icke. Scottsdale, Arizona : Bridge of Love Publications USA,
1999hc 517p ISBN: 0 9526147 6 6.]
2. Did the Illuminati kill American President Abraham Lincoln?
Charles Chiniquy claimed that the Jesuits killed Lincoln [Fifty Years
in the Church of Rome, Charles Chiniquy. Grand Rapids : Baker Book
House, 1968, first published 1886]. Eric Jon Phelps claimed that
Jesuits directed the Illuminati to kill Lincoln. [Vatican Assassins :
"Wounded in the House of My Friends . Halycon Unified Services, 2001.]
3. Is the Illuminati intentionally causing widespread illness and
disease?
Opinions are divided as to who is responsible: the Illuminati, the
Jesuits, the Zionist Masonic Conspiracy, take your pick.
The purpose of the American Medical Association and Federal Drug
Administration is to make people chronically ill through mass
vaccinations and immunizations. [Second Opinion , Dr. William Campbell
Douglas. Atlanta : Second Opinion Publishing, 1999. vol. ix, no. 5. pp.
4-5.
Outbreaks of AIDS coincide with experimental hepatitis B vaccines.
[Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola , Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz. Rockport,
Mass. : Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 1997. p. 501]
The knowledge of the true causes of chronic disease and non-drug
remedies have been suppressed. [Diabetes Mellitus: The Secret of
Prevention and Reversal . William H. Philpott. Holmen. Wisc. : LGS
Trust, 1998. pp. 16-18, 19.] "...modern medicine's treatments for
disease ... are more dangerous than the diseases..." [Confessions of a
Medical Heretic , Dr. Robert Mendelsohn. New York : Warner Books,
1979.]
4. Who put the face on Mars?
Tex Marrs, Pat Robertson and Jack T. Chick say that the Illuminati did.
The Illuminati hasn't said. Brian Desborough is convinced that white
Martians built the pyramids on Mars and then later conquered Earth.
Richard C. Hoagland has written much on the face on Mars and an area
called Cydonia [Monuments On Mars California: North Atlantic Books,
1996].
5. Who caused the French Revolution?
Abb� Barruel and John Robinson claim the Illuminati caused the
revolution. Lyndon LaRouche blames British Freemasonry.
"The Synarchist tradition is traced to the British freemasonry around
the British East India Company's Lord Shelburne. Shelburne launched the
continuing operations against American independence and France during
the period 1763-1789, and was behind not only the July 14, 1789
storming of the Bastille, but also the Jacobin Terror and the launching
of Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to imperial power. Shelburne's tools thus
included his Adam Smith, and French figures, such as Cagliostro,
Mesmer, and Joseph de Maistre, who were assembled around an
Anglo-French freemasonic cult known then as the Martinists. The
Bavarian Illuminati were among the pipelines leading into the synthesis
of the Martinists as a force involved in the 1789-1815 developments in
France. Napoleon Bonaparte's career was crafted around the influence on
him of Joseph de Maistre." [Lyndon LaRouche on Freemasonry,
alt.conspiracy. 30 Jan 2004 11:31:26 -0500]
Barruel, Abbe [Augustin] (1741/10/02 - 1820/10/05). Memoirs
Illustrating the History of Jacobinism . Written in French, and
translated into English by the Hon. Robert Clifford, F.R.S. & A. S.
"Princes and Nations shall disappear from the face of the Earth ... and
this revolution shall be the work of secret societies." Weishaupt's
Discourse for the Mysteries. Part I. The Antichristian Conspiracy.
Second Edition, revised and corrected. London: Printed for the
Translator, by T. Burton, No. 11, Gate-fleet, Lincoln's-Inn Fields.
Sold by E. Booker, No. 56, New Bond-Street, 1798 [Entered at Stationers
Hall.].
Robison, John M. (1739-1805). Proofs of a Conspiracy Against all the
Governments of Europe, carried on in the secret meetings of Free
Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies. Collected from good
authorities , John M. Robison. A.M. Professor of Natural Philosophy,
and Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. "Nam tua res agitur
paries cum proximus ardet. Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech; --
and T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, London. 1797. Entered in
Stationers Hall. 496 pp plus 35 pp postscript to the second edition.
Taxil, Leo, [Marie-Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pages] (1854/03/21 -
1907). Revelations completes sur la Franc-maconnerie ... Le Culte du
Grand Architecte. Paris, 1886. 412 pp. ; 8o.
Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt denied the accusation. Neither
Barruel nor Robinson provided citations.
6. Who killed American president John F. Kennedy?
The freemasons, the Illuminati, the Mafia, The CIA, Castro, the
Jesuits; take your pick.
James Shelby Downard (born c. 1909) believed "the assassination of JFK
was a performance of the occult ritual called The Killing of the King",
a masonic ritual. ["King Kill 33 degrees." in Parfrey, Adam, ed.
Apocalypse Culture. New York: Amok Press, 1987.] Jack T. Chick, and his
creation Alberta Rivera, claim that the Jesuits and the freemasons
killed Kennedy. David Scheim's book Contract On America provides the
evidence showing how Mafia chiefs like Marcello worked together with
the CIA to murder JFK.
"Based on the committee's entire investigation, it concluded that the
Secret Service, FBI and CIA were not involved in the assassination. The
committee concluded that it is probable that the President was
assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. Nothing in the committee's
investigation pointed to official involvement in that conspiracy. While
the committee frankly acknowledged that its investigation was not able
to identify the members of the conspiracy besides Oswald, or the extent
of the conspiracy, the committee believed that it did not include the
Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, or Central
Intelligence Agency." [Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S.
House of Representatives, 1979. www.archives.gov/research_room/jfk]
7. Who caused the [choose conflict] war?
Tex Marrs, Pat Robertson, Jack T. Chick and many others say that the
Illuminati causes most wars. The Illuminati hasn't said.
7. Are the illuminati satanists?
Without a doubt. Jack T. Chick, Edith Starr Miller, Nesta Webster and
William G. Carr have written extensively on the subject.
Lady Queenborough, Edith Starr n�e Miller Paget, Baroness (d. 1933),
Occult Theocrasy . published posthumously. Abbeville, France:
[Imprimerie F. Paillart,], 1933. 2 vol. : front. (ports.) illus.,
facsims. (1 fold.) ; 23 cm.
Nesta Helen Webster n�e Bevan (1867-1960), Secret societies and
subversive movements .1921, reprinted 1924, Christian Book Club of
America: 1964 ISBN: 0 913022 05 5, 1966, 1970, 1980 and 1989.
William Guy Carr (1895/06/02 - 1959/10/02), Pawns in the Game . (4th
Edition, April, 1962), Los Angeles, California: St. George Press, 1962.
pb 193 pp.
9. Is the communist menace a pawn of the Illuminati?
Definitely. Although the details are contested, the basic claim is
often made. Whether the Illuminati controls Freemasonry, Communism
controls the Illuminati, the Jesuits control communism through the
Shriner Freemasons, or any variation on this theme, it is clearly a
conspiracy. [Carr, William Guy (1895/06/02 - 1959/10/02). Pawns in the
Game . (4th Edition, April, 1962), Los Angeles, California: St. George
Press, 1962. pb 193 pp.]
"...The role of the Soviet Union in the development of a new world
order involves the birth of communism. Karl Marx was hired by the
League of Just Men, a branch organization of the Illuminati, to write
the Communist Manifesto and to penetrate and subvert the labor movement
in France. In the early days of the revolution, "the revolutionaries
called themselves Spartacusts (after Adam Weishaupt's Illuminati
pseudonym) before becoming known as Bolsheviks and later as
Communists." There were other Illuminati who infiltrated the labor
movement. On the labor movement's committee charged with the
responsibility of making the movement international in scope were a
personal secretary to one of the two highest-ranking officials of the
Illuminati, a French Freemason, and the secretary of the English
Masons' Union." [anonymous contribution to the e-zine, Conspiracy
Nation: an analysis of 'En Route to Global Occupation,' by Gary H. Kah
(Lafayette, Louisiana, Huntington House Publishers, 1992).]
Rakovsky, a colleague of Leon Trotsky arrested for plotting against
Stalin, claimed in 1938 that the "true meaning of Communism is
Illuminati tyranny" but that the freemasons would have to be
liquidated. [Des Griffin, Fourth Reich of the Rich, Clackamas, Or.:
Emissary Pub., 1976. p. 254]
10. Does the Illuminati cause unemployment?
Texe Marrs, Pat Robertson and Jack T. Chick among others, say that they
do. The Illuminati hasn't said.
11. Is the Illuminati the New World Order?
Texe Marrs, Pat Robertson and Jack T. Chick among others, say that they
are. The Illuminati hasn't said. Texe Marrs writes: "What do Communism,
the Illuminati, and the Islamic terrorists who committed the recent
heinous crimes against America have in common? Plenty!" "The World
Marxist/Communist Movement was spawned from Illuminati conspiracies.
When Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and their henchmen seized control of Russia
and its republics and set up the Communist-led U.S.S.R., they were
simply following The Plan of Adam Weishaupt's Order of The Illuminati
and Albert Pike's Palladium of International Freemasonry.
12. Does the Illuminati cause pollution?
Texe Marrs, Pat Robertson and Jack T. Chick among others, say that they
do. The Illuminati hasn't said. Brian Desborough's They Cast No
Shadows: A collection of essays on the Illuminati, revisionist history
and suppressed technologies [2002; Writers Club Press/ iUniverse.com]
will tell you more.
13. Are the Knights Templar the original Illuminati?
"The Knights Templars, as it turned out, had been masters of deception,
expert in duplicity, appearing to serve Christ on the surface while
worshipping Lucifer within their inner rites." Morals and Dogma
confirmed that they "had two doctrines, one concealed and reserved for
the Masters...the other public." The Pope abolished the order. It then
went underground, trusting its dangerous secrets only to those who had
passed successfully through a series of degrees. Hundreds of years
later, they surfaced again, this time as a benevolent organization of
good works, taking over the stone mason guilds of Europe, since the
original Knights Templars had viewed themselves as grand builders and
had with their riches built many castles and estates. The stone mason
guilds were eager to make the union because they were at that time in
danger of going under due to their shrinking numbers. The transition
was successful with the public viewing it favorably as an organization
of simple good works." [anonymous contribution to the e-zine,
Conspiracy Nation: an analysis of 'En Route to Global Occupation,' by
Gary H. Kah (Lafayette, Louisiana, Huntington House Publishers, 1992).]
14. Does the Illuminati want to bring about the End Times?
Texe Marrs, Pat Robertson and Jack T. Chick among others, say that they
do. The Illuminati hasn't said.
15. Doesn't the Illuminati hide at the highest levels of Freemasonry?
Texe Marrs, Pat Robertson and Jack T. Chick among others, say that they
do. The Illuminati hasn't said. Certainly Milton William Cooper
believed this. In his Behold a Pale Horse (Light Technology Publishing:
Sedona, AZ, 1991) pp. 74-77 ], he writes:
"Researchers agree that [Adam Weishaupt] was financed by the House of
Rothschild. Weishaupt advocated "abolition of all ordered national
govern- ments, abolition of inheritance, abolition of private property,
abolition of patriotism, abolition of the individual home and family
life as the cell from which all civilizations have stemmed, and
abolition of all religions established and existing so that the
Luciferian ideology of totalitarianism may be imposed on mankind.
"In the same year that he founded the Illuminati he published 'Wealth
of Nations,' the book that provided the ideological foundation for
capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. It is no accident that the
Declaration of Independence was written in the same year. On the
obverse of the Great Seal of the United States the wise will recognize
the all-seeing eye and other signs of the Brotherhood of the Snake."
"...Most members of the Freemasons are not aware that the Illuminati
practices what is known as 'secrets within secrets,' or organizations
within organizations. That is one purpose of initiation. ... Only those
at the top who have passed every test truly know what the Masons are
hiding, thus rendering it impossible for anyone outside to know much at
all about the group. The Freemasons, like everyone else, are
responsible for the clean- liness of their home. The occupant of a
secret house within a secret house within a secret house cannot clean
if he cannot see the number of rooms or what they contain. Their house
is a stinking cesspool. Look to the Masons for the guilty party if
anything happens to me."
Cooper was killed while resisting arrest on November 6, 2001. See
anti-masonry.info/cooper_m.html for a short biography.
"Karl Marx was hired by a mysterious group who called themselves the
League of Just Men to write the 'Communist Manifesto' as demagogic
boob-bait to appeal to the mob. In actual fact the 'Communist
Manifesto' was in circulation for many years before Marx's name was
widely enough recognized to establish his authorship for this
revolutionary handbook. All Karl Marx really did was to update and
codify the very same revolutionary plans set down seventy years earlier
by Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Order of the Illuminati in
Bavaria. And it is widely acknowledged by serious scholars of this
subject that the League of Just Men was simply an extension of the
Illuminati which was forced to go deep underground after it was exposed
in 1786 by a raid conducted by the Bavarian authorities." [Call it
Conspiracy , Larry Abraham. (Double A Publications: Seattle,
Washington, 1985) p. 41.]
16. Is the Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale University an Illuminati
front?
Antony Sutton (1925-2002/06/17) said so. Neither Skull and Bones nor
the Illuminati have said. [America's Secret Establishment, An
Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones, Antony C. Sutton.
Billings, Montana: Liberty Press, 1986.]
17. Is the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) an Illuminati
front?
From Operation Sunrise, through Operation Blowback and Operation
Paperclip, to the present Project Monarch, claims are made that the CIA
has been furthering the Illuminati agenda, possibly the Jesuit agenda,
maybe a communist agenda, and quite probably the Shriner Freemasons are
either behind it all or simply foot soldiers. No one is talking. [Fritz
Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler, The Illuminat Formula Used to create an
undetectable total mind controlled slave . Clackamas, Oregon :
Springmeier, 1996]
18. Does the Illuminati control the Vatican?
According to Eric Jon Phelps, it's the other way around and the whole
conspiracy is controlled by the Jesuits. [Vatican Assassins, 2001]
19. Is the Illuminati behind HAARP, high altitute Chem Trails,
international banking, mind control experiments and black helicopters?
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is either a
research project for communicating with submerged submarines or an
attempt to control the weather. Chem Trails is anyone's guess. Nobody
controls international bankers. J. Jaynes' book, The Origin of
Consciousness in the Breakdown Of the Bicameral Mind, [Boulder City
Nevada : I&O Publishing] explains how for thousands of years, the
masses have been hypnotized into not thinking for themselves by
Illuminati-like leaders who use mysticism, religion, music and
propaganda to accomplish this. Jim Keith, author of Black Helicopters
Over America, Illuminet Press can tell you about the helicopters. Any
other questions?
20. If they don't exist, why do we keep hearing about the Illuminati?
Film makers, authors, talk-show hosts, entertainers, they all cater to
their market. Whether its Wide World accusing other rappers of
belonging to a homosexual secret society called "The Masons" that's
plotting to destroy rap or it's Mel Gibson claiming George Bush is a
33� freemason, it's all designed to promote sales. Or it's a
disinformation programme to distract the public while the Illuminati
takes over. Take your pick. Do some real research. Make up your own
mind. Fnord.
