-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Scarlet and the Beast - A History of the War Between English and French Freemasonry John Daniel (C)1994 John Kregel, Inc. P. O. box 131480 Tyler, Texas 75713 ISBN 0-9635079-0-7 ----- can be purchased from: Global insights 675 Fairview Dr. #246 Carson City, NV 89701 702-885-0700 800-729-4131(orders only) ----- The author most definitly has his worldview, but it does present some interesting material. Where are the Jesuits and others, while all this is going on? The Author also gives the devil more credit than he is due,IMHO and some of the connections are ...; but all in all it is interesting. As, always, Caveat leactor Om K ----- The blueprint to destroy the Church through this means was drawn up over two hundred years ago by Adam Weishaupt, who has been called 'The Human Devil." Whether Weishaupt received it from Voltaire or Frederick the Great is not known. Nesta Webster suggests some connection when she notes that "The resemblances between Weishaupt's correspondence and that of Voltaire and of Frederick the Great are certainly very striking."(87) You recall that from 1750-1755 Voltaire was a guest at Frederick's court.(88) Monsignor Dillon wrote of that visit: [Voltaire] sketched out for them the whole mode of procedure against the Church. His policy as revealed by the correspondence of Frederick II, and others with him, was not to commence an immediate persecution, but first to suppress the Jesuits and all Religious orders, and to secularize their goods; then to deprive the Pope of temporal authority, and the Church of property and state recognition. Primary and higher-class education of a lay and Infidel [sicl character was to be established, body of the Church should be sufficiently weakened and Infidelity [sic] strong enough, the final blow was to be dealt by the sword of open, relentless persecution. A reign of terror was to spread over the whole earth, and to continue while a Christian should be found obstinate enough to adhere to Christianity. This, of course, was to be followed by a Universal Brotherhood without marriage, family property God, or law....(89) Weishaupt took up the cause of Voltaire, providing the vehicle by which the plan would be carried to future generations. When Weishaupt penetrated Freemasonry with illuminism, the Lodge took up the cause, citing Voltaire as a patron. Miller explains in Occult Theocracy that after the 1789-1793 destruction of old France, and subsequent to the reign- of Napoleon, Grand Orient Freemasonry's aim was the same as Voltaire's. From the minutes of the Italian Masonic Lodge, Permanent Instructions, or Practical Code of Rules; Guide for the Heads of the Highest Grades of Masonry, Miller quotes: "'Our final aim is that of Voltaire and of the French Revolution, -- the complete annihilation of Catholicism, and ultimately of Christianity.... Under this cloak [of Freemasonry, we may conspire at our convenience, and arrive, little by little, at our ultimate aim."(90) The Masonic Lodge ever since has been bent on the destruction of our families, our churches, our nation, our world, and our God. Freemasonry's ultimate aim is a one-world humanistic government without Christ and His Church. Obviously, the Masonic Lodge is still carrying out Voltaire's plan. Freemason Voltaire, born flfty-four years before Weishaupt, had laid the groundwork for insurrection. Weishaupt advanced it. Perceiving an eminent revolution in France, which had long been agitating French Masons, Weishaupt saw and took his chance to impose the doctrines of the Illuminati on the existing French Grand Lodge. This gave him a platform from which to operate. Realizing the Grand Lodge had to be separated from English Masonic obedience before it would initiate and fully support a revolution against the monarchy, Weishaupt used the illuminated Grand Orient Masons to subvert the Grand Lodge.(91) Author and 18th century English Freemason John Robison in Proofs of a Conspiracy (1798) quotes a letter from Weishaupt to his Illuminatus brother Cato, wherein he states his use of Masonry to another end: "'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."'(92) Having achieved this goal, Weishaupt's next step was twofold: 1)through revolution win freedom for the subjects of what he regarded as despotic kings and Church; and 2) after revolution inaugurate an ostensibly atheistic government under the guise of democracy. Commander Guy Carr in The Conspiracy writes that 'Weishaupt never intended that any except specially selected Masons, from the Higher Degrees, should learn The Full Secret' of Lucifer. Only those known to have defected completely from Almighty God were initiated into the Higher Degrees of the Grand Orient Lodges and told that the Illuminati were a secret organization with the order dedicated to the cause of forming a One World Government.... Weishaupt stated this action would ensure permanent peace and prosperity. Only initiates into the final degree were permitted to know...."(93) It should come as no surprise that the anti-religious Weishaupt opposed the tolerance given Catholicism and the protection granted Protestantism in the English Glorious Revolution. Robison quotes Weishaupt that the revolution he was planning would be "'The means to regain Reason her rights -- to raise liberty from its ashes -- to restore to man his original rights -- to produce the previous revolution in the mind of man -- to obtain an eternal victory over oppressors -- to work the redemption of mankind...."(94) Each of these phrases in order reveals Weishaupt's intent. "Reason" would take the place of Faith. "Liberty" means self-rule, apart from God's dictates. Man's "original rights" according to Weishaupt had begun in the "previous revolution" -- the Luciferian rebellion, followed by Adam's rebellion at Eden. The "eternal victory over oppressors" means the overthrow of kings and Church. And finally, man would not need the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Weishaupt's illuminated system would allow "the redemption of mankind," first politically and second spiritually, without any intervention from God. Unlike the English, whose Masonic revolution initially protected free enterprise, as well as Crown and Church, Weishaupt's plan was to eliminate thrones and religions altogether. Commerce, he concluded, would be controlled by government. His system foreshadowed communism. This is revealed by what Weishaupt's initiates had learned, as they reached the second of three degrees, called Minerval, about the ultimate aims of the Illuminati: " 1) Abolition of all ordered government; 2) Abolition of private property; 3) Abolition of inheritance; 4) Abolition of patriotism; 5) Abolition of all religion; 6) Abolition of the family [via abolition of marriage]; and 7) Creation of a World Government."(95) Current political regimes were hardly indifferent to the revolutionary goals of Weishaupt and his Illuminati. In early 1785 the Illuminati was exposed by the Bavarian government and suppressed. Mackey's Enyclopedia of Freemasonry reports that 'The Edicts of the Elector of Bavaria 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." Mackey of course denies any profound or long-term co-option of Masonry by Illuminism. He continues, "Adopting Freemasonry only as a means for its own more successful propagation, and using it only as incidental to its own organization, it exercised while in prosperity no favorable influence on the Masonic Institution, nor any unfavorable effect on it by its dissolution."(96) Mackey would have us believe that the covert penetration of Luciferian globalism into the ranks of Freemasonry disappeared upon the exposure and subsequent suppression of the Illuminati Such is not the case, however, for the Illuminati infection remains, and its goal of globalism is ongoing in Masonic lodges today. One example is provided by the August 16, 1928, issue of the Patriot, a British periodical, which quotes the Orator of the 1922 French Grand Lodge convention: "'My brother Masons, my hope is that Freemasonry, which has done so much for the emancipation of men, and to which history owes the national revolutions, will also know how to make that greatest revolution, which will be the International Revolution."(97) This statement lauding the forthcoming "International Revolution" followed the founding the League of Nations. The Orator's speech confirms in our century not just the survival but the flourishing of the poison of Weishaupt's globalism, with which the Illuminati injected Freemasonry 140 years earlier. Templars and the French Revolution Weishaupt desired that the revolution of 1789 produce pure democracy, much as it was in Israel during the time of the Judges when each Israelite did "that which was right in his own eyes" (Judges 17:6; 21:25). The consequence of this kind of rule, however, leads to anarchy. Such was the case after the French Revolution. History records it as the "Reign of Terror" perpetrated by the Jacobin Clubs. As we shall learn, however, the Jacobins were all Templar Masons. The name "Jacobin," as we know, recalls Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, who was avenged by the French Revolution. If the Knights Templar, and not the Priory of Sion, was the Order that perfected the French Revolution, then somehow, sometime between Weishaupt's plan and the commencement of the French Revolution, control of the conspiracy transferred from the Priory of Sion to the Knights Templar. This conclusion was confirmed by Abbe Augustin Barruel in 1799, one year following the publication of Robison's exposure of the Illuminati. During the 1773 suppression of the Jesuits, Barruel, a French patriot and a Jesuit, had joined Freemasonry, rising to the rank of Master Mason (3rd degree). After seeing the devastation caused by the French Revolution, knowing it to be Masonic, he renounced Freemasonry and wrote his Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism. In them he documented that the Jacobin Clubs were Templar Masonic fronts.(98) Abbe Barruel, a French clergyman, and John Robison, a professor in Scotland, were two men unknown to each other. They were members of opposing Masonic Orders and wrote in different countries and languages. They both covered the same subject matter and came to the same conclusions -- that a conspiracy lay behind the French Revolution. Robison claimed that the Illuminati controlled the conspiracy, while Barruel maintained the Templars were in command.(99) Weishaupt and Knigge Robison wrote that Weishaupt's strategy was to "'unite, by way of one common higher interest and by a lasting bond, men from all parts of the globe, from all social classes and from all religions, despite the diversity of their opinions and passions, to make them love this common interest and bond to the point where, together or alone, they act as one individual."(100) Nesta Webster has suggested that until Weishaupt came on the scene, Freemasonry on the Continent was at "sea with regard to the whole subject of Masonry and needed someone to give a point [purpose] to their deliberations." (101) In other words, the philosophers in French Masonic Lodges knew how to incite revolution in the minds of the populace but could not bring it to political reality. In their search for a purpose for deliberation, three universal Masonic Congresses were held. They first met at Wilhelmsbad in 1782. Dr. Dillon writes that "deputies from every country where Freemasonry existed were summoned to meet at Wilhelmsbad in council. They came from every portion of the British Empire; from the newly formed United States of America; from all the nations of Continental Europe, every one of which, at that period, had lodges; from the territories of the Grand Turk; and from the Indian and Colonial possessions of France, Spain, Portugal, and Holland. The principal and most numerous representatives were, however, from Germany and France."(102) Although Weishaupt was not present at Wilhelmsbad, he sent his assistant, Baron Adolph von Knigge. Knigge. a staunch member of the Knights Templar, was a first-class organizer who had been travelling about Germany proclaiming himself the reformer of Freemasonry. Webster reports that he "presented himself at Wilhelmsbad, armed with full authority from Weishaupt, and succeeded in enrolling a number of magistrates, savants, ecclesiastics, and ministers of state as Illuminati and in allying himself with the deputies of Saint-Martin and Willermoz."(103) Weishaupt, not yet willing to introduce his plan on how to initiate political revolution, waited patiently. Although the first conference met with failure, Weishaupt met with success, for Knigge had increased the membership in the Illuminati. With these initiates Weishaupt continued his subversion of Freemasonry while Knigge remained his spokesman. Two years later the French Grand Lodge Masons were still in the dark as to their institutional mission. Turning to London for the answer, since Masonry originated in England, they wrote a letter to General Rainsford, one of the British Masons who had attended the Congress of Wilhelmsbad. Webster recounts the letter, which in part reads, Since you say that Masonry has never experienced any variation in its aim, do you then know with certainty what this unique object is? Is it useful for the happiness of mankind? Tell us if it is of an historical, political, hermetical, or scientific nature? Moral, social, or religious? Are the traditions oral or written?(104) London knew, but remained silent. Weishaupt knew, but was not ready to tell. Unknown to the Priory of Sion, Weishaupt was planning a coup. Nesta Webster notes that he had a very definite object in view -- to gain personal control of all Freemasonry.(105) Weishaupt would need Knigge for a while longer, but the Baron soon became an obstacle. The second Masonic congress convened on February 15, 1785, this time in Paris. Webster reports that many of the Illuminati membership were there: "...Bode (alias Amlius) and the Baron de Busche (alias Bayard) were present, also...the 'magician' Cagliostro, the magnetiser Mesmer, the Cabalist Duchanteau, and of course the leaders of the Philalethes, Savalette de Langes, who was elected President, the Marquis de Chefdebien, and a number of German members of the same Order."(106) This congress failed due to a rift which had developed between Weishaupt and Knigge. According to Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry nine years before Baron Knigge met Weishaupt, he had been initiated in the Templar Lodge of Strict Observance at Cassel on January 20, 1772, the same Lodge Sionist Cagliostro joined. In 1780 Knigge was initiated an Illuminatus by Marquis de Costanzo, one of Weishaupt's many disciples. Knigge began a correspondence with Weishaupt under the code name Philo, eventually receiving orders to recruit the best of the Strict Observance for the Illuminati. Realizing Knigge's superior talent, Weishaupt asked him to join him in Bavaria to assist in constructing the advanced degrees for the Illuminati Rite, which had only at that time three degrees. Weishaupt intended for the advanced degrees to penetrate Scottish Rite Masonry in France, turning the French Templars into revolutionaries. Mackey informs us that "Knigge accordingly repaired to Bavaria in 1781, and when he met Weishaupt, the latter consented that Knigge should elaborate the whole system up to the highest mysteries. This task Knigge accomplished, and entered into correspondence with the Lodges, exerting all his talents, which were of no mean order, for the advancement of the Rite. He brought to its aid the invaluable labors of Bode, whom he prevailed upon to receive the Degrees."(107) Mackey states that when Knigge discovered the Illuminati was not of ancient origin he was at first disillusioned with Weishaupt. Yet, considering Weishaupt a brilliant man, the Baron willingly took the challenge to advance the Illuminati degrees. When reading the account on Knigge in Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, one is left with the distinct impression that the Baron had personal objectives -- that he was using Weishaupt for his own advancement, or maybe the advancement of the Templars. A confrontation between Knigge and Weishaupt did develop at the second Masonic congress at Paris on February 15, 1785. It began when Weishaupt decided to make his move against Knigge. According to Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Weishaupt began to interfere with Knigge's work and "made many alterations and additions, which he imperiously ordered the Provincial Directors to insert in the ritual. Knigge, becoming disgusted with this proceeding, withdrew from the Order and became a savage Anti-Mason."(108) Consequently, the Congress failed and Weishaupt gained an enemy. Based upon subsequent events, Knigge's "savage anti-Masonry" may have been only a smoke screen. Two weeks after Knigge resigned from the Illuminati, the Elector of Bavaria had in his possession incriminating information about the Illuminati and set out to suppress the Order. Mackey suggests that the Jesuits informed the Elector, but that could not have been possible for two reasons: 1) the Jesuits had been put out of commission twelve years earlier; and 2) they were not privy to Illuminati documents, since Weishaupt had made certain of that. The informant had to be someone high in the Illuminati command, someone close to Weishaupt, someone who had access to all the Illuminati documents. It could only have been Baron Adolph von Knigge, the man who had been thwarted by Weishaupt. On March 2, 1785, the Elector suppressed the Illuminati. Not until July 10, 1785, did the most damaging evidence reach the Elector. Supposedly, a low- grade Illuminati initiate, a travelling evangelist named Jacob Lang (or Lanze), had been sent as an emissary of the Illuminati-to Silesia. He allegedly was struck and killed by lightning at Ratisbon. Edith Miller states that Weishaupt was with him.(109) Nesta Webster says Lang had been sent by Weishaupt and travelled alone.(110) Myron Fagan says the lightning strike was an act of God. (111) Evidence suggests that Lang was not killed by lightning at all, but murdered, and his body positioned for discovery. For example, Lang was loaded down with incriminating Illuminati papers, papers which no Illuminatus should have been carrying. The circumstances seem strangely suspicious -- almost as if the documents had been planted for discovery. Sewn in Lang's clothes were instructions of the Order and an extensive list of the Illuminati membership. Searches followed in the houses of the named individuals. More incriminating evidence revealed their entire plan, heretofore mentioned, including Weishaupt's coded communications. All was confiscated, the Illuminati banned, and the documents published in their entirety. Weishaupt, wily and thoroughly sagacious, had years before prepared for the day of governmental suppression. He had written to his Illuminatus brother, Cato, "'I have considered every thing, and so prepared it, that if the Order should this day go to ruin, I shall in a year re-establish it more brilliant than ever."(112) Weishaupt, however, would not head the reincarnation of Illuminism. Baron von Knigge, the third man in command of the Illuminati, was aware of Weishaupt's communication. Within two and a half years of the Bavarian suppression the Illuminati did reappear, not under its original name, and not under the guidance of Sionist Weishaupt, but under Templar Baron von Knigge. Edith Miller writes that "In 1788, after the suppression of Illuminism in Bavaria...Knigge attempted to revive it in the German Union," a book publishing company founded by illuminated Freemason Karl Freiderich Bahrdt to enlighten mankind.(113) Weishaupt, the Jew, was used, then discarded by the Gentile Masonic conspiracy, and finally exiled to Gotha, Germany. Baron Adolph von Knigge went unscathed and was found to be the new leader of the Illuminati -- the Illuminati under another name, of course. (114) The Third Congress In 1786 the third and final congress was scheduled in secret at Frankfurt, where a Continental Grand Lodge had been established in 1783. By then Grand Orient Illuminism had saturated the French Grand Lodge. In control were the Templar Jacobins. Weishaupt had no part in this final congress. Yet, his Machiavellian proposals suggested in Paris a year earlier were adopted, that in sum embodied the dictum that "In politics the end justifies the means." Msgr. Dillon reports that Illuminated Freemasonry received from the delegates the approval that the ultimate end of Freemasonry and all secret plotting would be: "1) pantheism for the higher degrees, atheism for the lower degrees and the populace; 2) communism of goods, women, and general concerns; 3) the destruction of the Church, and all forms of Christianity, and the removal of all existing human governments to make way for a universal republic in which the utopian ideas of complete liberty from existing social, moral, and religious restraint, absolute equality, and social fraternity, should reign. When these ends should be attained, but not till then, the secret work of the atheistic Freemasons should cease."(115) >From that time forward the direction of French Freemasonry has been subversion, insurrection, and assassination to accomplish political ends. Nesta Webster states that at the third congress "the deaths of Louis XVI and Gustavus III of Sweden are said to have been decreed." (116) And Msgr. Dillon reports that one of the representatives to this secret conclave was Count de Virene, who was so overcome with horror at the depravity of the body, that he abandoned Illuminism and became a fervent Catholic. This repentant Illuminist wrote to a friend, "'I will not tell you the secrets which I bring, but I can say that a conspiracy is laid so secret and so deep that it will be very difficult for monarchy and religion not to succumb to it."(117) The French Revolution went off as scheduled, precipitated by the first event staged in 1785 which was the famous "Affair of the Necklace." This Masonic ruse was an attempt to discredit both the Church and the Monarchy by fraudulently exposing the licentiousness of a Catholic priest with Queen Marie-Antoinette. (118) Years later Napoleon would say that in his opinion this plot contributed more than any other to cause the explosion of 1789. In Nesta Webster's opinion, "In its double attack on Church and Monarchy the Affair of the Necklace fulfilled the purpose of both Frederick the Great and of the Illuminati."(119) Nesta Webster states that Cagliostro received both money and instruction from a secret society to carry out the plot, after which, in November 1785, he sailed to England. As his activities in London reveal, he reported his success to the British Rosicrucians. Webster notes the use of the Rosicrucian cipher attached to a mysterious notice, appearing in a London newspaper on November 2, 1786: "According to a generally received opinion, Cagliostro was the author of a mysterious proclamation which appeared at this moment in the Morning Herald in the cypher of the Rose-Croix."(120) No conspiracy author has been able to decipher this "mysterious proclamation" made in Rose-Croix hieroglyphics. We know, however, that Cagliostro was a member of a Rosicrucian Order. We know that he received funds from wealthy Englishmen (possibly Rosicrucians) to finance the overthrow of the French throne. And we know that he was the acting Grand Master of the Priory of Sion.(121)Therefore, the "mysterious proclamation" was most likely directed to the Hierarchy of the Priory of Sion, informing them that Cagliostro's mission had been accomplished. Cagliostro, not Weishaupt, was the real power behind the Illuminati. When Weishaupt's desire for power became insatiable Cagliostro replaced him with Baron Adolph von Knigge. Knigge then hid the activity of the Illuminati in the German Union. Chapter 10 MASONIC CONTROL OF THE MEDIA When we by degrees bring the whole trade of bookselling into our hands (as the good writers will bring all their performances into the market through our means) we shall bring it about, that at last the writers who labour in the cause of superstition [Christianity] and restraint [morality], will have neither a publisher nor readers.(1) The German Union, 1788 When the Illuminati was suppressed in 1785, Mackey says that there were over 2,000 Freemasons upon its rosters, "among whom were some of the most distinguished men [with Lodges] to be found in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and Italy."(2) Following the suppression the name of the Illuminati disappeared, giving Freemasonry in years to come the face-saving opportunity to disassociate itself from the stigma it had appropriated. At first the Craft denied Illuminism had any lasting effect on the Lodge. Thus argues Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: ... the Order began to decline, so that by the end of the eighteenth century it had ceased to exist. Adopting Freemasonry only as a means for its own more successful propagation, and using it only as incidental to its own organization, it exercised while in prosperity no favorable influence on the Masonic Institution, nor any unfavorable effect on it by its dissolution.(3) Mackey was spreading Masonic disinformation, for other researchers have found that the doctrine of the Illuminati has stayed with Freemasonry to this day. One doubts that its influence, which was so profound and widespread, would disappear without a trace. Edith Miller quotes Thomas Frost from his Secret Societies of the European Resolution, on the depth of absorption of Illuminism by Masonry: "'The whole of the Masonic lodges comprised in the Grand Orient, 266 in number, were illuminated by the end of March 1789 and there is no doubt that, with the ground so well prepared...the system spread with rapidity."(4) Mackey's denial was for Masonic consumption. Mackey was writing three decades prior to World War I, when a rash of conspiracy books were causing a sensation in Europe. Again, in the 1920s another deluge of revisionist history flooded the old world, accusing the Illuminati of being the force behind The Great War. Ten years later conspiracy researchers had gathered enough evidence to expose the Bolshevik Revolution as being backed by the illuminated Grand Orient. With so much exposure, the Beast began to weaken. When World War II arrived, the Brotherhood was in shambles. According to Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, by the end of World War II, Continental Freemasonry had been obliterated by the Nazis.(5) After World War II the Brotherhood decided to take another look at the Illuminati. In 1946, 33rd degree Mason H.L. Haywood, with help from Research Lodges around the world, completed a Supplement to Mackey's two-volume Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Volume III reversed Mackey's earlier denial of Illuminist influence stating that The Order of Illuminati was the greatest single misfortune ever to befall European Freemasonry because it became at once the pattern and the point of departure for a succession of secret, underground, political conspiracies which...divided Masonry and brought disgrace upon its name.(6) While Haywood admits Weishaupt changed the direction of the Continental Brotherhood, he dates the division between English and French Freemasonry from the entrance of the Illuminati. Yet we have already discovered that the conflict between Scarlet and the Beast began long before Weishaupt's arrival. The French Revolution, with its republican ideals, widened the rift with English Masonry and the suppression of the Illuminati only buried the intrigue deeper. The conspiracy of the Illuminati did, in fact, continue. The name, however, as we have seen, changed. Did Mackey not know this? Mackey called Professor Robison, the highly respected English Mason who first exposed the Illuminati worldwide, a liar. (7) Mackey also failed in his Encyclopedia to reference three significant Illuminati symbols adopted by Freemasonry: 1) the rectangle -- representing the Lodge; 2) the All-Seeing Eye -- representing the Great Architect of the Universe: and 3) the point within a circle, another form of the eye. Every initiate learns early in his Masonic training that mystical symbolism is the primary agent by which Masonic truth is taught. These three symbols were adopted by Freemasonry from the Illuminati after the French Revolution.(8) Dr. Mackey was correct in one respect. The "Illuminati" by name did cease. So did Weishaupt's personal involvement. Most conspiracy researchers, however, believe Weishaupt advanced the intrigue until his death in 1830, a date disputed by Mackey, who says Weishaupt died in 1811.9 Yet, Mackey's contemporary, 33rd degree Mason Robert Ingham Clegg, in his seven volume History of Freemasonry, agrees with the 1830 date.(10) It seems reasonable to believe Mackey was involved in a cover-up. Media Control Long before Weishaupt was exiled from Bavaria, he communicated his plan to Cato should suppression of the Illuminati occur: ...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 [first]; 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 labours, 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.(11) Baron Adolph von Knigge, and not Weishaupt, concealed the Illuminati in a network of pre-existing reading societies throughout Germany and France.(12) Illuminism, perpetuated by Knigge in the German Union (a book publishing company founded by Freemasonry to enlighten mankind, see note 1), controlled the reading societies, some of which were portable, and through which the conspirators turned the minds of the populace toward revolution. In short, 2,000 distinguished Freemasons, once following orders from Sionist Weishaupt, were ostensibly following the same program under the leadership of Templar Knigge. Knigge, with a legion of Masons at his command, monopolized the writing, reviewing, publication, and distribution of most literature in both countries. The German Union enjoyed only one year of success under Knigge's administration before exposure. Goschen (no first name given), a bookseller from Leipzig, unmasked the Union as Illuminati. This exposure occurred too late, however, for there was no reversing the mind-set that promoted the French Revolution. Professor Robison, in Proofs of a Conspiracy, gives no further information about the bookseller Goschen except that he published with "all speed" the information he found on the German Union, "on account of the many mischiefs which this Society might do to the world, and to the trade, if allowed to go on working in secret."(13) Goschen's publication was sarcastically entitled More Notes than Text, on the German Union of XXI, a new Secret Society for the Good of Mankind (Leipzig, 1789). He wrote the following foreboding statement before reprinting a portion of the notes. (Be aware that the German Union is equating superstition, restraint and fanaticism with Christianity and morality; instruction and enlightenment with revolutionary reason and progress.) And now, every eye can perceive the progressive moral influence which the Union will acquire on the nation. Let us only conceive what superstition will lose, and what instruction must gain by this; when, 1. In every Reading Society the books are selected by our Fraternity. 2. We have confidential persons 12,000 distinguished Masons] in every quarter, who will make it their serious concern to spread such performances as promote the enlightening of mankind, and to introduce them even into every cottage. 3. We have the loud voice of the public on our side, and since we are able, either to scout into the shade all the fanatical writings which appear in the reviews that are commonly read, or to warn the public against them; and, on the other hand, to bring into notice and recommend those performances alone which give light to the human mind. 4. We by degrees bring the whole trade of bookselling into our hands (as the good writers will bring all their performances into the market through our means) we shall bring it about, that at last the writers who labour in the cause of superstition and restraint, will have neither a publisher nor readers. 5. Lastly, by the spreading of our Fraternity, all good hearts and sensible men will adhere to us, and by our means will be put in a condition that enables them to work in silence upon all courts, families, and individuals in every quarter, and acquire an influence in the appointment of court-officers, stewards, secretaries, parish-priests, public teachers, and private tutors.(14) Weishaupt had once told Knigge, "'If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decay him."(15) A century later the Conspirators were still in control of the press, evidenced by a statement made in the Supreme Council of Cagliostro's illuminated Rosicrucian Masonic Lodge of Mizraim in Paris, France. The Pronouncement sounded as if Weishaupt himself had penned the words: We shall have a sure triumph over our opponents since they will not have at their disposition organs of the press in which they can give full and final expression to their views.... We shall not even need to refute them except very superficially. ...if there should be any found who are desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person eager to print their productions.(16) This control of the media has persisted into our times. Vicomte Leon de Poncins gives an example of media control in the 20th century. His book The Secret Powers Behind Revolution contains an address by,journalist John Swinton to a 1920 press banquet in New York. A portion follows: An independent Press does not exist in America except perhaps in small country towns; journalists know it and I know it; not one of them dares to express a sincere opinion: if they do so, they know beforehand that it will never be printed. I am paid 150 dollars in order that I should not put my ideas in the newspaper for which I write and that I should keep them to myself. Others are paid similar salaries for a similar service. If I succeeded in having my opinions published in a single issue of my newspaper, I should lose my post in twenty-four hours. The man who would be insane enough to give frank expression to his thoughts would soon find himself in the streets on the look-out for another occupation. It is the duty of New York journalists to lie, to threaten, to bow down to the feet of Mammon, and to sell their country...for their salary.... We are the tools and the vassals of the rich who keep in the background; we are puppets; they pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talent, our life, our abilities, all are the property of these men. We are intellectual prostitutes.(17) By the turn of the 20th century, Freemasonry had gained influence over, if not control of, a major portion of the world press. Fifty years before Swinton's speech, the Masonic Supreme Council of Mizraim confirmed: "Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them."(18) Many examples of Masonic media control are presented by Miller in Occult Theocrasy. In one instance at the turn of the 20th century, Miller reports that the hierarchy in English and French Masonry attempted to unite under a sub-secret Lodge called the "Ordo Templi Orientis" (O.T.O.), which Miller calls the Illuminati's "interlocking directorate." In the 1890s illuminated Freemasonry had correspondent Theodore Reuss on the scene in Germany to report on the political events which ultimately led up to World War I. Reuss was both a 33rd degree Rosicrucian English Mason, as well as a 33rd degree Templar Grand Orient Mason. Miller states that in 1902 Reuss cofounded (with Karl Kellner) the O.T.O. and appointed 33rd degree English Freemason William Wynn Westcott "as Regent of the Illuminati in England, thus establishing the interlocking directorate" between English and French Masonry.(19) In reality, Reuss was a double agent for British intelligence, contracting with Central News, London; Daily Chronicle, London; Central Press, London; and United Press, New York. He wrote for many non-English publications as well. Reuss was held in high esteem by members of his profession and government and military officials. The following quotes which praise Theodore Reuss are from letters hand written, photocopied and reproduced in Miller's book.(20) The Central Press, January 16, 1892, wrote, "I must confess that you exercise marvellous ingenuity in collecting a great variety of interesting facts which few others seem to give." The United Press, February 27, 1894, noted, "he has done in my opinion some very excellent work for us. On several occasions he has beaten the world with his news, and has sent us matter which the German dailies copied three weeks later from our report. If we should lose him I doubt that he could be replaced." On November 1, 1896, the Captain and Military attache in the Berlin embassy of the United States, sent Reuss a letter of thanks. "I have learned several things from you which escaped my notice in the field. Your remarks on the Cavalry, the Bicycle Detachment and the Commissariat Department I have made use of in my report." How was Reuss able to beat all other news gatherers by three weeks? Miller gives the answer by reproducing 28 pages of correspondence between Reuss and another English Freemason, 33rd degree member John Yarker. Like Reuss, Yarker was in British intelligence and was also a close associate of William Wynn Westcott, a Mason whom Reuss appointed head of the English chapter of the Illuminati. Yarker provided Reuss with advance information. Masonic operatives disguised as newsmen were everywhere preparing 33rd degree Supreme Council-influenced news stories, which in turn were edited and distributed to other Masonic correspondents for publication in newspapers around the world. In 1922 the Templar Grand Orient Lodge at Paris confirms this tactic carried out by Masonic correspondents. De Poncins quotes the Grand Orient's Supreme Council minutes: "'Written propaganda, coupled with the personal influence of Brethren belonging to the Press, should be increased by oral propaganda In the form of white [reactionary] meetings and conferences...so that the [Supreme] Council may send them whatever communication they think fit."(21) Paul Fisher, in Behind the Lodge Door, quotes historian Mildred Headings on Masonic influence of the media in those days: "'Masons influenced at least 47 periodicals throughout France, off and on, during the late l9th and early 20th Centuries."(22) During the Second Empire and reign of Napoleon III, the Sionist Masonic Supreme Council of Mizraim at Paris reported in its convention minute that All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions --aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical --for so long, of course, as the constitution exists.... Like the Indian idol Vishnu they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgement and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will in fact follow the flag which we hang out for them.(23) An interesting phrase at the beginning of this passage is in the statement that Masonry would control the press "for so long, of course, as the constitution exists." History, of course, reveals the French as notoriously lacking confidence in their governments. In its first revolution, French Masonry killed most of its men capable of governing. After World War I, when Europe's kings were cast down, Sionist Freemasonry had once again lost control in France. In 1922, some 50 years into the Third Republic, the Templar Grand Orient Lodge was encouraging its control of the press once again. De Poncins quotes the Supreme Council minutes of that year: "The Convent [convention] asks the Council to draw the attention of the lodges to the experiment of the lodges in Lower Normandy, which have set up a weekly paper entirely edited by Masons, and to call upon the lodges to follow this example, following different local circumstances, and set up papers throughout the whole of France produced entirely under our control."(24) Meanwhile, the Grand Orient intended to propagandize the public by using the existing press. De Poncins quotes from the 1922 Grand Orient Supreme Council minutes: "Circular No.5 concerns propaganda through the Press, and asks lodges to bring to our attention the names of papers likely to publish reports of the Grand Orient, and information on their regularity, their clientele, the quantity of their circulation, and their political sympathies...so that the Council may send them whatever communication they think fit...and to enquire among the republican Press upon whose support Freemasonry could rely if necessary.... Our largest financial support must be reserved for the Press which is republican in outlook."(25) >From the Second Empire until after World War II, the on-going French Masonic revolution has been a roller coaster, changing from Sionist administrations to Templar, and back again. French citizens were carried through two Empires and five Republics, totalling seven constitutions. With each change the secret society in power would start anew, which meant initiating again the long process of monopolizing the press. The same propaganda tactics have been used by American Freemasonry. Paul Fisher confirms in Behind the Lodge Door that "In the United States, in 1920, the Scottish Rite established a news service for 'furnishing accurate and gratuitous information to newspapers."(26) That a Masonic news service manipulates public opinion in the direction desired by Freemasonry is confirmed in the Scottish Rite's New Age magazine, October, 1924, in the same article that documented Freemasonry's involvement in compulsory education. We now quote from the article the same paragraph used in the previous chapter -- this time to document Freemasonry's use of the press to form public opinion: 'Through the activities of our state organizations, the New Age magazine, our clip service and News Bureau, we are stimulating the public interest and furnishing much valuable material to speakers and writers, and thereby can reasonably claim much credit for the growing interest in favor of compulsory education by the state."(27) Fisher says that the July 1928 issue of the New Age claimed "'many members of the National Press Club are Masons, not a few of them very prominent Masons."' Fisher lists these "prominent Masons" in Behind The Lodge Door.(28) This catalogue reads like a Who's Who of the publishing and broadcasting industry. Fisher reports that Masonic success in controlling the press was also published in the January 1926 issue of NewAge: "'it is safe to claim that the majority of daily publications seem very friendly in their attitude toward the Craft."(29) One publisher friendly to the Craft is New Ager and Protestant pastor Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a 33rd degree Mason. Masonry is so proud of Peale that his name is listed in Masonic brochures throughout America as one of the prominent high Masons who disseminates Masonic thought in his periodical, Guideposts In fact, Peale was on the cover of The Scottish Rite Journal (formerly the New Aye magazine) in March, 1991. "Masonry," said Peale, "became an early and essential part of my success."(30) pps243-261 ----- >From its inception, Christian Science has been influenced by Masons and the art of Freemasonry. Its founder was Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), who, from a young age was chronically sick. Her first of three husbands, George Washington Glover, was a Freemason, as well as a member of the Oddfellows. Early in their marriage (1843), Glover moved Mary to the Masonic headquarters at Charleston. Six months later he died. In 1853 Mary married Daniel Patterson, a medical practitioner, from whom she was later separated. In October 1862 she applied for medical assistance from Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, a healer who used the occult art of Animal Magnetism discovered by Freemason Mesmer. When Quimby cured Mary of her chronic sickness, she spent the next two years lecturing and trying to "Christianize" Quimby's theories. When Mary Baker practiced Quimby's art of healing, she described the demonic horrors that manifested themselves as "Malicious Animal Magnetism," familiarly referred to by her students as M.A M. It is claimed that Mary Baker derived her system of healing from Quimby, although she denied it in later years. In 1866 Mary Baker founded Christian Science. Its belief can be summed up in one sentence: God is spirit -- spirit is the opposite of matter -- therefore God never created matter. This is the same gnostic belief of the Cathars, which doctrine entered into the religious beliefs of both the Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians. In 1877 Mary Baker married Asa Gilbert Eddy, who left her a widow in 1882. In 1881 Mary Baker Eddy founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in Boston and two years later, when the movement was well established, started publishing the Christian Science Journal, now known as the Christian Science Monitor. In 1884 Mrs. Eddy returned to Charleston where she met a woman who had the most influence in her life, Mrs. August Stetson, whose husband was an English Freemason. Mrs. Stetson, who had travelled with her husband to - Bombay, India, there learned eastern mysticism, and taught it to Eddy. On June 13, 1888, the National Christian Science Association held its second annual meeting at Central Music Hall, Chicago. Eddy was the main speaker. From then on Mrs. Eddy's religious future was assured.(36) The real strength of Christian Science, however, is its "Reading Rooms," where the inquirer can read the movement's literature, which elucidates a gnostic form of Christianity. A Christian Scientist is strongly encouraged to "log" thousands of reading hours. We can recall here what Weishaupt said: "A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers."(37) Christian Science reading rooms appear to be what Weishaupt had in mind. Freemasonry and Other Media Hollywood playwright, Myron C. Fagan, who spent most of his professional life researching the Illuminati, was founder in the 1940s of the Cinema Educational Guild, Inc. The Guild published The Point, a monthly exposure of Illuminati influence in America. In 1967-68 Fagan produced "The Illuminati" on two audio cassette tapes, in which he traces the conspirators' takeover of the U.S. media after Freemasonry founded the Council on Foreign Relations, which in turn, directly or indirectly founded and shaped the primary media of 20th century America. Fagan outlines their genesis: The CFR set up special committees in every state in the Union to whom they assigned the various local state operations.... The control of the press was assigned to Rockefeller. [Through him], Henry Luce was financed to set up a number of national magazines, among them Life, Fortune, and others.... The Rockefellers also directly or indirectly financed the Cowles brothers, Look magazine and a chain of newspapers. They also financed the man named Sam Newhouse to buy and to build a chain of newspapers all over the country. And Eugene Meyer, one of the founders of the CFR, bought the Washington Post, Newsweek and other publications. At the same time, the CFR began to develop and nurture a new breed of scurrilous columnists and editorial writers and broadcasters.(38) Myron Fagan also claims that the three major news networks are today dominated by left-wing illuminated Freemasonry. William Sutton confirms the same in The New Age Movement and The Illuminati 666. Moreover, Sutton maintains that the logos for each of the three television networks are Masonic symbols. For example, NBC displays the peacock with its tail feathers full of All-Seeing Eyes. In Hinduism, says Sutton, "when the god Indra transforms himself into an animal, he becomes a peacock. In India the peacock was believed to have a thousand eyes in its feathers." He also notes that the Greek goddess Hera "set the hundred-eyed Argus to guard her husband's mistress, Io, after Zeus sent Hermes to charm and kill Argus. Hera used the giant's eyes to ornament the peacock's tail. In Java, the peacock was associated with the Devil. In Mosul in northern Iraq, there is a sect of Yezidis who hold that the Devil is not evil, and call him the Peacock Angel."(39) NBC could not have chosen a better symbol to represent its anti-Christian world-view than the All-Seeing Eye peacock. ABC is more subtle by symbolizing itself in the sun-disk, which is just another form of the All-Seeing Eye. CBS is more blatant. Its logo is the Masonic All-Seeing Eye, and it daily features on its evening newscast a segment titled "Eye on America," using its logo for the word "eye." Recently, CBS has included a subliminal triangle rotating around the eye. The triangle and eye come on the screen at program breaks just before commercials, with the following voice-over, 'This...[pause]...is CBS." The triangle rotates quickly, then shatters into a rainbow of sunrays. It looks identical to the sun-rayed Illuminati capstone and eye hovering over the unfinished pyramid, featured on the back of our $1 bill. pps 263-265 ===== In Conclusion Four of the eight legs of the "octopus theory" are actually part of the conspiracy of French Templarism. Two of the legs were also tentacles of English Sionism -- the Jews and Freemasonry. The Jews, nevertheless, participated in the French Revolution for the same reason they participated in the English Glorious Revolution -to gain freedom, as any downtrodden race would do. Concerning the Jesuits, although many joined Masonry, there is no concrete evidence they are the hidden hand. The Illuminati, which was created by the even more secret Priory of Sion, appeared to have been the hidden hand. When the Illuminati was exposed and suppressed by the Templars, the Knights took over the revolution. Of the seven conspiracy theories discussed, Freemasonry is the shelter in which all lodge -- not the Catholic Church, not Judaism. One conspiracy theory has yet to be brought to light. Communism. Is it Templar or Sionist? We will learn of its Masonic creation, Masonic development, and Masonic protection in future chapters. p 288 --cont-- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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