Chapter 12: The Ruling Elite: Instigators from Abroad

 

Chapter 12: The Ruling Elite: Instigators from Abroad

 

Instigators from Abroad

Dozens of enlightened philosophical “gentlemen” fled to the U.S. from awkward situations in Europe. During the Constitutional Convention, May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gouverneur Morris, of Pennsylvania, a bit exasperated, said that he wanted none of “those philosophical gentlemen, those citizens of the world as they call themselves, in our public councils” which they had evidently attempted to attend. However, many residents soon joined those who had arrived earlier, like Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), an alleged member of the Illuminati from Geneva, who managed to gain a leading position in the House minority in 1798.[441] Jefferson appointed him as Treasury Secretary (1801- 1814) where Gallatin retained all of Hamilton’s financial policies.

In Berlin, in 1778 or 1779, there had been a secret group calling themselves the illuminé d’ Avignon that, embraced Swedenborgianism and other esoteric doctrines. Its key members included Joseph Pernety and Thaddeus Leszcsy Grabianka, an affiliate of the revolutionary Freemasons. However, the group, according to author Robert Rix, was not Masonic Lodge or a Swedenborgian Society. This group met its demise in 1793. The most notable feature about this group is their objective to induce European governments to change through a revolutionary process. However, early Swedenborgianism was a breeding ground of Masonic radicalism, especially after the French Revolution.[442]

In London, by October 1788, the Swedenborgians allied closely with international

Masonry. Rumors of a full-fledged European revolution, similar to the French Revolution, escalated, especially after the publication of Abbé Augustin Barruel’s exposé, Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (1797- 1798). He was an émigré French Jesuit hiding out in London after the revolution. He viewed Swedenborgianism as “the heretical glue that bound together a variety of antisocial revolutionary societies.” According to him,

Swedenborg’s visions were intended to eradicate Christianity from the minds of the duped and a plea for the revolutionary overthrow of present churches and government.” He claimed that a spiritual regeneration was necessary but it was merely a camouflage.[443]

Victor du Pont (1767-1827), a French consul, hastily left the U.S. in 1798 because President John Adams rejected his diplomatic position. However, he returned to the U.S. with a group of delegates from the Institute of France, under Du Pont de Nemours. Victor du Pont was the brother of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company. Adams said, “We have too many French philosophers already, and I really begin to think, or rather to suspect, that learned academies ... have disorganized the world, and are incompatible with social order.”[444] Between 1793 and 1798, as many as twenty-five thousand Jacobins found refuge in the U.S. according to the French consular estimates. Freemasons from Ireland also flocked to the U.S. at the same time. Some Americans perceived this massive immigration as dangerous to the U.S., which generated the Naturalization Act of 1798 that extended the required period of residence for citizenship. The Alien Act allowed the President the power to expel foreigners.[445] In 1796, the Federalists had consolidated their power in both houses. John Taylor, of Caroline suggested secession. Jefferson argued that Northeastern domination and the afflictions would be short-lived and rectified at the ballot box. In the summer of 1796, the Federalist Congress passed numerous acts designed to strengthen the federal government and in 1798 passed the Sedition Act to silence all dissent. President John Adams, a tool of the Federalist Party, signed the bills.[446]

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a Freemason, a lawyer and a member of the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, also known as the secretive Jacobin Club. It was formed in 1786 with such early members as Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791), Abbé Sieyès (1748-1836), Antoine Barnave, Jérôme Pétion, the Abbé Grégoire, Charles Lameth, and Alexandre Lameth, all

allegedly part of the Illuminati.[447] Robespierre, a disciple of Weishaupt and Rousseau, reportedly belonged to one of the Illuminati lodges founded by Weishaupt. He embraced Weishaupt’s objective of a widespread social revolution and considered anarchy as a means to restructure society according to a system known later as State Socialism.[448]

The Jacobin Club had thousands of chapters throughout France with at least 420,000 members. This secret society is notorious for implementing the Reign of Terror, characteristic of the Revolution, and the September Massacres (1792). Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, in An Essay of the Principle of Population (1798), formalized the doctrine of “the inferiority of the white yeomanry” and initiated the worldwide de-population policies of the Illuminati. Charles Darwin was a distant cousin to Malthus. Bothintellectuallydevaluedhumanlife.[449] Onedoesnothavetoholdmembershipinanefarioussocietyto implement their collective plans or use their hand signals.

Malthus decided that the poor whites should practice “moral restraint” or self-extinction to halt the reproduction of their class and therefore, eradicate poverty. However, when the British created the poor law, offering assistance to those with dependents, they inadvertently removed the necessity to practice restraint. Malthus then offered “the perfect solution” for eliminating the “surplus” white population. An angry population could potentially rebel against Britain’s ruling class and dethrone the privileged elite class. Therefore, said Malthus, for the “maximum good of society,” we should simply starve those who are not gainfully employed. David Ricardo supported Malthus in his proposal; he said, “By engaging to feed all who may require food you in some measure create an unlimited demand for human beings...the population and the rates (taxes) would go on increasing in a regular progression until the rich were reduced to poverty...” The factory owners were willing to take the white “refuse,” people who might otherwise starve.[450]

Frances’s Reign of Terror eliminated enemies using Dr. Guillotine’s contraption, which assured one of a relatively painless death. By mid-1794, almost five hundred thousand arrests had culminated with the execution of more than thirty-five thousand men and women.[451] Some figures are as high as 300,000. Robespierre, seeing so many unemployed with no available jobs, thought that depopulation was indispensable because calculations had indicated that the French population exceeded the available resources, which he said necessitated the sacrifice of commoners, accomplished by the revolution.[452] The depopulation advocate’s ideological foundation is the Machiavellian/Weishauptian edict that “the ends justify the means.”

The French Revolution (1787-1799) has been deceptively glorified, whitewashed and lauded a success by Communists, many establishment historians and naïve individuals. It exploited prevalent common injustices but had little to do with securing freedom from the oppression of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Members of the Illuminati orchestrated the revolt and allegedly paid approximately 1,000 Parisians to storm the Bastille, supposedly to release dozens of political prisoners. Actually, there were only seven prisoners housed there, none for political reasons. Authorities had imprisoned the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), the early moral compass of the Illuminati in the Bastille but fortunately, for him, they transferred him to another prison on July 2, 1789. The storming of the prison occurred on July 14, 1789. The late Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894-1956) functioned as the moral equivalent for this generation of perversion and unrestricted immorality.

The Revolution’s motto, taken from Freemasonry, was Egalité, Fraternité, Liberté, which translated into English, means Equality, Fraternity and Liberty. Dr. Adrian H. Krieg states that Egalité is the root word for egalitarian, a word that means the leveling of values. The infamous guillotine facilitated the redistribution of wealth from those whose severed heads lay in baskets to the acquiescent mob.[453] The original motto of the French Republic was Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death. Members later dropped

the death part, associated with the bloody Reign of Terror.

Like Lincoln’s War, establishment historians glorified and whitewashed the French Revolution and naïve individuals have lauded it as a success. It exploited common injustices but had little to do with securing freedom from the oppression of King Louis and Marie Antoinette. It was also relatively easy to exploit the numerous injustices that existed in the southern states. A revolution rarely addresses the justifications given for its execution. The goal appears to be revolution itself.

As the French Revolution was ending, three perceptive individuals, in France, England and U.S., perceived that the Illuminati had provoked and directed the revolution, as divulged in their papers in 1787, through their alliance with Freemasonry, which used blood oaths to maintain secrecy. The organization, still extant despite rumors to the contrary, intended to bring about world revolution through violence. In addition to the Abbé Barruel, who witnessed the French Revolution and wrote about it, Professor John Robison, a Scottish scientist, wrote Proofs of a Conspiracy. Reverend Jedediah Morse, a New England clergyman and geographer, beginning on May 9, 1798, delivered three sermons, all published, in support of Barruel and Robison’s work. William Cobbett, who relocated from Britain to Philadelphia by 1793, in his Porcupine’s Gazette, publicized all of their efforts and suffered persecution by the same evil forces.[454]

Thomas Cooper, of Manchester, England, and Cooper’s friend, Dr. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) also endorsed Maximilien Robespierre. Priestley was a Unitarian minister who tried to merge Enlightenment rationalism with Christian theism. His friend, Theophilus Lindsey, had founded Unitarianism in England. His parents raised Priestley as a devout Calvinist but he later maintained that humans had no free will. He had a worldwide reputation due to his research into the physical sciences, especially electricity, an interest he shared with his friend, Benjamin Franklin. In 1766, members nominated and awarded Priestly a fellowship in the Masonic-based Royal Society.[455]

Thomas Walker played a prominent role in Manchester’s revolutionary abolition movement by organizing and heading the Manchester abolition group, which collected 10,639 signatures in 1788 and 20,000 in 1792, both destined for Parliament. Promises of emancipation, women’s liberation, worker’s rights, constitutional rights are all hooks to engage the common man or woman in chaotic revolutionary actions. Manchester remained the center of the abolition movement up to the passing of the Abolition Act on March 25, 1807.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797), author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, gave a speech in the House of Commons on April 30, 1792 in which he revealed that Walker sent two traitorous English agents, Cooper and James Watt, to France to enter into a federation with the “iniquitous” Club of Jacobins. Burke then read the address they had given in France. He also mentioned Thomas Walker of Manchester who “avowed similar principles.”[456] Cooper immediately responded by writing A Reply to Mr. Burke’s Invective Against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons, on the 30th of April, 1792. Authorities tried Walker for conspiracy. There are records in the Library of Congress regarding a conspiracy “to overthrow the constitution and government, and to aid and assist the French, (being the King’s enemies) in case they should invade this kingdom.” These same records mention a case against Cooper.[457]

Priestley left England and joined Cooper in Pennsylvania where he helped found the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia and aided in the establishment of the Northumberland Academy. His objective was to combine the most advanced Enlightenment ideas with unorthodox Christianity and basic science. Priestley joined the American Philosophical Association and by the time he died, he had attained membership in every important scientific society in the world. The Federalists welcomed Priestley whereas Cooper, a British Jacobin adopted an anti-Federalist stance. He became the editor of the

Northumberland Gazette, in which he criticized President Adams’s handling of public finances as Adams had borrowed high-interest money to maintain a standing army and Adams interfered with the independence of the judiciary.[458]

In 1918, to fulfill his Doctor of Philosophy requirement from the faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, Vernon Stauffer, Professor of New Testament and Church History wrote a book entitled New England and the Bavarian Illuminati in which he discredits Robison and Barruel. In his introduction he wrote, “Morse’s warning by no means fell upon deaf ears...Soon ministers were preaching, newspaper editors and contributors writing...and voicing their serious concern over the secret presence in America of those conspirators whose greatest single achievement, a multitude had come to believe, was the enormities of the French Revolution. It is true that before two years had passed men generally began to admit the baseless nature of the alarm that Morse had sounded...it signified nothing more than the absurd fears of a New England clergyman who, under the strain of deep political and religious concern, and after a hasty reading of the latest volume of religious and political horrors that had just arrived from Europe, rushed into his pulpit and gave utterance to preposterous statements which his imagination for the moment led him to believe were justified.”[459] George Washington wrote a letter to Morse, to state that he was hopeful that Morse would continue his efforts to warn the citizens and that his warnings would experience “a more general circulation... for it contains important information, as little known, out of a small circle, as the dissemination of it would be useful, if spread through the community.”[460]

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