Chapter 13: The Ruling Elite: Elitists and Secret Societies Illuminati, Promises of Universal Emancipation

 

Chapter 13: The Ruling Elite: Elitists and Secret Societies Illuminati, Promises of Universal Emancipation

 

Elitists and Secret Societies Illuminati, Promises of Universal Emancipation

The Foundation of the Illuminati

The elite in every country, through rite-of-passage privilege, deem it their responsibility to dominate the rest of society. Johann Adam Weishaupt, a former student at a Jesuit school, was a lay professor of Canon Law at Ingolstadt University, a position usually held by a Jesuit. On May 1, 1776, he formally organized the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria, which people know as the Order of the Illuminati in Bavaria, Germany.[461] Allegedly, one of the co-founders was Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel who had an economic association with Mayer Amschel Rothschild.[462] Some people assert that Weishaupt and Rothschild organized the Illuminati. However, the Rothschild’s main connection to the Illuminati seems to be through the House of Hesse.[463] The Illuminati deceptively uses the phrase “peace on earth,” but actually plans the destruction of all existing governments and religions through a process of “dividing the masses into opposing camps in ever increasing numbers on political, social, economic, and other issues.” People would “fight and weaken themselves and gradually destroy national governments and religious institutions.”[464] Ironically, the motto of the Strategic Air Command, in charge of slaughtering thousands with their bombs during World War II, is Peace is our Profession. The pilot’s wings and the SAC appear emblematic to the Illuminati graphics.

Weishaupt became a Freemason in 1777 and towards the end of 1778. Thereafter, he conceived the idea of a merger between the Illuminati and Freemasonry, a well-

established, secretive fellowship that shared some similarities. Herr Xavier von Zwack, a lawyer, who became a Freemason on November 27, 1778, discussed the merger idea with the Abbé Marotti, another Mason, who understood the tenets of Illuminism. Baron Adolph Knigge (1752-1796) arrived in Frankfurt in July 1780, met Weishaupt (code name Spartacus) and joined the Order of the Illuminati, adopting the name of Philo. Knigge, an influential writer had studied law from 1769 to 1772 at the University of Göttingen, which apparently became a favorite recruiting institution for Illuminati

initiates. Numerous individuals from elite families in the United States studied at the University of Göttingen.

They accomplished the merging of Freemasonry and the Illuminati at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad, a luxurious retreat and spa created in 1777 by Prince Wilhelm. The conference began on July 16, 1782 with representatives from numerous secret societies. All together, the Martinists (founded by Martines de Pasqually who relocated to Santo Domingo), and the Freemasons combined with the Illuminati now numbered about three million members worldwide.[465] The Illuminati totaled, by the 1780s, only between 2,000 and 3,000 people.[466] Prince Wilhelm’s brother, Prince Karl of Hesse-Kassel was the Governor of Schleswig-Holstein. He was allegedly an ardent Freemason and a member of the Illuminati.

The composition of the majority of Freemasons are regular members of society including hard working judges, doctors, bankers, lawyers and businessmen attempting to enhance their communities. Most Freemasons never exceed beyond the 3rd degree, a rite of passage where they swear a secret blood oath. Freemasonry, a highly secretive organization, already established, made a perfect Illuminati front. Those

who work their way up to the 33rd Degree may eventually participate in the “Killing of the King” ritual. The leaders in the upper echelon use lower level members to implement compartmentalized segments of various dark operations without ever recognizing the final objective or realize they had contributed to what frequently results in a disastrous occurrence.[467]

In 1794, five years after the French Revolution, the Duke of Brunswick, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Grand Master of German Freemasonry, also Illuminati, made the following admission, “...We see our edifice (Freemasonry) crumbling and covering the ground with ruins; we see destruction that our hands no longer arrest ... A great sect arose, which taking for its motto the good and the happiness of man, worked in the darkness of the conspiracy to make the happiness of humanity a prey for itself. This sect is known to everyone; its brothers are known no less than its name. It is they who have undermined the foundations of the Order to the point of complete overthrow; it is by them that all humanity has been poisoned and led astray for several generations ... They began by casting odium on religion ... the plan they had formed for breaking all social ties and destroying all order was revealed in all their speeches and acts ... they recruited apprentices of every rank and in every position; they deluded the most perspicacious men by falsely alleging different intentions ...Their masters had nothing less in view than the thrones of the earth, and the government of the nations was to be directed by their nocturnal clubs. This is what has been done and is still being done. But we notice that princes and people are unaware how and by what means this is being accomplished. That is why we say to them in all frankness: the misuse of our Order ... has produced all the political and moral troubles with which the world is filled today. You who have been initiated, you must join yourselves with us in raising your voices, so as to teach peoples and princes that the sectarians, the apostates of our Order, have alone been and will be the authors of present and future revolutions ... So as to cut out to the roots the abuse and error, we must from this moment dissolve the whole Order...”[468]

Individuals structured the Illuminati, established to counter the clergy’s positive influence, after the Masonic model. The participants in the contest between good and evil adopted some of the tenets of Manichean symbolism. It was/is a war between light and darkness, between the illumination of reason and the allegedly sordid dark ignorance of religious superstition.The Illuminati goal was the secularized, counterfeit perfection of humankind. Weishaupt, a former Jesuit, incorporated and perverted the confession ritual into the Illuminati initiation process, which became an effective blackmail tool to persuade neophytes to conform to fraternity guidelines. This confession ritual is evident in the Skull and Bones coffin ceremony where the initiate bares his deepest, darkest secrets, often relating to sexual improprieties or illegal behaviors.

To emulate Christianity, individuals used reason, postured as revelation. In the era of the Enlightenment (1650-1850), individuals replaced and honored the creation, such as the earth, and dismissed the Creator. Denis Diderot, the French philosopher, imitated the Bible, the holy book of Christian clarification in his 36-volume Encyclopédie, the inspiration for the Enlightenment. His work included imprints of Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu), Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, all influential writers of the period.

The title page of the first edition had a figurative drawing of Lucifer, symbol of light and rebellion, positioned next to the Masonic symbols of the square and the compass. Illuminati members studied the certain philosophers to counter the Jesuits and strengthen their own philosophy. The Illuminati spread to Poland, Holland, England and France, functioning within Masonic Lodges. Johann Gottfried von Herder, the German philosopher, atheist and composer was an Illuminist.[469] Johann Wolfgang Goethe, also a philosopher, writer and privy councilor was an Illuminist.[470] He is best known as the creator of Faust. It

is perhaps, as many have speculated, an Illuminist allegory.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a prominent figure of the French Enlightenment, wrote The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right in 1762.[471] He promoted the concept that people relinquish sovereignty to a government or other power in order to obtain or maintain social order through the rule of law. That social order should also be applicable to one’s choices and their interactions with others. While his text is commendable regarding civil freedom and individual equality, he impregnated his young laundress at least five times. After the birth of his children, he forced the girl to place the newborn at the doorstep of the Hôpital des Enfants-Trouvés, a notorious orphanage that he had written about, stating that two-thirds of the babies placed there die within a year. Further, the children who survive do not make it past the age of seven. His lofty ideals did not prohibit him from practicing repeated, certain infanticide against his own children.[472]

In addition to Freemasonry, Illuminati members have infiltrated various well-established organizations. The top echelon of these associations supervise willing minions who seek the power and glory of the world while the compartmentalized bottom rung subordinates accept deceitful dogma, receive praise and gratuities, yet fail to recognize their contribution to the growing evils, corruption and bloodshed despite the obvious evidence. They direct the day-to-day functions of major commercial banks, corporations, churches, foundations, educational institutions, occupational organizations, criminal syndicates and governments. Their secretive symbols, signs, handshakes are subtle and unacknowledged by the majority. Their buildings, hidden in plain sight, hold a decidedly different association for the commoners as opposed to their significance to the elite, the self-styled rulers of humanity who have commissioned the architectural designs and directed the construction of most of the commercial and cultural edifices pervasive in our societies, such as banks, libraries, government buildings.

Illuminati, Promises of Universal Emancipation

Emancipation, according to several dictionary definitions, is the act of freeing someone from the control of another. The word is especially applicable to a parent relinquishing their authority and control over a minor child. It is the freeing, liberation, release, or the act of liberating someone or something from bondage, oppression, or restraint. Weishaupt, in his Discourse to the Illuminati Dirigentes wrote, “We must therefore strengthen our band, and establish a legion, which shall restore the rights of man, original liberty and independence.”[473]

The Illuminati dogma attracted women through its enticement of women’s rights or emancipation.[474] They divided female adepts into two classes, the first were composed of “virtuous women” to provide “respectability” for the Order, and the second class was comprised of “light women,” to “satisfy those brothers who have a penchant for pleasure.”[475] The promise of emancipation would repeatedly prove to be an incredibly strong motivation for many of the victimized and enslaved peoples of the world. The elites exploited the idea of emancipation in Lincoln’s War and in every war following that bloody battle. They also exploited the idea of emancipation in America’s CIA-backed feminist movement directed by Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan who both attended Smith College and helped to found the National Organization for Women in 1966. The elites employ emancipation on an agenda-specific basis without regard to actual humanitarian need.

Soon, Illuminism had spread to Denmark and Portugal. Illuminized Britons with like-minded Americans established New York’s Columbian Lodge in 1785. Aleksandra Nikolayevich Radishchev, a Russian author and social critic, who studied at the University of Leipzig, joined the order, and took the doctrines back to St. Petersburg. Radishchev utilized the Enlightenment philosophies in his writings. In 1782, poet Cláudio Manuel da Costa visited Lisbon, joined the society, took the doctrines home to Brazil, and

founded a chapter with Domingos Vidal Barbosa and José Alvares Maciel.

Barbosa was a devotee of Abbé Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, a former Jesuit and ardent abolitionist, who wrote the multi-volume history of British colonialism and antislavery Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, a veritable textbook for those who were inspired by America’s example. He collaborated with Denis Diderot, the author of Encyclopédie. In 1785, José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva wrote poems heavy with the writings of John Locke, an English philosopher and physician who is widely regarded as the Father of Liberalism. He also emulated François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Alexander Pope, Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), the Roman poet and Luís Vaz de Camões, Portugal’s greatest poet. José Álvares Maciel traveled to England and spent time studying manufacturing techniques and discussing Brazilian independence with supportive English merchants.[476]

The elites chose Minas Gerais, one of the twenty-six states in Brazil, as the location to begin the emancipation known as the Inconfidência Mineira. It was the site of the University of Coimbra. Universities provide an opportunistic environment to mold minds and enlist willing participants in various operations associated with Illuminati objectives. The Brazilian elite had sent their sons to Minas Gerais for forty years.[477] One of the main internal causes for dissatisfaction was the decline of gold mining in Minas Gerais. The area’s residents could not fulfill their tax obligations to the crown. When they could not satisfy the Royal’s demand for gold, they were plagued with an additional tax on gold, called derrama. The Inconfidência Mineira was not successful. Officials condemned José Álvares Maciel and eight others to the gallows. They banished seven other participants to Africa and acquitted others.

Illuminati Objectives

In 1905, the Socialist movement accelerated in the U.S. with the establishment of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. The society organized chapters in several universities and colleges throughout the country in order to develop future leaders. Robert Morss Lovett, a writer, editor, political activist, and professor at the University of Chicago was the first president of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Lovett, not to be confused with Robert A. Lovett, the Brown Brothers partner, was successful in creating fifty-six Communist-front affiliations. The Intercollegiate Socialist Society later changed its name to The League for Industrial Democracy.[478]

The goals of Communism, as defined in The Communist Manifesto, are almost identical to the goals of the Illuminati. The International bankers financed Communism as an instrument for power, a front for the super-rich. The goal of Communism is not equal distribution of wealth but confiscation and control of all resources and assets by a select minority. The elite did not supervise Communism or enact Communist policies from Moscow, Beijing or elsewhere, but from the banker’s conference tables in New York, Paris and London.

Douglas Reed wrote, “The line from Illuminism in 1789 to Communism today is but a line of inheritance; the same organization pursues the same aim with the same methods and even with the same words.”[479] One can easily access the notes the Dr. Lawrence Dunegan after he had attended a Pittsburgh Pediatric Society lecture on March 20, 1969 where he listened to Dr. Richard Day, an admitted “insider” in the “Order.” Day referred to the “new world system,” also called the “New Order of Barbarians” in which he defined the changes, according to an actual timetable, that would be accomplished by the year 2000. The facilitators of the new system devised the procedures and positioned appropriate willing people to implement this nefarious system long in advance.[480]

According to Dr. Day, he was relatively free to speak about what people had previously strictly withheld because “everything is in place and nobody can stop us now.” However, to prevent wide distribution, he

prohibited anyone from recording the session or taking notes. He suggested that there could be negative repercussions against him if his remarks became widely publicized. In 1988, after years of compiling what he remembered, Dr. Dunegan recorded his recollections of the 1969 lecture on two tapes. Dr. Day said, “Everything has two purposes. One is the ostensible purpose which will make it acceptable to people and second is the real purpose which would further the goals of establishing the new system.”[481]

Dr. Day disclosed some of the following tactics that insiders had developed to alter culture and decrease population, with a focus on the family, the basic unit of society.

1. Number of people living at any one time on the planet must be limited.

2. People would not be “allowed” to have babies out of want or carelessness.

3. People would separate sex from reproduction yet encourage sexual activity. Experts would strongly recommend contraception, which they would make universally available and display it prominently in America’s drug stores.

4. They would introduce sex education in the schools; even in elementary school, all designed to entice children early. Pregnancy among teens would increase.

5. “Abortion will no longer be a crime.” The taxpayers would pay for those who are unable to pay for it themselves. People would view abortion as normal.

6. More people would adopt a homosexual lifestyle.
7. More people would obtain divorces. Families would diminish in importance.
8. Medical experts would introduce euthanasia for those who had outlived their usefulness.

9. The insurance companies and private industry would connect medical care to employment. Health care costs would increase and officials would control medicine and medical care. Free hospital care would gradually cease.

10. The government and corporations would require photo identification for their employees and those entering public buildings.

11. Doctors would become highly skilled specialized technicians.

12. Difficult to diagnose new diseases will appear and remain untreatable.

13. Dr. Day said, “We can cure almost every cancer right now. Information about this is on file in the Rockefeller Institute.” However, if people stop dying of cancer, we will become overpopulated. He also said assassins would be able to simulate a real heart attack.

14. Convenience or prepared foods will be hazardous.
15. People will promote a new worldwide religion. They will alter the bible. 16. Editors will subtly alter the literary classics.
17. Children will spend more time in school but it will be less productive.
18. The elite will limit publishing; books will disappear from the libraries.
19. They will alter the law, including the blue law regarding Sunday purchasing.

20. States will legalize and institutionalize gambling. They will control corporate competition, change anti-trust regulation, impose deregulation, which will allow monopoly capitalism and private public partnerships.

21. Alcohol and drug consumption will increase provoking more police control and incarceration,

possibly into privately owned jails. Taxpayers will pay the costs of incarceration. They will use crime to manage society.

22. The elite will impose travel restrictions and make it challenging to travel. People will need permission and justification to travel within the country. There will be more plane and auto accidents.

23. The government will impose a central monitoring system, perhaps through cable media within our homes.

24. They will allow the infrastructure to deteriorate which will create a depressed atmosphere.

25. They will curtail manufacturing ostensibly to give other countries a chance to catch up. Due to job loss, people will relocate; in some instances causing huge population shifts. Industrial sabotage may also contribute to accidents producing loss of income and relocation.

26. Entertainment will become more sexually explicit, graphic and violent in order to desensitize people. People will accept scenes of death more readily.

27. The elites, possibly through agribusiness, introduced by the Rockefeller Foundation, will centralize food production and distribution causing food shortages. Small farms will disappear.

28. Dr. Day said, “We can or soon will be able to control the weather.”

29. Housing costs will be prohibitive.

30. The elite will control the economy through inflation. Money will become credit and its exchange will be electronic. Despite all appearances, a single banking system will control all financial activities.

31. The elite would use terrorism to control populations and impose draconian legislation.[482]

It is entirely possible to prove a conspiracy by circumstantial evidence. While conspirators may provide clues, they rarely record the exact details of their maneuverings or objectives. According to the results of one court case, the Nathan vs. Saint Paul Mutual Insurance Company, “It is only by assembling the results, with such evidence as may be of the progress thereto by the participants, that the victim can ever make a case of conspiracy. If in the end there is a completed structure of result, the frame of which has been furnished piecemeal by several individuals, the parts when brought together showing adaptation to each other and fitness for the end accomplished, it is at least reasonable to infer concert in both planning and fabrication.”[483]

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