reply to post by teapot
The perversion exists in the fact that the Illuminati preached the gospel of the Fertility religions in their writings, but they spawned off the
Comminsts Party through the training of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. The Illuminati, although stamped out by the Bavarian authorities, remained in
the German Reading Societies and continued in the Lodges of Freemasonry which it had previously infected, leading to the French Revolution and all
subsequent revolutions to this day.
"This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of
reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. The proficients in this order are therefore justly named the Illuminated. And
of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we
are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. In comparison with this, the most brilliant sciences are but amusements for the idle and
luxurious. To fit man by illumination for active virtue, to engage him to it by the strongest motives, to render the attainment of it easy and
certain, by finding employement for every talent, and by placing every talent in it's proper sphere of action, so that all, without feeling any
extraordinary effort, and in conjuction with, and in completion of ordinary business, shall urge forward with united powers, the general task. This
indeed will be an employement suited to noble natures, grand in it's views, and delightful in it's exercise." - Adam Weishaupt
"And what is this general object? The happiness of the human race. But where are the proper persons, the good, the generous and the accomplished to
be found? And how, and by what strong motives, are they to be induced to be engaged, in a task so vast, so incessant, so difficult and so laborious?
This association must be gradual. There are some such persons to be found in every society. Such noble minds will be engaged by the heart warming
object. The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members. As these multiply and advance, they become the apostles of
beneficence, and the work is now on foot, and advances witha speed increasing every day. The slightest observation shows that nothing will so much
contribute to increase the zeal of the members as secret union. We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted,
by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union. Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and
then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. The order will thus work silently, and sucurely,
and though the generous benefactors of the human race are thus deprived of the applause of the world, they have the noble pleasure of seeing their
work prosper." -- Adam Weishaupt
If anyone wants to claim those quotes are made up, they can be found in a book originally published in 1798 called "Proofs of a Conspiracy" by John
Robison.
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