MASTERMINDS
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ILLUMINATI
“We owe a place to the Jesuits in this chapter on secret societies, for more than any other they are a secret body, and have a far closer connection with actual Masonry — in France and Germany at least — than people are generally aware of.”
Pg. 353
“The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.”
by Samuel Morse (inventer of Mores Code)
“If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.”
- James Parton (American historian)
“It is curious to note too that most of the bodies which work these, such as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Rite of Avignon, the Order of the Temple, Fessler’s Rite, the ‘Grand Council of the Emperors of the East and West — Sovereign Prince Masons,’ etc., etc., are nearly all the offspring of the sons of Ignatius Loyola. The Baron Hund, Chevalier Ramsay, Tschoudy, Zinnendorf, and numerous others who founded the grades in these rites, worked under instructions from the General of the Jesuits. The nest where these high degrees were hatched, and no Masonic rite is free from their baleful influence more or less, was the Jesuit College of Clermont at Paris. “That bastard foundling of Freemasonry, the ‘Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,’ which is unrecognized by the Blue Lodges was the enunciation, primarily, of the brain of the Jesuit Chevalier Ramsay. It was brought by him to England in 1736-38, to aid the cause of the Catholic Stuarts.”
New York Press Club, Jan 11,1877
note: the majority of the higher ranks of Free Masonry are mentioned here as being formed by the Jesuits.
“Catholic ceremonies, unknown in ancient Freemasonry, were introduced from 1735 to 1740… From that time, the influence of the Jesuits on the fraternity made itself more and more felt… The candidate was no longer received in a lodge… but a clerical Jerusalem, typifying Rome. The meetings were called Capitula Canonicorum, and a monkish language and asceticism prevailed therein. In the statutes is seen the hand of James Lainez, the second general of the Jesuits, and the aim at universal empire betrays itself,…. The sect (Jesuits) spread very rapidly, for when Baron Hund came to Paris in 1742, and was received into the highest Jesuit degrees he found on his return to Germany that those degrees were already established in Saxony and Thuringia, under the government of Marshall, whose labours he undertook to promote… From the exertions of these two men arose the “Rite of Strict Observance,” so called, because Baron Hund introduced into it a perfectly monkish subordination… and acting in concert with Marshall, overran Germany with a sect of new Templars, not to be confounded with the Templars that afterwards joined the masonic fraternity… the rite of the Strict Observance, permeated by the Jesuitical leaven, had probably an aim very different from the re-establishment of the proscribed dynasty. It is certain that at one time the power of the New Templars was very great, and prepared the way for the Illuminati.”
- Secret Societies of All Ages Volume 2 pg.57,58
note: the Jesuit Baron Hund on his return to Germany found the same Jesuit degrees established there in Masonry. He went on to start the Rite of Strict Observance, (which was just another Jesuit cover) which came to be known as the New Templars (i.e Jesuits) which prepared the way for the Illuminati.
“The modern Templars, whom you refer to in your letter, are but mere magpies in peacock’s plumes…– Templarism is Jesuitism.”
New York Press Club,Jan 11,1877
“I have met with many particular facts, which convince me that this use had been made of the meetings of Masons, and that at this time the Jesuits interfered considerably, insinuating themselves into the Lodges, and contributing to encrease that religious mysticism that is to be observed in all the ceremonies of the order. This society is well known to have put on every shape, and to have made use of every mean that could promote the power and influence of the order. And we know that at this time they were by no means without hopes of re-establishing the dominion of the Church of Rome in England.”
- Proofs of A Conspiracy by John Robinson pg.13
“The Order has secret signs and passwords, according to the degrees to which the members belong, and as they wear no particular dress, it is very difficult to recognize them, unless they reveal themselves as members of the Order; for they may appear as Protestants or Catholics, democrats or aristocrats, infidels or bigots, according to the special mission with which they are entrusted. Their spies are everywhere, of all apparent ranks of society, and they may appear learned and wise, or simple or foolish, as their instructions run. There are Jesuits of both sexes, and all ages, and it is a well-known fact that members of the Order, of high family and delicate nurture, are acting as menial servants in Protestant families, and doing other things of a similar nature in aid of the Society’s purposes. We cannot be too much on our guard, for the whole Society, being founded on a law of unhesitating obedience, can bring its force on any given point with unerring and fatal accuracy.”
Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia,” p. 369.
Isis Unveiled by Helena Blavatsky
Pg. 355
note: Their ability to take on any disguise is what makes the Jesuits so lethal. Yes they are as a whole known to a few, but individually they are unknown and nearly invisible.
“In 1767, there arose at Vienna a schism of the Strict Observance; the descendents, who called themselves ” Clerks of the Relaxed Observance “…Declaring that they alone possessed the secrets of the association, and knew the place where were deposited the splendid treasures of the Templars. They also claimed precedence, not only over the rite of Strict Observance, but also over all Masonry… To be initiated it was necessary to be a Roman Catholic, and to have passed through all the degrees of the Strict Observance… Before the establishment of the Strict Observance, various German lodges had already introduced the Templar system ; hence disputes of all kinds arose…”
- Secret Societies of All Ages Volume 2 pg.59
note: Now the Jesuits have taken on a new name, The Clerks of the Relaxed Observance. They claim to be above the Rite of Strict Observance, not just that,but they claim to be above all Masonry. And here’s the kicker, to be an initiate, you gotta be a Roman Catholic. And because of this a war broke out in Masonry.
“Dr. Stark a disciple of Schropfer and of Gugumos, who called himself high-priest, knight, prince, possessor of the philosopher’s stone, of the secret to evoke the spirits of the dead, &c… wrote a book entitled “The Coping Stone,” in which he represented the Strict Observance as hostile to religion, society, and the state… This was not the first attack made on the system of Hund( Jesuitism). In 1766, Count Zinzendorf, chief physician in the Prussian army, who had been received into the Strict Observance, was struck from the list of members.. In revenge, he founded at Berlin and Potsdam lodges on the Templar system… The new Order made fierce and successful war both on the Strict and the Relaxed Observance.”
- Secret Societies of All Ages Volume 2 pg.60
note: Now the Jesuits in disguise are under attack from all sides.
“To put an end to the numerous disputes raging among masonic bodies, various congresses were held… The most important was that which assembled at Wilhelmsbad in 1782, under the presidency of the Duke of Brunswick, who was anxious to end the discord reigning among German Freemasons…”
- Secret Societies of All Ages Volume 2 pg.61
note: This war is taking place during the 1760′s,70′s and 80′s. It’s centered in Germany… of all places.
“Discussions at Wilhelmsbad. The statements contained in Dr. Stark’s book, ” The Coping Stone “(437),concerning the influence of the Jesuits in the masonic body, formed one of the chief topics discussed. Some of the chiefs of the Strict Observance produced considerable confusion by being unable to give information concerning the secrets of the high degrees, which they had professed to know ; or to render an account of large sums they had received on behalf of the Order.”
- Secret Societies of All Ages Volume 2 pg.61,62
note: The Jesuits are on the frontline now. Her cover has been blown.
“After thirty sittings, the answer was in the negative; the chiefs of the Strict Observance were defeated, and the Duke of Brunswick suspended the Order for three years, from which blow it never recovered.”
- Secret Societies of All Ages Volume 2 pg.62
note: So the jig is up. The Rite of the Strict Observance is finished..But The Jesuits are already on top of things.
“The result of the convention of Wilhelmsbad was the retention of the three symbolical degrees, with the addition of a new degree, that of the “Knights of Beneficence,” The foundation of the new Order was attributed to the influence of the Jesuits, because the three initial letters of Chevaliers Bienfaisants, C.H.B., are equal to 3, 8, 2= 13, signifying the letter N, meaning Nostri. ”
- Secret Societies of All Ages Volume 2 pg.62
note: So the Jesuits are back already under a new name this time. the “Knights of Beneficence”.BUT… Remember all this is taking place in the 1770′s and 17 80′s in Germany. Right where Bavarian ILLuminati founder , Adam Weishaupt is….
“Another result was a league between Masonry and the Illuminati…”
- Secret Societies of All Ages Volume 2 pg.62
- · “During the Orders suppression from 1773 to 1814 by Pope Clement XIV, General Ricci ( Lorenzo Ricci) created the Illuminati with his soldier, Adam Weishaupt, the father of modern Communism, who with his jacobins, conducted the French Revolution”
G.H Nicolini
History of the Jesuits: Their Origin, Progress, Doctrine and Design pg.356,357
- “From the Jesuit College at Ingolstadt is said to have issued the sect known as “the Illuminati of Bavaria” founded by Adam Weishaupt under the guidance of Nicolai in 1776. Weishaupt its nominal founder, however, seems to have played a subordinate though conspicuous role in the organization of the sect.”
Lady Queenborough
Occult Theocrasy pg 313
- “This was in 1777. Weishaupt had long been scheming the establishment of an Association or Order, which, in time, should govern the world. In his first fervour and high expectations, he hinted to several Ex-Jesuits the probability of their recovering, under a new name, the influence which they formerly possessed.”
Proofs of A Conspiracy by John Robinson pg. 59
- “The name of ” Illuminati” has frequently been adopted by various sects. The end of the sixteenth century saw the Alombrados in Spain… Suspected of being one of these Alombrados, Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the order of Jesuits, was for nearly a month imprisoned in the dungeons of the Inquisition at Salamanca ; when the holy fathers had perused his “Spiritual Exercises,”.”
Secret Societies of All Ages
Volume 1 pg.305
- “Another result was a league between Masonry and the Illuminati (and it is still a matter of speculation whether these latter were not behind the Jesuits) brought about by the exertions of Spartacus or Weishaupt, who had long ago discerned the influence he could obtain by the co-operation of the Masons, whom he, of course, employed as his unconscious tools. But Jesuitical influence, at that time, was too powerful to be overcome… Freemasonry had been made the tool of prince- and priest –craft.”
Secret Societies of All Ages Volume 2 pg.61,62
- · “Weishaupt established the Illuminati specifically to be a front organization behind which the Jesuits could hide. After being abolished by Clement XIV in 1773, the Jesuits used the Illuminati and other organizations to carry out their operations. Thus, the front organizations would be blamed for the trouble caused by the Jesuits”
- · “The Jesuits, Weishaupt, and the Rothschilds managed to cast the blame for the French Revolution on their front organization, the Illuminati!”
The Enemy Unmasked by Bill Hughes
- “History books will tell us that the French Revolution first began in 1787 or 1789, depending on which book you read. However, it was actually planned by [Jesuit] Dr. Adam Weishaupt and the House of Rothschild almost 20 years before the Revolution took place.”
William Sutton
The New Age Movement and The Illuminati 666
- · “ Weishaupt and his fellow Jesuits cut off the income to the Vatican by launching and leading the French Revolution; by directing Napoleon’s conquest of Catholic Europe; [and] …by eventually having Napoleon throw Pope Pius VII in jail at Avignon until he agreed, as the price for his release, to reestablish the Jesuit Order. This Jesuit war on the Vatican was terminated by the Congress of Vienna and by the secret, 1822 Treaty of Verona.”
Emanuel M. Josephson (American physician and historian)
- · The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power – power in its most despotic exercise – absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man [i.e., the Black Pope, the Superior General of the Jesuits]. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms [sic] – and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses…”
Napoleon Bonaparte; 1769-1821
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