I believe that all of us regardless of station within the craft ought to become aware of those who violently oppose our fraternity, and why they do so. About the time of America's founding in the late 1700's a secret organization was in its developmental state in the town of Ingolstadt Bavaria. A papal Bull issued by Pope Clement XIV forbade the Order of Jesus (Jesuits) from teaching positions at universities. One of the most prestigious positions was the Chair of Cannon Law at the University of Ingolstadt. The Jesuits for had held it as long as anyone could remember. Jesuit's had already been removed from politically powerful positions in France, Switzerland, and Portugal, due to their medalling in local politics. The beneficiary of the Papal bull was a young professor named Adam Weisshaupt.

Weisshaupt had a burning desire to become the ruler of Europe by any means possible. He had been brought up and schooled by the Jesuits in Roman Catholicism, but was, as we shall see was an atheist. In order to bring his nefarious schemes to fruition he joined the Rosicrucian's for about a year, but decided that they were not organized sufficiently to meet his goals. He then joined the Masons for the same reason, to learn how a secret organization was operated, structured and officered. All this took place between 1773 and 1776. Weisshaupt after a false start began converting Masonic lodges in Bavaria to his newly created Illuminism.

In structure the new organization freely borrowed concepts from the Ronan Church as well as the Masonic and Rosicrucian orders. Weishaupt's genius was to utilize the Roman practice of priestly confession as well as Masonic ritual and some Rosicrucian ones to learn enough from a candidate (Called a Vandal) to allow the order to blackmail the candidate perpetually. Through this process almost no occurrence of treason against the Illuminists has been recorded. While he borrowed confession form the Roman Church he borrowed the calendar along with several degree rituals from the Mansions. Gradually by 1779 Illuminism came to control the majority of German and French Masonic Lodges.

It is imperative to understand that these tainted Lodges were not all the Lodges of those countries but were certainly a majority. Furthermore the Masonic orders in America have their charters from England and Scotland, where the Illuminists never attained a foothold. Illuminism in America came to be seated at Yale University a Senior Society called The Order of Death, The Order, 322, and Bones. Their meeting place is at the Tombs a three story windowless building located just off the Green and on the Yale campus. Their annual meeting is held on Deer Island in the thousand Lakes region of NY.

Primary Illuminist successes were the French revolution, which lasted 11 years and was the most brutal era of mayhem and murder in world history. Conversely the American Revolution that was led mostly by brother Masons also lasted 11 years but contrary to the French revolution had a legitimate goal, and a moral underpinning. Their second success was the Russian Revolution that resulted in the murder of 66 million Russian Orthodox Christians (1) and the destruction of over 900 churches and monasteries.

Illuminism is the foundation upon which communism is built. Karl Marx was a plagiarist, who copied the Illuminist philosophy word for word, in fact he did not even translate it into English where it was published but had it printed in England in old- German script, which was imported from Germany by the printer for just this one job. The commonly ascribed by people like Texie Mars eqiuating illumonism with Masnonry is a tonally bogus concept as we all know. It is based on the false believe that illuminists succeeded in taking over Masonic Lodges in England and Scotland, something that never took place. The abbreviated basic Illuminist philosophy is:

• Abolition of private property rights.
• Progressive Taxation
• Abolition of the right to inheritance.
• Confiscation of all property of members of opposition.
• Centralization of all banking.
• Centralization of all communications.
• Communization of all agrarian production.
• Centralization of all education in the hands of the state.
• Redistribution of the population by force.
• All power vested in the Chairman of the Central committee. Note that these are the basic concepts of communism.

The Masonic bodies in Germany completely disappeared during the late 1930's when the Nazis eliminated all Masonic Lodges in Germany; this certainly removed the Illuminists of Germany completely. In France the The Masonic Grand Orient of France purged the last vestiges of illumonism from their ranks on December 3rd 1913.

The opponents of our order falsely tie us with the Illuminists. (Actually a form of Satanism) I have read a score of books by such authors, almost all of who have not even an inkling of what Masonry is. In fact Mars claims that we have sacrificial practices and pray to the devil. The motivation by many of these opponents is due to our charities and their desire to get that pot of gold for themselves. Most of these so-called Christians are in fact nothing less than a bunch of money-grubbing liars, the time to expose them for what they are is now!

Dr. Krieg is an author his up-coming book Vale will be available soon. His site is www.a2zPublications.com the book will also be available from 1-800-431-1579 .

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