Tying Together Jesuitism, Illuminism and Freemasonry

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Quote:"The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation. None is better than the three lower degrees of Free Masonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it, and therefore takes little notice of it. Next to this, the form of a learned or literary society is best suited to our purpose, and had Free Masonry not existed, this cover would have been employed; and it may be much more than a cover, it may be a powerful engine in our hands. By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labours, we may turn the public mind which way we will." - Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati in John Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy, 1793.

Quote:German Masonry appeared a very serious concern, and to be implicated with other subjects with which I had never suspected it to have any connection. I saw it much connected with many occurrences and schisms in the Christian church; I saw that the Jesuits had several times interfered in it; and that most of the exceptionable innovations and dissentions had arisen about the time that the order of Loyola was suppressed; so that it should seem, that these intriguing brethren had attempted to maintain their influence by the help of Free Masonry.

Quote:I know no subject in which this aim at universal influence on the opinions of men, by holding themselves forth as the models of excellence and elegance, is more clearly seen than in the care that they have been pleased to take of Free Masonry. It seems indeed peculiarly suited to the talents and taste of that vain and ardent people. Baseless and frivolous, it admits of every form that Gallic refinement can invent, to recommend it to the young, the gay, the luxurious; that class of society which alone deserves their care, because, in one way or another, it leads all other classes of society.

Quote:It has accordingly happened, that the homely Free Masonry imported from England has been totally changed in every country of Europe, either by the imposing ascendancy of French brethren, who are to be found every where, ready to instruct the world; or by the importation of the doctrines, and ceremonies, and ornaments of the Parisian Lodges. Even England; the birth-place of Masonry, has experienced the French innovations; and all the repeated injunctions, admonitions, and reproofs of the old Lodges, cannot prevent those in different parts of the kingdom from admitting the French novelties, full of tinsel and glitter, and high-sounding titles.

Quote:"that nothing touching the religion or government shall ever be spoken of in the Lodge."

But the Lodges in other countries followed the example of France, and have frequently become the rendezvous of innovators in religion and politics, and other disturbers of the public peace. In short, I have found that the covert of a Mason Lodge had been employed in every country for venting and propagating sentiments in religion and politics, that could not have circulated in public without exposing the author to great danger. I found, that this impunity had gradually encouraged men of licentious principles to become more bold, and to teach doctrines subversive of all our notions of morality - of all our confidence in the moral government of the universe - of all our hopes of improvement in a future state of existence - and of all satisfaction and contentment with our present life, so long as we live in a state of civil subordination.

Quote:It was again detected, and seemingly broken up; but it had by this time taken so deep root that it still subsists without being detected, and has spread into all the countries of Europe. It took its first rise among the Free Masons, but is totally different from Free Masonry. It was not, however, the mere protection gained by the secrecy of the Lodges that gave occasion to it, but it arose naturally from the corruptions that had gradually crept into that fraternity, the violence of the party-spirit which pervaded it, and from the total uncertainty and darkness that hangs over the whole of that mysterious Association. It is necessary, therefore, to give some account of the innovations that have been introduced into Free Masonry from the time that it made its appearance on the continent of Europe as a mystical Society, possessing secrets different from those of the mechanical employment whose name it assumed, and thus affording entertainment and occupation to persons of all ranks and professions.

Quote:The Association of which I have been speaking, is the Order of ILLUMINATI, founded in 1775, by Dr. Adam Weishaupt, professor of Canon law in the university of Ingolstadt, and abolished in 1786 by the Elector of Bavaria, but revived immediately after, under another name, and in a different form, all over Germany.

All quotes are to be found at:
http://www.bilderberg.org/lucis.htm

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Quote:The defected illuminatus, Professor Vitus Renner, witnessed under
oath on 7 April 1785: "The Illuminati fear nothing more than to be
known under their right name. They hide under the cloak of freemasonry."

http://download.cxs2.info/Lina___Architect...onry__2004_.pdf (p338)

[Rosebery]

Damn - really got to read this thing quicker!

Cheers

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Quote:Joseph Johann Adam Weishaupt was born on the 6th of February 1748
in Ingolstadt, by the Danube, in Bavaria, into an assimilated Jewish
family. (Pouget de Saint Andres, "Les auteurs caches de la revolution
francaise", p. 16.) His father was a professor at the University of
Ingolstadt. ("The Trail of the Serpent", Hawthorne, 1936, p. 68.) He was
educated in a Jesuit monastery and studied law, literature, and atheist
philosophy. In 1773, the twenty-five-year-old Weishaupt left the Jesuit
Order. This may have been because he had developed his independent
ideology, but the subsequent dissolution of the Jesuit Order in 1773 by
Pope Clement XIV may also have been a factor. The Jesuit Order in
France, Spain, Portugal, Naples and Austria was dissolved. A few years
later, Weishaupt's "Perfektibilist" Order began to work against the Roman
Catholic Church. In 1814, however, the Jesuit Order was re-established
and through new infiltrations became more powerful than ever before.

In 1775, Professor Weishaupt became a member of the lodge Theodor
zum guten Rat within eclectic freemasonry. Later, Weishaupt was to use
this foothold in Munich to allow his Illuminati to infiltrate all the other
Masonic lodges, due to the fact that he wielded great influence over the
lodge through its Grand Master, Professor Franz Benedict (Xaver) von
Baader, who had joined the Illuminati.

It was Baron Adolf von Knigge (born 16th October 1752 in Bredenbeck,
died 6th May 1796 in Bremen), Adam Weishaupt's closest collaborator,
who later helped him to gain entrance to different Masonic
organisations. (Pat Brooks, "The Return of the Puritans", North Carolina,
1976, pp. 68-69.) In 1777, he received the highest degree of the Knights
Templar (Knight of Cyprus) in Hanau. The 27-year-old Knigge joined the
Illuminati in Frankfurt in 1780 under the alias of Philo (the original Philo
was a Jewish scholar).

The Illuminati began to work especially actively after the entrance of
Adolf von Knigge in July 1779. Baron von Knigge also wrote the book
"Concerning Association with People". He brought together many
powerful men.

It was largely thanks to Philo that the organisation spread through the
whole of Germany. Both financial and sexual favours were used to gain
control of people in high places.

In time, the Illuminati won control of every Masonic order in the world.
Important financiers joined the organisation: Speyer, Schuster, Stern and
others. The Jews had therefore gained a very powerful position. Their base
of operations was Frankfurt am Main.

Jüri Lina - Under the Sign of the Scorpion (2002) (p24)

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Quote:The Illuminati

The Jesuits, the precursors of the organization, continued to be the source of
much intrigue, and were responsible for the formation of their predecessors,
the Illuminati. John Robison, in Proofs of a Conspiracy, written in 1798,
which exposed the devious evolution of the Illuminati, remarked of German
Freemasonry, “I saw it much connected with many occurrences and schisms
in the Christian church; I saw that the Jesuits had several times interfered in
it; and that most of the exceptionable innovations and dissentions had arisen
about the time that the order of Loyola was suppressed; so that it should seem,
that these intriguing brethren had attempted to maintain their influence by
the help of Free Masonry.”6 Therefore, when Pope Clement XIV dissolved
the Jesuits in 1773, Adam Weishaupt, referred to as “a Jesuit in disguise” by
his closest associate, Baron von Knigge, established the Illuminati as a secret
order modeled on them.7

According to Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman, in To Eliminate the Opiate, it
was the founder of the Rothschild dynasty who convinced Weishaupt to accept
the Frankist doctrine, and who afterwards financed the Illuminati.8 A Jewish
goldsmith, born Amschel Moses Bauer, who decided to settle in Frankfurt.
He opened a Counting House, and over the door placed his sign, a red shield,
featuring a “Star of David”. The shied is the same flag granted to the Prague Jews
by Charles IV, and is in accordance with the Frankist doctrine of Edom or Esau,
and the red banner of the Khazars, or Red Jews. As “red shield” in German is
“Rot Schild”, Bauer’s son, Amschel Mayer Bauer, took on the name Rothschild.
It is Rothschild who said, “give me control of a nation’s money, and
I care not who makes her laws.” Rothschild’s wealth was largely achieved
through his association with the family of Hesse-Kassel. Rothschild served a
three year apprenticeship in Hanover at the Bank of Oppenheim, at the service
to Lt. Gen. Baron von Estorff, who was the principal adviser to Landgrave
Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel. Frederick II was a member of the Order of the
Garter, as well as the wealthiest man in Europe, much of it inherited from his
father, Wilhelm VIII, brother of the King of Sweden.

The House of Hesse is descended from Philip I the “Magnanimous”
Landgrave of Hesse, who was a leading champion of the Protestant
Reformation. In the early Middle Ages, Hesse was a part of Thuringia, but in
the War of the Thuringian Succession, in the thirteenth century, Hesse gained
its independence and became an Earldom within the Holy Roman Empire.
The state existed until the death of Philip in 1567. Philip was a descendant
of Margaret, the sister of Frederick I Margrave of Brandenburg, who had
married Hermann Landgrave of Hessen. Philip married Chistine of Saxony,
whose mother was Barbara of Jagellon, a great-granddaughter of Holy Roman
Emperor Sigismund. Despite Philip’s intentions, Hessen was split among
his four sons, but the only two to states to survive were Hessen-Kassel and
Hessen-Darmstadt. Philip’s daughter, Elizabeth, married Ludwig VI Elector
of the Palatinate of the Rhine, grandfather of Frederick V.

Frederick II of Hessen-Kassel was the great-grandson of Elizabeth
Charlotte, the sister of Frederick V of the Palatinate. Elizabeth Charlotte was also
the grandmother to Frederick I King of Prussia. Frederick II of Hessen-Kassel was
a direct descendant of “Maurice the Learned” of Hesse-Kassel, uncle to Frederick
IV of the Palatine. Maurice had procured the services of prominent Rosicrucians
and alchemists, like Michael Maier, while the town of Kassel itself, according to
Francis Yates, was where the Rosicrucian Manifestos were first published. Frederick
II of Hessen-Kassel married Maria Princess of Hanover, cousin of Frederick II the
Great King of Prussia, and the daughter of George II King of England.

Baron von Estorff advised the Landgrave that Mayer Amschel showed
an exceptional ability to increase wealth through his investments. Mayer
Amschel arranged to hire 16,800 Hessian soldiers to assist the nephew of
Federick’s wife, King George III of England, in suppressing the American
Rebellion. When Frederick II of Hessen-Kassel died in 1785, Rothschild
obtained total influence over his successor, Karl’s brother Elector Wilhelm IX,
who he managed to make one of the wealthiest monarchs of his time.

In 1773, Mayer Rothschild had invited twelve other wealthy and
influential men, to convince them to pool their resources in a plot to bring
about a new world order. Thus was Adam Weishaupt commissioned to
establish the Illuminati. Though born Jewish, as a young boy, Weishaupt was
educated by the Jesuits. On May 1, 1776, three years after the Jesuit order was
disbanded by the Church, Weishaupt announced the foundation of the Order of
Perfectibilists, which later became more widely known as the Illuminati.

The Illuminati is the one instance in modern history where we have
verifiable evidence of a large-scale conspiracy. Weishaupt dreamed of a utopian
superstate with the abolition of private property, social authority and nationality.
In this Gnostic state, human beings would live in “harmony” within a universal
brotherhood, based on free love, peace, spiritual wisdom and equality. Weishaupt’s
principal targets for reform were the monarchy, the Church and the aristocracy.
The doctrines of the Illuminati, according to Albert Pike, a 33rd degree
Scottish Rite Mason, were, like their predecessors, the Templars, Rosicrucians,
and Freemasons, the ancient tradition of the Kabbalah:

The Occult Science of the Ancient Magi was concealed under the shadows
of the Ancient Mysteries: it was imperfectly revealed or rather disfigured by
the Gnostics: it is guessed at under the obscurities that cover the pretended
crimes of the Templars; and it is found enveloped in enigmas that seem
impenetrable, in the Rites of the Highest Masonry.

Magism was the Science of Abraham and Orpheus, of Confucius and
Zoroaster. It was the dogmas of this Science that were engraven on the tables
of stone by Enoch and Trismegistus. Moses purified and re-veiled them, for
that is the meaning of the word reveal. He covered them with a new veil,
when he made of the Holy Kabbalah the exclusive heritage of the people of
Israel, and the inviolable Secret of its priests. The Mysteries of Thebes and
Eleusis preserved among the nations some symbols of it, already altered,
and the mysterious key whereof was lost among the instruments of an evergrowing
superstition. Jerusalem, the murderess of her prophets, and so often
prostituted to the false gods of the Syrians and Babylonians, had at length in
its turn lost the Holy Word, when a Prophet announced by the Magi by the
consecrated Star of Initiation [Sirius], came to rend asunder the worn veil
of the old Temple, in order to give the Church a new tissue of legends and
symbols, that still and ever conceal from the Profane, and ever preserves to
the Elect the same truths.

Weishaupt’s poor diplomatic skills prevented him from successfully
preaching for the order, until he recruited Freiherr von Knigge, a man well known
in Masonic circles. By the great international convention of Freemasons held
at Wilhelmsbad, in 1782, the “Illuminated Freemasonry”, which Knigge and
Weishaupt now proclaimed the to be the only “pure” Freemasonry, had already
gained such a reputation that almost all the members of the convention sought
admission to it. A number of the most prominent representatives of Freemasonry
and “enlightenment” became Illuminati, including, in 1783, Duke Ferdinand of
Brunswick, the foremost leader of European Freemasonry. Ferdinand was the
great-grandson of George I of England, and married Augusta, a sister of George
III. Other famous members were Goethe, Herder and Nicolai.

Within a short time the Illuminati had lodges all over Germany and
Austria, while branches were founded in Italy, Hungary, France, and Switzerland.
However, it was the Illuminati plot to overthrow the Hapsburgs in 1784, exposed
by police spies who had infiltrated the order, which led to the Bavarian government
banning all secret societies, and driving the followers of Weishaupt underground.
Nevertheless, suspicion remained that its members might still be working in
secret, spreading subversive ideas, and scheming behind the scenes.10 Prior to
the French Revolution, Weishaupt is to have said, “Salvation does not lie where
strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascends to
heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest. The
revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.”

http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/book/T..._Illuminati.pdf (p125-p128)

[Light Invisible]

Evidence for Jesuits and freemasonry interesting concept.

Well let me see. Regardless of what anyone thinks Jesuits are Catholics so there should be something about it on the Papal website, oh here we go:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congrega...masonic_en.html

Quote:CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH

DECLARATION ON MASONIC ASSOCIATIONS

It has been asked whether there has been any change in the Church’s decision in regard to Masonic associations since the new Code of Canon Law does not mention them expressly, unlike the previous Code.

This Sacred Congregation is in a position to reply that this circumstance in due to an editorial criterion which was followed also in the case of other associations likewise unmentioned inasmuch as they are contained in wider categories.

Therefore the Church’s negative judgment in regard to Masonic association remains unchanged since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful who enrol in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.

It is not within the competence of local ecclesiastical authorities to give a judgment on the nature of Masonic associations which would imply a derogation from what has been decided above, and this in line with the Declaration of this Sacred Congregation issued on 17 February 1981 (cf. AAS 73 1981 pp. 240-241; English language edition of L’Osservatore Romano, 9 March 1981).

In an audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II approved and ordered the publication of this Declaration which had been decided in an ordinary meeting of this Sacred Congregation.

Rome, from the Office of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 26 November 1983.

Joseph Card. RATZINGER
Prefect

+ Fr. Jerome Hamer, O.P.
Titular Archbishop of Lorium
Secretary

Note that today Ratzinger has actually been promoted to Pope.

[MC David]

Quote:Evidence for Jesuits and freemasonry interesting concept.

Well let me see. Regardless of what anyone thinks Jesuits are Catholics so there should be something about it on the Papal website, oh here we go:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congrega...masonic_en.html

Quote:CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH

DECLARATION ON MASONIC ASSOCIATIONS

It has been asked whether there has been any change in the Church’s decision in regard to Masonic associations since the new Code of Canon Law does not mention them expressly, unlike the previous Code.

This Sacred Congregation is in a position to reply that this circumstance in due to an editorial criterion which was followed also in the case of other associations likewise unmentioned inasmuch as they are contained in wider categories.

Therefore the Church’s negative judgment in regard to Masonic association remains unchanged since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful who enrol in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.

It is not within the competence of local ecclesiastical authorities to give a judgment on the nature of Masonic associations which would imply a derogation from what has been decided above, and this in line with the Declaration of this Sacred Congregation issued on 17 February 1981 (cf. AAS 73 1981 pp. 240-241; English language edition of L’Osservatore Romano, 9 March 1981).

In an audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II approved and ordered the publication of this Declaration which had been decided in an ordinary meeting of this Sacred Congregation.

Rome, from the Office of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 26 November 1983.

Joseph Card. RATZINGER
Prefect

+ Fr. Jerome Hamer, O.P.
Titular Archbishop of Lorium
Secretary

Note that today Ratzinger has actually been promoted to Pope.

Well that settles it

[MC David]

On a more serious note we know that the 'official' story is often very deceptive & inaccurate so that doesn't mean a whole lot to me but I have also yet to see any conclusive proof of modern day Jesuit/Freemason collaboration either.

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Quote:Masonic Lodge in Italy appoints Catholic priest as chaplain, claims "openness" to Catholic Church

Rome, Aug 8, 2005 / 12:00 am (CNA).- In an unusual show of “openness” to the Catholic Church, a Masonic lodge in Italy has announced the appointment of a Catholic priest as chaplain. The news was announced during an address to members of the lodge by Grand Master Fabio Venzi of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Italy. During his address announcing the appointment of the priest, whom he did not identify by name, Venzi explained what he considers to be the relationship between freemasonry and the Catholic Church. “If we examine the documents at our disposal and if we look at the contrasts of the presumed incompatibility of the Catholic Church with freemasonry, we might get the impression that we find ourselves in the presence of a comedy of errors,” he said.

“The documents of the Holy See,” he continued, “are often based on Masonic realities which we consider ‘irregular,’ and therefore not representative of true Masonic tradition.” “The rituals that have been studied and are considered typical of Masonic thought are not known exactly, but this does not appear to be a question of little importance, since we know that rituals can vary from lodge to lodge.”

Likewise, Venzi stated that “the first chapter of the book Freemasonry, by Zbigniew Suchecki of the Pontifical Lateran University and published by the Liberia Editrice Vaticana, notes: ‘During the last century, the Grand Eastern Lodge of France and the Grand Eastern Lodge of Italy were among the most anti-clerical Masonic lodges in the world.’ We hope that in the future, these lodges, which historically have represented the Anglo-Saxon Masonic tradition, not be considered typical.”

On the other hand, Venzi continued, “When a small opening was conceded, this was not done with much intelligence or common sense. I am referring to Canon 2335 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law. Under this norm, there was a sanction for Catholics who were members of organizations that in fact machinantur contra Ecclesiam, that is, that ‘plotted against the Church’.”

Venzi noted that “we have always treated the Holy See with great respect, and we have even named a lodge after Pius II, Enea Silvio Piccolomini. This is unique in the history of freemasonry.”

At the end of address, Venzi announced the appointment of a grand official “who will probably be a part not only of the history of Italian freemasonry, but also of the history of freemasonry in the world, and I don’t think I am wrong. The grand official I am appointing is a priest of the Catholic Church. Let me say it again, of the Catholic Church.”

With this appointment, Venzi claimed to be “making a gesture of openness. Never before has a Masonic lodge made such a gesture towards the Catholic Church, distancing itself from other irregular Masonic lodges that, with their anti-clericalism, have caused much harm to the image of freemasonry in the world.”

“We have played our part and we hope the Church will lay the groundwork and have the patience to deal with the peculiarities and differences within the world of freemasonry,” Venzi said in conclusion.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4581

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Quote:LIBER SAMEKH contains a ritual whose purpose is to achieve union with or
attainment of “the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel”, a
spiritual being unique to each person.22 This could be interpreted as the mystical
experience of union, as awareness of something greater than oneself or as connecting
with one’s higher self. Crowley may have considered Aiwass his own Guardian Angel.
LIBER XV outlines the Gnostic Mass, “one of the official rituals, more specifically the
central ritual of the Ordo Templi Orientis”.23 It could be compared to the Christian
Eucharist. Crowley wrote the mass in 1913 for the O.T.O. It continues to be practiced
by the Gnostic Catholic Church, the ecclesiastical arm of the O.T.O.

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/axismundi/2003...ing_Fathers.pdf

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