Freemasonry & Anarchism

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Origin of the Circle-A

An early occasion when the encircled A was used was in Stephan Michelspacher book Spiegel der Kunst und Natur (The Mirror of Art and Nature) which was published in Augsburg 1615. This was an Alchemical work strongly influenced by Agrippa's view of the Kabbalah and magic. Adam McLean describes the centre panel as "two circular diagrams with the German GOTT (the name of God) around the outside, and also the Alpha and Omega @ and the monograph which may be the name of God, Agla.[1] This represents the beginning - alpha - within the end - omega (the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. This relates to the claim related in the Book of Revelation that Jesus was "the "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last" (22.13). Many Anarchists have been Freemasons, and rosicrucian imagery of this type was used by the Golden Dawn. The Anarchist (and police spy) Theodor Reuss was associated with William Wynn Westcott, one of the founders of the Golden Dawn, before setting up the Ordo Templi Orientis. Two offshoots of this - Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis and Aleister Crowley's Thelema used the formulation "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law", which many have taken up as an anarchist slogan.



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http://eng.anarchopedia.org/anarchist_symb...Anarchist_usage



It may come as a shock to many Anarchists out there that three of the main historical ideological founders of contemporary Anarchism - i.e. Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Michael Bakunin and Peter Alexander Kropotkin - were all members of Masonic lodges.

Bakunin’s lodge, otherwise known as ‘The International Social Democrat Alliance’, actually published a manifesto which undoubtedly built upon and developed the original prototype document credited to Weishaupt’s Illuminati, actually paraphrasing or plagiarising it in places!

Proudhon was part of a lodge cryptically entitled ‘The Black International’ of the Illuminati, in contrast to other parts or factions of the same umbrella organisation that was either called the ‘Red’ International/Illuminati and representing Communist ideology or the ‘Gold’ International representing Capitalist free marketeers etc.

The political philosophy of Nihilism, originally devised by Shabbetai Zevi, Jacob Frank and the Frankists was developed by Mikhail Bakunin. Bakunin was a Grand Orient Freemason, a disciple of Weishaupt, and an avowed Satanist. Bakunin left Russia in 1842 and moved to Paris where he met Marx. He participated in the 1848 French Revolution, and then moved to Germany where he called for the overthrow of the Habsburg Empire.

The most famous episode of Bakunin’s later years was his quarrel with Marx. While living in Geneva in 1868, he joined the socialist First International.] At the same time, however, he enrolled his followers in a semi-secret Social Democratic Alliance, which had a direct affiliation to the Illuminati, and which he conceived as a revolutionary avant-garde within the International. The First International was opposed to Bakunin’s activities, and at a congress in 1872 at The Hague, Marx secured the expulsion of Bakunin and his followers from the International. The resulting split in the revolutionary movement in Europe and the United States persisted for many years.

In the first meeting of Social Democratic Alliance, Bakunin openly professed atheism, and called for the Illuminati goals of the abolition of marriage, property, and of all social and religious institutions. In the Catechism of a Revolutionist, published by Bakunin, was included the famous passage, defining the mentality of a terrorist:

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it.

He despises public opinion. He hates and despises the social morality of his time, its motives and manifestations. Everything which promotes the success of the revolution is moral, everything which hinders it is immoral. The nature of the true revolutionist excludes all romanticism, all tenderness, all ecstasy, all love.

Nihilism’s political philosophy rejected all religious and political authority, social traditions, and traditional morality as standing in opposition to “freedom”. Every state thus became the enemy, and the enemy was ferociously attacked using terrorism and assassination. Reflecting the dictum of Weishaupt, Bakunin sought, “the unchaining of what is today called the evil passions and the destruction of what is called public order,” and made the declaration, still identified with nihilism: “Let us put our trust in the eternal spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unsearchable and eternally creative source of all life ­ the passion for destruction is also a creative passion!”


http://www.rosenoire.org/articles/weishaupt.php


alot more over at the anarchist discussion forums
http://flag.blackened.net/forums/viewtopic...=22&t=75234

[JazzRoc]

Huh. Yep I was shocked. I don't care for Bakunin or Proudhon, but Kropotkin's my kind of bloke.

I stick Masons in the same box as Zionists. With sawdust, and to the compost heap, and a bit of thermophilic decomposition.