by johnny nemo » Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:53 pm
He mentions that the first person in America to talk about the Illuminati was Myron Fagan.<br>That's not even remotely correct.<br>Myron may have brought it to the forefront, but the first American to mention the Illuminati was George Washington.<br><br>In 1798 John Robinson, a professor at Edinburgh University in Scotland and a Mason, claimed that he was asked to join the Illuminati.<br>He published a book about the Illuminati in 1798 called "Proofs Of A Conspiracy," which states: "An association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out all the religious establishments and overturning all the existing governments.... The leaders would rule the World with uncontrollable power, while all the rest would be employed as tools of the ambition of their unknown superiors."<br><br>“Proofs of a Conspiracy” was sent to George Washington who replied<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>" It was not my intention to doubt that, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the Doctrines of the Illuminati</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.<br><br>The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter..."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw2&fileName=gwpage021.db&recNum=200" target="top">View the original letter</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Thomas Jefferson also mentions Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, in a letter to Bishop James Madison in Philadelphia, dated Jan. 31, 1800<br><br>"<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The tranquility of our consciences is not troubled by the reproach of aiming at the ruin or overthrow of states or thrones</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> As Weishaupt lived under the tyranny of a despot and priests, he knew that caution was necessary even in spreading information, and the principles of pure morality. He proposed therefore to lead the Free Masons to adopt this object and to make the objects of their institution the diffusion of science and virtue. He proposed to initiate new members into his body by gradations proportioned to his fears of the thunderbolts of tyranny."<br><br>"This has given an air of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment, the subversion of the Masonic order, and is the colour for the ravings against him of Robinson, Barruel & Morse, whose real fears are that the craft would be endangered by the spreading of information, reason, and natural morality among men."<br><br>" If Weishaupt had written here, where no secrecy is necessary in our endeavors to render men wise and virtuous, he would not have thought of any secret machinery for that purpose."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=johnnynemo>johnny nemo</A> at: 6/12/06 12:58 pm<br></i>
