Illuminism

They, they said that they had the sun god, which is Nimrod, Semiramis, the moon goddess, and her thousand points of light or the stars, or you could call them star seeds, or the luminaries that they, uh, that, that were their followers.

And so the stars and the luminaries of the idea of Illuminism and Illuminati that comes from Babylon, the mystery religion, uh, that is just the continuation of what we see then in Bohemian Grove, the Minerva wor- Min- Minerva worship, uh, and the, the different rock stars, uh, movie stars.

Well, we call them stars because they're luminaries.

They are followers of the mystery religion.

It influences Spinoza.

It also influences the Illuminists, the French revolutionary Jacobins, and they're influenced by all of this sludge of philosophy coming out of radical Byzantium in France.

Radical Platonism and Byzantium.

By the way, the absolute divine simplicity is a big part of that because that's the platonic starting point.

It's basically just God.

So notice, he's saying that when you study the created world, you're actually learning the essence of God.

And this is what underlies, by the way, the entire philosophy of Weishaupt and the Illuminists.

You understand that this is why the philosophes of the French Revolution, they create the encyclopedia, right? Because even though they don't necessarily believe in a God, they just think that the entire world process is what you call, quote, God.

Now, many of the Gnostics, by the way, would call themselves the perfecti, the perfectibilists.

The later Illuminists of Bavarian Illuminati, they actually take this title of the perfectibilists because they claim to be those who have this sort of achieved elect status.

They're perfect.

The perfecti, they are beyond good and evil.

And then at the use it has made of Freemasonry for its propagandism and for its contemplated destruction of Christianity.

We shall see its depravity perfected by what is called Illuminism, and we shall see that however checked it may have been by the reaction consequent upon the exercises of its first revolution, it has not only outlived that reaction, but has grown wiser for doing an evil more extended and more complete.

We shall see how its chiefs have succeeded in mastering and directing every kind of secret association, whether springing from itself or coming into existence by the force of its example only, and have used and are using them all to its advantage.

We shall see the sleepless vigilance which this organized atheism exercises, and thus come to know that our best, our only resource, is to fly its emissaries and draw nearer in affection and in effect to the teachings of the Church and her supreme visible head on earth, who can never deceive us and whom the hosts of Satan can never deceive.

The scoundrels of Europe found congenial employment in them, and before 20 years elapsed from their first introduction, the lodges were a power in Europe, formidable by the union which subsisted between them all and by the wealth, social position, and unscrupulousness of those who formed their brotherhood.

The principles fashionable, and indeed alone tolerated, in them all before long were the principles of Voltaire and of his school.

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And then at the use it has made of Freemasonry for its propagandism and for its contemplated destruction of Christianity.

We shall see its depravity perfected by what is called Illuminism, and we shall see that however checked it may have been by the reaction consequent upon the exercises of its first revolution, it has not only outlived that reaction, but has grown wiser for doing an evil more extended and more complete.

We shall see how its chiefs have succeeded in mastering and directing every kind of secret association, whether springing from itself or coming into existence by the force of its example only, and have used and are using them all to its advantage.

We shall see the sleepless vigilance which this organized atheism exercises, and thus come to know that our best, our only resource, is to fly its emissaries and draw nearer in affection and in effect to the teachings of the Church and her supreme visible head on earth, who can never deceive us and whom the hosts of Satan can never deceive.

The scoundrels of Europe found congenial employment in them, and before twenty years elapsed from their first introduction the lodges were a power in Europe, formidable by the union which subsisted between them all and by the wealth, social position, and unscrupulousness of those who formed their brotherhood.

The principles fashionable, and indeed alone tolerated, in them all before long were the principles of Voltaire and of his school.

This led in time to The Union and Illuminism of Masonry End of Chapter 4

Chapter 5 of The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization This is a LibriVox recording.

With your permission, then, I shall glance tonight first at the rise and the nature of atheism itself and its rapid advance among those sections of Christians most liable from position and surroundings to be led astray by it, and then at the use it has made of Freemasonry for its propagandism and for its contemplated destruction of Christianity.

We shall see its depravity perfected by what is called Illuminism, and we shall see that however checked it may have been by the reaction consequent upon the exercises of its first revolution, it has not only outlived that reaction, but has grown wiser for doing an evil more extended and more complete.

We shall see how its chiefs have succeeded in mastering and directing every kind of secret association, whether springing from itself or coming into existence by the force of its example only, and have used and are using them all to its advantage.

We shall see the sleepless vigilance which this organized atheism exercises, and thus come to know that our best, our only resource is to fly its emissaries and draw nearer in affection and in effect to the teachings of the Church and her supreme visible head on earth, who can never deceive us and whom the hosts of Satan can never deceive.

The scoundrels of Europe found congenial employment in them, and before twenty years elapsed from their first introduction, the lodges were a power in Europe, formidable by the union which subsisted between them all and by the wealth, social position, and unscrupulousness of those who formed their brotherhood.

The principles fashionable and indeed alone tolerated in them all before long were the principles of Voltaire and of his school.

This led in time to The Union and Illuminism of Masonry End of Chapter 4

Chapter 5 of The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization This is a LibriVox recording.

And then at the use it has made of Freemasonry for its propagandism and for its contemplated destruction of Christianity.

We shall see its depravity perfected by what is called Illuminism, and we shall see that however checked it may have been by the reaction consequent upon the exercises of its first revolution, it has not only outlived that reaction, but has grown wiser for doing an evil more extended and more complete.

We shall see how its chiefs have succeeded in mastering and directing every kind of secret association, whether springing from itself or coming into existence by the force of its example only, and have used and are using them all to its advantage.

We shall see the sleepless vigilance which this organized atheism exercises, and thus come to know that our best, our only resource is to fly its emissaries and draw nearer in affection and in effect to the teachings of the Church and her supreme visible head on earth, who can never deceive us and whom the hosts of Satan can never deceive.

rakes.The scoundrels of Europe found congenial employment in them, and before twenty years elapsed from their first introduction, the lodges were a power in Europe, formidable by the union which subsisted between them all, and by the wealth, social position, and unscrupulousness of those who formed their brotherhood.

The principles fashionable, and indeed alone tolerated, in them all before long were the principles of Voltaire and of his school.

This led in time to The Union and Illuminism of Masonry.

End of chapter 4 Chapter 5 of The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization This is a LibriVox recording.

With your permission, then, I shall glance tonight first at the rise and the nature of atheism itself, and its rapid advance among those sections of Christians most liable from position and surroundings to be led astray by it, and then at the use it has made of Freemasonry for its propagandism and for its contemplated destruction of Christianity.

We shall see its depravity perfected by what is called Illuminism, and we shall see that however checked it may have been by the reaction consequent upon the exercises of its first revolution, it has not only outlived that reaction, but has grown wiser for doing an evil more extended and more complete.

We shall see how its chiefs have succeeded in mastering and directing every kind of secret association, whether springing from itself or coming into existence by the force of its example only, and have used and are using them all to its advantage.

We shall see the sleepless vigilance which this organized atheism exercises, and thus come to know that our best, our only resource is to fly its emissaries and draw nearer in affection and in effect to the teachings of the Church and her supreme visible head on earth, who can never deceive us and whom the hosts of Satan can never deceive.

The scoundrels of Europe found congenial employment in them, and before twenty years elapsed from their first introduction, the lodges were a power in Europe, formidable by the union which subsisted between them all, and by the wealth, social position, and unscrupulousness of those who formed their brotherhood.

The principles fashionable, and indeed alone tolerated, in them all before long were the principles of Voltaire and of his school.

This led in time to The Union and Illuminism of Masonry End of Chapter Four

Chapter 5 of The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization This is a LibriVox recording.