Jacobins

On the 19th of December, the King vetoed the bill against the priests.

That night, at the Jacobin Club, the debate was hot.

Verchaux, a Swiss, offered the society a sword for the first general who should vanquish the enemies of freedom.

Isnard, the wrath of the House, a Southerner, drew the sword and leaped up into the rostrum crying, Behold the sword of the exterminating angel! It will be victorious! France will give a loud call, and all the people will respond.

This is not an ambassador's treachery, but a loving woman's weakness.

Nothing but love, the great eternal magician, could impel a woman to put the gigantic sword of the revolution in that frivolous rake's hand.

Do you allude to the demagogue Isnard kissed at the Jacobin Club? Alas, Madame, I speak of the one suspended over your head.

Therefore, it is your opinion that we are wrong to accept de Narbonne as Minister of War? You would do better to take at once his successor, du Maurier.

In the words of their Jeremiah, Fisher Ames, democracy is a troubled spirit, fated never to rest, and whose dreams, if it sleeps, presents only visions of hell.

So thinking and feeling, they had witnessed the triumph of Jefferson with genuine alarm, for Jefferson they held to be no better than a Jacobin, bent upon subverting the social order and saturated with all the heterodox notions of Voltaire and Thomas Paine.

The appointment of the aged Samuel Bishop as collector of New Haven was evidence enough to the Federalist mind, which fed upon suspicion, that Jefferson intended to reward his son, Abraham Bishop, for political services.

The younger Bishop was a stench in their nostrils, for at a recent celebration of the Republican victory, he had shocked the good people of Connecticut by characterizing Jefferson as the illustrious chief who, once insulted, now presides over the Union, and comparing him with the savior of the world, who, once insulted, now presides over the universe.

And this had not been his first transgression.

He was known as an active and intemperate rebel against the standing order.

No wonder that Theodore Dwight voiced the alarm of all New England Federalists in an oration at New Haven in which he declared that according to the doctrines of Jacobinism, the greatest villain in the community is the fittest person to make and execute the laws.

We have now, said he, reached the consummation of democratic blessedness.

Left is left is left, if you didn't know.

From the Jacobins and the French Revolution to the Fabian socialists in Britain to Canadian military alliance with the PLA, left is left is left is the Singham network, is George Soros, Open Society Foundation.

Left is left is left.

And you have to understand that, that it's a socialist conspiracy where everybody on the left is a part because they're afraid that the right somehow represents Hitler and the Nazis when Nazis were actually national socialists.

And so in many ways, Eric actually anticipates the founding fathers, like in the Franklin tradition, Ben Franklin tradition, or the Jeffersonian tradition, way ahead of time.

And Spinoza's writings would go on to influence a guy named Adam Weishaupt and another cadre of figures close to him ideologically, the Jacobins.

The Jacobins were influenced by this ideological strain of atheistic Platonism, which saw the individual being enlightened directly by nature and the forms of nature.

And as Spinoza said, if you study nature and study the processes of the world, you're actually studying and understanding the divine essence.

For the divine essence is nothing other than all of reality.

So all these doctrinal things that are cleaned up, what kind of person, again, pays this close attention to the Bible, has this very high level knowledge of the Bible, and then feels like they are the ones that should go in and clean it up and write a book of scripture themselves? So there's a lot of examples of this going on in the Book of Mormon, and I'm just pulling out the Melchizedek Priesthood one because it's really clear and because we know that the Melchizedek Priesthood idea in Mormonism was brought about by Rigdon because it's explicitly stated by David Whitmer.

Okay, next, let's jump into something unusual, the Jacobins.

I didn't know anything about the Jacobins until I read that Colby Townsend article in Dialogue.

So secret combinations, anti-Masonic? No, actually anti-Jacobin.

And this is from the French.

I'll just say Jacobin.

Would you read this, Rebecca? And then I'll read a couple more.

We're just going to give you background on what the Jacobins are all about.

He said, the parties in this conflict are not merely abolitionists and slaveholders.

They are atheists, socialists, communists, red Republicans, Jacobins on one side, and the friends of order and regulated freedom.

That's a very interesting phrase that he chooses there, that freedom necessarily has limits to it.

And this is his phrase to describe a slave-holding society.