James Hadley Billington

Progress would be brought about by a series of revolutions.

Study from Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington to understand how the occult fraternities have created all the revolutions since the French Revolution.

Saint Simon, an Illuminatus, wanted to have a child with Madame de Staël, which would become the Antichrist.

It didn't happen, but anyway, it is significant that the person who personally intervened during the French Revolution and saved Pierre Samuel DuPont's life was Madame de Staël.

I mean, this is why, um, very soon we're going to be doing, uh, two different books at Dave's Analysis.

We're gonna be doing Fire in the Minds of Men, which is the history of the revolutionary faith, written by someone who is a big fan of it, James H. Billington, famous American scholar, head of the, uh, Library of Congress.

So we're gonna be doing that, because he discusses all of the, uh, influences, the occult and esoteric and Masonic and deistic influences on the Founding Fathers, and their kissing cousins, the Marxist revolutionaries, by the way.

Mm-hmm.

But some people regard it as historical gossip, others as hysterical gibberish.

Among the former group, we can find the Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, who has written, The story of the 18th and 19th century secret societies can never be fully reconstructed, but it has been badly neglected, even avoided, one suspects, because the evidence that is available repeatedly leads us into territory equally uncongenial to modern historians in the East and in the West.

Nobody wants to know.

Billington has documented that it is from romantic occultism in general and Bavarian Illuminism in particular that the modern revolutionary tradition as it came to be internationalized under Napoleon and the Restoration descends.

Now just what the future society was that these people are talking about was described in a brief manner by Marilyn Ferguson in her book entitled The Aquarian Conspiracy, and she wrote this, quote, The new world is the old transformed, unquote.

Another clue about what is in store for the future world was offered by Dr. James H. Billington, who received his doctorate as a Rhodes, Rhodes, Rhodes, Rhodes, Rhodes scholar.

Where have you heard that before? You have a Rhodes scholar sitting in the Oval Office right now.

And the old world transformed, of course, would be that old spiritual hierarchy of government where, you know, you have a god king ruling over everybody else, a benevolent, despotic, you know, ruler, right? So somebody who's got all the people's interest in their best heart, you know, they're not an evil dictator, but, you know, they've got everybody's interest in their minds, you know.