Who Are Freemasons?

“Some of the greatest names of the American Revolution were Masons: Ethan Alien, Edmund Burke, John Claypoole, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, William Daws, John Paul Jones, Robert Livingston, Paul Revere, Colonel Benjamin Tupper, and George Washington. 1776, as well as being the year of the Union foundation, was the year a secretive organisation called The Illuminati, which was founded by Adam Weishaupt, a professor of Canon Law in Bavaria, Germany.

ADAM WEISHAUPT

Weishaupt was born in 1748, and was credited as being “the profoundest conspirator that has ever existed.” He had received early training under the Jesuits, but as a rebellious youth, turned to radical and occult philosophy. Before Weishaupt’s Illuminati was formed, there were many other secret societies
such as the German Illuminists, and the French Martinists or French Illumines. Under the guidance of the latter sect, a wave of occultism swept over France, and lodges everywhere became centres of instruction on the Cabala, magic, divination,
alchemy, and theosophy; masonic rites degenerated into ceremonies for the evocation of spirits - women, who were now admitted to these assemblies, screamed, fainted, fell into convulsions, and lent themselves to experiments of the most horrible kind. Weishaupt, “the profoundest conspirator,” capitalized on the existing and rivaling societies, and succeeded in consolidating control over many of them. From the very
beginning, he conspired to capture the Freemasons. In 1777, Adam Weishaupt became a member of the Freemasons, which itself was,
and still is, an extremely secret society. The Illuminati infiltration of the Masonic Lodges was so thorough, that for many years the European Lodges were filled with “Illumination.” The Illuminati became an order of the Freemasons and the Freemasons became an order of the Illuminati. The Illuminati used the symbol of the “all-seeing eye,” as did the Freemasons, and other groups such as the Rosicrucians. In fact, all three are believed to be linked. Weishaupt’s Illuminati organisation promoted a long-term program of abolition:

1. Abolition of monarchy and all ordered government
2. Abolition of private property
3. Abolition of inheritance
4. Abolition of patriotism
5. Abolition of the family (i.e. of marriage and all morality), and the institution of the communal education of children.
6. . Abolition of religion. The replacement of the worship of God by the worship of “reason” - rationalism.

Members were enlisted and brought into the Order, as Novices. These people were “illuminated” with humanitarian ideas and conditioned to embrace the “higher mysteries.” As they “progressed” they were promoted to higher levels but only as they proved satisfactory, and reached the inner circles, were they allowed to see the real goal - “World Rulership.” Only a handful of most trusted initiates of the innermost circles, knew that Weishaupt was the founder and head of the society. The society had immense success in attracting prominent men throughout Europe, and even in America. In 1798, George Washington, although a Mason, warned of the doctrine of the Illuminati. The Illuminati played a leading role in the French Revolution of 1789-94, using the “Jacobins Club,” as a front. This club had a membership of 1300, composed of some of the most influential men of France. They called for a New World Order and a
“Universal Republic.”