durabone
Jedi Council Member
As you might remember, I pored over Stanley Deyo’s “Cosmic Conspiracy” and reviewed it here: http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=10474.0 Among the references I found there was a book about the history of the “Illuminati” dated 1798. Believing it to be typographical error, I set out to ascertain the facts. Good idea.
Up until three weeks ago, I had was DONE with internet ranklings about the Illuminati. “The Illuminati did this,” “we have proof of Illuminati involvement,” “the Illuminati want to take over the world,” etc. These words had become like an over-worn advertising slogan like - “Lite” - and held about as much appeal for me as wet cheese.
Despite my exposure to these ideas via David Icke in 1997, and his harping on the theme in such detail, I had become downright sick of hearing of mystery degrees above 33rd in freemasonry, the “Bohemian Grove” blah, blah, blah. There is no doubt that there are secret societies exercising their agenda, and no doubt the adherents, adepts, and adjutants of the very order are the ones most controlled by its agenda. Or so goes one mindset.
But in reading Robison’s seminal work, for the first time, I was exposed to some real data concerning the "defunct" organization, it origins, and its make up. I became aware of many historical truths and what I now know to be an extremely important series of events that occurred during the formation of the revolution of the United States 230 years ago. Robison himself is an Accepted Mason, and he has stepped outside of his limits as such in the interest of warning mason and non-mason alike of the dangers which the new and towering Illuminati of his day posed - to all future generations. And despite his well-substantiated and distinctly unorthodox view of events during the days of the formation of America, we today would be hard pressed to find one University lecture in America today even at the graduate level, which breathes life into what is certainly a momentous monograph of epic proportions - one that perhaps might be gratefully forgotten by many today.
The value of Robison’s work as a historical chronicle might be outdone by its worth into as an insight to how narcissism and sociopathy affected a pre-electronic age of feather-pen-driven academia. He offers some decent perspectives on human character, and might have been an interesting participant in some of the threads here on political ponerology and psychopathy. Inasmuch as he was an established scholar and an authority on current events in the late eighteenth century, we might expect some interesting facts to jump from his pages. So, the first point I will make is that you will not be dis-appointed. He is both eloquent and effective at substantiation.
And though it is clear that Robison had to the split hairs of critique to state his case in a way that kept with his academic credibility, one can definitely hear through it all how disgusted he truly is. And although the tine of his tongue is quite incisive enough as-it-is, I cannot help but wonder how much further he could have gone in today’s more liberal academic climate.
Even his restrained portrayal of Adam Weisphaut as a sycophant and sociopath is nevertheless - stunning. And my attempt to relate this and other mysteries from his book must then therefore be done with utmost respect, both to Robison, and to all alive today who follow the traditions set down by folk like Weisphaut and Ramsay so long ago. So since my impressions of this work are now revealed, let me throttle back and try to let the facts speak for themselves.
One of the rules of the order as spelled out by Robison is that members must forgo all personal agenda, and relinquish their lives and wills to the advanced members whose motives remain secret. So whether we simply follow blindly, or whether we term it “Weaving Spiders come not here” we must concede that the ability for Masons and the like to see what is above them (in rank) is not.
And even as the Order ordained its secrets to be the most high, their system military-style rule did not even in Weishaupt’s day vindicate those that stamped out of their minds the ability and right to think for themselves, in order to follow. Naturally it occurs to me as a reader, that it is much easier for parent to convince child of the value and reward for such blind following than it has ever been for educated adults to contract each other the same.
So if you are skull-and-bones, or maybe a recent initiate in the grove, or maybe you are an advancing mason, curious about the ranks to come, YOU, as a reasoning human, must at least be interested enough in history to see that a work of such caliber as Robison’s cannot be safely dismissed because of any words of modern propaganda today. And if you dismiss such a well-researched work because of weak ilk like wikipedia: _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robison_(physicist)#The_conspiracy_theorist, then that says a lot about you.
The act of submitting to an authority - any authority - does not absolve anyone of personal responsibility for such a decision and all that follows. And when an authority is secretive and known to have manipulated world events to some unclear end, there is all the more reason for the thinking person to investigate matters for themselves. Find Robison’s work here on-line, _http://www.scribd.com/doc/792170/Proofs-of-a-Conspiracy-by-John-Robison and you have few excuses left.
REVIEW
Imagine a world where all men are created equally, therefore treated equally, with freedom and justice for all. Imagine an organization or state which expounds these principles without the righteous trappings of religion. Imagine further that you can be a part of it irrespective of whether you yourself exercise morality, or none at all. Stop worrying! All you selfish, greedy, licentious folk; you can have freedom - from morality, we welcome you. Under the cataleptic cry of brotherly love, we can be all what we want to be. Join us in shaking a stick at evil religion, and we will wipe out their silly superstitions forever.
This is a poorly constructed flavoring of how Robison portrays what Weishaupt created. Like many things that I write, it is a mass of both overstatement and understatement. But it might serve as a segue into the pointed views of Robison. He sets out four chapters in his book:
Schisms in Freemasonry
The Illuminati
The German Union
The French Revolution
He offers a course of expose that begins with establishing the older masonic tradition as present in England circa 1648 with the admission of Ashmole into the Lodge of Warrington. He then chronicles the migration of these traditions into France and Germany. He talks of masonic aspersions of the Jesuits, who undoubtedly served as the conduit between the Catholics and masonry during their evictions from the Lodges. He talks of how the family Stuart took freemasonry with them to the continent of Europe.
In France then we see a rapid evolution of the system from three to as many a fifty degrees in as short a time as four decades. So Robison is revealed as a traditionalist, and we might detect some note of resentment for the new order of Weishaupt. But the author admits as much, and assures us that his glowing historical perspective is necessary to provide a framework for outside readers. Fortunate for us that he did so, because the world of publishing and academic dialogue of 1776 is so foreign to what we know today as to surely be opaque to the many of us like me who are not great students of history. Robison shows how the notion of brotherly love can be used as a smokescreen for many things, such as, censorship vis-avis the German Union, and revolution as in the demise of French Royalty.
I go on in my notes to blow-by-blow and page-by-page, but I think I'll stop this post here.
Cheers
Up until three weeks ago, I had was DONE with internet ranklings about the Illuminati. “The Illuminati did this,” “we have proof of Illuminati involvement,” “the Illuminati want to take over the world,” etc. These words had become like an over-worn advertising slogan like - “Lite” - and held about as much appeal for me as wet cheese.
Despite my exposure to these ideas via David Icke in 1997, and his harping on the theme in such detail, I had become downright sick of hearing of mystery degrees above 33rd in freemasonry, the “Bohemian Grove” blah, blah, blah. There is no doubt that there are secret societies exercising their agenda, and no doubt the adherents, adepts, and adjutants of the very order are the ones most controlled by its agenda. Or so goes one mindset.
But in reading Robison’s seminal work, for the first time, I was exposed to some real data concerning the "defunct" organization, it origins, and its make up. I became aware of many historical truths and what I now know to be an extremely important series of events that occurred during the formation of the revolution of the United States 230 years ago. Robison himself is an Accepted Mason, and he has stepped outside of his limits as such in the interest of warning mason and non-mason alike of the dangers which the new and towering Illuminati of his day posed - to all future generations. And despite his well-substantiated and distinctly unorthodox view of events during the days of the formation of America, we today would be hard pressed to find one University lecture in America today even at the graduate level, which breathes life into what is certainly a momentous monograph of epic proportions - one that perhaps might be gratefully forgotten by many today.
The value of Robison’s work as a historical chronicle might be outdone by its worth into as an insight to how narcissism and sociopathy affected a pre-electronic age of feather-pen-driven academia. He offers some decent perspectives on human character, and might have been an interesting participant in some of the threads here on political ponerology and psychopathy. Inasmuch as he was an established scholar and an authority on current events in the late eighteenth century, we might expect some interesting facts to jump from his pages. So, the first point I will make is that you will not be dis-appointed. He is both eloquent and effective at substantiation.
And though it is clear that Robison had to the split hairs of critique to state his case in a way that kept with his academic credibility, one can definitely hear through it all how disgusted he truly is. And although the tine of his tongue is quite incisive enough as-it-is, I cannot help but wonder how much further he could have gone in today’s more liberal academic climate.
Even his restrained portrayal of Adam Weisphaut as a sycophant and sociopath is nevertheless - stunning. And my attempt to relate this and other mysteries from his book must then therefore be done with utmost respect, both to Robison, and to all alive today who follow the traditions set down by folk like Weisphaut and Ramsay so long ago. So since my impressions of this work are now revealed, let me throttle back and try to let the facts speak for themselves.
One of the rules of the order as spelled out by Robison is that members must forgo all personal agenda, and relinquish their lives and wills to the advanced members whose motives remain secret. So whether we simply follow blindly, or whether we term it “Weaving Spiders come not here” we must concede that the ability for Masons and the like to see what is above them (in rank) is not.
And even as the Order ordained its secrets to be the most high, their system military-style rule did not even in Weishaupt’s day vindicate those that stamped out of their minds the ability and right to think for themselves, in order to follow. Naturally it occurs to me as a reader, that it is much easier for parent to convince child of the value and reward for such blind following than it has ever been for educated adults to contract each other the same.
So if you are skull-and-bones, or maybe a recent initiate in the grove, or maybe you are an advancing mason, curious about the ranks to come, YOU, as a reasoning human, must at least be interested enough in history to see that a work of such caliber as Robison’s cannot be safely dismissed because of any words of modern propaganda today. And if you dismiss such a well-researched work because of weak ilk like wikipedia: _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robison_(physicist)#The_conspiracy_theorist, then that says a lot about you.
The act of submitting to an authority - any authority - does not absolve anyone of personal responsibility for such a decision and all that follows. And when an authority is secretive and known to have manipulated world events to some unclear end, there is all the more reason for the thinking person to investigate matters for themselves. Find Robison’s work here on-line, _http://www.scribd.com/doc/792170/Proofs-of-a-Conspiracy-by-John-Robison and you have few excuses left.
REVIEW
Imagine a world where all men are created equally, therefore treated equally, with freedom and justice for all. Imagine an organization or state which expounds these principles without the righteous trappings of religion. Imagine further that you can be a part of it irrespective of whether you yourself exercise morality, or none at all. Stop worrying! All you selfish, greedy, licentious folk; you can have freedom - from morality, we welcome you. Under the cataleptic cry of brotherly love, we can be all what we want to be. Join us in shaking a stick at evil religion, and we will wipe out their silly superstitions forever.
This is a poorly constructed flavoring of how Robison portrays what Weishaupt created. Like many things that I write, it is a mass of both overstatement and understatement. But it might serve as a segue into the pointed views of Robison. He sets out four chapters in his book:
Schisms in Freemasonry
The Illuminati
The German Union
The French Revolution
He offers a course of expose that begins with establishing the older masonic tradition as present in England circa 1648 with the admission of Ashmole into the Lodge of Warrington. He then chronicles the migration of these traditions into France and Germany. He talks of masonic aspersions of the Jesuits, who undoubtedly served as the conduit between the Catholics and masonry during their evictions from the Lodges. He talks of how the family Stuart took freemasonry with them to the continent of Europe.
In France then we see a rapid evolution of the system from three to as many a fifty degrees in as short a time as four decades. So Robison is revealed as a traditionalist, and we might detect some note of resentment for the new order of Weishaupt. But the author admits as much, and assures us that his glowing historical perspective is necessary to provide a framework for outside readers. Fortunate for us that he did so, because the world of publishing and academic dialogue of 1776 is so foreign to what we know today as to surely be opaque to the many of us like me who are not great students of history. Robison shows how the notion of brotherly love can be used as a smokescreen for many things, such as, censorship vis-avis the German Union, and revolution as in the demise of French Royalty.
I go on in my notes to blow-by-blow and page-by-page, but I think I'll stop this post here.
Cheers
