"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

a loan for the purpose. The Pope acknowledged the Jesuit Order on the 5th
of April 1540.
Benjamin Disraeli, author and prime minister of Great Britain in 1868,
and 1874-76, himself a Jew, wrote in his book "Coningsby" (London,
1844) that the first Jesuits were Jews. In this new order, all members were
under Loyola's surveillance.
It was the Jewish Jesuit Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino (1542-1621) who
ordered the philosopher Filippo Giordano Bruno burnt at the stake on the
17th of February 1600.
In 1771, 23-year-old Weishaupt met Kolmer, a Danish Cabbalist Jew
who had just returned from Egypt. Kolmer initiated Weishaupt into the
secrets of Osiris magic, the Cabbala and the Alumbrado movement. Nesta
Webster assumed that he had been known in Italy as Altotas, Cagliostro's
master. Kolmer's occult knowledge made a deep impression on Weishaupt,
who later chose the Egyptian pyramid as the Illuminati's symbol of
power, probably using an illustration from the book "Pyramidography"
(1646) by Jean Greaves, professor of astronomy at Oxford.
One year earlier (1770), Weishaupt had been given a post as lecturer in
canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. He later received his doctor's
degree and in 1773, at the age of 25, became a professor at the same
university. During a short period he even held the post of principal. In
1800, the university moved to Landshut and from there to Munich in 1826.
It was no coincidence that the Order of the Illuminati was founded on
the first of May. Among the Cabbalist Jews, this date, 15 (1.5), symbo-
lised the sacred number of Yahweh and so became their occult holiday.
According to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the first of May - the day
following Walpurgis Night - is when the dark mystical forces are
celebrated.
At this time a young Jew named Mayer Amschel (born February 23rd,
1744) was being tutored to become a rabbi. Amschel lived with his parents
in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt am Main. He later took the name
Rothschild. It was Mayer Amschel Rothschild who convinced Weishaupt
to wholly accept the Frankist Cabbalist doctrine and who afterwards
financed the Illuminati. Rothschild had given Weishaupt the task of re-
establishing the old Alumbrado movement for the Cabbalist Jews.
Theoretical Cabbala embraces only secret teachings about God and
nature. But practical Cabbala (such as Frankism) attempts to affect earthly
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