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

family. (Pouget de Saint Andres, "Les auteurs caches de la revolution
francaise", p. 16.) His father was a professor at the University of
Ingolstadt. ("The Trail of the Serpent", Hawthorne, 1936, p. 68.) He was
educated in a Jesuit monastery and studied law, literature, and atheist
philosophy. In 1773, the twenty-five-year-old Weishaupt left the Jesuit
Order. This may have been because he had developed his independent
ideology, but the subsequent dissolution of the Jesuit Order in 1773 by
Pope Clement XIV may also have been a factor. The Jesuit Order in
France, Spain, Portugal, Naples and Austria was dissolved. A few years
later, Weishaupt's "Perfektibilist" Order began to work against the Roman
Catholic Church. In 1814, however, the Jesuit Order was re-established
and through new infiltrations became more powerful than ever before.
In 1775, Professor Weishaupt became a member of the lodge Theodor
zum guten Rat within eclectic freemasonry. Later, Weishaupt was to use
this foothold in Munich to allow his Illuminati to infiltrate all the other
Masonic lodges, due to the fact that he wielded great influence over the
lodge through its Grand Master, Professor Franz Benedict (Xaver) von
Baader, who had joined the Illuminati.
It was Baron Adolf von Knigge (born 16th October 1752 in Breden-
beck, died 6th May 1796 in Bremen), Adam Weishaupt's closest collabo-
rator, who later helped him to gain entrance to different Masonic
organisations. (Pat Brooks, "The Return of the Puritans", North Carolina,
1976, pp. 68-69.) In 1777, he received the highest degree of the Knights
Templar (Knight of Cyprus) in Hanau. The 27-year-old Knigge joined the
Illuminati in Frankfurt in 1780 under the alias of Philo (the original Philo
was a Jewish scholar).
The Illuminati began to work especially actively after the entrance of
Adolf von Knigge in July 1779. Baron von Knigge also wrote the book
"Concerning Association with People". He brought together many
powerful men.
It was largely thanks to Philo that the organisation spread through the
whole of Germany. Both financial and sexual favours were used to gain
control of people in high places.
In time, the Illuminati won control of every Masonic order in the world.
Important financiers joined the organisation: Speyer, Schuster, Stern and
others. The Jews had therefore gained a very powerful position. Their base
of operations was Frankfurt am Main.
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