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100. It has several times been stated that Weishaupt was himself a Jew. I cannot find the slightest evidenceto this effect.101. Originalschriften, pp. 107-10.102. "Foresight indicates," says Falk, " that an end must be made to the whole of the present scheme ofFreemasonry [dem ganzen jetzigen Schema der Freimaurerei ein Ende zu machen]," and he goes on to showthat this must be done by picked men in the secret societies who know the true secrets of Masonry. This isprecisely Weishaupt's idea.103. In 1779 Spartacus writes to Marius and Cato suggesting that instead of Illuminati the Order should becalled the " Order of Bees [Bienenorden oder Bienengesellschaft]," and that all the statutes should beclothed in this allegory.-Originalschriften, p. 320.104. Nachtrag van... Originalschriften, II. 81.105. My italics.106. Where are they called this? The Cabala distinctly states that Israel alone is to possess the future world(Zohar, section Vayschlah, folio 177b), whilst the Talmud even excludes the lost tribes: " the ten tribeshave no share in the world to come " (Tract Sanhedrim, Rodkinson's translation, p. 363).107. Memoirs of Moses Mendelssohn, by M. Samuels, pp. 56, 57 (1827).108. Letter to the Jewish Chronicle, September 1, 1922, quoting Henrietta Herz.109. Goethe was initiated into Freemasonry on St. John's Eve, 1780. The Royal Masonic Cyclopædia observes:" There exist two great classical Masonic writers, Lessing and Goethe." Dr. Stauffer, in New Englandand the Bavarian Illuminati (p. 172), points out further that Goethe's connexion with the Illuminati isfully established by both Engel (Geschichte des Illuminatenordens, pp. 355 and following) and by LeForestier (Les Illuminés de Bavière, pp. 396 and following). It is possible that Faust may be the history ofan initiation by a disillusioned Illuminatus.Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 127 —
CHAPTER XTHE CLIMAXTHE first Masonic body with which the Illuminati formed an alliance was the Stricte Observance, towhich the Illuminati Knigge and Bode both belonged. Cagliostro had also been initiated into the Stricte Observancenear Frankfurt and was now employed as agent of the combined order. According to his own confessionhis mission "was to work so as to turn Freemasonry in the direction of Weishaupt's projects "; andthe funds he drew upon were those of the Illuminati.[1] Cagliostro also formed a link with the Martinistes,whose doctrines, though derided by Weishaupt, were useful to his plan in attracting by their mystical characterthose who would have been repelled by the cynicism of the Illuminati. According to Barruel, it was theMartinistes who-following in the footsteps of the Rosicrucians-had suggested to Weishaupt the device ofpresenting Christ as an " Illuminatus " which had led to such triumphant results amongst the Protestantclergy.But if Weishaupt made use of the various masonic associations, they on their account found in him avaluable ally. The fact is that by this time both French and German Freemasons were very much at sea withregard to the whole subject of Masonry and needed someone to give a point to their deliberations. Thus atthe Congress of Wilhelmsbad convened on July 16, 1782, and attended by representatives of masonic bodiesfrom all over the world, the first question propounded by the Grand Master of the Templars (i.e. the StricteObservance) was: "What is the real object of the Order and its true origin?" So, says Mirabeau in relatingthis incident, " this same Grand Master and all his assistants had worked for more than twenty years with incredibleardour at a thing of which they knew neither the real object nor the origin."[2]Two years later the Freemasons of France do not appear to have been any less in the dark on this matter,for we find them writing to General Rainsford, one of the English Masons who had been present at the Congressof Wilhelmsbad, as follows: Since you say that Masonry has never experienced any variation in itsaim, do you then know with certainty what this unique object is? Is it useful for the happiness ofmankind?... Tell us if it is of an historical, political, hermetical, or scientific nature?... Moral, social, or religious?...Are the traditions oral or written?[3]But Weishaupt had a very definite object in view, which was to gain control of all Freemasonry, andthough he himself was not present at the Congress, his coadjutor Knigge, who had been travelling aboutGermany proclaiming himself the reformer of Freemasonry, presented himself at Wilhelmsbad, armed withfull authority from Weishaupt, and succeeded in enrolling a number of magistrates, savants, ecclesiastics,and ministers of state as Illuminati and in allying himself with the deputies of Saint-Martin and Willermoz.Vanquished by this powerful rival, the Stricte Observance ceased temporarily to exist and Illuminism wasleft in possession of the field.On February 15, 1785, a further congress took place in Paris, convened this time by the Philalèthes, atwhich the Illuminati Bode (alias Amelius) and the Baron de Busche (alias Bayard) were present, also-it hasbeen stated-the " magician " Cagliostro, the magnetiser Mesmer, the Cabalist Duchanteau, and of course theleaders of the Philalèthes, Savalette de Langes, who was elected President, the Marquis de Chefdebien, anda number of German members of the same Order. This congress led to no very practical results, and a furtherand more secret one was convened in the following year at Frankfurt, where a Grand Lodge had beenestablished in 1783. It was here that the deaths of Louis XVI and Gustavus III of Sweden are said to havebeen decreed.But already in this same year of 1785 the first act of the revolutionary drama had been played out. Thefamous "Affair of the Necklace" can never be understood in the pages of official history; only an examinationof the mechanism provided by the secret societies can explain that extraordinary episode, which, in theopinion of Napoleon, contributed more than any other cause to the explosion of 1789. In its double attackon Church and Monarchy the Affair of the Necklace fulfilled the purpose of both Frederick the Great and ofthe Illuminati. Cagliostro, we know, received both money and instructions from the Order for carrying outthe plot, and after it had ended in his own and the Cardinal de Rohan's exoneration and exile, we find himembarking on fresh secret society work in London, where he arrived in November of the same year. Announcinghimself as the Count Sutkowski, member of a society at Avignon, he " visited the Swedenborgiansat their Theosophical Society meeting in rooms in the Middle Temple and displayed minute acquaintancewith their doctrines, whilst claiming a superior knowledge."[4] According to a generally received opinion,Cagliostro was the author of a mysterious proclamation which appeared at this moment in the Morning Heraldin the cypher of the Rose-Croix.[5]Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 128 —
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