THE ILLUMINATI The Ancient History of the Illuminati The origins of the Illuminati stretch far back into pre-history, but as a formal organisation, the Illuminati began, as has been mentioned, as the mystery school of Pythagoras in the Greek colony of Croton in Southern Italy. The Illuminati prospered for a time before being savagely attacked by enemies envious of their secret knowledge. Most were killed, including Pythagoras himself. The survivors escaped to Greece and set up a new school. For safety, the Illuminati kept on the move, relocating every ten years throughout the Greek city-states and their colonies, and then in the countries conquered by Alexander the Great, including Syria, Egypt, Babylonia, Persia and Northern India. As the star of Rome rose, the Illuminati made their base in Rome, and then in provinces of the Roman Empire. Around 200 CE, the Order established itself in the intellectual centre of the world: Alexandria in Egypt. It remained there until the brutal execution of Grand Master Hypatia in 415 CE at the hands of Christians. In Bertrand Russell’s book on the history of Western Philosophy, he provides this horrific description of what transpired: “St Cyril, the advocate of unity, was a man of fanatical zeal. He used his position as patriarch of Alexandria to incite pogroms against the very large Jewish colony in Alexandria. His chief claim to fame is the lynching of Hypatia, a distinguished lady who, in an age of bigotry, adhered to the Neoplatonic philosophy and devoted her talents to mathematics. She was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church, and inhumanly butchered by the hands of Peter the Reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics: her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames...After this, Alexandria was no longer troubled by philosophers.” As in the time of Pythagoras, the Grand Master was not the only Illuminatus to perish: the Christians slaughtered hundreds – many of the finest minds of the ancient world – and most of their precious writings were destroyed with them. The survivors were in a quandary about where to go to rebuild. The Roman Empire was collapsing. Alaric in 410 CE had sacked Rome itself. Barbarians and Christian extremists were everywhere. The Illuminati decided to go to a remote, well-protected country on the fringe of the Empire that they had visited in ancient times and where they had been based prior to moving to Alexandria in the first place. That country was Britain. The Romans had only just departed (the final withdrawals taking place in about 407 CE) and the country was still relatively stable and civilised. Although there were problems with barbarians, these were not as bad as in many other areas of the disintegrating Roman Empire. Moreover, many Britons had not yet succumbed to Christianity, or only at a superficial level, and there were still vestiges of ancient enlightenment religions of paganism, most especially Druidism. The Illuminati stayed in Britain for the next few hundred years, and it is in this period that the historical events took place that furnished the basis for the future tales of Arthur, Merlin, Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table, and of the Waste Land and the Quest for the Holy Grail (which is, of course, pagan and not Christian). The Knights of the Round Table embarking on a holy mission to find the Grail became the model for the future Knights Templar – a tightly knit group of holy knights dedicating their lives to sacred tasks. Merlin (a Druid) became the template for the future Alchemists. Camelot became the symbol for a City of God on Earth, the perfect city-state to which humanity should aspire. The Round Table became the symbol of Meritocracy over Privilege. Arthur became the symbol of leaders dedicated to higher ends rather than greed and self-interest. The Waste Land became the symbol of both the Satanic Abrahamic world and the barbarian hordes flooding across Europe. The Gnostic religion of Arthur and his realm became the template for the future Gnostic religion of Catharism – the religion of the “pure ones”. The priests of the Cathars were called the Perfectii – the “perfect ones” (those who had dedicated themselves to achieving enlightenment and becoming perfect – becoming God). Females Perfects were called Perfectae. (Women, unlike in Christianity, were eligible for all of the same religious positions as men.) Now you have seen the trail that leads from Pythagoras to Rome to Alexandria to Arthurian Britain, and then to Alchemy, the Cathars and the Knights Templar. The Hidden Light Although the Illuminati has always been a secret society, its ideas have featured prominently in world history, albeit at one step removed. Plato, one of the greatest intellectuals of all time, was an Illuminatus. He was expelled from the society at an early stage for failing to protect its secrets, thus breaking the membership oath he had taken in common with all other members. Nevertheless, being a genius, he was able to form a relatively clear idea of where the basic teachings of the Illuminati that he had already learned were leading. The works of Plato are filled with the ideas of the Illuminati, though they are heavily intertwined with his own unique and brilliant contributions. Plato established his famous Academy in Athens, basing it on the model of the Pythagorean schools of the Illuminati. His most famous pupil was Aristotle, an equally important figure in Western thought. Aristotle became frustrated and embittered when, on Plato’s death, he was passed over as the new leader of the Academy despite being the most outstanding candidate. He left Athens, and when he returned years later he established his own school, called the Lyceum. Aristotle was not an Illuminatus, but Plato’s influence on him ensured that his philosophy also featured many ideas compatible with Illuminism. Through Plato and Aristotle, some of the key ideas of Illuminism indirectly found their way into the world. During the Roman Empire, the Illuminati formed a plan to create a religion compatible with Illuminism that might allow them to take control of the empire via the Roman army. That religion was Mithraism. Not until the era of Hegel did the Illuminati place in the public arena anything that could properly be called Illuminism. Anyone who has studied Hegel’s philosophy – regarded by many expert philosophers as staggeringly complex – will understand why it would have been futile to have done so at any earlier time. Although Mithraism did indeed become the favoured religion of the Roman legionaries, it was never powerful enough to overcome Roman politics. There was never any realistic possibility that the Roman legions would unite to fight under the banner of Mithras and create an enlightened Roman Republic based on the principles formulated by the two great tribunes of the People: the Gracchus brothers. In fact, it wasn’t until the formation of the American Republic via Freemasonry that the Illuminati’s plan seemed to have come to belated fruition. But the American Dream turned into a nightmare. The French Republic was another attempt (partially successful), and the final attempt was Hegel’s in relation to Prussia (a complete failure). The Illuminati also assisted in the Russian Revolution, but it was not an official Illuminati project due to worries (later justified) over how Communism would evolve. As for Mithraism, it suffered the strangest of fates. A Mithraic priest from a Jewish background – the man known to history as Saint Paul – combined it with Messianic Judaism to create the religion that eventually swept half the world: Christianity. Just as the Illuminati had hoped to create a Mithraic army to change the world, there came a time when Christian armies did exactly that. When it became clear that Mithraism could not defeat Christianity (because it had effectively been subsumed by Christianity), the Illuminati looked for another way to stop the spread of Christianity. A brilliant Grand Master called Ammonius Saccas, the first to establish himself in Alexandria in Egypt, decided to teach a group of talented “outsiders” a simplified version of Illuminism (just as Mithraism was). He hoped that these individuals would use the new ideas in various ways to produce inspirational systems, at least one of which would rival Christianity and stop it in its tracks. Since the philosophy of Plato was highly influential amongst the educated class and since it already reflected many ideas of Illuminism, it was decided to create a religion based on Platonism. This became known to history as Neoplatonism (hence why Hypatia was referred to by Bertrand Russell as a Neoplatonist). Although Plato’s work contained religious ideas, it was far more philosophical than religious. Neoplatonism was designed to reverse the emphasis and give primacy to religion over philosophy, while preserving the firm philosophical base. In effect, Neoplatonism turned abstract Platonism into religion. In the past, most popular religions had been based on prophets, holy books, wise men, tales of gods, angels and demons. Neoplatonism was one of the few that sought to place reason and logic at the core of religion, and to assert that religion could be worked out from first principles by the human mind. No revelations were required, no faith – just the workings of clever human minds. Neoplatonism was a way of trying to take back religion from the irrationalists. People who assert that religion occupies a different space from philosophy and science are deluded. How can there be three truths? In fact there is only one truth approached from three angles. The three angles must converge. They cannot contradict each other. So, when “revelation” makes opposite claims to science then either science is wrong or revelation is wrong. Any intelligent person will surely side with the scientific evidence over the words of some crazy prophet claiming that he is the channel of the Word of God. In the Grand Unified Theory of Everything, mathematics, science, philosophy and religion must all be compatible at the deepest level. From its inception, the Illuminati dedicated itself to this task. The Illuminati alone did not succumb to the fragmentation and specialisation that happened everywhere else. While all other schools of thought distilled themselves into pure philosophy, mathematics, science or theology, the Illuminati maintained all four on the same footing. The final truth comes from them all; not from one or the other. It has been a disaster to split them off into separate activities with little in common. Scientists on the whole are entirely ignorant of philosophy, religion and even of a great deal of mathematics. Theologians know nothing of science and mathematics and have only a superficial knowledge of philosophy. Stephen Hawking recently said that philosophers no longer had much to say about the true nature of things because they had been unable to keep up with the latest science. In turn, philosophers say that scientists have not understood the precarious foundations of a great deal of scientific “knowledge”. Some philosophers say that science does not so much discover the truth as construct it. Human beings will never be satisfied until they have all the answers and see how everything comes together in one infinitely satisfying whole. Illuminism is precisely that greatest of human undertakings: the project to understand the Mind of God mathematically, scientifically, philosophically and religiously. From the school of Ammonius Saccas in Alexandria, two of the most distinguished figures of the age appeared: Origen and Plotinus. The former was a Christian and the latter a pagan. Ammonius Saccas hoped that Origen might poison Christianity from within with heretical ideas, while Plotinus, a skilled and poetic writer, was judged capable of taking and transforming the teachings of Neoplatonism into a beautiful new religion that would capture the imagination of the people more than Christianity ever had. Neoplatonism’s founder was Ammonius Saccas, but its most famous exposition is through the work of Plotinus. Hypatia Hypatia was born into an educated Greek family that lived in Alexandria, Egypt under the rule of the Roman Empire, and she became a distinguished and greatly respected scholar. Her name means “highest, supremest”, and it was a fitting name for one of history’s most remarkable women. She is often described as the first woman to be recognised as a mathematician and she also taught advanced philosophy and astronomy. It has been said that her murder brought the curtain down on the period known as Classical antiquity, although others have identified a better end-point as the closing of Plato’s Academy in Athens by order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in 529 CE. That certainly symbolised the death of the great pagan philosophical and religious traditions of ancient Greece, and led to the disastrous domination of Christianity for the next thousand years: THE LOST MILLENNIUM. THE DARK AGES. Even now, the darkness has not been dispelled. But there are those who seek the world of Light, who seek the New World Order. Women, who were treated abominably by Christianity, Judaism and Islam, need different role models to turn to. There is none better than Hypatia, the pagan genius. The Illuminati Adam Weishaupt
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