was that purpose? It was "nothing less than to win power and riches, to undermine
secular or religious government, and to obtain the mastery of the world."
The first priority was to enlist writers, publishers and educators. The modern
pantheon of great thinkers, from Darwin to Nietzsche to Marx, were Illuminati
pawns or agents. Of one university, Weishaupt wrote: "All the professors are
members of the Illuminati... so will all the pupils become disciples of Illuminism."
(Wardner, 45)
As the Order spread throughout Germany, money was contributed from such leading
Jewish families as the Oppenheimers, Wertheimers, Schusters, Speyers, Sterns and
of course, the Rothschilds. Gerald B. Winrod wrote in his book "Adam Weishaupt: A
Human Devil "of the thirty-nine chief sub-leaders of Weishaupt, seventeen were Jews."
From Bavaria, the Order of the Illuminati spread like wildfire... Soon they had over
300 members from all walks of life, including students, merchants, doctors, lawyers,
judges, professors, civil officers, bankers, and even church ministers. Some of their
more notable members were: the Duke of Orleans, Duke Ernst Augustus of Saxe-
Weimar-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Charles of Hesse-Cassel, Johann Gottfried von
Herder (a philosopher), Count Klemens von Metternich, Catherine II of Russia,
Count Gabriel de Mirabeau, Marquis of Constanza ("Diomedes"), Duke Ferdinand
of Brunswick ("Aaron"), Duke Karl August of Saxe-Weimar, Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe (a poet), Joseph II of Russia, Christian VII of Denmark, Gustave III of
Sweden, and King Poniatowski of Poland.
By the time of the 3rd Masonic Congress in Frankfurt in 1786, the Illuminati
virtually controlled all the Masonic lodges, which represented three million secret
society members across the various German provinces, Austria, Hungary, England,
Scotland, Poland, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Spain, Sweden,
Russia, Ireland, Africa, and America. (Wardner, p. 39)
In the 1790's there was an Illuminati scare in the United States. At Charlestown,
in 1798, the Reverend Jedediah Morse preached: "Practically all the civil and
ecclesiastical establishments of Europe have already been shaken to their
foundations by this terrible organization, the French Revolution itself is doubtless to
be traced to its machinations..." (Wardner 48)
In 1832 William Russell established a chapter of the Illuminati at Yale called the
"Skull and Bones." President G.W. Bush, his father and John Kerry are members.
On Sept. 9, 1785, Joseph Utzschneider, a lawyer, and two other defectors revealed
the Illuminati goals before a Court of Inquiry in Bavaria: Abolition of the Monarchy
and all ordered government; Abolition of private property (which the Illuminati
will assume); Abolition of Patriotism (nations); Family, (through the abolition of
Marriage, Morality, and by government providing "Education" for children) and
finally, Abolition of all Religion, particularly Christianity.
These are exactly the goals of Communism, enunciated by Marx in 1848. The
Illuminati and Communism go hand-in-glove. The term "Reds" originates with "Red
Shield" the Rothschild name.
Henry Makow PhD 83