Freda Boot
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The Illuminism of Adam Weishaupt
But the Illuminism of Lyon was destined soon to have a worldwide and ineradicable hold on the masonry of the world.
By means of an adept far more able than Saint Martin or any of his associates.
This was Adam Weishaupt, a professor of canon law in the University of Munich.
I shall detain you a while to consider this remarkable individual, who, more than any of the atheists that have arisen in Masonry, has been the cause of the success of its agencies in controlling the fate of the world since his day.
Had vice haupt not lived, masonry may have ceased to be a power after the reaction consequent on the first French Revolution.
He gave it a form and character which caused it to outlive that reaction, to energize to the present day, and
And which will cause it to advance until its final conflict with Christianity must determine whether Christ or Satan shall reign on this earth to the end.
Voltaire's will to do God and man injury was as strong as that of Weishaupt.
His disciples Dalambert, Diderot, Damilaville, Condorcet, and the rest, were as fully determined as he was to eradicate Christianity.
But they desired in its stead a system with only a mitigated antipathy for monarchy, and which might have tolerated for a long time such kings as Frederick of Prussia and such empresses as Catherine of Russia.
But the hatred for God in all form of worship and the determination to found a universal republic on the lines of communism was on the part of Weishaupt a settled sentiment.
Possessed of a rare power of organization, an education in law which made him a preeminent teacher in its highest faculty.
An extended knowledge of men and things, a command over himself, a repute for external morality, and
And finally, a position calculated to win able disciples, Weishaupt employed for fifty years after the death of Voltaire his whole life and energies in the one work of perfecting secret associations to accomplish by deep deceit.
And by force.
When that should be practical, the ruin of the existing order of religion, civilization, and government, in order to plant in its stead his own system of atheism and socialism.
He found contemporary masonry well adapted for his ends.
His object was to extend it as far as possible as a means of seducing men away from Christianity.
He well knew that Masonry and the Church were in mortal conflict with the
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