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Proofs of a Conspiracy - Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies (Paperback)
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Proofs of a Conspiracy - Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies (Paperback)
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"Proofs of a Conspiracy" was written by John Robison, a Scottish
professor, to warn Britain and other kingdoms that the forces which
toppled the French monarchy and started The Terror were still
active. In his book, Robison traced the story of the 1776 founding
of the Bavarian Illuminati by Adam Weishaupt, a professor at
Ingolstadt and the suppression of the order by the royal and church
authorities of Bavaria in 1785. The Illuminists went underground
all over Europe and used existing Masonic lodges or set up their
own as a cover for their activities. In Paris, the Duc d'Orleans
headed the Illuminist front called the Grand Orient Lodge, his base
to conspire against the ruling House of Bourbon. The English and
Scottish lodges were generally apolitical amd many worked actively
to keep out Illuminists as insincere applicants, but Robison
maintained that some continental lodges remained hotbeds of
revolutionary plotting, and therefore dangerous, at the time he
wrote. Robison was a contemporary and collaborator with James Watt
(with whom he worked on an early steam car), contributor to the
1797 Encylopedia Britannica, professor of philosophy at the
University of Edinburgh, and inventor of the siren. Although
Robison was very much an advocate of science and rationalism, he
became an ardent monarchist later in life due to his
disillusionment with the French Revolution. In "Proofs of a
Conspiracy," Robison laid the groundwork for modern conspiracy
theorists by implicating the Bavarian Illuminati as responsible for
the excesses of the French Revolution. The Bavarian Illuminati had
an inner core of true believers, who secretly held radical atheist,
anti-monarchist and possibly proto-feminist views, at that time
considered beyond the pale. They recruited by infiltrating the
numerous (and otherwise benign) Freemasonic groups which were
active at the time on the continent. Today, the Illuminati have
today become a byword for a secret society which hoodwinks its
junior members and puppet-masters society at large-a reputation
which is in no little part due to Robison's book.
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