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]

John Robison (Author)

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Publication Date: August 14, 2003

This old book presents the proofs of a conspiracy against all the religions & governments of Europe carried on in the secret meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati & Reading Societies, collected from good authorities by John Robison, Professor of natural philosophy & Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, to which is added a postscript. Contents: John Robinson letter and Lucretius poem; schisms in Freemasonry; the Illuminati; the German Union; the French Revolution; postscript.

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John Robison (1739–1805) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. A member of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society when it received its royal warrant, he was appointed as the first General Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Robison invented the siren and also worked with James Watt on an early steam car. Following the French Revolution, Robison became disenchanted with elements of the Enlightenment. He authored Proofs of a Conspiracy in 1797—a polemic accusing Freemasonry of being infiltrated by Weishaupt's Order of the Illuminati. Robison and French priest Abbé Barruel independently developed similar views that the Illuminati had infiltrated Continental Freemasonry, leading to the excesses of the French Revolution. In 1798, the Reverend G. W. Snyder sent Robison's book to George Washington for his thoughts on the subject in which he replied to him in his Letter to the Reverend G. W. Snyder (24 October 1798). Modern conspiracy theorists like Nesta Webster and William Guy Carr believe that Robison's book described what the Illuminati may have started was the template for the subversion of otherwise benign organizations by radical groups through the 19th and 20th centuries. Spiritual Counterfeits Project editor Tal Brooke has compared the views of Proofs of a Conspiracy with those found in Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope (Macmillan, 1966). Brooke suggests that the new world order, which Robison believed Adam Weishaupt (founder of the Illuminati) had in part accomplished through the infiltration of Freemasonry, will now be completed by those holding sway over the international banking system (e.g., by means of the Rothschilds' banks, Federal Reserve, IMF, and World Bank). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (August 14, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766181243
• ISBN-13: 978-0766181243
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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44 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The secret history of the French Revolution, January 20, 2004

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"oldpolitico" (Berks Co., PA United States) - See all my reviews

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It has been several years since I read an earlier paperback edition of this classic and my copy is in storage, so this from memory. Robison, a Scottish professor, wrote to warn Britain and other kingdoms that the forces which toppled the French monarchy and started The Terror were still active. He traced the story of the 1776 founding of the 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.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!!, May 17, 2008

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This review is from: 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)

John Robison was years ahead of all the rest of those who've finally caught onto the fact that there is an extremely powerful group of men who control the world's money and pull the strings from behind the scenes. Everyone should read this book!!

23 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars world reports from long ago, April 25, 2007

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John Robison exposition of the aims of the monolithic enemy

(reference "We are opposed around the world by a monolithic ruthless conspiracy." - President John F. Kennedy)

This is a book President's of the U.S.A. read.

If you believe in Liberty - then this is a book that will inform you and in fact seperate you from those in history who were even aware of the 'unseen hand' in politics.

The enemy of the world is so confident that no one will read this that it reinforces The Good Book's maxim. "I have made a footstool for your enemies"

meaning: God himself has placed the enemy at rest, in a predictable location for the faithful.

You are not alone. Interested parties include the Free World.