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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 (Forgotten Books)

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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.

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!!

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.

Very Convincing and informative for those who say conspiracy is only a Theory! Theory - BS! There
have been nothing but conspiracy since before History and recorded time!

I like reading these holier than thou reviews. Didn't Jesus say those free of sin should cast the first stone? Adam Weishaupt as I've interpreted is just a man, as fallable as the rest of us. Oh that's right those who seek freedom from monarchies don't make mistakes or bad decisions after the fact. Nope, not a Mason if you were thinking that just tried to put myself in his shoes. I think it's time to stop selective reading and try to gather the whole picture, not just the part we want to see.

John Robison's classic Proofs of a Conspiracy was written in the relatively short sliver of time following the Revolution in France, during the Teror, and prior to the inception and development of the Napoleonic Wars, and therefore acts as much as a window on a specific place in time as it does a primer on conspiracy theories as connected to the Illuminati and related movements.

Robison's work is broken into four main chapters: the development of Continental European Masonic Lodges and their political and secret character, their baroque multiplication of ever more fanciful degrees and 'secrets,' and the overtly anti-monarchical and growing revolutionary character increasingly prevalent therein; the founding ideas, character (if it can be called that) of Weishaupt's Illuminati movement, the types of people involved therein and their functions and motivations; associated Illuminist movements such as specifical the German Union and other Reading Societies bent on continuing the Illuminati goals once the original movement was suppressed by the Elector and pushed (further) underground; and finally on the character of the Revolution in France, and how this was in large part a success of the anti-monarchical Masonic Lodges of France and Germany, and specifically of the Illuminist movements.

Each chapter is presented with as much documentation (often impounded from Illuminati members themselves, it consists of a great deal of correspondence among the top leadership) as available at that time, and Robison, while he does his best to be dispassionate as regards the evidence itself, is not shy about adding his own opinion to the mix where appropriate. About a quarter of each chapter amounts essentially to his discussion of the implications of his findings, and the moral breakdown implicit in the Illuminati values of radical atheism, reason alone to be worshipped, propaganda towards ensnaring women in the movement, hypocrisy and shockingly poor personal behavior of several of the Illuminated, and so on. It is delightful reading, and informative as well.

Robison was a highly educated man, professor, inventor, scholar and intellectual, and one would on the surface think that an appeal to reason and progress alone as presented by the Illuminist movements would have had some appeal to him. But the evidence made plain by the daily perversions of justice, morality, and common sense taking place across the Channel from him, in France, during the Terror, repelled him, and the final part of Proofs offers a strong and full-throated defense of monarchy, the innocence and goodness of women, the Constitution of England, and conservatism in general.

This book is contemporaneous with Edmund Burke's much more famous Reflections, and while he takes a totally different angle on the events of the day, one respects the well argued conclusions.

My native language is Russian, so I apologize for my English.
The book is mussy. Author tries to prove his ideas that is always destructive to the historical truth. It is obvious that he sometimes writes without perfect knowing of his subject. One surely mustn't believe all his statements etc etc etc
But it can be refered to any historical source.
This book is great as it is contemporary with the events it describes. It shows the pulse of the time, it gives facts, names, ideas. It surely worths reading by everyone who is really interested in this topic.

By the time this book was first published, the organization of Bavarian Illuminati was kaput. Robinson, who had never been invited to join, and who held a grudge against all secret organizations, slammed the illuminati both in England, where it had not taken root, and in America, where it was unknown. However, his preaching against it raised the specter of conspriacy which still hangs over the illuminati, although it is very long gone. His book in interetsing as an example of sucessful ropaganda, nothing more.