Orthodox Survival Course – Lesson 6 – The French Revolution

Lecture six the French Revolution now after examining the ideas which have been replacing one another in modern times from the Middle Ages and forming the modern mentality we come to our own day that is the history of the last 200 years because everything which came before the French Revolution has a

Different Spirit what comes after has a new spirit the period before 1789 was called called the old regime and the period after that is the Revolutionary age which is the same now as it was in the 1790s this will take a number of lectures because now we will continue

Both the historical description of the modern mentality but at the same time we will now do something else at the very same time we are doing this we will stop and analyze what is the underlying Unity of these ideas that is what is the basic philosophy in fact what is the basic

Theology of the Revolutionary mind and what do we mean by saying the Revolutionary theology just as Orthodox Christianity has its theology a whole dogmatic structure which when One Believes it enters into and changes every aspect of one’s life so to the modern mentality which has achieved its

Final form in the revolution has a whole belief system which affects the whole of one’s life and molds history theide a that modern history is a chance play of conflicting forces is totally unrealistic there is a definite pattern a definite philosophy or theology that is being worked out so much so that

Astute prophets socalled among the modernists have been able to predict in advance how man is going to change in accordance with this theology we can site for example a little later on we will give more and more examples we can cite however here nature who says I

Think in the will to power what I am describing here is the history of the 20th century the Triumph of nihilism because when the masses get the ideas which I am now proclaiming there will be a revolution such as the world has never seen and indeed the ideas filter down

From the philosophers to the masses and then tremendous changes are caused or we could quote another one who was a crazy one also Hinrich Hine a Jew from Germany who was very much akin to all this revolutionary spirit and he says a few things which show that he’s in tune with

What’s coming up he wrote a history of religion and philosophy in Germany in which he quite accurately saw what was behind Luther what was behind K Hegel and these modern philosophers this was in 1834 already he wrote this he says mark this ye proud men of action ye are

Nothing but unconscious odman workers of the men of thought who often in humblest Stillness have appointed you your inevitable task maximilan robes spear was merely the hand of Jean Jac Russo the bloody hand that Drew from the womb of time the body whose Soul Russo had

Created in another place he even makes a prophecy about his own country he tells the French that the Germans also are going to make a revolution he says the Old Stone Gods will then arise from the Forgotten ruins and wipe from their eyes the dust of centuries and Thor with his

Giant hammer will arise again and he will shatter the gothic Cathedrals smile not at the fantasy who one foresees in the region of reality the same Outburst of Revolution that has taken place in the region of intellect because Germany was indeed the Avon guard of philosophy the thought precedes the deed as the

Lightning the Thunder German Thunder is of true German character it is not very Nimble but trembles along somewhat slowly but come it will and when you hear a crashing such as never before has been heard in the world’s history then know that at last the German Thunderbolt

Has fallen at this commotion the Eagles will drop dead from the skies and the lions in the farthest wastes of Africa will bite their tals and creep into their Royal aayers there will be played in Germany a drama compared to which the French Revolution will seem but an

Innocent HT at present it is true everything is tolerably quiet and though here and there some few men create a little stir do not imagine these are to be the real actors in the piece they are only little curs chasing one another Around The Empty Arena barking and

Snapping at one another till the appointed hour when the troop of Gladiators appear to fight for life and death and the hour will come as on the steps of an Amphitheater the Nations Will Group themselves around Germany to witness the terrible combat later on we’ll see see what happens in Germany

When there was indeed great revolutionary storm released no one author or history book or historical event contains the whole of the philosophy or theology which produced modern history revolutionary history and therefore we shall have to examine many different historical events many different writers philosophers and try to grasp the underlying thread of this

Whole philosophy and in fact it is exactly like approaching holy fathers there’s no one Holy Father you can read to get the whole teaching of Christianity because many holy fathers Express different points of view different aspects and the whole of the fathers contain the wisdom of the tradition and modern historians would

Like to say that one contradicts the other and so forth but if once you enter into the Orthodox Spirit you see that one rather compensates for the other and there’s a marvelous Harmony in all the writings of holy fathers in the same way there’s the same kind of Harmony in all

These modern thinkers the ones who are really in contact with the spirit of the times you can read one and get one aspect read another and you will get different aspect you can see in the French Revolution one aspect in Napoleon a different aspect when you put them all

Together you see there’s a marvelous Harmony to it it a makes sense but this has not really been done before such an analysis and therefore we’ll have to look at very many different aspects with the revolution we must examine two aspects of the activity of the modern mentality we call these the philosophers

And the activists the philosophers who have the ideas and the activists who produce the historical events or as one early historian of the French Revolution said the one is called the corrupting philosophers the ones who think the thoughts the second are called the massacring philosophers the ones who go

Out and Massacre the people this is the age This Modern Age this revolutionary age when modern philosophy produces the most profound effects in everyday life before philosophy was largely a matter of the upper classes sort of idol people who had the time to think and from now

On everyone is drawn into this the modern philosophy because it changes the whole of life these two aspects the philosophy and activism are not entirely separate but they ined wine and so we have to understand first of all how they are related to each other first of all

The philosophy inspires the Act without modern philosophy there would have been no revolution in fact Napoleon even said without Jean Jac ruso I would never have existed secondly philosophy is not something which comes first and they act afterwards the philosophy continues while the ACT is going on and we can say

That it consolidates what the ACT has gained and keeps pushing on the activists to do more the Revolutionary acts are often the work of a small organized group but they succeed because they have the support of the common mind that is the spirit of the times which is

Willing to excuse any kind of excesses without this support of the common mentality of the times the revolution all revolutions would collapse as soon as the plotters are killed off even today we see very clearly that commun ISM continues to exist and to have half the world precisely because the West

Shares the same basic ideas and therefore is willing to excuse the crimes of Communism in looking at the acts of the revolutions it is not possible for us to untangle exactly everything that happens and see exactly who inspired each separate act which secret society is at work where there

Are charlatans where there is somebody who is trying to make a name for himself the secret society IES themselves who were very much involved in all of this make a point of hiding themselves and therefore there’s no way we can untangle everything and say as some people like

To point out they can spot every place where the Communist conspiracy is going on it’s much deeper than that that is a kind of John Burch mentality in which someone is seen with somebody who is a friend of a communist therefore that means that the plot is right there and

And that’s not necessarily the case at all the only thing we can do is look much deeper and examine the ideas which are expressed and the acts which come out and see how significant they are and how faithful they are to the modern philosophy the Revolutionary philosophy

And which ones are in accordance with the spirit of the times and are going to produce results in the future therefore first of all we will try to trace the progress of modern thought in the re Revolution and by Revolution I mean of course the whole new concept of

Revolution which is a universal thing which begins with the French Revolution we will try to show the unity of the whole revolutionary movement and analyze its theological philosophy and its psychology this will give us an outward unified view of the Revolutionary age and then in a later lecture we’ll turn

To the inward so-called spiritual striving of modern man which gives the insiration for the final goal of the whole revolution in looking at the French Revolution which is the place where we begin because this is where Modern ideas have their first great Outburst we will have to have an

Approach which is different from most histories of the French Revolution you can read historians explaining its events as though the Revolution was made by well-meaning people and unfortunately there were Sometimes some Hot Heads who got mixed up with it and historical circumstances changed outward dangers caused changes of plans and the whole

Thing just didn’t come off the way it was supposed to be and the idealists Were Somehow frustrated and have to come back and start again and this if we look at the actual history of events is a very naive view it’s not that way at all

This is not to say that every single event is brought about by a conspiracy because there are many other motives there are many people who want themselves to take over to kill off somebody else and many by ways in which the revolution gets sidetracked and then

Comes back to the main purpose and so we have to look as I said to see what is the essence of the various changes which come about and to follow the thread which occurs as a constant thread throughout all the Revolutionary events in examining the revolution there is one

Book which is very great textbook of this it is written by a person who was in Paris during the revolution during the 1790s and wrote the book about 1797 I think and this Edition we have is 18 I8 it’s called Memoirs to serve for a history of jacobinism by the ab barel b

R u e l and he’s very valuable because he was right the when this was all very fresh and he was faced by the same kind of thinkers we have today who say that the whole thing was a noble experiment which did not come off and he made great

Research into many texts and we’ll see what kind of texts they were and shows that there’s a single thread which goes through the revolution it’s not some kind of chance thing and many things which now people and historians might say are accidental results he says no

They planned it that way and he has the texts to back it up I’ll read part of the introduction to his book which shows his whole approach he says under the disastrous name of Jack oins who are the radicals who immediately took over the revolution under the disastrous name of

Jack oins a sect appeared in the first days of the French Revolution teaching that men are all equal and free in the name of this equality and this disorganizing Liberty trampling underfoot the altars and the Thrones in the name of this same equality and of this same Liberty calling all the

Nations to the disasters of the rebellion and to the horr of Anarchy from the first moments of its appearance this sect found itself 300,000 members strong supported by 2 million arms which it could set in motion throughout the whole extent of France weapons of torches Pikes hatchets and of all the

Thunderbolts of the Revolution it is under the orices it is by the movements the impulsion the influence and the action of this sect that were committed all the great atrocities which have in and created a vast Empire by the blood of its Bishops pontiffs its priests its

Nobles its wealthy its citizens of every rank every age every sex It Is by these very men that King Louis V 16th the queen his spouse his sister princess Elizabeth battered by outrages and Digimon during a long captivity was solemnly assassinated on the scaffold and all the sovereigns of the world were

Proudly menaced by the same fate It Is by these men that the French Revolution has become the scourge of Europe the terror of powers vainly United to put an end to the progress of these revolutionary armies more numerous and more devastating than the inundation of the vandals who therefore are these

Men who come out so to speak from the bowels of the Earth with their dogmas and their Thunderbolts with all their projects all their means and all the resolution of their ferocity what is this devouring sect what might be their school and who might be their masters what are their subsequent plans this

French Revolution brought to an end will it finally cease to torment the Earth to assassinate the Kings and to fanticide the Nations we have perceived them trying to persuade people that the whole revolutionary and conspiratorial sect before this revolution itself is only an imaginary sect for those people all the

Evils of France and all the terrors of Europe succeed one another are connected by the simple concurrence of unforeseen circumstances impossible to foresee it seems to them useless to seek out the conspiracies and agents who had plotted the conspiracies and directed the chain of events the ones actors who rule today

Do not know the plans of those who have preceded them and those who will come after them will likewise be ignorant of the plans of their predecessors preoccupied with such a false opinion filled with such a dangerous Prejudice these pretended observers will readily say to the various Nations let the

French revolutional arm you no longer it is a volcano which has opened itself without anyone being able to know the hot bed where it was prepared but it will wear itself out with its fuel on the counter forces which have seen it arise you announce that due to causes

Unknown in your climates due to elements less likely to ferment due to law was more analogous to your character the public Fortune being more secure the fate of France could not become yours and so you do not be afraid and if you must one day participate in it in vain

Will you seek to avoid it the coincidence and the fatality of circumstances will sweep you away against your will that which you might have done to escape it might perhaps be called the plague and will only hasten your Misfortune I have in my hands the Memoir of an ex-minister of Louis 16 who

Was consulted about the causes of this Revolution and in particular concerning the principal conspirators whom it would be good to know and about the plan of the conspiracy I have read how he pronounces that it would be useless to search out either men or an association

Of men who could have planned the ruin of the throne and of the altar or formed any plan which could be called a conspiracy unfortunate Monarch when the very ones who should have been watching out for you are unaware of even the name and even the existence of your enemies

And those of your people is it very astonishing that you and your people would be the victims of it we will tell them in this French Revolution everything including its most horrible crimes all has been foreseen planned contrived resolved decreed all has been the result of the most profound infamy

Since all has been prepared brought about by The Men Who alone possessed the thread of the conspiracies long ago PL Ed in the secret societies and who have known how to choose and hasten the moments propitious to their plots if in these daily events there exist certain

Circumstances which seem to be less the result of plots there is nonetheless one cause of them from the secret agents who would both invoke these events Who would know how to profit from these circumstances or even to call them into existence and who would direct them all towards the principal object all these

Circumstances could well serve as a pretext and occasion but the great cause of the revolution of its great crimes of its great atrocities would always be independent of these incidental circumstances and this great cause exists all within the conspiracies plotted long ago in uncovering the object and the extent of these

Conspiracies I ought to dispel an error even more dangerous it exists in one fatal delusion among men who would not have difficulty agreeing that this French revolution has been planned but they are not afraid to add that in the intention of its original authors it was

Bound to lead only to the happiness and the Regeneration of the empires that if great misfortunes have come to interfere with their plans it is because they came across great obstacles and besides that one does not regenerate a great people without great agitations but that after all these storms are not Eternal that

The waves will subside and the calm will return that then the astonished Nations rather than having to fear the French Revolution instead were limitate by holding fast to its principles this error is above all what the leaders of the Jacobin strive all the more to confirm this explanation was given as

The first Implements of the Rebellion to the whole band of constitutionalists who still regard their decrees about the rights of man as a masterpiece of public law and who still do not lose the hope of one day seeing the whole universe ver regenerated by this political rapid this

Explanation was given to all those men whose stupid credulity with all their good intentions sees only a necessary Misfortune in the horrors of the 10th of August and in the massacre of the 2nd of September which we will discuss it is given finally to all those men who even

Today are consoled by 3 or 400,000 assassinations by those millions of victims which the war the famine the guillotine the Revolutionary tribulations have cost France two all those men who yet today are consoled by this immense depopulation under the pretext that all these Horrors will eventually bring about a better Order of

Things against this false hope against all these supposed intentions of the Revolutionary sect I set forth its true plans and its conspiracies for realizing them I will speak because it must be properly told at last because all the proofs of it have been obtained the French Revolution has been what it had

To be in the spirit of the sect all the evil which it has done it had to do all its crimes and all its atrocities were but a necessary result of its principles and its systems I will say even more far from preparing in the distance a happy

Future the French Revolution is only one attempt of the forces of this sect its conspiracies extend over the entire universe if among our readers there are those who conclude the sect of the ecoins must be eliminated or certainly the whole society May well perish and that to our present governments

Everywhere without exception will come the convulsions overturning massacres and the infernal Anarchy of France I would reply yes one must expect this Universal disaster or totally abolish crush the sect that which the Jacobin have shattered before a first time they will shatter yet again they will pursue

In the darkness the great OB object of their conspiracies and by new disasters will teach the Nations that the whole French Revolution was only the beginning of the universal dissolution which this sect plans one has seen the delirium the rage and the ferocity of the legions of the sect one recognizes them readily

Enough as the instruments of all the crimes of all the devastations of all the atrocities of the French Revolution but one does not know enough what Masters what school what vows and what successively Savage plots there are the result of these investigations and of all the evidence which I have gathered

Above All In The Archives of the Jacobin and of their first Masters has been that their sect and their plots are in themselves but the joining together the Coalition of a triple sect of a triple conspiracy in which long before the Revolution was plotted and is yet being

Plotted the overthrow of the altar that of the throne and finally that of the whole Civil Society it was already planned the three points he has in mind are the philosophers the Masons and the Illuminati you have believed the revolution to be finished in France but

The revolution in France is but a first attempt of the Jacobins and the vows the Oaths and the plots of jacobinism extend to England Germany Italy to All Nations as it does to the French Nation voler now we will try to examine these ideas which before the French Revolution

Prepared the way for the revolution first of all there is that thing which we already examined briefly in the previous lectures that is the philosophy of the Enlightenment he finds the most significant philosopher of the Enlightenment to be Vol in this respect because when he was still a young man in

England he made a vow that he would devote his life to the destruction of Christianity and from him Comes This famous phrase e says liname to exterminate the infamous thing that is religion of Christ and replace it of course with his religion which is deism

He and his followers as I said are the ones that this barel calls the philosophies corrupts the corrupting philosophers and the Jacobin are the philosophy’s Massac the massacring philosophers the ones who will still have ideas but they go out and chop people’s heads off he finds also most

Significant daot and D lbert among the other French deists philosophers and Frederick 2 King of Prussia who frequently met with Vol and we see at that time as later on with bolshevism that the wildest revolutionaries have the ability to persuade princes and high rulers to go with them in their plans we

Will later on say something about the Jews but right now we’ll just mention that it’s interesting that both D lbert and voler in their hatred for Christianity tried to persuade several princes to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem in order to prove that Christianity was false the same way that

Julian the apostate tried to do it he even wrote a letter to Katherine too please build the temple in Jerusalem but Katherine was rather smarter than that many of the rulers the small Dukes in Germany and the Nobles in France were very much intrigued by these ideas even

The very wildest revolutionary ones were doing away with Christianity and that’s of course one big reason why the revolution had such support but Katherine too in Russia although she was German and so forth was much smarter than the other rulers and she even told voler that she couldn’t go along with

All his ideas although she was a very good friend of his and that if his ideas were going to be put into practice she would no longer be able to have her salon and invite him to give talks and later on when the French Revolution broke out of course she arrested all the

Masons and that was the end of Revolution for her Russo a second great stream the first one is voler and the deist philosophers who are rationalists that is they reduce everything to their limit of their understanding a second great current of philosophy which was very influential in the Revolution was

That of Jee Jac ruso who is the philosopher of feeling he said of himself that he had a romantic spirit he was filled with great feelings he had always found somebody who would support him in his love affairs and everything else he would go in the woods some great

Prince would support him and he would ramble in the woods and his heart would swell up with great feelings and he would recognize God everywhere and that was his religion he lived in his emotions in the realm of the vague and the indefinite but in the same way as Vol

Reduced everything to his mind Russo reduced everything to his feelings and these two things of course very strong in man two sides of our nature both entered into the Revolutionary Spirit and the religion of feeling is of course much more accessible to the common people than the religion of mind he had

A philosophy of nature which is extremely influential on the revolution it is with him that we get the idea of Back To Nature away with artificiality and civilization although he was not absolutely saying we should discard civilization he even said once that since we are corrupt anyway we

Might as well be a little educated than uneducated but he contrasted the artificiality of civilized life with the Simplicity of what he thought was primitive life in fact he said that the first time that someone said this is mine that was the origin of our corruption he was even against the idea

Of private property he wrote a a book a which describes the education of a young person in which the person is supposed to be taught almost nothing at all and nature is supposed to come out in him and the teacher just removes obstacles to the development of nature in the

Child there is no external Authority no religion is given when he grows up it’s time for him to choose his own religion he will have no prejudices or habits or religion and he even said that until the child child is 12 years he should not be able to tell the difference between his

Right hand and his left hand so he will not be corrupted by knowledge and voler when he read this book wrote to Russo that reading this book makes him feel like walking on all fours but as it is more than 60 years since I have done

This it is impossible for me to resume The Habit nonetheless they were profoundly in agreement one is destroying everything except his mind the other everything accept his feeling so even though they are opposed in their basic Outlook since Russo also didn’t like this complicated rationalism still their effect is even more powerful

Because it takes two strands and applies them to the Revolutionary activists they will be inspired by both of these in his politics he developed the idea that sovereignty comes not from God not from the upper classes but it comes from the people of course this is the big idea of

Revolution but as we’ll see later on his very philosophy already justifies the strange fact that those inspired by this idea end up by establishing tyranny because he said that the general will is superior to individual will he thought once kings were overthrown that everyone would spontaneously be happy and have

The same will but if they don’t then the masses are to dictate to the individual he Russo was the one who said men is Born Free and is everywhere in Chains of course the basic idea of the Revolution adds up to Marx he said his religion is

One of feeling he was a deist like voler but his deism is not one that’s thought out it’s just his own feeling about God and he also believed in immortality but all this is just his subjective feeling all dogmas are subjected to his heart his prayer is not

Any kind of petition because he did not believe that any God answers prayers rather it was an outburst of enthusiasm of joy in nature which became a hym of praise to the great being that is the great God of deism in his ideal Commonwealth he said that no intolerant

Religion should be allowed that is Christianity of course there was to be a profession of Faith which is purely civil and its articles are to be social sentiments without which it is impossible to be a good citizen or a faithful subject that is a new religion which is rather autocratic those who do

Not accept this religion since the whole society must have one religion must leave the country and if one accepts the religion and then acts contrary to it he must be executed so these are the two philosophical strands which enter into the makeup of the Revolutionary mind one

The idea that I by myself can think through a system whereby Society will be more harmoniously ordered and the other that my feelings will guide me to the truth and in neither one is there any Safeguard the idea of revelation of tradition of God is out the only God

Left is a very vague God the god of deism and we Orthodox Christians know that one who removes Revelation tradition the church and accepts whatever his mind tells him or whatever his feelings dictate to him opens the way for what for Satan to enter because Satan enters by means of Thoughts by

Means of feelings and we’ll see that in these revolutionary outbursts you cannot explain what happens except by the fact that Satan is directing things he’s inspiring these people with all kinds of plots all kinds of ideas secret societies but to these two philosophical elements there is added now a third

Thing which is the secret societies of course the secret societies of an underground existence throughout the period before the enlightenment but it is especially in the 18th century that there is born a new sect or at least a reorganized one and that is Freemasonry which was born in England in

1717 and very quickly spread to France and America and the rest of Europe later on we shall see that Freemasonry in England and in America became something rather different from Freemasonry on the continent especially in the Catholic countries and the reason for this is not so difficult to understand the English

Mentality which gave the world already the philosophy of deism is a so-called conservative mentality that is it’s capable of believing just about anything and being quite content and not pushing its beliefs to any logical conclusions just as later on we’ll see David Hume destroys the whole of the world and then

Sits back and enjoys himself and drinks his coffee and smokes his pipe not seeing that he’s given ideas which will drive people to despair in the same way English masonry was born out of the spirit of Tolerance and seeking to find some kind of a religious belief which is

Neither Catholic nor Protestant but which will bind together all men of Good Will and they were satisfied with that they had a deistic religion the grand architect there were no religious differences discussed in the lodge you have to put religion behind and for the Englishman and later for the Americans

This was considered to be sufficient if you believe in God you can go to your Protestant church or Anglican church and be happy B Illuminati Adam wi Corp born 1748 Jesuit training but hated them turned to French philosophers manens and occult doctrines quotes Webster 810 do very similar philosophy to Russo but

Added secret revolutionary Society May 1 1776 a combination of Freemasonry and Jessy the very ideas of masonry the ideas of a Brotherhood of men which is something above Catholicism or protestantism when they went to the continent they inflamed men’s minds and made them quite radical there is in

Particular one kind of Freemasonry which apparently was evolved separately and this is what is called illuminism this was the creature of one man whose name is Adam y SHP he was born in 1748 went through a Jesuit education and later on came to hate the Jesuits turned to the French philosophers to manichan

Philosophy and apparently had some kind of occult initiation in one of the many occult sects let us examine here a few of his views he says in agreement with Russo that Civilization is a great mistake and to this all the inequalities of human life word you he says men is

Fallen from the condition of Liberty and equality the state of pure nature he is under subordination and civil bondage arising from The Vices of man this is the fall and original sin notice he uses the Christian term Here original sin later on we’ll see how this is all an

Imitation of Christianity according to him all the art and Sciences must be abolished he says do the common Sciences afford real Enlightenment real human happiness or are they not rather children of necessity the complicated needs of a state contrary to Nature the inventions of vain and empty brains why

He asks should it be impossible to the human race to attain its highest Perfection the capacity for governing itself for this reason he taught that not only should Kings and noals be abolished but even Republic should not be tolerated and the people should be T to do without any controlling Authority

Any law or any civil code in order to make this system a success it would be necessary only to inculcate in man adjust and steady morality and since why sh professed to share Uso’s belief in the inherent goodness of human nature this would not be difficult and Society

Might then go on peaceably in a state of perfect Liberty and equality for for since the only real obstacle to human Perfection lay in the restraints imposed on man by artificial conditions of Life the removal of these must inevitably restore him to his primitive virtue man

Is not bad except as he is made so by arbitrary morality he is bad because religion the state and bad examples pervert him do it was necessary therefore to root out from his mind all ideas of a Hereafter all fear of Retribution for evil Deeds needs and to substitute for these superstitions the

Religion of reason when at least reason becomes the religion of men then will the problem be solved after deliverance from the bondage of religion the loosening of all social ties must follow both family and National Life must cease to exist so as to make of the human race

One good and happy family dot the origins of patriotism and the love of Kindred are thus described by why sharped in the directions given to his hierophants for the the instruction of initiates at the moment when men United themselves into Nations they ceased to recognize themselves under a common name

Nationalism or national love took the place of universal love with the division of the globe and its country’s benevolence restricted itself behind boundaries that it was never again to transgress then it became a virtue to spread out at the expense of those who did not happen to be under our Dominion

Then in order to attain this goal it became per ible to despise foreigners and to deceive and to offend them this virtue was called patriotism that man was called a patriot who whilst just towards his own people was unjust to others Who blinded himself to the merits of foreigners and took for Perfections

The Vices of his own country so one sees that patriotism gave birth to localism to the family spirit and finally to egoism thus the origin of stat saw govern govern Ms of civil society was the seed of Discord and patriotism found its punishment in itself dot diminish do

Away with this love of country and men will once more learn to know and love each other as men there will be no more partiality the ties between Hearts will unroll and extend in these words the purest expression of internationalism as it is expounded today why sha displayed

An ignorance of primeval conditions of life as profound as that of Russo the idea of Paleolithic man whose skeleton is usually exhumed with a flint instrument or other weapon of warfare grasped in its hand passing his existence in a state of universal love is simply ludicrous it was not however

In his dire tribes against civilization that why sh surpassed truso but in the plan he devised for overthrowing it Russo had merely paved the way for evolution why sh constructed the actual Machinery of Revolution itself it was on the 1st of May 1776 that why sh’s 5 years of meditation resulted in his

Founding the secret society that he named after byon philosophical systems the Illuminati web 112a 13 abolition of religion absolute obedience the grades of the order were a combination of the grades of Freemasonry and the degrees belonging to the Jesuits why shed as has already been said detested the Jesuits

But recognizing the efficiency of their methods in acquiring influence over the minds of their disciples he conceived the idea of adopting their system to his own purpose he admired says the ab barel the institutions of the founders of this order he admired above all those laws that regime of the Jesuits which under

One had made so many men dispersed all over the universe tend towards the same object he felt felt that one might imitate their methods whilst proposing to himself F diametrically opposed he said to himself what all these men have done for altars and Empires why should I

Not do against altars and Empires by the attraction of mysteries of Legends of adepts why should not I destroy in the dark what they erect in the light of day it was in the training of adepts that why sh showed his profound subtlety prelit were not to be admitted at once

To the secret aims of illuminism but initiated step by step into the higher Mysteries and the greatest caution was to be exercised not to reveal to the novice doctrines that might be likely to revolt him for this purpose the initiators must acquire the habit of talking backwards and forwards so as not

To commit themselves one must speak why sh explained to the superiors of the order sometimes in one way sometimes in another so that our real purpose should remain impenetrable to our inferiors thus to certain novices the novices eor size the Illuminati must profess to disapprove of revolutions and demonstrate the advantages of proceeding

By peaceful methods towards the attainment of world domination the passage then goes on to say vaguely that this is not the case and that the order only demands of the initiate the Fulfillment of his obligations nor must antagonism to religion be admitted on the contrary Christ was to be

Represented as the first author of illuminism whose secret mission was to restore to men the original Liberty and equality they had lost in the fall no one the novice should be told paved so sure away for Liberty as our Grandmaster Jesus of Nazareth and if Christ exhaled

His disciples to despise riches it was in order to prepare the world for that community of goods that should do away with property web 1314 novices initiated step by I step into the higher Mysteries it was not then until his admission to the higher grades that the Adept was initiated into

The real intentions of illuminism with regard to religion when he reached the grade of illuminated major or minor of scotch Knight ipop or priest he was told the whole secret of the order in a discourse by the initiator remember that from the first invitations which we had

Given you in order to attract you to us we commenced by telling you that in the projects of our order that did not enter any designs against religion you remember that such an assurance was given you when you were admitted into the ranks of our novices and that it was

Repeated When you entered into our maneral Academy dot you remember with what art with what simulated respect we have spoken to you of Christ and of his gospel but in the grades of Greater illuminism of scotch Knight and of a pop Tor priest how we have to know to form

From Christ’s gospel that of our reason and from its relig that of Nature and from religion reason morality and nature to make the religion and morality of the Rights of Man of equality and of Liberty dot we have had many prejudices to overcome in you before being able to

Persuade you that the pretended religion of Christ was nothing else than the work of Priests of imposture and of tyranny if it be so with that religion so much proclaimed and admired what are we to think of other religions understand then that they have all the same fictions for their origin

That they are all equally founded on lying error Chimera and imposture behold our secret dative in order to destroy all Christianity all religion we have pretended to have the sole True Religion remember that The end justifies the means and that the wise ought to take all the means to do good which the

Wicked take to do evil those which we have taken to deliver you those which we have taken to deliver one day the human race from all religion are nothing else than a Pious fraud which we reserve to unveil one day in the grade of megus or philosopher illuminated but all this was

Unknown to the novice whose confidence being won by the simulation of religion was enjoined to strict obedience amongst the questions put to him were the following if you came to discover anything wrong or unjust to be done under the order what line would you take

Will you and can you regard the good of the order as your own good will you give to our society the right of life and death do you bind yourself to Absolute and unreserved obedience and do you know the force of this undertaking by way of warning as to the consequences of

Betraying the order of forceable illustration was included in the ceremony of initiation taking a naked sword from the table the initiator held the point against the heart of the novice with these words if you are only a traitor and purer will learn that our brothers are called upon to arm

Themselves against you do not help to escape or to find a place of safety wherever you are shame remorse and the Rage of our brothers will pursue you and torment you to the innermost recesses of your entrails it will thus be seen that the Liberty vaunted by the leaders of the

Illuminati had no existence and that iron discipline was in reality the watch word of the order a great Point impressed upon the adepts of which we shall see the importance later was that they should not be known as Illuminati this rule was particularly enforced in the case of those described as enrollers

Women were to be used and Fools With Money women were also to be enlisted as Illuminati by being given hints of emancipation dot through women wrote why SHP one may often work the best in the world to insinuate ourselves with these and to win them over should be one of

Our cleverest studies more or less they can all be led towards change by Vanity curios ity sensuality and inclination from this can one draw much profit for the good cause this sex has a large part of the world in its hands dot the female adepts were then to be divided into two

Classes each with its own secret the first to consist of virtuous women who would give an air of respectability to the order the second of light women who would help to satisfy those brothers who have a punch on for pleasure but the present utility of both classes would

Consist in providing funds for the society Fools With Money whether men or women were to be particularly welcomed these good people wrote spacers to Ajax and Kato swell our numbers and fill our money box set yourselves to work these gentlemen must be made to nibble at the

Bait but let us beware of telling them our secrets this sort of people must always be made to believe that the grade they have reached is the last 1516 system of universal spying Espionage formed a large part of why sher’s program the adepts known as the insinuating brothers were enjoined to

Assume the role of observers and reporters every person shall be made a spy on another and on all around him friends relations enemies those who are indifferent all without exception shall be the object of his inquiries he shall attempt to discover their strong side and their weak their passions their

Prejudices their connections above all their actions in a word the most detailed information about them all this is to be entered on tablets that the insinuate carries with him and from which he shall draw up reports to be sent in twice a month to his superiors

So that the order may know which are the people in each town and Village to whom it can look for support 16 anti-science and civilization in general Sciences are the complicated needs of a state contrary to Nature the inventions of vain and empty brains St Apostle C barel

49 from the first year of his why shs illuminism in his atrocious impiety aping the god of Christianity he conceived in these terms the orders he would give to massen horsen to propagate his new gospel did not Jesus Christ send forth his Apostles to preach throughout

The Universe you who are my peter why would I allow you to be idle and quiet at home go then and preach martinism also important 1775 St Martin called Liberty equality fraternity the sacred Turner in the book of St Martin de Del aite published in 1775 the formula Liberty equality and

Fraternity is referred to as Lon or sea the martinist frequently referred to in French contemporary records as the illum were in reality dreamers and Fanatics and must not be confounded with the order of the illimity of Bavaria that came into existence 22 years later it is by this terrible and formidable sect

That the gigantic plan of World Revolution was worked out under the leadership of the man whom Lou blun has truly described as The profoundest Conspirator that has ever existed why shed C 1782 Congress of wilhelm’s B illuminism and Freemason re United to pursue common end claiming 3 million members quote on

Tragic secret Webster page 19 but it was not until the conest wilhelm’s bat that the alliance between illuminism and Freemasonry was finally sealed this assembly of which the importance to the subsequent history of the world has never been appreciated by historians met for the first time on the 16th of July

1782 and included Representatives of all the secret societies martinist as well as Freemasons and Illuminati which now numbered no less than 3 million members all over the world amongst these different orders the Illuminati of Bavaria alone had formulated a definite plan of campaign and it was they who

Hence forward took the lead what passed at this terrible Congress will never be known to the outside world for even those men who had been drawn unwittingly into the movement and now heard for the first time the real designs of the leaders were under oath to reveal

Nothing one such honest Freemason the K Dy a member of a martinist LOD at Leon returning from the Kus to wilhelm’s bad could not conceal his alarm and when questioned and three abolition of inheritance four abolition of patriotism five abolition of the family that is of marriage and all morality The Institute

Tion of the communal education of children six abolition of all religion now it will surely be admitted that the above forms and on the tragic Secrets he had brought back with him replied I will not confide them to you I can only tell you that all this is very much more

Serious than you think the conspiracy which is being woven is so well thought out that it will be so to speak impossible for the monarchy in the church to escape from it from this time on the k d could only speak of Freemasonry with horror D 1784 elector of Bavaria prohibited all

Secret societies 1785 Illuminati arrested and tried and their documents publicized recipes for bombs description of the goal Webster 25 public opinion had now however become thoroughly roused on the subject of the society and the elector of Bavaria informed of the the danger to the state constituted by its

Adepts who were said to have declared that the Illuminati Must In Time Rule the World published an edict forbidding all secret societies in April of the following year 1785 four other Illuminati disgusted by the tyranny of Y SHP were summoned before a court of inquiry to give an

Account of the doctrines and methods of the sect the evidence of these men left no further room for doubt as to the Diabolical nature of illuminism all religion they declared all love of country and loyalty to sovereigns were to be annihilated a favorite maxim of the order being to slay Roy to Slayers

Sun day fron traitors moreover every effort was to be made to create Discord not only between princes and their subjects but between ministers and their secretaries and even between parents and children whilst suicide was to be encouraged by inculcating in men’s Minds the idea that the Act of Killing oneself

Afforded a certain voluptuous pleasure Espionage was to be extended even to the post by placing adapts in the post offices who possessed the art of opening letters and closing them again without fear of detection Robison who studied all the evidence of the four professors thus sums up the plan of why sh has

Revealed by them the order of the Illuminati jured Christianity and advocated sensual pleasures in the Lodge’s death was declared an eternal sleep patriotism and loyalty were called narrow-minded prejudices and incompatible with universal benevolence further they accounted all princes usurpers and tyrants and all privileged orders as their are betters they meant

To abolish the laws which protected property accumulated by long continued and successful industry and to prevent for the future any such accumulation they intended to establish Universal Liberty and equality the imprescriptible rights of man and as necessary preparations for all this they intended to root out all religion and

Ordinary morality and even to break the bonds of domestic life by destroying the veneration for marriage vows and by taking the education of children out of the hands of the parents reduced to a simple formula the aims of the Illuminati may be summarized in the following six points one abolition of

Monarchy and all Lord of government two abolition of private property program hitherto unprecedented in the history of civilization communistic theories had been held by isolated thinkers or groups of thinkers since the days of Plato but no one as far as we know had ever yet seriously proposed to destroy everything

For which civilization stands moreover when as we shall see the plan of illuminism as codified by the above six points has continued up to the present day to form the exact program of the World Revolution how can we doubt that the whole movement originated with the illuminatti or with secret influences at

Work behind them it was on the 11th of October 1786 that the Bavarian authorities descended upon the house of swack and seized the documents which laid bare the methods of the conspirators here were found descriptions of a strong box for safeguarding papers which if forced open

Should blow up by means of an infernal machine of a composition which should blind or kill it squirted in the face of a method for counterfeiting seals recipes for a particularly deadly kind of aquana for poisonous perfumes that would fill a bedroom with pestilential Vapors and for a tea to procure abortion

A eulogy of atheism entitled better than Horus was also discovered and a paper in the handwriting of swack describing the plan for enlisting women in the two classes mentioned above it will be of great service and procure much information and money and will suit charmingly the taste of many of our

Truest members who are lovers of the sex it should consist of two classes The Virtuous and the free-hearted do they must not know of each other and must be under the direction of men but without knowing it through good books and the latter class through the indulging of their passions in concealment the

Fearful danger presented by the Illuminati now became apparent and the government of Bavaria judging that the best manner of conveying a warning to the Civilized world would be to allow the papers to speak for themselves ordered them to be printed forth with and circulated as widely as possible a

Copy of this publication entitled original writings of the order of the Illuminati was then forwarded to every government of Europe but strange to say attracted little attention the truth being doubtless as the ab baru points out that the extravagance of the scheme there in propounded rendered it unbelievable and the rulers of Europe

Refusing to take illuminism seriously put it aside as a chimera see the revolution one calling ofin because of financial difficulties see the pretext for Enlightenment ideas to work the Revolution was Radical from the beginning and had immense support from the spirit of the age Wordsworth Bliss

Was it in that scene to be alive but to be young was very Heaven two Jack Obin took the lead from the beginning the only real party agreed beforehand on policy in National Assembly well organized c46 Affiliated Societies in the provinces with 500,000 members by 1793 they take control Power from secret

Societies baru 412 conceived not many years before the French Revolution in the thoughts of a man whose total ambition seemed absorbed at in go stat in the chalk dust of schools how is it that illuminism in less than 20 years became that formidable sect which under the name of

Jack Obin counts today as its trophies so many altars fallen to pieces so many scepter broken or mangled so many constitutions overturned So Many Nations subjugated so many potentates Fallen under its daggers or its poisons or or its executioners so many other potentates humiliated beneath the Yoke

Of a servitude called peace or of a servitude even more dishonorable called Alliance under this same name of Jack Obin swallowing up simultaneously all the secrets all the conspiracies all the sects of sworn infidels of seditious plotters of disiz plotters how is it that illuminism sets up such a Dominion

Of fear that holding the universe in dismay it permits not a single King to say tomorrow I will still be king and not a single people tomorrow I will still have my laws and my religion not a single citizen tomorrow both my fortune and my home will still be mine tomorrow

I will not awaken beneath the tree of Liberty on the one side and the tree of death the ravenous giltin on the other invisible authors how it is that the secret adepts of modernday Spartacus alone preside at all the crimes and all the disasters of this plague of brigandage and of ferocity called

Revolution how do they still preside over all that the sect plans in order to consummate the Desolation and dissolution of human societies the jobin’s orders were instantly obeyed barel 4337 they drink each other’s blood to the death of Kings Western fall of monarchy in 1792 destruction begins in

Earnest I found the letter it was composed in these terms your letter my dear friend has been read in presence of the whole club it was surprising to find so much philosophy in a village curate never fear my dear curate we are 300 we Mark the heads and they fall as for that

Of which you speak it is not time yet only keep your people ready dispose your parishioners to execute the orders and they shall be given to you in time this letter was signed do dedri secretary to the reflections which this letter suggests I shall add only that the club

From where it was sent had changed the place of its meetings to go to the suburb of saor and that there it remained unknown to the court until the moment of one of these ories whose object would be to again apprise the king of the Fate that awaited him after

One of these repasts celebrated in the name of fraternity all the brothers would prick their arms and drain their blood into their glass all would drink of this Blood after having cried death to the Kings and this would be the last Toast of their fraternal repast this

Letter tells us also which men formed this Legion of the 1200 which Jean de Bri proposed to establish at the convention whose goal was to be spread into the empires to assassinate all the kings of the earth three violence the usual interpretation see incident passions aroused National Defense Etc

But evidence points to deliberate use when there are real grievances they are exploited by clever politicians to promote the revolution great role of agitators one the great fear July 1789 born p.1 100 web. 3233 to whatever agency we attribute it however the mechanism of the French Revolution distinguish is it from all

Previous revolutions hither to the isolated revolutions that had taken place throughout the history of the world can be clearly recognized as spontaneous movements brought about by oppression or by a political faction enjoying some measure of popular support and therefore endeavoring to satisfy the demands of the people but in the French

Revolution we see for the first time that plan in operation which has been carried on right up to the present moment the systematic attempt to create grievances in order to exploit them the most remarkable instance of engineered agitation during the early stages of the Revolution was the extraordinary

Incident known to history as the great fear when on the same day July 22nd 1789 and almost at the same hour in towns and Villages all over France a panic was created by the announcement that brigands were approaching and therefore that all good citizens must take up arms the Messengers who brought

The news post haste on Horseback in many cases exhibited placards headed Edict of the King Bearing the words the king orders all Shadow to be burned down he only wishes to keep his own and the people obedient to these commands seized upon every weapon they could find and

Set themselves to the task of Destruction the object of the conspirators was thus achieved the arming of the populace against Law and Order a device which ever since 1789 has always formed the first item in the program of the social Revolution protest of women October 5th 1789 women also dressed as men many

Forced to go along two the reign of terror under Rob spear ostensibly invoked by Foreign Invasion seeking enemies of the people inside this a means of governing CF communism but deeper there was a little publicized plan of depopulation report of the Committee of Public Safety August 8th

1795 be peaceful France has enough for 12 million men all the rest 12 million will have to be put to death and then you will no longer lack for bread barel 4 Page 335 it was she the sect that extinguished even the affection of a brother for his brother of the child for

His father when the Adept Jor at the sight of a brother over to his executioners coolly replied if my brother is not in the sentiment of the Revolution let him be sacrificed when the adep Philip brought in Triumph to the Jacobins the heads of his father and mother this is the sect always

Insatiable for blood which by the mouth of Marat demanded yet 270,000 heads which before long could only be counted by millions she the sect knew it all the secrets of its equality could only be accomplished in its greatest events by depopulating the world and the sect which replied through leau to the

Communes of monoban terrified for want of Provisions never fear France has enough for 12 million men it is necessary that the rest that is the other 12 million Frenchmen must be put to death and then you will no longer lack bread report of the Committee of Public Safety Meeting of August 8th

1975 revolutionary tribunal discussed reduction of population to 1/3 or 1/2 Committee of Public Safety calculated how many heads to have in each town and District drowned guillotined or shot see perhaps 300,000 of which only 3,000 Nobles most peasants and workers at not 500 children of poor people were killed in one

Butchery 144 po women thrown into River Etc three killings and destruction especially fierce September 1792 massacres of priests and others in prisons cannibalism and torture the violence calculated and Marx’s idea C replies barel 4335 you speak to us always of our means a monu it is the end it is the object

And the goal that one must learn to see you speak to us always about our means a mure it is the end it is the object and the goal that you must learn to see St just I will walk willingly with my feet in Blood and Tears I will walk willingly

With my feet in Blood and Tears said robes Bear’s coad to Saint just and this whether he admits it or not must be the maxim of every revolutionary socialist who believes that any methods are justifiable for the attainment of his end four bab youth conspiracy of the

Equals a disciple of one I scored followed Rob Spear’s communist ideas said dep popularization was the immense secret of the terror claimed it took 1 Million Lives formed his own Masonic organization for bringing about equality a communist web 56 unfortunately the confusion of Mind prevailing amongst The

Advocates of equality was so great that the meetings which before long consisted of 2,000 people became like a tower of bay no one knew precisely what he wanted and no decisions could be reached it was therefore decided to supplement these huge assemblies by small secret committees and here the scheme of social

Revolution was elaborated starting from the premise that all property is theft it was decided that the process known in Revolutionary language as expropriation must take place that is to say all property must be rested from its present owners by force the force of an armed mob but Baba youth whilst advocating

Violence and tumult as the means to an end in no way desired Anarchy as a permanent condition the state must be maintained and not only maintained but made absolute the sole dispenser of the necessities of life in my system of common happiness he wrote I desire that no individual property shall exist the

Land is gods and its fruits belong to all men in general another Bist the marquist dantonel formerly a member of the Revolutionary tribunal had expressed the matter in much the same words the state of Communism is the only just the only good one without this state of things no peaceful and really happy

Societies can exist April 1796 finished his Manifesto of equals web 578 born We Wish For Real equality or death that is what we must have and we will have this real equality no matter at what price woe to those who interpose themselves between it and us

The F roofs of our houses We Will consent to anything for that to make a clean sweep so as to hold to the tonely perish if necessary all the Arts provided that real quality is Left To Us The Agrarian law and the division of lands were the momentary wish of a few

Soldiers without principle moved by Instinct rather than by reason we tend to something more Sublime and Equitable the common happiness or the community of goods no more private property in land the land belongs to no one we claim we wish for the communal enjoyment of the

Fruits of the Earth the fruits of the earth belong to everyone we declare that we can no longer endure the great majority of men should work and sweat in the service and for the good pleasure of an extreme minority long enough and too long have less than a million

Individuals disposed of what belongs to more than 20 millions of their fellowmen of their equals let it cease at last this great scandal in which our nephews will not be able to believe vanish at last revolting distinctions of rich and poor of Great and Small of Masters and

Servants of Governors and governed let there be no other difference between men than that of agent sex since all have the Shan needs and the same faculties let there be only one education one kind of food they content themselves with one son and air for all why should not the

Same portion and the same quality of food suffice for each of them people of France we say to you the holy Enterprise that we are organizing has no other object but to put an end to civil dissensions and to public misery never has a more vast design been conceived

And executed from time to time a few Men of Genius a few sages of spoken in a low and trembling voice not one of them has had the courage to tell the whole truth the moment for great measures has arrived the evil is at its height it

Covers the face of the Earth chaos under the name of politics has reigned for too many centuries dot the moment has come to found the Republic of the equals the great hostile open to all men dot groaning families come and seat yourselves at the common table set up by

Nature for all her children baby youth then decided that a secret directorate must be formed of which the workings bear a curious resemblance to those of the Illuminati thus W Sher had employed 12 leading adepts to direct operations throughout Germany and had strictly enjoined his followers not to be known

Even to each other as Illuminati so baby you’ve now instituted 12 principal agents to work the different districts of Paris and these men were not even to know the names of those who formed the central Committee of four but only to communicate with them through intermediaries partially initiated into

The secrets of the conspiracy likewise shered also baby you adoped a domineering and arrogant turn towards his subordinates and any whom he suspected of treachery were threatened after the manner of the secret societies with the darest Vengeance woe to those of whom we have caused to complain he

Wrote to one whose Zeal he had begun to doubt reflect that true consp patus can never relinquish those they have once decided to employ by April 1796 the plan of insurrection was complete and the famous Manifesto of the equals drawn up ready for publication people of France this Proclamation announced for 15

Centuries you have lived in slavery and consequently in unhappiness for 6 years that is during the course of the Revolution you have hardly drawn breath waiting for Independence for happiness and equality equality the first desire of nature the first need of man and the principal Bond of all legal Association

Well we intend henceforth to live and die equal as we were people of France open your eyes and heart to the plenitude of Happiness recognize and Proclaim with us the Republic of the equals this document was destined however not to be displayed to the eyes of the public for the secret committee

Finally decided that it would be an expedient to admit the people into the whole plan of the conspiracy particularly did they judge it inadvisable to publish the phrase which had been expressed in almost identical Language by why SHP perish all the ARs provided that real equality is left to

Us the people of France were not to know that a return to barbarism was contemplated accordingly a second Proclamation was framed under the title of analysis of the doctrine of Baba youth a far less aspiring appeal than the former Manifesto and mainly unintelligible to the working classes

Yet as M flurry remarks the veritable Bible or Quran of the despotic system known as communism dot for here in lies the Crux of the matter no one reading these two documents of the bab vists can fail to recognize the truth of certain of their strictures on society the

Glaring disparity between poverty and riches the uneven distribution of work and pleasure the Injustice of an industrial system whereby owing largely at this period to the suppression of trade unions by the revolutionary leaders employers could live in luxury by sweaty labor but the point is how did Baby youth propose to redress these

Evils briefly then his system founded on the doctrine community of goods and of Labor may be summarized as follows everyone must be forced to work so many hours a day in return for equal remun eration the man who showed himself more skillful or industrious than his fellows would be recompensed merely by public

Gratitude this compulsory labor was in fact not to be paid for in money but in kind for since the right to private property constituted the principal evil of existing Society the distinction of mine and thine must be abolished and no one should be allowed to possess anything of his own payment could

Therefore only be made in the products of Labor which were all to be collected in huge communal stores and doed out in equal rations to the workers inevitably Commerce would be entirely done away with and money was no longer to be coined or admitted to the country foreign trade must therefore be carried

On by coin now in circulation and when it was exhausted by a system of barter but people were not informed of this a ring La I SCP told only that the goods of the enemies of the people would be given to the needy but the people were

Not in the secret of the movement just as in the great outbreaks of the Revolution the mob of Paris has been driven blindly forward on false pretexts supplied by the agitators so once again the people were to be made the instruments of their own ruin the secret Committee of Direction well knew that

Communism was a system that would never appeal to the people they were careful therefore not to admit their dupes among the working classes into the whole of their program and believing that it was only by an appeal to self-interest and covetousness they could secure a following they skillfully played on the

People’s passions promising them booty they had no intention of bestowing on them thus in the insurrectional act now drawn up by the committee it was announced that the goods of the emigra of the conspirators that is the royalists and the enemies of the people were to be distributed to The Defenders

Of the country and the needy they did not tell them that in reality these things were to belong to no one but to become the property of the state administered by themselves dot the people then were not to be allowed to know the truth about the cause in which

They were asked to shed their blood and that they would be obliged to shed it in Torrance no San man could doubt his admiration for robes bear seaweb 64 when it came to organizing the required Insurrection baby youth adopted a very different kind of language in fact the former denouncer of robes

Spear’s system of depopulation now asserted that not only robes Spear’s aims but his methods were to be commended I confess today that I bear a grudge against myself for having formerly seen the Revolutionary government and Rob Spear and Saint just in such black colors I think these men

Alone were worth all the revolutionaries put together and that their dictatorial government was devilishly well thought out dots I do not at all agree that they committed great crimes and made many Republicans perish not so many I think the salvation of 2 5 millions of men must not be weighed against

Consideration for a few equivocal individuals a regenerator must take a wide Outlook he must mow down everything that thwarts him everything that obstructs his passage everything that can impede his prompt arrival at the goal on which he has determined Rascals or imbeciles or presumptuous people or

Those eager for Glory it is all the same D piss pooru so much the pity for them what are they therefore four robes spear knew all that and it is partly what makes me admire him but where baby you showed himself the intellectual inferior of robes spear was in the way he

Proposed to overcome resistance to his plan of a socialist State robes spear as he well knew had spent 14 months mowing down those that obstructed his passage had kept the guillotin unremittingly at work in Paris and the provinces yet even then had not succeeded in silencing objectors but baby you hoped to

Accomplish his purpose in one day that great day of the people wherein all opposition should be instantly suppressed the whole existing social order annihilated and the Republic of equality erected on its ruins if however the process were to be brief it must necessarily be all the more violent and

It was thus with none of the calm Precision of robes spear marking down heads for Destruction that baby youth set about his task his Friendzy C web 6 5 when writing out his plans of insurrection his secretary pill afterwards related at his trial baby youth would rush up and down the room

With flaming eyes mouthing and grimacing pitting himself against the furniture knocking over the chairs while stuttering horse cries of two arms two arms the Insurrection the Insurrection is beginning it was an Insurrection against the chairs said pill dryy then baby youth would fling himself upon his

Pen plunge it into the ink and write with fearful rapidity whilst his whole body trembled and the perspiration poured from his brow it was no longer Madness added pill it was frenzy this frenzy baby you explained was necessary in order to work himself up to the required degree of eloquence and in his

Appeals to Insurrection it is difficult to see where his program differed from the brigandage and violence he had deprecated the Great day of Revolution cweb 678 the following program for the great day was now drawn up by the secret directory at a given moment the Revolutionary Army was to march on the

Legislative assembly on the headquarters of the army and on the houses of the ministers the best trained troops were to be sent to the arsenals and ammunition factories and also to the camps of vinsen and greenell in the hope that the 8,000 men in Camp there would

Join in the movement mean while orators were to hold forth to the soldiers and women were to present them with refreshment and Civic wreaths in the event of their remaining proof against these seductions the streets were to be barricaded and Stones bricks boiling water and vital thrown down on the heads

Of the troops all supplies for the capital were then to be seized and placed under the control of the leaders at the same time the wealthier classes were to be driven from their houses which were immediately to be converted into lodgings for the poor the members of the directory were then to be

Butchered likewise all citizens who offered any resistance to the insurgents the Insurrection thus happily terminated as Baba yuth naively expressed it the whole people were to be assembled in the place DEA Revolution and invited to cooperate in the choice of their representatives the plan right Bon Roti

Was to talk to the people without reserve and without digressions and to render the most oppressive homage to its sovereignty but lest the people per chance blinded to its truest interests might fail to recognize its saviors in the person of the conspirators the bists proposed to follow up their homage of

The people’s sovereignty by demanding that executive power should be exclusively confided to themselves for as bonaroti observed at the beginning of the Revolution it is necessary even out of respect for the real sovereignty of the people to occupy oneself less with the wishes of the nation than to place supreme authority in strongly

Revolutionary hands once in these hands it would of course remain there and the bay vists with all the civil and military forces at their back would be able to impose their system of State served them on the submissive people violence C70 at a meeting of the committee there

Was read aloud the finished plan of insurrection to which further atrocious details had been added everyone attempting to ex ize any Authority was instantly to be put to death the armorers were to be forced to give up their arms The Bakers their supplies of bread and those who resisted hoisted to

The nearest Lantern the same fate was reserved for all wine and spirit Merchants who might refuse to provide the Brandy needed to inflame the populace and drive them into violence all reflection on the part of the people must be avoided ran the written directions to the leaders they must

Commit acts which will prevent them from going back amongst the whole of This ferocious band Rosel the former general of the Revolutionary armies in lavend D showed himself the most bloodthirsty I will not have anything to do with your Insurrection he cried unless heads fall like hail unless it inspires so great a

Terror that it makes the whole universe shudder a discourse that met with unanimous Applause the 11th of May had been fixed for the great day of explosion when not only Paris but all the cities of France worked on by the Agents of baby youth were to rise and overthrow the whole structure of

Civilization meanwhile there was an informant and the government warned of the impending attack was ready to meet it on the morning of the day appointed a placard was found posted upon all the walls of Paris bearing these words the executive directory to the citizens of Paris citizens a frightful plot is to

Break out this night or tomorrow at the door of day A Band of Thieves and murderers has formed the project of butchering the Legislative Assembly all the members of the government the staff of the army and all constituted authorities in Paris the constitution of 93 is to be proclaimed this Proclamation

Is to be the signal for a general pillage of Paris of houses and muches of stores and shops and the massacre of a great number of citizens is to be carried out at the same time but be reassured assured good citizens the government is watching it knows the

Leaders of the plot and their methods be calm therefore and carry on your ordinary business the government has taken infallible measures for outwitting their schemes and for giving them up with their partisans to the Vengeance of the law then without further warning the police burst into the house where babyf

And bonotti were drawing up a rival placard calling the people to revolt in the midst of their task the arm of the law prised and seized them and on the following morning 45 other leaders of the conspiracy were arrested likewise and thrown into the Abbey alas for the

Support they had hoped for from the populace the Revolutionary Army on which they had counted impressed as the people always a by a display of authority went over to the police in support of Law and Order with the removal of the agitators the whole populous came to their senses

And realized the full horror of the plot into which they had been inv vagled Napoleon averted them and ended the last great attempt in French Revolution to realize the aim of alism five revolutionaries devoured each other barel 4 3389 Christ had no more altar in France

The Kings had no more Throne those who had destroyed the Altar and the throne conspired against each other The Intruders the atheists and the deists slaughtered the Catholics The Intruders the atheist ists and the deists slaughtered one another the constitutionalists pursued the royalists the Republicans pursued the constitutionalists the Democrats of

Theon and indivisible Republic butchered the Democrats of the Federate Republic the faction of the mountain guillotin the faction of the gyant the faction of the mountain divided into the faction of heit and of Marat into the faction of Danton and of Chabot into the faction of

Cluts and of chit into the faction of robes bear which devoured them all and which would be in its turn devoured by the faction of talian and of frerin brot and gensen gu fak rabo barar and 30 others were sentenced by Fu qu inil as they had passed sentence on Louis 16 Fu

Qu enville was himself judged as he judged brissot pthan andot wandering in the forests perished consumed by hunger devoured by beasts parent died in Chains korset poisoned himself in prison vage and labat stabbed themselves Marat was murdered by Charlotte cordi Rob spear is no more of them size Still Remains

Because France must yet have its plagues lenur to establish the reign of his Irey Lil to punish him for it gave her France under the name of directors her five tyrants or her Pentax and her double Senate Rebel Carnet bars latura Larry ve Leo Rob her of her weapons drive out the

Deputies of her equality and her Liberty batter her sections with Cannon and mortars squeeze her in his clutches and cause to hang upon her a yoke of iron all tremble before them they are frightened envying one another withdrawing from one another only allowing new tyrants to arrive and join

Together the deportations the stuper the terror and these pent dos at this moment though are the gods who rule over France The Silence of the terror in her Empire where her vast prison 20 million slaves all dumb with Terror under the shaft at the Mame of lagen of Merlin or of Rebel

Behold this people so often proclaimed equal and free and Sovereign France ruined by Revolution Webster 4950 the condition of France at the end of the terror France is demoralized she is exhausted this is the last straight of this country in Ruins there is no longer any public opinion or rather this

Opinion is made up only of hatred they hate the directors members of the directory and they hate the deputies they hate the terrorists and they hate the chns the royalists of lavend D they hate the rich and they hate the anarchists they hate the Revolution and they hate the counterrevolution dot but

Where hatred reaches having destroyed Kings Nobles and Aristocrats since deputies farmers and Tradesmen take their place what cries of hatred of all the ruins found and increased by the directory ruins of parties ruins of power ruins of homes ruins of consciences ruins of intellects there is nothing more pitiable that this

The ruin of national character 8 years after the ending of the terror France had not yet Rec recovered from its ravages according to redhead York even the usually accepted theory of agricultural Prosperity is erroneous nothing can exceed the wretchedness of the Implements of husbandry employed but The Wretched appearance of the persons

Using them women at the plow and young girls driving a team give but an indifferent idea of the progress of Agriculture under the Republic there are no farmhouses dispersed over the fields the farmers reside together in remote Villages a circumstance calculated to the business of cultivation the

Interiors of the houses are filthy the farm yards in the utmost disorder and the miserable condition of the cattle sufficiently bespeaks the poverty of their owner everywhere Beggars assailed The Traveler for arms in spite of the reduced population unemployment was rif education was at a stand still and owing

To the destruction of the old nobility and clergy and the fact that the new who occupied their Estates were absente landlords there was no system of organized charity York is finally driven to declare the revolution which was brought about ostensibly for the benefit of the lower classes of society has sunk

Them to a degree of degradation and Misfortune to which they never were reduced under the ancient monarchy they have been disinherited stripped and deprived of every resource for existence except defeats of arms and the fleeting spoil of vanquishing nations in another passage York asks the inevitable

Question that arises in the minds of all thinking contemporaries France still bleeds at every Poe she is a vast mourning family clad in sackcloth it is impossible at this time for a contemplative mind to be gay in France at every footstep the merciless and sanguinary route of fanatical barbarians

Disuss the sight and sicken Humanity on all sides ruins obtrude themselves on the eye and compel the question for what and for whom are all this havoc and desolation six religion a the christianization November 1793 C of 2778 the church is desecrated the same thing happened in this revolution but in

1793 the new Revolution to replace Catholicism became apparent and this is one of the standard Lea textbooks which is very objective discusses this in 1793 the Festival of August 10th the proclamation of the Republic was purely secular the new religion endowed itself with symbols and a form of liturgy

Honored the Holy Mountain that is the place the party of the mountain and venerated its Martyrs lepeltier Marat Anda on the three Brew May year 2 October 24 comma 1,79 93 the convention adopted the Revolutionary calendar the year one was to begin with August 10th 1792 the Republic all the months are

Renamed in accordance with natural phenomena that is in there I think December is called PLO eyes which means rain the rainy season the Rainy month and so forth it attempted to De christianize Daily Life by replacing references to religious ceremonies and the Saints with names borrowed from tools and products familiar to the

French all feast days were abolished and the 7day week was abolished also in favor of a 10-day week that is there’s no more Sunday in 1793 November a report concerning Civic festivals constituted the Prelude to the official organization of the new National religion at neas on September 22nd 1793 a festival was

Celebrated in the cathedral in honor of Brutus in this province in October of 1793 all ceremonies all religious ceremonies outside churches were abolished and funeral processions and cemeteries were secularized other local provinces adopted similar policies the District of corpal declared that the majority of persons under its jurisdiction no longer desired the

Catholic form of worship in November 6th 1793 the bishop of Paris resigned under compulsion and said that he had been deceived Ed on the 17th of November he came with his Vicor to the convention to confirm his action officially a festival of Liberty was planned for 20 broom mayor year 2 November 10th

1793 to celebrate the victory of philosophy over fanaticism the commun seized notr Dame Cathedral a mountain was built in the choir and an actress impersonated Liberty informed of this the convention proceeded to the cathedral now now called the Temple of reason and attended a second celebration

Of the Civic Festival by the way they burned in effigy the image of atheism because the revolution is not atheist it’s estic some sections provinces followed this example on the 30th November 20th the citizens of the unity section adorned with Priestly symbols paraded before the convention singing and dancing and on November 23rd

1793 the churches were closed Temple of Reason SE dawon 1212 we have some sources which show and give insight into the spirit of these celebrations of reason for example in the city of chillin on the M there’s the following description of the inauguration of a temple of reason the

Festival was announced in the whole commune the evening before for this purpose retreat was sounded by all the drummers and by the trumpeters of the troops in bar at chillins and all parts of town the next day at Daybreak it was again announced by General quarters which was likewise sounded in all parts

The former Church of notr Dame was for lack of time and means cleaned and prepared only provisionally for its new use and in its former Sanctuary there was erected a pedestal supporting the symbolic statue of reason it is of simple and free Design This is an eyewitness account it is of simple and

Free design decor ated only by an insert bearing this inscription do unto others as you would have them do unto you it was flanked by two columns surrounded by two antique bronze perfume boxes which emitted incense smoke during the whole ceremony in front at the foot of three

Steps was placed an altar of antique form on which were to be placed the emblems of the various groups composing the procession would put there on the four pillars of the corners of the sanctuary were four projecting brackets to receive the bus of Brutus and he’s

The enemy of tyranny the father of the republics and the model of Republicans of Marat the faithful friend of the people who was a vicious killer of Leela who died for the Republic and the immortal Chan at precisely 9:00 in the morning the general assemblage formed on the gravel prominade otherwise called

The prominade of Liberty the military detachments and other groups destined to form the procession had their places indicated there commissioners from the society arranged them in order a Detachment of Cavalry National constabulary and huzar mingled together to strengthen the bonds of fraternity leading the March and on their pen and

There were these words reason guides us and enlightens us it was followed by the company of caners of Chillin preceded by a banner with this inscription death to the tyrants this company was followed by a cart loaded with broken chains on which were six prisoners of War and a

Few wounded being cared for by a surgeon this cart carried two banners front and back with these two inscriptions humanity is a republican virtue and they were very mistaken in fighting for tyrants that is these prisoners of War this C was accompanied by two detachments of national Guardsmen and

Regular troops fully armed other Common People carried banners with the words let us be United like it like the tricolor flag nothing can conquer dot 40 women citizens dressed in white and decorated with tricolor ribbons carried a large tricolor ribbon tied to each head a liberty Bonnet crowned this

Banner and young National Guardsmen accompanied them carrying various penants on which were written various motos in its drain groups of children of both sexes carried baskets of fruit and vases of flowers accompanying a cart drawn by two white horses in the cart was a young woman nursing an infant

Beside her a group of children of different ages it was preceded by a banner with this inscription they are the hope of the Fatherland from the cart flew a tricolor streamer with this inscription The Virtuous mother will produce Defenders for the Fatherland this van was followed by a chariot of

Antique type decorated with Oak branches and bearing a sexagenarian couple with a streamer on which was written these words respect old age again there was a group of National Guards United arm in-arm singing hymns to Liberty and bearing two banners bearing these inscriptions our Unity is our strength

And we will exterminate the last of the despots next marched a group of women with tricolor ribbons bearing a standard with this inscription AER morals will strengthen the Republic all who composed this group were dressed in white as were the drivers of the cart and all were beded with tricolor ribbons Then

Followed the surveillance committee that is the GPU grouped one after another in front were four banners each bearing the name of a section and an emblem depicting a finger on the lips to indicate secrecy and another Banner with this inscription our institution purges Society of a multitude of suspicious

People the Republic section went first it accompanied a chariot pulled by two white horses and led by two men on foot dressed in Roman style in it was a woman dressed in the same way representing the Republic on the front of this Chariot appeared a drol ensen bearing these

Words government of the wise next marched the equality section accompanying a plow pulled by two oxen and guided by a cultivator in work clothes a couple Seated on it carried a standard on which written on one side honored the pl on the other side respect conjugal love the principal inspector

And all the employees in the military storehouses formed a group which followed the plow two standards were carried by this group the first had the words military supplies and the second our activity produces abundance in our armies then marched the fraternity section consoling groups of convalescent sus Physicians were close by in the

Middle of this section was an open cart from the Montan Hospital containing men wounded in the defense of the Fatherland who appeared to have been cared for and bled by Health officers who were binding their wounds they were partly covered by their bloody bandages the front of this cart carried

A banner with this inscription our blood will never cease to flow for the safety of the Fatherland after the Committees followed Four Women citizens dressed in white and adorned with tricolor belts decorated with the attributes of the Four Seasons after the Four Seasons came the people’s representative in the midst

Of the constituted authorities civil and judicial wearing their distinctive insignia each citizen held in his hand a wheat stalk and on the banner which preceded the constituted authorities was this inscription from the enforcement of the laws come prosperity and abundance these were followed by various staff officers of the National Guard who will

Proceded by a banner saying destroy the tyrants or die next the illegitimate Children of the Fatherland were led by a woman bearing a banner the Fatherland adopts us we are eager to serve it finally the old people represented by veterans without weapons preceded by two banners on which were the inscriptions

The dawn of reason and Liberty embellishes the end of our life and the French Republic honors loyalty courage old age filial piety Misfortune it places its Constitution under the safekeeping of ail the virtues finally there was a pause for singing patriotic songs on the front steps of the city

Hall there had been built and painted a Mountain at the top of which was placed a Hercules defending a fases 14 ft in height a tricolor flag flew above it on which was written in the AR letters to the mountain from the Grateful French that is like saying to the Bolsheviks at

The foot of the mountain pure water are fired from a spring filing by various Cascades 12 men dressed as Mountaineers armed with Pikes and with Civic crowns on their heads were hidden in caverns in the mountain as the procession arrived singing the last couplet of the M the

Mountaineers quietly came out of their Caverns without fully revealing themselves and when to Arms citizens was sung they ran to get axes to defend their Retreat posted themselves on different sides of the mountain but seeing the cart with feudalism and fanaticism drawn by donkeys with miters

On their heads they ran towards them Axe in Hand grabbed the miters copes and chassa which adorned them aswi as the Pope and his acolytes and chained them to the Chariot of Liberty during this the band played a military charge the Mountaineers seeing other carts arrive and figing to believe that they were

Only the train following the one containing fanaticism advanced in their Co to meet the first one they saw which was The Chariot of Liberty they lowered their axes as a sign of respect and the band played a March then a litter appeared supporting a chair decorated with garlands the goddess descended from

Her cart seated herself on the chair and was borne by eight Mountaineers to the foot of the mountain she was followed by two nymphs one of whom was carrying a Dr color flag and the other the Declaration of the rights of man they marched upon the trash remnants of nobility and

Superstition which were then burned to the great contentment of all the citizens and climbing the mountain with people’s representative plager then present at this festival and Mountaineers who represented his colleagues while the band played where can one better be than in the bosom of one’s farm he reached the summit the

Goddess was crowned by The Graces then a tricolor flag was displayed and they sang our country’s three colors and still on the mountain they sang when from the mountain peaks the Sun the procession descended the goddess stopped at the spring avas was presented to her by the president of the commune she

Drank some water from the mountain then Pres presented some to the people’s representative to all the constituted authorities citizens and officers of the different Corp present who all drank to their health of the Republic one and indivisible and of the mountain The Party The Goddess again on her chair was

Born to her Chariot by eight Mountaineers four others placed themselves at her side axes raised to drive away the profane the others took their places with the administrative bodies to indicate that public dignitaries are consistent with virtue alone from there they went to the Temple of reason all the musicians gathered

Behind the altar with the singers at the moment when the procession entered the temple the organ blared an overture and the societ popular the constituted authorities the surveillance committees GPU and the groups described above took places in Rose facing the altar of Reason in a certain distance from it the

Military band played HS to reason to Liberty to hatred for tyrants and to Sacred Love for the Fatherland after which the president of the sociate popular delivered inaugural speech the commune president and others delivered speeches after their Harang various patriotic hymns were repeated and accompanied by the military band after

Which in front of the temple entrance the trumpeteers announced that the inauguration festival and the ceremony were concluded in the evening fire Works were displayed on the mountain a bouquet marked the Gratitude of all the French to The Mountaineers present who were solemnly recognized to be the saviors of

The Republic then a ball was held and so Brotherhood was twice celebrated in a single day each citizen taking part in this fine day evidenced this Civic spirit all took the oath to live in Freedom or to die but this is very much in harmony with of course communist

Celebrations of various kinds Minds very rational very ordered very artificial the Triumph of the abstract mind which is the sign of reason is the highest reality one asks how this all fits together and we’ll see later on how it all fits together because we want to examine both the reaction against this

In the 19th century and the further development of the revolutionary ideas already we can gain one idea which is very Central to all of this and that is that this whole Revolution with these VAR strands is very much like a secular form of something we already saw in the

Renaissance period that is the chiliastic sects now there’s a goddess of reason the same idea there’s a new order of the ages history is now coming to an end so far we see no talk of the third age of the holy spirit because it’s all couched in rationalistic terms

But this is very much an outbreak of that same Spirit now it’s much broader and takes over the whole society we’ll see later on how deep this chiliastic strain goes into modern man Napoleon and now we come to the last aspect of the Revolution which is that of Napoleon

With Napoleon the revolution actually comes to an end that is this bloody part the whole of Europe is convulsed half of it is welcoming the revolution until it sees all the blood and begins to get a little upset but still many people are welcoming Revolution and another half of

It is horrified by it and they begin to fight and the French armies go out beyond the borders carrying the revolution abroad they saw how there Gerta Beethoven and others think it’s a wonderful thing bringing Liberty and equality to Mankind and then comes one very talented and clever man Napoleon

Who takes over the whole thing and becomes over 15 years the dictator for France in many ways he offers a compromise that is he restores the church in fact gives the church do he has a concordat with the Pope which gives the pope much more power over the

French Church than he had before he restores the churches he even restores a new kind of nobility and establishes an Empire a new monarchy but preserving the advantages of the Revolution that is he has a new law code he dissolves the whole idea that there are different

Casts in society all all are supposed to be equal at least theoretically before the law and we’ll look at few aspects of his life which are not too often talked about which were there’s a book by Dimitri mski a Russian crazy Russian who however was very much attuned to

Napoleon’s mystical ideas so he quotes from many of his letters to begin with he has a front test piece the motto for the whole book a quote from pkin who calls Napoleon the Fate F executor of a command unknown that is the idea that he is representing something he knows not

What he himself is very aware of being on the crest of some movement in history and as long as the movement supports him he can he go forward and conquer the world and when it departs he feels he loses everything this m resovsky calls Napoleon the Titan who bridled the chaos

The revolution he took over and gave it order there’s a Catholic think of from the 19th century Leon blo who talks about Napoleon he says Napoleon cannot be explained he is the most inscrutable of men because he is primarily and above all the Prototype of him who must come

And who perhaps is not far distant he is the Prototype and Forerunner closely akin to us who Among Us Frenchmen or even foreigners living at the end of the 19th century but has felt the illimitable sadness of the consum of this incomparable epic who possessed

With but an atom of a soul but was not overwhelmed by the thought of the verily too sudden downfall of the great Empire and its leader who was not oppressed by the remembrance that but yesterday so it seemed men were on the highest Pinnacle possible to humanity because of the mere

Presence of this beloved miraculous and terrible being the like of whom had never before been seen in the world and could like the first human beings in Paradise esteem themselves Lords of all God’s creation and now immediately after must again be cast back into the age long mud of the bourbon’s dynasty

Because after Napoleon the monarchy was restored he Napoleon himself speaks of himself as someone who is very much one of the people even though he was himself from some kind of little nobility he says popular fiber responds to mine I am come from the ranks of the people and my

Voice has influence over them great was my material power he said but my spiritual power was infinitely greater it barded on Magic when the people died for Napoleon they died for someone whom as Victor Hugo writes understanding that they were going to die they saluted their God who was standing in the midst

Of the Tempest that is Napoleon as a deity on his return to Paris from Elba that is when he was first banished to elow off the coast of France and then came back for a a brief period before watero he came into the Palace of the tillies in Paris and those who carried

Him were frantic beside themselves with joy and thousands of others deemed themselves happy to be able to kiss or even Touch the Hem of His garments me thought I was present at Christ’s Resurrection says one witness when I was a child writes this same Leon blo I knew

Old veterans who could not distinguish him Napoleon from the Son of God Napoleon himself writes in his testament which he left I die in the Roman apostolical religion in the bosom of which I was born and in fact he lived he was a member of the Roman Catholic

Church but in ideas totally foreign to it and he said in fact I prefer Islam at least it is not as absurd as our religion Napoleon is a Dion act being says C to using the word diamond in its antique Pagan sense neither God nor devil but someone betwix the two there

Was an apocalyptic strain which runs throughout the whole Napoleonic mystery it originated earlier still with the revolution when at times it reached such a pitch that it is almost akin to the early Christian eschatology a premonition of the world’s approaching end this of course is very accurate because this is a chiliastic movement

The end of all things is at hand there will be a new Heaven and new earth Earth the ancient dream of Paradise Lost of God’s Kingdom on Earth as in heaven together with a new vision of a human Kingdom of Liberty equality and fraternity Drew men towards Napoleon

Napoleon is the soul of the Revolution I am the French Revolution says he as he begins the Empire and at end he says the Empire is the revolution he was a bad man an evil man he says of Russo standing over his grave without him there would have been no French

Revolution it is true that I too would not have existed perhaps that would have been better for the happiness of France yuso is a Madman it is he who has brought me to this time will show whether it would not have been better for the Peace of the world if neither

Uso nor I had lived still he was very much the spokesman of the Revolution he says of himself I closed up the chm of anaki I put an end to chaos I cleansed the revolution in spite of all its atrocities the Revolution was the true cause of our moral regeneration

Thus the most foul smelling manure produces the most noble vegetation men may restrain or temporarily suppress this progress but are powerless to crush it nothing can destroy or face face the great principles of the Revolution its Sublime truths will endure forever in the light of the wonderful Deeds we have

Done in the Halo of Glory with which we surrounded them already they are Immortal they live in Great Britain shed their light in America have become the heritage of the French Nation they are the torch which will illuminate the world they will become the religion of

All Nations and say what you will this new Epoch will be associated with my name because I kindled the torch and shed a light on its beginnings and now through persecution I will be forever acclaimed as its Messiah friends and foes are likee will call me the first

Soldier of the Revolution its Champion leader when I am no more I shall remain for all nations the beacon star of their rights and my name will be their battlecry the slogan of their hopes as to the dichotomy between Liberty and equality which as anyone knows exclude each other he says better abolish

Liberty than equality it is the spirit of the times and I wish to be a son of my times Liberty is the need of the few elect it can be constrained with impunity but equality is pleasing to the majority this m ESI quite rightly notes that the revolution seceded from

Christianity in everything save in the idea of universality do toski writes as a matter of fact the French Revolution was nothing more than the last variation and Reincarnation of the same ancient Roman formula of universal Unity which by the way we discovered earlier is one of the main themes of modern thought Napoleon

Says it himself my ambition it was of the highest and noblest kind that ever perhaps existed that of establishing and consecrating the Empire of reason and the full exercise and enjoyment of all human faculties and he wanted to march on Asia before he became emperor he was

An Egypt and came back to take over France for him Europe was but the root to Asia he said your Europe is a mole hill only in the East have there been great Empires and mighty upheavals in the East where dwell 600 million people

The Leer of the East says this m as kski grips him all his life in Egypt before the Syrian campaign young General bonapart pouring for hours on the ground over huge outspread Maps dreams of a march to India across Mesopotamia following the route of Alexander the Great he says with overwhelming forces I

Shall enter Constantinople overthrow the sultan and found the new and great Empire of the Orient this will bring me Immortal Fame now we see about how he surrounds himself with a mysticism at St Helena when he’s in final Exile he says I always realized the necessity of

Mystery I always realized that my ends could best be served by surrounding myself with a Halo of mystery which has such a strong Fascination for the multitude it fires the imagination paves the way to those brilliant and dramatic effects which give one such power over men this was the cause of my unfortunate

March to Moscow had I been more deliberate I might have averted every evil but I could not delay it it was necessary that my movement and success should seem as it were Supernatural and about religion he says I created a new religion already I pictured myself on

The road to Asia riding on an elephant with a turban on my head and carrying a new aloran written by myself a new sacred book Napoleon realized that as he said as soon as a man becomes king he is a separate being from his fellow men I always admired Alexander’s the Great

Sound political instinct which prompted him to Proclaim his divine origin had I returned from Moscow he says as a conqueror I should have had the world at my feet all nations would have admired and blessed me I might have withdrawn myself mysteriously from the world and popular credulity would have revived the

Fable of Romulus it would have said that I had been carried up to heaven to take my place among the gods he realized that our life and time were not appropriate for calling himself God he says now were I to declare myself the son of the Father Almighty in order of Thanksgiving

Service on the occasion every fish wife in Paris would cheer at me to my face no the people are too civilized nowadays there is nothing great left for me to do he used the Catholic faith as he himself says would you like me to invent some new and unknown religion according to my

Fantasy no I hold a different view on the matter I need the old Catholic faith it alone retains its grip on all hearts and alone can turn the hearts of the people towards me and remove all obstacles from from my path but on St Helena he notes that he had aims Beyond

Conquering the world he says I should have governed the religious with the same facility as the political world I intended to exalt the pope beyond measure to surround him with grure and honors I should have succeeded in suppressing all his anxiety for the loss of his temporal power I should have made

An idle of him he would have remained near my person Paris would have become the capital of Christendom and and I should have governed the religious as well as the political world and so we see some of these mystical ideas of Napoleon and other important things we

Have in him the first time in their Modern Age A World Conqueror someone who consciously wanted to conquer the world and even perhaps set himself up as a God he saw himself as the successor of the Roman Empire after he defeated the Russians at hostil it in 1807 and the

Germans in 1806 in fact the Germans were so afraid that he would would take the crown of the Holy Roman Empire that the Emperor of Austria the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 Napoleon announced in 1807 after defeating the Russians that I am now the Roman Emperor because I have defeated

The first Rome the Holy Roman Empire and The Third Rome which is Moscow and I am now the heir of both and a third aspect is his attitude towards the Jews the age of Rev was preceded immediately by much agitation in favor of the Jews especially on the part of very

Enlightened Jewish philosophers like Moses melon and the ioral radical Jews who wanted to abolish the separate ghettos and so forth in fact the revolution gave a great deal of so-called freedom to the Jews in every place the revolution is usually accompanied by emancipation of the Jews

That we’ll go back to that later on that aspect the most interesting thing about nap Napoleon and the Jews is that after he had proclaimed himself Emperor he called from all over the world a meeting of the Sanhedrin which was the Jewish High Court which condemned Christ to

Death and have not existed since the time of the fall of Jerusalem after the death of Christ he called back this organization into existence for one purpose so that the Jewish people would Proclaim him to be Emperor there’s even an illustration of him at the Sanhedrin meeting in order to Proclaim him Emperor

It is in a book kind lost one asks the question how these certainly there’s many enlightened and modern ideas here he’s obviously a child of the Enlightenment wonders how this whole idea of an Empire of a monarchy a restored monarchy fits in with the ideals of the Revolution which is a

Democracy and a state of equality how does it fit and how could he be recognized as the carrier of the Revolutionary ideal in fact wherever he went his armies were tremendously enthusiastic because they felt they had an ideology they were carrying the message of Truth to other poies

Obviously it’s bound up with this chiliastic revolutionary ideal for now we won’t say much more about it but we find later on other examples of this same phenomenon occurring again but there are different strands of the Revolution and the Strand which Napoleon most evoked was this which we’ve talked

About before the ideal of universal monarchy which makes him one of the forerunners of antichrist the very thought that he could be proclaimed a God after Conquering the world that he would be conqueror of the world one world ruler that he is the Roman Emperor and that the Jews Proclaim him as the

Emperor that is almost Messiah shows that he has very definitely more than anyone before him in modern times is a forerunner of antichrist and we will see later there is one other person so far in modern history who had a similar function in fact almost all these things

Have the same ideas and that’s Hitler and this whole Revolution beginning with the proclamation of the rights of man and equality through the bloody massacres and deliberate depopulation proclamation of Communism the coming to Power of One ruler who wanted to be ruler of the world all of this is a

Rehearsal for a future Kingdom of this world and once Napoleon was removed and the monarchy was restored we’ll see that it was not a real restoration these revolutionary ideas begin to be much more powerful and the whole of the European intellectual class now becomes filled with these ideas they change a

Few ideas but the basic ideal Remains the Same there are some thinkers who go a little deeper into the question some are more superficial we will examine the views of the various ones and also the Revolutionary outbreaks which they inspired but to understand the revolution we have to see it not as

Something which is complete in itself but as something which is an attempt of breaking through of the new forces the new chiliastic forces later on these forces are able to take over not just most of Europe but now most of the world because meanwhile this process of

Apostasy of the mystery of iniquity has gone much deeper and has entered into the eyes of now everybody in the World

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