FINAL WARNING: The Birth of Tyranny
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Royal Arch Mason (Holy Royal Arch)
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THE ILLUMINATI GROWS
From Bavaria, the Order of the Illuminati spread into the Upper and
Lower Rhenish provinces, Suabia, Franconia, Westphalia, Upper and
Lower Saxony; and outside Germany into Austria and Switzerland.
Soon they had over 300 members from all walks of life, including
students, merchants, doctors, lawyers, judges, professors, civil
officers, bankers, and ministers. Some of their more notable members
were: the Duke of Orleans, Duke Ernst Augustus of Saxe-Weimar-
Coburg-Gotha, Prince Charles of Hesse-Cassel, Johann Gottfried von
Herder (a philosopher), Count Klemens von Metternich, Catherine II of
Russia, Count Gabriel de Mirabeau, Marquis of Constanza
(‘Diomedes’), Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick (‘Aaron’), Duke Karl
August of Saxe-Weimar, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (a poet),
Joseph II of Russia, Christian VII of Denmark, Gustave III of Sweden,
and King Poniatowski of Poland.
By 1783, there were over 600 members; and by 1784, their membership
reached nearly 3,000. By 1786 they had numerous lodges across the
various German provinces, Austria, Hungary, England, Scotland,
Poland, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Spain, Sweden,
Russia, Ireland, Africa, and America.
By the time of the 3rd Masonic Congress in Frankfurt in 1786, the
Illuminati virtually controlled all the Masonic lodges, and at this
meeting their goals were stated as: “1) Pantheism for the higher
degrees, atheism for the lower degrees and the populace; 2)