A review of Baron von Knigge’s Illuminati apology.

Knigge on the Illuminati (According to Knigge) and Other Reflections (According to the Historical Record)

Short bio on Knigge from my book below, sans endnotes.

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Knigge, Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig, Baron von (1752 Bredenbeck, Germany – 1796 Bremen, Germany)

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Second in command under Weishaupt (from 1780-84), Knigge studied law at Göttingen in 1769, and subsequently served the courts of Hesse-Kassel and Weimar. He was a chamberlain in Hanau (1776) and Frankfurt am Main (1780), then in Hanover and Heidelberg in 1783; and in 1791, Knigge was appointed civil administrator in Bremen.

Baron von Knigge was “a man of considerable distinction in his day.” He penned works of “romance, popular philosophy, and dramatic poetry” and wrote reviews for Nicolai’s Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek [General German Library]. His novels were “attractive bait to catch the readers’ interest, a well-designed vehicle for transmitting revolutionary messages.” Most of Knigge’s works were either banned or censored, especially after publicly supporting the French Revolution. His 1788 book, Über den Umgang mit Menschen [On Human Relations], a guide on politeness, manners and etiquette, for instance, “landed on the inquisitors’ desk in 1820, with critics saying its philosophy encouraged selfishness and concentrated on personal happiness in a way that contradicted Catholic spirituality.”

Knigge was fascinated with secret societies. At the earliest age possible (twenty-one), he joined the Cassel Masonic Lodge ‘Zum gekrönten Löwen’ (1773), and became a member of the Strict Observance (alias, ‘a Cygno’) in 1779. Knigge was intrigued with the subjects of theosophy, magic, alchemy, and Rosicrucianism. He inherited this occult fascination from his father, Philipp Carl von Knigge, “whom he had observed spending his time in the study of Masonic Mysteries, and his money in the vain pursuit of the Philosopher’s Stone. The father’s gold had vanished in the crucible, and the son reaped nothing but the dross.”

Strict Observance freemasonry was conceived in Germany by Baron von Hund. The “Knights of Strict Observance” swore allegiance to “unknown superiors” and claimed direct descent from the Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians. The Strict Observance lodges created an occult pedigree to attract recruits with the promise of joining an Order of a continuous, ancient descent. Secrets that began in antiquity were more appealing than something only recently devised. Weishaupt understood this from the beginning, and created his own mythical genealogy for the Illuminati. When Knigge joined the Order he immediately asked Weishaupt for proof the Order’s antiquity. Weishaupt admitted it was only a ruse, but rather than being offended, Knigge—knowing that an ancient pedigree was an important part of a secret society’s appeal—immediately “proceeded to build one of his own, where the Illuminati were declared as having originally been founded by Noah, and revived after a period of decline by St John the Evangelist.”

In July, 1780 Knigge was insinuated into the Illuminati by Costanzo (Diomedes); his alias alludes to Philo Judaeus (15-10 BC–45-50 AD), the Hellenized Jewish philosopher from Alexandria.

Use of military surveillance drones overhead would be un-American

Andrew P. Napolitano - June 7, 2012

For the past few weeks, I have been writing in this column about the government’s use of drones and challenging their constitutionality on Fox News Channel, where I work. I once asked on air what Thomas Jefferson would have done if - had they existed at the time - King George III had sent drones to peer inside the bedroom windows of Monticello. I suspect Jefferson and his household would have trained their muskets on the drones and taken them down. I offer this historical anachronism as a hypothetical only, not as someone who is urging the use of violence against the government.

Nevertheless, what Jeffersonians are among us today? When drones take pictures of us on our private property and in our homes and the government uses the photos as it wishes, what will we do about it? Jefferson understood that when the government assaults our privacy and dignity, it is the moral equivalent of violence against us. Folks who hear about this, who either laugh or groan, cannot find it humorous or boring that their every move will be monitored and photographed by the government.

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Peter Phillips - May 21, 2012

For much of the world, July 14th is celebrated as the end of a flagrantly out of touch French monarchy; the date in 1789 when the people of Paris rose up and marched on the Bastille, a state prison that symbolized the absolutism and arbitrariness of the Ancient Regime.

July 14th 2012 is, ironically, also the first day of summer camp for the world’s business and political aristocracy and their invited guests. Between 2,000 to 3,000 men will gather at Bohemian Grove, 70 miles north of San Francisco in California’s Sonoma County—to sit around the campfire and chew the fat—off-the-record—with ex-presidents, corporate leaders and global financiers.

One might imagine modern-day aristocrats like Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld amid a circle of friends sipping cognac and discussing how the “unqualified” masses cannot be trusted to carry out policy, and how elites must set values that can be translated into “standards of authority.”

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Timothy Herrmann - July 6, 2012

The UNFPA left the Rio +20 conference on sustainable development without anything to show for its efforts. Not a single one of their hard fought suggestions ever made it into the text. Their presence at the conference could hardly even be felt, except through a few countries like New Zealand, Norway and Iceland, which were given the important task of both proposing and fighting for the inclusion of the population control language the UNFPA wanted in the document.

It has not announced that it was defeated, and all of its press releases related to the conference pretend as if the conference was a success for the agency.

But they lost. And it was embarrassing. Though hard to believe, the UNFPA, one of the most well funded and active UN agencies that exists, did not have any success at Rio +20 in affecting the final outcome document. But how could that be? The simple answer is the fear of population control.

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4 Problems With The London Family Planning Summit Goals

Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. - Jul 05, 2012

NEW YORK, July 6 (C-FAM) Feminist Activist Joan Dunlop died last week at 78, just a week after her legacy of recasting international population control efforts as “reproductive rights” began to unravel.

Dunlop was a protégé of John D. Rockefeller, III, who led the charge for international population control. His vision and large fortune established and set the agenda for institutions still at the tip of the spear of global abortion wars, such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Population Council, Rockefeller Foundation, and UN Population Fund.

Dunlop’s initiative revived the flailing population control movement after its coercive tactics became widely known in the 1970s and 80s. She thus helped shape international abortion debates for almost three decades.

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Mark Lynas has converted from being an eco-alarmist to a pro-growth rationalist. But he still doesn’t get the problem with green thinking.

by Ben Pile - Friday 29 July 2011

Since becoming an advocate of genetic modification (GM) and nuclear power, Mark Lynas has drawn increasingly hostile criticism from his erstwhile comrades in the green movement. In turn, he has sharpened his criticism of environmentalists for their hostility to technological and economic development. In his new book, The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans, he attempts to reformulate environmentalism to overcome the excesses that have so far prevented it from saving the planet. This book will no doubt provoke debate, but what is this transformation really about, and is it really based on new ideas or merely the revision of old ones?

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Exactly what is needed for research purposes. Save it to your hardrive.

The 2012 members list released by the Bilderbergers is most remarkable for what it does not mention. The incoming chairman runs one of the biggest insurance companies in the world. Many members own banks. Europe requires banks and insurance companies to buy toxic national bonds. Wouldn’t it be nice if Ben Bernanke would print up 10 or 20 trillion dollars and swap out toxic assets for international bonds. Kevin Warsh who is listed as a college professor is a former member of the Bush Plunge Protection team and a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Warsh is highly recommended by his friend Bernanke. That is good news for billionaires but might not be good news for you.

Inspiring!

• http://www.TheUltimateHistoryLesson.com (notes, transcript, links, and more)
• http://www.JohnTaylorGatto.com (all of John’s books, and current projects)
• http://www.PeaceRevolution.org (episodes 041-045 cover The Ultimate History Lesson + Analysis)
• http://www.TragedyandHope.com (an online community which provides educational media by independent producers)

Adam Curtis - 16 June 2012

AMERICA’S DANGEROUS LOVE AFFAIR WITH COUNTERINSURGENCY

At the beginning of this year one of the weirdest characters ever to become involved in the present Afghan war died. He was called Jack Idema and he was a brilliant con-man. For a moment, during the early part of the war, Idema persuaded all the major TV networks and scores of journalists that he was some kind of special forces super-hero who was using all kinds of “black ops” to track down and arrest the terrorists.

In reality, before 2001, Idema had been running a hotel for pets in North Carolina called The Ultimate Pet Resort. He had been in prison for fraud, and had tried to con journalists before about being some kind of super-spy. But September 11th gave him his chance - and he turned up in Kabul dressed like this.

And everyone believed him and his stories. In the process Idema brilliantly exposed the emptiness and fakery of much of the TV and newspaper reporting of the war on terror.

He told the journalists and the TV presenters all kinds of lies and fantasies. He even became the central, heroic figure in a book called The Hunt for Bin Laden.

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Alexander Baron - Jun 17, 2012

Antony C. Sutton died ten years ago today. A mainstream academic, his researches have put flesh on the skeleton of what were once regarded as at best conspiracy theories and at worse, scurrilous or ludicrous ravings.

Antony Cyril Sutton was born an Englishman, in 1925, and died an American on June 17, 2002. He graduated from the University of Southampton, home of the Parkes Institute, and in 1957 relocated to California, becoming an American citizen in 1962.

It was while at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution that he wrote a massive three volume study Western Technology And Soviet Economic Development; later he would condense this into National Suicide: Military Aid To The Soviet Union.

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Editor’s Note:
This resource was originally created as a public service and published on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 for those wanting to know more about the Shriners’ secret sub-group, the Royal Order of Jesters as well as the former fishing tour operator who took 19 Jesters fishing in Brazil for girls over 13.

The original article listed ten articles. This has been updated with 25 new articles for a total of 35 articles that detail the greatest nonprofit fraud of our time. You can scan the headlines and read the summary of four years of findings that include actual dollar amounts from the Jesters’ nonprofit tax returns, available to the public on Guidestar.org.

The original intention was to provide more information in advance of the April 29 UTMB v Shriners hearing in Galveston, Texas and the May 6 and 7 sentencing’s of two Jesters caught by the FBI in a human trafficking sting out of Buffalo, NY. We’re way beyond that now. Read on with an Adult Content Warning. Yes, there is sex but the most offensive, IMHO, is the fact that these guys are operating a nationwide network of prostitution via human trafficking at tax payer expense.

Thank you,
Sandy Frost
Starbucks, WA

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Old BBC doc on Masonic cronyism.

HSNW - 5 June 2012

Unit 8200 is Israel’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) or GCHQ in Britain; what sets the unit apart from its SIGINT counterparts in the United States and Europe is that it does almost all its research and development in-house; this means that, aside from interpreters and analysts, the unit is home to a huge cadre of engineers, technicians, and programmers; one result is that veterans of Unit 8200 have founded many of Israel’s successful high-tech start-ups

The waves of cyber attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities and critical infrastructure – the attacks we know of: Stuxnet, Duqu, Flame – have drawn attention to the secretive Unit 8200, the cyberwarfare unit within the Israel Defense Force (IDF) Military Intelligence (MI) branch (these cyberattacks have also drawn attention to the U.S. efforts in this regard: see David Sanger, “Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran,” New York Times, 1 June 2012). The Financial Times notes that Unit 8200 is Israel’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) or GCHQ in Britain. These three organizations belong to a branch of the military called signals intelligence, or SIGINT. Unit 8200’s task is to intercept, monitor, and analyze enemy communications and data traffic — from mobile phone chatter and e-mails to flight paths and electronic signals. The unit’s goal is to “fish out from an ocean of data the piece of information that will help the Israeli security forces identify and thwart a potential attack,” the FT writes.

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DAVID SIROTA - MONDAY, JUN 4, 2012

By definition, firsthand accounts of the inner workings of the Central Intelligence Agency are uncommon — and such accounts of the agency’s clandestine service are even more rare. That’s why Ambassador Henry Crumpton’s new book, “The Art of Intelligence,” is so important: It gives the public a rare glimpse of the myriad gray areas that now exist at the friction points of statecraft — in particular the gray areas between war and peace, vigilance and aggression, general awareness and outright spying.

Crumpton joined the CIA’s clandestine service in 1981, spending much of the next quarter-century abroad. During the lead-up to and aftermath of 9/11, Crumpton was the deputy chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, participating in the rise of drone warfare and leading the agency’s Afghanistan campaign right after the attacks. He later headed the agency’s domestic clandestine service, ultimately serving as an ambassador-at-large as the State Department’s coordinator for counterterrorism.

With the publication of his book, Crumpton has made headlines with his assertion that there are now more spies operating on American soil than ever operated during the Cold War. He recently joined me in studio in Denver on my radio show to discuss President Obama’s “kill list”; what went wrong before and after 9/11 in Afghanistan; how America’s national security apparatus targets suspects; and whether it’s fair to worry that the changing definition of warfare is undermining age-old democratic ideals.

The following is an edited transcript of our discussion. You can listen to the whole conversation by clicking here.

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