31st Pharavardin 1377 Y.Z.
Tomorrow is the 233rd anniversary of the birth of the Order of the Illuminati in 1776. Their calendar was based upon the Zoroastrian religious calendar, commencing from the ascension to the throne of Yazdegerd III (1377 years ago), and is still in use today in Iran. (1377 and 233; posted at 7:44 pm? A synchromystic numerologist may have something to say about that.)
Adam Weishaupt had grand illusions about clothing the higher mysteries of his Order in fire worship. “The Order, in the higher grades, will be called again: the Cult of Fire, the Fire Order, or the Order of the Parsees,” he wrote to his disciple Cato-Zwack on 6 Pharavardin 1779. “The ultimate aim of the Order is for the Light [or Enlightenment] to blaze bright; we fight against the darkness; this is the Cult of Fire,” Weishaupt reiterated (Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens, pp. 330-1).
As I wrote before (and a bit more in Perfectibilists): that May 1st was chosen as the date for instituting the Illuminati is a semiotic stroke genius.
In hindsight, it’s obvious that, for the Illuminati May 1st had significance as the day in which the “cult of fire” was/is celebrated throughout Europe and Britain as Walpurgisnacht and Beltane. I don’t think it is accident that they chose the date. I also don’t think it is accident for May Day to have become a sacred revolutionary holiday for socialists, communists and anarchists. The Illuminati were the forebears of these, and acknowledged as such by the likes of Louis Blanc, Buonarroti and his secret societies (the Sublimes Maîtres Parfaits, Adelphi and Philadelphes), Speshnev and the Petrashevsky circle, and no doubt the Spartacist League as well.
Beside the territory already covered in my previous article, there’s another incident that occurred on May 1st that may represent an homage to the Illuminati (well before the Chicago Haymarket anarchist riot in 1886).
It is the founding of the first Haute Vente (or Alta Vendita) of the French branch of Carbonari secret society, on May 1st, 1821, by Joubert, Dugied, Bazard, Flotard, Buchez, Carriol, and Limperani.* Bazard and Buchez had also previously formed a revolutionary Loge Des Amis De La Vérité [Lodge of the Friends of Truth] that was connected with Joseph Rey’s Union, had recruited radical students, and whose membership eventually swelled to more than a thousand members. The Carbonari operated through cells of vendite, vendite centrali, and alta vendita. The instructions of the latter controlling body were confiscated (along with some correspondences), first published by M. Cretineau-Joly in French, translated into English by George F. Dillon, and demonstrate the ongoing conspiracy against throne and altar that began with the Illuminati.
* Louis Blanc, The History of Ten Years, 1830-1840: Or, France Under Louis Philippe (tr.) Walter Keating Kelly, Vol. I (Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1848), pp. 62-5; and Arthur Lehning’ “Buonarroti and His International Secret Societies,” International Review of Social History (1956), I, p. 127
Symbols of the Carbonari
Like the Buonarrotian secret society of the Sublimes Maîtres Parfaits who utilized the Lodges of the Grand Orient as a cover, the Amis De La Vérité became officially affiliated with the Grand Orient in 1821, and the staging ground for propaganda, insurrection and revolution. The Carbonari (or Charbonnerie) Haute Vente in France was eventually reorganized by Buonarroti as Charbonnerie Réformée and again as the Charbonnerie Démocratique Universelle.
Illuminists-Jacobins, Carbonarists, Buonarrotists, Blanquists, Communists and Anarcho-socialists have all used the Lodges of the Grand Orient of France for revolutionary mobilization. And being that May 1st is a sacred day for revolutionaries, is it surprising then, that the Grand Orient pays homage, every May Day, to the Martyrs of the 1871 Paris Commune?
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PERFECTIBILISTS: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati
The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 am
Terry, do you think there is any evidence that Weishaupt would have known of the quasi-Manichaean, 6th century, Persian, proto-communist Mazdak? Info on him available here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdak
http://www.iranchamber.com/religions/articles/mazdakism.php
http://looklex.com/e.o/mazdakism.htm
http://www.avesta.org/dhalla/history5.htm
The socialist revolutionary tendencies of his religion, Mazdakism, plus the whole Persian connection, seems to pare up nicely with Illuminism. I seem to recall reading somewhere that Mazdakism survived in small numbers amongst the expelled Parsee community in India as late as the late 17th century. Their free love doctrine seems comparable to other cults of later periods such as the Frankists, but I suppose this is just standard fair and not necessarily a sign of immediate connection. Perhaps, there might also be a connection between Mazdakism and the so called Illuminati of Persia, considered spiritual ancestors by the Baha’i religion’s Bahá’u’lláh. Both groups seem to be following a similar quietist tradition.
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Just in case it’s not clear, I don’t mean to suggest that there was some uninterrupted, secret, highly structured organization of “Mazdakites”, existing behind the scenes from the time of that order’s suppression to the founding of the Bavarian Illuminati and the Weishaupt’s order is some kind of continuation of this. I just thought the similarities were interesting and was wondering if, in your research, you have come across any evidence that Weishaupt was aware of the ideological precedent of Mazdakism when he selected the over all Persian theme for his own brand of radical socialism. I suppose, if we accept Eric Voegelin’s theories concerning the gnostic routes of communism, then any similarities between any gnostic, radical quietist, antinomian or utopian movement, can simply be chalked up to their shared error of immanentization of faith objects.
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Terry,
I finally got my government refund check and have the money to get your book. Fascinating article, btw. Love the synchro-mystic reference. Ross–send me anything else you want up on Nicenetruth: I loved your analysis of “Weird Science.”
Man, all this hatred of altar and throne…makes me wanna be even more monarchist than I am…Is that unfounded..?
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Also, Terry, you said in an email that Weishaupt wanted a rationalist society purged of supersition. Here, you seem to connect it with dualism and aspects of occult. Is the answer in your book? (I don’t want you to have to re-hash).
-Jay
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Side note–I wish Ross and I could meet up with you and the Collins Brothers over a beer or two and pick your brains!
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 am
Yeah, all of us meeting for a few beers would be pretty cool Jay. Like Terry, I too live in the Great White North, albeit over 700 miles away from his home town of Moncton. You live in Tennessee right? I think the Collins bros live in Ohio if I’m not mistaken. Maybe we should all compromise and meet up in the geographic center of North America; Winnipeg, Manitoba and take in their weird Provincial Parliament Building/Masonic Temple.
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Masonic_Parlante.htm
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Hermetic_Code.htm
We could even meet up with Henry Makow of savethemales.ca since he lives in Winnipeg. He has a tendency to exaggerate and jump to conclusions, but pound for pound nobody hates the Illuminati like that guy! Of course for any of this to happen I’ll have to earn enough money for the plane ticket since Winnipeg is another 1300 miles from where I live. It’s gotta be plane not bus, since the last major news story in Canada involving busses, featured a guy getting decapitated by a knife wielding maniac who hadn’t taken his meds. Curse this country’s gigantic size! If this were England I could travel from one major city to the next simply by pole vaulting. Until then I guess the internet will have to suffice.You’ll love Perfectibilists. It’s a great read. I’m almost done it myself. Thanks for the compliment on the “Weird Science” thing and thanks for posting it on nicenetruth. Are you really a monarchist? Surely as a good Catholic like myself you can’t support the Queen and her dastardly husband and spawn of Illuminists Prince Phillip?! Actually I better watch what I say Canada’s part of the British Common wealth, so insulting the Queen may constitute high treason. I think I could be shot or hung for that or something.
- Terry, regarding what I asked above about Mazdak, just in case it’s not clear, I don’t mean to suggest that there was some uninterrupted, secret, highly structured organization of “Mazdakites”, existing behind the scenes from the time of that order’s suppression to the founding of the Bavarian Illuminati and that Weishaupt’s order is some kind of continuation of this. I just thought the similarities were interesting and was wondering if, in your research, you have come across any evidence that Weishaupt was aware of the ideological precedent of Mazdakism when he selected the over all Persian theme for his own brand of radical socialism. I suppose, if we accept Eric Voegelin’s theories concerning the gnostic routes of communism, then any similarities between any gnostic, radical quietist, antinomian or utopian movement, can simply be chalked up to their shared error of immanentization of faith objects. Whatever the case the parallels between the two movements are fascinating.
PS: Did either of you guys get that link I sent you on the Mormon Transhumanist web page? I’ve been having minor email problems and I’m not sure if it went through.
PPS: Hope you guys don’t think me presumptuous announcing what cities/states you live in but since it’s all public info from your websites/books anyway I thought it would be okay.
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:05 am
Oops. Apparently I said the same thing twince. I thought it hadn’t posted the first time. Sorry. I’m obviously going senile.
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 am
Re: Weishaupt and the occult
It is the mystics and occultists of his era that he had disdain for - i.e. the Masons playing at being Templars; the Rosicrucians fleecing people out of their money for crucibles and elixirs and promising gold from lead; the Swedenborgians professing contact with spirits. To Weishaupt, it was the wisdom of the ancients that was authentic - the ancient mysteries, Pythagoras, Plato, the Gnostics, and even the more eclectic teachings from the Gherbers and the Parsees, the Gymnosophists, the Priests of Isis and the Mysteries of Eleusis.
On the Fire Cults of the Parsees and Zoaroastrians etc., he was no doubt influenced by a particular set of books published in the early 1770s. M. Anquetil-Duperron went to India and wrote of what he found still extant of the fire cult of the Parsees. It was read by a lot of people and it probably captured Weishaupt’s imagination as well. Before the Duperron publications, authentic knowledge of Zoroastrianism on the European continent was almost non-existent.
And even though he had reverence for ancient knowledge, it was only that - reverence and respect. You asked me in the email if there was evidence of operative occultism in the Illuminati; I said no; and there wasn’t. The Templar Strict Observance and the Rosicrucians and the Swedenborgians and the Martinists and the Illumines of France did, however. And this is what Weishaupt and his rationalists disliked and fought against. He thought they were all scam artists, zealous fools, and/or Jesuit-infiltrated.
Perhaps if the final grades in the Illuminati had been able to evolve and mature before the Order was suppressed, some of Weishaupt’s fascination with the Fire Cults would have been translated into tangible rituals for the initiates - but this didn’t occur. The final Grade even (of Man-King Docetist), was passed on to a select few of initiates. They were only given the chance to read it. It was akin to a philosophy paper and represented ideas only. It was a mixture of left-wing Wolffian philosophy, gnosticism, and the doctrine of metempsychosis.
All the hardcore occult initiatory groups today get their teachings and rituals directly from those 18th century rivals of Weishaupt and his Order - not from the Illuminati. Strict Observance, Golden and Rosy Cross, Elus Cohen, Martinists, Swedenborgians and the Illumines of Avignon. What the OTO and the Golden Dawn engage in is precisely what the latter groups invented and had already perfected - an amalgamation of them all.
@Ross
No mention of Mazdak in any Illuminati writings. They were admonished to be familiar with Manichaeism though.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Ross–No way, the queen of England is evil. I mean that I think its the best form of government, as opposed to a republic or a democracy. Aquinas has a really good discussion of it, where he notes that it seems to be the best form, but its also the most dangerous, in that if you get a bad dude, you’re screwed. However, democracy tends towards tyranny and I’m not an egalitarian. Any form of government can be virtuous or evil, I say. I’d rather have King David that Obama! I’d take Justinian over Reagan. Unfortuntely, because men are fallen, government in this life is generally gonna suck, no matter how you cut it. In terms of building great cultures and civilizations, however, I think one has to side with monarchy.
I mean, I’m not unrealistic, I think the best thing for the U.S. presently is Ron Paul or possibly his son (who I may get to interview this weekend!). Monarchy would never happen in the US and there are virtually no virtuous Catholic monarchs left, other than Henry Sixtus Parme in Spain. I learned a long time ago that Masons and Carbonari and Commies were against throne and altar—whatever they are against, I am for.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Terry,
I wasn’t calling you out, just wondering.
May 4th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I detest the very notion of Monarchy, even more so when they are in cahoots with organized religion. The whole concept of a nobility amounts to institutionalized nepotism. I respect what occurred in America. And as far as the conspirators against throne and altar, I believe it had to occur. But most of the string-pullers in Europe had ulterior motives than mere freedom or emancipation.
If the Jacobins had their way they would have burned every last church and massacred every last priest (and they tried). The communist/socialist part, is abhorrent, and especially the subversion from within that the Illuminati represented. One tyrant for another is not what it is supposed to be, nor rule by professed philosopher kings. The Americans escaped such a fate because competing political parties were encouraged right from the start and individual freedom wasn’t just a philosophy but put into practice. Differences were settled at the ballot, not by massacres and powerplays by madmen. A communist dictatorship didn’t come to America simply because informed people would never willing vote for such folly. Billington explains this pretty well in Fire in the Minds.
Certain freedoms would probably have evolved in the 200+ years of the conspiracy against monarchy, but that’s beside the point and would have been too little too late (and it’s not even the stupid little “sovereign’s” right to deny or grant). People wanted the right to self-govern and by hell and fury they were going to get it. And good for them.
I am rebel. And I’m a bit ashamed of the direction Canada took when it could have joined with the Americans against the King. Loyalists they called us! Yea, right. More like subservient kiss-asses; go along to get along.
The situation now is that the current “democracies” have become just as corrupt as the monarchic despots of old. And It’s natural that this would occur. The slate needs to be wiped clean again - and again and again if necessary.
May 5th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Terry: The situation now is that the current “democracies” have become just as corrupt as the monarchic despots of old. And It’s natural that this would occur. The slate needs to be wiped clean again - and again and again if necessary.”
Jay: This is precisely why I am a monarchist. Hierarchy is natural (and supernatural). But I certainly feel you on being somewhat of rebel, which, oddly, I am as well in many ways.
If we’re gonna get scumbags either way, isn’t the better way the one which at least preserves order?
Despots who want to eugenically depopulate the planet should be opposed. But does it not seem that monarchies/empires at least last?
May 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Lasting has nothing to do with it (Castro lasted quite a long time).
“Despots who want to eugenically depopulate”
The oligarchy of the transnational elite ruling class is brains and brawn behind that scenario. They are the problem. And they are in cahoots with the descendants of royalty who believe in the hereditary biological superiority of the nobility - and always have. Eugenics. Even while looking into the 18th Century Illuminati, I found same ideology before Malthus was even born:
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“If there are races among animals there are races among men; for that reason the most superior must put themselves ahead of others, marry among themselves and reproduce a pure race: that is the nobility.” (in Klaus Epstein, The Genesis of German Conservatism, Princeton, 1966, p. 189)
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That quote is from the Markgraf Karl Friedrich von Baden in defense of aristocratic privilege in the face of the Enlightenment and emerging public sphere. When they were threatened, that’s the best they could come up with? Pathetic.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I think in the end, democracy is a preferable system, though not for the reasons that many of the relativists, deists and rebels without a clue might think. Overall, I think democracy is the system best modeled on God’s design for humanity. I don’t say this because I some premillenialist who thinks democratic human government is the prelude to the Kingdom of God, (or the Kingdom of God itself), rather it is because I think the democratic system applies God’s gift of Free Will to the political sphere. I don’t think the religious laws of the church should be sculpted by the decisions of the majority, but since I think the church should be a separate entity from the state anyway, this isn’t really an issue.
However, I don’t believe this separation means that one should keep their religious convictions out of politics. Essentially every relevant opinion is at it’s core a religious opinion. If you’re political decisions are motivated by, let’s say, a belief that human life should be protected, even if you aren’t part of any organized religion, that belief is still essentially a religious one. (Atheism is also a religion whether it admits it or not, thus it isn’t exempt from this assessment either.)
Even though Mediaeval and Renaissance culture produced some beautiful works of art and literature, they also produced their share of crap and sleaze too, we just choose not to remember it, and even though modern society churns out all sorts of filth, it has also produced many works of beauty too. Certainly, we could criticize the morality of much of pagan culture and yet it too generated much artistic beauty. The statue of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, was made after that country became a democratic republic, independent of the Portugese monarchy. Ultimately, however, I think it is the intended message behind the art that is important. I don’t mean this in a relativistic way, where we say some second grader’s crudely molded ash tray is just as good as the Mona Lisa. What I mean is the underline values that are being conveyed. The Commies and Nazi’s produced some impressive statuary but it expressed the values of some truly monstrous societies.
As a Catholic I reject the imposed egalitarianism of Communism and the antinomianism of Anarchism, because I think these both attempt to by pass the reality of original sin. These attempts to build heaven on earth will only end in heartache since man is imperfect. While I reject certain theological concepts of Medieval England’s Peasant’s Revolt, there is a certain truth to their mantra “When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the Gentleman?” In other words, what primacy can kings claim if all of us are ultimately descended from the same parents? The majority of Europe’s nobility are a leave over from the pre-Christian past. They were families who initially, falsely claimed to have been decedents of pagan gods. True the later dropped this claim when they became Christian, but then they tried to trace their linage to Solomon or the mortal king’s of the Homeric epics. This doesn’t mean that they were all horrible people just that being fallen people themselves it might not be the best idea to give them absolute power.
Democracy, is still hierarchical since Presidents are effectively just elected Kings with limited terms. True their powers are bound by certain laws, but such was the case with King’s also. Plus with elected officials we don’t have to worry about getting their inbred heir (George W. Bush and a few thousand others not withstanding), rather we can vote them out. I know all the injustice and perversion we see today might make it seem better if some idealized king came in to reform the system but just imagine if we had a pro-abortion absolute monarch. We’d never be able to change that without having a democratic revolt. At least in this system it’s easier to change laws (theoretically speaking anyway.)
Democracy is a real eye opener in so much as, everyone becomes responsible for the actions of the state. God gave us the power to choose, we should do our best to honour that gift by choosing not what is popular or easiest, but what is morally right. Democracy allows us to do this. But the price of this freedom, as they say, is eternal vigilance. Sophist, manipulative rhetoricians, media moguls and money masters will do their best to play the part of the serpent but it is up to us to expose them as deceivers to the sovereign (ie: the people). True, the creeps seem to make a lot of headway, but imagine how much more success they would have if they could bypass the voting public. In fact there’s no need to imagine, just look at Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Commie Russia, China, Cuba and North Korea, Saddam’s Iraq, and the Terror of the French Revolution (which was in no way a real democracy.)
Anyway, that’s my two cents.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
As long as government stays out of my affairs as much as possible and takes care of law and order and defense and uses my taxes responsibly, I’m happy.
The individual rights and freedoms that both America and Canada take for granted was hashed out hundreds of years ago in England and it hasn’t much changed since then.
“the creeps seem to make a lot of headway, but imagine how much more success they would have if they could bypass the voting public”
That’s it in a nutshell.
August 15th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Terry, shouldn’t the date of this article be the 41st of Pharavardin?
As far as I know, Pharavardin – first month in the Illuminati (”almost” Persian) calendar – had 41 days, from March 21 to April 30. The day after April 30 (that is, 41 Pharavardin) would thus be 1 Adarpahascht, or May Day.
Is this correct?
August 15th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Nice catch. You’re right. Perhaps I should have waited a day and posted on May 1st.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:14 am
Thanks for the reply, Terry.
As a curiosity, I asked a friend of mine who is an expert on the Mesoamerican (maya/aztec) Calendar to tell me any “interesting” meanings for May 1st 1776, and he told me that this was the day 10-Water in the Tzolkin or sacred 260-day calendar. These are some of his observations:
« This was the day 10-Water (yucatec maya: “Lahun Muluc” / nahuatl: “Matlactli Atl”). This daily glyph “Water”, as strange as it may seem to you, was ruled by the aztec god of fire, Xiuhtecuhtli, which is usually represented toothless as an old man, and carrying a brasier on his back:
-> http://www.azteccalendar.com/tonal/Atl.html
The 13-day period to which this 10-Water day belongs was ruled by Huehuecoyotl, the Very Old Coyote, who was considered to be the trickster god, lord of deception:
-> http://www.azteccalendar.com/trecena/Xochitl.html
Also, the number 10 of this day has the special mark of Our Lord Titlacahuan Tezcatlipoca, the god of the North, war, wizardry, sacrifice and change through conflict:
-> http://www.azteccalendar.com/daycount/Mahtlactli.html »
Isn’t this extremely curious?
January 4th, 2011 at 7:45 am
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