Masonry, Education and the “Religion of Humanity”
Temple of Man: Freemasonry, Civil Religion, and Education
Terry Melanson | 2010-05-20 - In Europe and North America, “culture war” was the socio-political preoccupation of the mid- to late-19th Century. However, the struggle for control of the educational establishment actually began a hundred years earlier during the Enlightenment.
Tags: Civil Religion, Comte, Education, Enlightenment, Grand Orient, Helvetius, Illuminati, Jesuits, La Chalotais, Neuf Soeurs, Pedagogy, Philosophes, Positivism, Religion of Humanity, Rousseau, Third Republic
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 20th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Quite the article! Brilliantly researched as usual! My brother’s been teaching home schooled kids for the past two years. I’ll have to show this to him. Some of his student’s parents are familiar with John Taylor Gatto so maybe they’d be interested in this info.
As an anti-government mandated schooling buddy of mine has often said, “when ever there’s a school shooting they scrutinize the gunman’s backgrounds to find what psychologically damaging experiences he shares with all the prior school shooters… isn’t it obvious by now? They were all made to go to school!”
We here in Ontario just won a battle against the libertine social engineers who were poised to introduce a program that would teach first graders about alternative sexuality. They lost this battle but no doubt they’ll be back for another swing.
It’s worthy to note also that Julian Huxley and his humanist cronies openly hoped for an intrusive education system that would eventually weather away the influences of family and religion on the individual, replacing them with secular, statist values. Julian would of course go on to build the openly eugenic, globalist U.N.E.S.C.O.
May 20th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Thanks. Much appreciated!
Masonry on this side of the pond likes to distance itself from the liberal Grand Orient, but secular humanists are everywhere, not just in Europe. And by allowing them to conspire and take over education, the end result is exactly what you’ve outlined above. (There’s some revealing quotes I had accumulated a while back in a earlier article as well).
It all depends on who’s running the show; and once they are in, they have free reign to implement whatever agenda (overt or covert) they deem fit. The articles of Erica Carle, for instance, should get a lot more attention. I guess she’s been at it since the ’70s and her News With Views archive contains essential and startling data.
May 21st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
-Terry, What’s your personal belief, if I may ask? Do you think countries should have tax funded, compulsory education? Personally, I can see both the pros and cons. I’m not a complete, zero taxes, libertarian but there’s truth to what Gatto has pointed out; that up until the late 19th century, almost none of the brilliant people that built our civilization attended a standardized, state run, public school system. Of course it would be false to say that these people simply sprung up from the ground fully educated. They had tutors, or were apprentices and many of them would go onto attend university, so obviously education didn’t always come from just their family alone. And as you pointed out churches educated people too. I think we all agree that mass literacy is largely beneficial, as are math and other skills so I guess the real issue is the philosophy that is being imparted by the state, via public education.
May 21st, 2010 at 1:36 pm
You brought up home schooling. I seem to have read somewhere, many times, that kids who are educated this way are far and above their peers in nearly every category. Is this true?
I’m not a dogmatic libertarian either, but real freedom of choice, without being encroached upon by the state, is always a good thing. The alternatives to the state-run apparatus are competing well enough on their own. I guess the libertarians would chalk it up to the power of the free market. As far as taxes, then, why would those who choose the alternatives have to pay for something they themselves have taken no part in?
It all comes down to the level of competence of the students. However it is they achieved it is not really important, in my view.
May 21st, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Interesting article Terry, obviously well researched as usual.
May 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 am
Thanks Justin.
Not much traffic on this one though. If I had utilized conspiratorial books as sources, the results would have been similar, just with a little more rhetoric. It’s been my experience that those who are consumers of conspiracy “theories,” rarely, if ever, make the jump to material of a more academic bent. (Or, in my case, material that at least attempts it
There was a post by Jay Dyer about mainstream historians admitting certain things about the Illuminati that had been touted by “conspiracy theorists” all along. Historians are pretty up front about a lot of things if you know where to find it. And when you do find it, it really does deserve attention. I’ve been on a JSTOR binge for a while. It is an invaluable resource - perhaps even a treasure trove - if you can get past the firewall they put up for the layman.
May 22nd, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Terry,
This article is, in a word, outstanding! Yes, it probably would have more traffic if you had cited conspiratorial literature, but you stuck with reputable sources and that affirms your integrity as a researcher. I am so grateful for responsible researchers like you!
Sincerely,
Phil
P.S. Spring sports season is winding down, which means my workload should start thinning. Paul and I should be putting together some new articles for you sometime in the near future!
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Terry,
I agree. Conspiracy culture so often abhores anything that issues from academia, it’s seen much of the time as “the work of the enemy.” And I feel the effort needed to read many such works, wrestling to grasp the arguments, and the dry style of academic narrative, puts others off.
My amateur opinion is that you’re not doing too bad with your research at all, it’s great to see someone putting that sort of effort in and producing excellent books like The Perfectibilists.
May 22nd, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Justin,
You’re on target, my friend!
May 23rd, 2010 at 5:54 am
Hi Phillip,
Haven’t you guys got a book in the works?
May 23rd, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Justin.
Yes, but it’s been seriously delayed. I work as a staff writer/sports writer/layout (for all practical purposes, an assistant editor). As you might surmise, I am insanely busy all the time. Plus, Paul is working two jobs. So, we are both swamped. It is lamentable because we wanted to have the book done by now. But, I guess it will be done when it is done.
Profuse apologies for the delay!
May 23rd, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Wonderful article with wonderful links. I have to say that the criticism of conspiritorialists is a healthy criticism. However much of the research has come from that group. Still, that criticism may lead to some healthy introspection.
Thanks for an the cold water and I’m currently enjoying The Perfectibilists.
May 23rd, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Phillip,
No apologies needed. As you say, it’ll be done when it’s done and I’ll be very interested to read it once it is.
May 23rd, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Thanks a lot for the comments and support everyone.
Looking forward to more articles from you and your brother Paul, and your book as well.
May 25th, 2010 at 1:28 am
Hello !
This website and article are fascinating….
Can anyone produce a list of modern day illuminatus? I have been trying to do some research on an individual who I believe is a prominent member of the modern day Illuminati Order. His name is Gary Robert Stone. He remains hidden in every day life within the burbs of southern Utah but is a powerful figure amongst the power elite.
Can anyone help me with my quest?
May 25th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Show me the so-called “modern day Illuminati” and then we can talk about who are members of it. An official document, a seal, or anything. Proof that someone even calls themselves that, and are not just some cult trying to fleece the gullible simply because the name sounds ominous.
The real Bavarian Illuminati petered out before the start of he 19th Century.
May 25th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
I typed in the name “Gary Robert Stone” along with “Utah” on google search and the only thing that came up was the driver’s license info of someone with that name. The occupation said nurse but that could always be code for secret agent of the global, totalitarian cryptocracy. So, I guess it’s official, I’ve become an internet stalker!
- Terry, to answer your earlier question, (sorry it took so long btw) yes home schoolers generally do excel more, at least according to my brother anyway, though as a home school tutor he may have a bias.
May 26th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Great work here. Yes, I think it’s good that more people write. I just retired and decided to write a novel ( booksbyoliver.com ) and found out that it was difficult at all nor expensive.
It’s done quite well which tells me others (you) can do the same. Good luck and start your book now.
June 1st, 2010 at 1:05 am
Mr. Melanson
If you don’t mind, I would like to sugest some titles that may complement your readings:
1º. Paul Ilie, The Age of Minerva, 2 vol. (1995).
2º. Paul Hazard, La Pensée Européenne au XVIIIème Siècle (1946).
3º. Luciano Pellicani, Revolutionary Apocalypse: The Ideological Roots of Terrorism (2006).
4º. Jean Dumont, La Révolution Française ou Les Prodiges du Sacrilége (1984).
5º. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments (2005).
6º. Hyppolite Taine, Origines de la France Contemporaine, 6 vol. (1888 - 1894).
7º. And, naturally, anything by Augustin Cochin.
Cheers
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Thanks for the recommendations. I’ll definitely look into them. I know of Dumont and Cochin, but of the others I’m completely ignorant. Much appreciated!
Myself I’d recommend some Charles Porset, Rene Le Forestier and Dan Edelstein.
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I particularly like the look of the book by Pellicani. Thanks for the recommendations there Mr. Falsenburgh.
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:41 am
Mr. Melanson
Since you find the list usefull here is a addition:
1º. Daniel Marnet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française (1947).
2º. Élie Halévy, La Formation du Radicalisme Philosophique (1904).
3º. Félix Rocquain, L’Ésprit Révolutionnaire avant la Révolution, 1715 - 1789 (1878).
4º. Pierre Gaxotte, La Révolution Française (1928).
5º. Louis K. Dupré, The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture (2004).
6º. Louis Madelin, La Révolution (1911).
7º. Giles Lapouge, Utopie et Civilizations (1973).
8º. Jean Servier, Histoire de l’Utopie (1967).
9º. Renaud Escande, Ed., Le Livre Noir de la Révolution Française (2008).
P.S: On Cochin, by the way, there is a interesting article by F. Roger Devlin: “From Salon to Guillotine” - The Occidental Quarterly - Vol. 8 - Nº. 2 (2008).
P.S²: To Mr. Russell: A good book to read together with Pellicani’s is Stefan Rossbach’s Gnostic Wars (2000).
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:35 am
I’ve read Gnostic Wars, yes, so I’m now yet more interested in reading Pellicani’s book. Thanks.
July 10th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Confirms one of my long held beliefs, though it isn’t dealt with explicitly in the article, namely that the one serious flaw in principle reflected in the document produced by the constitutionalist was the separation of church and state. While touted universally as a political tool for keeping the Republic honest, this article reveals it to be one of the twin pillars of Freemasonry, the intentions of whom are, to give it the most benign reading, suspect. The results are visible everywhere among us. The same dumbing down visible in the academic field has even more transparently taken hold of public morality. This is because morality can NEVER be separated from religion, as even as personally compromised a figure as Franklin, with his Masonic roots, admits with the comment that considering how wicked men have become with religion, consider what they would become without it.
Well, they (we) have become that monstrous animal, thanks to the ascendancy of the Masonic principle enshrined in the foundational political document of our country, once here only, now world wide as a result of the spread of our Masonic Empire. And of course the religion from which freedom was sought was none other than that identified in this article, because it is the only Christian religion capable of binding a man’s conscience, and what Freemasonry sought was freedom from THAT particular religion.
I’m interested in beginning a political movement, the immediate purpose of which would be the removal of that pernicious doctrine from our constitution and replacing it with a clause creating a Catholic state. Any other windmill tilters out there?
By the by, a couple of authors who bridge the gap indicated by some of the comments above between academia and the conspiracy minded–because based on original sources but written for a popular audience, mega more intelligent than any popular audience that could be assembled today, LOL–are William Thomas Walsh and Nesta Webster.
Excellent article. Thanks.