summonthemagic - August 23, 2012

“Rerum cognoscere causas”

Information herein presented was gleaned from several texts published by Trine-Day about Yale’s Skull & Bones, as well as the ancient and short-lived but replicated and replicating Order of the Illuminati (see especially Melanson’s book Perfectibilists).

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TM: A data dump of sorts, with a plethora of choice excerpts from my book (links to Collins brothers material and more). I’m totally fine with it. If someone comes across it, at least they will get a sense of the scope of the book, especially considering that you can’t search inside at Google books or at Amazon, etc.

Stephen Hand alerted me to the fact that the photo galleries section of Newsweek.com features what amounts to a full-page ad of my book Perfectibilists.

(Go here, and click page 4)

Since it is an MSM outfit, the ostensible tone is one of overall derision toward “conspiracists.” However, in the accompanying descriptions, journalist David A. Graham demonstrates an uncharacteristic familiarity with the topic (including the Pilgrims Society), backed with copious links, and not a single one points to Wikipedia. There’s some obscure links included as well; that I haven’t come across in years but were quite popular in the day.

Charles Burris at the Lew Rockwell blog:

“The revolutionary movement which began in 1789 in the Cercle Social, which in the middle of its course had as its chief representatives Leclerc and Roux, and which finally with Babeuf’s conspiracy was temporarily defeated, gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf’s friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution in 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.”

This quote (found here in full context) is from The Holy Family, the first joint collaboration volume of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It was written several years before their more celebrated (and originally anonymous) 1848 work, The Communist Manifesto.

So from Marx and Engels — the founding fathers of modern communism — we have it boldly stated: the communist idea = the new world order.

OK — David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, George H. W. Bush, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, ad nauseam — how do you explain away this one? Conspiracy fact or conspiracy theory?

I found this extremely revealing quote in Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati by Terry Melanson. I just received this wonderful book a couple of days ago from Amazon.com. In that time I have only begun to scratch the surface of its encyclopedic amassing of factual information concerning its controversial subject, yet it is fast becoming one of my favorite books. I have not been this impressed with a new book for a very long time. The carefully detailed scholarship is evident throughout this handsome, beautifully executed volume.

Melanson’s work deserves to be placed on the same reference shelf as James Billington’s Fire in the Minds of Men, and Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope, for its scholastic integrity and dedication to truth-telling without tabloid sensation or hyperbole.

While this will be the definitive English-language history of the Bavarian Illuminati, there is so much more to its remarkable contents. Melanson’s intriguing discussion of how Freemasonry, the Rosicrucians, and the Jesuits relate to the Illuminati within the milieu of the Aufklarung (the German Enlightenment) is particularly fascinating and dispels much prior pseudo-scholarship and hot house theorizing by supposed authorities on these topics.

From Marco Di Luchetti’s “Illuminati of Bavaria” site:

Terry Melanson, Perfectibilists (2009).

This is a superb, insightful and intelligent history of the Order of the Illuminati of Bavaria. It is the foundation stone upon which any modern proper understanding of the Illuminati should be based. Mr. Melanson treats his subject objectively and with precise care, never exaggerating but instead providing all the essential details. The thoroughness of his research is self-evident. Because I have read many of the books upon which he relies, I can confirm his accuracy. I read carefully to find even a single error, and found none. Mr. Melanson’s book will therefore for a long time to come fill in the dark gaps in history regarding the Illuminati, and hopefully bring to a close the current chapter where hype and conjecture are taken as a factual account.

Max Davies - April 30, 2009

The all-seeing eye, so many wigs, and an international secret society bent on world domination. All these get wrapped up in Terry Melanson’s book on the 18th Century Bavarian Illuminati, formerly known as the Perfectibilists, who sought to seize power by insinuating itself into governmental positions, other secret societies, and education.

Most of us think only of Dan Brown’s portrayal of the Illuminati when we hear the name –if that. Over so many years, the reams of paper on the Illuminati has only added to the mystery and the misunderstanding of this secret society. And as colorful as some of these accounts are, the truth is more surprising in many ways.

No longer the subject of an eccentric card game named Illuminati, this book lays bare the initiative made by former Jesuit Adam Weishaupt to create a society in which “for the first 11 years of its existence this amazingly successful secret society managed to penetrate nearly every court in the Holy Roman Empire and had initiated some of the most intelligent and influential adherents of the Enlightenment.”

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Comment: Jesuit-taught! … Don’t get me started

… and some of the secrets contained therein can be read/viewed here.

The book can be purchased in most major retailers, and pre-orders have already been shipped.

It’s 500+ pages, profusely illustrated, and represents the first monograph on the Bavarian Illuminati (in the English language) in two hundred years. A lot of ground is covered and most of it will be new to the reader.

Thanks for everyone’s patience, and I hope it has been worth the wait.

Perfectibilists.info should be up and running soon (not sure what it will contain). Right now it re-directs to the Trine Day page for the book.