J.J.C Bode, Philalethes and Other Causes of the French Revolution
This article constitutes the first part of my review of Terry Melanson's thorough and fascinating book titled,
Perfectibilists - The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati. Terry runs the
Conspiracy Archive,
and he is an excellent researcher. Once this series is over and I'm
finished reading his book, I'll also be talking to Terry and publishing a
final interview, so please follow along with this fascinating series in
our Illuminati section.
Terry makes the first real hard-hitting revelation in the book in
Chapter 2, which covers the French Revolution and the workings of the
Illuminati leaders of the time. Keep in mind that the Illuminati were a
secret society that had migrated from Bavaria to France during the
Enlightenment, and being prosecuted after Weishaupt's banishment.
This isn't the Illuminati of strange and outrageous conspiracy
theories that you may read about online today, but a real, active secret
society well documented by historians through member journals and
documents throughout the period of the French Revolution.
Prior to the 1990s, there was speculation among many Illuminati
researchers that J.J.C Bode had gone to Paris in 1787 to motivate the
Masons toward the revolution. Terry writes about the November 1995
interview with Mason and Historian Professor Charles Porset of the
National Scientific Research Center where he states that in Barruel's
book
Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinsime, Barruel
admits that German Illuminati J.J.C. Bode had gone to France to meet
with the Secret Society known as the Philalethes. Porset stated:
"However, the [Bodes] journal has now been published
[in 1994] by a German scholar, Hermann Schuttler, and it confirms in
all respects the idea put forward by Rossberg of collusion between the
Illuminati and the Philalethes..."
Porset points out that in a letter to Chataigner, a member of the
Philalethes by the name of Montmorency-Luxembourg who escaped to England
when the Revolution started, blamed the Philalethes for "revolutionary
disturbances."
Terry points out the explosive nature of this material against
Masonic debunkers that have stated for years that it wasn't true that
the Illuminati triggered helped fuel the french revolution. Terry states
the situation as follows:
"It's been well over a decade since the diary was
published, but it hardly surprises me that it has seemingly been kept
under wraps. Masonic websites haven't exactly been keep to correct their
much lauded, official debunking webpages, either. For Illuminati
"conspiracy theorists," though - whose foundation is the writings of
Barruel, Robison, and Nesta Webster - this is tantamount to discovering
the Holy Grail. Confirmation by modern scholars of the conspiracy plot
of 1789, replete with Illuminati infiltration of key high-ranking
members of French Freemasonry, is pure gold!"
I have to agree that the Bode journal is amazing evidence that is nothing short of pure gold.
Bode's Activities in Paris
The
revealing Bode journal, finally published in 1994, reveal that Bode was
in France to dissuade Masonic groups there of practicing what were
termed the "secret sciences" and occult research. Bode's effort was to
persuade the men within these societies to return to "healthy ideas of
pure reason."
His journal also reveals the following:
- -->Bode and Philalethes leaders developed methods for the Illuminati to operate in France.
- -->Communications were marked with a cross to dissuade censors from opening the letters out of religious reverence.
- -->Letters would use standard Masonic cipher.
- -->The group, would use the name "Philalethes" rather than the "Illuminati."
- -->Bode revealed that Daubermesnil, Jean-Baptiste Le Sage,
Taillepied de Bondy and Alexandre-Louis Roettiers de Montaleau had all
joined the Illuminati.
- -->All four men promised Bode, "...to seize this opportunity for the good of mankind. Amen!"
In his book, Terry goes on to list the many documented French Masons
and others that were members of the new Illuminati-Philalethes. Bode's
journal is a powerful evidence of the influence and fuel that the
Illuminati fed to the populace and the French "Enlightenment" leading up
to the storming of the Bastille, and ultimately feed the fire that only
added to the existing list of causes of the French Revolution itself.
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