Proofs of a Conspiracy

Proofs of a Conspiracy
ISBN-10
3736809441
ISBN-13
9783736809444
Series
Proofs of a Conspiracy
Category
History
Pages
463
Language
English
Published
2019-01-08
Publisher
BookRix
Author
John Robison

Description

In this work, Proofs of a Conspiracy, Robison laid the groundwork for modern conspiracy theorists by implicating the Bavarian Illuminati as responsible for the excesses of the French Revolution. The Bavarian Illuminati, a rationalist secret society, was founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 in what is today Germany. They had an inner core of true believers, who secretly held radical atheist, anti-monarchist and possibly proto-feminist views, at that time considered beyond the pale. They recruited by infiltrating the numerous (and otherwise benign) Freemasonic groups which were active at the time on the continent. Necessarily they had a clandestine, compartmentalized, hierarchical organizational form.

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