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4.4. Resumen del equipo de un laboratorio tipo
4.4.3. Medidas de desplazamiento
Amis Reunis Lodge Members
What Truly Was Bode’s Rank?
How important was Bode truly within the Illuminati?
French scholars believe “Amelius Bode [was] successor to Weishaupt....”108
For the trip to Paris, “high brothers” are solicited by Professor Busche to help pay Bode’s way to Paris at the last minute — when Bode is stuck in Leipzig, as he tells his girl-friend Frau Hess. This makes it sound like Bode, if a leader, was himself dependent on the Order for finances.
Regardless of his status or power, J.C. Bode was an important Illuminatus. He arrived June 24, 1787 at Paris. He was introduced to the Lodge Amis Reunis at Paris by certain special and important people who were later involved in the French Revolution. What makes the story of Bode just as important as the fact as Dittfurth’s presence is the names of (a) who introduced Bode to the lodge and (b) who attended his speech. The names read like a roll-call of the Revolution of 1789 and 1792.
108.Henri Welschinger, La Mission Secrete de Mirabeau A Berlin, 1786-1787; d’apres les documents originaux des Archives des Affaires fetrangeres, avec introduction et notes (Paris: Plon, Nourrit et Cie.
1900) at 40 n. 1.
Mirabeau Presents Bode To the Lodge Amis Reunis in 1787 Reliable masonic historians record that Mirabeau and Bonneville introduced Bode to the members of the Lodge Amis Reunis in 1787.109 Bonneville was fluent in German and French, and likely was Bode’s translator.
Bode Misses The International Conference By Amis Reunis Paris
This Amis Reunis international conference ended May 26, 1787. Bode wrote his girlfriend that he was stuck in Leipzig on May 26, 1787 when Professor Busche and certain
“high brothers” offered to pay his finances to Paris. He then concludes this letter saying he arrived on the “20th” at Paris, which in context would mean June 20th. Engel’s own note, however, says the arrival date was June 24th.
Engel obtained this letter of Bode to Frau Hess from the Royal Library of Dresden.110 Boettiger had begged her in 1795 to allow the release of this letter, but she had refused him. Now we can read it. Bode’s letter to Frau Hess explained:
I had started off on May 4th to Leipzig. On the 21st of May, I had my clothes completely col-lected at Herrnhut. I arrived at Leipzig by May 26th. There, a Friend, Mr. von Busche, a rather rich gentleman to me, told he about his times in the wars. When I told him about my planned trip through Silesia, he wanted to go with me. I
109. Bourdin, a first-rate scholar, specialized in studies of popular societ-ies at Paris. She said that Bonneville and Mirabeau introduced both Bode and Busche at the Lodge Amis Reunis, citing a friend-of-masonry —Le Couteulx de Canteleu. See Isabelle Bourdin, Les Sociétés Populaires a Paris Pendant La Révolution (Paris: Libraire du Recueíl Sirey, 1937) at 53 (citing Le Couteulx de Canteleu in his work Les sectes et les Societes Secretes, supra, at 168).
110.Stauffer, New England, etc., at 173 fn. 1, citing Engel, supra, at 409-15.
Bode’s Arrival At Paris Is For A Post-International Conference Meeting Of Just
then told him that I had no [money]. We are to go to the Convent of Freemasons at Paris, who were meeting under the name of Philalethen. I was to speak on a paper I had written in the winter and I had already sent ahead to these supremely good and honest people to bring them back from harmful teachings. When Mr.
B. von d. [Busch] read this Paper, he said, I would benefit much by going to Paris where the meetings were still continuing. I had received a new invitation letter. [In reply] I apologized that I think the cost of travel for My bag would be too difficult. However, he
insisted that he join the trip, and he would bear the cost going and returning, and that I should only live on my own money while in Paris...He also presented my case to some high brother.
Bey joined him in providing for me.... So I had to give in and we travelled from May to the 20th in Paris.111
Then in a letter from approximately July 24, 1787 while still in Paris,112 Bode speaks of the success he had:
My main purpose here has succeeded. Since I arrived here, what I had written... was read twice. This Convention has brought an end to searching for alchemy, Cabala, theosophy, Theurgy and the more subtle occult sci-ences....and are determined to use their time and mental faculties on such things as to what reach out and are useful to human society. So my travel has been totally satisfying. You, do
111.Leopold Engel, Geschichte des Illuminaten-ordens (H. Bermühler verlag, 1906) at 411.
112.It appears Bode left Paris and returned again for the July 1787 meet-ing. Billington refers to the June 1787 visit as the “first of two visits”
of Bode to Paris. (Billington, supra, at 96 (“first of two visits to Paris (June of 1787)”).
not speak of this to the Profane Freemasons [i.e., those not Illuminized]. You understand me.... I hope.... I also have an opportunity in Strasbourg and [wish] to pursue with all dili-gence observing Animal Magnetism....So far, it has been so much talked and written about, that even though I am not into miracles and miracle cures [I would look into it.]113
Notice that in having enlisted the Amis Reunis to reject alchemy, Cabala, theosophy, Theurgy and occult sci-ences, Bode did not say he caused them to abandon animal magnetism by Mesmer. Rather, Bode plans on passing through Strasbourg to first-hand examine whether it really works.