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Measuring The Success of Bode’s 1787 Trip
In sum, even if we ignore all the other Illuminati con-tacts and only focus on Bode’s trips, we recognize that he surely recruited or further cemented the membership of d’Orleans and Savalette de Lange as well as many in atten-dance. This, of course, means Bode’s visit of 1787 was highly successful. Mounier’s view that Bode’s single trip of 1787 was incapable of influencing those attending toward revolu-tionary aims now appears weak. Bode’s trip is proof of con-tact and access, at a high level of the Illuminati, with the very same men who caused the Revolutions of 1789 and 1792.
Today, historians who previously were reluctant to admit an Illuminati influence appear to have come around to acknowl-edge the obvious importance of the Illuminati.
How have some historians deflected this information?
Firminger, a Freemason historian anxious to dispel the theories of Barruel and Robison, says: “It cannot be said that Busche and Bode came to Paris as a deputation on behalf of the Illuminati, for in 1784 Weishaupt had parted company with Knigge, the master organizer of his system, and also in the year following the secrets of the Illuminati had been revealed to an indignant public, several of its leaders prose-cuted, and its chief had become a fugitive.” (Firminger, “The Romances of Barruel and Robison,” supra, at 61.)
None of the cited reasons are applicable. The Illumi-nati had far more resilience than Firminger gave them credit for.
First, Bode’s diary journal proves he recruited Saval-ette and several others into the Illuminati. This was 1787.
They agreed to use the cloak of another name for this associa-tion — Philadelphes. This means the Illuminati were still in operation in 1787, but always using cloaks of the name of a different society so as to conceal their identity. It works, because you see historians are still led off track by such tac-tics.
Second, Knigge by 1787 was working with Bode.
They together formed a new front in non-Bavarian Germany called The German Union.184 This was like the Philadelphes of Paris — just another name to hide their true identity.
Moreover, not all the secrets of the Illuminati were revealed in the police raids. Otherwise, there would not be this debate about its plans for France. Furthermore, the only European government by 1787 which tried suppressing the Illuminati was Bavaria. And by 1787, Weishaupt was not liv-ing on the run like a fugitive, as Firmliv-inger suggests, but was in the lap of luxury as a highly paid ducal minister at Gotha.
He was even a neighbor of Bode who lived nearby in Weimar, which is why Bode is likely operating at an impor-tant level within the Illuminati.
This explains why Brother Wilson in reply criticized Firminger for his faulty logic: “One can admire the success with which Bro. Firminger fashions his bricks with odds and ends of clay, with the minimum of straw, and lobs them skill-fully at the defendants in the dock [i.e., Barruel and Robi-son];... and this task he performs with the greatest ingenuity, wrapping up his suggestions in masses of petty detail, the unsoundness of which is trivial in itself, but which merge tri-umphantly in a cumulative effect, to deal adequately with which would require a paper at least twice as long as his own.” (See Wilson, “Mirabeau's Plan for the Political Pene-tration of Freemasonry,” supra, at 173.)
Furthermore, the head of American Scottish Rite Freemasonry, Albert Pike, revealed in 1871 the nature of the transformation of the French Templar Freemasons at Paris (i.e., the Amis Reunis) at the time of Bode’s visits. Pike’s book Morals and Dogma, self-styled as the American Masonic Bible was published in 1871 under the auspices of the Supreme Council of the 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.185 In it, Pike says the “registers of the Order
184.See Indices in this series.
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of Templars” (which included the Paris Amis Reunis after 1778)186 revealed they wanted revenge on the French monar-chy in 1789 for the destruction of the Templars by King Philip Le Bel in 1301. Pike said Cagliostro was their agent.
Pike then says one Parisian Templar lodge “became the cen-ter of the revolutionary movement in France, and a Prince of the blood-royal [i.e., the Duke D’Orleans] went thither to swear the destruction of the successors of Philippe le Bel on the tomb of Jacques de Molai.”187 Morals and Dogma con-tinues:
The registers of the Order of Templars attest that the Regent, the Duc d’Orleans, was Grand Master of that formidable Secret Society,... The Templars compromitted the King; they saved him from the rage of the people...; it was a scaf-fold that the vengeance of the Templars
demanded. The secret movers of the French Revolution had sworn to overturn the Throne and Altar upon the Tomb of Jacques de Molai [i.e., the ancient Grand Master of the Tem-plars]. When Louis XVI was executed, half the work was done; and thenceforward the Army of the Temple was to direct all its efforts against the Pope...Royalty was regenerated on the scaffold of Louis XVI, the Church trium-phant in the captivity of Pius VI, carried a
185. By 1889, Pike was the head of American Masonry and was titular head of world Freemasonry. Officially, in 1889, he was Grand Master of the Central Directory of Washington, D.C., Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Charleston (the leading lodge for American Masonry) and Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry.
186.At Paris, the Amis Reunis were Templars because in 1778 they inte-grated a “Knights Templar” grade into one of the grades of the Phila-lethe rite. The purpose was to unite itself thereby with the Lyon Templar Strict Observance.
187.Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma (1871) at 823.
prisoner to Valence,188and dying of fatigue and sorrow....189
Pike is ackowledging that the Templars, including D’Orleans, took an oath to overthrow Louis XVI. He refer-ences “registers” of the Templars in his possession. He claims the oath taken was upon the tomb of Jacques de Molai, the Grand Master of the 14th Century Templars who was slain at Paris. This Templar lodge at Paris must have been the Amis Reunis lodge which Bode visited in 1787. Since 1779, it had used in its Philalethe Rite a grade “Knights Templar” so as to unite with Willermoz’s Lyon Strict Observance.
When respected Freemason historians themselves boast of such things, and cite internal documents, are we not justified then, besides proof from independent sources, to concur? And if Pike’s boast is true, then it makes sense to infer Bode shared with the Duke d’Orleans and the Templars of the Amis Reunis the plan agreed upon at Wilhemsbad to overthrow France.
188.Pike’s mention of the pope being dragged to Valence where he died is a reference to Napoleon’s seizing Pope Pius VI (Luigi Breschi) when Napoleon conquered Rome in 1798. Napoleon took the pope prisoner.
While in a Valence prison during 1799, the pope died.
189.Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma (1871) at 823-24. This was person-ally seen by myself from the 1871 volume. Interestingly, this same passage appears on page 823 of the Kessinger 2002 reprint; on pages 700-01 of the NuVision 2007 reprint; on page 451 of the 2008 reprint by Bibliobazaar; and on page 694 of the 2008 Forgotten Books reprint.
This suggests to me that only the Kessinger reprint of 2002 is a true reprint.
1787 Changes in French Freemasonry after Visits