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10 Notable Members of the Bavarian Illuminati

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 | Illuminati Members by Terry Melanson (22/2/2011) [also available in PDF - here and here]

1. Charles-Pierre-Paul, Marquis de Savalette de Langes (1745-1797)

Savalette de Langes was the son of Charles Pierre Savalette de Magnanville (1713-1790) intendant of the Generality of Tours (1745) and Keeper of the Royal Treasury from 1756 to 1788 and Marie-milie Joly de Choin (1726-1776), the daughter of a fermier gnral. In 1773, like his father, Savalette de Langes became a Keeper of the Royal Treasury; 1790/91, Captain of the Paris National Guard in the battalion of Saint Roch and aide-de-campe to Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834).1 Gardes du Trsor royal (i.e. keeper of the royal treasury) was a heredity title. On the significance of the post, Roland Mousnier writes: The highest-ranking receveur-payeurs were the two gardes du Trsor royal. According to the edict of June 1748 this office was worth 1,200,000 livres. They earned 5 percent of the official value of the office in salary plus 12,000 additional livres when they were actually on duty; they also received 1,500 livres in salary for their work on the council and 60,000 livres, increased by Necker to 85,000, to cover the wages and expenses of their commis. These offices were family property. In 1749 Charles-Pierre Savalette de Magnanville took the first of the two posts. In 1773 his son, Charles-Pierre-Paul Savalette de Langes became his assistant and designated heir. In November 1785 they switched positions, Langes becoming the titulary of the post and Magnanville his assistant and designated heir. Both men were matres des requtes and conseillers dEtat. The father was for a time intendant of Tours. The family could claim three degrees of nobility and thus came close, in principle, to the gentilhommerie.2 One of the most active and influential Masons of his time, Savalette de Langes was first initiated in 1766 at the Lodge LUnion Indivisible in Lille, he was the founder of the Paris Lodge Les Amis Runis (1771), Regime of the Philalthes (1773), and convoked the Philalthes Convents of Paris in 1785 and 1787. From the beginning Savalette was on the side of the Duke de Chartres (future Duke dOrlans) for the creation of the Grand Orient, and after this was accomplished (1773) Savalette subsequently became its Grand Officer and Archivist. He was also a member of the Paris Lodge LOlympique de la Parfaite Estime from 1783-88, the founder of La Socit Olympique in 1785, and a member of the Paris Lodge Centre des Amis in 1793.3 Permanent, official correspondence between the Illuminati and Savalettes Amis Runis was established in 1784. Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Beulwitz (1755-1829), the head of the Rudolstadt Illuminati was initiated into the Amis Runis in 1784, while visiting Paris, and received into the 11th class of the Philalthes. Another Illuminatus, Sigismund Falgera (1752-1790) was already initiated into the Amis Runis in 1784 (to 1789) and was appointed the official Illuminati correspondent/liaison to the Paris Lodge.4 Yet even before this, other Illuminati were simultaneously members of the Amis Runis Count Kolowrat, for one (see below) and it would be hard to believe that they hadnt at least tried to Illuminize this most important Lodge in Paris. In this regard, about all we can safely say is that there remains a lack of documentation about any successes the Illuminati may have had in France before 1787. The famous trip Johann Joachim Christoph Bode (then head of the Illuminati) had made from Weimar to Paris in 1787 has been for over 200 years a source of speculation. It turns out, however, that Bode had kept a travel journal that was only recently rediscovered and published for the first time in 1994. This, along with a letter

Bode sent to Illuminatus Christian, Prince of Hessen-Darmstadt (1763-1830) at precisely the same time, includes the explicit admission that the Master of the Amis Runis and the Philalthes, Savalette de Langes, after over a month of meetings and talks with Bode, was persuaded to join the Illuminati. He was initiated on August 1st, 1787, followed three days later by Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Adodat Taillepied de Bondy (1741-1822) and Alexandre-Louis Rottiers de Montaleau (1748-1808). This hitherto unknown secret Lodge of the Illuminati in Paris had decided to operate under another name Philadelphes. Little else is known save the pledge to work toward the healthy reason of the politically inclined Illuminati. Additional Amis Runis recruits during Bodes visit were Jean-Baptiste Le Sage (1757/67-1838) and Francois-Antoine Lemoyne Daubermesnil (1748-1802).5 In the letter to Christian von Darmstadt, Bode outlined some specifics about how the Illuminati would operate in France: 1. Correspondences should be marked with a cross. In this way, out of politeness and respect, rejections from the censors would be few; 2. The utilization of a standard Masonic cipher, but for the ninth key, the word St. [a gap in the text, perhaps deliberately] from an agreed upon almanac; 3. Adopt the name Philadelphes instead of Illuminati, and in place of Minervals, Preparatory class or Aspirants. One of the reasons, Bode says, is that the Amis Runis already have the class of Philalthes for their final grade. And finally, for those adverse to mysterious societies, a beneficial assembly under the name Philanthropes. Less than a year after Bodes visit an organizational transformation did in fact take place at the Amis Runis: a new Chapter was instituted, which included only one-fifth of the total number of Amis Runis members. There were seventy-six members, according to Hermann Schttler, of which eleven were known Illuminati. Of the eleven, however, he only lists ten: Daubermesnil, Le Sage, Rottiers de Montaleau, Savalette de Langes, Taillepied de Bondy, Ludwig X. Landgrave von Hessen-Darmstadt (1753-1830), Friedrich Rudolf Salzmann (1749-1820), Friedrich Tiemann (1743-1802) and Russian envoy Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov (1733-1811). Among others, those who also belonged to the Chapter were the banker brothers Louis-Daniel Tassin (1742-1794) and Gabriel Tassin de ltang (1743-1794), Jean-Pierre Louis de Beyerl (1740-1806) and Franois-Marie Marquis de Chefdebien dArmissan (1753-1814). Schttler rightly described it as a lodge within a lodge within a lodge (Amis Runis -> Illuminati/Philadelphes -> the new 1788 Chapter). About the nature of its work nothing is known, only that it lasted until 1792 and had dwindled to 22 members.6 The significance of this and other evidence, as it relates to the conspiracy thesis of the French Revolution, is summarized by Porset: The register of the Amis Runis to which I have already referred, specifies, in 1789, which Brothers called for the recommencement of the Convent of Paris on the occasion of the reunion of the Estates-General Montmorency-Luxembourg, who fled to England on the first day of the Revolution, was a member of the Philalthes, but he was not a revolutionary. Yet in a very interesting letter written at that time, to Chataigner, he blames the Philalthes and explains that he never wanted to give in to their pressure, but he adds that he didnt want to betray them - whom he respected; and finally, Chaillon de Jonville, deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, thus the institution which preceded the Grand Orient, denounced the Philadelphes in a text which appeared in 1789; he held them responsible for the revolutionary disturbances. What more can be said? These Brothers of the foremost Lodges, werent they in a position to speak [candidly] about what they had experienced?7 Professor Porset, himself a Grand Orient Mason, thus ends his erudite work on the Philalthes by reluctantly admitting that the 18th Century contemporary anti-masonic Illuminati conspiracy theorists, such as Barruel, Starck, Lefranc, and Hervs y Panduro (though Robison might be mentioned in this company as well) were better-informed than has previously been suspected.8

Another thing to keep in mind is that the Mesmerists in France at the time, of which Savalette de Langes was an adherent, member, and associate, were far from being harmless mystics. The formidable historian, Robert Darnton has shown conclusively that the clubs and Lodges of the Mesmerists, before, during, and after the Revolution, were the premiere gathering places for revolutionaries and radical pamphleteers.9 As Porset has summarized: it suffices to remark that Mirabeau, Lafayette, Duport, Brissot, Carra, Bergasse, the Rolands, dEpremesnil, Desmoulins, Danton, Robespierre, and Savalette de Langes, were all Masons and frequented the same milieu, and that this milieu, the Masonic-Mesmerists and Illuminists, played a decisive role before and during the Revolution.10

2. * Gabriel Honor Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)

Comte de Mirabeau That Mirabeau was influenced by Illuminati such as Jakob Mauvillon and the Prussian Aufklrer in particular, there is no doubt. As an introduction, we can hardly improve upon the words of the Librarian of Congress, historian James H. Billington: Frederick the Greats interest in revolution as a spiritual and political event subtly influenced many Germans of his time. He created in Prussia a sense of new Promethean possibilities. His impatience with tradition in affairs of state was echoed in the republic of letters by the rebellious poets of the Sturm und Drang. Radical Bavarian Illuminists urged in the early 1780s that his secularizing reforms be carried even further through an imminent revolution of the human mind. Their opponents, in turn, already saw in such a program in 1786 the threat of an imminent universal revolution. Thus Germany not France gave birth to the sweeping, modern idea of revolution as a secular upheaval more universal in reach and more transforming in scope than any purely political change. This concept was transported to Paris by Count Mirabeau, a former French ambassador in Berlin; it helped him to become the leading figure in the early events of the French Revolution in 1789. His study of Frederick the Great in 1788 had proclaimed Prussia the likely site of a coming revolution, and the German Illuminists its probable leaders. Mirabeaus speeches and writings the following year transferred these expectations of a deep transformation

from Germany to France. He became both the leader in turning the Third Estate of the Estates-General into a new National Assembly and the first to succeed in launching a journal without the authorization of the government. His reputation as the outstanding orator of the Assembly is closely related to his pioneering role in convincing the French that their revolution, though political in form, was redemptive in content. Mirabeau popularized the Illuminist term revolution of the mind, introduced the phrase great revolution, and apparently invented the words revolutionary, counter-revolution, and counter-revolutionary. Mirabeau pioneered in applying the evocative language of traditional religion to the new political institutions of revolutionary France. As early as May 10, 1789, he wrote to the constituents who had elected him to the Third Estate that the purpose of the Estates-General was not to reform but to regenerate the nation. He subsequently called the National Assembly the inviolable priesthood of national policy, the Declaration of the Rights of Man a political gospel, and the Constitution of 1791 a new religion for which the people are ready to die.11 Hes prefaced here with an asterisk because his membership in the Illuminati, however probable or likely, is not confirmed. Mirabeaus (claimed) aliases are Adramelech and/or Leonidas. In Die Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens 1776-1787/93, Hermann Schttler used an asterisk under Mirabeaus name in the section that lists the Paris Illuminati, but neglects to include it in his actual biography (pp. 221 and 106 respectively). The good thing about Schttler, however, is that he is completely transparent. Precise citations are provided on three fronts: 1) for biographical details, 2) Masonic and 3) Illuminati membership. The sources for the latter, in identical order listed in Schttler, are:

Le Forestier, Ren: Les Illumins de Bavire et la Franc-Maonnerie Allemande (Paris 1915), p. 664 n. 3 Grolmann, Ludwig Adam von: Endliches Schicksal des Freymaurer-Ordens in einer Schlurede gesprochen vom Br. *** vormals Redner der Loge zu *** am Tage ihrer Auflsung (Giessen 1794), p. 20 o : Nthiger Anhang zu der jngst erschienenen Schrift: Endliches Schicksal des Freymaurer-Ordens (Regensburg 1795), p. 14 Hoffmann, Jochen: Bedeutung und Funktion des Illuminatenordens in Norddeutschland, in: Zeitschrift fr Bayerische Landesgeschichte (v. 45) (1982), p. 366 n. 21 Starck, Johann August von: Der Triumph der Philosophie im Achtzehnten Jahrhunderte. Zweyter Theil (v. 2: 1804), pp. 288ff and 293f Barruel, Augustin: Memoires pour servir a lHistoire du Jacobinisme [1798] (Vouille, 1973), I and II passim, and II p. 413; or, in the 1800 Mnster/Leipzig German language edition, v. 4 p. 348f cf. Lenhoff and Posner: Internationales Freimaurer-Lexikon [Vienna 1932] (Vienna reprint 1980), p. 1042f cf. Welschinger, Henry: Mirabeau in Berlin als geheimer Agent der franzsischen Regierung 1786-1787 (Leipzig 1900), p. 37

Suffice it to say, none of the above sources are primary material, hence the asterisk. The oldest claim is from Grolmann a former Illuminatus who was kicked out of the Order and subsequently took up with the counterrevolutionaries12 followed by Barruel and Starck. Le Forestier points out that it was Starck who identified Mirabeaus alias as Leonidas without citation. It seems that Starcks source for Mirabeau being an Illuminatus rests solely upon Grolmanns 1794 pamphlet Eine Rede ber den Illuminaten-Orden and Barruel, who, in turn, cites Discourse of a Master of a Lodge on the ultimate fate of Masonry (Grolmanns then-anonymous Endliches Schicksal des Freymaurer-Ordens in einer), which also apparently includes an appendix with an admonition by Leopold Alois Hoffmann.13 So, after all this time, the answer to the question of his Illuminati membership, in a definitive sense, has continued to elude the historian and archivist. And be that as it may, the circumstantial evidence is strong:

1. There is an official diplomatic communiqu, dated 1791, that names Mirabeau among Illuminati and Freemasons. It was sent by Bavarian Foreign Minister Count Karl Matthus von Vieregg (1719-1802), to Imperial Ambassador Ludwig Konrad von Lehrbach (1750-1805) at Munich, who then forwarded it to Vienna. There are a few individuals mentioned in the list that have since been confirmed as indeed being Illuminati, so Vieregg was better informed than his contemporaries.14 In addition to Mirabeau he lists such French revolutionaries as Duke dOrlans, Lafayette, Antoine Barnave, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Claude Fauchet, even Thomas Paine. But in the end, since no distinction whatsoever is made between Freemasons and bona fide Illuminati, its effectively useless.15 2. If he did become a member of the Illuminati, it was surely sometime during his three (semi-official and semi-secret) diplomatic missions to the court of Prussia, 1786-87. Mirabeau was already a friend and colleague of Jakob Mauvillons, the prefect of the Kassel Illuminati, and the latter had helped him with the bulk of the material for a history of Frederick the Great: De la monarchie prussienne, sous Frdric le grand [The Prussian Monarchy under Frederick the Great] (1788). While in Berlin, he associated with the Popularphilosophen/rationalist circle of Illuminatus Friedrich Nicolai (prefect of Berlin), was privy to Karl Friedrich Bahrdts German Union as well as the operations of the Wednesday Societys Berlinische Monatsschrift and Nicolais Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek. And in The Prussian Monarchy, Mirabeau wrote glowingly and apologetically about the Illuminati condemning its suppression even to the point of embracing aspects of the Orders anti-Jesuitism almost as if he were an Illuminatus himself.16 Indoctrinated, he certainly was;17 and, as Billington has summarized, after having imbued the principles of the Illuminati Mirabeau put them to good use in France during the Revolution. 3. A curious document was found by his adoptive son, Lucas de Montigny, amongst the belongings of Mirabeau after his death: Plan of an intimate association to be established in the Order of Freemasonry, with a view to restore that Order to its genuine principles, and to make it really tend to the good of mankind: drawn up, in 1776, by B. Mi, now surnamed Arcesilaus. It is obvious that it represents the principles and teachings of the Illuminati, probably drafted by his friend Mauvillon whose alias within the Order, it so happens, was precisely Arcesilaus.18 1776, might have been a mistake; rather, it should have been 1786, corresponding to Mirabeaus trip to Berlin; or, perhaps 1776 was intentional, alluding to the year of the Illuminatis birth. Nevertheless, all the essentials are there: the imposition of a secret society within a society, or parasitizing Freemasonry; the harkening back to the primitive wisdom of man in an egalitarian golden age; praise for Pythagoras and the mystery schools; the importance and socio-political effectiveness of the secret society; to abolish all ecclesiastical jurisdictions, diminish the number of priests, where that number is excessive, and wrest every weapon from the hand of superstition; and the strategic use of the conspiratorial stratagems of the Jesuits toward good, rather than evil. 4. Mirabeau also had a significant friendship with the Swiss banker, Illuminatus J.C. Schweizer (see below) who set up shop in Paris. Someday it may well be proven one way or another whether Mirabeau was an Illuminatus. The question of his membership in Freemasonry has long been debated as well. Multiple sources simply state that it is supposed that he became a Mason in his younger years; Amsterdam in 1776 is often claimed.19 However, it now seems that the question has been solved in the affirmative. According to Charles Porset, Mirabeau is known to have been affiliated with the famous Lodge Neuf Soeurs [Nine Sisters], December 22, 1783. The evidence can be found at the Masonic National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts: a manuscript of a speech made by the Marquis de Pastoret which is accompanied by Mirabeaus signature. This affiliation, writes Porset indicates that Mirabeau had already been initiated as an apprentice in another Lodge. At any rate, his Masonic membership gives us insight into how he could have established links with the Illuminati [in the first place]

3. Alexandre-Louis Rottiers de Montaleau (1748-1808)

Roettiers de Montaleau As mentioned above, Rottiers de Montaleau was initiated into the Illuminati, August 4th, 1787, by J. J. C. Bode. For over thirty years Montaleau was one of the most energetic Masons in France, a member of the Amis Runis, the Philalthes, and an officer and Grand Master of the Grand Orient. The right-hand man of the Duke dOrlans, Rottiers was his active agent at the beginning of the French Revolution.20 The protector of Freemasonry during the Revolution, Montaleau was arrested and nearly guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Released after the fall of Robespierre, he resuscitated and reorganized French Freemasonry becoming the Venerable Master of all the Lodges in 1795. As I had written in my book: Exactly what influence the [Illuminati] connection really had on the man, we will never know. One question that naturally comes to mind, is: Since he was the protector and savior of French Freemasonry during and after the Revolution, and had full control over the direction he wished to steer the enterprise, how much of Bodes Bavarian Illuminism had made its way into the inner core of the newly- re-instituted Grand Orient of France? At the very least, was there an adherence to the secret society within a secret society principle so integral to the very purpose of the Illuminati? It would seem like the perfect time to institute such a system and could be flawlessly integrated into the core.21 Between Savalette de Langes and Rottiers de Montaleau, Bode had managed quite the coup by winning them to the cause of the Illuminati (secretly taking on the name Philadelphes). One of Montaleaus first acts as Venerable of the Grand Orient was to issue a patent for the instalment of the Genevan Grand Orient Lodge Des Amis Sincres on June 7th, 1796. Curiously, this Lodge was joined by the professional revolutionist Philippe Buonarroti (in 1806), who then immediately formed an inner circle within the Lodge, a secret group of Philadelphes.22

4. Count Franz Joseph von Kolowrat-Liebensteinsky (b. 1748)

Aliases: Numenius and Julius There were three members of the Kolowrat family (variously spelled Kollowrat, Kolovrat, Kalowait, Colovrat, Collowrath, Collowarth, Carolat, Carolath or Carlath) who were initiated into the Illuminati. Of polish-Slavic nobility, the Kolowrats held high positions within the Austrian Imperial administration, especially in Bohemia. F.J. Kolowrat was court chamberlain to the Emperor and an artillery captain in Prague.

First becoming a Freemason at the Prague Lodge Zu den drei gekrnten Sulen in 1779, he was a member of the Strict Observance (Frater Franciscus Eques ab Aquila Fulgente) and one of the deputies present at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad as a representative of Vienna and Sibiu [Hermannstadt] in Transylvania. It was at Wilhelmsbad that he was recruited into the Illuminati in August 1782.23 Kolowrat was received into the Paris Amis Runis on December 11th, 1782.24 He had already been corresponding with Savalette de Langes as early as 1781, giving the latter details on occult personalities of the day.25 Marquis de Chefdebien attended the Wilhelmsbad Congress as well, and had received an intelligence report from Savalette de Langes, about, among others, Kolowrat. Savalette wrote that during a previous voyage in France Kolowrat was received by the Masonic adepts at Montpellier and Lyons (viz. Willermoz), even among the lus Cons and the Martinists.26 Illuminatus Count Savioli, in a Quibus licet report dated December 2nd, 1782, informed his superiors that Kolowrat was a theosophist and affiliated with Willermozs (Martinist) system at Lyons, and was probably even a Rosicrucian. This meant that Kolowrat had to be properly indoctrinated (or deprogrammed) by the Illuminati before he could be of any use: a re-orientation of his religious and mystical proclivities. As Weishaupt wrote to Zwack: Put me in correspondence with Numenius: I want to try and cure him of his theosophy and bring him closer to our views.27 It is not clear whether or not Kolowrat was cured, or even how far he advanced into the mysteries of the Illuminati,28 but in 1783 he co-founded a Lodge (Zu den Wahren Vereinigten Freuden) in Brno (or Brnn)29 that functioned as a base for the Illuminati in Bohemia. Historian Jiri Kroupa elaborates: In 1783 a division of Brno Masons founded a new lodge, The True United Friends (Zu Wahren Vereinigten Freuden). The lodge became the refuge of the Secret Order of Illuminati (Geheimorden der Illuminaten). The association of the Illuminati with Freemasonry was in fact part of the expansion strategy of this secret society, which remains of great interest to historians, especially in Germany. At the time of its greatest appeal within the Enlightenment milieu, the circle of Brno Illuminati had about forty members and exerted authority over two smaller circles in Opava and Prague. We are best informed about the Brno Illuminati. Their circle organized a number of lectures and discussions dealing with such themes as education, popular Enlightenment, morality and virtue, academic institutions, and patriotism. Thus for a brief period they established a society in the manner of a learned Academy, concerned mainly with moral philosophy and with the individual, or rather with what in the milieu of the Illuminati was called character. Through this secret union, Enlightenment and morality were introduced into the Masonic lodge. In his analysis of the function of the secret in esoteric societies, Norbert Schindler has accentuated the part it played in constituting a new subjectivity for the neophyte.30 Sabine Roehr also briefly cites Schindlers study in her book on Illuminatus Karl Leonhard Reinhold: the order functioned as a kind of scholarly academy in which knowledge was collected and scientific research done. One of its major objectives was to develop a new, strongly empiricist concept of science, especially of the science of man. Knigge spoke of a semiotics of the soul. Finally, full knowledge of the order and its utopian political goals was accessible only to those in the highest ranks. Schindler calls the educational undertaking of the order secret pedagogy. According to him, the Illuminati represented the dualism between Masonic secrecy and the enlightened demand to make everything public.31

5. Johann Caspar [Jean Gaspard] Schweizer (1754-1811)

Schweizer32 was a Swiss merchant and banker, a member of the Helvetian Society, made a Mason at the Zurich Lodge Bescheidenheit und Freiheit (Modestia cum Libertate) in 1782, was initiated into the Illuminati in 1785, and became a Jacobin.33

The Zurich lodge Modestia cum Libertate today Born in Zurich, his uncle Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) became his guardian and educator after Schweizers mother had died when he was four. Lavater, dubbed the prophet of Zurich by his contemporaries, was an important figure in the mystical, pietist, theosophic, and millenarian loose-movement denoted by scholars as Illuminism (c. 1760-1830)34 not to be confused with the rationalist German Illuminati of Weishaupt or the French philosophes of the Enlightenment. These Illuminists, rather, were concerned often obsessed with spiritualism and the occult sciences. Besides Lavater,35 adherents of Illuminism included the likes of Karl von Eckartshausen (1752-1803), Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716-1796), Martinez de Pasqually (1727-1774), Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Louis Claude de SaintMartin (1743-1803), Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), Franz Xaver von Baader (1765-1841), Baron von Kirchberger de Liebisdorf (1739-1799), Jean-Baptiste Willermoz (1730-1824) and Landgrave Karl von HessenKassel (1744-1836).

Johann Caspar Schweizer; Pastel by James Sharples (from the Pestalozzianum in Zurich) From the mid-1770s until 1786, together with his young wife Magdalena, ne Hess (1751-1814), Schweizer entertained scholars and artists at their house Zum unteren Berg in the Hirschengraben, Zurich. Guests included Lavater (of course), Illuminatus Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), doctor Johannes Hotze (1734-1801), professor Johann Jakob Steinbrchel (1729-1796), professor Leonhard Meister (17411811), and Illuminati Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (17571828). Schweizer was particularly friendly with Pestalozzi and the two would often engage in pedagogic discussions. By 1785 both were members of the Illuminati, and it was in that year, they set up a (secret?) society for the furtherance of domestic and moral happiness.36 It was, in fact, Pestalozzi who co-founded with Johann Heinrich Rahn (1749-1812) the Illuminati branch in Zurich in 1783. And a year later, Rahn and Pestalozzi had instituted a pedagogic society in the city as a camouflage organization of the Order.37

David Hess, the cousin of Magdalena, was the executor of their will. He wrote a biography of Schweizer in 1822 (published in 1884) which has become quite valuable, as the primary material he used the personal papers of the Schweizers has since been destroyed.38 On Schweizer and the Illuminati, Hess had written that the former had been a Perfectibilist at heart long before hed learned of the Orders existence; that the Illuminati had inflamed his imagination, and he vigorously devoted all his resources to the cause, both intellectual and financial.39 His financial resources, it should be noted, were indeed substantial, having inherited a banking house from his deceased father in 1768; a further fortune from his uncle, at the beginning of 1785, was valued at 1 million francs.40 Wrote Frdric Barbey: Schweizer quickly became one of the heads of this secret society, a perfect Illuminati [degree of Illuminatus Major?]. He puts at their disposal a considerable sum of money.41 Quite generous with his finances Schweizer had been even irresponsible. And the inheritance from his uncle, in particular, had offered a unique opportunity. Armed with new funds that he would make available to the Illuminati, his philanthropy increased tenfold, wrote Barbey, and the treasure was scattered like a torrent for the salvation of mankind.42 Johann Caspar and his wife were living comfortably in Zurich. However, to Schweizers lively mind, Zurich seemed too cramped; [H]e longed for a wider sphere of activity, and hoped to increase his fortune by successful speculation, so that he might do good on a large scale. Paris seemed to him the most suitable place for the realisation of his plans. He founded there a banking house, gave brilliant receptions, became the confidant of Mirabeau, was caught in the whirlpool of the Revolution, and forfeited his entire fortune.43 Schweizer arrived in Paris in June of 1786,44 met, and immediately became friends with Mirabeau. The latter was back from his secret mission to Berlin (late-May to July), before returning (July to January, 1787).45 At any rate, it was inevitable they would become acquainted, for they frequented the same milieu, coupled with the fact that Mirabeaus mission to Berlin was funded by Swiss and Paris bankers46 to begin with. The point of contact between the two was fellow Swiss banker Franois Jeanneret (b. 1758), whom Schweizer had become acquainted with and together would incorporate the company Schweizer, Jeanneret & Cie. He had assured Schweizer a doubling of his money in short order through stock market manipulation. Jeanneret, an adept speculator, had important financial contacts in the capital leading up to the revolution particularly the Genovese exile tienne Clavire (1735-1793), who financed both Mirabeau and Jacques Pierre Brissot (17541793) to write, publish and distribute, financial pamphlets calculated to manipulate the price of stocks, gaining an advantage; Isaac Panchaud (1738-1789), who had directed the short-lived Caisse descompte (a sort of forerunner to the Bank of France); and Abb dEspagnac (1752-1794), an unrepentant speculator who took part in the storming of the Bastille, a member of the Jacobin club from its inception, and was subsequently beheaded along with Danton.47 As the revolution approached and Schweizers finances seemed entirely secure (thanks to insider manipulators), he preoccupied himself with politics. Indeed, as Frdric Barbey had summarized: The Bastille was stormed, the King was lead back to Paris, and the Constituent Assembly wearily hammers out a constitution in this city ablaze in riots. Schweizers friends Barnave, Mirabeau, Bergasse elected [EstatesGeneral] deputies are precisely at the head of the movement. It is impossible that Caspar does not partake in their work, of the establishment of a just government, the realization of the happiness of France and of humanity.48 Caspar Schweizer, the exalted Zuricher, wrote historian Arthur Chuquet, threw himself headlong into the Revolution, collaborated on the draft of the constitution with Mirabeau, composed hymns in honour of liberty, conducted the work on the fortification of Montmartre, made great speeches in the streets, and became a Jacobin and a sans-culotte.49

Of those hymns in honour of liberty, one was titled La Nouvelle dlivrance de la Gaule [The Recent Liberation of Gaul]. After singing praises of the seizing of the Bastille, Schweizer continues with the glorification his friends: Mirabeau, with the figure of a lion, invincible like Prometheus; Isaac Ren Guy Le Chapelier (1754-1794), ardent deputy of Breton (and one of the initial founders of Le Club Breton, known later as the Jacobin Club); Antoine Barnave, with the silky curls; J. J. Mounier, sent forth from the misty mountains by the people of Delphi, who conspired for Liberty; Jean-Franois Reubell (1747-1807), the fair, who bears the gold coat of arms of Alsace for a shield.50 For the next eight years Schweizers large house on the Rue de la Chausse-dAntin was a meeting place for speculators and swindlers, beaux-esprits, writers and politicians, and those who played a role sometimes a significant one in the Revolution.51 While Schweizer was engrossed in political discourse, his wife conducted spiritualist and mesmerist sances at their home. Somnambulists were consulted, and spirits summoned. Those who attended were Bathilde dOrlans, Duchess of Bourbon (Grande Matresse of the male/female Adoption Masonic Lodges of the Grand Orient), as well as revolutionary mesmerist Nicolas Bergasse. The Duchess of Bourbon and Magdalena Schweizer, in particular, became adherents of Catherine Thot (1716-1794), a millenarian mystic visionary, self-described as the virgin who would receive the little Jesus.52 Illuminatus Schweizer, an assiduous Jacobin53 in the thick of the Revolution, had truly endeared himself to those around him. The Marquis de Luchet (1740-1792) spoke of his beautiful poetic imagery, and Fabre dEglantine of his encyclopaedic knowledge. A Prince Gallitzin wrote to Schweizer: Ive never known a soul as noble as yours; you could command even a king! The Duke of St. Aignan: Schweizer is my religion. I find his virtue superhuman. Nicolas Chamfort called him an esprit universel (savant; polymath; Renaissance man), a profound metaphysician with great intelligence, and a creative phenomenon. Mirabeau, to their mutual friend, the financier Isaac Panchaud: some time without seeing Schweizer, and I weary after his creative spirit; and to the Chevalier de Witry: The virtue of Schweizer makes me blush and his genius surpasses even mine. His ideas are always fresh and bright; he seduces, he moves, he feels. Whatever subject he treats, he comprehends all aspects, he presents all points of view, and his style is never uniform, because nature is not either.54 Despite the tumultuous events during the French Revolution indeed the Reign of Terror the Schweizers managed to survive unscathed in the refuge of their salon. Caspar remained a resolute revolutionary burning with exalted patriotism. Having decided to unite his fellow-Swiss-countrymen to the grand republic, Schweizer (with his wife) departs Paris six weeks after the execution of Marie Antoinette heads draped with liberty caps and flying the tricolour flag as an official diplomat for the Comit de salut public [Committee of Public Safety].55 They crossed the frontier at Pontarlier and entered Berne on December 6th, 1793, then on to Baden and the ultimate destination of Zurich. However, for five months citizen Schweizer was variously ignored, rebuked, ridiculed or treated suspiciously like a Jacobin bandit. The mission was a complete failure.56 In July 1793 they arrived back in Paris, and lack of success notwithstanding, Schweizers efforts did not go unnoticed. The head of the commission for commerce and provisions, Jean-Claude Picquet (a friend of Schweizers) had a new proposal. The Republic was in dire straits. France was encircled with a menacing military coalition, the currency was debased to the point of bankruptcy, and munitions, supplies and food were desperately needed. Schweizer was to join forces with an independent merchant from America, Colonel James Swan (1754-1830). Late in the summer of 1794 the Commission de commerce et approvisionnements appointed Johann-Gaspard Schweizer, a rich Zurich banker then living in Paris, as Swans associate. The firm of Swan & Schweizer (known in official correspondence as Jones & Gaspard) was ordered by the commission to arrange in America for the purchase of food, merchandise, naval munitions, and whatever the commission might designate as necessary to the republic. The goods were to be paid for with bullion, a quantity of which they were authorized to export, and with the large credit from the American sales of the confiscated goods, including wine which had

been captured from British cargoes. Jones & Gaspard was further empowered to provision French vessels in American waters. The head of the Commission de Commerce, Jean-Claude Picquet, knew that Swan was an expert financier, but he was entirely aware of Swans reputation. For this reason, Picquet dispatched Schweizer to accompany the colonel on his American mission, charging him to follow Swans every step.57

Colonel James Swan by Gilbert Stuart: Philadelphia; probably 1795; Oil on canvas Swan, a most interesting character, had an uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time.58 An immigrant from Scotland, he arrived in Boston in 1765 and was initiated into the famous St. Andrews Masonic Lodge in 1777,59 which met at the Green Dragon Tavern (referred to by subsequent historians as the headquarters of the revolution). The Sons of Liberty gathered there as well. Swan joined them, and together, along with the taverns fellow-Masons, planned and executed the Boston Tea Party.60 He worked in a counting house alongside Count Rumford, served in the revolutionary army, was appointed secretary of the Massachusetts Board of War, and married heiress Hepzibah Clarke thus linking him with the gentry and gaining ample opportunities to benefit financially. After the war of independence, Swan launched a wide variety of commercial ventures, including speculation in Maine lands, Boston real estate, and confiscated loyalist property.61 The economic depression of 1786 affected his fortune, and in late-1787 he set out for France looking for new schemes. With letters of introduction from prominent French officers (Lafayette among them), Swan succeeded in insinuating himself among the financial elite, and in 1791 entered into partnership with a French firm, rechristened Dallarde, Swan & Cie.62 His wife Hepzibah joined him in 1790 and they lived in luxury on the rue de Lille across the river from the Tuileries Gardens. Casting all shame aside, Eleanor Pearson DeLorme cites historian Yvon Bizardel, Swan was inviting influential Frenchmen and distinguished Americans to dinner with shady traffickers, including a Persian from Damascus and two pirates who pillaged American cargoes and sold their crews into slavery.63 The gold bullion was obtained from melting down confiscated ecclesiastical ornaments while the large caches of luxury goods were looted from aristocrats and the royal family. An example of the latter still exists today in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts a Vase Bachelier, decorated in polychrome enamels and gold, from the Chteau of Versailles. Rice writes:

Swan reached America in December, 1794, and with the new year the commercial agency of Swan & Schweizer began doing business. Schweizer, incidentally, had been delayed on the way, but his absence or presence never greatly concerned his partner. Headquarters were established at Philadelphia, then the seat of the federal government. Sub agents were appointed in all the principal ports: John Vaughan, at Philadelphia; John Murray, at New York; Mason & Fenwick, at Georgetown; Samuel & Joseph Sterett, at Baltimore; W. & J. Thayer, at Charleston; Caleb Gardner, at Newport; Elias Derby, at Salem; Myers, at Norfolk; William Armistead & Company, at Alexandria; N. & J. Cuslie at Petersburg; and Henry Jackson, at Boston. All these firms could be depended upon as true friends to France and liberty. If their political principles were suspected, the business was entrusted to some one else, as the case of Messrs. Sterett of Baltimore, who found the agency taken from them in September, 1795.64 Swan & Schweizer closed its books in 1796. France had negotiated treaties with its enemies and was fortunate to have had a good crop year. But due to the political situation in Europe and deteriorating relations between the United States and France, Schweizer stayed in America, with the Swan family in Philadelphia, until 1801. Schweizer occupied himself with tutoring Swans three daughters, composing poems to his wife, land speculation, as well as writing a book called Critique de la civilisation. Significantly, Frdric Barbey describes the latter activities in following manner: He again plunged into his social studies. He thought about founding a model state on his land in Virginia, putting to practice the religion of nature, community of property, and universal tolerance. The accumulation of thousands of extracts and notes allowed him to write a Critique of civilization, an immense work and a unique treasure for future sociologists.65 I can only assume that this utopian tome of Schweizers is part of the lost or destroyed property of his estate mentioned above; there doesnt seem to be any bibliographic record of it other than the mention of the book by both Hess and Barbey and a few others. Having gone into debt, neglecting his business in Europe and being separated from his family, Schweizer would record in his diary that the six years spent in America was disastrous; as if a cruel demon had intervened on a daily basis, creating a thousand obstacles between him and his work. Upon his return to France his misfortune continued. Deceived by his associates, surrounded and duped by usurers, he spent his remaining years engaged in costly court battles accompanied by declining health and a broken spirit.

6. Friedrich Christian Carl Heinrich Mnter (1761-1830)

Alias: Syrianus

Friedrich Munter A theologian, church historian and archaeologist, Mnter studied theology and philosophy in Copenhagen (1778-81) and Gttingen (1781-83), being taught by, and/or studying with some of following: Johann Benjamin Koppe (Illuminatus), Johann Georg Heinrich Feder (Illuminatus), Christian Gottlieb Heyne (1729-1812), Christian Wilhelm Walch (17261784), Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (Illuminatus) and Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727-1799). He earned a doctorate of philosophy in 1784, was a professor of theology in Copenhagen in 1788, a member of the Danish Academy of Sciences in 1798, and became Bishop of Zealand in 1807. Mnter was invested as a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1808, and became the commander of the Order in 1817.66 He was initiated into Freemasonry in 1780 and reached the 5th degree of the Zinnendorf Rite in the same year; a member of the Gotha Lodge Zum Rautenkranz; a member of the Templar Strict Observance, knighted Eques ab Itinere; initiated in 1787 at the Copenhagen Lodge Friedrich zur gekrnten Hoffnung, becoming its librarian and Lodge Master from 1794 to 1807; visitor of the Vienna Lodge Zur wahren Eintracht.67 Mnter was insinuated into the Illuminati in 1783; Illuminatus Major in 1784; Prefect of the Illuminati in Copenhagen. He helped spread Illuminatism into Italy (1784-87) and established an Illuminati cell in Naples with Mario Pagano (see below), Emmanuele Mastelloni, Donato Tommasi, Giuseppe Zurlo, Gaetano Carrascal, and Nicola Pacifico; and one in Rome (February 1785), that according to the late historian Hanns Gross of Loyola University Chicago was overseen by Wilhelm Tischbein.68 Gross cited historian Carlo Francovich as his source. Corroboration comes from Hermann Schttler, who wrote that Mnter had been recruiting members for the Order while staying at the palace of Monsignor (later Cardinal) Stefano Borgia (1731-1804).69 His alias refers to Syrianus (c. 5th Century AD), the Greek Neo-Platonist philosopher and the teacher of Proclus.

7. Francesco Mario Pagano (1748-1799)

Alias: Janus Baptista la Porta

In 1780 Pagano co-founded the Naples Lodge Della Vittoria of the Orient. He was insinuated into the Illuminati in October 1786,70 and became one of the six founding members of an Illuminati cell in Naples;71 named Venerable Master of the Naples Lodge La Philantropia in 179672 the Lodge which contained the core of the Illuminati insinuated by Mnter.73 His alias refers to the influential sixteenth-century Neapolitan author, scholar, occultist and scientist Giambattista della Porta (1535?-1615). Pagano was an author, historian, philosopher and a professor of law in Naples. His famous work Saggi Politici, was a major contribution to the Neapolitan Enlightenment (Illuminismo, in Italian), and is compared with Adam Fergusons Essay on the History of Civil Society. It was translated into German by fellow-Illuminatus von Mller (Anselmus Sanchoniaton) in 1796.74 Pagano was a supporter and collaborator of the failed Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, and was an active legal defender of those accused of conspiracy against the monarchy. From February 1796 to July 1798, Pagano was imprisoned on suspicion of taking part in the first Jacobin-Masonic possibly Illuminist conspiracy in Naples (1794). Upon release he went into exile in Rome, under its revolutionary republic.75 After four months he returned to Naples and was appointed to draft legislation for the Provisional Government of the newly-declared Republic. When the republics constitution was published on 1 April 1799, it was accompanied with an address by Pagano explaining its principles.76 King Ferdinand IV (17511825) had already fled to Palermo in January. By June he managed to reclaim Naples with the help of of peasants, bandits and royalists known as Sanfedisti (Followers of the Holy Faith), led by Cardinal Ruffo.77 The Royals re-established rule in the Kingdom and proceeded to exile, imprison, and execute the revolutionaries. Pagano and his compatriots were summarily hung in the great, bleak Piazza del Mercato, pushed from ladders while little urchins, the tirapeida, clung to their feet.78 Illuminatus Nicola Pacifico (17341799; alias: Franciscus Patricius) was executed as well, along with other members of the Lodges Della Vittoria and La Philantropia, namely Pasquale Baffi (b. 1749), Francesco Caracciolo (b. 1752), Domenico Cirillo (b. 1739) and Giuseppe Leonardo Albanese (b. 1759). Despite the difficulties of establishing direct organizational links between the Illuminati and later revolutionary uprisings during the 19th century, historians have suspected that the core of the Carbonari secret society (of the 1820s and 30s) had formed during the Naples uprising of 1799, through the subsequent Bourbon restoration

exiles.79 Furthermore, one historian has recently speculated about the possibility of Pagano being, at least, an ideological influence upon the Carbonari: Charcoal burner tropes also had attractive Enlightenment connotations, perhaps most strongly in the ideas of Rousseau, possibly filtered through ideology current in the late eighteenth century Jacobin clubs, or transplanted in 1799, or during the French Decade, to southern Italian soil by occupying military men steeped in French Revolutionary ideals. Further, there may be more immediate roots in the Neapolitan Enlightenment. For instance, influences may have come from the writing of Francesco Mario Pagano Pagano, denying the necessity of Rousseaus notion of the social contract, argued that nature itself instilled in primitive human beings a moral order manifested in veiled feelings of injustice and pain in the face of human suffering. From that gradually sprang a natural tendency towards equality and as history moved along, the idea of mutual help, for Pagano the profoundest of natural laws, would develop and become more conscious (Badaloni 1973: 883; Pagano 1792). Mutual help is a central theme in carbonarism. Throughout carbonaro writings there resounds the notion of a fall from natural but primitive goodness and a loss of virtue among humans to be blamed on the development of contemporary society Carbonaro notions were, of course, simplifications and perhaps confusions of Rousseaus or perhaps Paganos ideas, but noble savage ideas are obviously present, and indeed, some carbonaro intellectuals certainly read the philosophy of the times. More educated recruits may have been attracted to the societys tropes because of these intellectual affinities.80 Galt then illustrates such common affinities by quoting from the preamble of a Carbonari initiation: Nature in creating man wanted him free. Sacred duties towards himself, those like him, and towards the Fatherland, that are associated with this liberty; should have made man equal to the ends that nature intended in creating him. He should have shared together with his brothers, communicated his will with them, shared work with them, and brought himself into balance with all of creation. From this he should have reached the most sublime level of virtue. Sadly her beautiful hopes remained deluded; man abhorred the sweet name of his brother, and treated his equal like an enemy. The strongest usurped the rights of the weakest. Cleverness substituted for strength of will. Plots, hatreds, frauds, and superstitions arose, and they quickly put the finishing touches on universal extermination. So it was with the most sublime object of creation. Nature came out of it defiled; man became the vile slave of his infamous passions. However, reason, first lady of the human spirit, did not fail to elevate the principles of things for certain wise thinkers, and to indicate to them the poisonous secrets leading toward general corruption. They cried out to summon strayed humanity to the path of virtue, but the latter, deaf to their voices, abhorred their laws and admonitions. Tirelessly; to obtain their goals, they conceived of secret societies, which through the assiduousness of their labours, would become accustomed to the exercise of virtue, and would be able to educate strayed mortals, and bring them around to their views. They consecrated their labours to the immortal divinity; and as sons preferred by nature, they took advantage of her very products to create mysterious symbols, well-suited to penetrate the hearts of the wayward pagans, and to reform them according to that fine principle that corresponds to the goal of creation. The sacred principle of the Carboneria, the collection of these societies, is that, united together, they create the sublime elegy to virtue.81 Anyone familiar with the doctrines of Weishaupt will recognize the identical themes in Anrede an die neu aufzunehmenden Illuminatos dirigentes (1782) his discourse for the directing Illuminati which later became the preamble to the Priest grade of the Lesser Mysteries. Obviously, Weishaupt, the Jacobins, as well as the Carbonari afterwards, cribbed liberally from Rousseau. However, the insertion of secret societies (as the hidden torchbearers of virtue throughout the ages) into this particular mix of post-Rousseauian primitivistlonging was the invention of Weishaupt and, indeed, the heart of soul of Illuminatism.

8. Ignaz Edler von Born (1742-1791)

Alias: Furius Camillus

Ignaz Edler von Born Ignaz Elder von Born was a metallurgist, mineralogist and mining expert, inventing an amalgamation process for the extraction of silver and gold. Born was a member of over a dozen learned societies throughout Europe.82 According to Heather Morrison, von Born belonged to the Royal Society in London, academies in Russia, Toulouse and Danzig, the Royal Academy of Sciences in Turin, and the Munich Academy of Sciences and societies in Gttingen, Uppsala, Lund, Burghausen, and Siena.83 Born came from a noble family at Karlsburg, Transylvania and was educated by the Jesuits in Vienna. After sixteen months in their tutelage he fled Prague and took up the study of Law, afterwards turning to mineralogy, physics and mining.84 From 1769-70 he traveled throughout Europemainly Germany, Holland and France studying and learning from the mining districts in those regions. In his late twenties Born had a serious accident, having been poisoned by noxious fumes in a mine shaft. Apparently, the consequences of this incident left him a semi-invalid for the rest of his life.85 In 1776 Born was chosen by Maria Theresa to enlarge and reshape the natural history collection of the Imperial Museum in Vienna. By 1779 Born was appointed Wirklicher Hofrat at the mining and monetary administration of the Austrian court.86 In 1770 he was initiated into Freemasonry at the Lodge Zu den drei gekrnten Sulen in Prague.87 When he settled in Vienna, Born was enthusiastically proposed for initiation into the Lodge Zur wahren Eintracht by the former-African prince and Master Mason Angelo Soliman.88 On November 19th, 1781 Born passed the Second Degree; raised to the Third Degree two days later; on 9 March 1782 he was elected Master of the Lodge by a large majority.89 The Lodge Zur wahren Eintracht published a successful literary enterprise: Journal fr Freymaurer: als Manuskript gedruckt fr Brder und Meister des Ordens [Journal For Freemasons: As a Manuscript in Print for Brothers and Masters of the Order]. From 1784 to 1786 the journal appeared in twelve stately volumes, each of them recording a quarter of a year of Masonic activities and related news throughout the world.90 The first issue in 1784 featured a lengthy essay by Born, ber die Mysterien der Aegyptie [On the Mysteries of the Egyptians]. It is more of a treatise, over 116 pages, having a scholarly tone, relying on quotations and citations from authorities in antiquity. According to Peter Branscombes detailed overview, the essay is divided into three sections: the first section deals with the Egyptians themselves, and an account of the myths of Osiris;

section two concerns the constitution, duties and knowledge of the Egyptian priests; and the third discusses the similarities between the Egyptian Mysteries and teachings, rites and rituals of Freemasonry.91 For hundreds of years Masonic writers have asked the same questions, many of whom arriving at the same conclusion: Are not the various initiations into the secrets of Isis, or nature, of Serapis, or inner knowledge of nature, and of Osiris, or full recognition of the highest godhead, approximately the same as the various degrees in Masonry?92 These sentiments still resonate with Freemasons today, and it explains the excessive use of Egyptian symbolism incorporated in Masonic regalia and within the Lodges themselves. It has been theorized for some time that Born is the prototype behind the character Sarastro in Mozarts Masonic opera, The Magic Flute (it is precisely in this context that Borns essay on the Egyptian Mysteries is analyzed so thoroughly by Branscombe). Frans Jozef van Beeck, priest and Jesuit, wrote that Sarastro, highpriest of Isis and Osiris, is Mozarts monument to a man he much admired.93 Freemasons Charles H. Johnson and Richardson Wright reiterate: von Born inspired Mozart to compose the initiation scene of The Magic Flute, one of the finest in this or any opera. All the characters in The Magic Flute are symbolical. Thus: Sarastro, Hierophant and Dispenser of Light, is von Born, the Queen of the Night is Maria Theresa, the anti-Masonic Empress, Monostatos, the villain, is the clergy, Pamina is Austria, while the Neophyte is the Emperor Joseph II, who succeeded Francis I; and who, it was hoped at the time, entertained thoughts of becoming a Mason.94 Borns method for the extraction of ore enabled some financial security and won him a knighthood. On April 24th, in 1785 his Lodge held a celebration after he was made a Knight of the Realm. Present at the gathering was Mozart and his father. Wolfgang sang his newly-composed cantata, Die Maurerfreude [The Masons Joy].95 It is unknown when Born was first initiated into the Illuminati, but it was probably soon after he joined the Lodge Zur wahren Eintracht in 1781.96 It is possible that his Viennese Lodge was fully Illuminized before he became acquainted with its brethren. In any case, Born excelled at Illuminatism just as he had with Masonry, science and writing. He ascended the ranks quickly, becoming a Provincial in the Order, the Regent for Vienna and finally Weishaupts National Director for Austria.97 Borns alias alludes to Marcus Furius Camillus (c. 446-365 BC), one of the most outstanding personalities of the early Republic more important than Brutus the Elder or than Publius Valerius Publicola.98 According to Plutarch, Camillus was continually in the highest commands was five times dictator, triumphed four times, and was styled a second founder of Rome.99 This alias (nom de guerre) is particularly noteworthy considering the Illuminatis codename for Vienna was Rome.100 Borns task in Vienna, then, as his alias suggests, is comparable to a second founder reinstituting a new republic of Rome in the image of the Illuminati. While the persecutions against the Illuminati had commenced, at one point during Weishaupts flight from the authorities he actually went to Vienna and had a meeting with Born and another member of Zur wahren Eintracht, the popular poet and journalist Johann Baptist Edler von Alxinger (1755-1797). Weishaupt thought that in the Hapsburg territories he could be afforded a measure of protection from Karl Theodor while at the same time having the chance to earn a living as a professor. He couldnt find work, however, but the degree of Enlightenment sentiment in Vienna can be gauged perhaps by the short article written by a correspondent for the Bayreuther Zeitung [Bayreuth Journal], recording the arrival of the head of the Illuminati, dated August 16, 1786:

The celebrated Bavarian professor Weishaupt, who left his native country due to well-known causes, arrived here, and has been received with deep respect. We do not know the real purpose of his trip, but it is safe to assume we will retain in our midst this excellent professor of canon law.101 Born had already publicly supported his brethren in November of the previous year, by resigning from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. The second Electoral edict against the Illuminati had been issued in August and the interrogations in Bavaria the Specialcommission im gelben Zimmer des Schlosses headed by ex-Jesuit Ignatius Franciscus Franck [Ignaz Franck] (1725-1795) and censor Johann Caspar von Lippert (1729-1800) had begun. A seasoned satirist,102 Born sent his letter of resignation to the Bavarian Chancellor Baron von Kreittmayr,103 which was later printed in the German Spectator: Your Excellency [Karl Theodor], it is said, in his zeal, so commendable and honorable on his part, found the means to drive out of Munich and Bavaria, or of stripping their employment and benefits, many men who were among the most sensible and the most enlightened. How can you be reluctant to fulfill this charitable duty towards a foreigner whom you do not know, especially since I can tell you unequivocally that I do not regret being a Freemason? With that admission, which has probably injured the ears of both yourself and reverend P. Frank, I add with all the frankness with which I possess: I hold Zaupsers poetry against the Inquisition one of the most beautiful products of reason in Bavaria; I hold all the entire process against the heretics the work of gutless cannibals; I have carefully read the Dictionary of Bayle and even possess it; that I read all the best books; that I declare myself an enemy of all ignorant monks, who are like a plague on human reason and I believe we should never confer on them the education of our youth; that, for me, Jesuitism and fanaticism have the same meaning as malice and ignorance, superstition and folly, in a word that my way of thinking is exactly the opposite of the reputation you have in Bavaria.104

9. Friedrich Ludwig Ulrich Schrder (1744-1816)

Friedrich Ludwig Ulrich Schroder Alias: Roscius Schrder was a major reformer of German Freemasonry, a stage actor, theatrical manager and dramatist. His mother was an actor as well, and the young Friedrich travelling with his mother and stepfather, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, an actor from Russia appeared in child roles.105

When he moved to Hamburg in 1767, Schrder befriended Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and worked as a script editor and critic for the Hamburg national theater.106 In 1771, after his stepfather had passed away, he and his mother took over the management of Ackermanns theatre in Hamburg. From 1781-85 he was a court actor at the Vienna Hofburg (for the Hapsburg Imperial residence); from 1786-98, and again in 1810, he was the director of the Hamburg theatre.107 On the suggestion of J. J. C. Bode, Schrder was first initiated into Freemasonry at the Hamburg Lodge Emanuel zur Maienblume in 1774 and received the Master Degree in 1785, becoming the Lodges Master in 1787; a member of the Lodge Einigkeit und Toleranz in 1792/93; Provincial Grand Master of the Grand Lodge in Hamburg, 1814-16; and a co-founder of the Engbund Chapter in Hamburg. Schrder was the determining influence in the ritual reform of German Freemasonry, which he accomplished in collaboration with his former Illuminati brethren Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Leonhard Reinhold and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland. He practically made a career out of Freemasonry. According to Dr. Schttler, Schrder was the most significant Masonic reformer and author of his time.108 His alias alludes to Quintus Roscius Gallus (c. 126-62 BC), the most famous Roman actor of his time. The Schroders Rite, and the Engbund chapters, represented the last vestiges of three successive attempts at extending the life of the Illuminati. First, in 1790, the second head of the Illuminati, J. J. C. Bode institutes a reform of the Order under the name Deutsche Freimaurerbund: When Bode died in 1793, Reinhold took over. The Order was now re-christened the Bund des Einverstndnisses [or Einverstandenen]. Together with Schrder, Herder, Goethe, Hufeland and others, Reinhold continued the reform-project, which eventually resulted in the famous Schrder Ritual of 1801, which was of great influence on German freemasonry. Schrders Engbund, which continued until 1868, can be regarded as the last continuation of the original Order of the Bavarian Illuminati.109

10. Mathias Metternich (1747-1825)

Alias: Thuisco

Mathias Metternich

A professor of mathematics at the University of Mainz, he was also a member of the Erfurt Academy of the Arts and Sciences Useful to the Public. When the French Revolution broke out, Metternich was enthralled and subsequently an active participant as a founding member of the Mainz Jacobin Club, its literary propagandist and vice president of the Rhenish-German National Convention after the Republic of Mainz was declared. Patterned after the Paris Jacobin Clubs, the Mainz Society of the Friends of Liberty and Equality (Gesellschaft der Freunde der Freiheit und Gleichheit) advocated political union with France. There were twenty original members and Illuminatus Professor Anton Josef Dorsch (1758-1819) who had previously renounced his priestly vows and already joined a Jacobin Club in Strasbourg was sent as commissioner for the Mainz club. It was at his previous post at the Strasbourg Jacobin Club that Dorsch was recorded as saying on December 26th, 1791: The Illuminati Order counted among its members the noblest men in Germany and provided great service for the education of many a young man. The reports, which the clerical and secular inquisition give of the Illuminati, are for the most part as false as that of a propaganda [club] in France.110 Nearly all of the founding members of the Mainz Jacobins were initiates of the Illuminati, and in addition to Mathias Metternich and Anton Josef Dorsch, we can list the following:
1. Felix Anton Blau (1754-1798) 2. Johann Christoph Blessmann (1760-1836) 3. Johann Georg Wilhelm Bhmer (1761-1839) 4. Johann Adam Caprano (1760-1800) 5. Franz Anton Chambion (1754-1822) 6. Johann Heinrich Rudolf Eickemeyer (1753-1825) 7. Andreas Josef Christian Hofmann (1752-1849) 8. Johann Stephan Khler (1733-1815) 9. Johann Adam Lang (1752-1790) 10.Franz Konrad Mack (1756-1844) 11.Johann Georg Nimis (1754-1811) 12.Johann Valentin Schumann (1733-1803) 13.Lorenz Schweickhard (b. 1768) 14.Friedrich Joseph Stumme 15.Adam Umpfenbach (b. 1748)111

On the Mainz Jacobins, Richard van Dlmen wrote: Many of the speeches at the Mainz club are classic products of the radical Enlightenment. German Jacobinism adopted both the political and ideological experiences and ideas of the French Revolution and the programmes and objectives of the German Enlightenment. the Jacobin clubs not only maintained close links with the reading societies and the League of the Illuminati, at least to the extent that the Jacobin elite in Mainz were members of both these associations: the Mainz reading societies and the Illuminati lodge actually facilitated the transition to Jacobinism, particularly for the champions of the Enlightenment in Mainz.112 The Club met for the first time on 23 October, 1792 in the Electoral Palace of Friedrich Karl Joseph Imperial Baron von Erthal (1719-1802), who had fled the city two days earlier. The Elector, though, had long acquiesced to the projects of his more liberal subjects and was an adherent of enlightened absolutism. Georg Forster (suspected Illuminatus) was the librarian of the Elector; Illuminatus Johannes Mller (1752-1809) was the Electors personal secretary and held various high posts within the government; and Illuminatus Anthony Blau, along with other academics many of whom were Illuminati, too had been appointed to the University of Mainz, replacing the Jesuit instructors after their Order was nominally abolished by the Pope.

Before the night was done, the Jacobin Club signed up twenty members; by the end of the year, however, this number had increased to five-hundred. Within this group, a small number of personalities, collectively known as the Clubbists, set the tone, writes Michael Rowe. They included the professors Metternich, Blau, Dorsch, Hofmann and Eickemeyer, as well as the doctor Georg Wedekind [suspected Illuminatus] and, most famously, the naturalist and philosopher Georg Forster, a figure of international renown who had accompanied Captain Cook on one of his expeditions a majority of Clubbists were foreigners, something that provided ammunition to their opponents Each brought different talents to the enterprise: Metternich, who recognized the need to engage the peasantry, emerged as the Clubs propagandist; Wedekind, whose sister translated Thomas Paines Rights of Man into German, became the leading theorist; and Dorsch, who subsequently headed the government of the Republic of Mainz, distinguished himself as an organizer.113 These people committed unheard of follies, wrote Wolfgang Menzel. At first, notwithstanding their doctrine of equality, they were distinguished by a particular ribbon; the women, insensible to shame, wore girdles with long ends, on which the word liberty was worked in front, and the word equality behind. Women, girt with sabres, danced franticly around tall trees of liberty, in imitation of those of France, and fired off pistols.114 Other Jacobin Clubs instituted in German territory during the Revolution were those of Trier, Speyer and Worms. They, too, were rife with members of the Illuminati.115 However, these Clubs maintained control for a short time only. Forster and the Illuminati in the Mainz Club, along with other Jacobin Clubs throughout the Rhineland, had jointly declared the Republic of Mainz on March 19, 1793, but by July they were completely overrun by Prussian troops. An investigation was undertaken, and the conspirators who had not escaped were rounded up, taunted, interrogated, harassed and prosecuted. Again in 1797, those same Illuminati (Dorsch, Hofmann, Metternich) and Wedekind, and other groups, resurfaced when the French had retaken Mainz. Interestingly the Jacobins, in power again, now asked Adam Weishaupt if he would like a teaching job at the University of Mainz; he prudently declined.116 The RhenishJacobins called for the institution of a Cisrhenane Republic (or Cis-Rhenish), but once more, their efforts were thwarted.117 Matthias Metternichs alias alludes to the deity Tuisco of Germanic/Teutonic myth, the prime progenitor or ancestor of all Germanic tribes. Revolutionary tendencies ran in the family, it seems. His son, Germain Metternich (1811-1862) was a prominent communist radical, before, during and after the 1848 revolution. He emigrated to the United States among the group of Forty-Eighters, settled in New York, was involved with the socialist Turner movements, and actually fought for the Union army during the Civil War.118 ***
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See Charles Porset, in Les Philalthes Et Les Convents De Paris: Une Politique De La Folie, H. Champion (1996), p. 146; Pierre-Franois Pinaud, Un cercle dinitis Paris la fin du XVIIIe sicle. Les Amis runis, 1771-1791, in Paris et Ile-de-France - Mmoires (tome 44, 1993), in particular pp. 136-9; and Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, SAVALETTE DE LANGES, Charles Pierre Paul (an entry in a French Masonic Encyclopaedia). On the National Guard and Savalette, one should also be aware of the account by Barruel (though he neglects to cite a source). 2 Roland Mousnier, The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789: The Organs of State and Society (Volume 2), University Of Chicago Press, 1984, p. 206. 3 See Beaurepaire, op. cit., and Hermann Schttler, Die Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens 17761787/93 (Munich: Ars Una 1991), p. 132-3.

See Porset, op. cit., p. 217. Theres confusion about who became the official correspondent Beulwitz or Falgera. Porset wrote that it was the former while Hermann Schttler, in Freimaurer und Illuminaten. Bodes Wirken in den geheimen Gesellschaften (1994), specifically identifies the latter. And on page 51 in the Falgera bio in Die Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens 1776-1787/93 (1991), Schttler mentions that Falgera, after being initiated into the Illuminati in 1782, became the Orders propagandist for France, also listing his membership in the Amis Runis and the new Chapter it had formed in 1788. At any rate, both Beulwitz and Falgera, in 1784, managed to establish official contact between the Illuminati in Bavaria and the Amis Runis in Paris. 5 See Perfectibilists, pp. 68-97; Schttler, Die Mitglieder, pp. 92-93, 128, 131, 132-3, 153, 221 and especially his introduction to Bodes diary, Freimaurer und Illuminaten Bodes Wirken in den geheimen Gesellschaften, where the details of the letter to Christian von Darmstadt can be found; cf. Porset, op. cit., pp. 225-241. 6 See Schttler, Freimaurer und Illuminaten Bodes , op. cit; cf. Porset, op. cit., pp. 234-5. As mentioned in note 4, Falgera was also a member of the new Chapter, adding up to eleven confirmed members of the Illuminati, as Schttler had stated. Salzmann is indeed listed as a member of the Illuminati in Schttler, Die Mitglieder, p. 131, as is Tiemann, p. 154 (though with an asterisk, meaning unconfirmed), but Stroganov is not. This was in 1991, however, and the introduction in Bodes diary comes three years later. I can only assume that Tiemann and Stroganov have since been confirmed, perhaps by way of the lost Schwedenkiste archives in Moscow. 7 Quoted and translated in Perfectibilists, p. 73; see also Porset, op. cit., pp. 733-5. 8 Porset, op. cit., p. 734: [Ils] taient mieux informs quon ne la cru. 9 Robert Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (Harvard University Press, 1968); on pp. 70 and 72 n. 16, Darnton reveals that in 1786 the Parisian Mesmerist Society of Harmony, after a schism, was dominated by [the soon-to-be-Bavarian-Illuminati] Savalette de Langes and Taillepied de Bondy, among others. 10 Porset, op. cit., p. 235. 11 James H. Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, Basic Books 1980, pp. 19-20. 12 See Perfectibilists, op. cit., pp. 121-3, 151 and 312 for his bio. 13 On Hoffmann, also an ex-Illuminatus and counter-revolutionary, see ibid., pp. 114-23 and 31819. 14 The Bavarian authorities kept secret many of the names found in the original writings of the Illuminati on purpose out of fear of the repercussions, while the Illuminati themselves, in correspondences, would frequently only give an alias or initials and leave us with very little else to go on. Some, but not all, of the missing names have since been identified. The remaining unidentified are listed in Schttler, op. cit., pp. 188-195, should someone wish to take a crack at it. 15 Discovered in an Austrian archive and published for the first time in Sebastian Brunner, Die Mysterien der Aufklrung in Oesterreich, 1770-1800: Aus archivalischen und andern bisher unbeachteten Quellen (F. Kirchheim [Mainz] 1869), p. 35 [viewable at Google books]; cf. Ren Le Forestier, Les Illumins de Bavire et la Franc-Maonnerie Allemande [Paris: 1915], Arch reprint, 2001, pp. 654-5. 16 For the details of the mission to Berlin, see Robert Matteson Johnson, Mirabeaus Secret Mission to Berlin, American Historical Review (1901), for which I am grateful to the adept researcher Marco Di Luchetti for making it available online. For an established historian, Johnson is quite candid on his views about the importance of secret societies. He also sheds light on Mirabeaus Freemason/banker benefactors, and though hes wrong about the Illuminati membership of some of Mirabeaus contacts in Berlin (Luchet and Struensee), Johnson highlights

the fact that it was Freemasons in France who commissioned and financed the trip in the first place, while Freemasons and representatives of the Illuminati had in turn welcomed him in Berlin, pointing out that to move in such circles, one obviously had to be privy to, and involved with it in the first place. 17 See also Le Forestier, op. cit., pp. 662-3. 18 For Mauvillon, see Perfectibilists, op. cit., pp. 361-2; Schttler, Die Mitglieder, p. 101, and his defunct webpage. 19 See, for example, Schttler, Die Mitglieder, p. 106 (with no source cited). 20 Perfectibilists, op. cit., p. 90. 21 Ibid., p. 91. 22 Ibid., p. 138; for an extended discussion of Buonarroti, the Philadelphes, other secret societies and potential connections with the Illuminati, see pp. 134-50. Cf. Arthur Lehning, Buonarroti and His International Secret Societies, International Review of Social History, Vol. 1 (1956), p. 120. 23 Schttler, Die Mitglieder, p. 87. 24 Porset, op. cit., p. 569. 25 See Benjamin Fabre, Un Initi Des Socits Secrtes Suprieures Franciscus, Eques A Capite Galeato. 1753-1814. Portrait Et Documents Indits. Nombreuses Reproductions En Photogravure, Arche 2003, pp. 478-9 26 Ibid., p. 82. At the end of 1781 Savalette wrote that Kolowrat was young, so there is no doubt that he is speaking of F. J. Kolowrat, 33 at the time, as opposed to the Imperial Count Leopold von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1727-1809; aliases: Navius and Quintus Icilius), also an Illuminatus, who would have been 54. Further confirmation is that we know for sure that it was F. J. Kolowrat that attended the Wilhelmsbad Congress, not Leopold von Kolowrat-Krakowsky. Count Vinzenz Maria von Kolowrat-Liebensteinsky (1750-1824; alias: Decius) was an Illuminatus as well, perhaps the brother or cousin of F. J. Kolowrat. 27 See Nachtrag von weitern Originalschriften, welche die Illuminatensekte, I, 1787, pp. 153, and 71. 28 According to Schttler, Die Mitglieder, p. 87, Kolowrat was initiated as an Illuminatus minor. 29 Ibid., p. 87; and Le Forestier, op. cit., p. 406. Le Forestier wrote that the Lodge was founded by two Illuminati, Kolowrat and Plency (identifying the latter also as a Rosicrucian) - that is, Illuminatus Joseph von Plenciz (1752-1785), an M.D. and professor of pathology and pharmacy in Prague; deputy provincial Masonic grand master for Bohemia (see Schttler, Die Mitglieder, p. 119). 30 Jir Kroupa, The Alchemy of Happiness: The Enlightenment in the Moravian Context [pp. 164181], in: ed. Mikul Teich, Bohemia in History (Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 170. 31 Sabine Roehr, A Primer on German Enlightenment: With a Translation of Karl Leonhards The Fundamental Concepts of Ethics (University of Missouri Press, 1995), p. 115. 32 The two main sources everyone must now consult for Illuminati membership identification Richard van Dlmen and Hermann Schttler both list him as a member. I simply did not realize the significance of this person and he was regrettably overlooked when I wrote my book. For correcting my oversight, however, I am indebted to the research of Marco Di Luchetti. Marco is a lawyer by profession and is adept at the inferential argument and guilt by [ideational] association. Therefore, I sometimes vehemently disagree with the looseness of his conclusions. However, his talent as a researcher and (multi-lingual) translator is formidable, and I look forward to his forthcoming contribution to the practically non-existent field of Bavarian Illuminati research in the English language. 33 In Schttler, Die Mitglieder, pp. 142 and 229. 34 Thorough academic study of Illuminism, and its influence upon the esoteric aspect of

Romanticism, was spearheaded in the 1920s with Auguste Viattes standard two-volume text, Les Sources Occultes Du Romantisme. It has since burgeoned into a specialist field of its own. In particular, valuable contributions have been written by Ernst Benz, Ren Le Forestier, Antoine Faivre, Arthur McCalla, and Wouter J. Hanegraaff. For the state of research into western esotericism in general (with copious attention paid to the Illuminism of the 18th to the 19th centuries), see the indispensible work, Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism, ed. Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. However, there is a problem. Since the term Illuminism has now been defined so concretely by a plethora of scholars, what then are we to call the ism (the distinctive doctrine) of the Bavarian Illuminati Illuminism or Illuminatism? While I commend the meticulous research that has been conducted on the esoteric movements during the Enlightenment, it boils down to Adam Weishaupt himself being the origin of the confusion. When he decided to call his secret society Illuminati, Weishaupt probably didnt realize that in France, in particular, as well as with adherents of Rosicrucianism, Martinism and Boehmist theosophy, there were already groups who were identified as Illumins that were diametrically opposed to his own, and whose doctrine was loosely called Illuminism. Furthermore, contemporaries were aware of the problem as well. Joseph de Maistre wrote in 1811, for example: [The term Illumins] necessarily misleads many people because in ordinary usage it signifies many different things. An ordinary freemason, a martinist, a pietist, and one of Weishaupts followers are all commonly referred to as Illumins. It would be difficult to abuse terminology more or to confuse things more dissimilar (quoted in J.M. Roberts, The Mythology of the Secret Societies, Paladin: 1974, p. 310). The confusion remains to this day, having been further compounded by conspiracy theorists who encounter the words Illumins and Illuminati in history books: if only Weishaupt had stuck with his initial idea and retained the name Perfectibilists for his Order! 35 Interestingly, Lavater and Adam Weishaupt were acquaintances. The former had even visited the latter at his home in Ingolstadt, on 17 June, 1778. Weishaupt mentions the meeting to Zwack in a letter in the Original Writings (Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens, p. 250). Lavaters theories on physiognomy were quite popular at the time. Weishaupt and the Bavarian Illuminati were firm believers in its efficacy for apprehending the true nature of man and desired to utilize the pseudo-science Lavater would have been horrified for purposes of control. Even though Lavater has been classed among other mystics and the esoteric movement of Illuminism proper, he would have objected to being identified with any group, society, or philosophy. Hence he never became a Freemason and also rejected overtures to join other secret societies. Baron von Knigge, for example, had tried and failed to recruit him into the Illuminati early in 1783. Lavaters response is instructive on many levels, and can be read in Le Forestier, op. cit., pp. 402-3. 36 Escher and Stettbacher (eds.), Pestalozzi and his Times: A Pictorial Record (Zurich: 1928), p. 11. 37 Perfectibilists, op. cit., p. 377. 38 David Hess, Johann-Caspar Schweizer, Ein Charakterbild aus dem Zeitalter der franzosischen Revolution, Jakob Baechtold, Editor, (Berlin: 1884) [Google books]. A French adaptation of it, utilizing additional supporting material, was published in 1913: Frdric Barbey, Suisses hors de Suisse. Au service des rois et de la Rvolution daprs des documents indits (Paris, Perrin: 1913), pp. 213-323; that the original material used by Hess had been lost, see p. 213 n.1. 39 Hess, op. cit., p. 39. 40 Barbey, op. cit., pp. 216-7, 230; cf. Arthur Chuquet, in his review of Hess book, in: Revue critique dhistoire et de littrature, v. 22 (Paris: 1886), p. 421. 41 Barbey, op. cit., p. 230. 42 Ibid., p. 231.

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Escher and Stettbacher, op. cit., p. 11. Herbert Lthy, La Banque protestante de la Rvocation de ldit de Nantes la Rvolution, v. 2, (Paris: 1959), p. 721. He had in fact spent two months in Paris ahead of time, in 1785, to get the lay of the land. It was more than he could have imagined, and upon his return to Zurich, in autumn of 1785, he resolved himself to make the move; see Barbey, op. cit., p. 231 and n. 45 See Le Forestier, op. cit., p. 662 and John Stores Smith, Mirabeau: a life-history, vol. 1 (London: 1848), p. 216. Proof that they became friends during this narrow window of opportunity comes via a letter from Mirabeau to Schweizer (dated Nov. 28th, 1787) while the former was in Berlin: see, Revue historique, v. 29 (Paris: 1885), pp. 82-6. 46 See Robert Matteson Johnson, op. cit., pp. 239-41. 47 Barbey, op. cit., pp. 232-7; Robert Darnton, The Brissot dossier, French Historical Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1991), pp. 201ff; Johnson, op. cit., pp. 240-1; Henry Heller, The Bourgeois Revolution in France (1789-1815), Berghahn Books, 2009, pp. 77-9; George V. Taylor, The Paris Bourse on the Eve of the Revolution, 1781-1789, The American Historical Review, Vol. 67, No. 4 (1962); Marc Ren Marie de Sahuguet dAmarzit dEspagnac Wikipdia. 48 Barbey, op. cit., p. 246. 49 Chuquet, op. cit., p. 422. 50 Barbey, op. cit., p. 247. 51 Besides Mirabeau, some others were: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814), Fabre dEglantine (1750-1794), Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794), Paul-Jrmie Bitaub (17321808), Count Gustav von Schlabrendorff (1750-1824), Count Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis (1762-1834), Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz (1741-1812), Lafayette, Charles Franois Dumouriez (1739-1823), Antoine Barnave (1761-1793), Abb dEspagnac, Nicolas Bergasse (1750-1832), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), and Anacharsis Cloots (1755-1794), etc.; see Chuquet, op. cit., p. 422. 52 Thot quote, from p. 85 of Clarke Garretts Respectable Folly: Millenarians & the French Revolution in France & England (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975); on the Schweizers and mesmerism, see Darnton op. cit., pp. 70, 130 and Barbey, p. 251; on the Duchess of Bourbon, see Karen-Claire Voss article in Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. 53 Barbey, op. cit., p. 248. 54 David Hess, op. cit., pp. 53-4. 55 Barbey, op. cit., pp. 264-7. 56 Ibid., pp. 267-272. 57 Eleanor Pearson DeLorme, The Swan Commissions: Four Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 14, No. 4 (1979), p. 366; cf. Barbey, op. cit., pp. 274ff. 58 DeLorme, op. cit., p. 364. 59 Winthrop et al., Special Meeting, 1873: Tea-Party Anniversary, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 13, (1873-1875), p. 209. 60 Howard C. Rice, James Swan: Agent of the French Republic 1794-1796, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3 (1937), p. 465; DeLorme, op. cit., p. 362; Winthrop et al., op. cit., p. 209. 61 Rice, op. cit., p. 465. 62 Ibid., p. 467. 63 DeLorme, op. cit., pp. 371-2. 64 Rice, op. cit., p. 474. 65 Barbey, op. cit., p. 299. 66 Schttler, Die Mitglieder , p. 108; Schttler, Friedrich Christian Carl Heinrich Mnter; Friedrich Mnter - Wikipedia 67 Ibid. 68 Ibid.; Hanns Gross, Rome in the Age of Enlightenment: The Post-Tridentine Syndrome and the

Ancien Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 260-1. For more substantial treatments of Mnter and his Illuminati activities, see Nico Perrone, La Loggia della Philantropia (Sellerio Editore Palermo, 2006); Friedrich Mnter, Alexander Rasmussen, jvind Andreasen, Frederik Mnter: et Mindeskrift (P. Haase, 1949); Carlo Francovich, Storia della massoneria in Italia: Dalle origini alla Rivoluzione francese (La Nuova Italia, 1974). 69 Schttler, Ausschnitt aus der Einleitung zu: Johann Joachim Christoph Bode , who writes: Mnter hatte in einem rmischen Kardinalspalast Loge gehalten und fr die Illuminaten geworben, die zu diesen Zeitpunkt in Bayern schon von der Regierung verfolgt waren. He doesnt mention Borgia by name, however it is well known that Mnter had stayed with Borgia while in Rome, learning Coptic and examining the latters collection of ancient manuscripts. They would continue to correspond, collaborate professionally, and remained friends for decades. 70 Schttler, Die Mitglieder , p. 115; Schttler, Francesco Mario Pagano 71 See Francovich, op. cit., p. 421; Friedrich Mnter et al, op. cit., pp. 115-16. 72 Erasmo Notizie: Bollettino dinformazione del Grande Oriente dItalia, VII n. 13-14, Lugio 2006, p. 25. 73 See Bruno DErrico, Domenico Cirillo: scienziato e martire della Repubblica Napoletana, Istituto di studi atellani, 2001, p. 58; cf. Nico Perrone, op. cit. 74 John Robertson, Enlightenment and Revolution: Naples 1799, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sixth Series, Vol. 10, 2000, p. 39. 75 Ibid., p. 40. 76 Ibid., p. 41. 77 Desjardins, Soap-opera diplomacy in late-18th-century Naples 79 See, for instance, R. John Rath, The Carbonari: Their Origins, Initiation Rites, and Aims, The American Historical Review, Vol. 69, No. 2 (Jan., 1964), pp. 354-56 and notes. Speculation on Illuminati and/or Freemason origins what the majority of historians have asserted are also covered. 80 Anthony H. Galt, The Good Cousins Domain of Belonging: Tropes in Southern Italian Secret Society Symbol and Ritual, 1810-1821, Man, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 794-5. 81 Ibid., p. 795. 82 L. Day and I. McNeil, eds., Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, Routledge (UK), 1998, p. 83. 83 Pursuing Enlightenment In Vienna, 1781-1790, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, Louisiana State University, 2005, p. 192. 84 Day and McNeil, op. cit., p. 83. 85 Georg Knepler, Wolfgang Amade Mozart, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 124. 86 Day and McNeil, op. cit., p. 83; Ignaz Edler von Born, LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia. 87 Schttler, Die Mitglieder , p. 28 and Schttler, Ignaz Edler von Born 88 Angelo Soliman is an interesting figure. Born in 1721, he began life as an African Prince. At the age of seven he was kidnapped and became the slave of Johann Georg Christian von Lobkowitz (1686-1753). After the death of Lobkowitz, Soliman earned his freedom and became a Royal tutor for Emperor Joseph II. He was the first black person in Vienna and lived in relative comfort among the aristocrats, becoming a Mason around 1771. The Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna has portraits of Soliman, his daughter and grandson. An incredible incident of morbid curiosity occurred after his death in 1796. Prince Lichtenstein had Solimans body flayed and his preserved skin fitted onto a specially prepared wood model that displayed him in a dramatic, heroic presentation in the princes quarters. Here he remained on view to the princes guests until consumed by fire 48 years later. Sources: Aufderheide, The Scientific Study of Mummies, p. 60-61; Angelo Soliman - Wikipedia; Rodgers, Hitler and the Negro, Chicken Bones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes; Masonic Trivia

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Peter Branscombe, W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflote, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 40. Knepler, op. cit., p. 125. 91 Branscombe, op. cit., p. 21. See Chapter 1, The Sources section titled Ignaz von Borns essay, pp. 20-25. 92 Ibid., pp. 23-24. 93 God Encountered: Understanding the Christian Faith (Vol. 1), Liturgical Press, 1993, p. 128. 94 Transactions of the American Lodge of Research for Free and Accepted Masons [1939], Kessinger Publishing, 2003, p. 183. 95 Zaslaw and Cowdery (eds.), The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, W. W. Norton & Company, 1991, p. 37. 96 We know, for instance, that Born was included in the Utica membership list of 1782, which professor Dlmen reproduced in Der Geheimbund der Illuminaten. Darstellung, Analyse, Dokumentation. 97 Schttler, Die Mitglieder , p. 28 and Schttler, Ignaz Edler von Born 98 Controversial Personalities of the Roman Republic: Marcus Furius Camillus, alter conditor Romae, 390 BC 99 Plutarchs Lives, Camillus, trans. John Dryden 100 See Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens, p. 3.
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Perfectibilists, op. cit., p. 35. One book, in particular, was the widely-read Monachologia: or, Handbook of the Natural History of Monks: arranged according to the Linnaean system, which was first published in Latin in 1783, wherein Born systematically satirized the entire genus of the ecclesiastic establishment. 103 Wigulus Xaverius Aloysius Baron von Kreittmayr (1705-1790): A Bavarian statesman, law professor and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences; the creator of the first comprehensive codification of natural law for the State (Codex Juris Criminalis Bavarici, 1751); a member of the Erfurt Academy of the Arts and Sciences Useful to the Public (1754); and a good friend of Baron von Ickstatt, the godfather of Adam Weishaupt. Underscoring the medieval atmosphere still extant in Bavaria at this time, after becoming a key figure in Bavarian politics in 1749 Kreittmayr showed moral ambivalence toward witchcraft, and didnt see any reason to rock the boat, so to speak, since witches continued [and would continue] to be burned in Bavaria. Nevertheless, Kreittmayr incorporated stiff penalties for sorcery and witchcraft into his Codex; and as late as 1751, Kreittmayrs legal reforms provided justification for the execution of a fourteen-year-old girl. See Wolfgang Behringer, Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 347 and n. 82, 348 and n. 84. 104 See Perfectibilists, pp. 51-52; cf. Le Forestier, op. cit., p. 538. P. Frank was of course Pre Franck, who, as previously mentioned, had persecuted the Illuminati; Bayles Dictionary represented one of the excuses Weishaupt having procured it for the Ingolstadt University library used by the Jesuitical inquisition to deprive Weishaupt of his job; and Zaupser was at one time an Illuminatus himself. In Perfectibilists I mistakenly thought that Borns letter of resignation occurred after the publishing of the original writings of the Illuminati. It was actually written on Nov. 9th, 1785, and first printed in Borns Journal For Freemasons. 105 Friedrich Ludwig Schrder - Wikipedia 106 Ibid. 107 Schttler, Die Mitglieder, op. cit., p. 140. 108 Ibid. 109 Jan A.M. Snoek, Dealing with Deviations in the Performance of Masonic Rituals, in Ute Hsken (ed.), When Rituals go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual (Brill 2007), p. 114; cf. Perfectibilists, pp. 131-133 and notes. 110 Quoted in Steven Luckert, Jesuits, Freemasons, Illuminati, and Jacobins: Conspiracy theories, secret societies, and politics in late eighteenth-century Germany, Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1993, p. 429.

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Schttler, Die Mitglieder, op. cit., pp. 213-14. The Society of the Enlightenment: The Rise of the Middle Class and Enlightenment Culture in Germany, (tr.) Anthony Williams (Polity Press, 1992), p. 119. 113 Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 61-2. 114 Wolfgang Menzel, The History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. III, London: 1854, p. 166. 115 Le Forestier, op. cit., pp. 652-3; Schttler, Die Mitglieder, op. cit., pp. 224, 225, 228. 116 Luckert, op. cit., p. 429. 117 R. R. Palmer, The Age of Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 II: The Struggle, Princeton University Press, 1970, pp. 440-1. 118 See also, Jonathan Sperber, Rhineland Radicals: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 18481849, Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 102, 112, 316; Germain Metternich (1811-1862) demokratiegeschichte.eu