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passion, and only wished to utilize the cover of Freemasonry
as a means of spreading their revolutionary doctrines, and to
provide a place where they could covertly meet without
arousing suspicion. The Order of Asiatic Brethren's full name
was Die Bruder St. Johannes des Evangelisten aus Asien.
From Katz we learn that this order was the earliest attempt to
found a Masonic order with the avowed purpose of accepting
both Jews and Christians in its ranks. As usual, the
revolutionaries had a legitimate issue to exploit, which they
could pervert to their own ends. The legitimate issue was civil
rights for Jews, and the exclusion of Jews from Masonic
orders. This parallels Jacobin attempts at the time of the
French Revolution to begin pioneering work with blacks who
were disenfranchised as slaves or second class citizens in
European lands, and to exploit them for their own ends, such
as the Jacobin-sponsored Societe des Amis des Noirs, the
Society of the Friends of the Blacks. The llluminati lodges
established themselves a reputation for being tolerant and not
bigoted, and hence filled themselves up with Jews, but Jews
were not allowed into the llluminati inner sanctum until the
19th century.
Katz names many members of the Viennese Asiatic
Brethren. He mentions that one of the Hoenigs belonged, 146
and one named Nathan Adam Arnstein (1748-1838). 147
Arnstein was a brother-in-law of Isaac Daniel Itzig of Berlin,
who was the brother-in-law of David Friedlander, of Moses
Mendelssohn's circle. Itzig was co-founder with Friedlander of
the Jewish Free School in Berlin. Interestingly enough, this
school had its own printing press, known as the Press of the
Jewish Free School which, in 1796, changed its name to the
Oriental Printing Office, and was considered to be a powerful
instrument of cultural reform. 148 Itzig was financial advisor to
King Frederick William II of Prussia who, when he was Crown
Prince, was a member of the Berlin llluminati. 149 Born in 1744,
he became King in 1786.
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