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(named after their founder, Jacob Frank (1726-1791), the
Jacobins and the Reform movement. The llluminati paralleled
the Frankists in both time and geography, the seat of both
movements being in Germany-the llluminati in Ingolstadt,
Bavaria, and the Frankists in Offenbach after 1786. We shall
demonstrate that from the Jewish perspective there is a
relationship between the llluminati and the Communists.
The connection between Frankists and Jacobins, and
Frankists and the Reform movement, has been brought to light
by one of the greatest living authorities on the mystical
Kabbalistic literature, Professor Gershom G. Scholem 1 of the
Hebrew University, Jerusalem. We furthermore have the
testimony of John Robison in his Proofs of a Conspiracy, pub-
lished in 1798, which details the development of the llluminati
and its rise to power, their connection with the Jacobins, and
with the terror that took place during the French Revolution.
The famous Count Mirabeau of French Revolution fame was,
according to Robison, a member of the llluminati. In addition to
Robison's work, there also exist the writings of Abbe Augustin
Barruel, who wrote Memoirs Illustrating the History of
Jacobinism in 1799.
Robison traces the llluminati to an aberration in
Freemasonry started by Adam Weishaupt and assisted by
Baron Adolf Franz Friedrich Knigge (1752-1796). 3 Knigge is
mentioned constantly throughout Robison's book. At the end
of the first chapter of Robison's Conspiracy book entitled
Schisms in Free Masonry, he says Baron Knigge and other
cosmo-political brethren formed a scheme for uniting radical
Masonic lodges in Germany. Knigge was dissatisfied with all
the degrees in Freemasonry, and he wanted to carry things a
step further.
In Chapter II, Robison presents a list of lodges of the
llluminati existing primarily in Germany with a few in England.
Scotland, Poland, Switzerland, France and Italy, as well as
America. He also gives names of members. Some of the more
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