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cosmo-political and skeptical opinions and sentiments were
able to find full expression in the political occurrences in
France. He delves into the intrigues of the famous Count
Honore Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau (1749-1791), not to be con-
fused with his father Victor (1715-1789).
Robison then tells us that Mirabeau published an essay on
a fictitious group, the "Illuminated" in Berlin. In the essay,
Mirabeau calls the "Illuminated" "absurd and gross fanatics,
waging war with every appearance of reason and maintaining
the most ridiculous superstitions." He also describes in the
essay rituals and ceremonies of his own invention. Robison
claims that Mirabeau wrote this essay as a master stroke of
political intrigue to conceal from the world his rumored
association with the llluminati.
Shortly thereafter Nicholai utilized Mirabeau's essay and
gave the name "Obscuranten" to the society that Mirabeau
ridiculed. Then the llluminati utilized this mystical
"Obscuranten" society as a weapon to destroy their political
enemies so that they immediately labeled several persons to
be members of the Obscuranten, securing their own
advantage. 16
The history books tell much about Mirabeau. Being in the
public eye, he was known as the founder of the Jacobins, and
as a sexually depraved individual. He literally sold his mother
"down the river" for money after being liberated from prison for
a misdemeanor and needing money. He helped his father
secure a separation from his mother for 100 guineas. Then he
went to his mother and got money from her to go against his
father.
In 1786, Mirabeau, in conjunction with the Duke de Lauzon
and the Abbe Perigord, formed a radical lodge in Paris, which
met in the Jacobin college-hence the name "Jacobins." The
lodge was in constant contact with Germany. So important did
the German llluminati regard the Jacobin lodge that they sent
an entire delegation of German llluminati to foment the French
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