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Revolution. Of <strong>the</strong> Jacobin goals in Paris, Robison tells us,<br />
"They meant <strong>to</strong> abolish <strong>the</strong> laws that protected property<br />
accumulated by long, continued and successful industry, and<br />
<strong>to</strong> prevent for <strong>the</strong> future any such accumulation... And, as<br />
necessary preparations for all this, <strong>the</strong>y intended <strong>to</strong> root out all<br />
religion and ordinary morality and even <strong>to</strong> break <strong>the</strong> bonds of<br />
domestic life by destroying <strong>the</strong> veneration for religious vows,<br />
and by taking <strong>the</strong> education of <strong>the</strong> children out of <strong>the</strong> hands of<br />
<strong>the</strong> parents. This was all that <strong>the</strong> llluminati could <strong>to</strong>uch, and<br />
this was precisely what France has done." 17<br />
Robison goes on <strong>to</strong> explain how <strong>the</strong> Duke of Orleans was<br />
seduced by Mirabeau in<strong>to</strong> becoming a degenerate. Robison<br />
describes how <strong>the</strong> Duke of Orleans obtained, at Mirabeau's<br />
instigation, 300 prostitutes that were sent "<strong>to</strong> illuminate" two<br />
battalions who were coming <strong>to</strong> Versailles for <strong>the</strong> protection of<br />
<strong>the</strong> royal famity. 18<br />
Robison fur<strong>the</strong>r declares that <strong>the</strong> Duke of Orleans, before<br />
his death, acknowledged that vast sums were used <strong>to</strong> bribe<br />
mobs such as those that came from Paris <strong>to</strong> Versailles on <strong>the</strong><br />
5th of Oc<strong>to</strong>ber, 1789. They had <strong>the</strong>ir pockets stuffed with<br />
crown pieces supplied by Orleans, who had been seen<br />
circulating with o<strong>the</strong>rs with a tremendous bag of money. 19<br />
Robison continues <strong>to</strong> describe how after <strong>the</strong> Revolution, <strong>the</strong><br />
Jacobins, through <strong>the</strong> llluminati, continued <strong>the</strong>ir depraved<br />
influence on life in France For example, he describes a man<br />
named Zimmerman as one of <strong>the</strong> great of <strong>the</strong> llluminati in<br />
France. Zimmerman would get up on <strong>the</strong> pulpit with a saber in<br />
his hand and cry out, "Behold, Frenchmen, this is your god.<br />
This alone can save you." Robison also accuses <strong>the</strong> llluminati<br />
of attempting <strong>to</strong> pass a law that would establish A<strong>the</strong>ism. 20<br />
During <strong>the</strong> French Revolution, <strong>the</strong> strength of <strong>the</strong> llluminati<br />
had been concentrated in Regensburg as a result of<br />
Weishaupt's forced exile. Quoting from ano<strong>the</strong>r author<br />
Hoffman, a second plan was now being put in<strong>to</strong> effect for a<br />
revolution in Germany. Hoffman states, 21<br />
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