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An interesting point is brought up in <strong>the</strong> careers of both<br />

Nicolai and Mendelssohn, as well as with Knigge who was<br />

also tied in with Nicolai and Mendelssohn. 38 Apparently <strong>the</strong>se<br />

kindred Spirits harbored revolutionary thoughts long before<br />

<strong>the</strong>re was an organization for <strong>the</strong>m <strong>to</strong> implement <strong>the</strong>se<br />

thoughts in<strong>to</strong> action. The llluminati provided not only <strong>the</strong><br />

organizational structure for action, but also a milieu for <strong>the</strong>se<br />

people <strong>to</strong> engage in an organized conspiracy, for we know that<br />

when kindred spirits unite under <strong>the</strong> name of an organization,<br />

evils that an individual may just contemplate can be put in<strong>to</strong><br />

action, and that groups will not hesitate <strong>to</strong> effectuate what a<br />

single individual has hesitations about.<br />

Peretz Smolensken (1842-1885), <strong>the</strong> great Hebraist, was<br />

acute enough <strong>to</strong> perceive that <strong>the</strong>re was some kind of<br />

connection between Mendelssohn and <strong>the</strong> Reform movement.<br />

Smolensken was a staunch critic of Reform Judaism and <strong>the</strong><br />

Haskala. David Philipson (1862), who was one of <strong>the</strong> leaders<br />

of <strong>the</strong> American Reform movement, did not quote Smolensken<br />

by name, but in his book The Reform Movement in Judaism,<br />

he takes <strong>to</strong> task those who frequently spoke of Mendelssohn<br />

as an origina<strong>to</strong>r of <strong>the</strong> Reform movement. While it appears<br />

that Philipson knew of <strong>the</strong> connection between <strong>the</strong> Bund der<br />

Gerechten and <strong>the</strong> Reformers, apparently he knew nothing<br />

about <strong>the</strong> llluminati influence or connection with Reform, so he<br />

cannot see <strong>the</strong> continuum of Mendelssohn <strong>to</strong> Reform. He thus<br />

says that Mendelssohn made <strong>the</strong> Reform movement possible<br />

"by giving <strong>the</strong> impulse <strong>to</strong> modern education among Jews, but a<br />

religious reformer he was not." 39<br />

Philipson goes on <strong>to</strong> say,<br />

"Quite <strong>the</strong> contrary. He conformed strictly <strong>to</strong> every requirement<br />

and demand of Rabbinical Judaism. His conception of<br />

Judaism was that it is a Divine legislation; that since <strong>the</strong><br />

ceremonial law was revealed by God, it has potency and must<br />

be observed until it shall be repealed by ano<strong>the</strong>r revelation."<br />

64

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