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In 1759, <strong>the</strong> order had been banished from Portugal. It was<br />

in 1769 that Clement XIV became Pope, and he expressed <strong>the</strong><br />

view that "sometimes we must cut down <strong>the</strong> mast <strong>to</strong> have a<br />

ship." On July 21, 1773, three years before <strong>the</strong> founding of <strong>the</strong><br />

llluminati, he issued his "Brief of Suppression." Then strangely<br />

enough, he said, "For <strong>the</strong> sake of peace and because <strong>the</strong><br />

society can no longer attain <strong>the</strong> aims for which it was founded,<br />

and on secret grounds which we enclose in our heart, we<br />

suppress <strong>the</strong> said society." No one <strong>to</strong> this very day knows<br />

exactly what <strong>the</strong>se secret grounds were, but Saint Alphonsus<br />

Ligouri declared that it was due <strong>to</strong> a plot of Jansenists and<br />

infidels" or in o<strong>the</strong>r words, llluminati types and mystical radi-<br />

cals, that had infiltrated and dominated <strong>the</strong> Jesuits. 68<br />

In <strong>the</strong> case of <strong>the</strong> Jewish religion, <strong>the</strong> community had been<br />

exposed <strong>to</strong> a very dangerous man, one Jacob Frank (1726-<br />

1791). Frank's s<strong>to</strong>ry begins with Shabbetai Tzvi (1626-1676).<br />

Shabbetai Tzvi claimed that he was <strong>the</strong> Messiah, and that he<br />

would deliver <strong>the</strong> Jews from <strong>the</strong>ir oppressors and return <strong>the</strong>m<br />

<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir homeland. In his day, over a million Jews from every<br />

walk of life proclaimed him and hailed him as <strong>the</strong>ir deliverer.<br />

As time went on Shabbetai became more militant in his<br />

Messianic pronouncements and, as <strong>the</strong> "Messiah," started <strong>to</strong><br />

proclaim that certain aspects of Jewish law are no longer<br />

binding. He also began <strong>to</strong> speak out against <strong>the</strong> authority of<br />

<strong>the</strong> Talmud. As his renunciation of certain aspects of Judaism<br />

became more pronounced, so did he begin <strong>to</strong> lose some of his<br />

initial followers.<br />

Shabbetai married a prostitute named Sarah, who had been<br />

an orphan of <strong>the</strong> Polish excesses of <strong>the</strong> Chmielnitsky<br />

massacres that were part of <strong>the</strong> seventeenth century Cossack<br />

rebellion against <strong>the</strong> Polish middle class. This marriage was<br />

consummated <strong>to</strong> conform <strong>to</strong> a legend that <strong>the</strong> Messiah would<br />

marry an unchaste bride.<br />

Shabbetai was born in Turkey, but he moved <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Holy<br />

Land where he gained a tremendous following, and<br />

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