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CHAPTER ONE
THE BIRTH OF TYRANNY
THE ILLUMINATI
When you talk about tracing the origin of an organization which is controlling the destiny of
the world, it’s obvious that you have to start at a period which would allow a movement of this
magnitude, time to ferment. Changes like the ones which have, and are occurring do not take
place overnight. We are dealing with a group which must have been growing for a long period of
time, in order to obtain the power and influence necessary to achieve the global control now
being exercised. When you think of it in that context, there is such a group. The Illuminati.
The leader of the Illuminati was a man named, Dr. Adam Weishaupt, who was born on
February 6, 1748, the son of a Jewish rabbi. When his father died in 1753, he was converted to
Catholicism by Baron Johann Adam Ickstatt, who turned the early training of the boy over to the
Jesuits. Ickstatt, in 1742, had been appointed by the Jesuits to be the curator of the University in
order to reorganize it. He had retired in 1765, but still controlled its policies.
Although Weishaupt later became a priest, he developed a distinct hatred for the Jesuits, and
became an atheist. Given access to the private library of Ickstatt, his godfather, the young man
became interested in the works of the French philosophers, and studied law, economics, politics,
and history. One such philosopher, Voltaire (1694-1778), a revolutionary who held liberal
religious views, had written in a letter to King Frederick II (‘the Great’, a Mason): “Lastly, when
the whole body of the Church should be sufficiently weakened and infidelity strong enough, the
final blow (is) to be dealt by the sword of open, relentless persecution. A reign of terror (is) to be
spread over the whole earth, and … continue while a Christian should be found obstinate enough
to adhere to Christianity.” It is believed that Weishaupt got his ideas concerning the destruction
of the Church from Voltaire’s writings. He studied in France, where he met Robespierre (who
later led the French Revolution), and became friends with a few people in the French Royal
Court. It is believed, that through these contacts, he was introduced to Satanism.
He graduated from the Bavarian University in Ingolstadt, Germany in 1768. He served four
years as a tutor until he was promoted to Assistant Instructor. In 1770, he was chosen by Mayer
Amschel Rothschild to develop an organization that he could use. In 1772, Weishaupt was made
Professor of Civil Law. In 1773, he was made Professor of Canon Law, a post which had been
held by the Jesuits for 90 years. They had founded most of the Universities, and kept strict
control of them in order to eliminate Protestant influence.
In 1773, Weishaupt got married, against the wishes of Ickstatt, who denounced him. Two
years later, at the age of 27, he was made Dean of the Faculty of Law. The Jesuits, worried about
his quick progression, tried to thwart his influence by secretly plotting against him, and his
liberal thinking. Not wanting to become a martyr for his free-thinking ideas, he began focusing
on establishing his organization. To confuse his detractors, he based the organizational structure
on the one used by the Jesuits, however, his intention was to have a secret coalition of liberalism.
He studied the anti-Christian doctrines of the Manicheans, whose teachings revolved around
astrology, medicine, and magic. He had been indoctrinated into Egyptian occult practices by an
unknown merchant named Kolmer, from Jutland (the area around the border of Denmark and
West Germany), who had been traveling around Europe since 1771. He studied the power of the
Eleusinian mysteries and the influence exerted by the secret cult of the Pythagoreans. Pythagoras