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Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried On In the Secret Meetings of Freemasons,
Illuminati, and Reading Societies (which presented the Protestant view). He wrote: “I have
observed these doctrines gradually diffusing and mixing with all the different systems of
Freemasonry till, at last, an association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out all
the religious establishments, and overturning all the existing governments of Europe.”
Also, that same year, Abbé Augustin Barruel (French patriot, Jesuit, and 3rd degree Mason)
published his Memoires pour servir a l´Histoire du Jacobinisme or Memoirs Illustrating the
History of Jacobinism (which presented the Roman Catholic view). Both books sought to warn
America about the Illuminati conspiracy, but the warnings were not taken seriously. The January,
1798 edition of the Monthly Magazine contained a letter by Augustus Bottiger, Provost of the
College of Weimar, who accused Robison of making inaccurate statements, and said that since
1790, “every concern of the Illuminati has ceased.”
Thomas Jefferson, believed to be a member of the Virginia lodge of the Illuminati, and a
Mason (who helped the Illuminati to infiltrate the New England Masonic lodges), denied all the
allegations, and described Weishaupt as “an enthusiastic philanthropist” and called Barruel’s
revelations “the ravings of a Bedlamite (Bedlam was the name of a hospital in London for the
mentally insane).”
During the summer of 1798, Rev. G. W. Snyder, a Lutheran minister, wrote a letter to
President Washington and included a copy of Robison’s book, expressing his concern about the
Illuminati infiltrating the American Masonic lodges. In Washington’s response, dated September
25, 1798, he wrote: “I have heard much about the nefarious and dangerous plan and doctrines of
the Illuminati,” but went on to say that he didn’t believe that they had become involved in the
lodges. A subsequent letter by Snyder, requesting a more reassuring answer, resulted in a letter
from Washington, dated October 24, 1798, which can be found in The Writings of George
Washington (volume 20, page 518, which was prepared under the direction of the U.S. George
Washington Bicentennial Commission and published by the U.S. Government Printing Office in
1941). He wrote:
“It was not my intention to doubt that the doctrines of the Illuminati and the principles of
Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more satisfied
of this fact than I am. The idea I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the
lodges of Freemasons in this country had, as societies, endeavored to propagate the
diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter. That individuals of
them may have done it, or that the founder or instruments employed to have found the
democratic societies in the United States may have had this object, and actually had a
separation of the people from their government in view, is too evident to be questioned.”
Shortly before his death, Washington issued two more warnings about the Illuminati.
Around 1807, John Quincy Adams (said to have organized the New England Masonic
lodges), who later became President in 1825, wrote three letters to Colonel William C. Stone, a
top Mason, telling him that Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd President, and founder of the Democratic
Party, was using the Masonic lodges for subversive Illuminati purposes. These letters were
allegedly kept at the Rittenburg Square Library in Philadelphia, but have mysteriously vanished.
Adams also wrote to Washington, saying that Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were misusing
Masonic lodges for Illuminati purposes and the worship of Lucifer (which is recorded in the
Adams Chronicles).