The Silver Dollar 1873–1900 – Part 1

Introduction and Coinage Act of 1873
Thomas Allen

[Editor’s note: Footnotes in the original are omitted.]

Introduction
Many people claim that silver was demonetized in 1873 when Congress enacted the Coinage Act of 1873. This claim is not true. Congress did not demonetize silver. It ended the silver standard and took the first step in demonetizing the dollar.

Silver continued to be used as money until 1970. Silver was used as money in subsidiary coins (dimes, quarters, and halves) under the greenback standard between 1873 and 1879. It was used as subsidiary coins under the gold standard between 1879 and 1933. Under the federal reserve dollar standard, it was used between 1933 and 1964 for dimes and quarters and until 1970 for halves. In 1986 Congress again authorized silver as money when it ordered the mint to coin one-ounce silver eagles, which have a legal tender value of one dollar.

Between 1878 and 1900, silver was used as money in its own right in the form of the silver dollar. However, unlike the silver dollar before 1873, which was commodity money, the silver dollar between 1878 and 1900 was fiat money. Congress and the Secretary of the Treasury decided how many silver dollars to issue. Moreover, the value of silver in a silver dollar was less than its monetary value.

Under the silver commodity monetary standard, the people decide directly how many silver dollars are needed by the quantity of silver that they bring to the mint for coinage. Furthermore, the value of silver in the coin equals its monetary value. If the value of silver in coins rises above the coin’s monetary value, coins are melted until the coin’s monetary value equals the value of the silver that it contains. Conversely, if the value of silver in coins drops below the monetary value of the coin, people will bring silver to the mint for coinage until the two values are brought back into equilibrium.

Those who claim that Congress demonetized silver in 1873 agree with Plato, the German economist George Knapp, and the American Monetary Institute: Money is a legal fiction. Money is whatever the law declares to be money. It is an abstraction that has no value beyond what the law gives it. The material of which it is made is irrelevant and is whatever the government arbitrarily chooses for its own benefit. All this may be true for fiat money, which the government’s military might protects and forces on the people. It is definitely not true of genuine commodity money.

This notion that governmental decree gives money its value was illustrated during the debate on the Bland-Allison bill. Some Congressmen believed that Congress could by edict raise the value of silver. If Congress decreed that 371.25 grains of fine silver had the value of 23.22 grains of fine gold, the market value of silver would rise such that 16 ounces of silver would have the value of one ounce of gold. Senator Allison’s comment illustrates this ignorance or arrogance: “Legislation gives value to the precious metals, and the commercial value simply records the condition of Legislation with reference to the precious metals.”[1] Congress’s failed attempts to decree the value of 16 ounces of silver to equal one ounce of gold should be enough to convince anyone that the government cannot regulate the value of money by edict or otherwise. Unfortunately, it has not.

Those who claim that the law gives money its value believe that the U.S. government can issue an irredeemable aluminum disk with “Congress and the President of the United States decree that this coin is equal to and identical with one ounce of gold” stamped on it automatically has the value of one ounce of gold. A person can go to a gold bullion dealer and buy one ounce of gold with this aluminum coin. They actually believe that the bullion dealer would accept the aluminum coin in exchange for one ounce of gold without the government forcing him to accept it under the penalty of law. (If a governmental decree really does give money its value, then no force should be necessary for it to circulate at the decreed value. If force has to be used, then the government’s threat of death and not its proclamation makes the coin acceptable at the decreed value.)

Silver was not demonetized in 1873. The Coinage Act of 1873 was the first step toward demonetizing the dollar. In 1933, the second step occurred with the end of the gold-coin standard. The final step took place in 1971 when the gold exchange standard ended.

Constitutionally speaking, the United States is still on the silver standard though they statutorily abandoned that standard in 1873. The “dollar” as used in the Constitution means the weight of silver in the Spanish milled dollar. Without amendment to the Constitution, any other definition of the dollar is unconstitutional.

With this introduction, we will now investigate the use of silver as money between 1873 and 1900. Four major laws affecting silver as money were enacted between 1873 and 1900. They were the Coinage Act of 1873, the Bland-Allison Act in 1878, the Sherman Act or the Silver Purchasing Act of 1890, and the Gold Standard Act of 1900.

Coinage Act of 1873
With the Coinage Act of 1873, which has often been referred to as the “Crime of 1873,” Congress ended the free coinage of silver, which ended the silver standard. It changed the definition of the dollar, the unit of value, to 25.8 grains of standard gold or 23.22 grains of pure gold. Thus, Congress statutorily changed the definition of the dollar from its constitutional meaning of the average weight of silver in the Spanish milled dollar, which Congress found to be 371.25 grains of fine silver. Furthermore, the mint ceased coining silver dollars. (As the Act did not specifically authorize the coinage of silver dollars, it prohibited their coinage.) This action ended the bimetallic silver-gold system and placed the United States on a monometallic gold standard. (Many contend that the United States were on the fiat greenback-dollar standard between 1862 and 1879. So in 1873, the country was not on a gold or silver standard or a bimetallic gold-silver system. The country did not return to a specie standard until 1879 when U.S. notes, greenbacks, became redeemable in gold.) Moreover, this act confused monetary matters by retaining all monetary laws previously enacted even if they conflicted with the act. Gnazzo argues that because of this retention clause, the Coinage Act of 1873 did not demonetize silver. The United States were technically (statutorily) on the silver standard and practically (in usage) on the gold standard.[2]

Laughlin supports Gnazzo’s claim. Laughlin writes:

It is, moreover, possible that the silver dollar was not “demonetized” in 1873, in spite of the prevailing impression to that effect. The legal-tender power of the silver dollar was not taken away by this measure. The coinage laws had not been revised since 1837, and in the act of 1873 occasion was taken to drop out the silver dollar from the list of coins which were thereafter to be issued from the Mint.[3]

Under the Act, silver dollars minted before 1873 were fully legal tender in unlimited amounts. The Act merely prohibited the minting of additional silver dollars. (In the Revised Statutes of 1874, all existing silver coins, including silver dollars, were limited to $5.00 as legal tender.[4] Thus, this law limited the legal tender power of existing silver dollars. It did not affect other silver coins as the Coinage Act of 1873 already restricted their legal tender power.)

John J. Knox, Comptroller of the Currency, originally drafted and sent the bill along with his report to Congress in 1870. His report noted that the proposed bill eliminated the silver dollar. He recommended replacing the silver dollar as the standard unit of account with the gold dollar.

Most Congressmen and the public consider the bill as merely a minor revision or recodification of the existing coinage laws. They did not view it as making any significant changes. For many years, the silver dollar had not been in general circulation and for most years only a small number (less than 200,000) were minted. When Congress enacted the Coinage Act of 1873, the metal in the silver dollar was worth slightly more than a dollar in gold.

At that time the fiat greenback (U.S. note) functioned as the monetary standard. Except on the West Coast, gold was not being used as money. Silver was used only in subsidiary coins. As the bill did not address the greenback, most people gave the bill little thought.

Although Congress gave the bill some debate, it had little interest in it. Both houses passed the bill with almost no opposition. Except for the silver dollar, the bill limited the legal tender value of silver coins to $5.00. It did not authorize the coinage of silver dollars. However, it did authorize the free coinage of trade dollars. A trade dollar contained 420 grains of standard silver and had a legal tender limit of $5.00. It was intended to be used for trade with the Far East.

Because of a rise in the value of U.S. notes and a decline in the value of silver, trade dollars began circulating domestically. Thus, the silver standard was reestablishing itself. In 1876, Congress stripped the trade dollars of its legal tender status. Apparently, the money interest did not want any competition from silver. Congress ended the minting trade dollars in 1878 although a few were minted between 1879 and 1885.

Opponents of the Act asserted that the bankers and others who owned U.S. government bonds wanted to eliminate bimetallism and the silver standard to drive up the value of gold. Thus, the money that they received in payment of interest and for their bonds at maturity would have greater value.

Moreover, they claimed that the elimination of the silver standard reduced the money supply and caused prices to fall. Thus, an injustice had been imposed on farmers, whose crops had lost half their value.

Even if the free coinage of silver had remained, prices still would have fallen between 1873 and 1893 although probably not as much. In each year following 1873 until 1894, the purchasing power of silver was greater than it was in 1873 (see Table A-1 in the appendix [Editor's note: This table has not been reproduced.]). The repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman Act (v.i.) and India’s ending the free coinage of silver in 1893 probably account for the significant drop in the value of silver after 1893.[5]

An important factor in the decline in prices during this era was the great increases in productivity caused by technological advances. Increasing productivity may have been more important than changes in the monetary system.

The Act’s opponents blamed the panics and depressions between 1878 and 1896 on a lack of money caused by abandoning the free coinage of silver. In American Business Cycles 1865-1897, Rendigs Fels argues that things other than the money supply contributed to these panics and depressions. Excessive credit expansion and unwise capital investments are two of them. Other causes of depressions are a lack of investment opportunities, too much inventory, and natural cycles (e.g., Kondratieff, Juglar, and Kitchen).

Some claim that this Act was passed in secret. Several Congressmen who voted for this law claimed that they did not know for what they voted; they were deceived. Even President Grant, who signed it into law, claimed that he did not know what he was signing.

As for the secret enactment, Congress discussed the bill for three years. The proceedings were published in the Congressional Globe. The bill was printed 13 times. Congress discussed the omission of the silver dollar. Also, debated was replacing the silver standard with the gold standard,[6] that is, ending the free coinage of silver and changing the definition of the dollar from 371.25 grains of fine silver to 23.22 grains of fine gold or from 412.5 grains of standard silver to 25.8 grains of standard gold.

Nevertheless, deception and parliamentary maneuvering appeared to have been used to get the bill enacted. Its supporters presented it as a minor bill that just recodified and cleaned up the monetary laws. It did not make any real change in the monetary system. It was presented in a way that a new silver dollar would be minted with reduced weight. The impression was given that the weight was to be reduced so that it would circulate. The real purpose of reducing the weight was to make it a subsidiary coin. (Later versions of the bill omitted the silver dollar altogether.) Parliamentary maneuvering was used to prevent the bill to be voted on from being read.

Although the Coinage Act of 1873 was not enacted secretly, deception was used in its passage. Apparently, a group of powerful men expected the price of silver to fall because European countries were beginning to move from the silver standard to the gold standard or to abandon bimetallism in favor of the monometallic gold standard. They also saw the supply of silver increasing from the newly discovered silver in the West. Senator Sherman, an ardent foe of silver, was their point man in the Senate. He was instrumental in getting this bill through Congress before the gold price of silver fell. Without the Coinage Act of 1873, the United States would have reverted to silver money.

About this law, Rothbard, who favors the monometallic gold standard that it brought about, writes:

It should be recognized that the silverites had a case. The demonetization of silver was a “crime” in the sense that it was done shiftily, deceptively, by men who knew that they wanted to demonetize silver before it was too late and have silver replace gold. The case for gold over silver was a strong one, particularly in an era of rapidly falling value of silver, but it should have been made openly and honestly. The furtive method of demonetizing silver, the “crime against silver,” was in part responsible for the vehemence of the silver agitation for the remainder of the century.[7]

Except for the silver miners, most of the silverites were originally greenbackers. They favored low-quality depreciating money. Originally, the inflation movement was urban. Only later in the 1890s did the agriculturalists join it.

When greenbacks were obviously going to be redeemed in gold at par (one dollar in greenbacks is redeemed in one dollar of gold), they turned to silver. By the mid-1870s, silver had fallen in value in terms of gold. The market ratio had fallen to around 18 to 1 (18 ounces of silver had the value of 1 ounce of gold). If free coinage of silver were allowed at the legal ratio of 16 to 1, silver coins would have driven gold coins out of circulation. More important, the dollar would have less purchasing power. This depreciation was for the benefit of debtors. It allowed debtors to pay their debts with cheap money.

An argument that the proponents of the Coinage Act of 1873 used was that the silver dollar had not circulated since 1853 when the market value of silver in a silver dollar became worth more than a dollar. Perhaps only a few silver dollars circulated between 1853 and 1873, but a large quantity, 5,413,249 silver dollars, was coined. Many of these coins still exist today.

Another argument that the proponents used (after the fact), was that without the Coinage Act of 1873, the United States would have been on the silver standard by the time redemption of the greenback began in 1879. This is true. According to Laughlin, “15 percent of all our contracts and existing obligations would have been repudiated.”[8] This is questionable. Laughlin seems to be using the gold value (price) of silver to derive his number. However, excluding contracts requiring payment in gold, most of these debts were made with the greenback and not gold. Many were made at a time when a greenback dollar was worth less than 90 cents in gold.[9] Thus, he greatly overstates the repudiation.

The opponents of the Act used the opposite argument to support their opposition. Debtors paid loans, many of which had not been made in gold, in gold that had more value when the loan was paid than when the loan was made. (Between 1862 and 1875 when the Resumption Act was enacted, the gold price of greenbacks averaged between 49 and 90 cents. Thus, using Laughlin’s reasoning creditors received a 13 percent bonus above what was due.)

If Congress had not ended the free coinage of silver in 1873, the country would have been on the silver standard in 1879. Greenbacks would then have been redeemable in silver instead of gold. Instead of rising in value toward gold after the greenback would obviously be redeemable in specie, it would have approached the value of silver.

Following Laughlin’s reasoning, almost no repudiation of debt would have occurred if the country were on the silver standard. From 1874 to 1877, the greenback was closer in value to silver than to gold.

In 1873, the gold price of the greenback was 88 cents as compared to the gold price of the silver dollar of $1.01. In 1874, the greenback was 90 cents, and the silver dollar was 99 cents. When the Resumption Act passed in 1875, the greenback stood at 87 cents and the silver dollar at 96 cents. For 1876, 1877, and 1878, the respective prices were 90 cents, 95 cents, and 99 cents for the greenback and 90 cents, 93 cents and 89 cents for silver. The noticeable disparity between the greenback and the silver dollar in 1878 results from the greenback becoming redeemable in gold at par on January 1, 1879. If the country were returning to the silver standard instead of the gold standard in 1879, the gold price of the greenback would have been at or below 93 cents in 1877 and 89 cents in 1878.

When Congress ceased the free coinage of silver, it defied the Constitution. The Constitution perceived the dollar to be the same as the Spanish milled dollar. The dollar contained the weight of silver of the average Spanish milled dollar.

Abandoning the silver standard with a bimetallic gold-silver system for a monometallic gold standard made the concentration and centralization of metallic money into the hands of the government and banks easier. This goal was fully achieved when President Franklin Roosevelt stole the people’s gold in 1933.

With the depression following the Panic of 1873, debtors began clamoring for a cheap dollar. Congress refused to increase the supply of greenbacks. Silver miners discovered that they could no longer get their silver coined, which was a major market for their product. Silver miners, debtors, greenbackers, and populists united in agitating for the free coinage of silver. Out of this agitation came the Bland-Allison Act.

Endnotes
1. J. Laurence Laughlin, The History of Bimetallism in the United States (New York, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1886), p. 197.

2. Douglas V. Gnazzo, “Gold & Silver: The Story Behind the Story,” July 2006, http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/gnasso070206pv.html, July 3, 2006.

3. Laughlin, p. 93.

4. Ibid., p. 94.

5. Joseph French Johnson, Money and Currency: In Relation to Industry, Prices, and the Rate of Interest (Revised edition; Boston, Massachusetts: Ginn and Company, 1905), p. 252.

6. Horace White, Money and Banking (Boston, Massachusetts: Ginn & Company, 1896), pp. 213-218.

7. Murray N. Rothbard, A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II (Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2005), p. 158.

8. Laughlin, p. 93.

9. Thomas Allen, “Analysis of Charles Norburn’s Monetary Reforms as Presented in Honest Money” (Franklinton, North Carolina: TC Allen Company, 2009), pp. 6-7. Johnson, p. 279.

Copyright © 2010 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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The Results of Supporting Zionism and Israel

The Results of Supporting Zionism and Israel
Thomas Allen

[Editor’s note: The following is the “Epilogue” from Zionism: A Brief History, 1800-1949 by Thomas Coley Allen (Franklinton, North Carolina: TC Allen Co., 2007)].

If Zionism is of God, why is it every great country that has been an active supporter of Zionism has faded? Great Britain was the greatest power in the world before World War I. During that war, it threw its lot with Zionism, and its empire was lost during the following decades. Nazi Germany supported Zionism and died shortly afterwards. The Soviet Union covertly supported Zionism, and it is no more.

The most ardent supporter of Zionism today is the United States. With a nearly omnipotent, omnipresent government, the United States are no longer the country to which the Declaration of Independence gave birth. They are rapidly fading as the economic giant of the world. With unlimited immigration, the population is quickly becoming that of a third-world country. Zionism is swiftly reducing the United States to an impotent third-world corrupt police state.

For fear of the Jews, American political leaders gravel at the altar of Zionism. They place the interest of Israel ahead of America’s interest. Because of this slavish support of Zionism, America is no longer a Christian country. It is much closer to the old Soviet Union than the country to which the Declaration of Independence gave birth.

Judeo-Christians[1] like to quote Genesis 12:3[2] and claim that America must support Israel without hesitation or question. If America supports Israel, it will be blessed. If not, it will be cursed. They ignore 2 Chronicles 19:2 and 1 John 2: 22, 23.[3]

No country comes close to supporting Israel as much as America has. Without American succor, Israel would not exist. How has America been blessed?

Here is a short list of blessings. Tens of millions of babies have been sacrificed to Lucifer in the abortion mills. Homosexuals are now considered normal and acceptable, even to the point of having their unions legally recognized. Miscegenation (adultery) is accelerating. Nonwhites are overrunning the country and will soon be a majority. Divorce is rampant. With Waco, Oklahoma City, and 9-11, the United States government has declared war on the American people so that the American people will give those who control the government absolute power over their lives. America has become a police state. Patriotism has been subverted from doing what is best for the country to unquestionable obedience to the President. Christianity, Western Civilization, and the Aryan people are dying. Children are no longer educated but are taught to be slaves of the illuministic controlled government. America is the greatest debtor country in history. Decadence, moral decay, crime, gambling, pornography, and drug abuse are growing. Self-reliance, freedom, security, and prosperity are fading. Even the United States themselves are on the verge of vanishing as one treaty and international agreement after another strip them of their sovereignty. It sounds more like America has been cursed rather than blessed for its support of Israel.

Surely, if today’s Jews are God’s chosen people and if God wanted them to return to Palestine, God would have rewarded those countries that were obedient to His plan. These countries would have prospered in peace and spiritual growth. Instead, they have undergone wars, moral decay, economic decline, and oppressive governments.

Why? God says in 2 Chronicles 19:2, “. . . Shouldest thou help the un-Godly? And love them that hate the Lord; therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.” Thus, countries that have allied themselves with Jews in general and Zionists in particular, both of whom hate the Son of God and therefore his Father, have suffered God’s wrath.

In spite of the overwhelming evidence that God does not bless supporters of Israel or Zionism, Zionists, both Jew and Judeo-Christian, continue to show their arrogance. They proudly proclaim, “I will be like the Most High” (Isaiah 14:14b) as they insist on placing their will above God’s as He inflicts them with one curse after another.

Isaiah summed up the Zionist movement when he wrote, “Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.” (Isaiah 59:7-8)

“Zionism is a man-made scheme which is doomed for failure. . . .”[4]

ENDNOTES
1. About “Judeo-Christians,” Joshua Jehouda, a spiritual leader of Judaism, remarks, “The current expression ‘Judaeo-Christian is an error which has altered the course of universal history by the confusion it has sown in men’s minds, if by it one is meant to understand the Jewish origin of Christianity; for by abolishing the fundamental distinction between Jewish and Christian messianism, it seeks to bring together two ideas that are radically in opposition. . . . If the term ‘Judaeo-Christian’ does not point to a common origin, there is no doubt that it is a most dangerous idea. It is based on a ‘contradictio in adjecto,’ which has set the path of history on the wrong track. It links in one breath two ideas which are completely irreconcilable, it seeks to demonstrate that there is no difference between day and night or hot and cold or black and white, and thus introduces a fatal element of confusion to a basis on which some, nevertheless, are endeavoring to construct civilisation. . . . It is the obstinate Christian claim to be the sole heir to Israel which propagates anti-Semitism” (Poncins, Judaism and the Vatican, pp. 30-31).

2. Genesis 12:3 reads, “And I [God] will bless them that bless thee [Abraham]; and curse him that curseth thee.” What the Judeo-Christians ignore is that God made this promise to Abraham, not his descendants. Even if it applied to his descendants, they ignore that Abraham is a Hebrew, not a Jew. If this promise carries any weight today, Christians should support the Arabs of the Middle East and oppose the Jews of Israel. Many Arabs in the Middle East have a plausible claim to being descendants of Abraham. Only a few Jews have such a plausible claim.

Verse 3 ends with “and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Does this blessing come through the Jews as the Zionists and Judeo-Christians claim? Or does it come through Christ?

Judeo-Christians and Zionists who use this verse for unquestionable, unhesitating support of Zionism and Israel in reality demand blessing those, Jews, who curse Christ and seek to destroy Christianity.

Far too many Christians ignorantly confuse “the Israel of God,” the Israel of the Bible, with the modern state of Israel, a state brought into existence by political maneuvering, terrorism, and military might. Their Judeo-Christian leaders, who seem to place Zionism and Jews above Christ, encourage and feed this ignorance. Actually, the European Aryans more closely fit the description of God’s chosen people than the Jews. European Aryans have been the people who have blessed mankind with their creativity and by spreading the teachings of Jesus. (See Genesis 28:14)

Much of the ignorance of Christians and corruption of Christianity comes from Jewish control of the Christian Church. As Harold Rosenthal remarked, “Judaism is not only the teaching of the synagogue, but also the doctrine of every ‘Christian Church’ in America. Through our propaganda, the Church has become our most avid supporter. This has even given us a special place in society, their believing the lie that we are the ‘chosen people’ and they, gentiles. These deluded children of the Church defend us to the point of destroying their own culture.” (“The Harold Wallace Rosenthal Interview, 1976").

3. This passage is one of the many texts that Zionists, Jews, and Judeophiles, use to prove that the New Testament is anti-Semitic. Perhaps the most anti-Semitic passage is John 8:44 where Jesus tells the Pharisee leaders that “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. . . .” This passage proves that Jesus is an anti-Semite.

4. Gordon Mohr, The Enemy Within, p. 34.

Copyright © 2007 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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Illuminism Today

Illuminism Today
Thomas Allen

Webster identifies five principal organized movements of Illuminism:

1. Grand Orient Freemasonry.

2. Theosophy with its innumerable ramifications.

3. Nationalism of an aggressive kind, now represented by Pan-Germanism.

4. International Finance.

5. Social Revolution.[1]

She identified Pan-Germanism as the most important of these five and probably the controlling force behind the other four. Webster wrote this in 1924. Nationalism hardly seems illuministic considering the enormous resources that Illuminists have expended to destroy nationalism. If Pan-Germanism exists today, it exists as Germans attempting to dominate and control the European Union. She also identifies Jews as either directing these movements or collaborating with them.[2]

Paul McGuire believes that many smaller conspiracies are moving toward a common goal of the New World Order instead of one massive organized conspiracy controlling everything.[3] If this is true, they must be bound together by the unifying force of Lucifer.

Terry Melanson describes the illuminist movement as divided into six major groups:[4]

1. Banking and money (the Federal Reserve System and other central banks, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, International Bank of Settlements, multinational corporations, international banks, foundations, etc.).

2. Secret societies (Freemasonry, Skull and Bones, Grand Orient Lodge, Priority of Sion, Rosicrucians, Royal Order to the Garter, Knights Templars, etc.).

3. Political (United Nations, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, Club of Rome, Aspen Institute, Bohemian Club, NATO, international labor unions, etc.).

4. Intelligence (Central Intelligence Agency, British Secret Intelligence Service, KGB, Mossad, intelligence agencies of other countries, Interpol, mafia, Communist Party, etc.).

5. Religion (World Council of Churches, National Council of Churches, World Parliament of Religion, New Age cults, liberal Protestant churches, Jesuits, Unitarian-Universal Church, etc.).

6. Education (UNESCO, world peace groups, Planetary Congress, World Federalist Association, World Constitution and Parliamentary Association, environmental groups, Lucis Trust, World Goodwill, World Union, media establishments, etc.).

Svali, a former illuminist mind controller, describes the illuminist movement as controlled or guided by a council of extremely powerful wealthy men — the Supreme World Council. On this Supreme World Council are representatives of the British Rothschild family, French Rothschild family, Hapsburg dynasty, British monarchy, old French monarchy, and the Rockefeller family. The Germany occultists are the strongest, and the American, the weakest. In the New World Order, the Russians (because of their illuministic military commanders) and Chinese (because of their roots in oriental occultism and huge population) rank above the Americans.[5]

The conspiracy is a layer of concentric circles with Lucifer at the heart. In the inner most circle is the elite of the international financiers, and of the inner most circles of Freemasonry, Zionism, and the New Age religious movement. Next comes the Establishment elite. Then come high-degree members of elitist front organizations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Freemasonry, Theosophy Society, the major philanthropic foundations, and many others. Next are the leaders of the governments of the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Israel. In the next circle are Communists and the leaders of the governments of Russia and China. Then come the leaders of miscreant governments, such as those of Libya and Iran, and most Third World governments of importance. Finally comes all sorts of expendable thugs, provocateurs, political leaders, dupes, fellow-travelers, and sympathizers and lower-degree members of Freemasonry and other illuministic and front organizations.

Illuminism consists of many organizations. Yet Illuminism is more of a movement like the Enlightenment or Marxism than an organization. Organizations may come and go, but the Illuminism lives on. It is like an imitation Church. It is a way of life.

Secret Societies are the tools that Illuminists use to impose their ideology of absolute control. They seek to achieve their goal of one world government by secret associations through which they obtain control of national governments. Once in control of national governments, they will use their control to submerge their respect countries into a global state with a global government.

Endnotes
1. Nesta H. Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (Palmdale, California: Omni Publication, 1924), p. 352.

2. Ibid., p. 384.

3. McGuire, Paul. Who Will Rule the Future: A Resistance to the New World Order (Lafayette, Louisiana: Huntington House Publishers, 1991), p. 43.

4. Terry Melanson, “Illuminati Conspiracy, Order of the Illumined Wise Men,” http://www. conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Illuminati.htm, Dec. 13, 2002.

5. Henry Makow, “Illuminati Defector Details Pervasive Conspiracy,” Oct. 14, 2002, http://www. savethemale.ca/141002.html.

Copyright © 2010 Thomas Coley Allen.

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Illuminism’s War

Illuminism’s War
Thomas Allen

[Editor’s note: Footnote in the original is omitted.]

An apparent paradox occurs in the execution of the illuministic program. With the exceptions of Muslims, Chinese, Japanese, and Hindus, nearly all Illuminists are Aryans. Yet one goal of Illuminism is the annihilation of the Aryan people. On the surface this conflict is a paradox — in carrying out their program to annihilate the Aryan people, these Illuminists must in the end destroy themselves. However, once one looks beneath the surface and realizes that Lucifer is behind Illuminism, then the paradox goes away. Since God’s creation of Adam and Eve, Lucifer’s goal has been to destroy the race that God created in his image. Thus, Lucifer deludes Aryans into eradicating Aryans — a great irony of history.

History is a war between Lucifer and the forces of evil and Christ and the forces of holiness. This warfare is occurring in the Aryan race, which is the race created in the image of God.[1] The other races are merely peripheral to this war although they are often important actors in it. This war is taking place in both the spiritual and physical realm.

The forces of Lucifer operate in the darkness through semi-secret and secret societies, circles within circles. The forces of Christ operate in the light, in the open. Followers of Christ must fight like gentlemen while followers of Lucifer can use all sorts of vile, underhanded, dastardly, deceptive tactics.

Christianity gains followers by presenting the truth, which Jesus taught openly. Illuministic societies conceal their beliefs and goals. They place great emphasis on keeping their fundamental doctrines secret. While Christianity relies on the power of its doctrines, illuministic societies rely on deception. Christianity seeks to save its enemies whereas illuministic societies seek to destroy theirs. Unlike Lucifer’s secret societies, Jesus does not require his followers to be initiated with horrific ceremonies designed to terrorize the initiate’s soul. Illuministic societies rely on fear and rituals to gain knowledge; Christianity relies on love.

Participants in this age-old war fall into three basic groups. In one group are the followers of Lucifer. This group includes the Illuminists and their allies, agents, dupes, sympathizers, fellow-travelers, and opportunists. They are aware of the war although probably most outside the Illuminists themselves, are ignorant of the war’s spiritual nature. In the second group are the followers of Christ. Most are aware that a spiritual war is taking place although most are ignorant of the scope. The third group is the largest. This group does not have a clue about what is happening. If they think about this war at all, they dismiss it as allegorical or mythological. The Illuminists have easily manipulated and used them, and they do not even know it.

Although it reveals itself in the physical world, the New World Order is much more a spiritual war than a temporal, materialistic war. It is a continuation of Lucifer’s rebellion against God. Carr summarizes this war as follows:

Thus we see that the issue is not temporal and materialistic as those who direct the conspiracy would have us believe. We are involved in a continuation of the Luciferian revolt against the supreme power and authority of Almighty God whom the Luciferians name Adonay. We are taught about the infinite goodness of our God but we are kept in ignorance of the fact that the Luciferian revolt started in the celestial world we call Heaven because Lucifer challenged the supremacy of Adonay on the grounds that his plan for the Rule of the Universe was weak and impractical because it was based on the premise that all lesser beings could be educated into knowing him [sic], loving Him, and serving Him, out of respect for His infinite perfection.

Lucifer claimed that the only way to rule the entire universe is to establish a totalitarian dictatorship, and enforce the Will of the Dictator with absolute despotism. The word Universe as used by those who have accepted the Luciferian ideology in this and other celestial worlds, means The Totality of existing things including the earth, the heavenly or celestial bodies, and all else throughout space.[2]

Griffin describes the devastating effect that Illuminism has had on America as follows:

American society has been turned upside down, and torn limb from limb. America the Beautiful, the fable land of the free and the home of the brave, has been devastated. The greatest, freest, wealthiest, most powerful nation in the annuals of human history has been raped, plundered, and polluted. We have become a nation of pathetic, quivering wimps who stand for nothing, yet will fall for anything.[3]

The despots of history, such as Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, have risen to power more through Lucifer’s spiritual manipulation of the physical world than through human efforts. Likewise, with the great horrible historical events like the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution, Lucifer has been the guiding force. In the spiritual realm, he has more to do with directing the events of these tragedies than the visible human actors.

Lucifer’s goal is to destroy Christianity and by that destroy Christ — thus, the animosity of Illuminists and their secret societies toward Christ and Christianity — and their animus toward the Aryan race, the race that God created in his image. Failing that, as he most likely knows that he will fail to destroy the Son of God, he seeks to destroy as many lives as possible to claim as many souls as possible — especially the souls of Aryans because God created them in His image.

May Craig offered the following sage advice to defeat Illuminism:

Unless there is a change, deep-down in the American people, a genuine crusade against self indulgence and immorality, public and private, then we are witnesses to the decline and fall of the American Republic. . . .

First, everyone of us has to clean out weakness and selfishness and immorality of all types. Then, choose leaders who with strength and principle and intelligence will lead us to where we can have self respect and the respect of others.[4]

Only a return to true Christianity can defeat Illuminism. Christian symbols and prayers in the name of Christ Jesus must be openly used at public events and in schools. (Public schools, the temples of Pantheism, need to be abandon in favor of home schools and church schools.) All children need to receive a Christian education. Impiety and secret societies must be abandoned and suppressed. All forms of Illuminism must be exposed and eradicated. Only a return to Christ can defeat Lucifer and save the Aryan people.

Christians must overcome their apathy and passivity. They must cease meekly standing by and allowing Lucifer and his agents to destroy Christianity without any resistance. They must overcome their denial of the tyranny taking place around them. They must recognize that a great spiritual war is occurring, and it is being manifested on Earth as Illuminism. They must recapture their country and its culture and govern it in the name of Christ. They must capture the imagination of the Aryan people.

Christ was no appeaser or compromiser. Christians should follow His example and cease appeasement and compromise with the evil of Illuminism. If they resist Illuminism and follow Christ, He will lead them to victory and peace.

The battle belongs to the small remnant of Christians who have not succumbed to Zionism, to the fatalism of the Calvinists or the futurists (some to the point of aiding the Illuminists with the hope of bringing Jesus’ second coming quicker), or to the lie of never questioning government and always being obedient to your rulers because they are God’s ministers, no matter how satanic they are.

Readers need to heed the warning of Pope Benedict XV:

The coming of a world state is longed for, by all the worst and most distorted elements. This state, based on the principles of absolute equality of men and a community of possessions would banish all national loyalties. In it no acknowledgment would be made of the authority of a father over his children or of God over human society. If these ideas are put into practice, there will inevitably follow a reign of unheard-of-terror.[5]

More than 200 years ago, Barruel wrote this admonition about the conspiracy of the Illuminati:

Cease to flatter yourselves. The danger is certain, it is continual, it is terrible, it threatens you all without exception. Keep yourselves, however, from giving way to that kind of terror which is only cowardice and discouragement; for, which all the certainty of the danger, I say to you none the less: Will to be saved and you will be saved. . . . One cannot triumph over a nation that resolves to defend itself. Know how to will as they do and you will have nothing more to fear from them.[6]

This warning is as true today as then.

Endnotes
1. Thomas C. Allen, Adam to Abraham: The Early History of Man (Franklinton, North Carolina: TC Allen Co., 1998), pp. 44-71.

2. William Guy Carr, The Conspiracy to Destroy All Existing Governments and Religions, p. 3.

3, Des Griffin, Anti-Semitism and the Babylonian Connection (Clackamas, Oregon: Emissary Publications, 1992), p. 62.

4. John A. Stormer, The Death of a Nation (Florissant, Missouri: Liberty Bell Press, 1968), pp. 19-20.

5. Dennis L. Cuddy, The Globalists: The Power Elite Exposed (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Hearthstone Publishing, 2001), p. 42.

6. Nesta H. Webster, World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization (Editor Anthony Gittens. Seventh edition. Palmdale, California: Omni Publications, 1994.), p. 359.

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Illuminism Politically

Illuminism Politically

Thomas Allen

[Editor’s note: Footnotes in original are omitted.]

Illuminism’s political ideology is today revealed in Communism. Like Communism, Illuminism is political collectivism. Its major political doctrines, as Kelly summarizes, are:

1. Anarchism, i.e., the theory that government is by nature intrinsically evil and should not exist.

2. Totalitarianism, i.e., the theory that it is essential to establish a universal dictatorship in order to bring about the condition wherein all civil and ecclesiastical authority will cease to exist.

3. The “withering away” of the dictatorship, i.e., the theory, fabricated for propaganda purposes, that the totalitarian dictatorship will automatically wither away when all governments are under control, and all advocates of legitimate civil authority, along with the remnants of their influence, are exterminated.[1]

These doctrines are also the basic political principles of Communism. Communism is merely an outgrowth or branch of Illuminism. Illuminism is the father of Communism.

Among the great evils that Illuminism identifies are private property, civil authority, nationalism, patriotism, localism (states’ rights), the Aryan race, family, individuality, and Christianity. All these evils prevent humanity from enjoying illuministic freedom and equality. Thus, to obtain universal happiness, equality, and freedom, not only must these evils be annihilated at all cost, so must be any notion of them. Then mankind will become one united happy family.[2]

To achieve its goal of universal illuministic freedom and equality, Illuminism, like Communism, requires a global totalitarian government. All other governments are subordinate to this global government. This universal dictatorship is necessary to purge the world of the evilness of oppression and exploitation created by private property. This government would have absolute power with no check on its authority and would not be subjected to any law.[3]

While it advocates abolishing all government, Illuminism, like Communism, advocates total government. Thus, Illuminists need to explain away this contradiction. The explanation that they came up with was the doctrine of “withering away” of the state. According to this doctrine, total government is only temporary; once its need ceases, it will disappear. Exactly how this “withering away” occurs varies with the time and Illuminist offering the explanation.[4]

The “withering away” of this global totalitarian government is a hoax, and most Illuminists know that it is a hoax. Once instituted, this global government will create two classes: masters (the Illuminists) and slaves (the masses). Then the function of this government would be to maintain this caste system. The Illuminists would use this government to do exactly what they condemn national governments for doing and what they give as a reason to destroy these governments.

Once instituted, mankind would suffer terrorism and horrors that would far exceed those suffered by the Russians, Chinese, Cambodians, and others under Communism. At least the masses will receive the envious chimera of equality.

To conceal their evil intentions, Illuminists often present themselves as scholars and their societies as scholarly organizations for the advancement of learning and the betterment of mankind. They express great concern about the plight of the poor and a desire to improve the conditions of the masses. Usually, they are strong supporters of democracy. All of this is a facade to conceal their real goal of destroying the religious and political order of society and institute their New World Order with its global totalitarian government.

Once the New World Order is in place, a few wealthy families will rule the world for the benefit of these families. They will rule without any moral or ethical restraints.

Illuminists have been involved in every type of activist movement whose objective has been to destroy the United States as a free county. These movements included feminism, humanism, racial integration, Communism, homosexualism, and multiculturalism.

Today the dream of Nimrod is carried on not only by secret societies and semi-secret societies like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, and Communist Party, but also by their front organizations like the United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Trade Organization (WTO), European Union (EU), North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Organization of American States (OAS), Organization for African Unity (OAU), and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). All these organizations have one goal: establishing a New World Order with a totalitarian world government where a small elite rules the masses for the benefit of the Illuminists.

Endnotes
1. Clarence Kelly, Conspiracy Against God and Man: A Study of the Beginnings and Early History of the Great Conspiracy (Belmont, Massachusetts: Western Islands, 1974), p. 196.

2. Ibid., pp. 196-200.

3. Ibid., pp. 202-203.

4. Ibid., pp. 203-204.

Copyright © 2010 Thomas Coley Allen. 

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Illuminism Religiously

Illuminism Religiously

Thomas Allen

Illuminism is the material manifestation of Lucifer’s war against Christ Jesus and the God of the Christians. Being of Lucifer, Illuminism is extremely anti-Christian. Christ and the commandments of God are seen as preventing man from achieving his fullest potential. God hinders man’s progress and perfection; He is the great oppressor. Man can obtain salvation without Jesus. The only thing standing between man and utopia (Nirvana) is Christianity.

The essence of Illuminism is achieving salvation through knowledge. According to Still, “[I]lluminism is not just the knowledge gained from reading books, or receiving oral instruction, or even the secretive knowledge gained from initiation. Illuminism also involves a vivid flash of insight or understanding, regardless of what means are used to attain it.”[1] Still continues:

There are many ways to achieve illumination. The method most important to Illuminism is the mystical inspiration invoked by the performance of occult rituals. Illumination can be achieved by dancing to exhaustion to the rhythm of native drums. It can be brought on by sexual rituals, such as those practiced in Tantric Yoga. To the Satanists, it can be brought on by ritualistic sacrifice. Throughout history, mind-altering substances such as marijuana, hashish, peyote cactus, and LSD have been used to achieve paranormal mystical experience. In fact, the Greek word for sorcery is pharmakia from whence came the word pharmaceuticals.[2]

Illuminism’s theology is revealed today in Freemasonry, Liberal Protestantism, Catholic Modernism, Judaism, the Eastern religions, and the New Age sects. All these theologies are essentially Pantheism. Naturalism is the most common expression of Pantheism in the West.

Pantheism materializes God and makes God and the Universe one. God is merely the total of all that exists. The Universe is a great inclusive unity that devours God in that unity. Thus, the Universe becomes God, and nothing separate or distinct exists from this Universe God. The Universe becomes the sole reality. It deifies unregenerated man.

Pantheism rejects God’s personality. God is reduced to the forces and laws of nature. God is an energy, the life force or god-force, that flows through all living things — thus, man becomes God or, at least, part of God. It also rejects revelation. Religious truths come from nature, not from Divine revelation. A personal God does not exist in Pantheism. Furthermore, no person ever really dies. (Reincarnation is an integral part of the doctrines of many New Age sects.) Therefore, no one will ever face God’s personal judgment. Thus, Pantheism promises man that he is not accountable to a personal God.[3]

Because this god-force flowing through all mankind unifies man into one, Pantheism naturally leads to global unity under a one-world government and one-world religion. Such a unity will lead to a New World Order where all men will be enlightened with Illuminism. Then all mankind will have mystical powers to do what had previously been impossible.

Pantheism subordinates the individual to the collective. When an individual becomes merely a component of the masses, he ceases to be “an individual rational being, distinct and complete as to his nature and thereby in possession of inalienable rights. . . . [He loses] his dignity and integrity, lacks true individuality, and becomes an unfree, helpless mode of something else.”[4] He becomes disposable and has only what the illuministic priesthood condescends to grant him. To a Pantheist, humans are no more valuable than animals or plants.[5]

It subverts God-centered religion into man-centered religion (and ultimately into Lucifer-centered religion for Lucifer deceives man into believing that he, Lucifer, is the revealer of the secret knowledge of the Universe, which Pantheism identifies with God). Man as a collective, i.e., humanity as a whole, becomes God, and the Illuminists become the priesthood.

In the modern Western World, Pantheism manifests itself most commonly as secular humanism. Kirban defines humanism as “a system of thought or action that holds that man is capable of self-fulfillment, peace on earth, and right ethical conduct without recourse to God. Humanism therefore is the religion which defies man and dethrones God.”[6] Secular humanism has five basic doctrines: the irrelevance of Deity, the supremacy of “human reason,” the inevitability of progress, science as the guide to progress, and self-sufficiency of man.[7] Naturally, it rejects salvation through Christ Jesus, a final judgment by God, and the existence of heaven and hell. Secular humanists worship the creature, mankind (humankind for the politically correct), instead of the Creator.

Thus, man, being innately good, does not need salvation. Science will provide for the needs of man including molding man into a more uniform, and therefore, easier to manage, being. Government becomes the guardian angel that will guide man ever onward and upward — hence, totalitarianism. Through human reason, man can solve all his problems and progress and advance independently of any transcendent god; consequently, God is irrelevant, if not an obstacle. The principal Mystery cults, Pantheism, Gnosticism, and Hermetism mixed together form secular humanism.[8]

Secular humanism is built upon hatred. The old Soviet Union epitomized a secular humanist society. The government of the Soviet Union administered the world’s most humanistic state. Yet it murdered more than 66 million of its own citizens. Abortion, genetic engineering, cloning, and euthanasia have grown out of secular humanism.

Like Communism, secular humanism rejects the supernatural and divine revaluation. Both promote world government. Both want to control the schools and universities and to destroy Christianity. Public schools have become the churches of the secular humanists, which is why they hate anything Christian appearing in public schools.

The ultimate goal of secular humanism is to demoralize its adherers and fill them with existential despair. When confronted with life’s spiritual realities, the honest secular humanists lose their belief in the divinity of man. Pride often prevents them from turning to the true God, the God of the Christians, whom they have spent a lifetime denouncing or ignoring. So, most turn to mysticism, some non-rational philosophy, or simply go mad with despair.[9]

The other important branch of Pantheism today is occultism. While secular humanism takes materialism to the extreme, occultism often takes spiritualism to the extreme. Occultists are the spiritual followers of Lucifer. Most believe that Lucifer is the coequal of the God of the Christians and that he is superior to God’s Christ in that if he does not eventually defeat Christ, Christ will never defeat him. Occultists see the God of the Christians as the power of evil and Lucifer as the true God and the power of good — which is what the Jewish Cabala teaches.[10] By revealing secret knowledge to man, Lucifer becomes man’s savior. Nevertheless, most occultists reject a personal devil and the idea of hell: Eternal punishment cannot exist because no personal God who passes final judgment on individuals exists. Freeing man from a personal external God (the God of the Christians) Who demands obedience to His laws and Who will judge every person according to His Son Jesus, is the objective of all New Age religions. The goal of New Age religions, like the old Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism, “is not to know God, but to be God.”[11] Thus, occultists seek salvation independent of God’s rule and authority.

Occultists seek power through hidden knowledge, which will lead to salvation. They practice manipulating the forces of nature through spiritual means, i.e., they practice magic. Magic may be divided into two branches: divining and operative. Divining magic includes aeromancy (fortune telling with wind or clouds), anthropomancy (fortune telling with entrails of human beings), astrology (fortune telling with planets), cartomancy (fortune telling with cards), hydromancy (fortune telling with liquids), oneiromancy (fortune telling with dreams), palmistry (fortune telling with marks on the palm), and pyromancy (fortune telling with fire). Operative magic includes alchemy (transmutation of base metals into precious metals), mesmerism (hypnotism), necromancy (conjuring the spirits of the dead), and theurgy (compelling a god or supernatural being to do or not do something).

A hybrid of secular humanism and occultism is spiritual humanism.[12] Man is by nature divine. He is God, an enlightened god-man and absolute sovereign. Thus, he is perfect and all-powerful. All that is needed to deify him fully is proper illumination. Then man will become a higher race of cosmic gods and will be able to manipulate the Universe to suit his will.

A chief difference between secular humanism and spiritual humanism is that secular humanism rejects the spiritual while spiritual humanism acknowledges and accepts the spiritual.[13]

Illuministic religions typically share two common features — the two assertions that Lucifer used to deceive Eve. First, no one will really die and face a final judgment of God. If the body dies, the person’s spirit and soul will return to inhabit another body — reincarnation, or his spirit and soul will migrate to some higher level of spiritual existence. Second, man has the right, power, and ability to become like God if not become God.[14]

Pantheism gives religious sanction to the collective doctrines and programs of Illuminism. All forms of Pantheism are illuministic. Consequently, Illuminists preach Pantheism and use it to advance Illuminism.

To conceal their intent to subvert Christianity into Pantheism, Illuminists nearly always cloak their theology in Christian jargon. They call their theology “Christianity” to gain an audience for their fraud. Without such deception, destroying the authority of the Christian Scriptures would be far more difficult, if not impossible. Considering the success that the Illuminists have achieved in destroying fundamental Christianity since Weishaupt introduced this tactic in the late eighteenth century, it has worked markedly well.

Man’s religions can be divided into two groups. One believes that man is innately bad, i.e., a self-centered, self-serving sinner; this is the religion of true Christianity. The other believes that man is innately good; this is the essence of Illuminism and most other religions. True Christians believe that man can never perfect himself, is incapable of pleasing God by his own works, and, therefore, needs a savior; Jesus, the Son of God, is this savior. Man cannot earn salvation; salvation is from God. Illuminism and the other religions believe that with knowledge, science, and education, man can perfect himself and save himself, if he is even in need of salvation. With his own works, man can save himself without the intervention of a savior. Man can become like God, if not God, by following the proper rituals and ceremonies or the teachings and examples of a holy teacher like Confucius, Buddha, or Mohammad.

From these two basic religious views come all men’s political, social, and economic principles. Thus, Christianity is incompatible with Illuminism in all its forms, including Communism, fascism, socialism, Zionism, globalism, multiracialism, multiculturalism, Freemasonry, Judaism, Islam, and New Age religions, which is why the Illuminists must destroy Christianity.

Endnotes
1. William Still, New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies (Louisiana: Huntington House Publishers, 1990), pp. 36-37.

2. Ibid., p. 37.

3. Gary H. Kah, En Route to Global Occupation (Louisiana: Huntington House Publishers, 1992), p. 69.

4. Clarence Kelly, Conspiracy Against God and Man: A Study of the Beginnings and Early History of the Great Conspiracy (Belmont, Massachusetts: Western Islands, 1974), pp. 185-186.

5. Gary H. Kah, The Demonic Roots of Globalism (Lafayette, Louisiana: Huntington House Publishers, 1995), p. 136.

6. Salem Kirban, Satan’s Angles Exposed (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania: Salem Kirban Inc., 1980), p. 107.

7. Ibid., p. 109.

8. Eustace Mullins, The Curse of Canaan: A Demonology of History (Staunton, Virginia: Revelation Book, 1987), p. 69.

9. Paul McGuire, Who Will Rule the Future?: A Resistance to the New World Order (Lafayette, Louisiana: Huntington House Publishers, 1991), p. 24.

10. Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Miller), Occult Theocracy (Two Volumes. Hawthorne, California: The Christian Book Club of America, 1933), p. 26.

11. James W. Wardner, Unholy Alliances: The Secret Plan and the Secret People Who Are Working to Destroy America (James W. Wardner, 1996), p. 225.

12. Randall N. Baer, Inside the New Age Nightmare, (Lafayette, Louisiana: Huntington House, Inc., 1989), pp. 84ff.

13. Ibid., p 84.

14. Kah, Demonic Roots, p. 13.

Copyright © 2010 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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Illuminism Operationally

Illuminism Operationally
Thomas Allen

[Editor’s note: Footnotes in original are omitted.]

The ultimate goal of the Illuminists and their secret societies today is to achieve the dream of Nimrod. It is to establish a New World Order with one world government and one world religion. “[It is] not a popular movement but a conspiracy to impose on the people a system directly opposed to their real demands and aspirations. . . .”[1]

Lucifer is the spiritual head of this government and religion. (According to Albert Pike, the god of the Jews and Freemasons is Lucifer.[2]) The Illuminists are his ministers and priests. Other insiders involved in bringing about this Satanic paradise can be found among leaders of government, business, labor, academia, and religion.

To achieve their goals, Illuminists seek to destroy civilization and all legitimate authority of the family, Church (Christianity), and state (community, body politic) and replace it with a new authority. This new authority is the omnipotent, omnipresent government which the Illuminists control. Communist China, especially the rural areas, is a model of the Illuminists’ vision of the world and their New World Order. Another good model of the New World Order is North Korea where the ruling elite is well fed and lives in royal splendor and sumptuousness while the enslaved masses are dying from starvation, forced drills, and the monotony of never-ending propaganda. Palestine offers a picture of the transitional period — a relatively unarmed people (Palestinians) continuously terrorized by a powerful highly technological military force (Israel).

A basic principle of Illuminism is that an elite, the Illuminists, should rule mankind because they are the enlightened, illuminated, and chosen ones. As such, only they “are capable of ruling mankind in an orderly manner.”[3]

The Illuminists have advanced their cause through two apparently conflicting and contradicting ideologies: atomistic individualism and collectivism. Atomistic individualism seeks to destroy all authority. Collectivism seeks to place all authority in government. Atomistic individualism destroys existing legitimate authority, and collectivism fills the authority vacuum with all-powerful government.

The most potent weapon of the Illuminists is not the gun or dagger. It is sin — especially licentiousness, that is, assassination of the soul rather than the body. Every possible means is used to encourage, foster, and spread immorality. Sin must become habitual without escape.

Laws that proscribe or inhibit vice and immorality must be repealed or left unenforced. Thus, pornography, miscegenation, adultery, fornication, prostitution, and homosexual sex become acceptable. Public decency and virtue must be suppressed while immorality, especially sexual immorality, is promoted and protected. Licentiousness exceeding the worse of paganism must replace Christian virtue.[4]

Marriage is secularized and loses its holiness.[5] Divorce is encouraged and made easy. Although concurrent polygamy is not yet accepted, consecutive polygamy is.

Schools are to be used in the war to destroy the soul. Blasphemy and sexual immorality are to be taught and promoted. In the name of science, health, and sex education, pornography is pushed upon young formative minds. Thus, governmental control of schools is necessary (Illuminists control the government, which has nearly monopolistic control of education).

As women cannot be suppressed, the Illuminists have undertaken an exceedingly successful program to corrupt them. All distinction between the sexes is eliminated.[6] Schools have aided in this corruption process. Feminism is an important program for the corruption of women.

In their war to destroy the soul, Illuminists have stressed disrespect for the Lord’s Day. So successful have they been in commercializing and destroying the uniqueness of the Lord’s Day, it is hardly distinguishable from any other day.

Illuminists seek to degrade the arts and literature. Hideous and aberrant art, literature, drama, and music are promoted. Degenerated perversion replaces wholesomeness. Pornography and blasphemy are encouraged.[7]

Internationalism and globalism replace nationalism and patriotism.[8] To achieve this goal, government must be weakened by corruption. Consequently, Illuminists encourage and promote corruption, which is easy to do since most high level governmental officials are Illuminists, agents, dupes, sympathizers, fellow-travelers, or opportunists, to cause cynicism and distrust by the people, which leads to anarchy, a natural ally of Illuminism.

Illuminists seek to eliminate all social opposition to their subversive program. To accomplish this goal, they exaggerate and promote social and economic differences. Thus, they create suspicions, unrest, riots, and revolts among various groups. Multicultural and multiracial societies make the promotion of differences easy — thus, the promotion of multicultural and multiracial societies.

In 1919, allied forces in Germany found a document, Communist Rules for Revolution, that set out rules for subverting a country.[9] These rules are essentially identical to the illuministic program for gaining control of a country. The rules are:

1. Corrupt the youth and turn them from religion, i.e., Christianity. Substitute sex for religion. Destroy their independence and ruggedness.

2. Gain control of the media.

3. Focus people’s attention on athletics, pornography, entertainment, and other trivialities and away from politics and government.

4. Use unimportant controversial matters to divide people into hostile camps.

5. Ridicule and disdain natural leaders and, thereby, destroy people’s confidence in them.

6. Encourage governmental extravagance, destroy its credit, and create discontent with inflation.

7. Foster unnecessary strikes in vital industries. Cultivate riots and civil disorders and promote leniency toward such riots and disorders.

8. Destroy moral virtue, honesty, and temperance.

9. Restrict ownership of firearms and move toward confiscating all privately owned guns.

Illuminists have sought to remove from courts of justice, public assemblies, and public schools all Christian symbols. This endeavor has been extremely successful and is almost complete.
Christian symbols seldom appear on public property or in public assemblies. The few remnants of public recognition of God, Christ, or the Bible are rapidly being eradicated.

One objective of secret societies is to break family ties and prepare initiates to become adepts. With his hatred of the family and his desire to destroy it, Stalin encouraged his agents to promote its destruction. They were to advocate promiscuity, legalize abortion, easy divorce, and abolition of inheritance. Records of title, birth, and family history were to be destroyed.

Illuminists prefer and promote democratic government with political power concentrated in the central government, which they control. To dilute the power of the people to control their government, they promote indiscriminate universal suffrage. While preaching civil liberties, they promote government as the solver of all problems.

Illuminists seek to eradicate all national distinction. Therefore, they advocate a multiracial, multicultural society. (To organize effective opposition against the Illuminists is much more difficult, if not impossible, in such a society, which is another reason that Illuminists promote multiracialism and multiculturalism.)

They despise patriotism and “strongly organized rural communities settled permanently on the land.”[10] Thus, they adopt programs designed to drive people off the land and into the cities where they are easier to control.

Not only do Illuminists promote political democracy, they also promote social democracy. They seek to destroy all social classes. They despise a society organized on the basis of classes that are “bound together by common interest and mutual services.”[11] Thus, they undertake to reduce all mankind to slaves of the Illuminists. (An illuministic society consists of two classes: slaves and their illuministic masters. The slaves owe everything to their masters, but their masters owe nothing to the slaves.)

To summarize, the goals of Illuminism are:

(1) The destruction of Christianity; (2) The abolition of private property; (3) The abolition of inheritance; (4) The breakup of the family unit (i.e., the home, marriage, morality, and the proper education of children); (5) The destruction of patriotism: (6) The abolition of all ordered, national governments, and (7) The creation of a One World Government.[12]

To this list needs to be added the annihilation of the Aryan people.

Illuminists promote socialism not because it will lift up the working class or make people materially better — they know that it will not. They promote it because it is destructive. It destroys superiority, virtue, patriotism, nationalism, and, above all, true Christianity. It destroys beauty and nobleness in art and literature and makes evil good. Socialism destroys what makes man man.

For these same reasons, Illuminists support multiracial and multicultural societies. Multiracialism and multiculturalism are highly destructive. They also promote homosexualism, not because they care about homosexuals (most Illuminists who are not homosexuals are as repulsed by it as other people), but because it destroys society.

Underlying Illuminism, and what motivates most Illuminists, is hatred. They hate the nation-state and the Aryan race. (The God of the Christian is a God of segregation while Lucifer, the God of Illuminism, is a god of integration.) They hate moral restraints that the Christian religion places on individuals and associations. Furthermore, they despise technological progress because it raises the economic well-being of the common people, whom they loathe. Illuminists hate the Aryan race not only because it is the race created in the image of God: They also hate it because it is the race of Christianity and has done more to spread the word of God than any other people. It is also the race that has done the most to improve the living conditions of the common people throughout the world.

To achieve their goals, Illuminists follow the tactics laid down by Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Order of the Illuminati. They are:

1. Gain control of education and church leadership.

2. Express concern for humanity while making people indifferent to all other relationship.

3. Gain control of reviewers and booksellers and use them to promote illuministic writers.

4. Decry writers of notice who do not accord with illuministic plans.

5. Promise emancipation to women, and use them to control men.

6. Win support of the common people by pandering, at least temporarily, to their prejudices.

7. Gain control of the military academies, publishers, literary societies, and the like.

8. Secure control of the judiciary and the legal system to enact laws favorable to Illuminism and win favorable rulings in court.

9. Assist and promote fellow Illuminists, giving them preference to all others of equal merit.

10. Place people where they will do the most good for the advancement of Illuminism.

11. Surround people in authority who do not agree with the philosophy of Illuminism with Illuminists.

12. Remain in the background and work through front organizations.

Endnotes
1. Nesta H. Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (Palmdale, California: Omni Publication, 1924), p. 330.

2. Thomas Coley Allen, Albert Pike: A Brief Introduction to the Greatest Freemason of the Nineteenth Century (Franklinton, North Carolina: TC Allen Co., 2007), pp. 17-21. Thomas Coley Allen, Zionism: A Brief History 1800-1949 (Franklinton, North Carolina: TC Allen Co., 2007.), p. 14.

3. Des Griffin, Anti-Semitism and the Babylonian Connection (Clackamas, Oregon: Emissary Publications, 1992), p. 65.

4. E. Cahill, Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement (Second edition. Dublin, Ireland: M.H. Gill and Son, Ltd., 1930. Reprinted 1952), p. 157. James W. Wardner, Unholy Alliances: The Secret Plan and the Secret People Who Are Working to Destroy America (James W. Wardner, 1996), p. 31.

5. Cahill, p. 157.

6. Ibid., p. 158.

7. Warden, p. 31.

8. Ibid., p. 32.

9. Ibid., p. 30.

10. Cahill, p. 158.

11. Ibid.

12. Griffin, pp. 64-65.

Copyright © 2010 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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