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Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 | Illuminati myths | 2 Comments

Trevor W. McKeown, the freemason webmaster at the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon, has maintained a page on the Bavarian Illuminati for a least a decade. Only infrequently has it been updated, and inaccuracies remain. Wikipedia has used it as a reliable source for many years on their own Illuminati page, likely because the most active editor for that subject is himself a Freemason. Ive written about one egregious error before, however an assessment of the page as a whole is overdue.

The beginning pullquote from Thomas Jefferson is meant to set the reader up for what follows that the Illuminati had good intentions and were misunderstood; nothing nefarious went on.

Much has been made about the Jefferson letter, but the pullquote that McKeown uses is in fact a misrepresentation and out of context. Below, how it was quoted (on the left), and the way it actually is (on the right).

As Wishaupt [sic.] lived under the tyranny of a despot & priests, he knew that caution was necessary even in spreading information, & the principles of pure morality. He proposed therefore to lead the Free masons to adopt this object & to make the objects of their institution the diffusion of science & virtue. He proposed to initiate new members into his body by gradations proportioned to his fears of the thunderbolts of tyranny.

This has given an air of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment, the subversion of the masonic order, & is the colour for the ravings against him of Robinson, Barruel & Morse, whose real fears are that the craft would be endangered by the spreading of information, reason, & natural morality among men

Obviously he intended to leave out the part after pure morality but neglected to include an ellipsis before This has given an air of mystery to his views. Thats a serious lapse. And seems intentional, to omit Jeffersons accurate assessment that the Illuminati wanted to lead the Free masons and were engaged in the subversion of the masonic order.

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Well, the cats out of the bag. Jeva Singh-Anand, Josef Wges, and Illuminaten scholar Reinhard Markner have been collaborating on an English translation of the ritual work of the Illuminati. All the rituals will be featured, from the Novice degree all the way to lesser and greater mysteries, including Regent and Provincial directives, Epopt and Doceten degrees. Conservatively, Id estimate that the total amount of pages will be over five-hundred at the very least. This amounts to the most significant English translation of primary material in over 200 years.

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