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The French Revolution

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Fr. Augustin Barruel (AD 1741 – AD 1820)

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Book: "Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism" (4 volumes) (AD 1797, translated into English in AD 1799)

  • Part 1, Antichristian Conspiracy
  • Part 2, The Antimonarchical Conspiracy
  • Part 3, Antisocial Conspiracy
  • Part 4, Antisocial Conspiracy; Historical Part

In the book, Barruel claims that the French Revolution was the result of a deliberate conspiracy or plot to overthrow the throne, altar and aristocratic society in Europe. The plot was allegedly hatched by a coalition of philosophes, Freemasons and the Order of the Illuminati. The conspirators created a system that was inherited by the Jacobins who operated it to its greatest potential. The Memoirs purports to expose the Revolution as the culmination of a long history of subversion. Barruel was not the first to make these charges but he was the first to present them in a fully developed historical context and his evidence was on a quite unprecedented scale. Barruel wrote each of the first three volumes of the book as separate discussions of those who contributed to the conspiracy. The fourth volume is an attempt to unite them all in a description of the Jacobins in the French Revolution. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is representative of the criticism of the Enlightenment that spread throughout Europe during the Revolutionary period... The text created a link between the Enlightenment and the Revolution and this connection remains a topic of historical debate.

هدف أعداء الكنيسة هو تحويل الكنيسة والدين الكاثوليكي إلى حركة إنسانية بلا عقائد. أي تبنّي فكرة أن ملكوتنا السماوي هو هنا، ومحو كل ما من شأنه أن يفرقنا عن سائر البشر، وأول ما يجب محوه في تلك القائمة هو العقيدة الكاثوليكية. – المونسينيور أوغسطين بارويل - المؤامرة المعادية للمسيحية ١٨١٢

The goal of the enemeies of the church is to make the church and the catholic religion into a dogmaless humanitarianism. That is to embrase the idea that our heaven should be here and to erase anything that would divide us from other human beings and the first thing on that list that should be erased is the catholic dogma. – Mgn Augustin Barruel - "The antichristian conspiracy." 1812

John Robison (AD 1739 – AD 1805)

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Book: "Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies, etc., collected from good authorities" (AD 1797)

Others:

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  • Abraham Bishop: Proofs of a Conspiracy, Against Christianity, and the Government of the United States (1802)
  • Seth Payson: Proofs of the Real Existence, and Dangerous Tendency, of Illuminism, Containing an Abstract of what Dr. Robinson and the Abbé Barruel have Published on this Subject; with Collateral Proofs and General Observations (1802)
  • Henry Dana Ward: Free Masonry. Its Pretensions Exposed in Faithful Extracts of its Standard Authors; with a Review of Town's Speculative Masonry; its Liability to Pervert the Doctrines of Revealed Religion, Discovered in the Spirit of its Doctrines, and in the Application of its Emblems: its Dangerous Tendency Exhibited in Extracts from the Abbé Barruel and Professor Robison, and Further Illustrated in its Base Service to the Illuminati (1828)

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