M & D Read (related): Order of the Illuminati,

[Mark Kohut]

Founded, Germany, two months before the American colonies declared
independence.
1797, former French JESUIT Augustine de Barruel published Memoirs
Illustrating the History of Jacobinism.

a themed quote:
"Rooting out all the religious establishments and overturning all the
existing governments of Europe"

"These allegations...which won the praise of Edmund Burke [no less]
quickly found their way to the United States, Pres of Yale for one."

"For much of the 19 Th & 20th Centuries, the ILLUMINATI played an
unintended role as Ur-conspirators in what Richard Hofstadter called
the @ paranoid style in AMERICAN POLITICS. ...defending the
dispossessed against a vast conspiratorial network'"
                                                             --
>From Niall Ferguson's new book.

Later he writes about how the conspiracy notions are still kept
alive....via John Birch Society and Jerry Falwell's book (or another
like him, cant remember)...

Remember that the John Birch Society appears fictionalized in Lot 49.......

And, that Trystero...let's talk about IT again, what say?
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