文档介绍：THE ILLUMINATI AND
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
by Arnold Leese
On October 6, 1789, there was seized at the home of Mirabeau's publisher, a
number of important documents. One of them, called Croquis ou Projet de
Monsieur de Mirabeau, was a statement of the aims and purposes of the
Illuminate, supposedly written by Mirabeau; Illuminist, Cabalist and the darling of
the Jewish society of Paris (having reported on his trip to Germany--where he
received his initiation into Weishaupt's Illuminate--to his Jewish supporters at the
home of Henrietta Herz). To please his Jewish friends and supporters of the
French Revolution, Mirabeau wrote his great apology for the Jews under the form
of a panegyric of Mendelssohn, the father of Jewish Illuminism. Suitable praise of
Mirabeau's love of Jewry and his services to the eternal internationalists, can be
found in M. Samuel's "Memoirs of Moses Mendelssohn," 1827.
In this document concerning "Mirabeau's Project," after a diatribe against the
French Monarchy, the document goes on to say that "in order to triumph over this
hydra-headed monster these are my ideas:
PLAN OF THE FRENCH ILLUMINATE:
"We must overthrow all order, suppress all laws, annul all power, and leave the
people in anarchy. The laws we establish will not perhaps be in force at once, but
at any rate, having given back the power to the peopl