Hannah Adams

Name: A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations — Illuminati
Author: Hannah Adams

A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

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“A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations — Illuminati”, published in 1817, is a work by Hannah Adams. It explores elements such as society, sect and mystery.

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ ILLUMINATI, or ILLUMINEES, i. e. the enlightened, a term in the primitive church applied to such as had been instructed and baptized, but has since been adopted by different sects and parties. Such a sect appeared in Spain in 1575. They were charged with maintaining, that mental prayer and contemplation had so intimately united them to God, that they were arrived to such a state of perfection, as to stand in no need of good works, or the sacraments of the church; and that they might commit the grossest crimes without sin. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ It is that employment known in the society's code of laws, by the appellation of brother insinuator, or recruiter. The whole strength of the sect depends on this part; for it is this which furnishes members for the different degrees. The insinuators, or recruiters of this society, are sent by their superiours to different towns and provinces, and to distant countries. They are directed carefully to conceal their being Illuminees, and to make the knowledge of human nature their particular study. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ Every thing, which has the air of mystery, awakens suspicion, and favours calumny, and calumny exhausted itself with regard to the invisible society. As soon as the alarm was sounded, it was spread abroad, that this society, numerous, and of high repute, had no other aim than to monopolize all the lucrative and honourable posts; to extinguish the torch of truth, to overturn all government and to destroy all religion." [1]
Original footnotes ↑ For farther accounts of this society the reader is referred to Barruel's Memoirs of Jacobinism, Prof. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ One of the professors of Illuminism gives the following instruction relating to this kind of science: "The novice must be attentive to trifles, for in frivolous occurrences a man is indolent, and makes no effort to act a part, so that his real character is then acting alone." This assiduous and long continued study of men, enables the possessor of such knowledge to act with men, and by his knowledge of their characters to influence their conduct. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ Our author admits, however, that the society was too little rigid with regard to those it admitted. "It is not," says he, "rare in every society to find men who, not being animated with its spirit, counteract its operations ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ And it is asserted, that the society have executed, to an alarming degree, its plan for exterminating christianity and destroying government and social order. The means of effecting this was the French revolution, which was in a great measure brought about by the secret influence of this society, and extended over the greater part of Europe. This afforded the French philosophers the opportunity of disseminating their infidel principles among the lower classes of society. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ The mysteries of this sect arc asserted to be comprehended in the following summary.
Liberty and equality are the essential rights that man in his original and primitive perfection received from nature. Property struck the first blow at equality; political societies or governments were the first oppressors of liberty; the supporters of governments and property are the religious and civil laws; therefore to reinstate man in his primitive rites of equality and liberty they begin by destroying these. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ The object of the Illuminees is said to be, to enlist in every country such as have frequently declared themselves discontented with the usual institutions; to acquire the direction of education, of church management, of the professional chair, and of the pulpit; to bring their opinions into fashion by every art, and to spread them among young people, by the help of young writers ”

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