Next. Dedications : * "Proofs of a Conspiracy", by John Robison, [1798], Dedication and Epigram I have preserved the original typography in the dedication and epigram, but the typography has been modernized in the rest of the text.--JBH TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM WYNDHAM SECRETARY AT WAR. &c. as &e. SIR, It w...
Next. Introduction : * "Proofs of a Conspiracy", by John Robison, [1798], p. 1 INTRODUCTION. BEING AT a friend's house in the country during some part of the summer 1795, I there saw a volume of a German periodical work, called "Religions Begebenheiten", "i.e." Religious Occurrences; in which there was an account...
Title Page. Part 1 : * "Proofs of a Conspiracy", by John Robison, [1798], 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, COLLECTED FROM GOOD AUTHORITIES, BY JOHN ROBISON, A. M. PROFESSOR OF NATURAL...
Next. Chapter Iii. The German Union : * "Proofs of a Conspiracy", by John Robison, [1798], p. 157 CHAP. III. THE GERMAN UNION. WHEN SUCH a fermentation has been excited in the public mind, it cannot be supposed that the formal suppression of the Order of the Illuminati in Bavaria, and in the Duchy of Wirtemberg, by the reigning...
Next. Chapter Iv. The French Revolution : * "Proofs of a Conspiracy", by John Robison, [1798], p. 207 CHAP. IV. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. DURING these dissensions and discontents, and this general fermentation of the public mind in Germany, political occurrences in France gave exercise and full scope for the operation of that spirit...
Next. Chapter I. Schisms In Free Masonry : * "Proofs of a Conspiracy", by John Robison, [1798], p. 11 CHAP. I. SCHISMS IN FREE MASONRY. THERE IS undoubtedly a dignity in the art of building, or in architecture, which no other art possesses, and this, whether we consider it in its rudest state, occupied in raising a hut, or as practised...
Title Page : * "Proofs of a Conspiracy", by John Robison, [1798], p. 286 POSTSCRIPT. ALTHOUGH I saw no reason to doubt of the validity of the proofs which I have offered in the preceding pages, of a conspiracy against the dearest interests of every nation of Europe, nor of the importance of the informati...
Next. Chapter Ii. The Illuminati : * "Proofs of a Conspiracy", by John Robison, [1798], p. 57 CHAP. II. THE ILLUMINATI. I AM now arrived at what I should call the great epoch of Cosmo-politism, the scheme communicated to Baron Knigge by the "Marchese di Constanza". This obliges me to mention a remarkable Lodge of the Eclectic...
Untitled : * John Robison (1739-1805) was a Scottish scientist, who late in life wrote the one of the definitive studies of the Bavarian Illuminati. He was a contemporary and collaborator with James Watt, with whom he worked on an early steam car, contributor to the 1797 Encylopedia Britannica, profess...
