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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

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After his death, Saint Martin took over the leadership of
the society. It developed branches through all countries and even
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into Russia (the Martinists). In England, Toland had worked for
the naturalisation of the English Jews and wrote two works (1713
and 1718) to this end; in Germany, the Jewish salons had become
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centres of political influence; Mendelssohn had won over Lessing
for the Jewish goals and was able to mould him for them; at his
request, Dohm wrote (1781) the above-mentioned work on the
reform of the Jewish policy whose proposals, as we saw, served
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Mirabeau as the basis of his promotion of Jewish interests.
In this way the morale and the power of the Jewish lodges
was sufficiently strengthened to effect their quite official acceptance
into the whole association. This happened in the memorable
convention in Wilhelmsbad in 1781.
There the founder of the German order of Illuminati,
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Weishaupt, had called a congress of all secret societies. There
appeared delegates from all the countries of Europe, America, even
from Asia. Here all conspiracies were unified under the formula of
Weishaupt "to unite men of all countries, all classes and all religions
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for a higher interest and in a durable association". And the
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[John Toland (1670-1722) was born a Catholic of obscure origin in Ireland but
converted to Protestantism and became a rationalist philosopher and republican.
In 1714 he published a work called Reasons for naturalising the Jews in Great
Britain and Ireland which championed full citizenship and equal rights for the
Jews.]
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[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was a dramatist and critic who was a
close friend of the Jew Moses Mendelssohn. His plays were pioneers of bourgeois
drama and the character of Nathan in his play Nathan der Weise (1779) was
based on Mendelssohn himself. This play, which attempts to show that human
conceptions of God are relative, was forbidden by the Church and first performed
posthumously in 1783.]
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[Mirabeau published a work on the Jews entitled Sur Moses Mendelssohn, sur
la reforme politique des Juifs, London, 1 787.]
[Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830) was the Bavarian founder of the Illuminati. He
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first founded an Order of Perfectibilists in 1 776 in order to abolish all monarchical
governments and state religions in Europe. He was initiated into the Masonic Lodge
in Munich in 1777 but soon developed his own gnostic techniques of human
enlightenment which he incorporated into his new order of Illuminati.]
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