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Alfred Rosenberg

representative of the French Martinists declared to an inquiry
regarding the results ofthe congress: "I shall not give you the secrets
that I bring; but what I think I can say to you is that a conspiracy has
been instigated and that it will be difficult for religion and
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governments not to fall".
These words were expressed eight years before their
fulfilment. The time up to then passed in zealous underground
activity. On that Louis Blanc reports:
"A remarkable association had been formed. Its members
lived in the most diverse countries, belonged to every religion (even
Jews) and every social status. On the eve of the French Revolution
it had already acquired an immeasurable importance. It had spread
all over Europe and appeared everywhere as an association whose
foundations stood in contradiction to the principles of civil society
..." In 1785 a great council was held in Paris, where, among others,
especially Cagliostro (the Jew Giuseppe Balsamo, the founder of
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the "Egyptian System") played a predominant role. Here the
French Revolution was finally decided upon. In 1787, Cagliostro
had the insolence to direct a manifesto to the French people and to
predict to it all the events that later came true: the destruction of the
Bastille, the overthrow of the monarchy, the introduction of the cult
of reason.
The publicity activity was feverishly conducted, the well-
known slogans were distributed, peasants and soldiers acquired as
soldiers, the 14th of July, 1789, was determined as the day of
insurrection. Then the lodges were closed and the brothers went to
the town halls and into the revolutionary committees.
When finally, in 1789, the instigated populace outside
stormed forward, the conspirators sat with the stupid king, pledged
fidelity to him, painted to him deceptive images of the fearful power

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Ibid., p.339.
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[Cagliostro was the assumed name ofthe forger and swindler Giuseppe Balsamo
(1743-1795), who was born in the Jewish quarter of Palermo in Sicily. He is said to
have created an Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry and established several lodges
throughout Europe. He was arrested in 1 789 as a Freemason and at first sentenced
to death although the Pope later commuted the sentence to life-imprisonment.]

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