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Rosicrucians, Freemasons & Secret Societies

Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe

by John Robison

The Edinburgh natural philosopher's alarmed account of Freemasonry and the Bavarian Illuminati, arguing that secret lodges had engineered the French Revolution. Published the same year as Barruel's memoirs, it founded the modern Illuminati conspiracy theory and shaped American fears of 1798. Essential as a primary source for how esoteric fraternities became objects of political suspicion.

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