Who is the Enemy? The Illuminati Versus the Jews
by Karl Radl
IT HAS COME to my attention recently that there are quite a few people out there who believe that the Jews are not a problem in the world today, but that a shadowy group known as the Illuminati are. Of this position there are three general variants.
In the first instance the Jews are not a problem at all, but rather the Illuminati are and the two groups have little to no relation above some members of the Illuminati being Jewish. This is the position held by individuals like Alex Jones and David Icke.
In the second instance the Jews are a problem, but they are being controlled as a group by several members of the Illuminati who are, in fact, Jewish. This is the position held by individuals like William Guy Carr.
In the third instance the Jews are a problem and a major element of the Illuminati, but not all of the Illuminati. This is the position held by individuals like Nesta Webster (pictured).
Now the interesting thing about the above sequence is that the origin of most subsequent views on the Illuminati was in fact the originator of the third position: Nesta Webster, whose views became more progressively anti-Jewish as she did more research. However, Webster never blamed the Jews exclusively and the posthumous editor of her works, Anthony Gittens, did much to soften this in the later editions of her work. We note with interest that in the chapters Gittens added to World Revolution to cover events up to the time of the 1950s, he had more or less written the Jews out of what we may call the conspiratorial scheme of things.
This was in fact part of a general trend, exemplified by William Guy Carr, where authors — who had first began their research in the 1920s/1930s — began to modify the traditional views of the Jews in conspiratorial literature, which, as it was derived from a meeting of minds between anti-Jewish and anti-Freemasonic material, had up until that time been equally anti-Jewish and anti-Masonic, but with the normal caveat that they were only criticising specific Jews and not all Jews (and thus weren’t anti-Semitic or ‘blaming the Jews’).
With the Second World War and the fall of the Third Reich however, which had championed both the anti-Jewish and anti-Masonic cause, these two traditional themes suffered public relations disasters from which they have only begun to recover in recent years. The — for lack of a better name — conspiracy milieu had to forge a new way forward for its theories and make them attractive to new audiences thirsting for alternative explanations of world events.
The vehicle that this milieu largely chose was Christianity in so far as in the 1950s and 1960s Christianity was suffering, as it is now, in Europe from falling congregations and the significant loss of such beliefs among intellectuals as it being the perceived bedrock of European civilization. Thus the conspiratorial writers, who were often older, devoutly Christian men, began to try and rally people around shared religious beliefs.
To do this they simply began downplaying the anti-Jewish side of the literature from which they drew their ideas and playing up the anti-Masonic angle with the caveat that the Freemasons were just the obvious branches of a much larger conspiratorial organization: Webster’s “Illuminati.”
To play up the issue of Freemasonry was necessary precisely because, in order to argue that such a conspiracy exists, then one has to show evidence of it and the way to do that would either be to use the disproportionate number of Jews in positions of influence or to use the disproportionate number of Freemasons in positions of influence. Without using one of these bases then the conspiratorial milieu would have had to reconstruct their own arguments from scratch and re-do large amounts of their research.
The path of least resistance was simply to take the now socially and politically unacceptable anti-Jewish slants out of the literature as much as possible over time and then replace the traditional conspiracy of Jews and Freemasons with a conspiracy of Freemasons being headed by a highly secret elite (i.e. the Illuminati).
This then led to the widely read anti-secularization and anti-Illuminati books, which focused on Freemasonry and the Illuminati as the active agents while capitalists and communists were relegated to being passive agencies along with the Jews, in what we could term Christian Fascist authors like William Guy Carr and George Knupffer, who espoused anti-Masonic views linked with anti-Illuminati views tied via the doctrines of Christianity into the belief that a new Christian society was what was needed — with a king who ruled by divine right at its head.
Authors like Carr and Knupffer then passed away while their works were being reprinted and…
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