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    The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati
    The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati
    The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati
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    The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati

    By Adam Weishaupt

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    700 years ago, religion made much more sense to people than it does now. It was part of a coherent worldview linking all of the knowledge of the world then available, including the science and cosmology of the time. Religion nowadays seems rather ridiculous because the modern paradigm of scientific materialism has destroyed the link between humanity and the divine order.

    To be religious in the past wasn't stupid; now it is. This book explores the ancient Greek and medieval cosmology that supported the view that Earth was specially created by God. The "crystal spheres" of the heavens, with Earth at the centre, were beautiful, wondrous and inspiring. They fitted in perfectly with ideas of spirituality, angels and astrology.

    This is one of a series of books by the Pythagorean Illuminati, designed to reveal the absurdity and untenability of the Abrahamic religions in the modern scientific era.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateOct 24, 2011
    ISBN9781447888888
    The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati
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    Adam Weishaupt

    Adam Weishaupt invites you to enter the forbidden world of secret societies. Are secret societies hidden because they are plotting against the world, or hidden because the powers-that-be are plotting against them and hunting them – as heretics, apostates, infidels, blasphemers, freethinkers, radicals and revolutionaries? Are secret societies the underground heroes as opposed to the subterranean villains? Are they demonized by those who want to keep you enslaved with lies and a false consciousness? Secret societies are devoted to discovering the ultimate knowledge that will liberate all of us. Join the freedom fighters, those heroically venturing into the Unknown Land to find the Holy Grail. Come and find out about the extraordinary world of secrets that presents a totally different conception of reality from the ones your overt rulers – the billionaires and their puppets – feed you. Don't you want to find out what is really going on?

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      The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati - Adam Weishaupt

      The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati

      The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati

      by

      Adam Weishaupt

      Published by Hyperreality Books

      Copyright © Adam Weishaupt 2011

      The right of Adam Weishaupt to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review.

      ISBN: 978-1-4478-8888-8

      Quotations

      The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Einstein

      The universe is not bounded in any direction. If it were, it would necessarily have a limit somewhere. But clearly a thing cannot have a limit unless there is something outside to limit it...In all dimensions alike, on this side or that, upward or downward through the universe, there is no end. -- Lucretius

      All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. -- Alexander Pope

      It is, I say, impossible that I can with any true meaning assert that there existeth such a surface, boundary or limit, beyond which is neither body, nor empty space, even though God be there. -- Giordano Bruno

      Table of Contents

      The Crystal Spheres of the Illuminati

      Quotations

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      The Divine Comedy

      Dante

      The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

      The Inscription over the Gate of Hell

      Dante and Numerology

      Cato the Younger and Cato the Elder

      The Celestial Hierarchy

      Angels

      Paradise Lost

      Hell

      Chaos and Night

      Earth

      Sin and Death

      Rebel with a Cause

      John Milton (1608-1674)

      The Devil and Hell

      Heaven in flames?

      Hell’s Publishing Industry

      Hell’s Capital (Washington D.C., Jerusalem?)

      Hell is a Black Hole?

      The Keys to Hell

      Christ the Fraud

      The Cosmology of the Social Order

      The Earth: the Centre of the Universe

      Aristotle

      Parmenides and the One

      Pythagoras

      The Primum Mobile

      The Crystalline Heaven

      The Cosmology of the Jews, Christians and Muslims

      Creation

      Astrology

      Islamic Cosmology

      God

      The Disproof of Abrahamism

      The Heliocentric System

      Mythos People versus Logos People

      Native American Spirituality

      Kabbalah

      The Many Faces of the Jewish God

      Kabbalah in a Nutshell

      The Ten Spheres of Kabbalah

      Sephirot

      The Divine Beam

      The Biblical Mystery

      Adam Kadmon

      The Kabbalah Division of the Soul

      Satan

      Conclusion

      Introduction

      THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS outlining the religion, politics and philosophy of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master. The society exists to this day and the author is a member, working under the pseudonym of Adam Weishaupt – the name of the Illuminati’s most notorious Grand Master.

      The Illuminati’s religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment, it has many parallels with the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. It rejects the Abrahamic religions of faith: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering these the work of the Demiurge; an inferior, cruel and wicked deity who deludes himself that he is the True God, and who has inflicted endless horrors on humanity.

      If you wish to judge for yourself how deranged the Demiurge is, you need only read the Old Testament, the story of the Demiurge’s involvement with his Chosen People, the Hebrews. You may wonder why the God of All entered into an exclusive and partisan Covenant with a tribe in the Middle East several thousand years ago, why he promised them a land (Canaan) that belonged to others, and why he then actively participated with them in a genocidal war against the Canaanites. Even more bizarrely, according to Christian theology, he then despatched all of those Hebrews, whom he had supported so fanatically, to Limbo – the edge of Hell – when they died. They couldn’t go to Heaven because they were indelibly marked by the Original Sin of Adam and Eve. Only the atonement provided by the agonising death of God’s son, Jesus Christ, could wipe the slate clean and allow the Hebrews to be released from Limbo. But there was a catch. Only those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour were eligible for Paradise.

      Of course, the Chosen People of God have almost entirely rejected Jesus Christ. Therefore, from the Christian perspective, nearly all of the Chosen People are now in hell proper. Don’t you find God’s behaviour distinctly odd? Indeed, unbelievable? Don’t alarm bells start ringing? Doesn’t the behaviour of this God sound rather more like what would be expected of Satan?

      Remember that this same God ordered Abraham to perform human sacrifice on his own son, Isaac. Abraham, rather than rejecting this monstrous command, rather than denouncing the creature that gave it as evil incarnate, agreed to butcher his own flesh and blood to demonstrate how slavishly and mindlessly obedient he was – the prototype of all psychopathic, fanatical believers.

      Does God’s command to Abraham sound like something that would ever pass the lips of the True God? We pity you if you think it does because you are surely a creature of the Demiurge and one of the legions of the damned. If, however, you doubt the credentials of the Abrahamic God, you may be receptive to the message of the Illuminati and our future-oriented, rational, scientific, mathematical and dialectical religion of light – Illumination.

      The Divine Comedy

      PROBABLY THE GREATEST DEFENCE ever presented for the existence of a Creator God is the artistic one furnished by Dante, the brilliant Italian poet, in the first quarter of the 14th century.

      Dante’s masterwork – The Divine Comedy – takes the reader on an amazing journey through the soul’s three possible destinations according to Roman Catholicism: Hell, Purgatory or Heaven.

      In the Inferno, Dante provides the greatest-ever depiction of Hell. In the Purgatoria, he provides the definitive version of the uniquely Catholic theological concept of Purgatory where the sinners not wicked enough to be damned to Hell nor good enough to be admitted straight to Heaven go to be purged of their sins in preparation for Paradise. Finally, in Paradiso, Dante ventures to Paradise itself, finally seeing the Triune Christian God with his own eyes.

      The centrepiece of the poem is a wondrous cosmology based on ancient Aristotelian and Ptolemaic teachings, integrated with Christian myths.

      At the centre of Dante’s universe is Earth, and at the centre of Earth is none other than Satan himself, at the point furthest from God.

      Earth is divided into a Northern Hemisphere of land and a Southern Hemisphere of water. At the centre of the Northern Hemisphere is the holy city of Jerusalem and its polar opposite in the Southern Hemisphere is the island of Mount Purgatory, surrounded by a vast ocean with no other land anywhere near.

      Mount Purgatory was created by the soil and rock displaced when Satan and his Fallen Angels crashed into the Earth and smashed through into the core. Satan struck the Earth feet first, creating a huge crater (later crusted over by land) in the Northern Hemisphere. All the crater debris had to go somewhere and its effect was to push up a huge mountain (Mount Purgatory) at the centre of the Southern Hemisphere.

      Hell is positioned underneath the Northern Hemisphere (beneath Jerusalem) and is composed of nine circles in a great cone-shaped structure, narrowing as it descends to Satan at the lowest point of the cone (the centre of the Earth). Dante’s vision provides an early version of the Hollow Earth theory, with Hell taking the place of the underground cities and communities that feature in the writings of the proponents of the Hollow Earth.

      Like Hell, Mount Purgatory (the mount of salvation) has nine circles, and at the top is the earthly paradise of the Garden of Eden: next stop Heaven!

      So, what exists between Eden at the top of Mount Purgatory and God? First of all, the four elements of the ancient Greeks – earth, water, air and fire – come into play. The Earth itself is the element of earth. It is covered by the second element, water, and it has a third element of air as its atmosphere. Between the air atmosphere and the Moon, is a sphere of the fourth element: pure fire – a kind of invisible spiritual fire.

      Dante thus accounts for the four classical elements, and they are all located in the sublunary domain i.e. the mortal realm below the Moon. The superlunary domain above the Moon is immortal, and is made of different grades of the mystical fifth element – the famous quintessence (aether). The aether is as pure and transparent as clear glass.

      The quintessence was poetically said to form crystal spheres (or spherical shells to be more exact, one within another like Russian dolls), and each sphere contained one of the components of our familiar solar system. In a series of concentric spheres (usually called Heavens) surrounding the Earth are: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean, the abode of God.

      The soul, leaving Eden, goes on the ultimate journey, ascending through the crystal spheres one by one. As it travels ever upwards, it starts to hear the wondrous Music of the Spheres of which Pythagoras spoke. By the time the soul reaches the Empyrean, the music has become simply divine: it is the music of Creation itself, of Eternity, of God.

      Every stage of the ascent takes the soul further and further from Satan and his irredeemable evil. The soul reaches levels of ever-increasing purity, and the quality of light it experiences becomes more and more perfect.

      The ascent takes the soul through the seven heavens of our solar system (as it was known and understood in ancient and medieval times): the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Beyond these seven heavens is the crystal sphere of the fixed stars (the firmament).

      In this cosmological view, there’s a finite number of stars and they are all located within one shell of the overall vast sphere of Creation. All of the stars are fixed perfectly in position. None of them move: only the shell in which they are located moves, thus explaining the apparent movement of the stars and constellations in the night sky seen from a supposedly stationary Earth.

      Dante

      DANTE (1265-1321) IS ONE OF the greatest artists of all time. He was on the fringes of the Illuminati, being a zealous advocate of the Knights Templar and despising those who destroyed the Templar Order. He was equally enraptured by the Illuminati’s tales of King Arthur and the Holy Grail.

      Although his

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