Jiang Xueqin’s Illuminati theory on Breaking Points engages in a dangerous pattern of mythologizing the oligarchy, financiers and various other governed institutional powers that need to be rejected and reexamined as he has become popular. His lectures seem normal, until you examine further the appropriation of the history of the Gnostics and the mysteries to clothe within a pop cultural explanation about international rings of sex trafficking networks and the delusions of our political and business class. The public never seem to know anything about “the occult” except through negative associations and eschatology categories.
As many of you that have been readers for longer or read the About, I began the pivot of focus from Asia to the Americas as a critical reaction to Manly P. Hall’s book Secret Destiny of America, contrasting it with H.P. Blavatsky’s rejection of the Illuminati conspiracy in Adepts in America in 1776 in which H.P.B. states, that the American Revolution owes itself to an independent operation of settlers, not associated with Oriental adepts. Among the human agency involved in this revolution were Rosicrucians and other European spiritual movements.
I have used Jiang Xueqin before on the collapse of the post-World War global order and war with Iran, but going more into his work, he adapts Gnostic narratives and weave them into his Illuminati theories about who controls the world that prove to be counter-productive and ahistorical, and contributes to the tactic of disinformation I voiced a serious concern about in Countering the Hyper-War: Dugin’s Tactic, Global Anti-American Narratives and other Foreign Disinformation.
These narratives and theories of history, which are often not backed by any primary sources give the mistaken notion, that a consistent singular force or body of influence underlies the political and geopolitical structure of the U.S.
Professor Jiang spreads special theories full of misinformation, which make my work and plenty others more than difficult. This was and remains an unfortunate and similar problem with people like Michael Tsarion in this niche. Jiang is also engaged in spreading the disorganizing and chaotic propaganda that makes it infinitely more difficult on a global scale, because now we have Illuminati and Dajjalic depictions of the West competing against an actual Zionist-Evangelical coalition that are engaged in the theatrics of Apocalyptic prophecy. Instead of a populace of citizens capable of putting our psychotic political class in its place, the people are engrossed and engaged in mythologizations.
I do not agree with Jiang Xueqin on Breaking Points, where he stated that by observing the Epstein files, the world appears to be run by secret societies and then connecting this to a long history of secret societies, particularly from the viewpoint of someone that is not a student of esotericism, but a predictive analyst. This view is not different from the propaganda of foreign countries, and American evangelicals’ people are pretending to suddenly hate, though they have engaged in these polemics.
Popular culture myths keep associating the political and financial elite class going through religious psychosis with the historical development of the ancient Mysteries, cultic institutions and ritual colleges — yet not a single one of these nut-wings have exhibited the temperament, character, discipline, or shown any signs they are of or knowledgeable of these things. Our dominant political class exhibit the opposite of what the pop culture mythology associates them with. The fact that a large mass of the populace engages in this conspiracy as normal in viewing the two as part of a singular history and entity is actually something that protects the criminality of the power structure with mythology.
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He says that you can name them the Illuminati, but he states, we don’t know who they are, yet they control the military and national security operatives.
So, why do you call them the ILLUMINATI?
Professor Jiang claims, that the Illuminati are composed of three groups: the Vatican, the Jesuits and the Sabbatean-Frankists. By admitting “we don’t know who they are” yet naming a precise (and false) appellation by which to identify unknown underlying elites, Jiang abuses the term “Illuminati” to conflate unrelated groups, slander historical rationalists, and perpetuate urban legends that obscure verifiable power analysis.
I will establish a position about conspiracism. In my recent article, Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment Republicanism against Illuminati Panic: Letter on Weishaupt’s Perfectibilist Ideal, I detail the early attacks against Thomas Jefferson in his defense of Adam Weishaupt in a private letter. To spread the hysteria to the masses, conspiracists needed to villainize and implicate a Founding Father to give it legitimacy. Jefferson picked the Illuminati scare apart with philosophical and historical context, but once the letter became public, the conspiracists adapted their tactic by using the letter to support their conspiracy about Illuminati infiltration in the American government. This history later in the 1820s led to the creation of the earliest third party in the U.S. known as the Anti-Masonic Party. These tactics were used long before social media and the age of post-truth. No number of fact-giving can defuse the spread of a conspiratorial lie once it has circulated in the minds of the masses, shaping how they read and view everything in accordance with religious fears and anxieties from economic woes.
Now, these views that mythologizes perverted materialists in power, who do act like Frankists composes a pop-culture syncretism that is distinct from the documented Bavarian Order of the Illuminati founded in 1776.
This Bavarian secret society known as “Illuminati” (Latin illuminatus, “enlightened” or “initiated adepts”) founded 1 May 1776 by Johann Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830), initially called the Perfectibilists was short-lived. Weishaupt, a professor of canon law at Ingolstadt did explicitly model its graded structure on Jesuit constitutions for discipline yet abhorred the Society of Jesus and used the Order to advance anti-clerical, secular Enlightenment goals: education reform separating church and state in Bavaria, moral self-scrutiny, republicanism, and human “perfectibility,” which is opposite of the Frankists. Weishaupt invoked Zoroastrian “Fire-Worship of the Magi” as allegory for the divine principle of reason (Logos) and posited an anarchist utopianism.
Modern claims of world domination, financier elites, or occult cabals reflect Joly antics and other eighteenth-century hearsay from Robison and Barruel that conflated everything. The Order failed as a vehicle for change, but Weishaupt’s ideas succeeded indirectly through broader Enlightenment secularism and revolutions.
Do not create myths or engage in myth-perpetuation about those who rule over you or govern you.
The Illuminati were explicitly anti-Jesuit, anti-Vatican, and are unrelated to Sabbatean-Frankists. The words, Illuminati and Sabbatean-Frankists should not be used together. Jiang’s tripartite Vatican, Jesuits and Sabbatean-Frankists is pure conspiracy syncretism. This is the “Epsteinism” propaganda against the West I have written about used to justify the Shaytan or Dajjalic West discourse from the other side.
Weishaupt borrowed the Jesuit hierarchical model instrumentally while fighting their dominance over Bavarian education and politics. The Catholic Church and clergy (allied with anti-Illuminati Rosicrucians) instigated the Order’s suppression; and the edicts came from the Elector of Bavaria under ecclesiastical pressure.
The seventeenth to eighteenth-century Jewish antinomian messianic movements from Sabbatai Zevi to Jacob Frank are a staple of later anti-Jewish grand theories (Rothschild-Illuminati-Protocols). This hearsay is traced to the panic caused by Barruel and Robison that slandered Weishaupt, whose order was Protestant and Enlightenment-oriented and deist-republican, focused on secular perfectibility and natural morality. Jesus was reframed as an ethical teacher of liberty and equality. Enlightenment connotations of reason derive from the Latin word illuminare meaning intellectual light. Epstein files reveal documented elite networks of financiers, politicians, intelligence ties, possible honeypot operations operating through public institutions, capital, and state agencies. Attributing this to an unknowable secret society but then saying that they are the Illuminati composed of Jesuits, the Vatican and Frankists imports 1798-1800 style panic and propaganda that continues to distract and confuse Americans.
Thomas Jefferson’s 31 January 1800 letter is decisive, in explaining that during the early republic’s “Illuminati scare,” Federalist clergy and politicians (Jedidiah Morse et al.) claimed Weishaupt’s Order infiltrated America, caused the French Revolution, and threatened Christianity and the government. Jefferson called this the “ravings of a Bedlamite,” defended Weishaupt as an “enthusiastic Philanthropist” believing in “indefinite perfectibility of man,” and noted that secrecy was defensive against “tyranny & priests.” The real “conspiracy” was clerical-Federalist use of the label to attack republicanism. The conspiracists feared the spreading of information, reason and natural morality.
Jiang replicates this tactic, by propagating the idea that Epstein shows real power concentrations (military-intel operatives included) while labeling them Illuminati or Frankists, which mythologizes distributed institutional and oligarchic realities into a monolithic ancient cabal. The historical Illuminati sought the opposite of control, through moral perfection, which Weishaupt believed would dissolve the need for government domination, standing armies or security states. Jiang sadly engages in the subtle arts and specious half-truths that have served to discredit actual philanthropists and Enlightenment ideals, preventing the public from being educated well on the history, thereby undermining our own civilization.
Epstein’s revelations demand empirical dissection of state-corporate-intel networks, not copying eighteenth-century history or seventeenth-century sectarianism. Study the documented Order, reject the calumnies, misuses and analyze the real elites that we know without the label that has fueled panic for 240 years. The interview revealed that Professor Jiang’s view is ordinary, and not insight into secret control, but it is the latest iteration of the panic the historical Illuminati’s own ideals were meant to dispel.
Do not let those with great reach and influence spread misinformation about this history that contributes to anti-esoteric discourse and narratives of history. Protect knowledge from those who co-opt the history of Occult Philosophy to explain who “controls the world,” educate those that misuse the term Illuminati, and stop the mythologizations.
The American Minervan 
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