The American Minervan

Tag: Machiavelli

  • Maurice Joly: Origins of the Protocols of Zion and its Impact on Theosophy

    Maurice Joly: Origins of the Protocols of Zion and its Impact on Theosophy

    Stories of the Origins of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion AND ITS USE AGAINST THEOSOPHY Maurice Joly, an ill-fated Parisian attorney during the reign of Emperor Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) lived a life both comedy and tragedy. It is Maurice Joly who wrote the politically satirical Conversations between Machiavelli and Montesquieu in the…

  • John Adams on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism

    John Adams on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism

    The words of John Adams, second President of the United States (1797–1801) and the first Vice President (1789–97) on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism. “The substance and essence of Christianity, as I understand it, is eternal and unchangeable, and will bear examination forever, but it has been mixed with extraneous ingredients,…