Thriller "The Bernini Mystery" Reinforces Conspiracy Thinking About Illuminati

Rahim Tabet | Oktober 28, 2014 | Entertainment | The Fact

As in his thriller "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown's conspiracy in "The Bernini Mystery" conspiracies are the engine of human history. From that again He paints the eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinkers of the Illuminati off as a sect of world domination. He feeds the popular right-wing myth that secret societies were behind the French and Russian revolutions and are also infiltrated the top of banks, corporations, governments and international organizations.

There are countless websites full of conspiracy theories about the Illuminati (Latin for "the enlightened"). Brown does have to answer to his conspiracy story about a centuries-long battle between the scientists of the Illuminati and the religious leaders in the Vatican. In addition, the plots are piling up into a big inextricable hope.

The protagonist of "The Bernini Mystery" is Robert Langdon, professor of the same religious symbolism of Brown's other bestseller "The Da Vinci Code." (1) Langdon becomes involved in an investigation into the murder of a physicist. Together with physicist Vittoria Vetra It is antimatter stolen he had just developed and that a powerful bomb can be made. On the chest of the man, the word "Illuminati" branded. That shows the work of a Muslim who claims descent from the Assassins, an eleventh-century Islamic movement. Expect to work for the leader of the Illuminati, one Janus. This Muslim Together they want to take revenge on Christianity by the Vatican to blow during the election of a new pope. Muslim kills and condemns the four cardinals most likely to be the new pope. But Janus appears to be in reality, the chamberlain of the deceased pope. Chamberlain has the Pope himself poisoned because he has fathered a child and thus sinned. Through all his crimes in the shoes sliding the Illuminati tries chamberlain to science black and bring all of the Christian faith misguided people closer to the Catholic Church. Finally the chamberlain in the flames. So far the simple plot of "The Bernini Mystery".

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In the thriller and in interviews does Brown like there really an ancient influential secret society of Illuminati exists that the world wants to dominate. He is thus inevitably ended up in the fairway of the extreme right-wing conspiracy thinking, which assumes conspiracies of Jews, Freemasons and Illuminati. (2) In his book The Illuminati does not exist as persons of flesh and blood and it allows a Muslim and the Vatican murders. Yet time and again emphasized Brown how much power the Illuminati do not have and how they would be a deterrent. That is typical of the way conspiracy theorists deal with the Illuminati myth: how shadowy and spookier the Illuminati put down, the more useful they are to hate or helplessness feelings project.

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Illuminati conspiracy has numerous variants. Brown has his own version telling protagonist Langdon, according to its website. (3) It appears for Brown to go to exciting fiction, but scientifically sound "facts". It would be a "fact" that Galileo Galilei and other scholars in the sixteenth century the "Illuminati" have set up as a scientific think tank. The group would be persecuted by the Christian rulers and have gone underground, "where they mingled with other groups fleeing the Catholic purges: mystics, alchemists, occultists, Muslims and Jews," said Browns protagonist. Their influence would have been so great "that the church considered them the most dangerous anti-Christian power in the world", "the oldest and most powerful satanic cult."

The Illuminati were drawn according to Brown Europe "looking for a safe place to regroup." They would be in the eighteenth century eventually recorded by another "secret society", which "wealthy Bavarian stone masons that Freemasonry was called." But who would the "victim" have become "their own goodness" because they were "without knowing a front for the Illuminati. The number of Illuminati in their ranks grew, and gradually they took the important positions within the lodges over. in silence they built their scientific brotherhood deep into Freemasonry again;. a kind of secret society within a secret society then used the Illuminati's global network of masonic lodges to spread their influence. "So Brown will copy the current right-wing conspiracy theories about Freemasons and fantasizes that behind it there lurks a conspiracy of the Illuminati., And it makes it even more colorful. "The Illuminati gained more power in Europe and had their sights on America, a young country where many leaders were Freemasons: George Washington, Ben Franklin, honest, God-fearing men who nothing about the grip that the Illuminati had the Masons knew. the Illuminati used their infiltration by banks, universities and companies establish in order to finance the implementation of their ultimate goal. the creation of a single unified world state, a kind of secular New World Order. "

In his book, Brown let the journalist Gunther Glick argue that the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill believed in the omnipotence of the Illuminati, as well as the US President Woodrow Wilson. Who would have said in 1921: "There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete and so you better talk if you can not condemn her, but loud is omnipresent." George Bush himself would an Illuminatus senior according to Brown. For example, the Rothschilds, the Bilderbergers, Karl Marx and even the entire Russian revolution could be associated with the Illuminati, let Brown are characters from their necks chat.

By choosing a scholar as protagonist Brown tries to be Illuminati fantasy of a nuanced scientific aura provided. "Some people see conspiracies everywhere," let Brown Langdon say about other conspiracy theorists. "The abundance of conspiracy theories that circulated in modern popular culture, always had him annoyed. The media were shy to apocalyptic headlines, and self-proclaimed experts in the field of cults deserved still thick at the millennium hype with fabricated stories about the Illuminati, which would still exist and would have to organize their New World Order. "engaged Unintentionally Brown puts this mainly shit themselves.

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The Illuminati did exist, but they are certainly not the crazed scientists and unscrupulous power mongers who have been Brown and other conspiracy-fantasists of them made​​. The Order of the Illuminati was founded in Bavaria in 1776 by ​​the canon law professor Adam Weishaupt. Its members were influenced by Enlightenment thought, the progressive ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. They were critical of those in power, the church, the king and the nobility. The order was one of the many ways in which the bourgeoisie itself when organized to gain more influence. The emancipating citizens put the ideology of liberalism, which was linked to the rise of capitalism as a weapon against decaying feudalism. Because of the repression organized Freemasons and other supporters of the Enlightenment itself underground in more or less secret groups. Moreover, such "fraternities" Nowadays just legally operate as pressure groups, NGOs or political parties. But the right of association and assembly was not yet recognized.

The Illuminati Order was around 1785 banned by the highly conservative Bavarian government, which has close ties with the Catholic Church. Had The organization then ceased to exist. But the plot thinking about the Illuminati and Freemasons not. That flourished before and during the French Revolution just more and more, mainly due to the authors Augustin Barruel and John Robison. Because of the French Revolution fled the conservative Jesuit Barruel, a supporter of the old feudal society-order, at the end of the eighteenth century to England. There he became acquainted with the mathematical Robison. In 1797 Barruel "Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinism" and Robison published "Proofs of a Conspiracy against all Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in secret meetings of freemasons, illuminati and reading societies". The book set a trend and were particularly popular with conservatives.

According to Barruel the French Revolution was the result of a vast conspiracy of the Illuminati that would have emerged from the medieval Knights Templar. (1) Fuelled by anti-Semitic provocations and freemasons invented Barruel some 10 years later addition that the Jews in the plot sat. Have later versions of the Illuminati myth usually retain anti-Semitic tenor. In the 60s of the twentieth century, the founder of the far-right John Birch Society, Robert Welch, came up with the theory that the Communists behind a group of "Insiders" was hidden that would have emerged from the Illuminati. According to him include Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter would Insider members. The former US televangelist Pat Robertson and presidential candidate believes in a conspiracy of the Illuminati and Freemasons. That shows have appeared in 1991 book "The new world order". But especially the infamous conspiracy guru David Icke (2) has contributed greatly to the spread of the Illuminati conspiracy thinking. The antisemitic concoction "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", which he consistently calls "The Illuminati Protocols", according to him, would prove that the Illuminati want to get the world in their grip. Would the Illuminati in turn according to Icke controlled again by alien reptilians. He writes all characteristics that anti-Semites normally reserved for Jews. To The aliens were trying to conquer. Our planet Is Illuminati conspiracy in the Netherlands distributed through the "conspiracy expert 'John kühles (2) and the right-wing National Alliance. (4) All these fabrications can count on extra friendly interest, now Brown with his version of the Illuminati myth such a large readership has achieved and put some more extreme right conspiracy thinking back in the center of popular culture. A creepy development.

Reference:
1. "Extreme right-wing conspiracy in the thriller" The Da Vinci Code "," Harry Westerink. In: Fable Archive.
2. For more on David Icke, John kühles and conspiracy thinking: '' Conspiracy Expert 'turns anti-Semite, "Eric Krebbers. In: Fable Archive, and "Christian fundamentalists believe conspiracy of" internationalists "," Harry Westerink. In: Fable Archive. 
3. "An interview with Dan Brown, author of" Angels and Demons "". In: Dan Brown website.
4. "Fascists support Verdonk," Gerrit de Wit. In: Fable Archive.
5. http://www.doorbraak.eu

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