ellauri142.html on line 1020: Alphonse Louis Constant, (8. helmikuuta 1810 – 31. toukokuuta 1875) oli ranskalainen okkultisti ja maagikko. Nimi ”Eliphas Lévi”, jolla hän kirjoitti kirjansa, oli hänen yrityksensä kääntää etunimensä Alphonse ja Louis hepreankielisiksi. Lévi oli pariisilaisen suutarin poika. Hän kävi pappisseminaareissa ja alkoi opiskella katolisen papin virkaa varten. Samaan aikaan hän kuitenkin rakastui ja lopetti opintonsa ilman pappisvihkimystä. Hän kirjoitti lukuisia lyhyitä uskonnollisia teoksia: Des Moeurs et des Doctrines du Rationalisme en France ('rationalismin moraalisista tavoista ja opeista Ranskassa', 1839) oli vastavalistuksen kulttuurillinen lentolehtinen. La Mère de Dieu ('Jumalan äiti', 1844) johti kahteen lyhyeen vankilatuomioon. Se seurasi kahta radikaalia lentolehtistä L'Evangile du Peuple ('Ihmisten evankeliumi', 1840), ja Le Testament de la Liberté ('Vapauden testamentti'), jotka julkaistiin vallankumouksen vuonna 1848. Lévi oli lyhyen aikaa naimisissa kirjailija Claude Vignonin kanssa. Alphonse oli kalju partapozo.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 455: You will, I hope, not think it a Presumption in a Stranger, whose Name, perhaps never reached your Ears, to address himself to you the Commanding General of a great Nation. I am a German, born and liberally educated in the City of Heydelberg in the Palatinate of the Rhine. I came to this Country in 1776, and felt soon after my Arrival a close Attachment to the Liberty for which these confederated States then struggled. The same Attachment still remains not glowing, but burning in my Breast. At the same Time that I am exulting in the Measures adopted by our Government, I feel myself elevated in the Idea of my adopted Country. I am attached both from the Bent of Education and mature Enquiry and Search to the simple Doctrines of Christianity, which I have the Honor to teach in Public; and I do heartily despise all the Cavils of Infidelity. Our present Time, pregnant with the most shocking Evils and Calamities, threatens Ruin to our Liberty and Goverment. Secret, the most secret Plans are in Agitation: Plans, calculated to ensnare the Unwary, to attract the Gay and irreligious, and to entice even the Well-disposed to combine in the general Machine for overturning all Government and all Religion.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 492: “I should be very happy in your Excellency’s good Opinion, that the Contagion of Illuminatism or Jacobinism had not yet reached this Country; but when I consider the anarchical and seditious Spirit, that shewed itself in the United States from the Time M. Genet and Fauchet (who certainly is of the Order) arrived in this Country and propagated their seditious Doctrines, which the illuminated Doctor from Birmingham has been zealously employed to strengthen, I confess I cannot divest myself of my Suspicions: yet I trust that the Alwise and Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe will so dispose the Minds of the People of these United States that true Religion and righteous Government may remain the Privileges of this Nation!
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 507: It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.
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