Fire in the Minds of men is a very important book to read.

From Matrix of Power by Jordan Maxwell

There is a very important book which I would like to bring to your attention, called Fire in the Minds of Men. It is written on the origins of the revolutionary fate. Fire in the Minds of Men was written by James Billington and is a profoundly important book in understanding the revolutionary radical movements of the world today, and how they were created, who finances them and what they are really all about. I would like to share with you a couple of his ideas that deal with the occult origins of the organizational arrangements on just how occult organizations throughout the world, namely secret societies, are organized. In the book, on page 87, Billington states that the story of secret societies can never be fully restructured. It has been badly neglected, even avoided one suspects, because the evidence that is available repeatedly leads us into territory equally uncongenial to modern histo- rians in the East and the West. In what follows, I shall attempt to show that the modern revolutionary tradi- tion, as it came to be internationalized under Napoleon, during the Restoration, grew out of occult Freemasonry . The early organizational revolutionary ideas orig- inated more from Pythagorean mysticism than from practical experience. Moreover, the real innovators were not so much the political activists, as much as literary intellectuals on whom German romantic thought in general, and the Bavarian Illuminati, in particular, exerted great influence. Here, Billington was specifically talking about the organization of the Bavarian Illuminati. You can't dis- cuss the Illuminati without understanding the Jesuit order of the Catholic Church, because Adam Weishaupt himself, the founder of the Illuminati, was, in fact, a Jesuit priest. He was not just an ordinary Jesuit priest, however. In Bavaria he con- tinued to support revolutionary radical thinking against the church, **giving to the world what has come to be known, as the revolutionary tradition. **