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The same Pike reading claims Masonry adopted the symbols and tools of stone masonry as its mission widened and even aided the French Revolution before later reappearing with restored order.
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French Revolution
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Man owned it to himself to be free. He owned it to his country to seek to give her freedom or maintain her in..."
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Jiang argues that Pike's account of Masonic responsibility for the French Revolution, Napoleon, and long-range revenge for Jacques de Molay is not factual history but a mythic retrospective that grants the movement centuries of strategic depth and sacred mission.
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Jiang says Marxism is the natural progression of the French Revolution because both seek the victory of reason over emotion, and he therefore glosses the emerging AI surveillance state as techno-Marxism.
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He treats the general will as the sovereign and says the French Revolution threatened monarchies because it made the people, rather than the monarch, the highest authority.
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French revolutionary armies defeated monarchic professional armies because citizens animated by the new sovereign theory were willing to fight and die while mercenaries mainly wanted pay and intimidation.
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He says French revolutionary soldiers could run into cannon fire because liberty was treated as more valuable than life.
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He says the French nation is a social contract in which rights create citizen equity in the game, and citizens repay that equity by sacrificing for the nation.
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Suppression of aspiring middle classes by higher classes creates revolutionary dynamics such as the French Revolution.
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"Man owned it to himself to be free. He owned it to his country to seek to give her freedom or maintain her in..."
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"It aided in bringing about the French Revolution, disappeared with the... Girondists. Girondists. Was born again with the restoration of order and sustained the..."
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"...So he talks about how the Freemasons not only created the French Revolution, they created the French Revolution, but they brought about Napoleon in..."
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"the Freemasons actually created conditions for the French Revolution and conspired for generations, for decades, in order to avenge the dead. In order to..."
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"...is good. Why? Because it is the endpoint of history. The French Revolution was about promoting reason over emotion. Marxism is a natural progression..."
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"you should behave the law of universality secondly is the idea of free will no one can compel you to smile you must smile..."
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"...this is the social contract. This is the ideal state. The French Revolution started because there were many intellectuals, revolutionaries who wanted to achieve..."
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"...die for this, okay? Right? So what was happening during the French Revolution, these wars, was that you had the monarchies, and these were..."
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"call on their citizens to fight and to die, and it was almost unlimited amount of soldiers. Whereas the other countries like Prussia, Russia,..."
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"...than be a slave. And that was their thinking during the French Revolution, right? Yeah, only citizens. They have absolutely no experience with firearms,..."
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"...so why was why did the Freemasons help help foment the French Revolution? Well, number one is they want revenge for the French killing..."
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"...assume that if the Freemasons are able to pull off the French Revolution, they should probably either be involved or be leading other major..."
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