The Gnostics and Illuminati claimed to pin their faith on the primitive Christian tradition of St. John

The French occultist, Eliphas Levi had said, “The societies of the elder world perished through the materialistic egoism of castes, saint-john-the-apostlebecoming petrified on their own part, isolating the common people in a hopeless reprobation and reserving the reins of power to a small number of the elect, so that it was deprived of that circulation which is the principle of progress, motion and life.

Power without antagonism, without competition and hence without control, proved fatal to the sacerdotal royalties. (more…)