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Rhodes argued, saying that if Britain did not "take and open up overcome by a global civilisation, albeit an Anglo-Saxon one. the dependencies of the world which are at present devoted to There were a number of important differences, however, with barbarism, we shall shut out the world's trade".** Rhodes being influenced by Classical philosophers rather than by Quite simply, Rhodes did not believe that free trade in itself the Enlightenment theorists whom Weishaupt admired; this had would benefit Britain unless there were some political action to made him into an ardent imperialist rather than the cosmopolitan support it, preferably in the form of imperial expansion and con- idealist that Weishaupt clearly was. Unlike Weishaupt, a radical solidation. "Being a Free Trader," he was to write to Stead, "I thinker who aspired to overthrow the existing political and reli- believe that until the world comes to its senses you should gious order, Rhodes sought only to expand and preserve what he declare war with those who are trying to boycott your manufac- regarded as the absolute pinnacle of human civilisation: the tures." He had been particularly taken British Empire. by South African politician Jan Furthermore, Weishaupt was an Hendrik Hofmeyr's proposal, first academic of limited means, whose raised at the 1887 Colonial only hope of realising his vision was Conference, of an Empire-wide two- Rhodes was in many respects to use the Illuminati to try to infiltrate per-cent tariff against foreign goods. existing centres of power and sway "The politics of the next hundred one of the first true modern elite opinion. His ambitious years are going to be tariffs and noth- heirs to Adam Weishaupt, endeavour met with some success, but ing else," Rhodes proclaimed while . ultimately ran afoul of the Bavarian Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. founder of the Bavarian authorities, culminating in his exile In his letter to Stead, Rhodes identi- Illuminati. and the banning of the Illuminati. fied the only possible solution: "You Rhodes, in contrast, with a might finish the [tariff] war by union controlling stake in southern Africa's with America and universal peace, I diamond monopoly, two terms as mean after a hundred years and a secret society organised like [St Ignatius] Loyola's [founder of the Jesuits]. Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and feted by Britain's Establishment, had at his disposal enormous financial and political resources— and, as such, ample opportunity to act on his ideas without fear THE NEW WEISHAUPT of persecution by the state because, especially in southern In pursuing this course, Rhodes was in many respects 01 one of Africa, he was the state. 1139 Rhodes was in many respects one of the first true modern heirs to Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati. THE NEW WEISHAUPT In pursuing this course, Rhodes was in many respects one of the first true modern heirs to Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati. A Professor of Law at the University of Ingolstadt and a former a Jesuit priest, Weishaupt created the Illuminati in 1776 to achieve his radical, utopian goal of transforming society. He envisaged a world devoid of "princes and nations", in which the human race would "become one family".” Rhodes's similarities with Weishaupt are threefold: first, he came to the same conclusion as Weishaupt that creating his own secret society for the purposes of changing elite opinion was the only means to ensure that his goals could be achieved; second, he was similarly unimpressed by the Freemasons and the Jesuits, yet he copied their methods; and finally, his ultimate goal was essentially the same as Weishaupt, in that he sought to create a world order in which peace would prevail as divisions would be Part Two examines Alfred Milner's role in the first efforts to realise Rhodes's vision of a secret society devoted to imperial unity. About the Author: Will Banyan, BA (Hons), GradDip (Information Science), is a writer specialising in the political economy of globalisation. He has worked for local and national governments as well as some international organisations and the private sector. He is currently working on a revisionist history of the New World Order and an analysis of the War on Terror. Banyan's six-part series, "Rockefeller Internationalism", was published in NEXUS 10/03-11/02. He has also published papers at the Modern History Project website. Will Banyan can be contacted by email at banyan007@rediffmail.com. Endnotes Milner's Young Men: The "Kindergarten" who places the Round Table at the centre 1. Quote attributed to Rhodes in Frederic — in Edwardian Imperial Affairs, Duke of his diagram, which is in fact a copy of Whyte, The Life of W. T. Stead, Jonathan _ University Press, 1968, p. 124. Stan Deyo's "Round Table of the Nine" Cape, 1925, vol. II, p. 206. 6. David Icke, ...And The Truth Shall Set diagram in his book The Cosmic 2. Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of You Free: The most explosive book of the | Conspiracy (West Australian Texas the Great Powers: Economic Change and 20th century, Bridge of Love, 1995, p.67. Trading, 1992, p. 96). Dr John Coleman, Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, 7. See Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and in contrast, presents the Round Table as Random House, 1987, pp. 224-226. Hope: A History of The World in Our an offshoot of the Royal Institute for 3. Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Time, Angriff Press, 1966-1974, pp. 130- _ International Affairs, itself beneath the Made the Modern World, Basic Books, 133, 144-153, 950-956; and Quigley, "Committee of 300"; see Conspirators' 2003, p. xxiii. "The Round Table Groups in Canada, Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 4. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the 1908-38", Canadian Historical Review, 300, America West Publishers, 1992, p. Great Powers, pp. 226-229 (quote on p. September 1962, pp. 204-224. 265. 229). 8. Jeremy Lee, Australia 2000: "What 10. It is hoped that an enterprising 5. Quoted in A.M. Gollin, Proconsul in Will We Tell Our Children?", Pickford researcher will some day analyse Politics: A Study of Lord Milner in Productions, 1997, p. 28. Quigley's research notes for Tragedy and Opposition and in Power, Anthony Blond, 9. See, for example, David Icke (...And Hope, now available at Georgetown 1964, p. 16; and Walter Nimocks, The Truth Shall Set You Free, p. 151), Continued on page 76 NEXUS * 35 Continued next issue ... DECEMBER 2004 — JANUARY 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com