The Source: A View of Illuminism at the Beginning

...from Adam Zamoyski's book Phantom Terror, who frames the Freemasonry/Illuminati story arising out of the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century as a source of the paranoia of monarchs across Europe and their subsequent oppressions which in fact led to the revolutions of 1848. But of course this story didn't end there, rather it is a foundational aspect of 21st century rightwing conspiratorial thought, that of the neo-Bircher New World Orderers.