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thinkers devising Communism were men like Saint-Simon, who wanted to give birth to a new Messiah. In order for his goal of breaking the back of Christianity, a new religion had to be created. His final work was The New Christianity. He and his disciples planned for a fantastic new secular religion with globalness that foreshadowed much of this century's thinking.23 A recurrent mythic model for many of the early revolutionists was Prometheus, who in Greek religious thought had been the Titan who stole fire from the gods for mankind. Fire, and flames have been used as a symbol of enlightenment for many occultic groups. This gives us further understanding behind Lenin's name for his periodical "The Spark."24 One of the Masonic adepts says that the Illuminati Hammer of Thor represents illuminating power. This in all probability is the origin of the Russian's flag's hammer.25 To understand the origins of revolution and today's New World Order it is of profit to realize that "speculation about 'the year 2000' began not with the futurology of the 1960s, but with a dramatic work written in the 1780s by the same figure who invented the word communist."26 The secret fraternal society of "Society of Flowers" in France (1836-38) was the first fullfledged communist society." Prior to its founding there were a multitude of experiments along a similar line. Owen founded communes in both England and America. Owen was invited to France by one of his disciples Jules Gay to set up a "Maison Harmonienne" to unite SaintSimonianism, Fourierism, and Owenism. He went in 1837. The Mason Buonarroti produced a basic text for social revolutionaries later entitled History of the Conspriracy of Equals. This book was widely used by french social revolutionaries. The Mason Buonarroti, who headed the Universal Statistical Society, and who looked up to Owen, helped get a small Owenite Association of All Classes of All Nations going.27 Saint-Simonianism was continued after SaintSimon died by the son of a Jewish banker Olinde Rodriques and his student Enfantin.

The Scotch Baptists (immersed Sandemanians), started in 1775 by the Scot minister John Glas, were also a primary source of Sidney Rigdon's thinking. It is not hardly known that Alexander Campbell was converted to the Scotch Baptists, and that his Disciples of Christ were an offshoot of this group.28 Rigdon's "Baptist" church was of this type, and maintained tenuous if any relations with other Baptist churches. The Scot Baptists practiced a modified communism29 and believed in a Universal church.30 Alexander Campbell lost patience with their church in Pittsburgh, PA because they were having so many problems.31 Alexander Campbell had initially received help from the Presbyterians, and later was ordained by the regular Baptists,32 but finally struck out on his own tangent, and Sidney Rigdon joined him. Sidney Rigdon wanted to continue the communism that the Sandemanians had. Alexander Campbell wanted to continue the nomenclature of the Scotch Baptists in regards to the weekly collection which they called "the Fellowship" but wasn't interested in the communism.33 It is at this point that, the influence of the occultic-originated Communes of Owens, Fourier, George Rapp and others also played a part. These communal experiments had all failed, but individuals still loyal to their ideas found Rigdon's communal ideas compatible. Alexander Campbell not only allied his church temporarily with the Unitarians,34 but allowed Universalists and Masons to join his movement. Alexander Campbell later regreted doing this.35 People with these types of background found their way into two commune towns that Rigdon set up, and later handed over to Joseph Smith. John Cook Bennett, who was a Mason as a Cambellite, later became the mayor of the Mormon town of Navoo. (He was expelled from the Mormon church on May 11, 1842 and moved to Pittsburg, PA.)36 Rigdon joined the Freemasons. He also was the major factor in taking Joseph Smith from being a prophet without a church to a prophet with an organized church of two communes. Rigdon's congregations at Kirkland gave Joseph Smith the