Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44 Here, in a stinging indictment delivered to the Jews who were seeking to kill Him, Jesus identified the primary source of falsehood and murder as Satanic. As we progress through events of the French Revolution it will become evident that the primary motivation, beyond lust for wealth and power, was a Satanically-inspired desire of evil for the sake of evil. After firmly estabhshing themselves in Bavaria (a part of what is now Germany), the leaders of the Illuminati began to work toward their international goal of overthrowing all existing governments and, eventually, ruling the world. At that time (1789) France was the richest and most populous nation on the continent of Europe; and it was here that the "great experiment in Democracy" began. The battle cry was "liberty, equality, and fraternity." The vehicle was Socialism. 34 Chapter 6 The French Revolution