Re: Freemasonry and Mary Shelley

On Friday, 28 January 2011 at 18:53:44 UTC, Offramp wrote:
> On Jan 28, 1:54 pm, Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:43:15 -0800 (PST), Offramp
> >
> >
> >
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >I suppose we all know that Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a gothicky
> > >horror novel called St Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, and that he was
> > >certainly a sympathizer with Rosicrucian thought. In fact he was
> > >parodied in Nightmare Abbey.
> >
> > >But let's talk about his second wife for a minute. I want to share
> > >with you here at alt.freemasonry  a completely original discovery I
> > >have made about Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern
> > >Prometheus.
> > >This novel is set in, of all the towns in Europe, Ingolstadt. The name
> > >of the doctor is formed from Franken, meaning free, and Stein meaning
> > >stone.
> > >Ingolstadt was the birthplace of the Illuminati.
> >
> > >Say no more, sunshine! Say no more!!
> >
> > You did not really say anything.
> >
> > Mary Shelly began writing Frankenstein in 1816, about thirty years
> > after the Illuminati were disbanded and arrested.  Outside of paranoid
> > conspiracy theories, the Illuminati only existed from 1776 to 1785,
> > and were formed to promote the replacement of despotic monarchies with
> > democratic republics.  According to Mary Shelley=E2=80=99s introduction=
 to the
> > 1831 edition of "Frankenstein," the novel "Frankenstein" was inspired
> > by the experiments of the 18th-century natural philosopher and poet
> > Erasmus Darwin, who was said to have animated dead matter.
> Thank you for your comnnts and I think I may have jumped the gun!
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