First of all, let me just say that this isn’t a copy-and-paste job. These are my own conclusions. I am going to be brief and to the point. These are ideas off the top of my head. If and when the thread develops, I can expand on these arguments in greater detail.
The Enlightenment era produced an explosion of atheism, based on Pythagorean mysticism and Newtonian physics, which tends to detach moral considerations from the complexity of human life and reduce it to mere mechanical or fluid motions. Enlightenment thought has reduced purposeful nature to a nature based on “anything goes”…echoed by occultist Aleister Crowley when he proudly proclaimed “do what thou wilt.” In other words, let your passions lead you accordingly. Where this contradicts the atheist’s delusion that atheism is truly liberating is when the atheist fails to see that “liberated” men and women can and are led by their passions by external forces. In other words, those who control the stimuli can and do control the stimulated. The atheists have dumped the alleged repression of religion and replaced it with another hierarchal system of social control—the Illuminati power structure, which holds a monopoly over said stimuli.
Virtually all of the leading Enlightenment thinkers were Freemasons or occultists. The onus is on the researcher to find an Enlightenment thinker who wasn’t involved in the occult. Freemasonry is a religion, as Albert Pike stated, so what’s it all got to do with atheism? Why would Masonic religionists popularize a seemingly anti-theist point of view? The only logical answer can be atheism’s use in revolution. And whether it was during the Masonic-led French revolution or 33 rd degree Freemason Vladimir Lenin’s nihilistic communist state, atheism was instrumental in overthrowing throne and altar.
Atheism also shares a fundamental association with the occult, specifically Kabbalism. They both seek to create heaven on earth through their respective interpretations of the concept. In either scenario, the goal is to attain a god-like level of enlightenment (illumination) so that one can manipulate nature (magic) according to one’s own desires. In Kabbalism, gnosis and incantation are the vehicles by which to bring heaven; in atheism, gnosis via “science” is the vehicle to bring utopia (heaven).