Literary Works of History

Question 1

These four authors were thought to be some of the primary authors inspiring Satanism. They were mostly active during the European, Romantic period.

Answer 1

John Milton, William Blake, Charles Baudelaire, Anatole France

Question 2

Two answers required:

The Scientific Revolution was capstoned by this literary work, published in 1687. This book stated that the universe followed specific laws in nature that can be observed and studied.

Later on, inspired Enlightenment thinkers used these teachings in another text. They believed that the teachings of the first book could be applied to government and society as well, giving birth to this second text.

Answer 2

Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia
John Locke’s Second Treatise Concerning Civil Government

Question 3

The term “natural rights” was coined by this man, in this book, during the Enlightenment movement. In coining this, he advocated for life, liberty, and property.

Answer 3

Thomas Hobbs, Leviathan (1651)

Question 4

This book was written in 1487 by discredited Catholic Heinrich Kramer (discredited due to a failed witch hunt in Germany, leading people to believe he was crazy). This text acted as a way to suppress and torture women (or witches), detailing their powers, intentions, prosecution, and killing of.

Answer 4

Mallues Malefircarum (The Witchhammer)

Question 5

This text is said to actually be 30 or so different texts and include over 150 authors. It taught science, rationality, and tolerance in the late 1700s, France. These texts were also believed to be used by the Illuminati as a plan for world domination against the Catholic Church.

Answer 5

The French Encyclopedia

Question 6

This book was attributed to the German Holocaust of World War II. Published in 1903 and debunked in 1921, the book claimed to recite the minutes of a meeting between world leaders (Jewish world leaders in fact). Hitler used this book to push his campaign against the Jewish people and it became the official text taught in schools.

Answer 6

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Question 7

This book suggested that the sun was at the center of the universe, rather than the Earth, opposing the widely accepted Geocentric/Ptolemic model of the universe.

Answer 7

Nicolaus Copernicus’s On the Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs.