Following on from all of this discussion about ‘Sabbatean kabbalah’, and the xtian-mason inspired ‘Kol HaTor’, I girded my loins to actually read through the English translation of a book entitled:

The Diaries of Rabbi Ha’im Yosef David Azulai [The CHIDA]

With notes by Benjamin Cymerman.

It’s very well translated, and the notes are useful, to a point, but often just gloss over or ignore stuff that is pretty shocking.

We’ll keep the excerpts that shed some light on the CHIDA’s own complicated relationship with Shabtai Tzvi, and the many Sephardi sabbateans who were bankrolling the old yishuv in Eretz Yisrael, for another post.

In this post, I want to focus on one of the more interesting people the diaries threw up – who’d I’d never heard of before, but who seems to hold a very big piece of the ‘Frankist-Freemason’ puzzle.

Let’s begin.

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By way of background, the passage I’m going to quote comes from the CHIDA’s second ‘tour’ of Europe, as the official fundraiser for Hevron, which finds him in France, in 1777-8.

The CHIDA is meeting a lot of the gvirs – the wealthy names of the communities he travels through – as well as the communal leaders, who are known as parnassim.

(So many of their names are familiar to me, and maybe also to you, from all the stuff we’ve been tracking down here together about the Sabbateans etc.)

So, when I come across a very prominent person I’ve never heard of before in these diaries – that’s the first place I start doing more of a ‘deep dive’.

What are they hiding?

Read on.

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This passage comes from p 174 in the Second Book, from the CHIDA’s stay with the Jews of Bordeaux:

In the afternoon, I went with….S Daniel (Astruc) to the estate of Abraham Grades, an honoured person in the royal Court of France, a man of great wealth – several  millions – a philanthropist towards the gentile and the State [of France].

He is always ready for their service and he had become famous.

And he is one of the greatest apostates, not believing in the Oral Law and eating of the prohibited foods – in public.

It once happened that a priest came [to him to] tell of a certain gentile had died and at the time of his death, had made confesso that he had stolen from the said Abraham Grades 20 thousand litres[1] and that they should be returned to him.

And Abraham [Grades] replied that they should divide [the money] among their churches and their poor folk; thus did his name become great – in abominations!

And he once lent 100 thousands litres to a certain [French] minister when he was hard-pressed – and then wrote him over all his possessions in America, making him the inheritor. These are just some of his ways.

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I read this, and i sat up.

Who is this super-rich, French-apostate Jew who is bequething property in America to French nobles?!

And, why have I never heard of him before?!

We are about to find out.

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The journey began with AI.

I’d typed in ‘Abraham Grades’ into a couple of search engines, so censored these days as to be almost worthless – and nothing came back.

So then tried AI, and also got the runaround, until Hashem put it in my head to just ask for details on any wealthy Jewish dudes hanging out the French Court in 1777.

I got this back:

In summary, Abraham Gradis of the Bordeaux Gradis family was indeed a senior Jewish official with an important role in the French royal court in 1777, as described in the source you referenced.

He wielded significant influence as a Court Merchant and financier to the crown during this period.

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Once I had the correct spelling, tracking him down historically got a little easier.

You can find the French Wiki page for ABRAHAM GRADIS here.

These are some of the machine-translated snippets that caught my eye:

EXHIBIT 1: He is another ‘crypto Jew’ whose family come from Portugal:

Born to a jewish family originally from Portugal, Abraham Gradis is the son of David Gradis (v. 1665-1751) and Marie Sara Mendes-Moreno.

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EXHIBIT 2: His close family are engaged in the shipping, spices, gems and slave trade in the French West Indies – but on behalf of the French crown:

One of his first cousins… was sent to Martinique , in 1726 by his uncle David Gradis….[they] founded the trading company Gradis & Mendes.

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EXHIBIT 3: ABRAHAM GRADIS seems to have been some sort of international spy

From his youth, Abraham entered the financial house [House of Gradis] founded by his grandfather and then run by his father. In 1720, he made several trips to Paris, to the Netherlands and to London.

Under the direction of Abraham Gradis, [the firm] acquires considerable importance beginning from the years 1740 , where he provides a lot of freight (transportation of goods] for the king of France.

The friendship and trust that Gradis has with Maurepas contributes to his success.

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Let’s pause to sketch in more of the background details.

The King of France at this time is LOUIS XV.

You can find the Wiki page for MAUREPAS HERE, this is the relevant snippet:

Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Comte de Maurepas (1701-1781) was… Louis XV’s Secretary of State for the Navy from 1723 to 1749.

After a long disgrace, he became Minister of State on the accession of Louis XVI in 1774 until his death in 1781.

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‘Minister of State’ was basically the equivalent of today’s French President.

Our ABRAHAM GRADIS is hanging out with literally the top people in France.

Oh,and MAUREPAS is also a leading Freemason. Of course:

He was also a very influential member of the Freemason high nobility.

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MAUREPAS is the main guy who prevents the nascent French Freemason movement from being persecuted and destroyed, when many non-masons were starting to realise just how dangerous, evil and subversive the masonic movement really was.

MAUREPAS is one of the biggest fish, in the toxic, masonic pond.

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The early to late 1700s is when England, France, Holland and Spain are all at war with each other, especially over trying to keep control of their economically lucrative holdings in the so-called ‘New World’.

ABRAHAM GRANDIS apparently plays a very big role in these wars, working for the French monarch and his merry band of masons.

Snippet:

During the War of the Austrian Succession, [GRADIS] obtained from the Superintendent of Trade the exclusive right to trade with New France.

In 1748 he created the Société du Canada…with the intendant of New France, François Bigot, and the official comptroller of the mayor’s office at Quebec, Jacques-Michel Bréard…

[GRADIS] fitted out forty ships bound for Canada on behalf of the Crown or its agents, not to mention the ships he sent there on his own account.

He also built large stores in Quebec for the raw and manufactured products he brought from France.

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In 1756, he was given the task of forwarding dispatches and secret orders to New France, as well as the supply of the stores at Quebec on behalf of the king, thus becoming a shipping agent for the king.

Several dozen of his ships made the voyage to New France during the Seven Years’ War to supply French troops and settlers…

Gradis was commissioned by the Minister of the Navy Choiseul, with whom he had excellent relations and who called him “my dear Gradis”, to supply the West Indies from the 1760s onwards….

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In 1764, Choiseul put him in charge of the general supply of supplies and food for the American colonies….for three years.

In 1767, he obtained from the Duke of Praslin, Minister of the Navy, the responsibility of sending cash to the American colonies, then, from the Abbé Terray, the supply of the Bourbon Islands and France, and finally, from the Minister de Boynes, the sending of cash to the Bourbon Islands and France, as well as to the trading posts of the Indies.

“During the whole period of the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), his trade with Canada amounted to £9,000,000.

There were many losses, for more than half of the ships he sent were captured by the English.”

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What this lengthy snippet shows us, is that ABRAHAM GRADIS was the right-hand man for the French Kings during their wars with England and Spain, over who should rule the American continent.

This was all about self-enrichment, and exploiting ‘the New World’ to the max.

It’s the opening salvo of the ECONOMIC HITMEN model of toxic capitalism that has ruined so much of what is good n our world.

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And our guy, ABRAHAM GRADIS, is bang, slap, in the middle of moving goods, guns and people around, equipping armies for the French Crown, extending loans to the French Navy – and also, crucially, helping to channel French money to pay for the American Revolution.

Snippet:

In a letter sent in March, 1763, Bauffremont wrote to him ” You’re the father of the navy “.

Abraham Gradis went into business with Beaumarchais in 1776, with the Minister Sartine, to provide war supplies destined for the american rebels.

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By way of background, MINISTER SARTINE is the guy who takes over running the French Navy (and by extension, the French colonial wars and international trade), from MAUREPAS.

JOSEPH de BAUFFREMONT comes from old French nobility – and is a member of a whole bunch of secret societies, including being a Knight of the Golden Fleece, and the Order of St John of Jerusalem.

But the real key to all this is BEAUMARCHAIS, ABRAHAM GARDIS’s ‘business partner’.

And here is where we whoosh off into ‘remarkable real history’ territory, once again.

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HERE is the French Wiki page for Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.

He’s the author of ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, and also has an unfortunate habit of marrying very wealthy older women who die in mysterious circumstances, shortly afterwards.

That’s not even the most interesting stuff.

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BEAUMARCHAIS is also in charge of the French King Louis XV’s ‘secret service’, called:

LE SECRET DU ROI

In English, the ‘Secret of the King’.

Here’s a snippet about it, from the French Wikipedia page:

For twenty years, king Louis XV split his diplomacy into two networks, one official and the other illegal, the latter aimed in particular at promoting the interests of the sovereign when they were not fully aligned with those of the official foreign policy of the kingdom.

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Apparently, the SECRET DU ROI, or it’s immediate precursor, was directly responsible for the ‘royal revolution’ in Russia in 1741, that brought Empress Elizabeth I to the Russian throne – and made this Tsarina very susceptible to French suggestions, when it came to Russian foreign policy.

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Move forward a few decades, and the SECRET DU ROI – or it’s next incarnation, under LOUIS XVI – is up to its old tricks again, this time, in the American colonies.

Snippet:

The existence of the Secret was discovered a few days before the death of Louis XV in 1774.

At the advent of his grandson, Louis XVI, the Secret was dissolved. However, its agents, still active…attempted to play an important role in the American war of independence, [with] Beaumarchais, providing weapons to the Arms.

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How did BEAUMARCHAIS do this, tachlis?

With a little help from his Jewish-Converso-Rich Apostate friend, ABRAHAM GARDIS of Bordeaux.

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Of course, that isn’t spelt out in black and white in ‘official history’ – and that’s probably also why ABRAHAM GARDIS got so carefully scrubbed from history.

Because he is so tightly linked into the Jewish-Converso-xtian-masonic network that literally came to control and subvert the whole Jewish world, in a million ways.

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Let’s stick with the American Revolution in this post, we’ll figure out more of the tight links between people like GARDIS and the Frankist-Masons I write about so much in a different post, BH.

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Here’s the snippet from BEAUMARCHAIS’s Wikipedia page:

From the months of June, 1777, [BEAUMARCHAIS] embarks on a new adventure, and he made himself the advocate of French intervention in the war of independence of the United States…

In the month of September, 1775, Beaumarchais played a political role as the intermediary between the Arms, and France, and he frequently meets Arthur Lee, member of the secret of the Arms.

On 10 June 1777, the secretary of State for foreign affairs entrusted him with a large sum of money to support secretly Americans.

Secretly sent by Louis XVI and Vergennes, Beaumarchais, receives theauthorization to sell gunpowder and ammunition for nearly a million of livres tournois, under the cover of the Portuguese company Roderigue Hortalez and Company.

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It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Roderigue Hortalez and Co was actually a front company for the HOUSE OF GRADIS.

This is how ABRAHAM GRADIS made his big bucks, and got in so cozy with the French royalty and nobles – and Freemasons.

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A quick word about ARTHUR LEE, for non-Yanks.

HERE is his Wiki page, and there, we learn that he and his three brothers played pivotal roles in the American Revolution – funded by French Freemasons to put their Bros in pole position across the pond.

One brother was RICHARD HENRY LEE, another one was FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE, officially one of the ‘Founding Fathers’ of the Masonic construct named the United States of America.

Click the links to learn more, if all this interests you.

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Now that I’m typing this up, I remember I did a whole post about MICHAEL HAYS, another crypto Jew who was leading the charge for the French masons and monarchy in the American Revolution….

There is still a bunch more interesting stuff to tell you about ABRAHAM GRADIS and his descendants, and all the trouble they caused the Jewish people nearer to our times, and how this also connects up to the Freemason take-over of the Jewish people.

But that will have to keep for the next post.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] A litre was a unit of currency at that time.