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and declares, that "the names of those to whom they owe the actual inftitution of the Order, will for ever remain unknown; the Chiefs who now govern not being Founders, and every document having been committed to the flames." In one of the claffes where Chrift is represented as the enemy of fuperftitious obfervances, the affertor of reafon and brotherly love, the candidate takes an oath to

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powerfully oppose fuperftition, flander, and defpotism: so that, like a true fon of the Order, he may ferve the world, and follow the traces of the pure and true religion pointed out in the inftructions and doctrines of Masonry, and faithfully report to the superiors the progrefs made therein." The ceremonies of admiffion to another of the degrees, are a blafphemous imitation of the facrament of the Lord's Supper. The Prefect, or Principal, after asking whether the knights are in the difpofition to partake of the love-feast in earnest peace and contentment, takes the plate with bread, and fays, " Jefus of Nazareth, our Grand Mafter, in the night in which he was betrayed by his friends, perfecuted for his love for truth, imprisoned, and condemned to die, affembled his trufty brethren, to celebrate his last love-feast, which is fignified to us in many ways. He took bread, and brake

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it (breaking it), and bleffed it, and gave it to. his difciples, &c. This fhall be the work of our holy union.Let each of you examine his heart, whether love reigns in it, and whether he, in full imitation of our Grand Mafter, is ready to lay down his life for his. brethren. Thanks be to our Grand Mafter, who has appointed this feast as a memorial of his kindness, for the uniting of the hearts of those who love him. Go in peace, and bleffed be this new affociation which we have formed Bleffed be who remain loyal and strive for the good caufe." In the Prieft's degree the ceremonies are a mock ordination, followed by a communion of honey and milk, to represent the purity of the primitive age of the world, when men fubfifted by food which nature supplied, unaffisted by the arts of civilized life. Such were the lesser mysteries, but there were higher for stronger ftomachs. In the first of these higher degrees the Magus, (the ceremonies of which are adapted to the fire worship of the Magi) the doctrines ́are the fame as those of Spinoza, where all is material; God and the world are the fame thing; and all religion is fhewn to be without -foundation, and the contrivance of ambitious. men." The fecond degree, or Rex, teaches that every peafant, citizen, and housholder,

is a Sovereign, as in the patriarchal state; and that nations must be brought back to that ftate, by whatever means are conduciblepeaceably if it can be done; but if not, then by force FOR ALL SUBORDINATION MUST BE

MADE TO VANISH FROM THE EARTH.

Thus, having by steps got rid of all Religion, the great aim of the fyftem is laid open, without the fear of any objection from thofe admitted into these myfteries. And thus it is proved beyond a doubt, that the Order of the Illuminati, following the system of Voltaire, had for its immediate objects the abolition of Christianity, and the destruction of all Civil government.

Succefs of the Order of Illuminati.

A few words refpecting the fuccefs of this Order, will at the fame time prove that the means employed to enfure it were exactly fimilar to those adopted by the affociation in France; and that it has been the inceffant labour of its Directors to introduce univerfal

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At Munich they established their principal Lodge, under the appearance of a fociety of zealous Naturalifts. Lodges were scattered all over Germany. There were many in Poland, Switzerland, and Holland, fome in France and Italy, and in England, two in Scotland, and feveral in America. All the German Schools, and the Benevolent Society, are at laft under our direction. We have got feveral zealous members in the Courts of Justice, and we are able to afford them pay, and other good additions. Lately we have got poffeffion of the Bartholomew Inftitution for young clergymen, having fecured all their fupporters. Through this we fhall be able to fupply Bavaria with fit priests. Two of our beft youths have got journeys from the court, and they will go to Vienna, where they will do us great fervice." The following directions are given among a variety of others, by a Chief of the Order. "We must acquire the direction of education-of church management of the profefforial chair-and of the pulpit-We must preach the warmeft concern for humanity, and make people indifferent to all other relations-We must gain the reviewers,

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and the journalists, and the bookfellers-We muft try to gain an influence in the military academies (this may "of mighty confequence). the printing-houses, &c. Painting and engraving are highly worth our care. We muft win the common people in every corner. There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. Thefe fhould therefore be our chief study; we should infinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immenfe relief to their enflaved minds, to be freed from any one bond of reftraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do fo; for they will be only indulging their own defire of personal admiration. Both the French Free-Masonry, and the German Illuminism, had their female adepts. Thefe were to be admitted into claffes fuited to their characters, whether vicious or virtuous; and were to be deluded into principles and conduct beft calculated to promote the views of the fociety, but not to be entrusted with its fecrets *. "Should I mention (to the adepts)

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