Documentary Account of the German Union

"...has found it to be consistent with what they had proposed to themselves 11). For anyone who considers with cold blood meaning: with calm, rational deliberation how important it is, on the one hand, that the brotherhood Verbrüderung: a formal fraternal alliance or secret society to be established gains unity, and on the other hand, that it be secured against even the most remote possibility of a cabal Kabale: a secret political clique or plot aimed at its destruction 12), will find this secrecy unavoidable in the highest degree, and through this reflection will be able to triumph over his own curiosity."

"Whoever, meanwhile, receives from the Society the plan designed for its effectiveness, and, after completing the investigation and examination of the same, resolves to become a member and participant,"

11. If, however, they did not find it consistent, or not sufficiently so, then he was surrendered without rescue to the vengeance of the conspiracy Conjuration: a sworn plot or secret league.

12. Consequently, it still exists, and has continued to exist without interruption until now, just like its mother-school, Illuminatism original: "Illuminatismus"; a reference to the Order of the Illuminati, founded in Bavaria in 1776.