The Final Fate of the Masonic Order

...to see a morality, education, political science original: "Statistik" — in the 18th century, this term referred to the study of the state and political governance rather than numerical data., and religion of their own arise. The purpose of our Order is to be free. — If we continue as we have for some time, our fatherland will soon belong to us. () The intention was not merely a reform of any religious abuses that had crept in; and who had called them to be reformers? The nefarious purpose was the complete abolition of Christianity and the introduction of Deism A belief system popular during the Enlightenment that acknowledges a creator based on reason but rejects organized religion and divine intervention., accompanied by such a crude unbelief that even man’s greatest comfort—the hope for the immortality of the soul—was to be torn from him. () The new political science, built upon the ruins of all social order, aimed to make states cease to exist, to lead people back to a supposedly natural universal freedom and equality, and to make princes dispensable and cause them to vanish from the earth. () All human greatness and princely majesty were derived by Weishaupt Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830), the professor of law who founded the Order of the Illuminati. from the consensus of wills (****), most likely borrowed from Rousseau’s Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), a Swiss-French philosopher whose political ideas influenced the Enlightenment. The Social Contract original: "Contrât Social", which had made heads dizzy in France and receptive to any revolution. The "fine morality" with which the new founder of the Order presented his disciples was

() Original Writings original: "Originalschriften" — This refers to the secret Illuminati documents seized and published by the Bavarian government in 1787 to expose the group. Vol. I. pp. 217, 272, 275.
() Ibid. pp. 223, 164.
() Supplement to the Original Writings. pp. 105. ff.
Vol. 2. pp. 80, 93.
(****) Original Writings. p. 50.