The Final Fate of the Masonic Order

...names of the Illuminati, the Enlightened, and the Illumined The author is listing variations of the order's name: Illuminaten, Aufgeklärten, and Erleuchteten.. The ultimate purpose of the Order, he wrote, is that there may be light, and we are warriors against darkness (*). O! Light, you who originate from God, the first creation of Him who said with almighty power: Let there be light! Never was your name so desecrated as by these children of darkness, who labored on the plans of universal ruin in the horrific night. Never has the name of Liberty been more desecrated than by this founder of the Order, who very significantly assumed the name of Spartacus The pseudonym used by Adam Weishaupt, referencing the gladiator who led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic (73–71 BC)., infamous in Roman history. Like that Spartacus, who gathered an army of runaway slaves around him, he became the general of a pack of men who sought to run away from God, their highest Sovereign, who carried the spirit of rebellion in their bosoms against their earthly rulers, and threw off the holy bonds of religion, morality, and civil society. Never was it clearer that the angel of darkness can transform himself into an angel of light.

Nearly three years passed without Illuminatism The specific doctrines and organizational system of the Illuminati. having the slightest connection to our Order Referring to the Freemasons., indeed, without us even knowing of its existence. Had its leaders not hit upon the idea of attaching themselves to the Freemasons, it would perhaps—like the Order of the Mopse original: "Mopsorden" — a para-masonic society founded in 1740 by Roman Catholics who were forbidden from joining Freemasonry; they used the pug dog (Mops) as a symbol of loyalty. and many student orders—very soon have found its grave—

(*) Ibid. p. 331. original: "ebendas."