The Final Fate of the Masonic Order

...of this [Masonry] should serve as a nursery original: Pflanzschule, meaning a training ground or breeding ground for that [the Illuminati], and to that end Masonic lodges were to be established in Munich and Eichstätt (*). I see you seized here by the strongest indignation, My Brothers! original: "M. Br.", abbreviation for "Meine Brüder," the standard greeting among Masons. and truly with good reason! How could such heterogeneous things be united with one another? Masonry—to which the brave Zimmermann Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann (1728–1795), a Swiss physician and author who became a fierce critic of the Enlightenment and the Illuminati. attributes the merit of having preserved the sense of religion among princes and men of the world, preventing its last light from being blown out by the Enlighteners original: Aufklärer; the author uses this term disparagingly for radical secularists. as happened in Paris, London, and Rome (**)—[how could this] unite with a gang whose chief purpose is to eradicate all religion from the earth! Masonry, which demands by oath obedience to princes and national authority from its members, and forbids all political discussions in its meetings under penalty, [to be] linked with a conspiracy that intends to make princes dispensable and cause states to cease to exist! Masonry, which makes virtuous behavior a duty for its members and ties the bond of trust and brotherly love between them, [to be] interwoven with a club that declares war on all morality, which...

...made. Had he already been a Mason in 1777, should he not have known how to establish a lodge? Since on page 304 he instructs Zwackh Franz Xaver von Zwackh, a high-ranking member of the Illuminati and close confidant of Weishaupt. to inquire about this from Marotti.
(*) Original Writings referring to the Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens, the collection of secret documents published by the Bavarian government. p. 300.
(**) Zimmermann on Frederick the Great, p. 86.