Preface.

[I feel] obliged to provide information and a warning here regarding their highly dangerous, still-ongoing plans. I received the letter concerning Freemasonry from the hands of an old, genuine original: "ächten." The author emphasizes the authenticity of his source to lend credibility to his critique. member of this society, which is so often misunderstood; and regarding today's so-called German Rosicrucians The Gold und Rosenkreuzer (Gold and Rosicrucians) was a prominent mystical and alchemical secret society in 18th-century Germany, often competing with the Illuminati for influence., if anyone should doubt what I have presented in the essay on them, I can publish documents which, however, I would rather withhold unless I am called upon to do so. In general, however, one finds here regarding all three societies less a betrayal of their unknown internal structures, but rather—according to the rules established previously—an evaluation of them such as anyone can make based on their outward fruits A reference to the biblical idiom "By their fruits you shall know them" (Matthew 7:16), suggesting that the social impact of these groups is more important than their secret rituals..