On Jesuits, Freemasons, and German Rosicrucians

since he fears nothing more, has sent the manuscript to a friend in Germany as a warning to his beloved countrymen.

One would be greatly mistaken to believe that the publication of this essay is now useless, since the Order of the Jesuits has been abolished The Society of Jesus was officially suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773, though many contemporary writers feared they continued to operate clandestinely.. The Order is abolished, but it is not extinguished. One may rely firmly on the fact that it continues in secret; that even in America, emissaries of this gang are slinking about; that people in all kinds of dress A reference to the common 18th-century fear of "crypto-Jesuits"—members of the order supposedly living in disguise as secular citizens or Protestant clergy. are and remain members of it; that they use every means to restore their monarchy Critics often referred to the Jesuit organization as a "monarchy" because of the absolute power held by its Superior General.; that they have more followers than one might think—followers who are close to thrones, who keep the eyes of princes closed, who perhaps speak publicly against the Order and yet secretly preach the principles upon which its entire power rests; and finally, that it is very much worth the effort to attack at the root this faction that slinks in the darkness and operates especially in Bavaria, the Palatinate on the Rhine, in Augsburg, in Switzerland in Lucerne, Solothurn, and Fribourg, and in many other places.