On Jesuits, Freemasons, and German Rosicrucians

They have already gained much ground in some regions, as one can read in several issues of Schlözer’s Correspondence original: "Schlözerischen Briefwechsels"; August Ludwig von Schlözer was a prominent Enlightenment historian and journalist whose publications were known for social and political criticism. from this year; and if this continues, we will soon see the return of the old slavery and barbarism to our beloved fatherland.

It is therefore a duty to alert the princes, and everyone capable of doing good, to the misfortune that lies before us. This is the purpose of these pages—an important purpose that must be close to every person’s heart.

If anyone wishes to read further to clarify this subject, besides the sources cited in this work, they should read: the Great, Greater, and Greatest Trumpet original: "tubam magnam, majorem und maximam"; a series of polemical anti-Jesuit works.; the Provincial Letters original: "lettres provinciales"; written by Blaise Pascal, these letters famously attacked Jesuit casuistry and moral laxity. by Pascal; the Examination of the Jesuits original: "l'examen des Jesuites" by de la Chalotais Louis-René de Caradeuc de la Chalotais was a French jurist whose legal attacks helped lead to the Order's suppression in France.; the pragmatic history of the Bull At the Lord’s Supper original: "in coena domini"; a significant papal decree defining ecclesiastical power that was often criticized by Enlightenment writers.; the Jesuit Theater original: "il theatro Jesuitico"; The Criminal Jesuit in Theory and Practice original: "le Jesuite criminel dans la théorie & practique"; Hospinian’s Jesuit History original: "Hospiniani historia Jesuitica"; a major Protestant history of the Order by Rudolf Hospinian.; The Jesuit Catechism original: "le Catechisme des Jesuites"; The Most Secret Mysteries of the Jesuits original: "les Mystères les plus secrets des Jesuites"; the Collection of the