On Jesuits, Freemasons, and German Rosicrucians

divide and weaken the general bond, or not.

If some unite to carry out something or to possess something that they conceal and withhold from the rest of the world, then that is a state within a state Original Latin: "status in statu." In political theory, this refers to a group or organization within a country that operates independently of, and often in opposition to, the established government and its laws.—I would like to see how anyone could refute that. This concept sounds dangerous, but fundamentally it is not at all. States have arisen through the mutual understandings of individual people or through the power of a single, more resolute and clever individual. It would be strange if people were not free to modify these self-made institutions Original: "Einrichtungen." This refers to the systems, laws, and social structures that organize a society. according to need, provided that the largest and strongest part of them are in agreement. However, it is vital to the whole that such institutions are brought about not by the most cunning, but by the wisest and best people—so that unappointed representatives do not set themselves up as reformers.

Vocabulary used in this section: state within a state (status in statu), states (Staaten), representatives (Repräsentanten), reformers (Reformatorn), institutions (Einrichtungen).