On Jesuits, Freemasons, and German Rosicrucians

...ery general bond divide and weaken,
or not.

When some unite to carry
out something or to possess something, which they
conceal and withhold from the
rest of the world; that is a state within a state Original Latin: "status in statu." In 18th-century political philosophy, this term described a group—often a secret society—that functioned with its own laws and hierarchy independently of the sovereign government. — I
would like to see how one
would want to refute that to me. This thing
sounds dangerous now,
but fundamentally it is not so at all.
Through the understandings of individual people
or through the power of one more resolute and
clever, states have arisen. It would
be strange if people were not free
to modify these self-made institutions Original: "Einrichtungen." This refers to established social structures, laws, or organizational systems.
according to need, if
the largest and strongest part among them
is in agreement about it. However, it is vital
to the whole that such institutions
are not brought about by the most cunning,
but by the wisest and
best people, so that
uncalled representatives do not set
themselves up as reformers.