On Jesuits, Freemasons, and German Rosicrucians

Already they have gained much in some regions, as one may read in several issues of Schlözer's Correspondence original: "Schlözerischer Briefwechsel." August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735–1809) was a prominent Enlightenment-era historian and journalist who published contemporary political documents. from this year; and if this continues, we shall soon see the old slavery and barbarism returning to our dear 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 dear to every person's heart.

Should one wish to read further to clarify this matter, beyond the sources cited in this work, one should read: the Great, Greater, and Greatest Trumpet original: "tubam magnam, majorem und maximam." These were titles of influential anti-Jesuit pamphlets that "sounded the alarm" against the order's secrets.; the Provincial Letters by Pascal A famous 17th-century work by Blaise Pascal criticizing Jesuit casuistry and moral laxity.; the Examination of the Jesuits by de la Chalotais René-Ennemond de la Chalotais was a French jurist whose legal attacks led to the order's expulsion from France.; the Pragmatic History of the Bull "At the Lord’s Table" original: "in coena domini." This was a papal decree that asserted the Church's power over secular governments, often cited by critics as proof of Jesuit-led papal overreach.; The Jesuit Theater; The Criminal Jesuit in Theory and Practice; Hospinia- Likely a reference to Rudolf Hospinian (1547–1626), a Swiss scholar who wrote the Historia Jesuitica, a massive critical history of the order.