Supplement of Further Original Writings Concerning the Illuminati

When one considers how the worst of
men—if only they are cunning, and
tuned to a single tone, and formed
according to the same principles—
understood how to make anything they
wished of their fellow brothers; how
they knew how to use those brothers’
weak sides and dominant passions to
their own advantage, and how to fill
them with false enthusiasm for worthless
things that are contrary to integrity,
reason, and their own interest;—then
one must rightly mourn. — — —

Philo was the secret "Order name" of Baron Adolph von Knigge (1752–1796), a famous author and the primary architect of the Illuminati’s organizational structure before his eventual falling out with the founder, Weishaupt.