Supplement of Further Original Writings Concerning the Illuminati

I would look around for established, active, and industrious men. I believe (24.) 3 = = These symbols and numbers likely refer to a specific member or a grade within the Order's hierarchy. should not be neglected. You will read the rest of my project in my letter to Celsus A pseudonym for a member of the Order, often identified as the physician Johann Jakob Herzog..

In the meetings, I would place people at the head who possess prestige and authority, and who understand how to set the tone for the way of thinking; men who are revered as an oracle original: Oracul by the youth, and who are additionally serious and strict in their morals.

I would have the recruitment original: Rekrutirung carried out by specific, capable people who also understand how to manage the training original: Abrichtung; implies a disciplined, almost military-style drilling of the members. Pliny original: Plinius; pseudonym for an unidentified member and Pythagoras Pseudonym for a member, possibly Franz Georg von Werdenstein possess excellent skill in this regard.

Those who are far too lukewarm and negligent, people of bad morals and reputation—or even those with heads far too "moist" original: feuchte Köpfe; an 18th-century German idiom likely referring to drunkards or people with "soft" or unreliable intellects—I would seek to remove, not through direct exclusion original: Excluſion, but rather I would bring them to the point of requesting their own dismissal by overwhelming them with work and obligations. Alternatively, I would unite them all into a dedicated meeting under equally negligent superiors original: Superioren; then it will surely fall apart on its own. Those who are slightly less unsuitable I would leave entirely unattended and cease writing to them.