Supplement of Further Original Writings Concerning the Illuminati

riding, nothing without cause. In the meantime, everything remains as it is. One tells the people that the true Masonic system will only appear when the caterpillar has been purified of the previously impure people Weishaupt uses the "caterpillar" metaphor to describe the Order in its early, developing state, which must shed its unworthy members before it can transform into its final, "perfect" form.. The Minerval The first initiatory degree of the Illuminati, named after Minerva, goddess of wisdom; it focused on the study of literature and morality. and other grades have been invented in order to remove the unworthy through their labors. If that happens in 3 or 4 years, it is early enough: I will then have each grade printed and distributed in the lodges. My plan is as follows:

1. Novitiate. Remains almost entirely as is.
2. Junior and Minerval are thrown together into one grade.
3. Lesser Illuminatus and Journeyman. Likewise.
4. Master and Major Illuminatus likewise original: similiter (Latin).
5. Directing Illuminatus Ill. dirigens and Master Builder Architect likewise. I do not like the Scottish cavalry original: schottische Reiterey; Weishaupt’s disparaging term for the high-ranking "Scottish Knight" degrees of Freemasonry, which he found disorganized and overly ritualistic..

The machine Weishaupt viewed the Order as a "machine"—a social technology that, once perfected, should function with automated efficiency. must become so simple that a child can direct it and set it in motion. That is not yet the case original: Hoc nondum est (Latin): but it would be, if they had not hindered me. The grades mu: