Supplement of Further Original Writings Concerning the Illuminati

...must not only contain nothing dangerous or ambiguous for us, but they must be so arranged that Princes beg us to settle in their lands and establish them.

But should it not please the A. A. likely the Areopagites, the supreme council of the Illuminati that I place the matter on this footing, we shall not quarrel over it; instead, I will work for myself alone, at least to leave behind the ideal so that posterity can judge and compare—or I can also leave it be. Favors should not be forced original: Favores non debent obtrudi (Latin).

Regarding Edessa The Order’s secret name for the city of Frankfurt am Main, I have hope that Agathocles and his associates will yet submit of their own accord once they see that they have knocked at all doors in vain. It is impossible to yield to them; for they seek only to spy out our secrets: they demand nothing but sheer degrees: they do not follow in the least: they laugh and mock at ceremonies: in short, precisely because they are wealthy, they are also people who possess all the faults of the rich: ignorance, pride, a spirit of independence, and a high degree of loathing for work. In this matter, just let Philo The alias of Baron Adolph von Knigge, the Order's most effective recruiter and organizer proceed. Diomedes The alias of Marquis de Constanzo, a prominent member of the leadership cannot consider himself compromised; for he took them in and promised them more—which is understood, of course, only if they behave according to the statutes: but they do not do this original: atqui hoc non faciunt (Latin).