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The Illuminati;
needs . If lamMicus , Plotinus , Porphyry , ' whom M . de Paw rightly calls the three greatest visionaries that have ever existed , should Come back to preach their doctrines among us , these same Illuminati would receive them with open arms , and would procure sovereigns for their protectors , and their subjects for discip les . The difference which is found is , that the visionaries of bygone ages led men into errors and extravagance that nt times ajiproaehed sublimitywhile those of our time conduct them to imbecility and the
de-, gradation of the human species . "I do not know who it is that has said that Freemasonry is hut a child's game played by grown men . It can never be justifiable to ridicule an institution of which the results arc favourable to humanity . Be the mysteries of the Freemasons what they may , they exist—and that is sufficient for the Illuminati ; whether those secrets be good or bad , true or false , just or unjust , they care not . To gam their end , they would adopt equally the code of
or of Cartouche , f that the Carthusian monks . Again I repeat , that no similar organisation has yet appeared in the world — though many of those who are' members of this order , are ignorant of the consequences of their guilty errors , and cannot understand what a fearful injury they are inflicting upon mankind . It has been the object of this sect to persuade princes that au enlightened people is difficult to govern ; that the best policy of sovereigns is , instead of fostering science , to suffer their people to relapse
into barbarism and the darkness of ignorance , which they call the natural state of man . Educated men , say they , have ever been those who have stirred up wars , and made conquests . The riders of Europe , thoughtless , hut greedy of power , have listened to their insidious advice , and have surrendered their confidence , their sceptres , their glory , their country , and their subjects to this ambitious sect , which has already commenced to deprive them of that which they feared so much to lose . "
After this tremendous peroration M . de Luohet remarks that it is necessary "to announce to the nations the evil which threatens them . " Tho sixth chaper of the work treats of " The Circles , " which is the title given to the administrative councils of the order . Each of these " Circles" is composed of nine persons ; and there is one for every province where the heads of the order consider it necessary . They
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The Illuminati;
needs . If lamMicus , Plotinus , Porphyry , ' whom M . de Paw rightly calls the three greatest visionaries that have ever existed , should Come back to preach their doctrines among us , these same Illuminati would receive them with open arms , and would procure sovereigns for their protectors , and their subjects for discip les . The difference which is found is , that the visionaries of bygone ages led men into errors and extravagance that nt times ajiproaehed sublimitywhile those of our time conduct them to imbecility and the
de-, gradation of the human species . "I do not know who it is that has said that Freemasonry is hut a child's game played by grown men . It can never be justifiable to ridicule an institution of which the results arc favourable to humanity . Be the mysteries of the Freemasons what they may , they exist—and that is sufficient for the Illuminati ; whether those secrets be good or bad , true or false , just or unjust , they care not . To gam their end , they would adopt equally the code of
or of Cartouche , f that the Carthusian monks . Again I repeat , that no similar organisation has yet appeared in the world — though many of those who are' members of this order , are ignorant of the consequences of their guilty errors , and cannot understand what a fearful injury they are inflicting upon mankind . It has been the object of this sect to persuade princes that au enlightened people is difficult to govern ; that the best policy of sovereigns is , instead of fostering science , to suffer their people to relapse
into barbarism and the darkness of ignorance , which they call the natural state of man . Educated men , say they , have ever been those who have stirred up wars , and made conquests . The riders of Europe , thoughtless , hut greedy of power , have listened to their insidious advice , and have surrendered their confidence , their sceptres , their glory , their country , and their subjects to this ambitious sect , which has already commenced to deprive them of that which they feared so much to lose . "
After this tremendous peroration M . de Luohet remarks that it is necessary "to announce to the nations the evil which threatens them . " Tho sixth chaper of the work treats of " The Circles , " which is the title given to the administrative councils of the order . Each of these " Circles" is composed of nine persons ; and there is one for every province where the heads of the order consider it necessary . They