On the Order of the Illuminati

family circumstances. As many members as the Order had, it had just as many spies, who were required to give it exact information on both public and private matters. Indeed! When the papers of this detestable league were seized in Bavaria, one found the description of a fire-chest Likely an incendiary device or a specialized box for the rapid destruction of compromising documents., recipes for inducing abortions, as well as instructions on how to scatter poisonous scents in a room, how to excite "uterine frenzy" original: "Mutterwuth"; a historical medical term used to describe nymphomania or extreme hysteria, which 18th-century medicine often attributed to disorders of the womb. in women, how to forge seals, how to prepare Aqua Tofana A notorious and slow-acting liquid poison used in 17th and 18th-century Europe, famously difficult to detect. and more of the like, as well as a defense of suicide. — It is incomprehensible that an Order which so openly declared itself against all religion; which was so dangerous from the perspective of the state that even the founder, by his own repeated declaration, feared for his head; and which preached such a loathsome morality, could have obtained any members at all. However, on one hand, the secrets of wickedness were still very much hidden in the lower degrees and only discovered bit by bit in the higher ones; on the other hand, when new proselytes New converts or recruits to a cause or sect. were being made, the approach was so clever and cautious that—as the founder himself says in his letters—one did not immediately serve "strong food" to those who still had a weak stomach, and those who still clung to religiousness were spared from the irreligious principles. And since youth is always inclined toward innovations, is vain, and strives for freedom; and since Weishaupt, as he