[ Weishaupt ] Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830), a professor of law, was the founder of the secret society known as the Order of the Illuminati.

Description

of the

Illuminati.

Counterpart

to No. 15.

of the Gray Monster.

original: "des grauen Ungeheuers." Das graue Ungeheuer (The Gray Monster) was a famous and highly controversial political journal edited by Lorenz von Westenrieder and later others, which critiqued the social and religious institutions of the time.

A small engraved vignette centered on the page depicts a winged youth or genius reclining on a grassy knoll next to a cluster of tall reeds.

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