Description of the Illuminati

...under the name of the Bögner or Radli lodge Early Munich lodges were often named after the inns where they met. "Bögner" refers to the innkeeper Joseph Bögner., before it had a constitution Constitution In this context, a formal document or charter authorizing a local lodge to operate under the authority of a Grand Lodge. granted to it by the Loge Royal Yorck The Grand Lodge "Royal York de l'Amitié," one of the major Masonic Grand Lodges in Prussia, based in Berlin. in Berlin in 1778 at the persuasion of the Palatine Masons.

Some time later, having separated from its mother lodge for good reasons, it joined the Eclectic Masonic Union eklektischer Maurer-Bund A reformist Masonic movement founded in 1783 that sought to simplify Freemasonry by removing complex "high degrees" and returning to its basic principles. and received a new constitution from the two Directorial lodges in Frankfurt and Wetzlar. The claim that they were rejected everywhere is, like almost everything in this writing, pure untruth and fiction.

This (the lack of reality, the absence of a patent of constitution) was the reason that some wiser members defected and honorably slipped away from the lodge.

It was not this, but rather an exaggerated opinion of his own importance, a restless ambition that was not sufficiently flattered, that drove Mr. Utschneider Joseph von Utzschneider (1763–1840), a significant Bavarian official and later a famous entrepreneur. At this time, he was embroiled in the internal politics of the secret societies in Munich.. Fear of un- The word is cut off and likely continues as "Ungnade" (disgrace) on the following page, as indicated by the catchword "gnade".