Description of the Illuminati

one loses time and money there, and that it always preaches
cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitismus The philosophy that all human beings belong to a single community, which critics of the Illuminati viewed as a threat to national loyalty. against patriotism. When they want to secretly
embitter their high patroness likely referring to the Electress of Bavaria, Maria Anna Sofia.
against the Order, they use a
different language: they claim to have discovered plots
against the fatherland and connections with a
neighboring great court original: "benachbarten großen Hof"; likely referring to the Austrian court in Vienna, reflecting fears of espionage and political subversion.. When they want to draw the
clergy and the common people into their interest,
they claim the Order intends nothing less
than to eradicate religion and to spread Deism
and Epicureanism Epicureismus In the 18th century, this was often used as a derogatory label for atheism or a life devoted solely to pleasure.. These
intentions had to be brought among the people by others
in writings, and by the preachers from the
public pulpits—claims which are all the more credible
because they were submitted in writing by a clerical
member of the Order himself, by a certain Cosandey Joseph von Cosandey, a professor and former Illuminatus whose testimony was instrumental in the suppression of the Order.,
under the date of April 3 of the
previous year, into the hands of the Prince-
Bishop of Freising, and the report of it
was made in secret.
To embitter the state officials, they claim
the society seeks to seize all offices for itself,
and to fill them with its own members. To [embitter] the Reg-