Progress of Enlightenment: A Brief Overview of the Practical Execution of the System of the Illuminati

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All weak minds are governed by passions, and the greatest part of humanity consists of weak minds. Let us therefore use these passions to our advantage. The great man looks at the state beyond the prejudices of his world. Make the ambitious person even more ambitious, the miserly person even more miserly, the lustful person even more lustful, and they are all your slaves. Never trust them and say: People always fear one another because they feel no strength within themselves. They are always bound to us through connections, from which all property—you are the heart of the world.

Whoever fears nothing and loves nothing is the strongest. Love no fatherland, no wife, no friend, no child, and you are equal to nature, which is your God. Fear nothing but yourself, so that your strength never sinks. Act and learn to know people; everyone who has made these principles their own works according to our plan, aimless and unconscious. Today, yes, say everything that can promote our purpose. If these principles are extended, it is necessary to bring everything into order; seek to make people punctual and passionate.

From this, the bonds of attachment separate of their own accord, and we rule.

According to these principles, make such use of the weaknesses of the great that you gain influence at court societies, and share our principles with them so that they use them themselves against other states, and thus they themselves become tools of our order.

In positions where there are estates, do not neglect to see that unity prevails between the princes and them; we would lose much through this. Every discord is advantageous for us.

All secret societies that are not of ours and directed by us are to be exterminated; they are connections and forces that could outweigh our own.

Yet the path to the unattainable is still too arduous. It brings us two types of advantages:

1. It procures us influence with rich princes,
2. We gain the opportunity, through known deceivers, to remove princes from serious matters.

Alchemists practitioners of transmutation and spiritualists still provide us with many advantages for this. They serve us...

to introduce the princes and the wealthy to actions from which we can always draw advantage. Even if it is known that men who could have influence occupy themselves in useful ways for the world, they thereby promote more solid men whose progress might perhaps be harmful to our intentions. It is also necessary to bring the understanding of man into disorder, which also belongs to our plan.

The Jesuits members of the Society of Jesus are no longer to be spared, for since we have modified their system according to our intentions, they will fasten onto us like a settlement. Union is not to be hoped for with them; consequently, they belong among the ad nigra notanda things to be marked in black (to be shunned/opposed).

One must always draw the attention of the great to the Jesuits so that they yield to us and acknowledge them as protectors of our Illuminatism the system or philosophy of the Illuminati.

For this purpose, we already had the book Les Jesuites chassés The Jesuits Expelled and Essai sur les Illumines Essay on the Illuminated Ones written to give Illuminatism the system or philosophy of the Illuminati a different spin. Furthermore, the franc-maçons Freemasons have been indicated as allied with the Jesuits, for after the nouvelle Constitution et les regles maçonniques new Constitution and Masonic rules appeared in Torrent near Löffelblad, their prohibition is diametrically opposed to our own. These should cause the disadvantage in the eyes of observers, and they should be accused of Illuminatism the system or philosophy of the Illuminati, and their spread should be hindered. To give the matter more probability, we ourselves have hired a deceiver under the name Brother Sheridan and have declared him an evangelical emissary of the Rosicrucians members of a secretive occult-Christian order and had it written up in the Liberal newspapers.

It is also mainly the concern of every brother directing in a province that he knows the people with whom he associates, especially their main passions.

In families, one should turn to the chambermaids and ladies' maids and appoint certain lovers who will pay court to them and spy on them. One of our own can also address himself to the domestic staff and use their weaknesses.

Femmes debouchées libertines dissolute, loose women and generic parents likely meaning parents whose values are easily manipulated are also to be used as a means to an end; they are useful in removing those who oppose us through the maladie galante venereal disease.

Through vulcano likely metaphor for explosive passion or destruction, the greatest things in the world have been effected.