Abhandlung über die allgemeine Zusammenkunft der Freymaurer, bei den Gesundbrunnen in Wilhelmsbad

...principles of a well-ordered society.

II.) That a society in which equality should prevail ceases to be what it should be as soon as laws of inequality are introduced, which open the door to despotism.

III.) That a society in which the members do not agree is a society full of discord, confusion, enmity, and disunity.

IV.) That a society whose main administrators are strangers to the principles of integrity, justice, and utility remains a society in which ignorance crawls in the dust.

V.) That a society in which the heads indeed know these principles but do not want to act according to them Latin: "From this come daggers, from this come poisons, from this come false testimonies; from this come thefts, embezzlements, robberies, and the plundering of allies and citizens." Cicero, De Officiis, Book III, Chapter 8. is a society full of corruption, faithlessness, and treachery.

...which must be separated, rooted out, and annihilated.

VI.) That a society of equal men, among whom one finds stormy, restless, innovation-seeking spirits inflamed by the fire of the lust for power, whose despotic tooth tears everything apart, is a black, shameful society. Latin: "In free states, desires for ruling arise." Cicero, De Officiis, Book III, Chapter 8. It should be rooted out and annihilated.

VII.) That a society which is infected by the vices whose image we have sketched can neither make nor will good laws.

VIII.) That a society which has no definite purpose well known to the individual members, and has no good laws (and thus bad ones), whose main administrators are led by a decided inclination for arbitrary power, which does not know those main principles which must serve as the basis for every good society, whose members are divided both by ignorance and by difference in way of thinking—that such a society is never suitable for rational people; that, according to irrefutable conclusions, it will consist of creatures...