"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

contempt and the wrath of the brothers shall pursue and torment you to
your innermost entrails."
Most members were led to believe that the lower degrees of mystery
they had reached were the highest. Few members had been informed about
the true purpose of the Order.
The Illuminati's codex was presented in Masonic terms and prescribed
lies, treachery, violence, torture and murder in order to reach all its goals.
Many members believed themselves to be working for an improvement of
the world. They never guessed that Weishaupt's true purpose was to
establish Novus Ordo Seclorum, a global program for world domination.
The Protestant princes and rulers in Germany were well disposed to
Weishaupt's official plan to destroy the Catholic Church and they sought
membership in his Order. Through these men Weishaupt gained control
over the Masonic Orders, into which he and his other Jewish cronies were
initiated in 1777. To prevent the rulers from understanding the true aims
of the Illuminati, he forestalled their contact with the higher degrees.
During the year following its founding, the Order was spread
exclusively through southern Bavaria. Later, it gained a foothold also in
Frankfurt am Main, Eichstadt and other cities, according to "Vagledning
for frimurare" / "Guidance for Freemasons", Stockholm, 1906, p. 166.
Officially, the Illuminati were supposed to spread virtue and wisdom,
which was to subdue evil and stupidity. They wanted to make great
discoveries in all branches of science. The Illuminati were to be cultivated
into noble, eminent people, also according to "Guidance for Freemasons".
In time, the following men joined the Illuminati: the bookseller and
writer Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733-1811), whose alias became
I.ucian, Duke Ernst von Gotha, Heinrich Pestalozzi, whose pedagogic
system Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, began applying in Soviet
Russia, Duke Karl August, Baron Herbert von Dalberg, Count Stolberg,
Baron Tomas Franz Maria von Bassus (whose alias became Hannibal on
the 13th December 1778), the author, folklorist and philosopher Johann
Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), the Jewish author and prominent freemason
Johann Christoph Bode (1730-1793), whose pseudonym was Amelius,
Ferdinand of Brunswick, Professor Semmer from Ingolstadt, the philo-
sopher Franz Baader from Munich and others.
Adam Weishaupt began to work especially closely with the Jewish
Masonic leader Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Mendelssohn became,