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

Only a minority was allowed to reach the highest mystery degrees. Only
those few knew of the true intentions of the order. Cosandey and Renner,
together with several other witnesses, claimed that "there was constant
talk of the purpose" without any explanation of what this was. Those of
the lower degrees ("useful idiots") were only to obey, without under-
standing why.
Weishaupt's plan for seizing power was ingeniously simple. The moul-
ders of public opinion (priests, writers, public officials) were to be made
obedient tools, whereupon they would, in Weishaupt's words "surround
the princes". As "advisors" they were to influence political decisions in
favour of the Illuminati's aims. When entering the Order, the new brothers
had vowed: "I shall never use my position or post against another brother."
This corrupt group loyalty did not relate to the brothers as individuals,
however; they were only tools for the invisible powers within the Order. It
could just as easily be turned against any particular brother if the
"purpose" (i.e., Weishaupt himself) decreed it.
So the brothers of the lower degrees were made to provide information
(on printed forms) each month on their own actions and those of fellow
brothers (the so-called Quibus licet).
The leaders of the Order compiled information from these "con-
fessions" which they could use later against any refractory brothers. Weis-
haupt also encouraged the Illuminati to steal or copy secret and
government documents. The Order needed these documents for its
revolutionary activities but it also wanted the brothers to lose any feelings
of loyalty for the established order by having them constantly seeking to
betray it. Religion, nationalism, patriotism, loyalty to the ruler, family ties
- all such feelings were to be replaced by a single strong loyalty to the
Illuminati's cause. A defector, Joseph Utzschneider, a professor at the
Military Academy in Munich, revealed that the constant preaching against
the fatherland disgusted him so much that he left the Order.
The supranational socialist power the Illuminati aspired to was summed
up in the concept of Novus Ordo Seclorum (The New World Order). Some
of the main points of this program were:
1. Suppression of all religion, including all communions and doctrines
which could not be subjected as tools for Illuminism.
2. Suppression of all feelings of nationality and - in the long term -
abolition of all nations and introduction of an Illuministic world-state.
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