The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

Under the name of les illumines, a similar sect appeared in Picar-
die in France in 1623, but succumbed in 1635.
Weishaupt developed secrecy without precedence. No one except
the areopagi (that is the highest-ranking Illuminati) were to know
that he was the leader. All written messages were in code. The leader
and other members as well as the lodges received covert names taken
from antiquity.
Adam Weishaupt (alias Spartacus) underlined: "The great strength
of our Order lies in its secrecy. May it never appear under its real name
but instead always be hidden by another name and another activity."
The one who later helped Weishaupt gain admission to various
masonic organizations was his closest associate Adolf Baron von
Knigge (Pat Brooks, "The Return of the Puritans", Fletcher, North
Carolina, 1976, pp. 68-69). He was born in 1752 in Bredenbeck in
Bavaria. In 1777 he attained the highest degree of the Knights
Templar (the Cypric Knight) at Hanau. The then 27-year-old Knigge
became one of the Illuminati in Frankfurt in July 1779 under the
name of Philo, named for the famous Jewish sage. It was largely due
to him that the order spread all over Germany. Both money and
sexual favours were used to manipulate people in high positions.
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