The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in ….

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this se….

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious ….

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant St….

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may tu….

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers..

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge..

Illuminate the opposition..

The hankering of the mind is irresistible..

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient….

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into m….

The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and anot….