Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

OF FBSS MASONRY. 333
' Zwack assumed the name of Cato. He appears to have
been well fitted by his Free Masonry for the highest degrees
of Illmninisin.
And so, indeed, were a multitude of the fraternity in
Germany in 1776, when Weishaupt appeared as the founder
of a new school of mystical philosophy.
(P. 81.) " The spirit of innovation had seized all the brethren..
No man could give a tolerable account of the origin,
history, or object of the order, and it appeared as a
lost or forgotten mystery.
" The symbols seemed to be equally susceptible of every
interpretation, and none of these seemed entitled to any
decided preference. This rendered it a fit instrument for
the Illuminees, who commenced operations at Munich,
in Bavaria, in the Lodge Theodore of Good Counsel Of
this sect it will be proper to take espefcial notice."
CHAPTER XLIX.
Free Matonry's Bate Service to the llluminati,
M So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed
^ In Serpent, instate bad! and toward Eva
« Addressed bis way: not with indented wave
44 Prose on the ground, as smoe \ but on hie rear,
u Circular base of rising folds, that towered
* fold above fold, a surging mate!"
.Wtea, 9th book.
u WHY introduce the IHuminati into a treatise upon Free
Masonry? To burden Masonry with sins not her own?