Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

368 ILLUMINISM.
CHAPTER LVII.
Female Lodges of the Illumineen.
" None dull entie my virgin zone,
" But one to whom the secret's known
" Of fam'd Free Masonry;
" In which the great end good combine,
" To raise with generous design,
" Man to felicity."
A Mason's Daughter.
" THE source of the passions, 11 say the sect, u is pure ;
it is necessary that every one should be able to gratify his
within the bounds of virtue, and that our order should far*
msh him with the means." (B. p. 80.)
(B. p. 34) Plan for an Order of Women.*-" This order
shall be subdivided into two classes, each forming a separate
society, and having a different secret The first
shall be composed of virtuous women; the second, of the
wild, the giddy, and the voluptuous, ausscfyiveifenden*
" Both classes are to be ignorant that they are under the
direction of men. The two superiors are to be persuaded
that they are under a mother lodge of the same sex, which
transmits its orders; though in reality these orders are to
be transmitted by men.
" The brethren who are intrusted with this superintendance,
shall forward their instructions without making
themselves known. They shall conduct the first, by pro-
• moting the reading of good books; but shall form the lat-