Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

370 ILLUM1NISM.
management You must contrive pretty degrees, and
dresses, and ornaments, and elegant and decent rituals*
No man must be admitted. This will make them become
more keen, and they will go much farther than if we were
present, or than if they thought we knew of their proceedings.
Leave them to the scope of their own fancies, and
they will put us to the blush, and create an enthusiasm,
which we can never equal They will be our great apostles.
Reflect >on the respect, nay, the awe and terror inspired
by the female mystics of antiquity. [Think of the
Danaids—think of the Theban Bacchantes.'] Ptolemy's
wife must direct them, and she will be instructed by Ptolemy,
and my step-daughters by me. We must always be
at hand to prevent the introduction of any improper question.
We must prepare themes for their discussion—thus
we shall confess them, and inspire them with our sentiments.
No man, however, must come near them. This will fire
their roving fancies, and we may expect rare mysteries.
But I am doubtful whether this association will be durable.
Women are fickle and impatient Nothing will please
them but hurrying from degree to degree, through a heap
of insignificant ceremonies, which will soon lose their novelty
and influence. To rest seriously in one rank, and to
he stiU and silent when they have found out the whole is a
cheat, is a task of which they are incapable. [Hear, hear,
hear.] They have not our motives to persevere for years, allowing
themselves to be led about, and even then to hold
their tongues, when they find thai they have been deceived.
Nay, there is a risk, that they may take it into their heads
to give things an opposite turn, and then, by voluptuous
allurements, heightened by affected modesty and decency,
which give them an irresistible empire over the best men,
they may turn our order upside down, and in their turn will
lead the new one."*
* There was found in the hand-writing of Zwack, a project for a Sisterhood,
in subserviency to the designs of the Hluminati. In it are the ibl-