Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

HIGHER DEGREES OF FREE MASONRY. 379
Knigge also fell out with Weishaupt, and the correspondence
connected with their quarrel is all published; " in
which," says Professor Robison, " Weishaupt's superiority
is very manifest/ 1 But Knigge, in the end, acted the part
of state's evidence, and assisted to discover the papers, and
elucidate the mysteries of the order, which was formally
suppressed in Bavaria and Wirtemberg by the government.
It is not so easy to suppress the principles of the order,
nor to bind the activity of its members. These assume
new forms with the facility of Free Masonry, and are active
under a new organization.
I hope the higher degrees of Masonry have no connexion
with this corrupt association: those above the eighteenth
of Dr. Dalcho. It is with pleasure I hear the Doctor
say, " In New-York, the highest degree which is held at
present, (A, D. 18G3