[422] Those who made a frank acknowledgment of their membership in the order were to be pardoned, while those who hesitated or showed themselves contumacious were not only to lose their positions but to suffer other penalties. _Cf._ Forestier, p. 478. [423] _Ibid._ [424] _Ibid._ [425] _Ibid._, p. 475. [426] Forestier gives the title of nine such productions that came from Weishaupt’s pen within the space of a few months. _Cf. op. cit._, p. 484. The most notable of these were: _Apologie der Illuminaten_, Frankfort and Leipzig, 1786, and _Vollständige Geschichte der Verfolgung der Illuminaten in Bayern_, Frankfort and Leipzig, 1786. The latter was planned to consist of two volumes, but only one appeared. [427] Zwack’s name had been on the list of members which Renner had put into the hands of the government. He was at the time a councillor of state. A short time before his house was invaded by the police and his papers seized, he had been deposed from his position on account of his relations with the Illuminati. At the time of the seizure he was living at Landshut in circumstances of disgrace and suspicion. _Cf._ Engel, p. 303; Forestier, pp. 480, 498. [428] These documents were published by the Bavarian government, under the title: _Einige Originalschriften des Illuminaten Ordens_, Munich, 1787. Engel, pp. 259–262, publishes the list compiled by the government. [429] Among these papers were found two smaller packets which gave a foundation for the most inveterate hostility to the order. These contained intimations of the order’s right to exercise the law of life and death over its members, a brief dissertation entitled, _Gedanken über den Selbstmord_, wherein Zwack, its author, had recorded his defence of suicide (_cf._ Engel, p. 262), a eulogy of atheism, a proposal to establish a branch of the order for women, the description of an infernal machine for safeguarding secret papers, and receipts for procuring abortion, counterfeiting seals, making poisonous perfumes, secret ink, _etc._ (_Cf._ Forestier, pp. 499 _et seq._) The receipts for procuring abortion were destined to have a very ugly personal association in the public mind. Weishaupt, while still a resident of Ingolstadt, had stained his private life because of a liaison with his sister-in-law. On the 8 of February, 1780, his first wife had died. Her sister, who was his house-keeper at the time, continued in the household, and during the time that Weishaupt was waiting for a papal dispensation, permitting his marriage with her, she was found to be with child. Thrown into a panic on account of the failure of the dispensation to arrive (as a matter of fact it did not reach Ingolstadt until three years after it was first applied for), Weishaupt contemplated recourse to the method of procuring an abortion, in order to extricate himself from his painfully embarrassed position. In August, 1783, he wrote Hertel, one of the prominent members of the order, admitting the facts just stated.