[525] _Ibid._, p. 299. Bahrdt’s fantastical program called for the division of these societies into Provinces or Dioceses, each directed by its Diocesan, and subordinate to a central organization. _Cf. ibid._, p. 292 [526] _Ibid._, p. 294. [527] Robison, _op, cit._, p. 297. [528] _Ibid._, pp. 322 _et seq._ “ ... although I cannot consider the German Union as a formal revival of the Order under another name, I must hold those _United_, and the members of those Reading Societies, as _Illuminati_ and _Minervals_. I must even consider the Union as a part of Spartacus’s work.” (_Ibid._) [529] _Ibid._, pp. 355 _et seq._ “Thus I think it clearly appears, that the suppression of the Illuminati in Bavaria and of the Union in Brandenburgh were insufficient.... The habit of plotting had formed itself into a regular system. Societies now acted everywhere in secret, in correspondence with similar societies in distant places. And thus a mode of cooperation was furnished to the discontented, the restless, and the unprincipled in all places, without even the trouble of formal initiations, and without any external appearances by which the existence and occupations of the members could be distinguished.” (_Ibid._) [530] _Ibid._, p. 355. _Cf. ibid._, p. 286. [531] _Ibid._, p. 358. [532] Robison, _op. cit._, p. 371. [533] _Ibid._, pp. 393 _et seq._ [534] _Ibid._, pp. 397 _et seq._ [535] _Ibid._, p. 374. [536] _Ibid._, p. 398. [537] The Grand Orient, according to Robison, represented the association of all the _improved_ Masonic lodges of France. Its Grand Master was the Duke of Orléans. _Cf. ibid._, p. 381. [538] _Ibid._, pp. 400 _et seq._ [539] _Ibid._, p. 376. [540] _Ibid._, pp. 376 _et seq._ [541] Robison, _op. cit._, p. 405. [542] _Ibid._, p. 402. Robison regarded the famous Jacobin Club in Paris as “just one of those Lodges.” (Robison, p. 406. _Cf. ibid._, p. 402.) He allowed his statement to stand, however, without making any effort to substantiate it. Further, he held that the political committees in these “illuminated” lodges of France were in correspondence with similar committees in Germany, Holland, Austria, and Switzerland. _Cf. ibid._, pp. 406 _et seq._, 414 _et seq._, 420. The contradictory character of his “evidence” is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that he treats the Masonic lodges of Paris as trying to seduce the lodges of German Freemasons. _Cf. Ibid._, p. 418. [543] _Ibid._, p. 402. [544] _Ibid._, p. 405.