Such were the lesser mysteries of the Illuminati. But there remain the higher mysteries. The system of these has not been printed, and the degrees were conferred only by Spartacus himself, from papers which he never entrusted to any person. They were only read to the candidate, but no copy was taken. The publisher of the _Neueste Arbeitung_ says that he has read them (so says Grollman). He says, "that in the first degree of MAGUS or PHILOSOPHUS, the doctrines are the same with those of Spinoza, where all is material, God and the world are the same thing, and all religion whatever is without foundation, and, the contrivance of ambitious men." The second degree, or REX, teaches, "that every peasant, citizen, and householder is a sovereign, as in the Patriarchal state, and that nations must be brought back to that state, by whatever means are conducible--peaceably, if it can be done; but, if not, then by force--for all subordination must vanish from the face of the earth." The author says further, that the German Union was, to his certain knowledge, the work of the Illuminati. The private correspondence that has been published is by no means the whole of what was discovered at Landshut and Bassus Hoss, and government got a great deal of useful information, which was concealed, both out of regard to the families of the persons concerned, and also that the rest might not know the utmost extent of the discovery, and be less on their guard. A third collection was found under the foundation of the house in which the Lodge _Theodor vom guten Rath_ had been held. But none of this has appeared. Enough surely has been discovered to give the public a very just idea of the designs of the Society and its connections. Lodges were discovered, and are mentioned in the private papers already published, in the following places. Munich Westphalia (several) Ingolstadt Heidelberg Frankfort Manheim Echstadt Strasburgh (5) Hanover Spire Brunswick Worms Calbe Dusseldorff Magdeburgh Cologne Cassel Bonn (4) Osnabruck Livonia (many) Weimar Courland (many) Upper Saxony (several) Frankendahl Austria (14) Alsace (many) Vienna (4) Deuxponts Hesse (many) Cousel Buchenwerter Treves (2) Mompeliard Aix-la-Chapelle (2) Stutgard (3) Bartschied Carlsruhe Hahrenberg Anspach Switzerland (many) Neuwied (2) Rome Mentz (2) Naples Poland (many) Ancona Turin Florence England (8) France Scotland (2) Holland (many) Warsaw (2) Dresden (4) America (several.) N. B. This was before 1786. I have picked up the names of the following members.