There has already been so much said about _Enlightening_, that the reader must be almost tired of it. He is assured in this performance that the Illumination proposed by the Union is not that of the _Wolfenbuttle Fragments_, nor that of HORUS, nor that of _Bahrdt_. The _Fragments_ and _Horus_ are books which aim directly, and without any concealment, to destroy the authority of our Scriptures, either as historical narrations or as revelations of the intentions of providence and of the future prospects of man. The Theological writings of _Bahrdt_ are gross perversions, both of the sense of the text, and of the moral instructions contained in it, and are perhaps the most exceptionable performances on the subject. They are stigmatised as absurd, and coarse, and indecent, even by the writers on the same side; yet the work recommended so often as containing the elements of that Illumination which the world has to expect from the Union, not only coincides in its general principles with these performances, but is almost an abstract of some of them, particularly of his _Popular Religion_, his _Paraphrase on the Sermon on the Mount_, and his _Morality of Religion_. We have also seen that the book on the Liberty of the Press is quoted and recommended as an elementary book. Nay both the work on Instruction and that on the Liberty of the Press are now known to be Bahrdt's. But these principles, exceptionable as they may be, are probably not the worst of the institution. We see that the _outside_ alone of the Union is to be shewn to the public. Barthels felicitates the public that there is no subordination and blind obedience to unknown Superiors; yet, in the same paragraph, he tells us that there is a secret plan of operations, that is known only to the Centre and the Confidential Brethren. The author of _Fuller Information_ says that he has this plan, and would print it, were he not restrained by a promise[16]. He gives us enough however to show us that the higher mysteries of the Union are precisely the same with those of the Illuminati. Christianity is expressly said to have been a Mystical Association, and its founder the Grand Master of a Lodge. The Apostles, Peter, James, John, and Andrew, were the _Elect_, and Brethren of the Third Degree, and initiated into all the mysteries. The remaining Apostles were only of the Second Degree; and the Seventy-two were of the First degree. Into this degree ordinary Christians may be admitted, and prepared for further advancement. The great mistery is, that J---- C---- was a _Naturalist_, and taught the doctrine of a Supreme Mind, the Spectator, but not the Governer of the World, pretty nearly in the sense of the Stoics. The Initiated Brethren were to be instructed by reading proper books. Those particularly recommended are _Basedow's Practical Knowledge_, _Eberhard's Apology for Socrates_, _Bahrdt's Apology for Reason_, _Steinbardt's System of Moral Education_, _Meiner's