[22] To prevent interruptions, I may just mention here the authorities for this journey and co-operation of the two deputies. 1. _Ein wichtiger Ausschluss über en noch wenig bekannte Veranlassung der Französchen Revolution_, in the Vienna Zeitschrift for 1793, p. 145. 2. _Endliche Shickfall des Freymaurer Ordens_, 1794, p. 19. 3. _Neueste Arbeitung des Spartacus and Philo, Munich_, 1793, p. 151--54. 4. _Historische Nachrichten über die Franc Revolution 1792, von Girtanner, var. loc._ 5. _Revolutions Almanach für 1792--4, Gottingen, var. loc._ 6. _Beytrage zur Biographie des verstorbenes Frey-Herr v. Bode, 1794._ 7. _Magazin des Literatur et Kunst, for 1792, 3, 4, &c. &c._ The Amis Reunis were little behind the Illuminati in every thing that was irreligious and anarchical, and had no inclination for any of the formalities of ritual, &c. They were already fit for the higher mysteries, and only wanted to learn the methods of business which had succeeded so well in spreading their doctrines and maxims over Germany. Besides, their doctrines had not been digested into a system, nor had the artful methods of leading on the pupils from bad to worse been practised. For hitherto, each individual had vented in the Lodges his own opinions, to unburden his own mind, and the Brethren listened for instruction and mutual encouragement. Therefore, when Spartacus's plan was communicated to them, they saw at once its importance, in all its branches, such as the use of the Mason Lodges, to fish for Minervals--the rituals and ranks to entice the young, and to lead them by degrees to opinions and measures which, at first sight, would have shocked them. The firm hold which is gotten of the pupils, and indeed of all the inferior classes, by their reports in the course of their pretended training in the knowledge of themselves and of other men--and, above all, the provincial arrangement of the order, and the clever subordination and entire dependence on a select band or Pandæmonium at Paris, which should inspire and direct the whole.--I think (altho' I have not express assertions of the fact) from the subsequent conduct of the French revolters, that even at this early period, there were many in those societies who were ready to go every length proposed to them by the Illuminati, such as the abolition of royalty, and of all privileged orders, as tyrants by nature, the annihilation and robbery of the priesthood, the rooting out of Christianity, and the introduction of Atheism, or a philosophical chimera which they were to call Religion. Mirabeau had often spoken of the last branch of the Illuminated principles, and the conversations held at Versailles during the awful pauses of the 5th of October, (which are to be seen in the evidence before the Chatelet in the Orleans process,) can hardly be supposed to be the fancies of an accidental mob.