The Priest's degree contains, 1. an Introduction. 2. Further Accounts of the Reception into this degree. 3. What is called Instruction in the Third Chamber, which the candidate must read over. 4. The Ritual of Reception. 5. Instruction for the First Degree of the Priest's Class, called _Instructio in Scientificis_. 6. Account of the Consecration of a Dean, the Superior of this Lower Order of Priests. The Regent degree contains, 1. Directions to the Provincial concerning the dispensation of this degree. 2. Ritual of Reception. 3. System of Direction for the whole Order. 4. Instruction for the whole Regent degree. 5. Instruction for the Prefects or Local Superiors. 6. Instruction for the Provincials. The most remarkable thing in the Priest's degree is the Instruction in the Third Chamber. It is to be found in the private correspondence (_Nachtrage Original Schriften_ 1787, 2d. _Abtheilung_, page 44.). There it has the title _Discourse to the Illuminati Dirigentes_, or Scotch Knights. In the critical history, which is annexed to the _Neueste Arbeitung_, there is an account given of the reason for this denomination; and notice is taken of some differences between the instructions here contained and that discourse. This instruction begins with sore complaints of the low condition of the human race; and the causes are deduced from religion and state-government. "Men originally led a patriarchal life, in which every father of a family was the sole lord of his house and his property, while he himself possessed general freedom and equality. But they suffered themselves to be oppressed--gave themselves up to civil societies, and formed states. Even by this they fell; and this is the fall of man, by which they were thrust into unspeakable misery. To get out of this state, to be freed and born again, there is no other mean than the use of pure Reason, by which a general morality may be established, which will put man in a condition to govern himself, regain his original worth, and dispense with all political supports, and particularly with rulers. This can be done in no other way but by secret associations, which will by degrees, and in silence, possess themselves of the government of the States, and make use of those means for this purpose, which the wicked use for attaining their base ends. Princes and Priests are in particular, and _kal' exochen_ the wicked, whose hands we must tie up by means of these associations, if we cannot root them out altogether. "Kings are parents. The paternal power ceases with the incapacity of the child; and the father injures his child, if he pretends to retain his right beyond this period. When a nation comes of age, their state of wardship is at an end."