The Strategy of the Illuminati Order

ILLUMINATI.
This society, particularly after the accession of the Baron von Knigge (10th Oct 1752 to 6th May 1796), with his rich and varied experience, took the Masonic lodges as a model. It's aim was to free men from all limitations, and therefore ultimately from those of nationality, civil ties, further the assertion of reason, and therefore to begin a battle against pedantry, intolerance, theology, and constitutional rule. As men in their present condition were quite unfit for this, it was gradually to prepare them for such a movement by stratagem which could be learned from the Jesuits.

Each individual must accordingly be attacked upon his weak side. The pious man was to be persuaded that this was true Christianity, the prince that the sole end in view was the overthrow of the power of the Church. No study therefore was so highly commended as that of the human heart; knowledge of human nature was regarded as the highest wisdom because it confers the power of persuading every one to anything.