We must acquire the direction of education — of church-management — of the professional chair, and of the pulpit. We must bring our opinions into fashion by every art... To insure secrecy in their private correspondence, leaders of the Order took ancient names. Weishaupt was Spartacus, Zwack (a judge) was Cato, and so on. Members were advised to practice writing with both hands to further obscure their identity. The secrets of the Order were so well guarded that no one outside of a small circle knew that Weishaupt was the head of the Order until its papers were seized in 1786. Their attitude toward religion was to profess Their toward Their attitude toward religion was to profess Christianity while working to destroy it. They taught that, rather than God creating the universe, the universe is creating God and that man is himself god and therefore unaccountable to a higher power. This is similar to the New Age doctrine of the 20th century. They also taught that Jesus had a secret doctrine, a doctrine of reason that only the enlightened could understand. Rather than being a redeemer, Jesus was profess to was only a teacher whose purpose was to unite men in a great universal association thereby leading men to universal 30 The Secret Side of History other avenue that served to mold public opinion. Then- stated objectives were: liberty and equality.