Weishaupt was such a master at perverting Christian doctrine that he gleefully boasted of the acceptance of You can't imagine what respect and curiosity my priest-degree has raised; and, which is wonderful, a famous Protestant divine, who is now of the Order, is persuaded that the religion contained in it is the true sense of Christianity. O MAN, MAN! TO WHAT MAY'ST THOU NOT BE PERSUADED. Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.® who would insist on being a man of consequence among us, and is really a man of talents, and of a right way of thinking, is eternally besotted. Augustus is in the worst estimation imaginable. Alcibiades sits the day long with the vintner's pretty wife, and there he sighs and pines. A few days ago, at Corinth, Tiberius attempted to ravish the wife of Democides, and her husband came in upon them... . When the worthy man Marcus Aurelius comes to Athens (Munich) what will he think? What a meeting with dissolute immoral wretches, whore-masters, liars, bankrupts, braggarts, and vain fools!” 31 The Iluminati his Priest degree: And what of the moral character of these molders of the minds of men and would be rulers of the world? For an answer we turn to their own confessions. In a letter to Cato (Zwack) Spartacus (Weishaupt) writes: What shall I do? I am deprived of all help. Socrates,