Use made of Freemasonry by Atheists—Its Construction—Objects
of Atheism—Various forms of Illuminated Masonry encouraged,
and Masonry made more elastic and hypocritical at
Wilhelmsbad—Permitted to insinuate itself as a Religious
Society, provided its secrecy and hierarchical secret
government be preserved—The hidden Chiefs thus always able to
bend any Secret Society to Atheistic ends—Willingness of the
French Illuminati to help Catholics in Ireland—Reasons—Attempts
of the Illuminati upon Catholic Italy—Temporal Power of the
Pope, the first thing to be destroyed—State of the Italian
population—Active Faction of Revolutionists left by the French
in Italy—Formation of the Carbonari.