The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.