"We, too, are on the road. We walk on our journey of life, the end of which is not death, as is grossly said by materialists, but true life.
"We consoled the people of the hamlet as well as we could, and left old Zdenko to abide his to-morrow.
"We shortly after joined our friends at Pilsen, whence I write this letter; and am about to go on other business. You, too, must also prepare for the restless journey, for action without feebleness. We advance, my friend, to success or martyrdom!"[29]
[23]Probably the famous Baron Knigge known as Philo, in the Order of the Illuminati.
[24]This is well known to have been the assumed name of Adam Weishaupt. Is he really referred to? All induces us to think so.
[25]Certainly Zavier Zwack, who was Autic Councillor, and exiled as one of the chiefs of the Illuminati.
[26]Bader, who was the medical attendant of the electress-dowager, an Illuminatus.
[27]Massenhousen, a councillor at Munich, and an Illuminatus.
[28]Weishaupt, it is known, and he was eminently an organizer, used material signs to explain his system, and sent to some of his pupils an explanation of his whole system, expressed by squares and circles on a small piece of paper.
[29]This letter was written to Martinowicz a great savant and member of the Illuminati. He, with several other Hungarian nobles, his accomplices in conspiracy, was beheaded in Buda, in 1795.