[525] Ibid., p. 299. Bahrdt’s fantastical program called for the division of these societies into Provinces or Dioceses, each directed by its Diocesan, and subordinate to a central organization. Cf. ibid., p. 292
[526] Ibid., p. 294.
[527] Robison, op, cit., p. 297.
[528] Ibid., pp. 322 et seq. “ … although I cannot consider the German Union as a formal revival of the Order under another name, I must hold those United, and the members of those Reading Societies, as Illuminati and Minervals. I must even consider the Union as a part of Spartacus’s work.” (Ibid.)
[529] Ibid., pp. 355 et seq. “Thus I think it clearly appears, that the suppression of the Illuminati in Bavaria and of the Union in Brandenburgh were insufficient…. The habit of plotting had formed itself into a regular system. Societies now acted everywhere in secret, in correspondence with similar societies in distant places. And thus a mode of cooperation was furnished to the discontented, the restless, and the unprincipled in all places, without even the trouble of formal initiations, and without any external appearances by which the existence and occupations of the members could be distinguished.” (Ibid.)
[530] Ibid., p. 355. Cf. ibid., p. 286.
[531] Ibid., p. 358.
[532] Robison, op. cit., p. 371.
[533] Ibid., pp. 393 et seq.
[534] Ibid., pp. 397 et seq.