Knigge and the Jesuits

From http://z10.invisionfree.com/The_Unhived_Mind_II/index.php?showtopic=30045

While skipping through a dissertation on Adam Weishaupt and the Illuminati I found another remarkable quote by Baron Knigge, complaining about the Jesuit practices used by Weishaupt (brief summary and free translation below)


- the supervision by "unknown superiors" through all the degrees is taken from the model of the Jesuits, the Rosicrucians and the Strict Observance

- following the model of the Jesuits there should be developed strategies to take influence on society, e.g. through educational institutes, public offices

- Knigge supported Weishaupt's demand of unity and subordination, but warned that the application of Jesuit practices implies some dangers; "In consequence despotism is no good, we ourselves are preaching against it, but want to force people into shape with Jesuit authority? – heaven forbid!"

Source: Adolph von Knigge an Adam Weishaupt, o. D., Nentershausen, 20. 3. [1782] in: Markner/ Schüttler, Korrespondenz

- Weishaupt tended to interpret the practice of reporting as confession in view of the practice in the Jesuit order

- the Jesuit order was the model for the Illuminati system of disciplining, the practice of observation and the novitiate


Source: Dr. Peggy Pawlowski, „Der Beitrag Johann Adam Weishaupts zur Pädagogik des Illuminatismus”; Dissertation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2004, pp. 42, 78, 82, 116, 134, 164, 185

http://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-3064/Pawlowski.pdf





Related Links:

Knigge: Weishaupt was a Jesuit in disguise?
http://troyspace2.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/knigge-illuminati-weishaupt-was-a-jesuit-in-disguise/



Weishaupt's Bavarian Illuminati & Jesuits
http://troyspace2.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/bavarian-illuminati-timeline-knigges-convictions-of-weishaupts-jesuit-loyalties/


Knigge's suspicions of Weishaupt's Jesuit loyalty
http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=63374

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