". . . Eternal silence, and
faithfulness and everlasting obedience to all superiors and
regulations of the Order. I also renounce my own personal views
and opinions as well as all control of my powers and capacities.
I promise also to consider the well-being of the Order as my
own, and I am ready, as long as I am a member, to serve it with
my goods, my honour, and my life . . . If I act against the
rules and well-being of the Society, I will submit myself to the
penalties to which my superiors may condemn me . . ."
"In the name of the son crucified (i.e. the Pentagram, the
illuminated man), swear to break the bonds which still bind you
to your father, mother, brothers, sisters, wife, relatives,
friends, mistresses, kings, chiefs, benefactors, and all persons
to whomsoever you may have promised faith, obedience, and
service. Name and curse the place where you were born, so that
you may dwell in another sphere, to which you will attain only
after having renounced this pestilential globe, vile refuse of
the heavens! From this moment you are free from the so-called
oath to country and laws: swear to reveal to the new chief,
recognized by you, what you may have seen or done, intercepted,
read or heard, learned or surmised, and also seek for and spy
out what your eyes cannot discern. Honour and respect the
Aqua Tofana (i.e. an imperceptibly slow poison) as a
sure, prompt, and necessary means of purging the globe by death
of those who seek to vilify the truth and seize it from our
hands. Fly from Spain, Naples, and all accursed land; finally
fly from the temptation to reveal what you may hear, for the
thunder is no prompter that the knife, which awaits you in
whatsoever place you may be. Live in the name of the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit.
(The Trinity of Illuminism --
Cabalistic and Gnostic. The Father -- the generating fire; the
Holy Spirit -- the Great Mother Nature, reproducing all things;
the Son -- the manifestation, the vital fluid, the astral light
of Illuminism)."
