Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and the other prophets were
therefore only teachers who had profited by the lessons of philosophy.
All belief in revealed religion was thus destroyed. It will be seen then
that in the last degrees the whole teaching of the first five was
reversed and therefore shown to be a fraud. Fraud in fact constituted
the system of the society; in the instructions to the Dais every
artifice is described for enlisting proselytes by misrepresentation:
Jews were to be won by speaking ill of Christians, Christians by
speaking ill of Jews and Moslems alike, Sunnis by referring with respect
to the orthodox Khalifas Abu Bakr and Omar and criticizing Ali and his
descendants. Above all, care was to be taken not to put before
proselytes doctrines that might revolt them, but to make them advance
step by step. By these means they would be ready to obey any commands.
As the instructions express it:

If you were to give the order to whoever it might be to take from
him all that he holds most precious, above all his money, he would
oppose none of your orders, and if death surprised him he would
leave you all that he possesses in his will and make you his heir.
He will think that in the whole world he cannot find a man more
worthy than you.

Such was the great secret society which was to form the model for the
Illuminati of the eighteenth century, to whom the summary of von Hammer
might with equal truth apply:

To believe nothing and to dare all was, in two words, the sum of
this system, which annihilated every principle of religion and
morality, and had no other object than to execute ambitious designs
with suitable ministers, who, daring all and knowing nothing, since
they consider everything a cheat and nothing forbidden, are the
best tools of an infernal policy. A system which, with no other aim
than the gratification of an insatiable lust for domination,
instead of seeking the highest of human objects, precipitates
itself into the abyss, and mangling itself, is buried amidst the
ruins of thrones and altars, the wreck of national happiness, and
the universal execration of mankind.[131]

The Druses

The terrible Grand Lodge of Cairo before long became the centre of a new
and extraordinary cult. Hakim sixth Fatimite Khalifa and founder of the
Dar ul Hikmat--a monster of tyranny and crime whose reign can only be
compared to tha