So much for Weishaupt's respect for the Grand Legend of Freemasonry!
In this manner Weishaupt demonstrates that "Freemasonry is hidden Christianity, at least my explanations of the hieroglyphics fit this perfectly; and in the way in which I explain Christianity no one need be ashamed to be a Christian, for I leave the name and substitute for it Reason."
But this is of course only the secret of what Weishaupt calls "real Freemasonry" in contradistinction to the official kind, which he regards as totally unenlightened: "Had