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Use made of Freemasonry by Atheists — Its Construction — Objects of Atheism — Various forms of Illuminated Masonry encouraged, and Masonry made more elastic and hypocritical at Wilhelmsbad — Permitted to insinuate itself as a Religious Society, provided its secrecy and hierarchical secret government be preserved — The hidden Chiefs thus always able to bend any Secret Society to Atheistic ends — Willingness of the French Illuminati to help Catholics in Ireland — Reasons — Attempts of the Illuminati upon Catholic Italy — Temporal Power of the Pope, the first thing to be destroyed— State of the Italian popula- tion— Active Faction of Revolutionists left by the French in Italy — Formation of the Carbonari.