Code Names and Classical Geography
Members and places were given classical names.
Documented historical symbol
- Period
- 1776–1785
Members of the order used classical code names: Weishaupt was Spartacus, Knigge Philo, Zwack Cato. Places were also renamed — Bavaria appears as Achaia, Munich as Athens and Ingolstadt as Eleusis. The order also used its own internal calendar.
These conventions are documented in the papers published by the Bavarian government in 1787.
Sources
- René Le Forestier, Les Illuminés de Bavière et la franc-maçonnerie allemande (Paris, 1914).
- Richard van Dülmen, Der Geheimbund der Illuminaten (Stuttgart, 1975).
- Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens (1787).