The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
