Every society actually passes through the five stages of Verwirrung, or chaos; Zwietracht, or discord; Unordnung, or confusion; Beamtenherrschaft, or bureaucracy; and Grummet, or aftermath. Sometimes, to make comparison with the exoteric Hegel-Marx system more pointed, the esoteric Illuminati system is defined as: Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, Parenthesis, and Paralysis. The public Hegel-Marx triad is also called the tricycle, and the arcane latter two stages are called the bicycle; one of the first secrets revealed to every illuminatus Minore is „After the tricycle it comes always the bicycle.“ (The Illuminati are rather prone toward literal translations from Weishaupt’s German.)
Illuminatus!, Appendix Gimel
