One of these members, Baron Adolph Knigge, was also a freemason, and became an influential recruiter.

其中一位成员阿道夫·克尼格男爵也是一个共济会成员，并成为有影响力的招聘者。

Indeed, many U.S. Presidents were freemasons.

事实上，许多美国总统都是共济会成员。

This is George Washington as a Freemason, and a lot of founding fathers really were Freemasons.

这是作为共济会成员的乔治·华盛顿，许多开国元勋确实是共济会成员。

UK politicians and political journalists also belonging to the freemasons, but they are very discreet about it.

英国政客和政治记者也属于共济会，但他们对此非常谨慎。

The latter has led conspiracy theorists to state that this shows how powerful the freemason’s have been in US politics.

后者导致阴谋论者表示，这表明共济会在美国政治中的影响力有多大。

" Why, what dark and awful secrets are going on here? Is it a Freemason's Lodge and those the mystic signs" ?

“为什么，这里发生了什么黑暗和可怕的秘密？是共济会和那些神秘的标志吗？”

Anywhere from 650 to 2800 members infiltrated Freemason chapters, may have had influential members like the writer Goethe, and even might have influenced the Jacobins, the political club that spurred the French revolution to its most radical heights.

从 650 到 2800 名成员渗入了共济会分会，可能有像作家歌德这样有影响力的成员， 甚至可能影响了雅各宾派， 这个政治俱乐部将法国革命推向了最激进的高度。