Weishaupt created his parallel society while also joining the Freemasons and recruiting from their ranks.

魏肖普特创建了类似的学会，同时加入了共济会并从他们的队伍中招募。

Weishaupt modelled aspects of his secret society off a group called the Freemasons.

魏肖普特用一个名为共济会的团体模式构建他的秘密社会的各个方面。

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。

Mafia law interests me about as much as the criminal derring-do of the Freemasons or the Druids.

黑手党就跟共济会和德鲁伊教那些蛮力犯罪行为一样对我没什么吸引力。

Indeed, many U.S. Presidents were freemasons.

事实上，许多美国总统都是共济会成员。

But the Illuminati lost the limelight thanks to the Freemasons.

但是由于共济会，光明会失去了风头。

One of these symbols is the number three, which represented balance and order to Freemasons.

这些符号之一是数字三，它代表共济会的平衡和秩序。

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。

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。

Whilst at Oxford, Rhodes was inducted into the Freemasons – a group  which he found surprisingly disillusioning.

在牛津大学期间，罗兹被选入共济会——他发现这个团体令人惊讶地幻灭了。

Like the Freemasons — but our secret handshake is a hug, a knowing nod or a wink.

就像共济会一样——但我们的秘密握手是拥抱、会意的点头或眨眼。

Were they the precursor to the Freemasons, the ritualistic secret society founded in London in 1717?

他们是 1717 年在伦敦成立的仪式秘密社团共济会的前身吗？

The Illuminati, or the Freemasons, Jews, more recently things like the Bilderberg Group, the Skull and Bones Society, and various other secret societies.

光明会（启蒙运动时成立于巴伐利亚的一个秘密组织），或共济会，犹太人，还有最近的比尔德伯格俱乐部（世界级的年度非官方会议，参加者多为商业、媒体及政治精英），骷髅会（美国耶鲁大学中的兄弟会社团），以及其他各种秘密社团。

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。

Perhaps the most famous confirmed secret society in the world is the Freemasons, and it wields enormous influence around the world.

也许世界上最著名的已确认秘密社团是共济会，它在世界范围内具有巨大的影响力。

But the Freemasons of Mozart's time were also influenced by 18th century European ideals - rationalism, humanism, and skepticism towards traditional authorities, like monarchy and the church.

但莫扎特时代的共济会也受到 18 世纪欧洲理想的影响——理性主义、人道主义和对传统权威（如君主制和教会）的怀疑。

A number of exclusive organizations or secret societies exist in this day and age, many of them hundreds of years old, like the Freemasons or the Skull and Bones.

当今时代存在许多排他性组织或秘密社团，其中许多已有数百年历史， 例如共济会或骷髅会。

In the winter of 1807, thirteen like-minded souls in London got together at the Freemasons Tavern at Long Acre, in Covent Garden, to form a dining club to be called the Geological Society.

1807年，伦敦13个志同道合的人在科文特加登广场朗埃克街的共济会酒店聚会，成立了一个餐饮俱乐部，后来取名为地质学会。

It accused Zionists of instigating the French and Bolshevik revolutions and labelled groups like " the Freemasons, the Rotary and Lions clubs" as " destructive intelligence-gathering organisations" that facilitated the " nazism of the Jews" .

它指责犹太复国主义者煽动法国和布尔什维克革命，并将“共济会、扶轮社和狮子会”等组织称为“破坏性情报收集组织”，助长了“犹太人的纳粹主义”。

The Freemasons claim to be a fraternal organization looking out for each other, but it's highly secretive, and many believe that the Masons have been involved in the building and tearing down of entire nations through conspiratorial plots.

共济会自称是一个互相照顾的兄弟组织，但它非常隐秘，许多人认为共济会参与了通过阴谋阴谋建立和摧毁整个国家的活动。