I Need Rich People's Money and They Want to Be Alchemists

The order counted on Bavarian provincial notables indispensable for the dues they paid. Vyshop's quasi-Masonic imitations were pedantic and uninspired. The answer he invariably gave to the disappointed was that as in Freemasonry and the Illuminati, the first three degrees were preparatory to further initiations where true ritual mysteries would be revealed.