"Koenig's materials draw a picture of these groups which is completely
different to their self-representation. The mysterious chiefs turn out
to be most often as scheming petty bourgeois with more interest in
money than in Gnose or occult wisdom. The secret of the secret
societies often seems to be the upmost secret, the most holy secret
which never shall be known: the wholiness in the innermost of the
holyness!" [In: AHA 6/97]