i heard about schwedenkiste through jri lina's architects of deception. he escaped from the ussr to sweden in the 1980s. > since 1989 the masonic documents of the special archives in moscow have been available for study. the archives also contain the so-called swedish trunk, the schwedenkiste, which has played an important role in the history of freemasonry. the box contains letters and documents belonging to the illuminati order, which was founded by adam weishaupt in 1776, and which systematically infiltrated the masonic lodges of the time. many prominent freemasons were illuminati, and the history of the illuminati order is considered an important part of the history of freemasonry as a whole > the swedish trunk is of great interest. the leading illuminati brother johann christoph bode died in weimar in december 1793. bode had been recruited by knigge in wilhelmsbad in the summer of 1782. bode also had access to the most important part of the illuminati correspondence in gotha and weimar. these documents ended up with the high-ranking illuminatus ernst duke von gotha for safekeeping. after his death in 1804 both his own papers and the bode archive were returned to the grand lodge of sweden, as duke von gotha was not convinced that they would be safe from publication if they were kept by a german lodge > the high-ranking masonic king charles xiii of sweden assured him that the documents would never reach the public. in 1880, duke ernst ii (grandson of ernst von gotha) asked for the illuminati documents to be returned to germany. three years later, the archive containing 20 volumes of assorted papers, became the property of the ernst zum kompass lodge in gotha. in 1909, the historian carl lepp named the material the schwedenkiste. leopold engel, the jewish grand master of the illuminati, used the schwedenkiste material when he published his book on the illuminati order. rene le forrestrier, who was not a freemason, also referred to this material
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