Striking statement I just read in the book: The Royal Arch of Enoch by Robert W. Sullivan IV

“It is likely that Martin Luther’s (1483 - 1546) - the initiator of the Protestant Reformation - abiding mistrust of imperial power and his reliance upon local and regional Protestant sovereigns for the governance of the Church along Pauline and Augustinian lines was that he understood that the inevitable thrust of a Counter Reformation would equip itself, albeit with halts, starts, and disingenuity, with the power of a new demonology over which in his poetic term  The Prince of Darkness-Grim  would one day rule. The etiology of this rule can indeed be seen in Tridentate (Council of Trent) initiatives to restore papal monarchy as a universal referent through the Catholic alliance with Baroque culture, notably in the aesthetics of the Jesuit Order’s doctrine of a new spiritual class of monks   dedicated to the eradication of heresy and the triumph through Egyptianate-Christianity of a world spiritual order. The equipage for this maneuver came to include a marriage between the subsequent Masonic vista of a vast global lodge -  ‘’’a New World Order’’’  - dedicated to a new science and to a solar hegemonic brotherhood within which power was suffused through the diffusion - metaphorically - of  Light  with the end-game ‘’’resulting in a deistic one world government ruled by an occult theocracy’’’ as articulated by the Bavarian Illuminati (a/k/a the Perfectibilists) of 1776. This idea was to be accomplished by ‘’’any means necessary’’’  to use Adam Weishaupt’s own terminology.”