Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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