A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBut alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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