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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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Of 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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