I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor 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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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