Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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 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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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