When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
ADAM WEISHAUPTLet this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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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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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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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