It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIlluminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
ADAM WEISHAUPTI did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWho would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe may turn the public mind which way we will.
ADAM WEISHAUPTCultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
ADAM WEISHAUPTBut I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBy establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
ADAM WEISHAUPTSalvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
ADAM WEISHAUPT