My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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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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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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