Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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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 hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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