It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
ADAM WEISHAUPTBy establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Salvation 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.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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