Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBy establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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