In another situation, and in an active station in life,
ADAM WEISHAUPTI am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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 public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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The 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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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 explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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