The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
ADAM WEISHAUPTSalvation 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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the 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 then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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