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.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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 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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