My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
ADAM WEISHAUPTLet it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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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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