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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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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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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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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 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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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