Illuminate the opposition.
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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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 should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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