I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBut I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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This 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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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