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.
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
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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Illuminate the opposition.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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 should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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