But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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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 most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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