We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
ADAM WEISHAUPTA 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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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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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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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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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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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