Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Illuminate the opposition.
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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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