The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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