Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOur secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBut alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWho would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must win the common people in every corner.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTA Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPT