Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd 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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But 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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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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 revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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 human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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