Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must win the common people in every corner.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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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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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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