Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIf 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 general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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