Who 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
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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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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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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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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 great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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