It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIlluminate the opposition.
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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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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 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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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