We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt 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 great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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