By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
ADAM WEISHAUPTThose who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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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 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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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