The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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