I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
ADAM WEISHAUPTEvery 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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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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 priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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