I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf 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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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 hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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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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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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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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