The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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Illuminate the opposition.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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 most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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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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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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