It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIn 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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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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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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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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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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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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 human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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