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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTNone is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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