In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
ADAM WEISHAUPTG is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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 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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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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