We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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