When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThese should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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 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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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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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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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