“These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion”

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.

None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry

And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?