Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIf a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIf 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThere is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
ADAM WEISHAUPTIn another situation, and in an active station in life,
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must win the common people in every corner.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTSalvation 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPTI am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWhen 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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