Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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.
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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