These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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And 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.
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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