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.
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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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 priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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