I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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