It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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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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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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This 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.
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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 revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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