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.
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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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Of 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 priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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