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 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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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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