There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBut alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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 human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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 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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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