These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
ADAM WEISHAUPTBut alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed 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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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