The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
ADAM WEISHAUPTI found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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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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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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