A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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 all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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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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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 public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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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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