Illuminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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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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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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