Illuminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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 the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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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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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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