Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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 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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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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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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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