Illuminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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