The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWho would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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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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