We must win the common people in every corner.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWho would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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