It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
ADAM WEISHAUPTThere is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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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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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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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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