Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor 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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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 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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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 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.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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