My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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Illuminate the opposition.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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 public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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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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