Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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 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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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