Illuminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTLet this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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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 priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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