And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
ADAM WEISHAUPTLet this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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