The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
ADAM WEISHAUPTLet this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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Illuminate the opposition.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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