These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
ADAM WEISHAUPTIn another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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