I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIn another situation, and in an active station in life,
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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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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 the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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