The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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