G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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