Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOur secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe may turn the public mind which way we will.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPTI should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
ADAM WEISHAUPTNone is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
ADAM WEISHAUPTWhen man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTSalvation 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
ADAM WEISHAUPT