My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe 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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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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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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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