Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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