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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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The 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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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