A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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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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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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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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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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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