A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBy establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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 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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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