The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBy establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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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 did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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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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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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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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