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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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