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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBy establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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 must win the common people in every corner.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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