I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBy establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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