Illuminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd 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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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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 found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the 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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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