For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPTSalvation 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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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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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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 must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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