Illuminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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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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