Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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 did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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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 hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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 then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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