Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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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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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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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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