My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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And 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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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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 must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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