The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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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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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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Illuminate the opposition.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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