I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBut 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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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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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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Illuminate the opposition.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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This 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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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 should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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