We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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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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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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