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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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