These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
ADAM WEISHAUPTA 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 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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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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