I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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