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 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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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Illuminate the opposition.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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 then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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