I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd 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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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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 hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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But 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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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