For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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