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 WEISHAUPTWe must win the common people in every corner.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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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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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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